THE NOME NUGGET
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Entered as second class matter October 14, 1943, at the
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THE TOUGH RECEPTIONIST
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Largest Graduating Class
The largest graduating class from Nome High
for many years will receive their diplomas tomorrow
evening. Some will take advantage of their scholas
tic training and continue their studies in colleges of
.their choice. Others will go into service, private
employment, and some will marry.
To all of them we express the thought that they
are finishing school at a time when their country is
a most powerful nation. Their country is expanding,
booming and free enterprise, freedom of religion,
freedom of the press are their rights by birth. They
have a better chance for success than graduates of
any other nation.
Whether they go on to school, which we highly
recommend, or go into the business of making a living
or a home, if they will apply with honesty, sincerity
and the will of achievement they will succeed, a credit
to themselves, their school and their community.
Anchorage Gets Federal
Funds For “Govt. Hill” In
Urban Renewal Project
WASHINGTON, .UP) — Anchor
age, Alaska, will begin work on
its 37-acre “government hill”
urban renewal project with the
aid of a $677,038 federal loan and
a $501,263 capital grant approved
today.
The Urban Renewal Admin
istration, announcing the loan
and grant, said estimated net
cost of the project is $743,195.
This represents the difference
between the cost of acquiring and
preparing the land for its new
■uses and the return from its re
sale at fair value.
The federal grant covers two
thirds of the loss and includes
an amount for aiding in reloca
t i o n of displaced residents.
Anchorage’s contributions cover
the remaining third of the loss.
The predominantly residential
area is located one mile north of
the central business district. Por
tions of the site note retained
by site residents will be cleared
and sold for residential use, the
agency said. A neighbo rhood
park also will be provided.
Bartlett Protests Closing
Kodiak Wildlife Refuge
To Mining Entry
WASHINGTON, (#—Del. E. L.
Bartlett has asked the Depart
ment of the Interior to reconsider
its plan to close the Kodiak
National Wildlife Refuge to min
in'? claims. •
The department announced re
cently its intention to close the
area to all forms of entry under
the public lands law, including
the mining law, but keep it open
to mineral leasing.
“Why is it that land may be
leased hereafter under the min
eral leasing laws but no longer
may be acquired under the min
ing laws” Bartlett asked in a
letter to Interior Secretary Seaton.
“We all know that little min
ing is done on Kodiak Island.
Nevertheless, I should think that
tfre right to stake mining claims
and to carry them forward to
patent, if desired, should be main
tained in the area • to be with
drawn. After all, this policy
has been in effect in other with
drawal areas, such as Mt. Mc
Kinley National Park and Gla
cier Bay National Monument,
without any adverse effects.”
I
U. S. Sends Nine-Ton
Shipment of Polio Vaccine
To Great Britain
MANCHESTER, England, UP>—
Britain’s biggest consignment of
Salk vaccine from the United
States arrived by 'special plane
Tuesday to speed this country’s
lagging fight against polio.
The nine-ton cargo was brought
from New York in a specially
adapted British airliner. The ser
um is the first for use without
the extra safety test previously
demanded by the British govern
ment. The government wants to
wipe out the backlog waiting for
inoculations before the. summer
peak-infection months.
PROPERTY TRANSFERRED
Henry Miller to George Chap
man, lot in block 65.
Ed Bennick to Q Cab lot in
block 69.
John B. Balladovich to Ed
Bennick lot in block 66.
Hazel LeCompte to Bill Gillis
house and lot on Second Ave.
(A1 Carey property)
William Attatayuk to Paul
Dryden, small cabin and lot.
City of Nome to Paul Dryden
lot in block 51.
Su ^Smelting to Paul Dryden
lot in block 32.
Pat Miller estate on Kings
Way to Paul Dryden.
City of Nome lot in block 67
to Ed Bennick.
Herring gulls open clams by
dropping them from a height on
to the rocks below.
| WEATHER FORECAST
Cloudy with rain and snow
| tonight. Rain Thursday. Gusts
i east to southeast winds. 20 to 35
| miles per _ hour through Thurs
day. Low tonight 32, high to
morrow 37.
!, Nome data last 24 hours as of
7:00 a.m. today: Precip. 0 “inches.
Month total .06 inches. Temper
atures: highest 35, lowest 18.
Maximum wind east north east
27 miles an hour. Sunrise at
2:46 a.m., sunset at 9:13 p.m.
Temperatures a year ago to
day: high 37, low 33. Extremes
this date since 1907: highest 66
in 1923, lowest 10 in 1939.
PIONEER
WATER
DELIVERY
Phone Black 150
! French Government
I Takes Over Control of
I Algeria From Junta
PARIS, U?i — The French gov
ernment today ordered Gen.
Raoul Salan to take over command
of Algeria from an insurrection
ist junta led by a tough para
troop officer.
In its first official action since
being installed early today, the
new cabinet of Premier Pierre
Pflimlin also banned all public
demonstrations throughout France
and in Algeria.
Salan, commander of all troops
in Algeria, was ordered to take
full command in the North Af
rican colony from paratroop
Gen. Jacques Massu. Massu de
manded that President Rene
Coty put wartime hero Gen.
Charles de Gaulle at the head of
a government outside politics.
This would be a military dic
tatorship.
The cabinet told Salan to main
tain law and order in the Al
gerian capital of Algiers and to
guarantee the protection of
lives and property
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