THE NOME NUGGET
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Adding Insult to Injury
Here we go again, another plan to confuse the
future of the Territory of Alaska.
Our democratic principles are based in the funda
mentals “of the people, by the people, and for the
people,” and yet the most fantastic ideas are hatched
at irregular and unexpected intervals in the head
quarters of our nation.
The latest announcement is probably the most
unbelievable of all. The assistant secretary of the in
terior would consider taking about half of the territory
as, a military reservation, without a qualm, and the
“Defense Department concurred,” states the report.
A.laskans are now deprived of many of their rights
ap American citizens but this would add insult to
injury.
“Everything north of the Yukon and the Bering
Slope to the mouth of the Kuskokwim” may be just
a small spot on the globe as seen from Washington,
but measured in miles would cover several small states.
The voice of the people of Alaska seems to have
been forgotten in faraway Washington, as the majority
of Alaskans not so many months ago stood solidly for
“all of Alaska” when a similar plan of division was
suggested.
Our native people have worked hard to be given
their full rights as citizens, and reservations is a word
that is not popular in this part of the country where
“equal rights have only recently been granted.
What must the peoples of those Communistic
countries think of our political leaders and what confi
dence can they have in democracy when American
pioneers can be handled like puppets?
Sea Otters, Increasing on Aleutians,
To be Transplanted to Pribilof Group
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Russo-American Crisis
May Be in Making Over
Sitka Council Decision
SITKA, (JO—There may be the
making of a new Russo-American
crisis in a decision made here
Monday night by the City Council.
The council was asked:
Who owns the land on which
the city offices and a Lutheran
church are located, Russia or the
United States?
The question was asked appar
ently in all seriousness by officials
of the church in an attempt to
clarify their tax status. It devel
ops the land was not included in
the formal survey of the transfer
to the United States in 1867 when
the territory was purchased from
Russia.
The city fathers agreed unani
mously, notwithstanding the sur
vey oversight, that the lot was
part of the United States.
It was not explained whether
the church officials planned to
remit taxes to Russia, had the de
cision gone the other way.
Billy Graham Film To Be Shown
To Assembly of God Church
A Billy Graham film entitled
“Loneliness”, and a musical film
of the Palermo Brothers, musi
cians from Italy, will be shown
tonight at the Assembly of God
Church. Time: 7:30.
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Alaska Airlines has announced
that Aarnout Castel Jr., has been
added to their staff to assist in
the freight department at the
’field. *
> JUNEAU—Sea otters will be
moved from the Aleutians to the
Pribilof group during the next
two months in an attempt to re
store the rare fur bearers to their
former natural habitats.
The transplanting attempt will
be done by the Fish and Wildlife
Service.
Millions of the animals were
slaughtered by the Russians and
later by the Americans to supply
the demand for their fur. One
shipload carried more than 80,000
skins to Russia.
Once-vast herds were reduced
to a few scattered animals by the
turn of the century when the Uni
ted States government banned
further killing. This order is still
in effect.
Aside from a few otters in Cook
Inlet and Prince William Sound,
the animals now are concentrated
in the Shumigan and Amchitka
Islands in the Aleutians.
From a few hundred a half cen
tury ago, the otter population has
now built up to about 8,000, ac
cording to Clarence Rhode, FWS
regional director.
In fact, the numbers are in
creasing to a point where the food
supply may not be sufficient.
Actual transplanting will be
done on the 80-foot trawler Para
gon of Seattle, chartered by the
FWS for the job. The animals will
be kept out of water as biologists
have found from previous ill
starred attempts that the sea
otter catch pneumonia when held
in captivity in tanks of water,
but suffer no ill effects if kept
out.
ARC Head Says
Illegal Per Diems
Paid for 3 Years
WASHINGTON, (j?Y-The head
of the Alaska Road Commission
Thursday answered statements
that the commission for three
years has made illegal per diem
payments to part-time engineer
ing aides.
The commissioner, Angelo F.
Ghiglione, was called as the first
witness as the House Government
Operations Subcommittee re
sumed its Rearing into the com
mission practices. Per diem is an
extra payment customarily al
lowed government employes when
they are away from their regular
place of employment.
