THE NOME NUGGET
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Entered as second class matter October 14. 1943. at the
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No (hie s Education Is Complete
Until He Seeks to lie Elected to Office
By Hal Boyle
NEW YORK i-P — No one’s edu
cation is quite complete until he
seeks to be elected something or
other.
It isn’t necessary to seek high
public office — to aspire to be a
senator or a governor or a ten
ant of the White House.
Running for the presidency of
a private club or organization of
any kind can be equally enlight
ening as to the vital dynamics
of democracy.
A man learns the same basic
facts of politics whether he runs
for the Presidency of the United
States, or for the chairmanship of
the local branch of the interna
tional society for the betterment
of the petunia.
As a matter of pure truth, the
infighting in amateur politics is
probably more intense than it is j
in the field of professional poli
tics! which is, to some extent, af
fected by traditional rules.
You are an ordinary man rea
sonably content with an ordinary
job, a wife and two ordinary
children. You rather unwillingly
join PTA because — well, you
feel you ought to.
You sit silent through the first
two meetings. Then, one night,
when the audience is asked for
suggestions as to how to improve
the school, you get up.
“Why don’t we get the gym
mats cleaned. They look pretty
dirty,” you say.
Later Joe Doakes, one of the
king makers of the organization
approaches you.
“That was mighty constructive
proposal you made. This outfit
needs fresh minds and new blood.
How about you running for pres
ident ” he says.
So you launch your campaign
for the presidency on a liberal
platform: “Let’s get the gym mats
cleaned — and hang the ex
penses.”
A week later a second faction
appears with a candidate whose
slogan is, “why imperil our chil
dren’s safety with used gym
mats? Let’s buy new gym mats!”
A third candidate then arises
with the cry, “lets build a new
gym.” Then a fourth candidate
emerges with an even hotter is
sue: “What our community de
serves is a brand new school.”
The w hole situation has
changed. Instead of being a for
ward-looking liberal, you are
now tagged as a foot-dragging old
fossil with his mind in the past,
a real drag on the community.
Rumors spread that you are a
wife beater, a tax dodger and a
j man who starves his kids on stale
| bread and water in order to keep
up sumpuous love nests in two
neighboring suburbs.
Well, on the advice of Joe
Doakes, you rent a mimeograph
and start grinding out campaign
literature. You and your support
ers hold endless caucuses far into
the morning and soon you are
spending more time and effort
trying to be president of the PTA
than you are in earning a living.
Old enemies suddenly become
warm friends, and old friends
unexpectedly become new ene
mies. You have a strange sense of
unreality. You don’t feel you have
changed, but the world around
you has.
Comes election night and you
are badly swamped. The PTA
overwhelmingly votes in as presi
dent the guy who plumped for a
$3-million bond issue to build a
new school.
You are a defeated man. But
you have learned things about
yourself and your community you
never could have discovered un
less you have run for an elective
office, and submitted yourself to
the voting discipline of your fel
low man.
Planning to sell your home?
Some real estate men say you can
get up to 12 per cent more if
you paint it first.
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] SOI PERSONS EXECUTED TO
I DATE BY CASTRO’S REGIME
HAVANA UP) — Firing squads '
I executed two more men in La
1 Cabana yesterday, raising to 601 I
the unofficial total of persons ex- I
ecuted by Prime Minister Fidel •
Castro’s regime since he took I
power on Jan. 1, 1959.
They were condemned by sepa
rate military tribunals Wednes
day night.
The two tribunals also sen
tenced 24 persons to prison for
terms ranging from 9 to 30 years
on charges of counter-revolution
ary activities.
LATEST THING IN FASHION
LONDON (/Pi —- It’s the latest
thing in British female fashion—
the Jacqueline Kennedy look.
With the President and his
wife coming to Europe next
month, the girls are already try
ing to look like America’s First
Lady, says columnist Edna Mc
Kenna on the Tabloid Daily
Sketch.
She forecast the Jacqueline-type
low hairline will be the succes
sor to the high blonde Bardot
look which blossomed in Britain
last summer.
WANTED . . .
ONE EASTER BUNNY !
YUBA CITY, Calif. UP) — Want
ed by the sheriff: One Easter
bunny.
Elbert Audrey Tylor was one
of 10 prisoners assigned to play
bunny and hide 4,200 colored
Easter eggs before Sheriff G. W.
Carpenter’s big Easter egg hunt
for Sutter County children.
The children found the eggs,
but the sheriff hasn’t been able
to find Tylor, who was serving a
nine months sentence for failure
to provide for his family.
PROUD DISPLAY . . .
LOUISVILLE, Ky." UP> — A
tourist back from Scotland proud
ly displayed a silk scarf in a
heather-and-tartan box and in
scribed: “A gift from Bonnie
Scotland.”
The scarf itself carried the
label: ‘‘Made in West Germany.”
Thousands of Refugees Flee
From Angola Info ihe Congo
MATADI, The Congo OP* —
Thousands of African refugees
are filtering across the guarded
Angola border into the Congo
telling stories of Portuguese mas
sacres and oppression.
The Congolese security chief of
Matadi, a port town lying only a
few miles from the frontier, esti
mated that at least 3,000 persons
— many of them young children
— have fled to this region from
Angola in the last two weeks.
30 Soldiers Complete
300-Mile Cross-Country Trek
With temperatures as low as -50
degrees for four days the 30
soldiers of the Reconnaissance
Platoon, 1st Battle Group from
Ft. Richardson completed their
300-mile cross country trek on
skis and on foot from McGrath to |
Unalakleet. They were equipped i
with three Sno - Travelers and
started the trip on March 13.
