THE NOME NUGGET
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Entered as second class matter October 14. 1943, at the
post office at Nome, Alaska, under Act of March 3, 1879.
JFK's Physician Foresees
A World Free of
Physical Illness
NASHVILLE, Tenn. OP — Presi
dent Kennedy’s personal physi
cian predicts the goal of medical
science soon will be the cure of
human behavior rather than the
cure of human physical illness.
Foreseeing a world free of phys
ical disease in which “only death
will be accepted as inevitable,’’
Dr. Janet Travell told the 108
member graduating class of Me
harry Medical College here Mon
day: “The challenges of the fu
ture for medicine lie in the pos
sibles of modifying the be
havioral patterns of the human
race for the good of society.”
Dr. Travel went with the Presi- ,
dent to Paris and Vienna but re- 1
turned to appear as the com
mencement speaker at Meharry, a
predominantly Negro school.
Carol Tanner Weiler and chil
dren are visiting with her mother,
Ella Tanner, from her home in
Tanana where she suffered an
injury to her hand recently and
is here also for medical care.
GLUE EOT
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Every Day
Sen. Bartlett Introduces
Sill to Make Natural Gas
I Available for Barrow
WASHINGTON l-P — Sen. E. L.
I Bartlett yesterday proposed that
! Congress end a fuel famine suf
j fered for years by the 1.300 resi
! dents of the Arctic village of
I Barrow.
He introduced a bill which
1 would allow the Navy to make
; available to the villagers natural
! gas from the South Barrow field
in Naval Petroleum Reserve No.
4.
Gas from two wells in the re
serve now' is used to heat fed- :
eral installations in the area.
However, the 1923 law setting :
aside the reserve does not allow
villagers to obtain gas.
Bartlett’s bill would authorize
the Navy to drill another well <
near the existing wells and make '
gas available for sale to Barrow
through a utility company to be
formed.
A contractor would build a
pipeline for transmission or be
allowed to lease existing lines.
The price of gas would be de
termined by competitive bidding.
Bartlett said the bill would not
conflict with one he introduced
! in March. That bill would put
! the reserve under Interior De
j partment jurisdiction and there
! by open its 23 million acres to
J private exploration and develop
j ment under Public Land Mineral
I Laws.
I Bartlett said Barrow villagers
suffer a fuel shortage annually,
that coal, when available, costs
more than $40 a ton and oil about
$30 for 50 gallons.
“It would be both inexcusable
and inhumane were we not to do
all things possible to allow these
hardy people the right to enjoy
the fuel taken from the very
ground upon which their ances
tors have lived for centuries,”
Bartlett said.
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DON’T BE BASHFUL!
The Chamber of Commerce invites all f
young ladies to compete for Queen of the Mid
night Sun Festival.
To be eligible, contestants must be single
and sixteen years of age. All former contestants
are also eligible to compete. The Queen contestant
must be sponsored by a business or organization.
It will be required of them to wear costumes
I through the five days of the Festival and to appear
j on stage for judging Saturday, June 24th in formal
dress and sports attire.
The contestant chosen to represent Nome
as Midnight Sun Queen for 1961, will receive a
shower of gifts donated by local business establish
1 ments and the Chamber of Commerce.
This is no time to be bashful ! All girls wish
ing to enter and anyone who would like to sponsor
j a Queen contestant, please contact:
!
| Sharon Harwood,
I Chairman,
| Queen Pageant
i
Western Powers
Warn Soviets of
Nuclear Retaliation
By J. M. Roberts
Associated Press News Analyst
The United States and Great
Britain have warned the Soviet
Union that they will use nuclear
weapons if their positions in West
ern Europe are attacked in force.
The warning, contained in in
formal but apparently concerted
statements, appears, in the con
text of recent discussions, to have
the agreement of France.
Indeed, President De Gaulle has
been ahead of both his major
allies in promulgating an un
yielding doctrine with regard to
Berlin.
The warnings also fits in with
what Gen. Lauris Norstad has
argued is a factual component of
the military position of North
Atlantic Treaty Organization
forces which he commands, and
follows up on a policy less suc
cintly expressed by the Eisen
lower Administration.
The policy has also existed in
brmally in Britain as a part of
he inherent logic of her shift
iome years ago to a defense es
ablishment based very largely on
luclear deterrent.
But the position is especially
jointed at this time.
The American statement Tues
iay by Rosewell Gilpatric, Depu
y Secretary of Defense, is more
jrecise than the British in de
fining a contingency in which the
Soviet Union could cause a nu
clear war even though her attack
were non-nuclear.
“The current doctrine,” Gil
patric said, “is that if NATO
forces were about to be over
whelmed by non-nuclear forces of
Communist bloc countries, they
would respond by the use of nu
clear weapons.
The British Minister of De
fense merely said that his coun
try would use all available force
to retaliate against an aggression.
The policy thus expressed gets
farther away from the old idea
that in almost all circumstances
the West, because of the very na
tures of the countries which form
the alliance, would have to take
the first blow before starting nu
clear war.
There may be a psychological
background to the willingness of
the United States to take a more
specific position on the point at
this time.
The Kennedy Administration
has just learned a considerable
lesson about the use of half
measures, because of Cuba.
In Laos, a threat of armed
American intervention came too
late to deter the Communists
from attacks which have now
set the stage for ultimate take
over.
With regard to Berlin, Presi
dent Kennedy has not only told
the Soviet Union that the political
position of the Allies there will
be defended in general, but there
is now an actual delineation of
military posture.
The deterrent is being pushed
to the limit.
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Injured in Hiway Accident
ANCHORAGE UP» — One man
was killed and two others serious
| ly hurt in a two-car accident on
! the Glenn Highway early today.
State Police here identified the
dead man as Walter C. Loss, 25,
an Army man attached to the Al
aska Communication System at
Glenallen.
Injured were Bob Morris Aaron,
22, of Detroit, Mich., and Julian
Ralph Rivers, 28, son of Alaska
congressman Ralph J. Rivers.
1 State Police said Loss was driv
ing north in a small foreign
sports car, apparently crossed the
center line of the highway and
struck the oncoming vehicle of
Aaron and Rivers, who had just
entered the state and were driv
j ing to Anchorage.
Loss was apparently killed in
stantly and his body was pinned
in the wreckage of his car for
several hours. Aaron, who was
driving the other car, and Rivers
sustained serious injuries and
were taken to the nearby Glenn
alien hospital for emergency
treatment. One of the men was
said to have suffered two broken
legs.
Both vehicles were demolished.
Wacky ad from a West Coast
paper: “For Sale, large sugar j
plants. A steal! Write Castro, I
Box 1, Cuba.”
FIRE DEPT. CALLED OUT
The Fire Department was called
out Monday evening to the Locke
residence on 1st Ave., due to a
hot stack. There was no damage.
There was a very short delay
in arriving at the scene, it was
first believed to be the Oscar
Wall residence in the FAA area
instead of the Oscar Wall home,
which is rented by Fern Locke.
WILD PITCH . . .
TROY, N. Y. UP) — The baseball
crashed through a window of Mrs.
Michael Demers’ home. Before she
had time to get angry the guilty
player walked in. “I did it,” ad
mitted Mayor Neil W. Kelleher,
who like many southpaws has
trouble with wild pitches. He has
several windows to his credit,
“but all paid for,” he said.
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