All-Time High
In Tourist Travel
Predicted For 1954
JUNEAU — An all-time high
in Alaska tourist travel is pre
dicted for the 1954 season accord
ing to a forecast from Edward D.
Coffey, president of the Alaska
Visitors Association.
Mr. Coffey pointed out that the
record volume of pleasure travel
already booked by transportation
companies and tour agents is a
definite indication of the upward
trend, and that this season will
surpass any previous postwar
year.
“The Juneau headquarters of
the Alaska Visitors Association
continues to receive a flood of in
quiries for information and guid
ance although the paid advertise
ments stopped in April,” Coffey
revealed. “Since April 15 the AVA
answered over 1900 requests,” he
stated.
Among the outstanding promo
tions gaining national attention
Coffey cited the recent polar bear
safari of travel agents to Poipt
Barrow. Newspapers through the
entire U.S. carried accounts of the
expedition.
Coffey announced the follow
ing articles scheduled for im
mediate publication in national
and trade magazines: Fourth of
July at Nome, July Esquire; Holi
day With the Eskimos at Kotze
bue, Travel magazine in June.
Wien Tourist Season Starts
Wien Airlines have announced
that the official tourist season was
scheduled to start on June 15 but
due to the number of reservations,
daily flights have started as of
yesterday.
The visitors are routed through
Kotzebue where they have an
overnight stop and then brought
to Nome for several hours, or left
overnight here if they desire to
stay.
Attorney Defending Man
On Drunk Driving Charge
Is Himself Arrested
DENVER, l#—A Denver attor
ney was arrested on drunk charg
es during a traffic court session in
which he was defending a client
on drunk driving charges yester
day.
Judge George McNamara or
dered Joe Atencio, 34, to undergo
a sobriety test and declared a
mistrial on the case Atencio was
defending.
Six officers who witnessed the
sobriety examination signed Aten
cia’s arrest slip. He was charged
with drunkenness, being drunk in
a public place and creating a dis
turbance.
Bright northern lights can il
luminate the earth about half as
much as a full moon.
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GLUE POT
Soda Fountain
CIGARS, CIGARETS
TOBACCO
CANDY
FRESH ICE CREAM
EVERY DAY
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Permanent Site
Sought for Nome
USO Building
The USO Club which opened on
Armed Forces Day, May *15, is
proving its worth as it has be
coming increasingly popular with
the service men in our commun
ity.
Mrs. Frey, who is the official
hostess, is assisted by a selected
group of young women of the
community as well as the service
men themselves in keeping an in
teresting program going.
Mr. A. Smith, director of USO
at Fairbanks, who’s interest in the
establishment of the club made it
possible, arrived yesterday and
said today he is well pleased with
the development todate.
The most important step, how
ever, is getting the permanent
club moved to a suitable location,
as the site originally planned on
is to small for the building.
WIEN AIRLINES
From Fairbanks and Kotzebue:
Patricia Reece, Fred Boyle, Nate
Oleoman, V. Hargett, Svend Hede
gaard, H. Sorman, Ed Walker, Mr.
and Mrs. William McDonald, El
mer Green, Homer Mills, Julius
Sacceus, Margaret McDonald, Joe
Kroninger, Wm. Soonagruk, Jul
ius Sacceus, Frank Tippleman,
Herb Williams, Lucky Queens, E.
Clements, Fred Whitehire, Chas.
Alexander, James Anderson, C. L.
Hummell, A. Dionace, Margaret
Russell, M. Cook.
To Candle: Olaf Lundberg.
To Fairbanks: Charles Hobbis,
Mildred Hermann, L. Angerman,
Minnie Tucker, B. C. Coleman,
Eleanor Holm, Donald Cass, Tony
Keber, Gertrude Wetzel, M. Har
get, L. Dorman, Ray Hay, Glenn
Carrington, Chris Roust.
Five overnight tourists include
Harvey Richardson, Mary Dun
ham, Alberta Schoefield, Laura
Bishop.
Ten other tourists passed thru
yesterday and today with a three
hour stop-over.
USO AT NOME—This is the new USO center
for servicemen stationed at Nome. The build
ing was dedicated recently. Standing on the
steps are Brig. Gen. John Noyes, Alaska
National Guard commander, upper left; Rus
sel Hermann, U.S. attorney for the Second
Division and chairman of the Nome USO com
mittee, upper right; Brig. Gen. Donald B.
Smith, commanding general of the 11th Air
Division, lower left, and Allan Smith, director
of the Fairbanks USO.
Ike’s Legislative Program
Designed to Lead To
Secure and Peaceful Life
WASHINGTON, GP) — President
Eisenhower says his legislative
program is designed to build the
kind of national strength which
will “lead us most certainly to a
life that is secure and peaceful.”
Going to bat for that program,
the President also said in a speech
Monday that the proposals he has
placed before Congress don’t over
step the federal government’s
function or create a dahger the
, people in government will be
| come merely busybodies.”
I Eisenhower set forth his views
IN THE PROBATE COURT FOR THE
CAPE NOME PRECINCT, SECOND
DIVISION, TERRITORY OF ALASKA
IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF
OSCAR HENRY LAY. Deceased.
No. 983
Notice to Creditors
! NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that
Fred M. Bockman, of Nome, Alaska, has
been duly appointed Administrator of the
I Estate of Oscar Henry Lay, deceased.
All persons having claims against the
said estate should present .them, with
proper vouchers attached, to said Ad
ministrator at Nome, Alaska, within six
(61 months fr6m the date of this notice.
DATED this 14th day of May, 1954.
FRED M. BOCKMAN,
ADMINISTRATOR.
Publ. May 19, 26, June 2, 9, 1954.
in an informal 10-minute talk at'
commencement exercises on the
campus of 172-year-old Washing
l ton College in Chestertown, Md.
Maury Maverick, Enemy
Of Gobbledygook And
San Antonio Mayor, Dies
SAN ANTONIO, Texas, UP) —
Maury Maverick, champion of the
underdog, enemy of gobbledygook
and zealous Democrat, is dead.
The 58-year-old former New
Deal congressman and stormy
mayor of San Antonio died yes
terday after 10 days in a hospital
for a heart ailment.
He coined the word gobbledy
gook in a letter to Franklin D.
Roosevelt in which he blasted the
involved phraseology of New Deal
directives.
CUTTING THE CAXE at the Armed Forces Day opening of
the new USO center at Nome. Left to right: Maj. K. D.
Swisher. Barbara Marlin, Donna Lyle, Helen GlarinoTich,
Betty Gustafson, Mrs. Stanley Morgan, Brig. Gen. Donald B.
Smith, Rita Harper (pertly hidden).