THE NOME NUGGET
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Entered as second class matter October 14, 1943, at the
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NOME SHOWS THE WAY
(The Alaska Weekly)
We note that the Nome Visitors Association has
opened an office for the convenience of tourists who
will visit the region this summer. In itself, this move
deserves comment because Nomeites have taken the
lead in showing other Alaskan cities how to help visi
tors to enjoy their tour of the territory.
The Nome visitors’ center, as we understand it,
is the only one of its kind so far set up in Alaska. The
idea is to provide tourists with a headquarters where
they can easily obtain information first hand about
the region they’re visiting.
Not-only have the people of Nome done something
to encourage the tourist business in their area, but
they’ve put a pioneer Alaskan in charge of their little
tourist center who really knows the region’s history
and what it has to offer to stimulate the imaginations
of those who visit Alaska this summer.
So congratulations to the city of Nome, both for
setting up the visitors’ center and placing George
Goshaw in charge. We feel certain Alaskan tourists
who head west this summer won’t be sorry. Mr. Goshaw
will make their visit a memorable one.
NO PRECEDENT
The Mutual Security Administration has shattered,
so far as we can recall, all fiscal precedents in the
national capital. It has cut its original budget request
from $5,828,000,000 to $5,474,000,000. The reduction
of 354 millions represents savings the agency has been
able to make in expenditures for this year, without,
it is claimed, reducing the effectivenes of its operations.
It is also strongly hinted by Acting Director William
M. Rand that MSA will be able to save another 50
million by the end of the year.
Chairman Alexander Wiley of the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee, to whom Mr. Rand wrote the
good tidipgs, described it as “evidence of the conscien
tious efforts of the administration to maintain a con
stant review of the program and cut costs whenever
that can be done without harming actual operations.”
Which also proves the Senator equal to any emer
gency. Most old Washington hands would be speech
less.
Ben Mozee's Son
Member of Candidate
Staff at Texas OCS
Officer Candidate Elliot Mozee,
son of Mr. Benjamin Mozee of
Nome, was. named to head part
of the school drum and bugle
corps at Air Force Officer Can
didate School recently, as his class
entered the second phase of its
training for commissions as sec
ond lieutenants.
Selection to this post also makes
him a member of the candidate
group staff.
The staff, under direction of
the school’s commissioned officers,
directs the activities of its own
class and the newly arrived lower
class, a total of more than a thous
and students.
Announcemnt of the new stu
dent officers climaxed the first
half of the six-month-long course,
which is given at Lackland Air
Force Base, Texas. Selection of
student officers is made by school
authorities, who choose those with
the most outstanding records in
the first phase. The new staff will
hold its posts until graduation in
September.
Officer Candidate Mozee, a grad
uate of the University of New
Mexico, enlisted in 1952. Prior to
OCS he was stationed at Walker
AFB in New Mexico.
Air Force OCS, of which Brig.
Gen. Wycliffe E. Steele, base com
mander, is commandant, gradu
ates four classes a year into the
commissioned ranks, mainly as
administrative officers.
ALASKA AIRLINES
From Anchorage:’ H. Swanson,
Donald Lyle, David Kiyutelluk, W.
Sipprell, Sgt. Campbell, Lewis
Walker, Mr. and Mrs. A. Peterson,
James Findley, Lt. Col. Johnson.
To Anchorage: Herbert Kag
oona, Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Couper,
Fred Evern, Sam Schoonover,
Jacob, Mary, Flora, Joseph, Alfred
James and Ralph Lincoln, Mrs. G.
Gould, H. M. Porter, Marie Young,
Wm. Hamie, Rita Young, Ruth
Reed, Major Beck, Major Bullard,
Capt. England, Donald Yager.
To Unalakleet: Mrs. Francis
Eben, Donald Kouchalk.
Draft Deferments
For Fatherhood
Discontinued
WASHINGTON, WU President
Eisenhower ordered the discon
tinuance, effective immediately, of
draft deferments because of fath
erhood unless draftees can show
extreme hardship and privation
would result.
Under an executive order which
the White House said was de
signed to correct “a serious in
equality,” all registrants now de
ferred as fathers will continue to
be deferred. But after Saturday,
those between I8V2 and 26 years
of age not now so deferred can
not use fatherhood as a basis for
attaining exemption except in ex
treme hardship cases.
