THE NOME NUGGET
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NOME, ALASKA
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E. P. BOUCHER . Managing Editor
CLINTON GRAY . Production Manager
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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MAN ON THE SPOT
Iii Emergency
PEOPLE THE WORLD OVER are drawn to fires and
accidents. Making laws and issuing statements
will not keep the crowds away. It takes a tragedy to
bring the matter to a head and prove what the Police
and Fire Department have been preaching for years:
“Someday, somebody will get hurt.”
A little boy did get hurt last wTeek, and lies in the
hospital, critically injured.
We have a fine Volunteer Fire Department.
They are on call night and day, winter and summer,
in storm and shine, and receive very little compensa
tion . What is needed is a couiple of additional volun
teers, not to be occupied fighting fire, but who are
properly deputized to keep the crowd back, do nothing
but handle the traffic, see that spectators keep their
distance and that the fire lane is kept open.. Perhaps
a couple of citizens will speak up and volunteer their
services for this important service, or perhaps some
organization will make this their civic project; to
help prevent further accidents in time of fire or other
emergency.
Top Paris Designer
Will Don Military Garb
PARIS, — The House of
Dior’s top designer, Yves Saint
Laurent, was ordered today to re
port for his Army physical Sept.
1. If he passes, a buck private may
be designing for some of the
world’s best dressed women.
The 26-year-old creator of wo
men’s fashions, who has received
two deferments, tried to stall off
going into drab miltary uniform
a third time but was turned down.
The deferments were granted
to Saint Laurent while he was
getting settled as the designer for
one of France's leading houses.
He took over in 1957 after the
death of Christian Dior, who
helped revive France’s world
leadership in fashion after World
War II.
Because of the importance of
fashion to the French economy, it
seems likely that Saint Laurent
will find time — even in his
crowded Army schedule — to
work on Dior's summer collec
tion for 1961.
Hooked Babysitter . . .
JUNEAU, UP> — A little inge
nuity goes a long way.
Dr. Norman Riddell of Juneau
and his wife, both ardent fisher
men, wanted to spend as much of
their time on the water as pos
sible — but they couldn’t find a
baby sitter for their pre-school
age youngsters.
Then Riddell hit on a plan. He
bought halibut gear for both
youngsters and took them along
on his salmon excursions.
I On the salt chuck, the first
| chore for Riddell is to hook a
halibut for each of the young
sters, then give the pole to the
child.
A fair-sized halibut will take
the place <Jf a salaried babysitter
for two hours or more. A large
halibut is good for all day.
When it comes time to go home,
Riddell gives an assist in landing
the halibut still babysitting for
him and the Riddell family heads
home The babysitters land in the
deep freeze.
Europe's Press
Ecstatic Over U. S.
Space Triumphs
LONDON, (.41 — The United
States’ spectacular new aerial
triumphs raised confidence in
Western Europe this week that
the West may beat the Russians
in the race into space.
Throughout the coninent on this
side of the Iron Curtain, the rec
ord breaking flight of the X-15
and the launching of the Echo bal
loon satellite were seen as devel
opments which had nosed the
United States ahead of the Com
munists
Newspapers in France, Britain
and West Germany all acclaimed
the American feats.
“A day of triumph for the
United States,” Britain’s mass
circulation Daily Express called
it, and other big British papers
joined in.
In West Germany, the inde
pendent Frankfurter Allgemeine
said: “The United States and its
allies no longer need be so fear
ful or entertain such feelings of
inferiority in the face of Soviet
rocket and space research
successes.”
The French press said the news
signaled that America is now
ahead of the Soviet Union in the
space marathon.
“America takes first place in
the conquest of space,” conceded
the left-leaning newspaper Com
bat
Even the Communist L’Huma
nite came up with a headline
reading: “Sensational astronautic
exploit by the Americans.”
Javits Says Parties Are
Split on Minimum Wage
WASHINGTON, Iff) — Sen Ja
cob Javits (R-NY) said Saturday
he doesn’t want the country to
get the impression “Republicans
as such” are opposed to increas
ing the present minimum wage
of $1 an hour.
Nor does he want the country
to think Sen. Barry Goldwater
(R-Arizl “is the leader of the Re
publicans in his pefectly sincere
opposition to an increase.”
“There are many Republican
members who favor a material
increase in the minimum wage,”
Javits said, adding the opposition
comes from both Democrats and
Republicans.
Goldwater has been spearhead
ing the drive against the bill of
Sen. John Kennedy, the Democrat
ic Presidential nominee, to boost
the minimum wage to $1.25 and
extend coverage of the wage-hour
law to five million more workers.
SELF-IMPOSED
BUDAPEST, Hungary, Iff)—Me
chanic Lazo Mirkovics, who hid
in his home for 10 years after
stabbing a man, surrendered and
was freed by a court. It said his
self-imposed imprisonment was
seven years longer than the sen
tence he would have received.
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NEW U.S. SPACE AGE ACHIEVEMENTS CREATE
URGENT NEEDS IN WORLD-WIDE DIPLOMACY
By J. M. ROBERTS
Associated Press News Analyst
i The new ability of the United
; States to trigger an aimed pack
age back to earth from a space
satellite will have great impact on
both diplomacy and human psy
chology.
For years now the world has
been livng in fear. Just 15 years
ago man learned to control the
awesome central force of nature.
Then it was said there cannot be
more war, for destruction would
be too great. But the fear has not
been eliminated, and indeed has
been heightened by the develop
ment of newer and more versatile
weapons.
Now' we are close to a weapon
which can be kept criss-crossing
the skies, a hanging threat, ready
to be dropped at will on any tar
get under the orbit of a satellite.
Its destructive possibilities are
little if any greater than those
of current weapons. But the psy
chological effect is different in
quality.
Nobody knows what people
would do if forced to live day and
night under such a threat. They
might rise in full force and throw
out all of their leaders, demand
ing an end to all weapons and all
talk of wars as an extension of
diplomacy.
They might rise and demand
preventive war.
Or they might huddle in their
fear, fill up their streets with the
insane, write no more music or
books and abandon all of the
things they now do in faith that
there will be a tomorrow
The trouble in the Congo which
now seems to be settling down a
little would have been vastly dif
ferent last month if Soviet Pre
mier Khrushchev, instead of
making threats of a vague sort
of intervention, had started orbit
ing a squadron of nuclear bombs
across Africa which he could aim
and drop at will.
About 60 fear-carrying satel
lites akin to Discoverer XIII could
keep Washington under threat ev
ery minute of every day. Other
orbits could cover the nation. The
tension in men’s minds as an
enemy increased his demands
from day to day would very like
ly bring the nation’s business to
an eventual breakdown.
In the face of such possibli
ties. can diplomacy be brought to
a new conception of urgency, or
must men live on and on with
the keen awareness of rising ten
sions — if they live at all?
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