THE NOME NUGGET
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Entered as second class matter October 14, 1943, at the
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A Community Project
THE CITY GOVERNMENT is now in the hands of
a new Council. These men are our chosen leaders
for conducting the business which keeps our city
operating. They serve unstintingly, and perform
their duties conscientiously and with regard for the
improvement of our City.
For several years, the water and sewerage elimina
tion project has ben pushed around apathetically, it
would appear, but actually it is the fault of the resi
dents of the community themselves, and not those few
persons who make up the Council.
The community uses more water than it did 30
years ago. An automatic washing machine consumes
an average of 17 gallons per cycle; 30 to 60 gallons are
used each time you shower.. People today are more
conscious of the necessity of cleanliness, — and the
water used must go somewhere other than just under
the house!
It is the responsibility of each citizen who wants
a town that is clean, to discuss this situation with his
favorite Councilman, and to urge action, as well as to
offer his services in some capacity, to secure for the
City a proper sewerage disposal system, We look for
thie day when Nome will no longer be classed as the
only major city in Alaska without proper sewerage
and water facilities.
Lest We Forget...
WTN FLANDERS FIELDS THE POPPIES BLOW”
-I* — and so the flower that precipitated one war
became the symbol of another and, with Memorial
Day, of all those who have died in war.
The poppy has figured as a symbol of arms from
the time of the Opium War in 1842, and is known as a
sign displayed in loving memory of war dead after
World War I. Local communities now choose one day
from the week before Memorial Day as Poppy Day,
when volunteers sell the artificial flowers in order to
provide medical and educational services for disabled
and needy veterans of both World Wars and the
Korean War.
INTERNATIONAL
PARTS
PICKUPS life TRUCKS
BEN YOUNG
Russia Squeezes
Japan’s N. Pacific
Fishing Rights
By KENNETH ISHII
TOKYO, (#) — Russia has once
again forced Japan to pay for its
American alliance, with restric
tions on Japanese salmon fishing
in Soviet-controllod North Pacific
waters.
Under the fourth annual salmon
fishing agreement concluded Tues
day in Moscow, the Soviet Union
compelled Japan to accept a catch
limit of 67,500 tons for the 1960
season — 12,500 tons less than last
year and scarcely half the 120,000
ton limit of 1957.
The Japanese immediately
talked of a “crisis” in the industry,
and “new dark age” for Japanese
fishermen. Government officals, I
industry leaders and even the neu- |
trality minded Socialists expressed j
strong dissatisfaction, the restric- ;
tions threaten the livelihood of j
fishermen.
'In addition to the reduction, no
fishing areas were enlarged. They
already encompassed the Okhotsk
Sea and now extend to zones west
of the Kuriles and the Kamchatka
Peninsula.
The general Japanese attitude
was “Shikataganai” — “There’s
nothing to be done about it.”
Consider the realities:
1. Russia has been in complete
physical control of that portion
of the North Pacific since the
war’s end, at which time she also
occupied the Kuriles and southern
Kamchatka won by Japan in the
Russo-Japanese War of 1904.
2. Since Russo-Japanese diplo
matic relations were resumed in
1956, Moscow has made Japanese
relinquishment of claims to the
southern Kuriles the price of a
formal peace treaty.
Soviet negotiators, who origin
ally demanded a 50,000-ton Japan
ese salmon limit, insisted the re
■ duction was necessary to preserve
depleting stocks.
Army Cold Chamber Tests
Show Effects of Man’s
Exposure to Arctic Winter
PHILADELPHIA, UP) — The
Army is conducting cold chamber
tests more rigorous than those
faced by Arctic explorers in ef
forts to determine how much ex
posure a man can take, how many
men can endure it, and what food
is most conducive to pulling
through.
The tests are being made at
Lankenau Hospital’s new research
center.
Usually two men, between 20
and 30, are placed in a cold cham
ber at a time, clad only in shorts.
They stay there for 10 days with
out a break — if they can. The
temperature is 42 to 43 degrees
above zero.
Nurses and doctors watch
through windows, alert for be
havior changes. Special devices,
strapped to the men’s bodies,
measure heart beats, blood pres
sure and energy. Four diets are
tested.
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EVERY DAY
100 Russian Spies Have
Been Caught Since WWII,
Says U. S. Congressman
WASHINGTON, Wt — Rep.
Cornelius Gallagher (D-N.J.) said
Thursday nearly 100 Russian
spies, including eight serving in
the Soviet Embassy here, have
been apprehended in non-Soviet
countries since the end of World
War II.
He added in a prepared House
speech that all of those caught
were prosecuted or deported by
the nations which apprehended
them.
Gallagher said he has compiled
a box score on Soviet spying
which “makes the U-2 incident
lok like child’s play.”
He said 23 of the agents caught
were serving on diplomatic staffs
of Communist nations or with the
| United Nations and thus escaped
I prosecution.
' The list of the Communist spies
; who have been caught, he said,
| is only a fraction of the total in
volved in spying for the Soviet
Union. Gallagher said it does not
include others whose capture may
not have been revealed nor nearly
15,000 persons he said have been
arrested since World War II for
spying in West Germany.
Gallagher told a reporter his in
formation came from official
sources which he was not at lib
erty to identify.
“This list of spy activities can
not be complete,” he said. “Many
cases are classified. I have tried
to document this list with evi
dence supported by actual cases
of which there is no reasonable
doubt.”
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Fine Job Printing At The Nugget.
Bronson, Beltz
Named to Carry
Symington Banner
WASHINGTON, (/PI — Head
quarters of Sen. Stuart Syming
ton announced yesterday the ap
pointment of Jack O’Hair Asher of
Juneau, as chairman of the Alas
ka Symington for President Com
mittee.
Asher is district attorney for
Southeastern Alaska. Helen Fis
cher, Democratic National Com
mitteewoman for Alaska, who has
been acting chairman for the
Symington backers there, will re
rrtain as special adviser to the
group.
Serving with Asher on the Sy
mington committee in addition to
Mrs. Fischer will be:
Warren Taylor, Fairbanks,
Speaker of the State House of
'Representatives; William Beltz,
Unalakleet, President of the State
Senate; Sen. Lester Bronson of
Nome; Sen. Bob Logan, Cordova;
Steve McCutcheon, Anchorage;
Mrs. Eugene Roguska, Anchorage;
Dr. Howard Romig, Anchorage;
Charles Herbert, Anchorage; Carl
Munn, Dillingham; James Pinker
ton, Ketchikan; James McCracken,
Seward, Sen. Irene Ryan, Anchor
age, and Rep. Robert McCombe,
of Chicken.
BIRD-BRAIN BEAUTIES
MANILA, W) — Newsmen inter
viewing shapely contestants in a
Manila beauty contest discovered
Wednesday night that one thought
ex-President Syngman Rhee of
South Korea was a fashion model.
Another had never heard of So
viet Premier Nikita Khrushchev.
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