THE NOME NUGGET
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Entered as second class matter October 14. 1943, at the
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GOING DAMOCLES ONE BETTER — OR WORSE
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Easy Credit . . .
nPHAT IT IS EASIER TO “charge it” than pay for
it is a well-known fact of life and that is why so
many stores operate massive credit programs and wel
come charge business. But there must be some criterian
for the extension of credit — and the experience Hil- ;
ton Credit Corporation is interesting, in that regard.
As the reader knows the trend in the United States
an recent years has been a credit trend. Everything is
now bought on credit, travel ticket, meals, clothes, etc.
Up until recently Diner’s Club and the old faith
ful — American Express — were the big operators
in the credit card field. The Carte Blanche stepped
into the picture. The reputation enjoyed by the hotel
Hiltons was that they made money in anything they
touched.
Getting Carte Blanche started cost the corpora
tion a little money. The first-year figure was between
a half million and a million dollars. That was explain
ed as starting cost. The next year the number of card
holders was greatly increased.
And Carte Blanche, it was recently revealed, lost
over two million. That was also explained as having
been the cost of getting Carte Blanche into the big
time operation. But the next year, although the card
holders increased again, the credit card company need
ed even more money pumped in — from the Hiltons
and others — it is reported.
And so the credit binge seems to have run into
the rocks, which was inevitable. If a serious depres
sion occurred, the credit card companies would prob
ably be among the hardest hit.
Hotels-Motels Spring Up
Across Russia to Lure Tourists
LONDON — The Soviet
Travel Agency Intourist reports
new hotels, motels ^nd gas sta
tions are springing up across Rus
sia to lure foreign tourists. Sample
prices: Gas, reduced from 45 to
24 cents a gallon; camping sites,
$2 .10 per day per person with
out food; hotel, $15 per day per
person with food.
Thought for Today:
A zoo is a place devised for
animals to study the habits of
human beings—Oliver Heford.
U.S. ENGINEERS
MAKE INSPECTION HERE
Gen. Dowd Starbird, of the Di
vision of Engineers from the Port
land headquarters, accompanied
by other officials visited Nome
over the weekend and inspected
the work of their department in
this area.
In the party were Col. Chris
tian Hanburger District Engineer
from Anchorage; Col. A. Shreder
from the Corps of Enginers at the
Pentagon in Washington, D. C.;
Col. Grider Inspector Gen. Of
fice; John England, Don Josslyn
and Bernard Sturgulewski from
the Anchorage headquarters.
U.S. Accuses USSR
Of Sabotage at
I Geneva Conference
| WASHINGTON HD — The Unit
, ed States accused Russia Satur
day of trying to “sabotage the
j Geneva nuclear test ban nego
| tion.” It matched the charge with
; a proposal that the United Na
tions review the “urgent need”
| for a test ban treaty.
The accusation is perhaps the
j bitterest yet made by the United
, States against the Soviet govern
ment in a formal note in the 2%
j years that the test ban talks have
i been under way.
The note was delivered to the
Soviet Foreign Ministry Satur
day by the U. S. Embassy in Mos
cow. It was released by the State
| Department here almost simul
| taneously with filing of the ap
peal to the United Nations in
1 New York.
The United States and Britain
I asked that the question of a
[ treaty on banning tests of nu- J
clear weapons be put on the I
agenda of the U. N. General As
sembly opening Sept. 19.
The note replies to one on July
7 telling the United States Russia
would accept nuclear control only
i if the West accepts Soviet pro
posals for complete disarmament.
A State Department spokesman
1 said in spite of the charge of
I sabotage against Russia and in
spite of the move to take the
whole nuclear test issue back in
to the United Nations “we are
going on with the talks at Gen
j eva.”
Those talks started in the fall
of 1958 and have now been dead
: locked for many months.
From the early days of the
j Geneva conference there has been
a moratorium among the United
! States, Britain and France on nu
clear testing though U. S. of.fi
■ cials say they do not know
I whether the Soviets have cheated
on the gentlemen’s agreement or
not.
The U. S. message to Moscow
said there were several examples
of “the Soviet Union’s attempts
to sabotage” the Geneva confer
ence. One of these, the United
States declared, is Russia’s pro
posal for a three-headed execu
tive committee to operate a test
ban inspection system. In con
nection with this, the note said,
the Soviet Union has argued that
“there are not and cannot be neu
tral people” who can serve in
international administrative po
sitions.
23 PERSONS OF THE ALASKA
WING OF CAP VISIT NOME
A tour of 23 persons headed
by the Alaska Wing of the Civil
Air Patrol visited Nome last
week and included Virginia Mul
len, Ann Babski, Alice Miller,
Laura Marklin, G. Livesay, V.
Carter, Rosamarie Williams, Mar
ian Conklin, Olga Donegan, Sara
Jessup, Margaret Wright, Bill
Toth, Martha Loon, Shirley Cam,
Kathryn Watson, Joyce Sullivan,
Evelyn Porter, Lucy Faherty, Bill
and Rosemary Gipson, Frances
Farnum and Elizabeth Morris.
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Delta Junction
Residents Protest
Big Bison Hunt
DELTA JUNCTION UP) — Some
300 Delta Junction residents have
! signed a protest petition to Gov.
j Egan in a last-minute attempt to
! stave off a proposed bison hunt
in the Delta area.
“The so-called bison ‘hunt’
scheduled by the Fish and Game
j Department is directly against the
wishes of the people in our area,”
I the petition said. “We appeal to
| you to find some other means of
I control for the buffalo.”
An invitation from the Fish and
Game Department to the Delta
Chamber of Commerce to parti
cipate in the buffalo hunt permit
drawing to be held July 20 trig
gered this effort by a group of
Delta residents to show their dis
approval of the method planned
for controlling the herd which
now totals some 350 head.
Under the Game Department
plan 50 bison permits will be is
sued at a public drawing entitling
the permit holder to kill any buf
falo regardless of sex or age. An
additional 150 alternate permits
will be issued by the department. !
“We strongly object to the 1
hunt,” said W. A. Seitz, president '
of the Delta Chamber of Com- j
merce. “We especially object to
the indiscriminate slaughter of
cows and calves and the issuance
of an additional 150 permits.”
If you’re of average adult size,
your skin weighs about 6 pounds
and covers an area of 21.5 square
feet.
Third Time in Four Days
A DC8 Has Hydraulic
Failure — Lands Safely
DENVER UP* — For the third
time in four days, a DC8 jet air
liner has reported trouble in the
craft’s hydraulic system amid
continuing studies by Federal
Aviation Agency experts.
The same malfunction was re
ported Tuesday by the captain of
a United Air Lines DC8 which
crashlanded here, killing 17.
Another United DCS, on a train
ing flight with four airline em
ployes aboard, reported hydraulic
trouble here Friday but landed
without incident.
An Eastern Air Lines DC8 ex
perienced similar troubles Wed
nesday while approaching Miami,
Fla. it, too landed safely.
All air lines using the $5 mil
lion planes were instructed in
new procedures designated to save
pressure when hydraulic system
failures make it impossible to
lower landing gear in the normal
way.
At the same time, however, the
FAA said a sudden change in en
gine thrust might have been re
sponsible for the tragedy here
last Tuesday.
The backward thrust on a
plane’s engines normally is re
versed upon landing to slow the
craft’s forward motion.
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