The Alaska payments range
from $6 to $7 a day and were in
addition to their wage and the 25
percent cost-of-living allowance
received in the territory by feder
al employes recruited in the Uni
ted States.
In testimony yesterday, Owen
Kane, legislative attorney for the
General Accounting Office, said
there is “no lawful basis . . . for
allowing a travel per diem to the
employes while at their official
headquarters.”
A. T. Samuelson, assistant di
rector of the GAO’s audits divi
sion, said the practice was first
noted in 1952. It was not until
May 18, 1954, however, that GAO
advised Ghiglione it would not
approve the practice, although it
had previously recommended
against it.
He said GAO granted the com
mission an "exemption” for the
1954 construction season upon
representations by Ghiglione and
D. Otis Beasley, administrative
assistant secretary of the interior,
that disallowal of the payments
would disrupt the ARC program.
WEATHER FORECAST
Fair with variable thin high
clouds tonight and Saturday.
Winds from the NE, 12-18 mph.
Lowest temperature expected
tonight 8, high Saturday 25.
Nome data last 24 hours as of
7 a.m. today: High temperature
30, low 12. Max. wind 26 mph.
from the NE. Sunrise at 5:44 a.m.,
sunset at 6:33 p.m.
Temperatures a year ago today:
high 34, low 20. Extremes this
date since 1907: High 35 in 1944,
low -34 in 1925.
ALASKA AIRLINES
From Anchorage: Howard Ko
nakah, Furmil Eogmuk, Dick Wil
son, Grayson Allen, Lynn Forrest,
Howard Schroedel, Amy Slwoo
ko, Laura Pungowiwi, Pvt. Paul
Jahnke.
To Unalakleet: Ethel Toshavik
and Mrs. E. B. O’Connor.
SCANDINAVIAN AIRLINES
ADDS 3rd POLAR FLIGHT
LOS ANGELES, (i?*)—Scandina
vian Airlines System, Inc., an
nounced Thursday it will add an
extra flight to its present two-a
week two-way schedule between
Los Angeles and Copenhagen via
the polar route.
BOY SCOUTS NOTICE
Boy Scouts will meet Friday at
7:30 at the Scout Hall
Fred Dingledy, Scoutmaster
NOTICE
Declaration of Candidacy forms
for the forthcoming City Election
may be obtained in the City
Clerk's office. Candidates must
file for office not later than 5:00
o'clock p.m. of March 30, 1955.
Carrie M. McLain,
City Clerk
Publish March 23, 25, 28, 1955.
Jobless Security
Powder Keg
Blows Up
By JIM HUTCHESON
JUNEAU, (J*'—The employment
security dynamite keg blew up in
the Alaska legislature as midnight
marked the turn into the session’s
final day Thursday.
The House and Senate met in a
headlong collision on the vital is
sue which has overshadowed the
legislature for 60 days. It became
the dominating problem for the
final 24 hours, eclipsing such ma
jor items as Senate approval of an
income tax increase and pending
action on the record $29,901,000
budget.
The employment security crisis
came at the stroke of midnight
when the House rejected 14-10 a
compromise bill on which a House
and Senate conference committee
had labored for nearly a week in
an effort to bring out a measure
that would put the defunct un
employment insurance fund back
on a liquid basis. The compromise
would increase payments into the
fund, tighten restrictions on bene
fits and called upon the governor
to apply for a federal loan.
At 1 a.m., an hour after the
House acted, tired but dogged
senators adopted the conference
committee’s compromise 12-4.
The quiet Senate action after a
two-hour reading of the lengthy
measure contrasted with the acri
monious demonstration in the
House where Democrats launched
a bitter barrage against Governor
Heintzleman for not applying for
a loan, for not calling a special
session to give legislators more
time to act, and for what major
ity leader Richard Greuel <D
Fairbanks) charged was “political
maneuvering to get us with our
backs to the wall.”
PAUL V. McNUTT DIES
NEW YORK, W—Paul V. Mc
Nutt, 64, former governor of Indi
ana and ex-envoy to the Philip
pines, died here Thursday.
McNutt, ill about six months,
was flown home from Manila
with Mrs. McNutt.
McNutt had not been active in
public affairs in recent years but
maintained his interest in Demo
cratic Party affairs.
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