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Nome Class of 1955
Tomorrow night, 11 students graduate from Nome
High School. They will be better prepared than any
other' class to continue their education, as a wider
selection of subjects has been offered the students this
year than ever before.
Some of them will take advantage of higher educa
tion and take their places in Alaska as leaders in a few
years; some will remain in the community and take
their places immediately.
They have had twelve precious years to prepare
themselves for the American way of life and most of
them are Alaskans from pioneering stock. We feel sure
their heritage of courage and stability will enable them
to meet, unafraid, whatever destiny may be ahead for
them.
The staff of the Nugget congratulates them in
their achievement.
LITTLE LEAGUE BASEBALL
Little League officials reported recently that Little
League baseball is expanding at such a rate that the net
increase in baseball leagues for youngsters has pro
gressed rapidly in the last year, at a rate which equals
the increase for the ten years prior to 1954.
In recent days, the last state in which Little
Leagues were not operating—North Dakota—became
the 48th to join the program and now Little League
baseball is played in all 48 states. This year, more
youngsters will be playing than ever before.
The Little League World Series will be held in
Williamsport, Pa., in August, featuring the best teams
from the eight regions of the United States. It is esti
mated that some half million youngsters will compete
in the 9 to 12 year age brackets this year.
We think the participation of local youngsters in
baseball programs in this community is one of the
most worthwhile activities we know of. The phenome
nal growth of Little League baseball, and other baseball
movements for youngsters, is most encouraging. It is
one way to lick the problem of increasing juvenile
delinquency, caused principally by idleness among
youth.
0
Ike Nominates
Adm. Burke As
Chief Naval Op.
WASHINGTON, UR— President
Eisenhower today nominated Rear
Adm. Arleight A. Burke to be
Chief of Naval Operations suc
ceeding Adm. Robert B. Carney.
Carney was the center of a re
cent controversy over the likli
hood of a Communist attack in
the Formosa area.
The President also nominated:
1. Adm. Arthur W. Radford for
a new two-year term as chair
man of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
2. Gen. Nathan F. Twining for
a new two-year'term as Air Force
Chief of Staff.
Earlier this month Eisenhower
nominated Gen. Maxwell D. Tay
lor to succeed Gen. Matthew B.
Ridgway as Army Chief of Staff.
The controversy over C'arney
centered on the question whether
he did or did not tell a group
of newsmen a Red attack in the
Formosa Strait was likely by mid
April.
Carney later denied he had
spoke of expectations. He said he
only discussed capabilities and
said the Communists could make
an attack by that time if they
chose.
The incident brought an im
plied Eisenhower rebuke of Car
ney.
White House Press Secretary
James C. Hagerty was asked to
-day whether the incident had fig
ured in any way with Carney’s
forthcoming replacement by
Burke. Hagerty replied: “Abso
lutely none.”
Hagerty noted that Carney be
came 60 years old last March.
For that reason, Hagerty added,
Carney “would be unable to fill
out an extended two-year term
prior to reaching the normal re
tirement age of the Navy.”
Burke has the nickname “31
Knot,” earned by the top speed
he preferred for destroyers of his
World War II combat commands
in the Pacific.
Fisherman Asked To Be
On Lookout For Sally
The Red-Nosed Salmon
JUNEAU, (#)—Rudolph the Red
Nosed Reindeer has a summer
time replacement up here in the
north country. It’s Sally the Crim
son-Snouted Salmon.
Biologist Ken Thorson of Al
aska’s Department of Fisheries
said today he had placed bright
red discs on the noses of more
than 100 salmon in the Hunter
Bay-Rocky Island area of Chat
ham Straits.
He ask’ed commercial and sport
fishermen to report any catches
of red-nosed salmon. Thorson is
using the method to trace the
migration habits of Taku River
king salmon.
The ancient Romans were in
the habit of drinking the flowing
blood of the gladiators as a cure
for epilepsy and other ills.
