Eisenhower and Hoover
On Three-Day Fishing
Trip In The Rockies
DENVER, (if)—President Eisen
hower and former President Her
bert Hoover Tuesday kept “a very
important date with a few finny
comrades” on a trout fishing ex
pedition high in the Rocky Moun
tains.
The President and Hoover, both
of whom love to fish, started on
a 70-mile.drive northwest to Fra
ser, Colo., on the western slope of
the Continental Divide.
For the next three days they!
will live in rustic cabins close to 1
10,000 feet high in the snow-cap-1
ped Rockies. They will fish swift
running St. Louis Creek and
Eisenhower will do most of the
cooking, turn out such presiden
tial specialties as flapjacks, vege
table soup, roast beef, and char
coal broiled steaks and trout.
The President spent an hour
and three-quarters cleaning up
his desk at the summer White
House before leaving for the
mountains.
Among other things he acted
on 66 bills, all of them of sec
ondary importance, signing 64
and disapproving 2.
Homemakers Council To
Select Best Alaskan
Woman’s Creed
PALMER, Alaska — Alaskan
homemakers have a month in
which to send their entries in
the contest to select a home
maker’s creed, Mrs. Homer Han
sen, Alaska Homemakers Council
president, said.
The contest closes October 1.
The winner will be announced
during the annual Homemakers’
Short Course to be held at the
University of Alaska Oct. 11 to
15. Rusty Dow, Palmer artist, is
painting an original picture to be
presented the winner.
Any woman may write briefly
the beliefs which guide here ef
forts for a happy family and
home life, Mrs. Hansen said. En
tries should be sent the council
president at the following ad
dress: Mrs. Homer Hansen, 603
Manor, Anchorage.
Women of all sections of the
territory are urged to send in
creeds so that the one chosen
will express the needs and aims
of Alaskan women, Mrs. Hansen
said.
Fine Job Printing at the Nugget
Senators Probing FHA
Scandals Hear of “Bribe”
In Alaska Project
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later when Staples told him “I
tried to bribe him. I told him I
thought it was the other way
around.”
Then Kadow explained that Al
aska is Still a rugged country
where “everyone is supposed to
be a crook.”
Sen. Capehart asked Kadow
what his reputation for integrity
was in Alaska. Kadow replied:
“Before I went to Alaska it
was one of the finest any man
ever had. After I’d been in Alaska
a couple of years it was pretty
bad. I guess when Staples and I
discussed the building of homes
each of us though the other was a
little crooked and we were just
playing a cops and robbers game.
Actually, I think Staples is basic
ally an honest man.”
Staples then testified that Ka
dow told him that Cash Cole,
widely known attorney, would be
the intermediary for the $30,000
payment—$100 a unit for 300
homes.
Cole, however, was non-com
mital on the offer when Staples
M.V. Hygiene Spits Bow j
Stem On Voyage North
KETCHIKAN, M — The motor
vessel Hygiene, Terri'orial De
partment of Health ship, headed
for drydock at Ketchikan Mon
day after splitting its bow stem
on a trip north from Seattle.
The Hygiene struck bottom near
some islands on the British Col
umbia coast a week age, officers
reported. Damage was not severe,
however, and the ship’s progress
was not impeded. It arrived at
Ketchikan Monday night.
later broached the matter, the
witness added.
Staples said that he reported
the offer to his superiors and Ka
dow said he did likewise.
Senator Capehart said the Los
Angeles hearings have uncovered
a new pattern—payment of hos
pital bills of FHA officials by
builders seeking approval of FHA
lo'ans.
Staples testified that he had a
major operation performed in Se
attle and was surprised to find
that the bill had been paid by the
Lewis Construction Co., Seattle.
He testified that he immediately
paid back $847 to the building
firm.
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Puget Sound Fishermen
Reap Record Catch Of
Adams River Sockeye
ANACORTES, Wash., OB — A
busy fleet of 900 United States
fishing boats continued to reap a
golden harvest of Adams River
sockeye salmon in northern Puget
Sound today.
There were indications the
catch would top one million fish,
bringing 2 million dollars to the
3,000 men manning the U.S. fish
ing fleet.
A spokesman for the Washing
ton State Fisheries Department
said the department believes the
1954 catch of sockeye will be the
best since the big year of 1913,
the last good year before a slide
at Hell’s Gate cut off most of the
Fraser River’s salmon spawning
grounds.
Fisheries men said the huge
catch is the payoff to a two
million dollar investment to build
fish ladders to restore the sock
eye run in the Adams River, a
tributary of the Frazer.
People’s Judgment Not
Respected, Says Editor
ALBUQUERUE, N.M., UPI—J.R.
Wiggins, managing editor of the
Wsahington Post and Times Her
ald, said Tuesday government has
lost faith in the judgement of the
people.
And so there is an increasing
“appetite for secrecy” at. every
level of American public life, he
said in an address prepared for
the American Society of Journal
ism School Administrators.
Wiggins cautioned such a trend
is dangerous to all free institu
tions in this country.
“Our whole system rests on the
assumption that the people, when '
informed, are capable of right de
cisions and sound judgment and
rational action—equal to the re
sponsibilities of self-government,”
he said.
“Government founded on such
a faith cannot long outlive the ab
sence of that faith.”
Wiggins was invited before the
society to accept an award to
his newspaper for its work in de
fense of freedom of the press. He
is chairman of the Freedom of In
formation Committee of the Am
erican Society of Newspaper Ed
itors.
Nome Directory
NOME ROTARY CLUB
Ben Young, Pres.
' • Joe Kroninger, Secy.
Thursday Luncheon
Northwestern Alaska
Chamber of Comerce
MEETS EVERY TUESDAY NOON
BOYD HARWOOD, President
ALASKA CHAPTER NO. 1
Order of Eastern Star
Meets the 3rd Monday of each month.
Jane Perkins
Worthy Matron
Evelyn Branson
Secretary
LESLIE A. STEVENS
PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT
486 First Ave. West, Nome, Alaska
10 to 12 a.m. # 1 to 5 p.m.
Phone Main 82 — P.O. Box 208
ANVIL LODGE
No. 140
John Cooley, W.M.
Norvln W. Lewis, Secy.
Meets 1st and 3rd Thursday each month.