THE NOME NUGGET
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Road Program Should Include Alaska
( Anchorage Daily News )
A 50 billion dollar federal road program is now
recommended to become $100 billions.
No one can conceive in his mind’s eye just what
100 billion dollars is put end to end or piled up or any
other way. It is a figure in the astronomies and there is
no use trying to comprehend it. Just let it go as an
awful lot of money.
General Lucius D. Clay heads the President’s
special committee on the road program—a program
that is to last ten years and has for its purpose the
construction of major highways criss crossing the Uni
ted States. The original project was to cost $50 billion.
Now General Clay and his committee of five have
revised that upward to $100 billion.
It will be interesting to note on January 27 when
President Eisenhower reveals the details of the plan,
if Alaska is included in the road building program. If
by now the Clay committee has not received a positive
request from Alaska, we urge that all persons and
agencies whose standing in the territory voices author
ity and opinion, get busy at once with full recommen
dations to General Clay for the Alaskan portion of
the program. The All-Alaska Chamber of Commerce,
the Alaska Development Board, the Delegate in Con
gress, the League of Alaskan Cities should all urge
Alaska’s inclusion in the program.
The construction of roads is so necessary to the
development of this territory that this mere statement
of facts is most elementary. We have seen within a few
short years a tremendous development in the Kenai
Peninsula with the opening of the Sterling Highway
less than five years ago. Those who can recall the
pre-Palmer colony days remember that the Matanuska
Valiev was a sleepy summertime farm community.
The Seward Highway has worked a miracle into the
Moose Pass country and Seward itself. We need roads
to the Kuskokwim, the Yukon and to Nome.
Other forms of transportation are very necessary,
it can’t be denied. The airplane, the railroad, coastal
and river boats have all had their impact on developing
Alaska. But they all reach a dead end when no road
stretches out beyond their terminals.
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It is tremendously expensive building roads in
Alaska. The preparation of the roadbed alone costs
more per mile in the territory than does a mile of com
plete road in most parts of the United States.
The Alaska Road Commission and the Bureau of
Public Roads, our two principal road building agencies,
have done fine jobs and it is to them we are indebted
for our highway transportation systew}. However, they
are limited by an almost year-to-year program at the
hands of Congress.
The President's multi-billiom-dollar program
would be just the thing for this country. It would
mean a planned program over a decade, with funds
assured. We could indeed see where we are going.
Planned construction ten years ahead would indeed
put us on th road to fortune.
Labor is exercise continued to fatigue; exercise
is labor used only while it produces pleasure.
—Samuel Johnson
Folks are getting older when they come to the
conclusion their health would have been worth pre
serving, even at a sacrifice in dollars.
NERVE'WRACKING, ISN’T IT !
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Former Anchorage Solon
Offered Post Legislative
Counsel To Heintzleman
ANCHORAGE, UP — Former
territorial Senator Paul Robison
of Anchorage confirmed Wednes
day that he has been offered the
post of “special legislative coun
sel” to Gov. B. Frank Heintzleman
during the 1955 legislative ses
sion.
“I have sent a reply to the
governor and I suppose the next
move is up to him,” Robison said.
He added he was “not overly
interested” in the offer because
he is just re-establishing his law
practice here.
Robison was a member of the
senate in 1953 and was defeated
as a Republican candidate for the
House of Representatives in the
Oct. 12 election. Last year he
spent about six months attending
post graduate school in Washing
ton, D.C.
Robison said the governor in
dicated he was interested in hav
ing “someone with legal and leg
islative experience help him in
poring over the mass of material”
that will come across Heintzle
man’s desk during the session
starting Jan. 24.
Circuit Judge Stymied
By Income Tax Form
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., UP —
Circuit Judge Dale Souter says he
has come face to face with the
most perplexing problem of his
career—the new income tax form.
The form so vexed the judge
he wrote a letter of objection to
Rep. Fored (R-Mich), Sen. Potter
(R-Mich) and Sen. McNamara
(D-Mich).
The judge wrote he .nought the
income tax stateme; k forms are
“to say the least, atrocious.”
“It seems the Congress cer
tainly should be able to find the
necessary personnel to prepare a
form that the ordinary taxpayer
can understand and fill out him
self without paying an expert to
interpret it for him,” Judge
Souter stated.
