We speak out with our
best wishes to you, for
your happiness and suc
cess in the New Year.
Nome Sanitary Service
AND
Nome U-Wash
We hope the New Year
holds for you a future
bright and cheery!
To you, all best wishes.
Miners & Merchants Bank of Alaska
NOME, ALASKA
U.S.S.R. Invites j
U. 6. Governors
To Visit Russia
NEW YORK, — The Soviet
Union has invited the governors
of eight states and Hawaii to visit
Russia this summer.
The invitation went to the nine
members of the Governors Con
ference Executive Committee,
which met in Chicago three weeks
ago.
A number of foundations are
being approached to underwrite
the cost.
The Governors would visit the
Soviet Union in June.
In Chicago, Brevard Crinfield,
executive secretary of the confer
ence, said these nine governors
were invited: Leroy Collins, Flo
rida; William G. Stratton, Illi
nois; Cecil H. Underwood, West
Virginia; George D. Clyde, Utah;
James P. Cleman, Mississippi;
Robert B. Meyner, New Jersey;
Victor E. Anderson, Nebraska;
Stephen L. R. MoNichols, Colo
rado, and William F. Quinn, Ha
waii.
The invitation is scheduled to
be acted upon at an executive
committee meeting at Biloxi,
Miss., February 23.
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Cuban Rebels Hard Put To
Defend New Positions
HAVANA, Cuba., m — Army
forces today smashed a rebel at
tempt to capture Santa Clara in
central Cuba and are driving the
insurgents eastward, the govern
ment said.
Rebel broadcasts conceded that
the fighting now had moved north
and east “of that city controlling
highways from Havana to eastern
Cuba.
Fighters, bombers, artillery,
tanks, armored cars and infantry
were reported attacking rebels ev
erywhere in Las Villas Province,
of which Santa Clara is the cap
ital.
A rebel broadcast said forces
in the town of Cruces just west
of Santa Clara “are no longer able
to resist in the face of attacks by
tanks.”
The rebels appeared to be in a
bad way. One rebel commander
was heard radioing urgently for
reinforcements.
Rebel broadcasts, which had
been saying the overthrow of Ba
tista was imminent, stopped talk
ing about the fighting in Las
Villas.
The rebels claimed new suc
cesses in Oriente. They said they
captured the city of Guantanamo,
27 miles north of the U. S. Naval -
base of the same name.
Government air raids on at least
five smaller towns in Las Villas
confirmed that the rebels were
strongly entrenched in the south
ern part of the province. Rebel
control of Las Villas would cut
the island republic in half.
De Gaulle Named
‘Man-of-the-Year’
NEW YORK. Wt — President
elect Charles De Gaulle of France
is Time’s Man of the Year. His
picture will appear on the cover
of today’s year-end edition of the
newsmagazine.
De Gaulle was previously se
lected Man of the Year by editors
of 3,700 radio stations and news
papers in an Associated Press
poll.
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friends.You’ve made us happy by your patronage, and
our wish and pledge is that we will always try to make
you happy. We thank you sincerely, and we hope
that 1959 will bring you good cheer and good luck.
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Cheeriest New Year
greetings to you!
Here’s wishing you
the very best of
everything in 1959
. . . health, happi
o a ness and success!
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