THE NOME NUGGET
Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday by the
NOME PUBLISHING CO.
NOME, ALASKA
E. P. BOUCHER . Managing Editor
CLINTON GRAY . Production Manager
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' Entered as second class matter October 14, 1943, at tihe
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LONG PLAYING RECORD--TILL ELECTION YEAR!
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Nome Could Be a Clean Town
A two-week clean-up period is now under way
in Nome.
A clean town, without rusty cans, drums, garbage
nnd other refuse is the goal again this year.
It can be done so that visitors whose numbers run
into thousands may remember Nome as a clean, well
kept town.
Old buildings have their historic value, but are
much more attractive if their surroundings are clean.
Trash and filth breed disease and are a fire hazard.
A clean town is a healthy town.
Many citizens have taken advantage of the good
weather and have already done their share in this
project. How about you?
MACARONI ACROSS THE SEA
Talk about coals to Newcastle ! A news dispatch
informs us that strange things are happening in our
own back yard. Boston macaroni, it seems, is being
exported to Italy. Not only that—macaroni outsells the
traditional baked beans in Boston by a margin of
three to one. Next thing we know someone will be
telling us that all the beans consumed in are actually
baken in the brick ovens of Viareggio.
There is, we suspect, no moral to this story. But
we are tempted nonetheless to comment on what a
close-knit world this is getting to be. How else could
Italians, across an ocean and a language barrier, know
that such “bene, bene” macaroni is being produced
by their fine relatives in America?
Expanding trade and relaxed tariff protection
are bringing us if not into each other’s back yards at
least into each other’s kitchens. This is a tasteful
approach to getting along in the world and we com
mend it, even if it does risk putting the world under
French and Cantonese culinary domination.
Meanwhile, we intend to ask our man in Bombay
what sort of a market he thinks hie could find there
for New England’s famous Indian pudding. Who’s to
know which Indians invented it?
“We say that most smalltown people, or rural i
folk, have a sort of dignity of simplicity which is both j
wholesome and refreshing, and which is one of the j
characteristic traits of the typical American.”
—Northport, N.Y. Observer
Rental Fees
Discontinued on
Library Books
The Kegoayah Kozga Public
Library has announced that the
rental fee on some of the library
books has been discontinued to
meet the requirements of the
Territorial Public Libraries under
which this library operates.
Fines and library card deposits
will be continued, however.
The library is served by book
funds from the Territorial De
partment of Library Service, is
housed by the City of Nome and
its personnel and maintenance is
by a volunteer group of local
women who have for the past 23
years given their time to make
the library possible for the com
munity.
Nome was left without any
libraries when three organiza
tions lost their libraries in the
fire of 1934. The local organiza
tion started with donations which
they personally made, followed
by other gifts and also a Carnegie
grant for which they applied.
They incorporated under the
laws of the territory for avail
able funds to communities from
which book money has been avail
able as have over 30 other com
munities in the territory.
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PAA Alters Schedule
For Summer Months
Commencing June 1st. Pan
American Airways will make a
slight change in the Nome ser
vice.
Effective on that date the
Clipper will arrive Nome at
12:00 noon. Departure time will
then be 3:00 p.m. The new ar
rival lime in Fairbanks will be
7:00 p.m. and the departure
time from there for Seattle
will be 10:00 p.m. This will pro
vide an arrival in Seattle at
5:45 a-m.
The days of operation have
not been changed—the service
is still operated on Tuesday and
Saturday. Between Seattle and
Fairbanks the same elegant
service on the "Strato-Clipper"
is provided.
This schedule will be main
tained until September 30.
Paid Adv.
NOME SANITARY
SERVICE
Phone Main I
P.O. Box 558
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2,300 Alaska Visitors Already
Booked for Tours to Teriitory
SEATTLE—Hang on to your
hat! Here they come!
Who? Alaska visitors in 1957.
Already there have been booked
some 2,300 travelers to Alaska on
prepaid, all-inclusive tours thru
Arctic Alaska Tours, Charles B.
West told the Alaska Visitors As
ociation last week. He stressed
that this figure does not include
independent travelers who are
not on tours, highway travelers,
and others who will book later.
Travel interest in Alaska is
running high. The Juneau AVA
office has answered 7,366 inquir
ies since January. More than half
of them expressed interest in all
of Alaska but nearly 700 asked
for information on the Alaska
Highway.
The greatest number of inquir
ies have come from California,
which has led with the exception
of Ohio, which took the lead for
one week. New York has been
among the top six states, usually
placing second. Illinois and Penn
sylvania are running well. Fifteen
states and Canada have been with
the top six.
Most Alaska towns are prepar
ing to receive the visitors. Homer
Seldovia has an attractive area
tour this year. Weekend bus tours
from Anchorage to Seward are
being offered. The Fairbanks
Chamber of Commerce is work
ing on a log cabin to be used as a
hospitaliy center. A new ferry
boat “Chilkat” is scheduled to go
into Lynn Canal service in June.
West-Marquis, Inc., AVA’s ad
vertising agency, now has AVA
membership booklets on the press
with nearly 700 names; and is
getting out Alaska posters and
bumperstrips. It has a heavy
schedule of national advertising
this year in Holiday, True, Sun
set and National Geographic,
alcng with 20 stateside newspa
pers. A revised Alaska travel
manual is due off the press early
next month. This will be sent to
3,500 travel agents and carriers.
Many Tours
Wholesale tour operators to
Alaska this year are Arctic Alas
ka Tours, American Express Co.,
Scenery Unlimited, and Thos.
Cook & Son.
Other 1957 tours are being
made by Alaska Wonderland
Tours, Thru the Lens Tour (for
camera fansi, and National Edu
cation Assn. Tour (for educators).
In addition there are Northwest
Greyhound bus tours, Alaska
Cruises, the Canadian steamships
and all the airlines tours as well
as the Albertsen cruises under
the sponsorship of Shrine groups.
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