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Methodist Church
Membership Passes
The 10-Million Mark
NASHVILLE. Term. UP> — j
Methodist officials announced Fri- I
day that its church membership in '
the United States has passed the
10-million mark.
Dr. Harry Denman. General
Secretary of the Methodist Board
of Evangelism, said 68 of the 100
annual conferences in the nation
have reported so far on this year’s
membership.
The Rock River conference of
Illinois reported a gain of 4,889
members over the last year and
this put the year’s total at 10,
004,074, Denman said. He said
the remaining 32 conference re
ports should boost total member
ship considerably more.
LOCAL STORES WILL BE
CLOSED OVER 4TH OF JULY
NC Store, U. S. Merc, Nome
Hardware and Morgan & Son will
obeserve a three-day holiday over
the Fourth of July. They will be
closed Sunday, Monday and Tues
day.
KKK PUBLIC LIBRARY
A new group of children’s
books have just been received
at the KK Public Library.
My Lucky Dog by Hall; three
new Seuss books, Cat in Hat, '
Cat in Hat Comes Back and
Yertle the Turtle; Curious George j
Flies a Kite by Rey; Alaskan |
Hunter by Hays; Mrs. Wap
pinger’s Secret by Hightower; |
Captain’s House by Kyle; Mystery
On Floating Hotel by Stroiber.
Two new horse stories by Bialk
are Wild Horse Island and Taffy’s
Foal.
White House huffs: Three re
tiring U.S. Presidents refused to
attend the inauguration of their
successors. They were John
Adams, his son, John Quincy
Adams, and Andrew Johnson.
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Esechcraft Bonanza
Explodes in Flight
Killing Four Persons
NEWARK, Ohio (ZP» — A Mun- '
cie, Ind., surgeon and three other
persons, believed to be his wife,
son and sister-in-law, were killed
when their new plane exploded
in flight and crashed Saturday, j
The pilot was identified as Dr. j
Anson Hurley, flying his new j
Beechcraft Bonanza to Teterboro, 1
N.J., to attend an American Med- !
ical Assn, convention in New '
York.
George Parkinson, airways
operations officer in Indianapolis,
said Dr. Hurley, a friend, had
checked weather conditions with j
him and radioed back after
leaving Muncie.
Japan Suffers Heavy Downpour
TOKYO WP> — Nineteen persons j
were reported killed, 18 injured '
and 12 missing in the year’s big
gest downpour which has pound
ed Southwestern Japan since Sat
urday.
| More than 35,000 houses were
flooded up to noon Monday in six
prefectures in the Shikoku-Kinki
area, 300 miles southwest of here.
Rice fields suffered heavy dam
ages.
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Arlene Muller New Assistant
To The District Magistrate
Arlene Muller has replaced
Mrs. Don McKay as assistant in
the office of the District Magis
trate. She will also act as deputy
magistrate. Miss Muller has been
in the office of the North Star
Grill for the past year.
UNALAKLEET I
LODGE
and
RESTAURANT
Open the year ’round
Dale and Theckla Friemiring
HOME COOKED FOOD
RATES REASONABLE
Two Republicans Charge
State's Contract Awarding
Lack of Good Judgment
ANCHORAGE W — Two An
chorage Republicans have
charged that the state’s recent
awarding of a contract for 120
vehicles to the Budson Co. of An
chorage “demonstrates a lack of
good business judgment.”
Rep. Bob Stratton and Sen.
Brad Phillips said “not only did
two bidders bid lower on 71 pick
ups than the Budson Co. but it
appears that the state is actually
paying approximately $100,000
more to lease the vehicles than it
would have cost to buy them.
“To make matters worse, the
state is allowing the Budson Co.
to furnish used cars as long as
they are less than 18 months old.”
The GOP solons added, “Had
the state required new cars on a
lease - purchase option or bought
new vehicles on contract, approxi
mately $19,000 in federal excise
taxes could have been saved.
“In addition to this the state
would have owned vehicles worth
approximately $120,000 at the end
of the two-year period.”
Instead of paying $102 a month,
| including interest, to get a new
j truck, which they contend the
! state could have done under the
bids, it chose to pay $114 a month
for used pickups.”