Officials said the order was de
signed to end the practice of reg
istrants getting “double defer
ments” by obtaining temporary
deferment as students, agricultur
al workers, or workers in critical
occupations, and meanwhile get
ting married and becoming fath
ers, thus getting a continuing de
ferment.
Under this practice, the White
House said, the double deferments
have resulted in the calling up
for duty of many younger regis
trants earlier than they normally
woula have been called in order
to fill monthly military quotas.
Visitors to Nome
July 9
Wien’s travellers to Nome this
warm, sunny July day were well
pleased with their Arctic trip, re
crossing the Arctic Circle over the
waters of the Arctic Ocean, then
westward down the north shores
of Seward Pen. to Bering Straits,
dotted midway to Siberia by the
Diomede Islands and Fairway
Rock.
It was a most beautiful day this
Thursday and the Siberian coast
line could be viewed southwest
ward along Bering Sea and north
westward along the Arctic Ocean.
A magnificent view, only seen
from high over Cape Prince of
Wales.
Nome visitors could also see
King Island—later in the after
noon they visited the King Island
Eskimos at the east end of Nome
and made several purchases of
ivory carvings and footwear.
Our visitors were from Wiscon
sin, Utah and California. Four
ladies drove their car from Sew
ard via Anchorage, placed it and
themselves aboard an Alaska
Steamship passenger ship for Se
attle. Arriving there, they again
hit the highways for home.
These happy ladies were Mrs.
Jack Kroenke, Miss Eunice M.
Bergland of Shawano" Miss Ann
Fuhrman, Peshtigo; Loretta M.
Zastrow. Miss Bergland, on arriv
ing, said that she knew a Mr. Hal
verson, wanted to know if she
could meet him—she did, out on
the Bessie Road. Her Mr. Halver
son proved to be our very capable
and popular school instructor..
These two once taught in the same
Minnesota school.
Dr. Reed S. Clegg, Salt Lake
City medico, said that he came to
Alaska to “see” and was highly
pleased with his trip; that seeing
Bering Straits and crossing the
Arctic Circle were high points;
that he would be happy if his
pictures would show the interest
ing Eskimos and their activities,
the gold dredges, Nome’s Front
Street, so, come wintertime, he
could relive with his family and
friends his trip to the land of the
Arctic Circle.
The lone married couple in this
group was most interesting and
attractive. From San Francisco
came the Italian Consul, Mr.Lion
ello Cozzi and his charming wife.
They came from Genoa, Italy,
three years ago. The consul says
he would be very happy if more
Italians were permitted to become
citizens of our country and if they
were, many would perhaps settle
in Alaska, as Alaska has a great
future and will have a large papu
lation.
Much of Mr. Cozzi’s time was
devoted to picture taking. Mrs.
Cozzi was interested in taking
pictures of Eskimo children at
play and at work. Both enjoyed
meeting Nomeites who could
speak their native language.
Crew members were Capt. Will
Johnson, Co-pilots Savaria, Bohms
| and Stewardess Beconovich on
j this efficient Wien’s plane.
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BERING SEA CLUB i
FOR BREAKFAST, LUNCH & DINNER
6 A.M. TO 11 P.M.
COME IN AND TRY OUR
—“MERCHANTS’ LUNCH”—
Anchorage Cleans
Up Dust in Wak<b of
Volcano Eruptions
ANCHORAGE, UR — Three or
more suddenly active volcanoes
80 miles west of here subsided fit
fully Friday after scattering a
thick layer of ash over more than
15,000 square miles of the most
populous part of Alaska.
Anchorage, the territory’s larg
est city, started digging and wash
ing its way back to normal.
Thursday’s black, eye-stinging
volcanic dust cloud which shut
out the midnight sun was blown
away during the night. In its
place was the customary glare
spreading through the slight over
cast.
The blanket of ash was reported
by the Weather Bureau to extend
from the volcanoes at the north
ern end of the Aleutian range over
a roughly circular area bounded
by JSklutna, Palmer, Valdez, Cop- ,
per Center, Whittier and Seward.
Weight of the ash was estimated
at five tons to the acre.
So' heavy was the fall of dust
near 11,050-foot Mount Spurr, the
first to erupt early Thursday, that
the small Chakachatana River
was dammed and waters- backed
up 10 to 12 miles.
No lives were lost in the spec
tacular upheaval, but wildlife was
expected to suffer seriously.
City crews at Anchorage washed
down streets as heavy streams
were needed to carry away the
fine dust which turned into a
slick mud when dampened only
slightly.
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