N.C. Improvement
Is 4th in Nome
This Season
The Northern Commercial Com
pany’s improvements are the
fourth big improvement in Nome
this fall.
The new school building, the
Polar Curio Shop and the Alaska
Airlines building have already
been completed this fall and next
season a new federal building will
improve the efficiency and ap
pearance of Front Street.
Plans were released this week
for the proposed new Alaska Na
tional Guard armory for Nome.
Completely new and modern
hotel rooms at the North Star
Bakery building will soon aug
ment the present over-taxed ho
tel facUities.
Howard Green has well-laid
plans for construction of a mod
em motel.
When the community has its
■water and sewerage system, more
homes and small businesses can
plan improvements and expand
under the FHA plan which is
now denied the town.
Watch Nome grow !
CAB Proposes
Less Subsidy for
Alaska Airlines
WASHINGTON, MV—The Civil
Aeronautics Board has proposed
total mail pay of $1,850,256 for
Alaska Airlines for the 12 months
starting April 4, 1956. This is
about $322,000 less than the an
nual mail pay previously pro
vided.
“It is our hope that the down
ward trend in mail pay require
ments will continue , , the CAB
said in a statement of provisional
findings.
The CAB said it started the
new rate proceedings because it
appeared the airline’s financial
condition had improved and its
need for a subsidy might have
diminished.
The CAB proposed to pay the
line $871,907 annually, or $80.55
a revenue mile, for carrying mail
on its Portland-Seattle-Fairbanks
route; and $978,349, or $46.04 a
revenue mile, for hauling mail
within Alaska.
It said that on the U.S.-Alaska
route the line thus would receive
$110,121 a year for the actual
cost of carrying the mail and
$761,786 in subsidy.
Within Alaska, the mail pay
would total $409,898 annually and
the subsidy $568,451.
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For Her . . .
The Ideal Gift
NOME
COOK
BOOK
Perfect For Mailing
on sale at
POLET’S STORE
DOROTHY’S SHOP
NOME DRUG STORE
NOME MARKET
N.C. STORE
POLAR CURIO SHOP
U.S. MERC
MHUUIHS
to the
Northern Commercial Co.
And Its Management
who, by their modernization investment and faith
in the future of Northwestern Alaska, have added
their contribution to the new look of this frontier
community.
LOMEN COMMERCIAL CO.
POLET’S ARTS & CRAFTS
PAN AMERICAN AIRWAYS
NOME PUBLISHING CO.
NORTH STAR BAKERY
NOME DRUG STORE
ALASKA AIRLINES
DOROTHY’S SHOP
ARCTIC OIL CO.
LARRY GALVIN
WIEN AIRLINES
THE THEATER
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Remodeling Is
Culmination Of
3 Years Planning
Tomorrow is a big day at the
Northern Commercial Co. store
as they hold open-house for the
community.
The completion of their store
remodeling is the culmination of
a plan started about three years
ago when General Manager Dew
ey Goodrich made up his mind
that Nome should have as modern
a store as any in the territory
and proceeded to sell the idea to
N.C. officials.
Last year, the market was mod
ernized and the results were so
spectacular that the completion
of the store, following the plans
of their Fairbanks and Anchorage
stores became a must.
General Manager Goodrich is a
pioneer by choice, having come
to Alaska to teach school at White
Mountain. /He started his em
ployment with the N. C. Co. in
1933, taking over the Candle store
where he stayed five years, then
Manager Dewey Goodrich
to the McGrath store ' for five
years. Before coming to Nome, he
was 18 months with the company
at Bethel.
Goodrich comes from pioneers
away back, as his ancestor came
to America in 1643 and later set
tled in Illinois. He hopes some
day soon to be eligible to be
called a pioneer of Alaska.
He has worked untiringly for
the economic development of
Northwest Alaska and is at pres
ent on the Board of Road Com
missioners working for the com
pletion of the Fairbanks-Nome
Road, has been active on the Pub
: lie Utilities Board, is past presi
dent of the Chamber of Com
merce, and is now president of
the Rotary Club of Nome.
Second in command at the
N. C. Store is L. G. Jeffries, who
came to Nome a year ago as mer
chandising manager and who re
cently has been made store man
ager under Goodrich, who is gen
eral manager.
Jeffries’ background includes
work with the S. S. Kresge Co.
in Omaha, diamond salesman for
Friedlander & Son in Seattle, and
Allied Stores in Tacoma.
Priest Dies After Fall
From Roof; Lies in Snow
Unnoticed Overnight
STEAMBOAT SPRING, Colo.,
tffi—The death of a Catholic priest
who fell while shoveling snow
trom the roof of his house late
Wednesday was attributed to a
skull fracture.
The Rev. Edward C. Prinster,
54, pastor of Holy Name Church,
j si'ffered the fracture in a 30-foot
! Plunge onto a sidewalk, the coun
j ty coroner said.
The priest laid unnoticed in the
snow Wednesday night and was
discovered dead yesterday morn
ing by parishioners.