In Juneau, Gov. Egan said
members of the Legislative Fin
ance Committee had indicated a
desire to have the state lease at
least a portion of its vehicles for
the next year or two.
“It was the feeling that we
would gradually work into own
ing our own equipment, but the
present budget does not provide
enough money for that at this
time.”
Egan said under lease agree
ments negotiated last year, the
j monthly lease charge ran about
$85 on pickup trucks. The gover
j nor said the monthly charge had
increased since then.
Egan noted that the contract
questioned by Phillips and Strat
ton was actually involved in a
second bid call. All bids entered
| in the first call were rejected as
| being too high, Egan said.
I Christie Waldheim, pioneer re
! sident who has been on a two- j
! month vacation trip, returned last :
| week after visting with her chil- !
dren in Lancaster, Calif., Moore
| Bay, and Spokane, Wash.
I She brought greetings from Bob
1 Knight who now has a dairy farm
at Valley, Wash., and from Mar- |
garet Steinwandel of Worley, I
Wash., and Mr. and Mrs. Harry j
Springstein, pioneer residents,
who sent greetings to old friends. 1
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ELLEN MULVIHILL RETURNS
FROM A TRIP OUTSIDE
Ellen Mulvihill, owner of the
M’Lord and Lady Shop who has
just returned from a trip outside
took in the market showing for
fall and picked out interesting
new styles and novelties for her
shop.
Her daughter Pamela remained
to attend summer science school
at Whitmore College in Spokane,
Wash.
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Water Bomber Crashes
In B. C. Four Men Perish
PARKSVILLE, B.C. UP>— Four
men died in the crash of an 80-ton ,
water bomber Friday because the
pilot could not clear the one tree
between him and safety.
The four-engined Martin Mars,
representing a $500,000 gamble to
overcome the problem of fighting
forest fires in British Columbia,
crashed into a hillside after hit
ting the tree near this central
Vancouver island village, killing
the crew.
Dead are W. G. Richmond, W.
J. Wiggins, J. V. Edwards, and
R. A. Morin.
Observers said the plane was |
flying steeply banked after it
passed over the fire to avoid i
the side of the hill.
Just at the point where it
could have leveled out and climb
to safety the tip of the right wing
hit a 200-foot fir tree. The wing
was torn off and the plane |
plunged into dense timber.
GEN. MacARTHUR TO
VISIT THE PHILIPPINES
NEW YORK UP — General of
the Army Douglas MacArthur an
nounced Friday he will leave New
York July 1 to take part in the
15 th anniversary celebration of
Philippine independence in Man
ia on July 4.
It will be MacArthur’s first trip
to the Far East since he was re
lieved as Commander of the I
United Nations forces in the j
Korean War in April, 1951.
"MA" FERGUSON DIES AT 86
AUSTIN, Tex. W — Miriam A.
Ferguson, 86, twice governor of
Texas and one of the nation’s
first women governors, died Sun
day of a heart attack. Called.
“Ma” by friends and foes, both
she and her late husband, James
E. (Fanner Jim) were longtime
Democratic political powers in
Texas.
Arrivals & Departures
Werner Bohrer and Carl Mick
elson, who have been attending
a Masonic assembly in Spokane,
returned to Nome yesterday. Also
returning was Mrs. David Nease
who had attended a Methodist
Mission conference in the same
city.
Mr. and Mrs. W. Burand re
turned from Manley Hot Springs
where they have been for the
past week.
Bernie Blumenstein and his
bride arrived from Anchorage
where they were married last
week.
Other arrivals included Mr. and
Mrs. Gourley, J. Stevenson, John
Abernathy, Harry Knudsen, Lor
raine Singer, Phil Mosare, Robt.
Reed, Mariam Shaub, Ken Ander
son, Irene Bocher, George Sheig,
and Pete Merry.
Leaving for Fairbanks were
Eleanor Escholt, John Kessell,
Earl Hurst, Hannah Castel, Jim
Kirby, Charlotte Jemewouk, Mr.
and Mrs. Nels Swanberg, Anna
Statuk, Grace Edman, Charles
Oxereok, A. Warlde, Vern Blom,
and Evelyn LaChance.
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