THE NOME NUGGET
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Search Showed Nome’s Spirit
Another heartwarming demonstration of that com
munity spirit which has dominated Nome through its
55 years’ existence was the way everyone responded
in the search for little Timmy last week.
Nome has had its crippling fires, devastating and
heartbreaking floods, but its merchants and residents
had that pioneering something that made them forget
all personal differences and pull together for the bene
fit of all.
Sometimes it takes an emergency to find just what
makes a community tick; just what kind of people live
in it; why it is what it is. It is impossible to make a list
of all the people who assisted in the search and find
out what they did to help find this little boy and many
of them do not want to be recognized for their efforts.
But practically everyone in the community shared in
“Operation Help Thy Neighbor” in a true pioneering
spirit.
A IE POWER PROGRESS SINCE VJ-DAY
Yesterday America celebrated the tenth anni
versary of VJ-Day. The advances made in America’s
air power, military and civil, in the decade since World
War II have been nothing short of amazing.
Japan surrendered August 14, 1945, without her
main armies having ever been engaged in combat, so
fearful was the U.S. air attack. Since then, the speeds
of operational American military planes have more
than doubled, the altitudes at which they fight have
climbed to over 50,000 feet, and just one modern jet
bomber packs more destructive power than did all the
military aircraft of the second world war.
According to a story appearing in “Planes,” official
publication of Aircraft Industries Association, these
tremendous increases in air power are reflected in civil
aviation as well
Passenger miles flown and passengers carried by
the scheduled airlines have increased nearly five times
during this decade and some of today’s big transports,
with pressurized cabins, are capable of cruising at
28,000 feet—three and half times the average ten years
ago. They span oceans and continents overnight with
out landing.
Utility airplanes, low-powered and relatively frail
before 1945, are an essential tool for many businesses
today. Fast and comfortable, these private planes out
number the airlines’ fleet and fly many more miles
and hours each year. They have revolutionized such
jobs as pipeline patrol and agricultural spraying and
dusting.
Three Drown In Weekend
Accident at Summit Lake
FAIRBANKS, W — Three per
sons drowned in a boating acci
dent at Summit Lake, 200 miles
south of here, Maj. John Orr,
public information officer at Eiel
son Air Force Base, reported
yesterday.
A fourth person survived and
was hospitalized at Ladd Air
Force Base. Orr said the dead
included an Air Force officer and
tiis wife and the wife of a second
Air Force officer.
The major said the couple who
perished in the accident left an
11-year-old daughter at Eielson
AFB. The other woman who
«irowned had three small children
at Eielson. The father is expected
to recover.
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25 on Holiday Bus
Killed in Plunge Over
Cliff in Switzerland
BOURG ST. PIERRE, Switzer
land, UP>—At least 25 French holi
day makers were killed when the
bus on which they were traveling
up the great St. Bernard Pass
plunged over a precipice near
here Saturday morning.
Police said five persons were
extracted still alive from the shat
tered wreckage of the bus, but
all the other occupants, including
the driver, were killed.
The bus was enroute from the
French resort of Chamonix to the
monastery at the top of the pass.
More than 30 men, women and
children spending their holiday at
Chamonix had gone on the one
day outing to see the monastery
and its famous dog kennels.
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Gen. Edson of ‘Edson’s
Raiders’ Fame Dies Of
Monoxide Poisoning
WASHINGTON, UK—Maj. Gen.
Merrit A. Edson, winner of the
Medal of Honor as leader of “Ed
sons’ Raiders” during the World
War II campaign for Guadal
canal, was found dead Saturday
in the garage of his home.
The body of the retired Marine
Corps officer was found by his
wife, lying on the front seat of
the family auto. Death was due to
carbon monoxide poisoning.
Capt. Merritt A. Edson Jr., a
son of the general stationed at the
Quantico, Va., Marine base, said
his father had been “very tired”
and “feeling very badly about the
American prisoner of war ques
tion.”
Edson was one of five retired
generals and admirals who re
cently prepared for the Defense
Department a study of possible
code of conduct for American
servicemen made prisoners of
war. Results of the study have
not yet been made public.
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U.S. AND SOVIET SCIENTISTS
EXCHANGE INVITATIONS
GENEVA —Russian and Am
erican atomic scientists say they^
have exchanged informal invita
tions to visit each other’s coun
tries. ,
They said Friday night the in
vitations were extended at social
gatherings during the current
Geneva conference on peaceful
uses of the atom, but no definite
visits were set.
SINGLE BLESSEDNESS
ALBANY, N.Y., (#)—Miss Mary
Kelly, 101 Friday, doesn’t regret
having remained single.
“Men are all right in their own
way,” she opined, “but there’s no
reason to think that they’re all
important.”
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Emperor and Empress
Of Japan Almost Meet
Bear On Forest Walk
NASU, Japan, UFi — Emperor
Hirohito and Empress Nagako al
most walked up on a wild bear
and her cub in this highland some
100 miles north of Tokyo today.
The newspaper said the im
perial couple were strolling in the
forest when police escorts dis
covered the bears prowling just
ahead.
Two policemen whipped out
pistols and jumped in front of
their majesties. Three other po
licemen started shooing the ani
mals away.
The bear and cub ambled off
at a leisurely pace.
Fire loss in the United States
annually exceeds by almost 25
percent the damage done by the
German incendiary blitz on Eng
land in 1940-41.
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$1 Minimum Wage Law,
Hundreds of Others
Signed by Eisenhower
WASHINGTON, UP>—President
Eisenhower has signed laws pro
viding a new $1 an hour minimum
wage and free polio vaccine, and
neared the end of the hundreds of
bills Congress sent to him.
Only three bills wTere left Sat
urday on which action was pend
ing. These concerned the Wash
ington transit strike, land for a
Colorado River project and con
tinued stockpiling of some domes
tic minerals. Aides said the Pres
ident wanted more information
on them.
No exact count of bills signed
or vetoed has been made yet. The
President has been working on
hundreds at his White House of
fices and at his Gettysburgh farm
home since Congress adjourned
August 3.
The new minimum wage, effec
tive next March 1, applies to 24#
million workers covered by the
Federal Fair Labor Standards
Act. It is expected to mean wage
increases for about 2,100,000 em
ployes, mostly in the south. The
old minimum was 75 cents an
hour.
Eisenhower had recommended
a 90-cent minimum. Union labor
leaders wanted $1.25.
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