He said he has completed his
return but added he now is seek
ing an accountant to verify it.
Japanese To Man Radar
Stations Set Up By U.S.
KUSHIRO, Japan, UP—The ad
vance party of a Japanese radar
unit arrived Thursday to take
over duties from U.S. troops on
the northeast tip of Hokkaido,
within sight of Soviet-held ter
ritory.
Pipe Smoker Sets Off
Block-Long Explosion
Over Leaking Gas Main
OAKLAND, Calif., W)—A saun
tering pedestrian stopped to light
his pipe yesterday and half a
block of sidewalk began to burn
with a bang.
The startled pipe smoker fled
like a turpentined cat and police
never did find him to learn if
he’d been burned.
Firemen found a leaking gas
| main beneath the pavement caus
! ed the explosion and the trail of
j fire which ran along the cracks.
A truck load of sugar, valued
at $10,000, was destroyed.
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ALASKA AIRLINES
From Anchorage: John Osborn,
Jack Jenkins, Chas. S. Bare, Ron
ald Lumsargis, John Heafer, Dr.
and Mrs. Maxwell Kennedy, Ray
Duncan, Capt. M. E. Skidmore,
Capt. E. L. Schiller, Wm. A. Gre
j gory.
To Anchorage: Geo. Ahgupuk.
From Unalakleetf Mr. and Mrs.
! Spencer Strand, Maynard Lond
| borg.
A REQUEST
The Cily of Nome requests the
cooperation of the public while
snow removal is under way.
Car drivers will please detour so
the 'dozers are not impeded in
the work. Cars not in use, parked
near the streets must be removed
to facilitate traffic.
Nome Common Council
By Carrie M. McLain,
City Clerk
Pub. Jan. 12, 14, 1955
HEARING BAD?
If so, you will be happy to know how we have
improved the hearing and relieved those miserable
head noises, caused by catarrh of the head, for
thousands of people (many past 70) who have
used our simple Elmo Palliative Home Treatment
in the past 16 years. This may be the answer to
your prayer. NOTHING TO WEAR.
. Here are SOME of the symptoms that may likely be caus
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worse with a cold. Hear — but don't understand words.
Hear better on clear days. Worse on rainy days. Head noises
like crickets, bells, whistles, clicking, escaping steam or
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j Air Force Can Now
j 39-Foot Platforms
BALTIMORE, M — The Air
j Force doesn’t need long runways
! any more to get its fighter jets
j into the air. It can launch them
i from any 39-foot platform mount
ed on a truck.
The Air Force announced to
day it had launched F-84 Thun
der jets from what it calls “zero
length” launching platforms dur
ing tests at Edwards Air Force
Base, Calif.
The tests, conducted by the
Air Research and Development
Command and Glenn L. Martin,
i used the same principle and
| equipment employed to launch
! the Martin Matador, a pilotless
| missile.
A “booster bottle” filled with
propellant is attached to an F-84
and the plane raised into a
launching position on the plat
form by mobile cranes.
The plane’s turbo-jet engines
are raced at full speed, then the
propellant in the “booster bottle”
goes into action, giving the plane
a rocket kick that sends it off so
swiftly it is airborne almost in
stantly.
The “booster bottle” is dropped
once the propellant is exhausted.
ASTRONOMY NOTES
By OLAF HALVERSON
Some astronomers believe that
there is very little oxygen and
water vapor on the planet Venus,
our present morning star in the
southeast.
The unillumined half of Venus
appears forever hidden from in
vestigation but the sunward hemi
sphere turned toward us has been
drawn many times during the
past 250 years. Only dull, indefi
nate markings, covering large
areas have been seen.
Frequently the terminators are
irregularly curved, indicating
mountains of great height. Some
times polar caps have been visi
ble.
Surface markings discovered by
Lowell were mostly great circles
on the planet’s surface. These
I observations were made in the
; steady air of Flagstaff, Arizona.
There are astronomers who be
lieve that atmospheric currents
would gradually remove all water
and moisture to the dark side of
the planet.
SALT LAKE CITY, UR — An
elevator got stuck halfway below
the lobby level at a local hotel
yesterday. Then the door would
n’t open. It took 20 minutes to
free the occupants — all 13 of
them.