THE NOME NUGGET
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Mud on Mud ... Rocks on Rocks ...
THE NUGGET has always invited suggestions for
the improvement of the community and when
something within our reach is suggested we try to
pass it on' for the betterment of all.
Recently someone asked why we keep pouring
mud on mud and rocks on rocks year after year to
make our streets muddier and more dusty each sea
son. With all the rock available in the area hasn’t the
time arrived to use crushed rock and have more per
manent improvement on our streets? Whether the city
buys the rock crusher or whether an enterprising
business obtains the crusher is something to work out,
but either way it makes for a better place in which to
live.
The time to start planning is not next spring
when road work starts, but between now and January.
If we total the cost of the money spent for mud and
boulders in the last few years, we may find the crush
er isn’t as expensive as it seems to be.
DECLINE IN REQUESTS
BATTLE CREEK, Mich. M —
Officials at the Office of Civil
Defense and Mobilization Nation
al Headquarters have noted * de
cline in requests for information
about A-Bomb shelters.
Following President Kennedy’s
speech to the nation in August in
which he pointed out dangers in
herent in a nuclear war, the
OCOM Office received an aver
age of 6,500 letters a day asking
for information about construc
tion of bomb shelters.
Letters slackened off to a 2,900
day this week. ,fjgg
SgL Anderson PariisipaiM
In Excreta* "ClsMkoutt''
KAISERSLAUTERN, Germany
(AHTNC) — Army Sgt. Ethan E.
Anderson, whose Wife, Alice, lives
* in Deering, Alaska, recently par
ticipated with other personnel
from the 25th Signal Bn/s Co. C
in Checkmate, a NATO tactical
training exercise conducted in
NATO ^ troops from Great
President Signs Bill
Creating Memorial
For Woodrow Wilson
WASHINGTON UP — With the
widow of the World War I Presi
dent by his side, President Ken
nedy signed today a bill creating
a commission to plan a perma
nent memorial to Woodrow Wil
son.
Kennedy said “we have a con
tinuing commitment, in the words
of President Wilson, to the serv
ice of humanity, his life, his ac
tions and his ideals serve as an
inspiration today to the achieve
ment of the goals that he articu
lated so well more than 40 years
ago.”
Mrs. Wilson, who will be 89
Oct. 15, sat In a chair to Ken
nedy’s left at the White House
ceremony.
Paper Towel Has Bearing . .
MEMPHIS, Tenn. OB — Before
Blanche T. Williams, 76, died last
week she wrote her will on a
small paper towel.
Despite its unusual appearance
it was admitted to Probate Court.
Mrs. Williams left an estate
valued at more than $40,006.
Oil May Supplant Gold as
Alaska’s Greatest Mineral
Revenue Resource
NEW YORK UP) — Oil may sup
plant gold this year as Alaska’s
largest mineral revenue-producing
resources, the American Petro
leum Institute reported Tuesday.
The Institute said that although
there have not been any extra
ordinary strikes so far, oil pro
duction is increasing steadily and
is becoming a major factor in the
Alaskan economy.
Three years ago Alaska had no
commercial oil production. In the
first five months of this year the
49th State produced more than
2.25 million barrels and output
for the entire year is estimated
at 6 million barrels.
All of the Alaskan production
has occurred on the Kenai Penin
sula, where the first discovery
was made in July 1057.
The Institute said wildcat ac
tivity is spreading across Alaska
with 13 companies sending geolo
gists along the Arctic slope at the
northern extremities of the con
tinent.
“Interest in Alaskan oil may
be seen from the fact that during
a competitive sale of leases last
May the state took in more than
$7 million from bids in the Tyo
nek area near Anchorage,” the
Institute said. “Until this sale
Alaska had collected $15 million
from oil and gas resources.”
Texan Receives $1
Bonus Opening Can
3f Alaska Salmon
JUNEAU UP — A Texan who
opened a can of Alaska salmon
recently got a bonus for doing so.
In the can, packed this year,
was* a salmon tag worth $1.
Relating the story today, the
State Department of Fish and
Game said the unnamed Texan
returned the tag to the fish com
pany whose label was on the can.
The fish company sent the tag
along to Alaska’s Fish and Game
Department.
A check of the records here
showed the salmon, a pink, was
tagged and released near the
Inian Islands, in Icy Strait, last
July 12.
Within the next two months,
the fish was caught again by
a commercial fisherman, canned,
labeled, wholesaled and then re
tailed by a Texas food store.
