THE NOME NUGGET
Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday by the
NOME PUBLISHING CO.
NOME, ALASKA
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E. P. BOUCHER ...,Managing Editor
CLINTON GRAY . Pr®duction Manager
Entered as second class matter October 14. 1943, at the
post office at Nome. Alaska, under Act of March 3, 1879.
A LITTLE LEEWAY THIS TIME
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Off to A Good Start
NOME STREETS are rather a mess these days with
the contractor moving the dirt from place to
place preparatory to blacktopping the business area
and the road to the air terminal.
Sidewalk superintendents are of all kinds. Those
of wisdom and interest in the development of the
new state who consider the inconveniences with pa
tience, knowing that in the course of a few weeks ■
Nome will be a better looking, more efficient and more
modern community. Already improvements are being
made in property on the business street with the anti
cipation of less dust to cover the outside improve
ments. Then there are those sidewalk superintendents
who are opposed to the blacktopping as unnecessary
and impractical. We all know that there will be new
problems in snow removal, draining, and others of
varying degrees of perplexity.
These problems will be met and solved as they
develop. Once completed; the community will feel en
couraged to start once again campaigning for a mod
ern water and sewerage system. Other communities
are going ahead — and so will Nome.
Where to start, has always been the problem.
We’ll soon be over that hump, so why not start plan
ning the next step right away?
Twenty years ago many residents clung to coal
stoves and would not change to oil. They considered
oil burners too dangerous. Many residents today do
not see the need for modern plumbing—but they will.
Items for Longevity
AN OMAHA PSYCHIATRIST, speaking during a
symposium on aging, at the American Medi
cal Association’s 108th annual meeting, said that a man
spends his first 65 years preparing for the last 15. He
suggested a positive health program for older persons.
.— Some of its items: A balanced diet including more
protein, vitamins and fluids; and less fats and calories;
at sense of humor; participation in community affairs;
continued expansion of knowledge, wisdom and
experience.
When the modem child hears the story of Cin
derella he’s apt to ask: “When the pumpkin turns into
a golden eoadh, is that regarded as straight income
or capital gains?”
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From The
Nation s Capitol
(The Weekly Newsletter from the
Office of Senator Ernest Gruening1
By GEORGE SUNDBORG
Administrative Assistant
The Senate has approved an
appropriation of $772,000 for
Alaska river and harbor projects
in passing the Public Works Ap
propriations Bill for the 1960 fis
| cal year.
It will be recalled that the Pres
ident’s budget which came to the
Hill in January included no money
at all for new starts of authorized
rivers and harbors projects any
where in the country. The Alaska
delegation sought inclusion of pro
jects, and the Senate committee
allowed funds for four, including
$100,000 for a special study of the
power potential of the Yukon at
Rampart Rapids, $406,000 for a
small boat basin at Dillingham,
$21,000 for removing boulders
from the Naknek River, and $245,-,
000 for channel work at Seldovia.
Since the House did not allow
any Alaska funds in earlier pass
ing the appropriation bill, the
Alaska items will be subject to
conference to work out the
differences. ,
The Army Engineers have es
timated that if the flow of the
rapids were completely controlled,
a probable 3,520,000 kilowatts of
prime power could be generated.
The reservoir which would be
created would flood some 10,000
square miles, larger than Lake
Erie.
Another Alaska appropriation
of interest was approved by the
- Senate Appropriations Committee
in reporting the Defense Depart
ment money bill for the 1960 fis
cal year. The full budget request
of $5,676,000 for operation and
maintenance of the Alaska Com
j munication System was approved
by the committee, having pre
viously been allowed by the
House in passing the bill.
Testimony to the Senate com
mittee was similar tojihat given
the House committee with officials
stating that it would take two
years to consummate any sale of
the System contemplated in legis
lation pending before the House
Armed Services Committee. The
depreciated value of the assets o^
the ACS, the White Alice line and
other communication lines of the
government, other than those of
the Alaska Railroad, which the
bill seeks to dispose of through
negotiated sale is estimated at
$158 million with four interested
parties said to be involved.
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Search for Missing
Prospector Turns Up
Odd Cat Situation
FAIRBANKS, UP) — State police
and members of the Tanana Val
ley Water and Rescue and Emer
gency unit widened weekend ef
forts 90 miles east of here on the
Chena River, for 80-year-old Ber
nard Green. The aged prospector
was discovered missing Friday by
a friend who flew to Green’s re
mote cabin.
Police expressed fears that he
may have suffered a heart attack
in the wilderness. Markings on
his calendar indicated that the
man has been gone for about six
weeks.
An unusual sidelight to the hunt
was reported Saturday by search
ers. Green’s two pet cats died
about six years ago. Several weeks
later a friend offered another cat
to the old prospector — but he
declined the offer saying that his
other eats would be offended.
Searchers Saturday found his
cabin in “apple-pie” order — but
lying on the bed, six years after
their death, were the remains of
Green’s two pet cats.
State Department
Official Says Nikita
Wants Split Berlin
By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER
GENEVA, (J*) — A U. S. spokes
man charged last week that Pre
mier Khrushchev’s latest speeches
show the Soviet Union wants to
perpetuate the division of Ger
many. ,
Assistant Secretary of State An
drew H. Berding declared that in
statements made by the Soviet
Premier on his current visit to Po
land, “we find a strange contradic
tion to any idea of reunification
of East and West Germany.”
“It looks like he wants the per
petuation of the present division
of Germany,” Berding said.
He spoke with newsmen soon
after foreign ministers of the
United States, Britain, France and
West Germany met for 90 minutes
on strategy in the Big Four con
ference.
Western informants said the
four remained pessimistic -about
chances of working out a stop
gap Berlin settlement with Rus
sia. High Western leaders said
Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei
Gromyko is trying to exploit West
ern differences and that the need
for unity is growing more urgent
daily.
Some experts believe that, until
the West can present a united
front in the Big Four foreign min
isters’ conference, it has little
propsect of achieving any of its
objectives in the current phase
of negotiations on Berlin.
The issue dividing the United
States and Britain from France
and West Germany is what kind
of negotiations should be pro
posed to Gromyko on a German
peace settlement during the period
of a Berlin truce agreement.
Western officials said it prob
ably would be sometime next week
before a decision could be reached
among the Allies on this problem.
But several informants privately
conceded it was the crucial ques
tion before the Western foreign
ministers in their discussions.
Ex-Cuban Air Force Chief
Rails Castro As
Communist-Inspired
MILWAUKEE, UP) — The for
mer chief of the Cuban revolu
tionary air force said Saturday
the resignation of President Man
uel Urrutia of Cuba “means that
Communism will have complete
control of the country.”
Major Pedro Luis Diaz Lanz
said “This is exactly what I
thought would happen.”
Diaz is a guest of Bob Sigrist,
a news commentator in Mil
waukee.
The former air force chief de
clared the resignation of the presi
dent was a planned move by Fidel
Castro and that “it will lead to a
stepped-up fight in Cuba by Cas
tro and his supporters against
anti-Communists.