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Around Nome
By HARRY LUDBROOK
Did you know that ,Nome has
been the source of nearly one
fourth of the mineral wealth pro
duced in the Alaskan territory
during the past 40 years? And did
you know that it still is the least
developed portion of the country
today? Well, it’s so. And it is true
only because of the lack of trans
portation which same has been
Alaska’s bugaboo since it became
a territory. Like all well known
exploitations in the past history
of our country, Alaska has had
its surface wealth scraped off by
men who have acted as hogs
might well act under given cir
cumstances. Little thought has
been given to the real welfare
of, this beautiful country with its
thousands of resources awaiting
the touch of Midas.
Do you remember the platinum
recovered from the Dime Creek
placers, and on Bear and Sweep
stakes Creek, and at Willow
Creek? Tungsten, too, had its day
around 1916 and 1918. Silver ores
are found in many places in the
Nome district, especially around
Fish River and on the Kugruk
River.
Antimony ore, in the form of
stibmte, is one of the most widely
distributed minerals in Alaska
and with a new war in the offing
its need will be felt crucially
soon. King copper is plentiful
around the Noatak region and
also around Kobuk near Shung
nak. And the York district is well
known for its rich deposits of tin
but, so far, only the Tin City and
Lost River mines are operating.
Just 25 miles from Nome there
is more iron ore than Michigan
ever thought of having and it is
just awaiting the forethought of
some big operator with a little
nerve to open up. Coal, too, with
a ready market right here in
Nome is to be had just for the
taking. Oil is being piped from
the Barrow region.now, or soon,
but where one well exists now,
there should be thousand later on.
It’s too bad that all the vision
arys are broke and the man with
the money is too conservative or
to- busy looking for the immediate
dollar, otherwise this would be a
wonderful country in which to
live.
The plumage of penguins is
formed of small, scale-like fea
thers.
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(Back of Alaska Airlines)
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Washington News-Letter
By Mary Lee Council
Secretary to E. L. (Bob) Bartlett
Delegate in Congress from Alaska
Budget for Alaska
The Alaska program, including
expanded • construction on roads,
the Alaska Railroad and public
works, totals $139,852,043, the
largest portion of which is ear
marked for the Department of the
Interior in the sum of $83,955,369
followed by $20,494,780 for the
Department of Commerce, $11,
983,500 for the Department of De
fense (exclusive of military and
naval public works>, $11,376,363
for the Post Offic Department,
$6,136,131 for the Department of
Agriculture, $4,380,200 for the
Treasury Department, $1,107,000
for the Federal Security Agency
and $249,800 for the Judiciary.
The Interior Department
The construction fund request
of $16,311,000 for the Alaska Rail
road would provide reconstruction
of the Seward-Portage portion of
the railroad in the sum of $13,
592,000, with the additional re
quest of $2,719,000 to be used for
added rolling stock “to meet in
creased military demand for coal.”
The budget included $15 million
requested for the Alaska Public
Works program, $559,600 for the
care and custody of Alaska’s in
sane, and $102,000 for the office
of the governor and secretary of
Alaska.
Classroom additions at Moun
tain Village and Gambell, new
schools and quarters at Kaltag,
Karluk and Tanacross, quarters
for medical employees at Kotze
bue, and certain improvements at
Mt. Edgecumbe would be pro
vided under the appropriations
requested for the Alaska Native
Service. The total sum sought in
the President’s budget for the Al
aska activities of the Bureau of
Indian Affairs amounts to $11,
186,913 for assistance in the
health, educational, welfare and
other programs.
Department of Defense
River and harbor maintenance
work totalling $203,500 is con
templated with dredging planned*
for Wrangell Narrows in the sum
of $145,700; Nome, $30,300; and
the Seward harbor refuge $27,500.
Alaska Department of Health
The President has asked $1,
107,000 for the disease and sanita
tion control program carried out
by the Alaska Department of
Health in cooperation with the
Public Health Service.
Visitors
Miss Irene Cornue, who has
| taught school at Nome and other
places in Alaska and who has
worked with Wien Alaska Air
lines at Kotzebue, caled on Dele
gate Bartlett while in the east on
■ an extensive vacation trip. Miss
Cornue will return to Kotzebue
in May.
Frank J. Daugherty of Nome is
j visiting in Washington and New
York and called at Delegate Bart
| lett’s office this week.
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No Success in High
Court for A.T.A.;
Revocation Stands
WASHINGTON, Wl — The Su
preme Court Monday declined to
review a circuit court of appeals
decision upholding revocation of
a non-scheduled air carrier’s auth
ority to do business.
The carrier is Air Transport
Associates, Inc., which operates
between Seattle and Alaska.
Its operating authority was can
celled by the Civil Aeronautics
Board more than a year ago on
grounds the carrier flew more
flights than its limited license
permitted. Operations have con
tinued pending the court’s ruling.
The court’s decision was 6 to 3
with Justices Black, Reed and
Douglas dissenting.
Amos Heacock, airline presi
dent, told a newsman he would
ask the court to reconsider its de
cision in view of the three dis
sents.
At the same time, Delegate
Bartlett (D-Alaska) disclosed he
had written the board urging that
it delay action affecting the car
rier until it completes a study re
cently undertaken on the role of
non-scheduled carriers in the air
industry.
Bartlett told the board the air
line had performed valuable ser
vice to Alaska, not only during
maritime strikes, but in lowering
freight rates on merchandise that
is shipped north.
TWINS JOINED AT CHEST
DIE AFTER FOURTH DAY
MEMPHIS, UR — Siamese twin
boys who spent their brief lives
joined chest to chest by a four
inch-wide band of flesh from col
larbone to navel died here Mon
day night.
They were Terry and Jerry
Sims, born to Mrs. Jesse Sims, 22,
at Philadelphia, Miss., four days
earlier.
Coke is on the menu!
Its so good with meals
There it is—right next to soups,
meats and desserts.
Yes, Coke with meals is growing fast
—it really makes good food taste better.
BOTTLED UNDER AUTHORITY OF THE COCA-COLA COMPANY BY
NOME BEVERAGE CO.
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• Coke” is a registered trade-mark. © 1953, THE COCA-COLA COMPANY