Junior Red Cross
Starts Campaign
With Broadcasts
The early morning “Rise and
Shine” program of Station AFRS
this week includes two Junior
Red Cross broadcasts of 10 min
utes each.
The first is a between-classes
talk by Jeri and Lucy Ann Fager
strom, Nancy Tripp, and Penny
Smith, describing the Junior Red
Cross as a service organization,
and planning for the enrollment
campaign, April 19-23.
The second broadcast is a panel
discussion in which Diane Bou
cher, Bruce Russell and Jim Roth,
of the sophomore and freshman
classes, get first-hand information
from Wally Jones, an instructor
in the American Red Cross Stan
dard First Aid Training.
Enrollment supplies arrived
yesterday from American Red
Cross area headquarters in San
Francisco and are being distrib
uted to classroom teachers. Each
classroom will have a roll to sign,
metal tabs for each child, a poster,
and on completion of enrollment,
a door sticker with priority num
ber.
Mrs. William Cameron, in
charge of high school enrollment,
has metal tabs and also member
ship cards for each student mem
ber. Miss Sigrid Olson, treasurer
of the Junior Red Cross, will re
ceive amounts contributed from
each classroom.
ALASKA AIRLINES
From Anchorage: H. D. Duke,
Theodore Austerman, C. R. Jones,
J. C. McGrath.
From McGrath: Jennie Anakak.
From Unalakleet: Emily and
Martha Milligrack, L. E. Ost. <
From Kotzebue: L. R. Malmas,
D. Grossman, V. Grossman, May
Elook.
To Anchorage: C. R. Jo'nes, Sgt.
and Mrs. Robert Haymes, Bar
bara Sue Haymes, Theresa Naya
kuk, Lt. John Martin.
Chamber Meeting Notes
At the Chamber of Commerce
noon luncheon today:
Larry Galvin said that every
one he talked to in Anchorage
was very much against the parti
tion of Alaska. They felt that if
it were a good thing that it should
have been brought to light before
this and have been thoroughly
examined as to its merits.
Dewey Goodrich reported two
new members—(Ruth's Dress Shop
and Dick Benson. Mr. Benson will
join the Chamber as an individ
ual and not as a representative of
the N.C. Co.
Rev. R. Havens informed the
group that the Red Cross is being
reactivated; that the Junior Red
Cross will conduct a membership
drive at school next week.
Last week’s radio program by
the Junior Red Cross netted $70
which will be divided between
the Junior organization and the
Nome Field Red Cross.
Robert Curtis tendered his re
signation as secretary of the board
of directors as he is moving with
his family to Anchorage. Curtis
said he had greatly appreciated
the honor of serving on the board
of directors and very much en
joyed his work with the group.
President Harwood thanked Mr.
and Mrs. Curtis for their cooper
ation in working with the Cham
ber and assured them it was
greatly aprpeciated.
Gasoline Sells For 15.9
Cents a Gallon In New
Jersey Price War
PASSAIC, N.J., (jP—A new low
in a current gasoline price war
was hit Wednesday when some
service stations in Passaic so'ld
fuel for 15.9 cents a gallon.
Other stations in the Passaic
Bergen area are selling regular
gas at prices ranging from 17.9
to the normal 26.9.
The New Jersey Retail Gasoline
Dealers Assn, voted last week to
continue the price war until en
actment of a fair trade bill.
TUESDAY (freight only)
Nome to Kotzebue
ARRIVE NOME DEPART NOME
10:15 A.M. 10:45 A.M.
WEDNESDAY
(passengers and freight)
Kotzebue to Nome to Fairbanks
ARRIVE NOME DEPART NOME
11:50 A.M. 12:20 P.M.
SATURDAY
(passengers and freight)
Kotzebue to Nome to Fairbanks
ARRIVE NOME DEPART NOME
11:50 A.M. 12:20 P.M.
BUSH FLIGHTS FRIDAY
Kotz. to Candle to Deering to Nome to Kotz.
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Dr. Oppenheimer Suspended As Government Adviser
In Atomic Matters For Reasons of Security
Following McCarthy Charges of H-Bomb Delay
WASHINGTON, UP>—Dr. J. Rob-<
ert Oppenheimer has been sus
pended as a government adviser
on atomic matters for security
reason s—including accusations
that he sought to block develop
ment of the hydrogen bomb pro
ject.
The noted physicist, sometime
called the man who built the
A-bomb, disclosed the charges
himself Tuesday by making pub
lic an exchange of letters with
Maj. Gen. K. D. Nichols, general
manager of the Atomic Energy
Commission <AEC). The letters
first were published in Tuesday’s
New York Times.
Nichols’ letter said 16 specific
allegations of subversive activi
ties had been leveled against Op
penheimer. One was that he bat
tled against construction of the
H-bomb, even after former Presi
dent Truman approved it. #
Former President Truman, vis
iting friends in the country in
Missouri, where he spoke Monday
night, said he had not seen the
news stories about Oppenheimer.
On the question of delay in devel
opment of the hydrogen bomb,
Truman said that there was some
disagreement among scientists
about the project but that after he
gave the word to go ahead with
its development the work pro
ceeded without dispute.
On a question about Oppen
heimer’s AEC appointment, Tru
man declined comment until he
had opportunity to refresh his
memory by consulting his files in
Kansas City. He is expected to
return there today.
The Nichois letter, dated last
Dec. 23, advised Oppenheimer:
>
“It was reported further that
you were instrumental in persua
ding other scientists not to work
on the hydrogen bomb project and
that the opposition to the hydro
gen bomb, of which you are the
mo'st experienced, most powerful
and most effective member, has
definitely slowed down its devel
opment ....
