THE NOME NUGGET
Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday by the
NOME PUBLISHING CO.
NOME, ALASKA
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E. P. BOUCHER . Managing Editor
CLINTON GRAY . Production Manager
Entered as second class matter October 14, 1943, at the
post office at Nome, Alaska, under Act of March 3, 1879.
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NO FLIGHT OF FANCY
Wake Up and Read!
Contributed by Rod Boucher
DO YOU MAKE full use of your Library?
Do you fulfill your obligation to your country,
your community, and yourself, by reading?
Reading and the facilities of the Library provide
you with the means to explore, through the written
word, the world of science, art, history and literature.
Through this type of self-education you can better
qualify yourself to better fulfill your role in this age
of spiritual, scientific and political growth, whether
you are young, old, or middle-aged.
National Library Week will be observed by com
munities throuhout the United States this year from
April 3 through April 9. This year the chosen theme
is “Open Wonderful New Worlds — Wake Up and
Read.”
Nome is fortunate in having a public library. It
is located upstairs in the City Building.
The Library is staffed by volunteer women who
are members of the Kagoyah Kozga Library Club, and
it is open on Friday evenings and Saturday afternoons.
This club has been giving this free service to Nome
since 1934.
U. of A. Extension Mining
Short Course is Popular Here
Twenty-three persons enrolled
in the University of Alaska Min
ing Short Course starting Monday
night, and anyone interested may
still enroll tonight.
This evening, General Geology
and Rocks and Rock Minerals will
be discussed, starting at 7 p.m. in
the Nome High School Assembly.
The course will continue through
Friday night this week. Next week
it will start on Tuesday night and
end on Friday, and will follow
that four-night weekly schedule
until competed, about the first
week in May.
SUBSCRIBE TO THE NUGGET
NOME SANITARY
SERVICE
Phone Main 1
p. O. Box 460
Countries South-of-Border
Combine Efforts to Finish
Pan-American Highway
PANAMA, UP — Colombia and
Panama have agreed to work to
gether to finish the Pan Ameri
can Highway. President Albert
Lleras Camarge of Colombia and
President Ernesto De La Guardia
of Panama signed a pledge Sun
day to negotiate the financing of
the last leg of the highway, on
both sides of the common border.
Dentist Still Being Sought
The Chamber of Comhmerce
Civil Affairs Committee, which
has been working the past year in
getting a competent dentist for
this area, and which is now headed
by Rev. John Maakestad, reported
at the Chamber meeting last Mon
day that they have one in line, and
possibly in the near future may
have a definite announcement to
make.
DeGaulle Return
To London Stirs
War Memories
By EDDY GILMORE
LONDON, (#) — French Presi
dent Charles De Gaulle’s eyes
dimmed with tears yesterday as
Queen Elizabeth II and 100,000
cheering Londoners welcomed him
to London after an absence of al
most 16 years.
His eyes filled at the stirring
strains of “The Marseillaise,”
played against a background of
world and personal history — a
sweep of events and circumstances
that could never be lost on a man
like De Gaulle.
Sixteen years ago here in Lon
don the tall, starchy general led
the Free French Forces, battling
against a sagging enemy and
struggling with the Allies for rec
ognition as an equal. The Allies
often disagreed with him.
He returned as President of the
Fifth French Republic, more pow
erful than any Frenchman of his
times.
The Queen welcomed De Gaulle
at Victoria Station. This marked
her first public engagement since
the birth Feb. 19 of her third
child, Prince Andrew. Spectators
remarked that the Queen appeared
as radiant as ever, but gained
some weight.
De Gaulle and his foreign min
ister, Maurice Couve De Murville,
arrived by train after flying from
France to Gatwick Airport.
The visit is to last three days.
He is officially visiting the Queen
but the trip gives him a chance
for talks with Prime Minister
MacMillan.
Hopefuls of Both Parties j
Will Back President’s
Nuclear Commitments
WASHINGTON, UP) — The ma
jor Presidential aspirants — Dem
ocratic and Republican — say that
if elected they would respect any
commitment President Eisenhow
er may make for a ban on nuclear
bomb testing.
Sens. Lyndon Johnson and Stu
art Symington made their support
of a ban somewhat conditional,
but left little doubt that they would
go along with it. The other candi
dates said they would support
Eisenhower’s action unequivo
cally.
Vice President Nixon, the
only Republican candidate, said
through h i s press secretary:
“There is, of course, no question
that the Vice President would
carry out commitments that the
President makes at the summit
conferences.”
Sen. John Kennedy started the
ball rolling Sunday by disclosing
that he has written to President
Eisenhower that if elected he
would honor any testing agree
ment Eisenhower, made.
At their recent meeting, the
President and Prime Minister
MacMillan of Britain agreed to
offer to the Soviet Union a short
term moratorium on small un
derground nuclear tests if the So
viet Union agrees to an enforce
able treaty banning all other nu
clear tests of a size that can be
detected.
Eisenhower noted at the time,
however, that he could not com
mit his successor to an informal
moratorium.
Sen. Hubert Humphrey re
marked that what Eisenhower
and MacMillan had agreed on was
exactly what he had been pro
posing all along.
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DOG DERBY PROGRAM
— SATURDAY, APRIL 9 —
1 P.M. — ON FRONT STREET
• RACES START — First Team Out.
• Children’s Elimination Race
Begins after last team leaves.
DURING THE AFTERNOON —
• Oomiak Ivory Carving Demonstration
By Paul Tiulana.
• Introduction of Trail Queen Candidates
—P-TA HOT DOG STAND IN ALASKA AIRLINES BUILDING
8 TO 12 P.M. — MULTIPURPOSE ROOM
• Musher’s Ball
8 P.M. TO MIDNIGHT — IN SCHOOL GYM
• Alaska’s Favorite Parlor Game
10 P.M. —
• Crowning of Arctic Trail Queen
• Eskimo Dancers
Under direction of Paul Green.
— SUNDAY, APRIL 10 —
1 P.M. — ON FRONT STREET
• RACES START
• Final Children’s Races follow'.
• After all teams return — Children’s
Trophies will be awarded and the
Drawing made for the Gun or Parka.
• Hospitality Hours:
5 P.M.—ANCHOR; 5:30—POLAR; 6—BOARD OF TRADE;
6:30—BREAKERS; 7—POLARIS; 7:30—BERING SEA CLUB.
8 P.M. — AT THE BERING SEA CLUB
• Musher’s Banquet
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