THE NOME NUGGET
Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday by the
NOME PUBLISHING CO.
NOME, ALASKA
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Entered as second class matter October 14, 1943 at the
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A POINT OF ORDER, PLEASE
THERE’S A MORAL
While we wait to learn the outcome of the big
British butter deal now under negotiation, we might
reflect on its possible object lesson to Congress and
the American people.
The sale of forty million pounds of that Govern
ment surplus to Britain would be at the world price
of butter, which is about 47 cents a pound, compared
with the present reduced price of 63 to 69 cents at
home. Obviously, if Americans could have bought
this butter for 47 cents at the time it was made, there
would have been no mountainous surplus—and a lot
of American children might be better-nourished.
To say that we can’t make and distribute butter
for 47 cents a pound is no answer. Nor is it any answer
to make butter to sell at 80 to 90 cents when people
won’t or can’t pay the price. But somewhere in be
tween there is a price at which this traditional spread
can again become a profitable item of trade—to the
farmer, the creamery, the retailer and the consumer
—instead of a wicked, rancid sacrifice on the altar of
politics.
We think that is part of what Secretary Benson
means by “flexible supports.” And we think the peo
ple, who had to pay in taxes for butter they didn’t
get to eat, will be looking for such changes.
Sitka National Guard Unit
Wins Eisenhower Trophy
The Sitka unit of the Alaska
National Guard was one of 42
National Guard units named last
week to receive the coveted Eisen
hower Trophy for outstanding
performance during 1953, accord
ing to an announcement by Maj.
Gen. Edgar C. Erickson, chief,
National Guard Bureau.
Tlje award went to Company B,
208th Infantry Battalion, com
manded by 1st Lt. Thomas D.
Cameron.
Established in 1948 in honor of
General of the Army Dwight D.
Eisenhower, the trophies are
awarded each year to the out
standing Army Guard unit of
company size in each state, terri
tory and the District of Columbia.
WEATHER FORECAST
Compiled by the
U.S. Dept, of Commerce Weather Bureau
Part cloudy to clear tonight and
Tuesday with little change in
temperature. Winds northerly 10
to' 15 mph. Lowest temperature
expected tonight 40, high Tuesday
60.
Nome data last 24 hours as of
7 a.m. today: High temperature
59, low 32. Max. wind 22 mph.
from the NE. Sunrise 2:10 a.m.,
sunset 4:96 p.m.
Temperatures a year ago today:
high 48, low 35. Extremes this
date since 1907: high 64 in 1954,
low 14 in 1920. ,
Other Stations, 7 a.m. Today
Station Temp. Weather
Barrow 23 Snow
Kotzebue 40 Part cloudy
Wales 32 Part cloudy
Nome 54 Clear
Unalakleet 45 Part cloudy
Bethel 56 Cloudy
McGrath 57 Cloudy
Anchorage 51 Rain
Fairbanks 63 Clear
Juneau 53 Part cloudy
Ketchikan 52 Cloudy
Seattle 54 Cloudy
San Francisco 53 Cloudy
Fire Fighters Flown To Ft. Yukon
To Fight Interior's 45th Fire
FAIRBANKS, OP—Twenty-four
fire fighters wrere flown north of
the Arctic Circle to a point near
Fort Yukon Saturday to fight a
forest fire which had burned 25
acres of highly combustible black
spruce.
The fire was the 45th in Alaska’s
interior since May 1.
Fort Yukon is approximately
165 miles northeast of Fairbanks.
TOKYO, uPi—Takuji Oshima, an
executive director of the Alaska
Pulp Co. of Tokyo, leaves early
next month for Alaska to super
vise repair of a sawmill the com
pany has rented at Wrangell.
The Japanese firm plans to
open a pulp mill in Alaska.
Landing Gear Fails i
In Boeing’s New
4-Jet Transport
SEATTLE, W)—The Boeing Air
plane Company’s 15-million-dollar
4-jet tanker-transport plane was a
crippled bird Saturday, resting on
two- engine nescelles, its left land
ing gear crumpled and the wing
flap torn and bent.
The landing gear buckled under
Friday evening as the giant, 65
ton ship was being runway-tested
at the Renton Airport southeast of
Seattle.
The craft came to a quick halt
as it tilted over on its left wing
engines and the landing gear
rammed up through the flap. Sey
en fire engines roared up but not
a drop of fuel was spilled and the
danger was over in seconds.
Company officials said none of
the primary wing or airplane
structure was damaged but that
the accident would delay sched
uled flight tests by several weeks.
It had been hoped to take the big
ship up yesterday.
The plane, dubbed the 707, is
the first of its type built in Amer
ica for possible commercial air
line use or as an Air Force tanker.
Fifteen million dollars have been
spent in developing it in the air
plane company’s attempt to in
vade the jet-transport field now
dominated by Great Britain.
Company engineers said after
the accident the landing-gear as
sembly had been designed in a
manner to keep it from rupturing
the main wing supports or fuel
tanks in event of failure due to
excessive loads in landing.
This built-in saftey feature, they
said, prevented much more seri
ous damage than occurred in Fri
day’s crack-up.
Mrs. Nerland Presented
Life Membership In WSCS
Of Methodist Church
Mrs. Andrew Nerland, who has
lived here 19 years, was presented
with a life membership to the
W.S.C.S. by Flora Luke, president
of the Native Sisterhood of the
Methodist Church.
Mrs. Nerland came to Nome as
a missionary nurse at the old
Maynard-Columbus Hospital and
has throughout the years been a
Sunday School teacher; teacher at
Nome School; president of the
W.S.C.S.; member of the Territor
ial Health Board. Appreciation
was extended to' her for the many
things she has done for children
as well as adults in the commun
ity few know about throughout
her residence here.
Mrs. Nerland plans to leave
soon to be with her aged mother
in Kansas. Mr. Nerland plans to
retire this summer, having been
with the U. S. Smelting Co. for
many years.
DON FERGUSON, KOTZEBUE.
TO EXTEND FLYING SERVICE
TO NOME AND VICINITY
Don Ferguson, son of Warren
Ferguson of Kotzebue, who has
been flying in the Kotzebue and
Fairbanks area for the past three
years, is extending his services
to Nome and surrounding mining
district this summer.
His service is . known as the
Don’s Safair Flying Service and
has offices in Fairbanks and
Kotzebue.
4 Airmen Saved, 4 Lost
When Plane Downs in Sea
PEARL HARBOR, UP)—F our
Navy airmen rescued from the
ocean after their seaplane crashed
400 miles northeast of Oahu said
Friday night there was little
chance four other crewmen had
survived.
The Hawaiian Sea Frontier said
when darkness closed over the
area the search for survivors was
called off.
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UNOFFICIAL ELECTION RETURNS FROM SECOND DIVISION PRECINCTS
PRIMARY ELECTION, TUESDAY, APRIL 27, 1954
Delegate Territorial Comm.
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