THE NOME NUGGET
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NO MIRAGE, WE HOPE!
TAX CUTS STILL POSSIBLE
Indications are that the surplus in the Treasury
will amount to between two and three billion dollars
on June 30. This is a far cry from the official adminis
tration predictions of last year this time, Vvhen a deficit
was actually forecast.
Despite the fact that expenditures have been high
er than had been forecast, tax revenues have been
higher, by a greater degree, and the result is that the
government is now operating in the black for the first
time in many years.
In recent days, the Eisenhower administration has
passed the word that this is no time for tax cuts. It
is argued that the Administration is fighting the battle
against inflationary pressures which are still very real,
and it is known that recent Administration moves, in
creasing interest rates, arc aimed at holding down in
flationary pressures.
But, despite this administration attitude, many
members of Congress are inclined to favor some tax
relief. Since this is a political year, this idea will cer
tainly get thorough consideration.
Also, the Democrats are in control of Congress
and it might be that they will lean more toward tax
reduction than the Republican administration.
ON GUIDING CHILDREN
An expert recently explained that parents should
set a thoughtful example to their children as far as
their own mistakes are concerned. In other words, ad
mit your mistakes to your children and do not play the
role of the perfect human being.
The idea behind this advice is that you are not
perfect and that, therefore, you are going to make mis
takes. Therefore, when you step out of your car door
into a manhole, or slam the window sash down on your
fingers, your child will soon enough get the idea that
you didn’t plan it that way.
Remember that your child is also learning, and he
or she is also making many mistakes daily. Therefore,
a thoughtful attitude on your part and a frank admis
sion to your .children that you also make mistakes,
but are trying to do better, will bring about a parallel
ing attitude among them.
In other words, they will make mistakes and strive
to do better themselves, and, more than that, both of
person laughing at you doesn’t laugh too much,
person lapghing at you doesn’t laugh too much.
Letter to the
Mayor of Nome
The following interesting letter
was received by Mayor Steffen
Andersen Wednesday from a lady
in Australia. It will be appreciat
ed if those persons sending con
tribution to Miss Roberson’s col
lection will contact the Nugget.
“Westward Ho”
Wentworth Falls
Blue Mountains
New South Wales
Australia
28 April 1956
To His Worship the Mayor
Nome, Alaska
Dear Mr. Mayor.
Today is a milestone in the his
tory of this country, for we have
welcomed one of your own local
heroes. Lt. Gen. James Doolittle
and his wife are our welcome
guests for this year’s Coral Sea
Battle celebrations.
How proud you must be that he
spent his formative, boyhood
years at Nome developing the ten
acity of purpose and qualities of
leadership which were so admir
ably displayed in his historic
strike against the Nipponese capi
tal in the war’s darkest period.
How that event buoyed up our
waning hopes!
Australia has had to wait a long
14 years to say thankvou face to
lace with General Dolittle. It’s
good to have him and Mrs. Dolittle
| in our midst. No more popular
couple has ever visited this land.
I have long been desirous of
seeing Nome, Alaska, for not only
have your native sons and daugh
ters by their actions brought re
flected glory to its name, but the
books I have read of its landscape,
its rigorous climate, its appeal to
i the adventurous spirit, and above
all the warmhearted, big-fisted
citizens, impress me with the fact
that Alaska is a country where
even in this blase century one can
find meaning in life and true val
ues.
mu I can visit your country
only in my mind and imagination
through the frontiers of books, for
I have been a bed-ridden invalid
for !he past 16 years with TB of
the lungs; and until medical sci
ence discovers further new anti
biotics, the prognosis is that I
shall remain an inhabitant of
blanket-land.
However, healthy or sick, I
have found that life places no bur
dens upon us that cannot be made
to yield some sweetness, providing
one has a faith and a philosophy
and can truly say with Robert
Louis Stevenson:
Life is so full of a number of
things,
I’m sure we should all be as
happy as kings.
I have begun a collection of
dolls of the world. As yet it is
very small, but I should dearly
love to add an Eskimo doll to it.
If you could find someone who
would be willing to send one to
me, I would in exchange send a
toy koala bear. These bears are
indigenous to Australia and in
their live state are cuddlesome
and friendly and quite harmless.
May I wish you success and
wisdom in your local government
affairs. ,
Yours very sincerely,
Kathleen Robertson
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Three Sailings This Year
By Alaska Steamship Co.
For Bering Sea Ports
The schedule of sailings by the
Alaska Steamship Co. for Bering
.'Sea ports for 1956 have been re
ceived.
The SS Tonsina will sail on
June 5 for Nome, St. Michael, Un
alakleet and Teller.
The next sailing will be on July
12. the MS Coastal Monarch, stop
ping at Nome, Kotzebue and St.
Michael. This will be the only
sailing this year for Kotzebue
Sou lift.
The last sailing will be on Sept.
20. the Coastal Monarch, stopping
at St. Michael and Nome.
James LPierre, one of Alaska’s
older oldsters, 87 years old, is in
town from Teller for medical at
tention and seeing many friends.
He was a pioneer at Teller in
the early days and he still lives
alone there.
Emergency Flighl to Moses f*t.
Alaska Airlines bush pilot Bob
Jacobs made an emergency flight
at 2:35 Sunday morning to Moses
Point to bx-ing Lovell Rowlett
to the MMM Hospital for inedical
attention.
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Fairbanks Truck Driver Wins
Truck Jockey Championship
VALDEZ, iff — Walter R.Far
mer of Fairbanks, a driver with
the Sourdough Freight Lines, Sat
urday was named Alaska’s cham
pion truck jockey for 1956.
Farmer won a trip to Washing
ton, D. C., to compete in the
American Trucking Assn, national
finals for his victory in the Alas
ka district contest.
Farmer, a calm, deliberate man,
has more than a million miles ot
truck driving to his credit.
Cherry’s
Barber Shop
Two Barbers
No Waiting
Shower Bath
Smoke Shop
Everything in
the tobacco line
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