THE NOME NUGGET
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A Sure Touchdown
THE SUBPOENAING OF MR. TRUMAN
Newspapers of all shades of opinion have some
thing to say about the subpoena served on Mr. Truman,
the former United States President, to appear before
the Un-American Activities Committee in connection
with the case of Harry Dexter White.
The Labor Daily Herald of London says that when
Mr. Truman was subpoenaed he joked about it. The
paper adds that perhaps this was the best way to deal
with this “crowning folly of the witch-hunters.”
“But the farce has its serious side. It is un
thinkable that Mr .Truman ever knowingly ap
pointed an enemy of his country to high office. It
is good that President Eisenhower stated that view
so firmly. It would better still for the reputation
of the United States throughout the world, if this
wildest of all the witch hunts is called off.
“Mr. Truman was a great President. Those
who assail him in this fashion demean themselves
and injure the good name of their country.”
ALASKA AIRLINES
To Anchorage: Rose Silverman,
Sgt. Babbitt, Sgt. Odom, Sgt.
Nisslev, Robert Oliver, Lawrence
Okpealuk, Vincent Kunnuck, Fred
Pushruk, Dean Martin, Alvin Iu
tok, Thomas Willoya.
To Unalakleet: L. B. Williams.
To McGrath: Paul Loranger.
From Anchorage: Eleanor, Mina
and Dorothy Herman, and Emily
Stevenson.
Col. (later General) Abner
Doubleday devised the positions
for players and the diagram of
basas used in baseball in 1839 and
1 £ has been called the inventor
die game.
Air Force Flying Boat
Missing in “Really Foul”
North Atlantic Waters
LONDON, W) — Rescue planes
with survival equipment searched
cold, fog-bound seas off Iceland
Monday for a missing U. S. Air
Force Albatross flying boat and
five airmen aboard.
Weather described as “really
foul — particularly bad” by 3rd
Air Force headquarters at Lou
don, slowed the search.
The missing twin-engine flying
boat was enroute from England
to West Palm Beach, Fla., Sun
day. Last word came from the
pilot, who radioed that engine
trouble was forcing him to turn
back for Iceland.
Eisenhower Declares Canada & U.S.
Will Build Defenses Against A-Attack
And Maintain Foreign Commitments
OTTAWA, (tf)—President Eisen
hower declared Saturday Canada
and the United States “can and
will” work out a defense against
any surprise atomic attack while
still maintaining their commit
ments in other parts of the world.
Addressing a joint session of the
Canadian Parliament, Eisenhower
said the Russians have adopted a
truculent tone and United States
Canadian security plans “must
now take into account Soviet abil
ity to employ atomic attack on
North America.”
In his speech, prepared for de
livery as the highlight of his Good
Neighbor visit to Canada, the U.S.
President declared:
“We shall achieve the defense
of our continent without whittling
our pledges to western Europe or
forgetting our friends in the Pac
ific.
“The bankruptcy of armament
races and the suicide of nuclear
war,” he continued solemnly, are
the only alternatives to “an inter
national will to cast out the bomb
and gun as arbiters.”
Asserting “the threat of Com
munist purpose still exists,” Eis
enhower described Russia’s re
cent rejection of the Western
powers’ bid to a foreign ministers’
conference on Germany and Aus
tria as “truculent, not to say arro
gant in tone.”
“Our security plans must now
take into account Soviet ability to
employ atomic attack on North
America, as well as on countries,
friendly to us, lying nearer to the
U.S.S.R.
“Their atomic stockpile will, of
course, increase in size, and means
of delivery will improve as time
goes on.”
CAA Allots $18,750
For Gambell Field
ANCHORAGE — The Civil
Aeronautics Administration has
allocated $18,750 for construction
of an airpoTt at Gambell on St.
Lawrence Island.
Territorial Aviation Director
Tony Schwamm said construction
work would not begin now before
spring, however.
Construction of the air field had
been planned for this year, but
one barge-load of steel matting
that was to have been used for
the runway was lost in a storm
at sea.
The CAA allocation was ear
marked for both steel matting and
for a marker to indicate the type
of field it is and a wind direction
indicator.