The white tag apparently was
missed during the several times
the fish was handled while being
processed. The department also
uses yellow and red tags.
The Fish and Game Depart
ment said the Texan apparently
was not one of the state’s storied
oil men, because he asked for the
$1 reward the department offers
for the return of each tag.
The fl was sent to the Texan.
The greatest victory of our time
has been quietly won in the la
boratory, not on the noisy battle
field. Medical research has saved
an estimated 2,230,132 lives since
1944, more than were lost in all
the wars the United States ever
fought.
Soviet Tests Throw Radioactive Dust
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Into the Air... the Winds Do the Rest
By John Barbour ,
Associated Press Science Writer
NEW YORK lif> — Nikita
Khrushchev, like a gardner burn
ing autum leaves, tends his
atomic fires in Central Asia and
watches the smoke drift into his
neighbor’s laundry.
The Soviet atomic tests are
throwing radioactive dust and
debris into the air. The fickle
winds are doing the rest.
Already reports from Japan,
Europe, the United States and
other scattered locations, includ
ing possibly Red China, show
spradic increases in radioactivity.
It is unlikely that there is a
real danger to health anywhere.
But in nations sensitive to the
fearful suggestion of atomic fall
out there may be other dangers
—dangers of political aggrava
tion.
Great sweeps of winds now
pull cold air out of the Arctic
and down across the continents
of the northern hemisphere as
the seasons change.
And like small eggbeaters,
storms swirl across the world’s
weather maps. They drag in air
bearing the radioactive dust, from
high altitudes, mix it with rain
and dump it on the earth.
Perhaps the winds and rains of
Typhoon Nancy brought in radio
active debris from Soviet tests
to the islands of Japan, suggested
Japanese weather experts.
Fallout at Scattered Points
A fair weather mass of Polar
air jabbing down across Canada
may have boosted radioactivity
at scattered points in the United
States. Winds in a long sweep out
of the Arctic carried the radio
active dust at high altitudes. Tur
bulence in this sweep of air as it
moved over the warm Great
Lakes and the Appalachian
Mountains may have created
downdrafts that brought the
radioactive dust to earth in un
even distributions.
At any rate, in many U.S. cities,
Geiger counter readings of
samples of dust jumped by tre
mendous levels in a single day.
While the weather may treat
some areas roughly, it can be kind
to others. Weather experts in Ma
laya reported little increase in
radioactivity. They reasoned this
was probably due to the fact that
Malaya near the equator was
south of the main west and east
flow of winds in the northern
hemisphere.
Protected by the Himalayas as
well, they did not expect serious
fallout problems for some time to
came.
State of Emergency
Just this past week Chinese
Nationalists said Communist radio
broadcasts told of a state of
emergency because of high fall
out levels in the Red Chinese
Province of Sinkiang.
No other radio monitoring sta
tions in Asia had reported hear
ing such a broadcast and offi
cials tended to discount the Na
tionalist Chinese report.
But Red China is undoubtedly
getting some of the fallout from
the Soviet tests as is Russia it
self.
The U.S. Weather Bureau fig
ure* that by the time next
spring’s rains begin to deposit
more of the Soviet atomic debris
on earth, the hardest hit areas
will be the Aleutian Islands, Ice
land and the North Atlantic. Next
would be the United States and
Japan. Third would come Europe
and Russia.
The rainiest areas would get
the most radioactivity as the rain
pulled radioactive dust from wit
of high altitude air.
The United States, to better
gauge the danger of health, will
begin locking, for specific kinds
of fallout—kinds that can be in- "
gested into the human body.
These are most notably: stron
tium 90 which finds its way into
the bone because it mimics cal
cium; cesium 137 which finds its
way into reproductive organs be
cause it mimics potassium; iodine
131 which is believed to lodge in
the thyroid gland where iodine is
required.
Many experts feel, however,
unless fallout is a permanent fact
of life, and unless fallout levels
are very high—perhaps for as long
as a lifetime—there will be no
serious health danger.
Psisr Jorgensen Complaias
Recmil Training at Graai Lakes
GREAT LAKES (FHTCN) —
Peter O. Jorgensen, son of TTy
gue C. Jorgensen of Kotzebue,
completed recruit training at the
Naval Training Center, Great ;
Lakes, 111.
Military ceremonies marked
the end of nine weeks of “boot
camp” and included a full dress
parade and review before high
ranking officials and civilian dig
nitaries.
In nine weeks of instruction,
the “raw recruit” is developed in
to a Navy Bluejacket, ready for
duty with the fleet.
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