Anchorage Contractor
Robbed, Jaw Broken
In Seattle Hotel
SEATTLE, (A*)—M. H. Clements,
54, an Anchorage contractor, re
ported to police an intruder stole
about $200 from his clothing in
a hotel room here early today.
Clements said he fell asleep in
a chair and awakened at 2:45
a.m. to find a well-dressed man
about 30 searching through his
trousers.
When Clements attempted to
notify the hotel management, the
intruder struck him on the jaw,
knocking him unconscious and
fracturing his jaw in three places.
When Clements recovered con
•sciousness, the thief was gone.
He was treated by a physician.
MEMORIAL WREATHS
AT CAVOTA'S STORE
Air Force Officials to Get ‘Thorough
Briefing' on U.S.-Russia Airpower
WASHINGTON (M—'The Senate?
Armed Services Committee has
summoned top Air Force officials
for what Chairman Russell (D-Ga)
said Tuesday will be a “thorough
briefing” Thursday on U.S.-Rus
sian airpower.
Russell said Secretary of the
Air Force Talbott and Gen. Na
than F. Twining, chief of staff,
will testify behind closed doors on
assertions the Soviets may have
gained superiority in some fields.
Russell said in an interview it
will be up to a subcommittee
headed by Sen. Lyndon B. John
son (D-Tex) to decide whether to
expand later an investigation of
the subject.
Sen. Symington <D-Mo), a for
mer Air Force secretary, has con
tended the Russians may be ahead
of this country in the production
of jet bombers and intercontinent
al missiles.
He told the Senate Monday that
there had been “efforts to sup
Nationalist Chinese Paper
Urges West to Call Off
Proposed Big Four Talks
TAIPEH, Formosa Uft—The Chi
nese Nationalists’ official Cental
Daily News yesterday urged the
w'estern powers to call off the pro
jected Big Four top level talks.
It said the conference is mainly
a Soviet trap for the West.
The official Nationalist news
paper, the Chung Hua Daily News,
took the same tack, urging the
West to be on guard against a sud
den Soviet military attack.
The Nationalist interior minis
try’s news agency, Tatao, said
more than three divisions of Chi
nese Communist troops, possibly
transferred from North Korea,
had arrived in the coastal areas of
Fukien Province the past week.
Fukien is directly across the
Formosa Strait from this Nation
alist island.
"GIVE ME LIBERTY OR . . .
DENVER, (#> — His wife sued
Patrick Henry for her liberty yes
terday.
Mrs. Henry of Denver filed suit
for divorce in District Court,
charging “extreme and repeated
acts of cruelty.”
Henry operates an inn at Aspen,
Colo. They have no children.
Pacific Coast League
MONDAY BASEBALL
San Diego 3, Los Angeles 1
Portland 5, San Francisco 1
Seattle 5, Hollywood 2
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press discussion of the subject,”
and continued: “Evidence contin
ues to pile up that Communist
airpower is moving ahead of us in
the fields of defensive power, pro
duction and technology.”
Commenting on a similar pre
vious speech by Symington, Presi
dent Eisenhower told his news
conference last week that'“to say
that we have lost in a twinkling
all of this great technical develop
ment and technical excellence as
well as numbers in our total air
craft is just not true.”
Sen. Byrd (D-Va>, an Armed
Services Committee member, said
he just can’t believe the Russians
have made the advances with
which they are credited in some
quarters.
He said that at a closed meeting
over which he presided recently,
Gen. Alfred M. Gruenther, NATO
commander, “gave us reassuring
testimony” that this country was
keeping well ahead of the Rus
sians in air developments.
Backing this up, Russell said
Gruenther had testified “we were
pulling away from the Russians.”
Gruenther’s testimony was given
before the Pentagon said 10 days
ago the Soviets had flown forma
tions of new, long-range jet bomb
ers over Moscow.
“Something must have happened
in the meantime,” Russell said.
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