THE NOME NUGGET
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Entered as second class matter October 14. 1943, at the
post effiee at Nome. Alaska, under Act of March 3, 1879.
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1958 Construction
In Alaska Down
By $72 Million
SEATTLE WP)—Heavy construc
tion in Alaska this year will be
around $102 million, compared
with $174 million in 1957, the
trade magazine Pacific Builder &
Engineer predicted Saturday.
Alaska was listed as the only
area where heavy construction
will decrease, due to a decline in
military projects.
The magazine predicted heavy
construction in Washington, Ore
gon and Idaho this year, spurred
t>y highway work, will be more
than $200 million greater than in
1957.
For the three northwest states
the construction total and the in
creases were estimated at:
Washington, $798 million, up
$153 million; Oregon $358 million,
up $45 million; Idaho, $175 mil
lion, up $11 million.
Fishermen Unions
Demand Action to Stop
Japanese ‘Exploiting’
WHITE ROCK, B.C., W)—Fish
ermen representing 10 unions in
Alaska, Canada and the U.S. de
manded immediate steps Satur
day to prevent Japanese fleets
from “exploiting North Pacific
salmon in the Bering Sea area.”
In a resolution, the delegates to
the meeting urged the U.S. and
-Canada to negotiate with Japan
an immediate change in the inter
national salmon fishing boundary.
The resolution urged that the
l»oundary be moved west from
170° W. Long, to 170° E. Long,
which would move the boundary
west by some 800 miles to Japan.
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Voodoo’s Rocket
Able to Down
Many Bombers
ST. LOUIS Iff)—The Air Force’s
F-101B Voodoo will be equipped
with a new air-to-air atomic
rocket capable of downing an en
tire formation of bombers.
The rocket is the Douglas MB
1H Genie, described as the most
devastating weapon of its kind in
the nation’s arsenal.
The F-101B is manufactured by
the McDonnell Aircraft Crop, of
St. Louis. It is a two-seater ver
sion of the Air Force F-101A
fighter-bomber which recently
set an official world speed record
of 1,107.6 miles an hour. Speed of
the F-101B has not been disclosed.
Air France to Operate
Paris-Tokyo Route
Thru Anchorage
ANCHORAGE, (ff)—Air France
has definitely decided to operate
its newly franchised Paris-Tokyo
transpolar route thru Anchorage,
the Anchorage Chamber of Com
merce board of directors was in-r
formed Friday.
In a letter from the airline’s
New York office, Air France offi- ;
cials said it plans to put thru four
weekly flights instead of the two
originally planned.
The flights will be inaugurated
in April, they said, and askeft for
information as to hotel accom
modations for staff members. I
PIONEER
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, Your Vote Is Important
One little vote can make a difference in a com
munity of this size.
Apathy and disinterest in the affairs of the com
munity is failure to use one of the freedoms which
make us a free country.
Tomorrow you are asked to decide, as voters, if
Nome should extend the privileges of a 20-year fran
chise to a new telephone company, giving the commu
nity two telephone companies.
Both the Alaska Telephone Co., which has been
here for 50 years, and the Nome Telephone Co., re
cently incorporated, have been thorough in presenting
their views. Much of the business of the community
is left to the Nome City Council with the community
taking part only when they are displeased with their
action.
This matter is now up to the voters themselves
to decide. Voters are eligible who are 21 years of age
or older, have lived in Nome 'at last 30 days and in
Alaska for a year. If you are eligible, then back your
council by voting tomorrow.
Survival Is Not Enough
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After weeks in an iron lung, Mrs. Jane Atwood, Ann Arbor, Mich.,
[ housewife, mode a dramatic recovery from polio. Her arms and shout*
dors are still paralyzed. But with March of Dimes assistance she gat
17 months of training at the Ann Arbor Rehabilitation Center, was
fitted with • modem brace, does housework, cares for her two children,
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Pentagon Asks
Congress for
Space-Age Defense
WASHINGTON, WP>—‘Top Pen
tagon officials asked Congress
Saturday to authorize major parts
of President Eisenhower’s emer
gency program for space-age de
fenses.
Headed by Air Force Secretary
James H. Douglas and Asst. De
fense Secretary Floyd S. Bryant,
the officials were called to ex
I plain key requests to the House
Armed Services Committee.
These items—all for the Air
Force—account for $549,670,000
of the $1,260,000,000 in new de
fense funds the President request
ed on an emergency basis for the
fiscal year ending June 30.
Pending before the committee
is a bill to authorize:
1. Further development of the
SAGE system, which blends elec
tronic and mechanical brains to
provide lightning fast guidance
for aircraft, missiles and rockets
called into action against ap
proaching enemy planes. For this
the Air Force asks $29,670,000.
2. Work on a system to flash
warnings of oncoming enemy bal
listic missiles, $189 million.
3. Facilities to make possible
wider dispersal of bombers of the
! Strategic Air Command, $194
| million; alert facilities for SAC,
| S24.6 million.
4. A total of $112,400,000 to de
velop and procure long range bal
listic missiles.
MMM HOSPITAL
Admitted: George and Judy
Shoogukuwrk, Carrie Seegoonik,
Anita Pasquan, Loretta Wald
heim, Katherine Ezeukemeuw.
Discharged: Ben Chase, Ellen
Boyd, Howard Nunuruk, Mary
Bergamaschi, James Rogers.
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