Schwamm said about 500 tons
of steel matting already is at the
site, and that work on the airport
would be started as soon as pos
sible.
When completed, the air strip
will be approximately 3,900 feet
in length and will be capable of
use by DC-3 type aircraft. The
work will be done entirely with
Eskimo labor, Schwamm said.
NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC
A caucus shall be held in the
School Gymnasium Nov. 18, 1953,
at 8:00 o'clock p.m., under the
direction of the Nome City Coun
cil, for the purpose of discussing
the feasibility of the light and
power project as a utility for the
City of Nome.
Carrie M. McLain
City Clerk
Publ. Nov. 11, 13, 16, 18, 1953.
Nixon Encouraged Over
Chances Of Peace In Korea
SEOUL, UP)—U.S. Vice President
Richard Nixon said Saturday he is
encouraged over chances for peace
in Korea, but warned that if the
war starts again “it’s going to
break out everywhere.”
“If the (peace) conference fails,”
Nixon told newsmen, “it will be
only because the Communists do
not want peace in Korea or any
where else.
“If it breaks out here, it’s going
to break out everywhere. Let’s
face it.”
Nixon conferred at Munsan with
special U.S. Envoy Arthur Dean
shortly after Dean had announced
approval of an agenda for talks
to arrange a peace conference.
During the day Nixon made a
comprehensive tour of forward
areas including a forward bunker
manned by battle veterans.
Nixon and his wife arrived from
Formosa Thursday. They left Kor
ea for Japan Sunday.
Air Force Announces
New Jet With Rating In
10,000-Pound Thrust Class
WASHINGTON, UP) — The Air
Force said Thursday the United
States has its first jet engine “with
an official rating in the 10,000
po'und thrust class.”
It is the Pratt & Whitney J-57,
which powers the Air Force’s
eight-engine heavy bomber, the
Boeing B-52, and its new super
sonic fighters, the North Ameri
can F-100 Super Sabre and the
Convair F-102.
At East Hartford, Conn., Wil
liam P. Gwinn, general manager
of Pratt & Whitney aircraft divi
sion of United Aircraft Corp., said
in a statement the J-57 is “at least
two years in advance of any other
engine we know of in the turbojet
field,” including British ones.
Mrs. Eisenhower's Birthday
WASHINGTON,’ {fft — Saturday
was Mrs. Eisenhower’s 57 th birth
day.
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SCHOOL NEWS
FIFTH GRADE
We have studied about Indians
and will soon study Pilgrims as
we plan for Thanksgiving.
Many of our children have been
absent due to measles and chicken
pox, but most of them have re
turned to school.
Leslie Green and Patrick Straub
have moved away and Randy Lee
Asbridge has entered our group.
We enjoy our weekly readers
and find we know many of the
words and can learn new words
from them.
Both divisions of the first grade
will have Thanksgiving dinners in
their rooms at noon on Wednesday
the 25th. Further arrangements
will be announced later.
SECOND GRADE
(Hana Kangas)
Most of us are caught up with
the work we missed during the flu,
measles, and chickenpox epidem
ics.
Few of us are fortunate to have
been able to be in school every
day. The ones with perfect atten
dance are Steffen Andersen, Lulu
Aukon, Julius Pleasant, Robert
Thatch and Helena Wheeler.
We have two new pupils. Alice
Arnold is from the Umatilla Coun
ty Public Schools in Hermistoh,
Oregon. Hubert Kakoluk is from
King Island. This makes a total of
30 boys and girls.
HIGH SCHOOL
Last Tuesday the first two bas
ketball games -of the year were
played. The Nome Nanooks had
the support of the cheerleaders,
high school girls, and a band dir
ected by Mr. Heath.
All of us are busy finishing our
themes on “What America Means
to Me.”
The girls Phy Ed class is still
practicing basketball, and is also
doing calisthenics.
Our band, under Mr. Heath’s
direction, is becoming larger all
the time. I would imagine from all
the sounds coming from the music
room, that by Christmas time we
will be treated to some very en
tertaining music.
—Sigrid Olsen
Half the motor car registrations
of the United States are in eight
states.