THE NOME NUGGET
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A NOTE THEY’D UNDERSTAND_
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GETTING GOVERNMENT OUT OF BUSINESS
Everyone who believes in free enterprise should
be cheered by a statement Secretary of Commerce
Weeks made recently. “We’re trying to get govern
ment out of business, every way possible. We have
quite a number of industry councils, and one of the
things we keep asking these businessmen is this: ‘Where
is government competing with you?’ Then,, when we
get an answer, we try to do something about it.”
This is the kind of policy that will keep this coun
try strong, free and secure.
Letter To The Editor
COMMONWEALTH
VERSUS STATEHOOD
As most all of us know, there
is a great debate going on in our
fair territory and in the halls of
Congress. Namely, Commonwealth
or Statehood for non-eontiguous
territories and island possessions.
Last winter we came within
one inch, figuratively speaking, of
statehood, but at that session of
Congress was born a new idea
and fostered by southern senators,
to the effect that the 48 states
should constitute the final form
of our republic. Wendell Kay and
J. Earl Cooper to the contrary.
Now Congress has known that
Hawaii is ready, willing and able
to become a state for more than
20 years, yet it has not been able
to grant her this privilege. From
the time our government was con
ceived, till the last session of Con
gress, it was the law that when
in the judgment of the existing
states such territories as may evi
dence their readiness, willingness
and ability to support statehood
and the home rule that goes along
with this responsibility, that terri
tory was then made a state with
congressional representative at
Washington. But the proponents
of this new idea felt that for non
continguous territories it would
be better to work out some other
plan than statehood, which was
given the loosely fitting name of
commonwealth. That when each
new territory was made a com
monwealth it would be on its
own merits with a semi-autono
mous economy and political life
so that the United States could re
main an integral, working entity
it now enjoys, while the new state
would be able to develop its own
local economy.
The thinking was it would be
wrong to reach out all over the
world for new states and force
them to trade only in distant mar
kets.
When we get back to Washing
ton this winter, I believe we
should have faced both proposi
tions head-on, so that if we still
cannot get statehood, and I say
again there may not be any more
new states voted, we should be
prepared to take a workable sub
stitute such as commonwealth if
we still desire two senators in
Washington.
Under either plan, my friends,
we must get our full land and
water rights returned to us. You
make the choice, ladies and gen
tlemen, as I believe all the people
know the answer better than one
person, and may I say in closing,
please do not let us continue as
we are without any agrarian or
riparion rights.
Morris G. Reese
C Street Grocery
Anchorage, Alaska
THANKSGIVING POTLATCH
AT COMMUNITY CENTER
The LWY Community Center
has announced its annual Thanks
giving Potlach which has been
held for many years at this time
of the year.
The time scheduled is for 5:30
p.m. Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 25,
at the Recreation Bldg, and Miss
McCoy states that anyone who
wishes to contribute special na
tive foods for the occasion or
other foods may do so. Following
the dinner movies and slides will
be shown.
TV MOVIE TO BE SHOWN
AT CHURCH SATURDAY
A special film will be shown
at the Community Methodist
Church at 8 p.m. Saturday eve
ning. The film is from the TV
program “Word of Life Hour”
and is sponsored by the Nome
Youth for Christ.
BOY SCOUTS ENJOY
FIVE - MILE HIKE
The younger Boy Scouts enjoy
ed a five-mile hike on the Os
borne road last Sunday under the
leadership of Wally Jones, assist
ant Scoutmaster.
Last evening all the Scouts met
at the Scout hall for a short
meeting as there was a conflict
in the time scheduled for the
Junior Police meeting.
WIEN AIRLINES
From Kotzebue: Marley Lin
coln, Sgt. Alfred Cortis, Sgt. Elea
Butcher.
To Fairbanks: Fred Pankratz,
Don Heck.
To Galena: Joe Malek.
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:
Upon completion of one-year
partnership lease, N. L. Finch will
no longer legally be connected
with the business called "The
Theater" of Nome, Alaska.
Publ. Nov. 5. 12, 19, 26, 1954
j Indian Congress Says
! Present Fed. Policy
| Will ‘Exterminate5
American Indians
NEW YORK, WV-The board of
directors of the Assn, on Ameri
can Indian Affairs says the pre
sent Congress and President
Eisenhower have approved bills
dictating what the board terms
the “extermination” of Indians as
such.
A statement by the board says:
“In recent years, particularly in
the two years of the 83rd Con
gress, 'political pressures have
been applied to Indians in a new
and almost irresistable manner.”
The statement said the 83rd
Congress passed and Eisenhower
approved “a number of termina
tion bills, so-called, which pre
scribe when and how the Indians
shall stop receiving federal assist
ance and protection ...”
Examples of duress, the Associ
made clear” to the Menominee In
made clear” to teh Menominee In
dians of Wisconsin and the Kla
math Indians of Oregon “that
they would be permitted to with
draw their own funds from the
U.S. Treasury only if that with
drawal was coupled with federal
termination.”
It is fundamental and inescap
able,” the association declared,
lhat termination of federal res
ponsibility should not require
tribal extinction; that the federal
government should not withdraw
without assurance of state and
local acceptance of responsibility;
and that before withdrawal the
Indians should have received, as
a minimum, the standard of livin'.;
of their non-Indian neighbors.
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Scientists say man as a species |
is less than a million years old. 1
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Piggy Bank Plan
Buys Family Car
EAST PROVIDENCE, R.I., IJFi—
When Louis S. Farias and his
family plan to buy a car, they
think ahead.
Four years ago, Farias and his
family, including 'four children,
began dropping dimes into a box.
As time went on, some nickels
and dollar bills were added to the
growing pile.
When the hoard reached
$1,399.25, most of it in dimes, but
Including about $12 in nickels and
$152 in bills, the Farias lugged
the money to an auto dealer and
ordered a new car.
The money, plus the old family
car, was enough for a 1955 model
for Farias, a longshoreman and
part-time bartender.
The old car, by the way, was
purchased the same way.
SHOWING ONE NIGHT ONLY
THANKSGIVING DAY
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