ThE NOME NUGGET
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MEN WANTED
After ten years of periodically kicking it under the
rug, we can expect Universal Military Training in mod
ified form—but soon. Announcement of Assistant De
fense Secretary John Hanna that decline in re-enlist
ments forecasts a manpower crisis, is regarded as
preliminary to six months training for at least 100,000
draft eligibles beginning January 1, to be followed by
Reserve duty. Reserve obligations of draftees after
active service will also be enforced. The “New Look”
is succeeded by the “New New Look.”
Norwalk, Conn., Hour: “Dr. Detlev W. Bronk,
president of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Re
search, and also head of the National Academy of
Sciences, asked thoughtful men to shed their fear for
the future, adding, ‘Weary, bewildered men covet
security . . .’ In other words, the explorers of today are
the imaginative scientists and the reward is new worlds
undreamed of by Columbus and his colleagues. Dr.
Bronk’s is a clarion call for courage and faith in the
future.”
Scandinavian Airlines
Plane Flies Fairbanks to
Stockholm Across Pole
STOCKHOLM, Sweden, UFt—The
plane “Leif Viking” of the Scan
dinavian Airline System (SAS)
landed at Bromma Airport Sun
day night after the first direct
flight from Fairbanks, Alaska, to
Stockholm across the North Pole.
Helped by a strong tailwind the
four-bngined DC-6 plane complet
ed the 3,337-mile trans-polar trip
in 14 hours 37 minutes by arriv
ing here W2. hours ahead of
schedule.
SAS Stockholm headquarters
said the crossing of the pole was
made in bright midnight sun at an
altitude of 15,000 feet.
The polar crossing was the
sixth made by planes of SAS,
which hopes to' open a regular
line soon to the United States
across the North Pole:
The “Lief Viking” left for Fair
banks last Monday.
TUESDAY BASEBALL SCORES
National League
Brooklyn 2, Milwaukee 0
American League
New York 9, Washington 3
Philadelphia 16, Boston 6
Detroit 4, Baltimore 3
Pacific Coast League
San Francisco 4, Portland 1
MUNZ AIRWAYS
To Lost River: Barny Crosby,
Joe Regula, Gussie Walter, Os
wald Moses. To Golovin: Mollie
Dexter.
Arriving from Solomon: Teddy
Reed, John Fagerstrom. From
Shishmaref: John Avesuk.
MMM HOSPITAL
Admitted: Ernest Wilkalkia,
David Willoya, Margaret Anowlic.
France consumes the equivalent
of 35 quarts of pure alcohol per
person per year compared with
14.8 in Italy and 9.5 quarts in
England and the United States.
League of Alaska
Cities Newsletter
Federal Aid
For Ciiy Highways
Alaska is unique among the
states and territories of the Uni
ted States in not receiving any
federal aid for highways passing
through its cities.
Of the funds disbursed under
the Federal-aid Highway Act, 20
percent goes directly or indirectly
towards financing construction of
major streets within municipali
ties. In addition, these cities re
ceive large refunds from their
particular state for municipal
road work.
Alaskan practice is just the op
posite. Highways built by the Al
aska Road Commission and the
Bureau of Public Roads may trav
erse hundreds of miles of wilder
ness but stop at the city limits.
This happens even when the same
highway continues on the other
side of such a city.
The territory, likewise, has
never seen fit to refund any por
tion of the funds collected from
motor vehicle uses within munici
palities and has restricted its work
to road construction and mainte
nance outside municipal bound
aries.
The League of Alaskan Cities
has taken a definite stand in
favor of obtaining funds for road
construction within cities. The
League is asking for ARC assis
tance for such work and favors
the refund of one cent of the ter
ritorial motor fuel tax to Alaskan
municipalities.
Housing Codes
The League of Alaskan Cities
has received a copy of “Local
Development and Enforcement of
Housing Codes” prepared by the
Housing and Home Finance Agen
cy in collaboration with the Am
erican Society of Building Offi
cials.
The report was prepared as an
aid foT cities interested in devel
oping and enforcing minimum
housing standards as one of the
means for improving and pre
serving the existing housing sup
ply, and thereby contributing to
sound suburban growth.
Copies of the report may be ob
tained from the Superintendent of
Documents,. Government Printing
Office, Washington 25, D.C., at a
price of 40 cents.
Eskimo Bible Students
From Kotzebue Attend
St. Louis Church Meeting
ST. LOUIS, Iff)—A trio of Eskimo
Bible students went to St. Louis
for a church meeting and arrived
Monday on the hottest day of the
year.
The temperature climbed to 90
degrees for the first time in 1954.
The students—Eleanor Slowver,
16, Viola Coenig, 19, and Riley
Evo, 15—are attending the World
Church Fellowship of Pentecostal
Churches. They plan to remain in
the United States for two or three
years of study before returning to
their Kotzebue, Alaska, home.
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Soldier Rescued by
Helicopter After Fall
On Mt. McKinley
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slope while attempting a climb
May 16.
George Thayer, 27, of Reeds
boro, Vt., was killed but the oth
ers, Morton Wood and Les Vier
eck, escaped without serious in
jury.
Wood and Viereck left Argus in
an improvised tent May 23 and
worked their way down the moun
tain to report the accident.
Dr. John McCall, a University
of Alaska geologist, and Frank
•Milan of the Air Force aero-medi
cal laboratory at Ladd Air Force
Base, led the rescue party that
reached Argus early Sunday.
The rescuers were described as
completely exhaused by their or
deal. Because of his injury, Argus
was strapped to a sled and mem
bers of the rescue party took turns
lifting him over dangerous crev
asses.
The daring helicopter rescue
was affected in the arctic twilight
of an Alaska summer. While the
Air Force said helicopters nor
mally do not function properly
above 5,000 feet, Searles said he
“squeezed every inch out of the
altimeter’ and managed to reach
Argus and the rescue party on the
glacier.
ALASKA AIRLINES
To Anchorage: Esther, Doris,
and Ida Abloogalook, Harold Mc
Cormick.
There were no major earth
quakes in the United States in
1953.
Memorial Day
Death Toll at 523
(By the Associated Press)
Violent death over the three
day 'Memorial Day holiday period
soared to a new record Tuesday.
At least 523 persons died in
traffic accidents, drownings, and
miscellaneous mishaps. This broke
the previous record of 510 fcrr a
three-day Memorial Day holiday
in 1952.
The traffic toll was at least
355, or 15 above the National
Safety Council’s pre-holiday esti
mate of 340 and near the record
363 in 1952. An additional 92 lost
their lives in drownings, and 76
in miscellaneous accidents.
The violent death total com
pared with 385 in the two-day
holiday last year and the record
Memorial Day total of 571 in a
four-day period in 1950.
The Roman empire did not
maintain prisons for punishment
but to hold prisoners until trial
or execution.
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PAN AMERICAN PRESENTS ...
A NEW SCHEDULE, TO BECOME
EFFECTIVE ON JUNE 1, 1954.
FLIGHT 901 FLIGHT 904
(Friday only) (Saturday)
7:30 AM Lv, Seattle Ar. 5:45 AM
11:45 AM Ar. Fairbanks Lv. 10:00 PM
1:15 PM Lv. Fairbanks Ar. 8:40 PM
2:25 PM Ar. Nome Lv. 5:30 PM
(Friday only)
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The above times are local standard for each city indicated.
First flight of this schedule will arrive Nome on
Friday, June 4, 1954.
EQUIPMENT: DC-6B