“The commission has no other
recourse, in the discharge of its
obligations to protect the common
defense and security, but to sus
pend your clearance (to' have at
omic information) until the matter
has been resolved.
“Accordingly, your employment
on Atomic Energy Commission
work and your elegibility for ac
cess to restricted data are hereby
suspended.”
In reply, Oppenheimer wrote a
43-page letter on March 4 which
he called “a summary account of
relevant aspects of my life.”
In the letter, the scientist took
up each of the allegations raised
in Nichols’ letter including the
statement that he had argued
against development of the hydro
gen bomb in 1949.
Oppenheimer said he, as well as
the entire general advisory com
mittee on atomic matters made up
of top-level scientists, argued
against the rapid build-up of the
H-weapons, which the scientist
referred to as a “crash program.”
He said the committee submit
ted a report to the AEC stating
that “such a program might weak
en rather than strengthen the pos
ition of the United States.”
But, Oppenheimer said he and
the other members of the com
mittee shifted signals after Presi
dent Truman announced in Jan
uary, 1950, that the United States
would proceed with the H-bomb
program.
“I never urged anyone not to
work on the hydrogen bomb pro
ject,” Oppenheimer wrote.
After the President’s decision
was made, he declared, “I never
again raised the question of the
wisdom of the policy which had
now been settled, but concerned
ourselves rather with trying to
help implement it.”
Sen. McCarthy said in a tele
vision speech last week that de
velopment of the H-bomb was de
layed for 18 months and asked
whether subversives might have
been behind the delay.
Oppenheimer, now 49, acknowl
edged that in his younger years
he had associated with Commu
nists and contributed to some
Communist causes.
The scientist, now director of
the Institute for Advanced Study
at Princeton, declared:
“I have reviewed two decades
of my life. I have recalled instanc
es where I acted unwisely. What
I have hoped was, not that I could
wholly avoid error, but that I
might learn from it.
“What I have learned has, I
think, made me more fit to serve
my country.”
McCarthy had held back the
Oppenheimer case as a reserve
weapon, the N.Y. Herald Tribune
said, and planned to use it to
smother the Army probe in a
“tremendous hydrogen espionage
sensation.”
GAMBELL NEWS
By CLARENCE IRRIGOO
Early spring weather is antici
pated here. The fact that the rug
ged northerly winds that used to
blow in March would only indi
cate that spring weather and
hunting is just around the corner.
In fact, all is getting the feel of it
already. There is hardly any snow
on the beach <Kaskuk>. Young
sters are playing ball on the dry
summer gravel where only three
weeks ago the beach was covered
with snow.
* * *
The writer of this news, who
baked bread at home on a small
scale for the village, had to close
his home bakery. The village store
is out of flour now. This home
bakery used to turn out 144 two
pound loaves in six days of the
week. Housewives were beginning
to depend on the bread the home
bakery made.
It was only three years ago
when the store was out of pilot
bread that this baking was tried.
Ever since, as soon as the pilot
bread is gone in the store, the
bakery would start operating
again. The owner would like to
operate this bread business on a
larger scale if funds were avail
able, because, at the end of the
week more people come for
bread than they did during the
week.
In spite of the high price of
stove oil, flour, etc., the price of
bread had been held at 50 cents
for a two-pound loaf.
Long time ago, we used to get
along without flour in the winter,
but now everyone is going to suf
fer without it because the walrus
and seal meat are no substitutes!!
FLOUR, FLOUR. Oh, how we
used to make it into bread !
There are several other items
not any more available in our
village store. Coffee and tea are i
other two we are going to miss |
this spring. It’s like that old fable:
“Old Mother Hubbard / Went to
the cupboard / To get her poor
dog a bone ... I The cupboard
was bare!”
% * »
Word was received from Sav- j
oonga that a large barge had
drifted and beached high up on
the rocky beach approximately 10
miles from village and 3A miles
from the camp, possibly during a
storm last fall.
The report said that the barge j
is almost covered with snow. Oil i
is leaking from the holds notice
ably, because the founder be
lieved there are more than two or
three holes some place at the bot
tom, and all the material on the
barge is beginning to spoil by
now.
The founder said that he would
try to save the oil, which is leak
ing from the barge, but since he
has no assurance of reimburse
ment for doing so, he is not doing
anything at the present.
People who actually saw the
barge stated that it was thrown
so high up on the rocky beach
that one standing on the sea side
of the barge could see the shore
line. It is also stated that salvag
ing of same is impossible, believ
ing that many boulders have jut
ted into the hull of the barge.
* * *
Two new babies are born in
March. First on the 18th and the
other on the 29th.
First arrival came to Mr. and
Mrs. Winfred James Sr., a boy;
the second arrival to Mr. and Mrs.
Frank Oktookiyok, also a boy,
weighing 12 pounds at birth.
Midwives reported the young
baby had “wisdom and two front
teeth at the time of birth!’’ All of
them are doing very fine.
* * *
There was a general Election of
Officers and Members of the Vil
lage Council on the 29th day of
March. New officers and members
will be reported in the next news
as well as the number of catch of
white foxes.
SERVICE GARAGE
Phone Main 196 Nome, Alaska Box 112
THE NOME LIQUOR STORE
WE CARRY A LARGE ASSORTMENT OF
FINE LIQUORS, BEER AND WINE
OUT-OF-TOWN ORDERS CAREFULLY HANDLED