THE NOME NUGGET
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BLESSED BY A HERITAGE OF FREEDOM
THIS WEEK HAS BEEN proclaimed as Human
Rights Week by proclamation of the President
of the United States and the Governor of Alaska.
This particular time has been chosen as at marks
the one hundred and sixty-seventh anniversary of
the adoption of our Bill of Rights, and the tenth anni
versary of the proclamation of the Universal Declar
ation of Human Rights, which is observed by the
United Nations.
The people of Alaska are asked to observe this
week by re-reading and studying the Bill of Rights
in the Constitution of the United States and the Uni
versal Declaration of Human Rights of the United
Nations, “that we may be reminded of our many re
sponsibilities and privileges as a people blessed by
a heritage of freedom and equality.”
ARMY ECONOMY CUTS KILTS
SAN FRANCISCO, UP> — Hoot,
mon, the >U. S. 6th Army’s in such
a tight fix it cannae longer af
ford to keep its kilted bagpipe
band a-going.
An official announcement said
the Army ws disbanding the col
orful band, made up of ordinary
American GIs thrust into kilts
and taught to blow the pipes.
“The Pipe Band was considered
a marginal activity in comparison
with other vital tasks which the
Army must perform with greatly
reduced manpower,” the an
nouncement said.
TWO RECEIVE HOLLYWOOD
WOMEN'S WRITERS AWARD
HOLLYWOOD, Calif., UP> —
Dinah Shore and Tony Curtis
have received Golden Apple
awards from the Hollywood Wo
men’s Press Club as the year’s
most cooperative actress and
actor.
6-Year-Old Runaway Freezes
MERRICK, N. Y., UP> — The
temperature was below freezing
when 6-year-old Tommy Donahue
ran away from home after a
scolding from his father^
A widespread, two-day search
for the boy ended Monday. Tom
my’s body was found along a road
embankment. He had died of ex
posure.
HAWAII VACATION PRIZE
WON BY RIVAL T-V EXEC.
ST. LOUIS, Mo., GP) — A week’s
vacation for two in Hawaii, do
nated by Radio Station KMOX
as one of the prizes at a Christ
mas party Tuesday night, was
won by an account executive -of
a rival TV station.
The winner, Dick Kimball of
TV Station KTVI and his wife
will ‘have all expenses paid for
the week’s vacation.
There were prizes for each of
more than 1,700 persons who at
tended the annual Christmas par
ty of the Advertising Club of St.
Louis.
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15 FOOT SNOWBANKS IN N.Y.
OSWEGO, N. Y., OP) — The
snowbanks are as high as 15 feet
along Oswego streets. Automobiles
are sporting -flags or balloons as
markers on radio aerials.
More than 102 inches of snow
has fallen on this city of 23,000 in
pre-winter storms from Lake On
tario. The on-the-ground meas
urement yesterday, however, was
34 inches.
The area of the flight deck on
the Navy’s newest aircraft carrier
is equivalent to about four acres.
The SS United States and SS
America could be placed on it
with room to spare.
U. N. C. Brings
Missiles Into
South Korea
SEOUL, UFi — Matador guided
missiles have been brought into
South Korea, the United Nations
Command said yesterday.
The announcement, in answer
to a press query, noted the Mata
dor can be armed with an atomic
warhead.
The announcement did not say
whether nuclear warheads had
been brought in with the Matador.
A U. N. spokesman had no com
ment on the whereabouts, or num
ber of Matadors and when the
missiles were brought in.
The U. N. Command told the
Communists at a meeting of the
Military Armistice Commission
on June 21, 1957, “that the United
Nations Command is taking appro
priate steps to replace the out
moded weapons presently in the
hands of its forces in the area
with new items, as the Commu
nists have often done in the area
north of the demilitarized zone ”
T1 e armistice forbade the in
troduction of new weapons by
cither side. But the U.N.C. re
peatedly charged the Communists
with, moving in jet bombers and
fighters and other modern com
bat equipment. At the time of the
armistice there were no planes in
North Korea.
LONG-TERM TOWN CLERK
HAWLEY, Mass., tPI — For the
first time in more than a half
century the people of Hawley will
elect a town clerk other than F.
Dean Carter next year. Carter
says he will not run for re-election
next year. He had been elected to
52 consecutive one-year terms as
town clerk.
FINE PHONE SERVICE!
IRVINGTON, N. J., 1® — A
man was moaning into his tele
phone, the operator told police,
who pounded up three flights, of
stairs and burst into his apart
ment.
The man was lying down with
the receiver on his chest- — snor
ing.
He had made a call while lying
in bed, he said, and fell asleep
waiting for an answer.
7:30 CHANNEL 4—KNOM-TV
PRESENTED BY
Nome Hardware
Board of Health
Meets To Map
Dept. Budget
Mrs. Audrey Bayer returned
recently from a meeting of the
Alaska Board of Health.
At the meeting a sum of $642,
592 for Alaska’s new mental health
program, representing nearly one
fourth of the Alaska Department
of Health $2,641,000 budget re
quest to the 1959 Legislature was
approved. The 1957 Territorial
Legislature’s appropriation was
$52,000 for the mental health
program, which became the re
sponsibility of Alaska with the
passage by Congress of the Alaska'
Mental Health Enabling Act in
1956.
Two new programs included in
the 1959-60 budget for the Health
Department, Dr. Gibson said, are
air pollution control and chronic
disease control. He said the total
proposed budget, including federal
funds anticipated by the Alaska
Department of Health, is $5,403,
160 for the coming year, of which
$1,487,592 is for operation of the
mental health program.
On December 11 the Board of
Health in a joint session witlTthe
Hospital Advisory Board approved
an overall state plan for construc
tion of medical facilities, presen
ted by the Health Department.
Sitting in its capacity as Board of
Water Pollution Control, the
Health Board reviewed a program
for the coming year which in
cludes waste disposal studies in
Anchorage, Fairbanks, Juneau
and Ketchikan in cooperation witn
local groups.
Board of Health members are.
Howard D. Stabler of Juneau,
chairman; Mrs. Audrey Bayer of
Nome; Dr. Robert B. Wilkins of
Anchorage; Edgar Clausen and
Dr. Arthur Schaible, member-at
large, of Fairbanks. Hospital
board members are: Mrs. Cather
ine Gair of Douglas; Doctors Jo
seph Gallagher and Michael Beirne
of Anchorage; Paul Nelson of
Seward, and E. E. Lincoln of Ju
neau. Board of Health members
are ex-officio members of the Hos
pital Advisory Board.
NATO Commander
Pleads for Missiles
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pessimism. Realism would be a
better word.”
Before Norstad spoke, many of
the delegates displayed little or
no sense of urgency toward the
strengthening of land forces or
equipping them with missiles.
For one thing, U. S. Secretary of
State, John Foster Dulles, had
told them Tuesday:
“Our military advisers are ab
solutely confident that the So
viet Union will not risk war over
Berlin.”
Soviet warnings of nuclear war
if the West insists on continued
access to West Berlin were termed
by Dulles “empty threats which
ousht not to frighten anyone.”
Norstad also appealed for
speedy fulfillment of NATO plans
for 30 full-strength, combat-ready
divisions in Europe. So far the
NATO forces lack half of the di
visions.
A military report to the NATO
ministers warned that the Rus
sians could launch a massive at
tack without resorting to weapons
of mass destruction.
Norstad’s appeals were backed
py the other top NATO command
ers at the conference.
The Naval men have been urg
ing more antisubmarine forces —
planes, destroyers and escort ves
sels. They feel their forces now
are adequate only for the most
limited defense, with no extras in
j case of war.
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