Waterways Authorization
Includes Alaska Project
WASHINGTON, OP—The House
Public Works Committee has vir
tually completed work on an om
nibus waterways projects author
ization bill with approval of about
30 projects, including one in Al
aska.
The bill, which would merely
authorize projects for which ac
tual funds would have to be ap
propriated later, includes the
Gold Creek, Alaska, project, to
cost $380,000.
AIR TRAVEL HELPS
GIRLS FIND THEIR MEN
OMAHA, UP)—If a girl is look
ing for a man she might well
learn to fly to speed up her
search.
That's the advice of Kenneth
Newland, who directs the avia
tion program at Stephens College
for women at Columbia, Mo.
He told an air institute here the
“girls can really get around when
they fly. They fly home on week
ends from college. They fly here
and there. You’re bound to meet
a lot of men that way.”
NORTHERN LIGHTS
SOFTBALL LEAGUE
SCHEDULE
June 20 Bering Sea Club - T-23
June 27 T-23 - Bronson
June 30 Polar - BSC
July 2 Bronson - Air Force
July 4 T-23 - Polar
July 7 BSC - Air Force
July 9 Polar - Bronson
July 11 Air Force - T-23
July 14 Bronson - BSC
July 16 Air Force - Polar
July 18 Bronson - T-23
July 21 BSC - Polar
July 23 Air Force - Bronson
July 25 Polar - T-23
July 28 Air Force - BSC
July 30 Bronson - Polar
Aug. 1 T-23 - Air Force
Aug. 4 BSC - Bronson
Aug. 6 Polar - Air Force
Aug. 8 T-23 - BSC
Aug. 11 Bronson - T-23
Aug. 13 Polar - BSC
Aug. 15 Air Force - Bronson
Aug. 18 T-23 - Polar
Aug. 20 BSC - Air Force
Aug, 22 Bronson - Polar
Aug. 25 Air Force - T-23
Aug. 27 BSC - Bronson
Aug. 29 Polar - Air Force
Sept. 1 T-23 - BSC
[Japanese Send Boat Into
Russian Waters To Rescue
Shipwrecked Fishermen
TOKYO, UPi — The Japanese
Coast Guard today ordered one of
its cutters into Russian waters to
rescue 14 shipwrecked Japanese
fishermen stranded on a rocky
point in the Soviet-held Kurile
Islands.
“We have also requested Rus
sian authorities to extend help to
the Japanese fishermen, but so
far have received no answer,” the
spokesman added.
The 270-ton patrol boat Tenryu
is now proceeding at full speed
and is continually radioing Rus
sian authorities that it is enter
ing Russian territorial waters be
cause of imminent danger to the
fishermen and because of lack of
a Russian reply,” he said.
No Japanese ship has been sent
into Russian waters around the
Kuriles since World War II.
Fishing boats which stray too
close to the Kuriles frequently
are picked up by the Russians.
The cow, camel, yak, water buf
falo, ewe, goat and reindeer all
furnish milk for human beings.
WEATHER FORECAST
Compiled by the
U.S. Dept, of Commerce Weather Bureau
Cloudy with rain and fog to
night; little change in tempera
ture. Winds S-SW tonight 15-25
mph. Lowest temperature expect
ed tonight 37, high tomorrow 48.
Nome data last 24 hours as of
7 a.m. today: High temperature
46, low 38. Max. wind 22 mph
from the west. Sunrise 1:31 a.m.,
sunset 10:38 p.m.
Temperatures a year ago today:
high 62, low 46. Extremes this
date since 1907: high 78 in 1936,
low 32 in 1935.
ALASKA CARPENTERS GET
12'/t - 15o HOUR WAGE BOOST
ANCHORAGE, ffi-A new
agreement providing wage in
creases of 12V4 cents an hour for
carpenters in westward Alaska
and 15 cents for those in south
eastern Alaska was signed here
Wednesday.
The agreement, reached by rep
resentatives of the AFL Carpen
ters Union and the Associated
General Contractors, brings pay
in westward Alaska to $3.56V£ an
hour and $3.22V£ in southeastern.
Legal Blanks at The Nome Nugget
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55 Known Dead, Kids
Drink Muddy Water
In Rio Grande Flood'
EAGLE PASS, Texas, W—'The
Rio Grande flood, big and mighty,
rolls on today, leaving 55 known
dead in its muddy, filthy path of
destruction. *
At crumbled Piedras Negras,
across the river from Eagle Pass,
the official count of dead still
stood at 38, but nobody knew how
many more were under the 10- to
12-foot-high mounds of mud and
stone that once were homes.
Thousands of campers still in
the hills of Mexico by the Rio
Grande mobbed the Mexican
army trucks that brought canned
milk over for the 38,000 people of
Piedras Negras. Little children
drank muddy water in the streets.
.The health problem was tremen
dous.
The dead included the 38 at
Piedras Negras, 16 dead at Ozona,
Texas, 100 miles inland from the
river, in one of the cloudbursts
which fed the Rio Grande. Anoth
er died in a Pecos River flood in
another weekend cloudburst.
Mrs. Helen Sexton, mother of
Mrs. Wilson Russell, arrived to
day for her first visit in Nome
and her first visit with her dau
ghter and family in eight years.
IN THE PROBATE COURT FOR THE
TERRITORY OF ALASKA. DIVISION
NUMBER TWO, CAPE NOME PRE
CINCT.
IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF
ERIC T. NELSON, Deceased.
Notice of Rendering
Final Account and Petition
For Decree of Distribution
No. 925
Notice is hereby given that Lester
Bronson, administrator of the estate of
Eric Nelson, deceased, has presented for
settlement and filed in this court his
final account of said administration, to
gether with a petition for the distribu
tion of the estate, and that the afternoon
of Wednesday, the 11th day of August,
1954, at the office of the United States
Commissioner, Federal Building in
Nome, Alaska, at the hour of 2 p.m.
on said date has been appointed the
time and place to hold a hearing on said
account and petition, and all persons
interested in the said estate are hereby
notified to appear at said hearing, and
show cause, if any there be, why the
said account should not be approved,
and the estate distributed to the persons
entitled thereto, without further notice
of proceedings.
Reference is hereby made to the said
account and petition, on file in the
office of the U.S. Commissioner, at
Nome,* Alaska, for further notice of
proceedings.
Dated at Nome, Alaska, this 9th day
of June, 1954.
LESTER D. BRONSON.
Administrator of the estate
of Eric T. Nelson
Mildred R. Hermann,
Attorney for administrator
Publish June 11, 18, 25, July 2, 1954
Nome Directory
ROTARY CLUB
OF NOME
James Walsh, Pres.
George Bayer, Secy.
Thursday Luncheon
Northwestern Alaska
Chamber of Commerce
MEETS EVERY TUESDAY NOON
BOYD HARWOOD, President
ALASKA CHAPTER NO. 1
Order of Eastern Star
Meets the third Monday of each month.
Jane Perkina
WorthyM.tron JM
Evelyn Branson lEr
Secretary y
LESLIE A. STEVENS
PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT
—4M First Ave. West, Nome, Alaska-—
10 lo 12 a.m. - 1 to 5 p.m.
Phone Main 82 — P.O. Box 208
ANVIL LODGE
No. 14$'
John Cooley, W.M.
Norvin W. Lewis, Secy.
Meets let end 3rd Thursday each month.