THE NOME NUGGET
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Entered as second class matter October 14, 1943, at the
post office at Nome, Alaska, under Act of March 3, 1879.
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It’s Very Disappointing . • .
66SOMETIMES I FEEL like a motherless child,” is
^ a popular tune which could well be Nome’s
theme song this past week or so with the many dis
tinguished visitors in the State making three point
landings (Juneau, Anchorage and Fairbanks) in this
four district state.
Alaska has four districts because it is so very
large. It has four areas each distantly different in cli
matic, economic and development problems. Each is
equally important. Although the Second District is
farther west than Honolulu, it is less than two hours
away from Fairbanks, so it is not so far away that it
must be crossed off from itineraries of persons who
should know about ALL of the State of Alaska.
Nome was disappointed in being bypassed by
Dr. Leland Haworth, one of the five Atomic Energy
Commissioners, as this community has championed
Project Chariot and is keenly interested in the re
sults, as it would mean development in the way of
harbors on other parts of the northern coast.
Nome was disappointed that Karl Landstrom,
Director of Land Management, on his first visit here
since his appointment, could not see for himself the
terrain over which his department has much control,
especially the reindeer grazing area.
Nome was disappointed that Stephen Ailes, Un
dersecretary of the Army did not insist on including
at least an aerial view of the defenseless coastline of
northern Alaska for himself. He might have seen both
boats and planes of a foreign nation mighty close to
St. Lawrence Island and realized more fully the con
cern for defenses on this coast.
It costs a lot more money than time for these
visitors who come from Washington, D. C., to visit
Alaska, and takes very little extra of either to in
clude the Second District while in the State.
Miners & Merchants Bank of Alaska
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To Northwestern Alaska Since 190*
— BRANCH OFFICE IN KOTZEBUE —
Senate Labor Committee
Approves Setting Up a
Youth Conservative Corps
WASHINGTON tfl — The Sen
ate Labor Committee yesterday
approved far-reaching bills to set
up a 150,000-member Youth Con
servative Corps and establish a
GI education program for veterans
serving since 1955.
The Youth Corps bill sent to
the Senate floor far exceeds the
recommendations of President
Kennedy. His administration ac
tively opposed the other measure,
dubbed the “cold war” veterans
GI bill.
Both proposals were cleared by
voice votes with strong support
from Democrats on the commit
tee. Republicans indicated solid
opposition to the Youth Corps
measure. Some GOP committee
members also opposed the vet
erans bill.
The Youth Corps bill, sponsored
by Sen. Humphrey, <D-Minn.),
would create a corps 25 times the
6,000-member pilot project pro
posed by Kennedy.
Enrollees would work on proj
ects sponsored by Government
Conservation, Park, Forest and
Wildlife Agencies similar to the
tasks of the old Civil Conserva
tion Corps of the 1930 s.
The veterans bill, sponsored by
Sen. Yarborough, (D-Tex.), would
[ give veterans discharged since
.Tan. 31, 1955, college education
and other benefits similar to those
received by World War II and
Korean War servicemen.
The Veterans Administration,
in opposing the legislation, said
the education costs alone could
exceed $2 billion.
New Civil Defense Plan
Could Save Millions of
Lives in Event of Attack
WASHINGTON (/PI — The ad
ministration’s new civil defense
plan could save at least 10 to 15
million lives in the event of a
thermonuclear attack. Secretary of
Defense McNamara said yester
day.
He told the House Military
Operations Subcommittee that the
program calls for shelter space
' to give “a reasonably adequate
protection” for about one-quar
ter of the population.
McNamara testified that no fi
nancially practicable program
could save an estimated 50 mil
lion Americans who might be
killed and some 20 million more
who could be seriously injured by
a massive hydrogen bomb attack.
President Kennedy has given
McNamara supervision over a
stepped-up program of providing
fallout shelters and developing
other civil defense measures
War-Damaged Church Notre
Dame De Calais to Be Restored
CALAIS, France l^i — The war
damaged church of Notre Dame
De Calais, where President
Charles De Gaulle was married,
is to be restored starting next
year.