They will be returned to their
base by air.
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Rep. Rivers Urges
Doubling $2 Million
'or Indian Sanitation
WASHINGTON t/P — Rep.
Palp i J. Rivers has urged doubl
ing the $2 million that has been
idgeted for the Indian Sanita
tion Facilities Progtatn in the
year starting July 1.
In a letter Wednesday to Rep.
John Fogarty, Chairman of the
House Appropriations subcom
mittee on Health, Education and
Welfare funds, Rivers said the $2
million budgeted is inadequate to
meet immediate sanitation needs
of Indian communities.
There is a waiting list of com
munities with approved projects
which means many will have to
wait for aid until the fiscal year
starting July 1, 1962 or later un
less the program is increased.
Rivers said.
Among these, he said, is the
Metlakatla community in South
eastern Alaska, in need of help
to rehabilititate its water system,
which Rivers said, is “in a pre
carious state of disrepair.”
Under the program, the Public
Health Service helps provide
water supply, waste disposal and
other sanitation facilities for In
dian reservations, villages and
homes.
Fine Job Printing At The Nugget
Our Savior's Lutheran Church
SUNDAY
9:45 a.m. Church School and
Bible Classes
11:00 a.m. Morning Worship
2:00 p.m. T.uther league Committee
3:30 p.m. Church Council
7:30 p.m. Evening Service
TUESDAY
7:00 p.m. Jr. and Sr. Confirmants
8:00 p.m. Men’s Brotherhood
WEDNESDAY
7:30 p.m.—Evening Service
8:30 p.m. Choir Practice
THURSDAY
10:00 a.m. Kindergarten
7:30 p.m. Luther League
FRIDAY
7:30 p.m. Membership Class
7:30 p.m. Family Films
House Kills Employment
Pay Period Bill
In Waiiirg Hours’
JUNEAU (/P! — A bill which
would extend the maximum bene
fit period for employment securi
ty payments from 26 to 28 weeks
was killed in the House Wednes
day by a tabling vote of 21-18.
The action came in the waning
hours of the legislative session
after lawmakers were told that
the 13-week emergency federal
employment security program
would extend the coverage to the
maximum 39 weeks anyway.
The bill which had been re
quested by Gov. Egan, passed the
Senate more than a month ago.
The House resolved itself into
a committee of the whole before
final action on the bill to hear
testimony by Merrill Weir, State
Director of Employment Security.
In reply to questions, Weir
said the bill would have no effect
on jobless benefits in Alaska un
til June 30, 1962, at which time
the emergency federal program
will end.
Flattery does get you some
where. A top door-to-door sales
man says his success secret is:
“The first five words I utter when
a housewife opens the door are—
“Miss, is your mother in?”
You Are Always Welcome at The
BIBLE
BAPTIST
CHURCH
o SUNDAY
10:00 a.m. Sunday School
11:00 a.m. Worship Service
7:00 p.m. Evening Worship
• WEDNESDAY
7:00 p.m. Bible Study
• THURSDAY
7:00 p.m. Prayer Meeting
• FRIDAY
4:00 p.m. Good News Club
7:30 p.m. Youth Fellowship
Rev. Bob Leight — Missionary Pastor
WINTER SCHEDULE
FAIRBANKS TO NOME (Via Kotzebue)
EACH MONDAY and FRIDAY — FLIGHT 309
Lv. Fairbanks *7:30 a.m. Ar. Kotzebue 8:20 a.m.
Lv. Kotzebue 9:00 a.m. Ar. Nome 9:45 a.m.
EACH WEDNESDAY — FLIGHT 309
Lv. Fairbanks *7:30 a.m. Ar. Kotzebue 9:00 a m.
Lv. Kotzebue 9:40 a.m. Ar. Nome 10:45 a.m.
FAIRBANKS TO NOME
EACH TUESDAY and SATURDAY — FLIGHT 311
Lv. Fairbanks *7:30 a.m. Ar. Tanana *8:05 a.m.
Lv. Tanana *8:15 a.m. Ar. Galena *8:55 a.m.
Lv. Galena *9:25 a.m. Ar. Nome 9:25 a.m.
FAIRBANKS TO NOME (Direct)
EACH THURSDAY — FLIGHT 311
Lv. Fairbanks *7:30 a.m. Ar. Nome 8:40 a.m.
NOME TO FAIRBANKS (Direct)
EACH MONDAY — FLIGHT 310
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Lv. Nome 10:45 a.m. Ar. Fairbanks *1:55 p.m.
EACH WEDNESDAY — FLIGHT 310
Lv. Nome 4:30 p.m. Ar. Fairbanks *8:40 p.m.
EACH FRIDAY — FLIGHT 310
Lv. Nome 2:00 p.m. Ar. Fairbanks *5:10 p.m.
NOME TO FAIRBANKS (Via Kotzebue)
EACH TUESDAY and SATURDAY — FLIGHT 312
Lv. Nome 10:25 p.m. Ar. Kotzebue 11:10 a.m.
Lv. Kotzebue 11:50 a.m. Ar. Galene *1:45 p.m.
Lv. Galena *2:00 p.m. Ar. Tanana *2:40 p.m.
Lv. Tanana *2:50 p.m. Ar. Fairbanks *3:25 p.m.
EACH THURSDAY — FLIGHT 312
Lv. Nome 9:40 a.m. Ar. Kotzebue 10:25 a.m.
Lv. Kotezebue 11:05 a.m. Ar. Fairbanks *1:55 p.m.
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