Virtual Death
Blow Dealt GI
Housing Program
WASHINGTON, UP) — The GI
housing program received a vir
tual death blow Tuesday.
This came when the Federal
National Mortgage Association
withdrew its offer to buy new
mortgages at the Veterans Ad
ministration rate of 4V& per cent.
FNMA, which purchases mort
gages from banks and loan com
panies to furnish them with new
cash for mortgage lending, also
cut the price it will pay for 4Vfe
per cent mortgages guaranteed by
VA or insured by the Federal
Housing Administration.
The new price will be 90 to
92 per cent of the face value of
the home loan, instead of 92 to
94. A bank, in other words,
woud receive $9,000 to $9,200 for
a $10,000 mortgage.
Explaining the changes, a
FNMA spokesman said:
“We have to do it. It’s not good
business to accept 4 Vi percent
mortgages when we have to pay
just about 5 per cent for our
money.”
A/2C Davis of Nome,
USAF Band Member,
Making Friends for U.S.
A/2C Lewis F. Davis, of Nome,
Alaska, is a member of the 686th
U.S. Air Forces Europe Band,
which has* just been presented
with the Air Force outstanding
unit award.
The ceremonies were held Oct. j
1 at Wiesbaden Air Base, Ger- '
many. It is the first time an Air |
Force band has been cited for this j
honor.
The award was based on “meri- j
j torious achievement in promoting
j better international relations from |
] August 1955 to May 1957.” Dur- j
ing this time the 686th band per- j
formed in 10 European countries
and- traveled thousands of miles, j
| Baritone player Davis has been J
j with the band for eight months, j
j According to Davis, the band has J
I done a terrific job in creating,
j good American relations in Eu- j
| rope. The concert that Davis en- j
j joyed most was in Copenhagen, j
I when the band played for the ■
Danish King and Queen during;
the Liberation Day ceremonies.
Davis is the son of Mr. and Mrs. ;
J Ben Davis of Nome.
8-Year-Old Boy 1
Freezes to Death
i
In Father’s Arms
GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colo.,!
(#) — A father-and-son hunting
trip ended in tragedy in the
mountains near here Monday
when an 8-year-old boy froze to
death in his father’s arms.
Coroner Jack Farnum said the
boy, Richard Leroy Scott, died of
exposure. The temperature in the
area was “about the middle 20s
and froze water,” Farnum said.
The father, A. Junior Scott, told
Farnum he held his son against
his own body in an effort to keep
him warm while they were
stranded Sunday night on the
rain-swept rocks.
The child, Scott said, lapsed
into unconsciousness and ceased
breathing sometime before day
light.
Scott and his son were unsuc
cessful in their attempt to find a
trail down from the shale rim
rocks in the dark. Rain extin
guished their fire. Farnum said
the boy wore two sweaters, jeans
and shoes and the father was at
tired in daytime clothes, includ
ing a jacket.
Errol Flynn and Friend j
Face Drunk Charges In |
Hollywood City Court
HOLLYWOOD, UP) — Actorj
Errol Flynn and actress Mauraj
FitzGibbon will fight drunk
charges before a municipal court
jury Nov. 25.
Flynn and Miss FitzGibbon
were arrested Saturday night at
the Publicists Assn, ballyhoo ball.
They were released on $200 bail (
each after being booked at a |
police station.
Policeman William Friedman i
said Flynn grabbed his badge and j
was belligerent. Flynn denied he
was drunk and said he. took the
badge in fun. Miss FitzGibbon j
said Flynn handed her the badge
and she lost it.
New Children’s Books
At KK Public Library
New children’s books at the
library are:
Traveler in the Wilderness, by
Summer; Do-It-Yourself Mater
ials, Hicks; Story About You,
Lerrigo; Wonder World of Mi
crobes, Grant; Gold Penny, Blan
ton. Our Samoan Adventure, Ste
venson; African Explorer, Pond;
Toujour Diane, Headley; Secret
Motorcar, Dale; Jets and Rockets,
Ahnstrom.
David Schine Marries
Former Miss Universe
NEW YORK, UP)—G. David
Schine, former investigator for
the late Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy,
and Miss Hillevi Rombin, of Swe
den, were married here last night.
The ceremony was performed
by Rabbi Jonah Wise at Central
Synagogue in Manhattan.
The bride was Miss Universe
in 1955.
It was the first marriage for
Schine, 30, and the 24-year-old
Swedish blonde beauty. They will
live in Miami Beach, Fla.
Schine, once the most publi
cized private in the Army, is the
son of hotel and theater magnate
J. Myer Schine. The younger
Schine was an important figure
in the celebrated Army-McCarthy
hearings in 1954.
Season’s Heaviest Snows
Chill Northwest U.S.;
Texas Gets Tornadoes
The heaviest snows and coldest
weather of the season chilled a
large area in the Northwest today.
Snow reached a depth of four
inches in Helena and Great Falls,
Mont., and six inches at Havre.
Three inches of snow, a record
for October, caught Spokane un
prepared. The temperature there
dropped to 10 above zero.
Lewiston, Mont, had a reading
of 3 above.
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British Women Soldiers
Have Enough Long Wool
Drawers to Last 800 Years
LONDON, [fft—The British War
I Office admits it has enough long
woolen drawers to last the Wom
en’s Royal Army Corps (WRAC>
for the next 800 years,
j Sir Edward Playfair, permanent
[ undersecretary of state of the
I War Office, conceded there was
j “an enormous surplus.” The girls
j just won’t wear them, even in
; dead of winter.
j Victor Collins, Laborite mem
| ber of Parliament, suggested the
j elastic, if any, in such drawers
| would be bound to deteriorate
long before they could be issued.
“Do these drawers have elas
tic?” he asked.
j “I think they are without elas
‘ tic,” Sir Edward replied. “I have
j not probed far enough into them
to say.”
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evergreen trees and hardwoods in
the United States usually come
from trees that shed* their leaves
each year.
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Northwestern Alaska
Chamber of Commerce
Meets Every Monday Noon
JIM WALSH, President
ALASKA CHAPTER NO. 1
Order of Eastern Star
[Lillie Lewis
Worthy Matron
Helen Dunbar
Secretary
Meetings: 1st and 3rd Mondays
ANVIL LODGE
No. 140
Rotot. K. Lewis, W.M.
Norvin W. Lewis, Sec.
Meets 1st and 3rd Thursday each month
NOME ROTARY CLUB
Joe Kroninger
President
W. Mecklenburg
Secretary
Wednesday Luncheon