De Gaulle, then a lanky, little
known captain of 31, married
Yvonne Vendroux of Calais in the
church in 1921.
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Dr. Haworth Visits Project Chariot Site
— Just to Determine Feasibility of Shot
JUNEAU (j'PI — Studies being
made in the Cape Thompson area
are being conducted only to de
termine the feasibility of a prom
ised nuclear excavation blast, a
member of the Atomic Energy
Commission said Tuesday.
“ I want to emphasize that these
studies are not preparations for
an atomic shot, but only studies
of the feasibility of such a show,”
Dr. Leland J. Haworth, who just
returned from a visit to the Cape
Thompson area, said at a news
conference.
“There has been no decision to
go ahead with the proposed proj
ect Chariot nuclear shot and, des
pite all rumors . to the contrary,
we are not operating on a sched
ule.”
Haworth was also emphatic in
describing his trip to Alaska as
a routine inspection trip.
The AEC is studying the pos
sibility of carving a harbor at
Ogotoruk Creek on Cape Thomp
son, on Alaska’s northwest coast
260 miles north of Nome, with
five simultaneous nuclear ex
plosions.
Haworth, enroute back to Wash
ington, D. C., met with residents
of Kivalina and Pt. Hope, two
Arctic Eskimo villages, and visited
the site of the proposed explo
sion.
He said some 15-20 people were
present at the Kivalina meeting.
“They didn’t seem to be much
concerned one way or the other,”
Haworth said.
At Pt. Hope, some 125 people
showed up to hear Haworth ex
plain what the AEC proposed to
do at Cape Thompson and to ask
questions of the AEC Commis
sioner.
“The younger people asked
some very penetrating questions,”
Haworth said.
“They wanted substantive in
formation about radiation and
fallout and they wanted to know
what effect an atomic explosion
might have on the animals they
use for food.
“For example, they wanted to [
know if the caribou would be !
harmed and they wanted to know
if the proposed explosion would
harm the bird cliffs at Cape
Thompson.”
Haworth said he answered that
studies were still being conducted
and that the proposed shot would
not take place unless the AEC
were absolutely convinced that,
there would be no danger to the
residents and animals of the area.
Haworth said he would be
“surprised if the nuclear explo
sion could be set off before 1964
even if the decision to proceed
were made immediately.”
Haworth said planned conven
tional explosive blasts at the Cape
Thompson site would be designed
to test how explosives perform
in permafrost.
“From these conventional ex
plosive blasts,” Haworth said,
“we will be able to predict ac
curately what an atomic explo
sion would do.”
Haworth was accompanied on
his inspection trip by James E..
Reeves, manager of Project
Chariot and assistant manager for
testing of the ABC's Albuquerque
Operations Office; John S. Kel
ly, chief of the Plowshare (peace
ful uses of atomic energy) Branch,
AEC, Washington; and R. L.
Southwick, assistant to the AEC
operations manager in Berkeley,
Calif.
I'd Have Taken Them All . . .
PALO ALTO, Calif. UR — A
burglar dropped through a sky
light in Palo Alto and borrowed
a small truck to take away 91 big
tires valued at $3,800.
Patrolman Charles Downing
discovered the door unlocked and
a postscript to burglary chalked
on the floor.
It read: “If I had a bigger truck
I’d have taken them all.”
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Famous FrSts
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First recorded fly-fishing was >.'• j ,-/*. + + ^ .
done by a group of Macedonians who ' A-<' "*
set out to capture a storied "spotted fish" In 300 A.D. This big one
didn't get away ... was lured by a fly
made of colored wool and feathers.
First choice of anglers today
is six-year-old Antique Bour
bon — satisfying and retaking
as the sport of fishing itself!
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) First fishing for recreation was a
* kingly sport. Nero, the Roman Em
peror, cast for fish in the Tiber,
with a net woven in thread of pur
ple and gold —his royal colors.
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first angling tribes
made camp where the fishing was best
...roamed the countryside from lake to
lake, catching their food with harpoons
and two-pronged spears. |(