President Congratulates
7th Fleet Personnel For
Tachen Islands Evacuation
THOMASVILLE, Ga., Ue —
President Eisenhower sent a con
gratulatory message to the of
ficers and men of the U.S. 7th
Fleet on the successful evacuation
of the Tachen Islands. •
, The message was relayed to the
fleet from the plantation home of
Treasury Secretary Humphrey
where Eisenhower was spending
the weekend. Said the President’s
message: “Yours was a difficult
and delicate assignment. On be
half of a grateful American peo
ple: Well done.’’
Earlier, Eisenhower paid trib
ute to Abraham Lincoln on the
146th .birthday anniversary of the
first Republican president. Eisen
hower said the greatness of the
party is measured by the strength
of its devotiofi to Lincoln’s faith
in America.
Presidential press secretary
James Hagerty disclosed Eisen
hower picked up a slight cole
while hunting quail in the rain a1
Humphrey’s plantation estate.
A man who would wreigh 19(
pounds at the north pole woulc
weigh oply 189 pounds if he
stood on the equator be'eause th<
centrifugal force of the turning
earth would counteract gravity.
Air Force Will Keep One
Jet Squadron In Formosa
WASHINGTON, <#> — The Air
Force said Saturday it will con
tinue to keep one squadron of
F-86 jet fighters based on For
j mosa for defense of the Chinese
j Nationalist island stronghold.
The 18th Fighter-Bomber Wing
; has been on Formosa for a couple
j of weeks, providing air cover
' along the evacuation route from
j the Tachens. A fighter wing is
composed of 75 planes, with three
j squadrons of 25 planes each.
The move is in line with a
! State Department announcement
j that the Tachen Island evacua
j tion had been completed and U.S.
j forces would resume normal op
j erations. The department said
i naval and air units ‘’will be alert
| to any concentration or employ
! ment of Chinese Communist
j forces obviously undertaking to
facilitate attack upon Formosa
and will 'be prepared to take ap
propriate military action if re
quired.”
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Years ago, perfumes were
j blended by sending them to sea
1 ( to be shaken by a ship’s motion
• j and today the same principal is
• | used on rocking tables in per
;! fume plants.
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23 Perish In Chicago
Skid Row Hotel Fire
CHICAGO, —A^ least 23 men '
were killed and 14 were injured
Saturday in a fire which praced j
through the crowded Barton
Hotel on skid row on West Madi
son Street.
The five-story building contain
ed 365 cubicle rooms, mostly
partitioned cubby holes for tran
sients.
Some of the other 243 residents
scurried outside into zero temper
atures without shoes or socks to
protect them, from the icy streets.
Others were carried down ladders
by firemen.
C. W. Havey, the hotel’s night
clerk, said the fire may have
started from a human torch. Joe
Armatzo, about 70, a pensioner,
started to scream in his cubicle
on the second floor and ran out
covered with flames.
Armatzo habitually used rub
bing alcohol, hotel officials said,
and might have been using the
rubibng alcohol while smoking.
CLAREMONT, Calif., <#> — A
l blind student from New Delhi,
j India, led all the men students
j at Pomona College in scholarship
i last semester.
The college said today that Ved
Nehta, a junior, maintained all A
grades. He’s a history major. He
was graduated from the Arkansas
School for the Blind in 1952.
WEATHER FORECAST
Compiled by the
U.S. Dept, of Commerce Weather Bureau
Partly cloudy tonight and Tues
day with light winds from the
north and northeast. Low temper
ature expected tonight -23, high
tomorrow -10.
Nome data last 24 hours as of
7 a.m. today: highest temperature
-8, lowest -19. Max. wind 8 mph
from the north. Sunrise at 8:02
a.m., sunset at 4:31 p.m.
A year ago today: highest tem
perature 1, lowest -21. Extremes
this date since 1907: highest 43
in 1927, lowest -34 in 1921.
Other stations as of 7 a.m. today:
Slaxion Temp. Weather
Barrow -42 Clear
Kotzebue -33 Cloudy
Wale* -33 Blowing sno
Nome -11 Cloudy
Unalakleet * -28 Cloudy
Bethel -11 Cloudy
McGrath -18 Snow
Anchorage 8 Cloudy
Fairbanks -14 Snow
Whitehorse -11 Cloudy
Juneau 33 Snow
Ketchikan 37 Cloudy
Seattle 45 Fog
San Francisco 58 Smoke
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Proposal to Repeal
Gold Mining Profits Tax
Up First in Senate
By JIM HUTCHESON
JUNEAU, (A*)—Alaska’s law
makers resumed work today after
a weekend holiday honoring the
Civil War President whom both
Democrats and Republicans had
claimed, in jocular debate, as
their own.
A growing pile of major bills
was in sight and the amusing
question discussed Friday, wheth
er Lincoln was politically a Re
publican or a Democrat in phil
osophic inclinations, was left be
hind. ,
Immediately at hand as one of
the first orders of business in the
Senate was a proposal to repeal
the net profits tax on gold mining.
It is one of several bills intro
duced to help the hard-pressed
mining industry, and Sen. John
Butrovich <R-Fairbanks>, sponsor,
has argued it is double taxation
because the territory already has
a general net income tax.
The so-called Nest Egg Bill, to
create an Alaska stabilization
fund that could be drawn upon if
the territory suffers economic set
backs, was also expected to come
before the upper branch for final
action today.
In the House, where most of the
action on tax bills has taken
place, another one will be consid
ered this week by the Ways and
Means Committee. It is the Gen
eral Property Tax Law, which
has been introduced in new form
for the taxing of property outside
cities and school districts, which
have their own property levies.
NEW SILVER SERVICE
An interesting new service is
I called the Silver State Exchange,
j Box 695, Colorado Springs, Colo.
| The service is owned by Hugo
i Kalpeke and is the only one of
its kind in the country. Kalpeke
replaces lost silverware for pat
rons who have pattern^ no longer
available from the manufacturer.
Orders are filled from all states
and interesting old patterns re
vived and filled in.
If the earth retained its present
shape and turned one revolution
in 85 minutes instead of 24 hours,
objects at the Equator would
have no weight because of cen
trifugal force.
Letter-Size File Folders For
Sale At The Nome Nugget Office.
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Nome Directory
NOME ROTARY CLUB
®Ben Young, Pres.
Joe Kroninger, Secy.
Thursday Luncheon
Northwestern Alaska
Chamber of Comerce
Meets Every 'Tuesday Noon
BOYD HARWOOD. PreaM**
ALASKA CHAPTER WO. 9
Order of Eastern Star
Meets the 3rd Monday of each month.
Beverly Morgan
Worthy Matron
Helen Dunbar
Feceetery
LESLIE A. STEVENS
PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT
*56 First Ave. West. Nome, Alaska
1© lo 12 ».a. 1 to 8 p.m.
Phene Main 62 — P.O. Bex 26©
ANVIL LODGE
No. 140
Charles F. Lewis, W.M.
Norvin W. Lewis, Secy.
Meets 1st and 3d Thursday each month.
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