THE NOME NUGGET
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Entered as second class matter October 14, 1943, at the
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THE PERILOUS ERA OF AUTO-MATION
Bethel Outclasses Nome
CONGRATULATIONS are in order for Bethel, the
center of the most backward part of the 49th State
in succeeding in getting funds for the construction of
a sewage treatment plant.
Nome has for many years been the only incorpo
rated town in Alaska without a sewage system and
soon is to be outclassed by some of the villages.
Although the new plant, which at the cost of
$86,850 is only for the new school and the National
Guard Armory. It is a start in the right direction.
BOMB EXPLODES IN
HAVANA DEPARTMENT STORE
HAVANA UP) — A bomb ex
ploded in one of Havana’s largest
department stores, wounding five
children and six women, none
seriously.
Officials said the explosion near
the cafeteria in the government
run El Flogar caused extensive
damage. The store is in the heart
of the capital’s shopping district.
Such bombings have been
blamed on terrorists opposed to
Prime Minister Fidel Castro’s
regime. Store employes said two
attempts were made last Saturday
to set a fire in the women’s wear
section.
Babel among the birds: Scien
tists discovered that crows living
in different sections of the coun
try cannot understand each other.
They appear to speak separate
dialects—just as people do.
Prof. Archibald Cox to
Be Solicitor General
By Douglas B. Cornell
PALM BEACH, Fla. Ufl — Pres
ident-elect John F. Kennedy
reached into the Harvard Law
School Wednesday and tapped
Prof. Archibald Cox, a close
political ally, to be Solicitor Gen
eral of the United States. Cox
will be the government’s chief
advocate.
Cox has a broad background
of prior service in the govern
ment. He served for a time in
the office he now will head.
In 1958 and 1959, Cox advised
Kennedy on the handling of labor
reform legislation. He also has
arbitrated numerous labor dis
putes.
One Killed, Two Escape
In Light Plane Crash
FAIRBANKS W) — One man
was killed and two escaped un
injured in the crash of a light
plane Monday night on a flight
here from Clear, about 70 miles
to the southwest.
The victim was Fred Ligget,
43, of Fairbanks, who was em
ployed by the Radio Corporation
of America at the ballistic mis
sile warning station being built
at Clear.
The two other occupants of the
plane, George Vey and Donald J.
Ritchey, hiked nine hours back
to Clear to report the crash.
Ligget was well known as an
artist, having had a number of
exhibits. He was an art instructor
during his spare time at the Fair
banks USO.
Too Many A-Bombs,
In Next Ten Years
Some May Blow Up
NEW YORK UP) — In six years
or less a dozen nations including
China will have A-bombs and H
bombs according to a noted British
scientist-writer.
“Within, at the most, 10 years
some of those bombs are going
off. I am saying this as responsibly
as I can. That is the certainty,”
said Dr. C. P. Snow.
“We know, with the certainity
of a statistical truth, that if
enough of these weapons are
made—by enough different states
—some of them are going to
blow up,” he declared.
“Through accident, or folly, or
madness—but the motives don’t
matter.”
“We are faced with an either-or,
and we haven’t much time,”
Snow told a meeting of the Amer
ican Association for the Advance
ment of Science.
Either the United States must
accept a restricton of nuclear
armaments, beginning as a token,
with the halting of nuclear tests,
or risk nuclear catastrophe, he
said. He added:
“On the one side, therefore, we
have a definite risk. On the other
side we have certainty of disaster.
Between a risk and a certainty, a
sane man does not hesitate.
“It is the plain duty of scientists
to explain this either-or. It is a
duty which seems to me to come
from the moral nature of the
scientific activity itself.”
It was poet John Masefield who
observed, “The hours that make
us happy make us wise.”
UP-TO-THE-MINUTE MEN
DEFENDING AMERICA
Mario Bellanca, Pioneer
Of Aviation History
Dies at the Age of 74
NEW YORK (iPI — Giuseppe
Mario Bellanca, one of the great
figures of aviation history, is
dead at 74.
He died at Memorial Hospital
Monday of Leukemia.
Bellanca, a Sicilian who later
became an American citizen, had
designed planes since 1907 and
headed the manufacturing com
pany bearing his name until a
few years ago.
It was his monoplane Columbia
which made the first nonstop
Transatlantic flight with a pas
senger. This was in June 1927.
Clarence D. Chamberlin was the
pilot and the passenger was
Charles A. Levine.
In 1931, Clyde Pangborn and
Hugh Herndon Jr. made the first
nonstop flight across the Pacific
in another Bellanca craft. They
flew from Tokyo Beach in Japan
to Wenatchee, Wash. The 4,500
mile trip took 41 hours and 13
minutes.
World’s Airlines Top
100 Million Mark
MONTREAL UPi — The world’s
airlines carried more than 108
million passengers this year,
topping the 100 million mark for
the first time in history as the
impact of jet airlines spread.
At the same time, the Inter
national Air Transport Associa
tion forecast the world’s airlines
will carry 118 million passengers
in 1961.
HIGHWAY TOLL IN CANADA
CLAIMS 39 LIVES
TORONTO UPi — Highway ac
cidents caused 39 deaths in Can
ada over Christmas weekend, a
Canadian press survey showed
today. The total, from 6 p.m. Fri
day to midnight Monday, was 13
less than the 52 predicted by
the Canadian Highway Safety
Council.
Race or Color References fo be
Omitled on Birih Certificates
NEW YORK UP — “Race or
color” references will be omitted
from birth certificates on all
babies born in New York City
after New Year’s Day.
The city will become the first
community in the United Slates
to adopt this policy, Commis
sioner Leona Baumgartner said
yesterday.
The action was taken follow
ing protests that color or race
information could be used to dis
criminate against minority groups.
However, the Board of Health
will keep the color or race items
in confidential medical records of
each birth. This will permit public
health workers and scientists to
make necessary racial and ethnic
studies.
QUITE A FIGURE
LONDQN UP — Stripper Tem
pest Storm, opening a four-monthN
engagement here, said she has
given up a million-dollar Lloyd
of London insurance policy on her
buxom figure and “in any case
it was all for publicity.” As news
men gasped at the unaccustomed
frankness, she added: “At least
I’m honest.”
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Alaska's largest fork lift,
owned by the Alaska Rail
road. is aeon haring its tires
inflated at Pier 41. Seattle,
prior to loading eh Alaska
Steamship Co. steamship For
tune. It is used on the dock
at Seward to handle vans.
This 100.300 lb. machine with
a lifting capacity of 70.000
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lbs. was built to Alaska Rail
road specifications for $75,000
by the Transitier Truck Co.
of Portland, Ore.