THE NOME NUGGET
Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday by the
NOME PUBLISHING CO.
NOME, ALASKA
Telephone Main 125 $1.50 PER MONTH
P.O. Box 618 $16.00 A YEAR
E. P. BOUCHER ... Managing Editor
CLINTON GRAY . Production Manager
Entered, as second class matter October 14, 1943, at ttoe
post office at Nome. Alaska, under Act of March 3. 1879.
Subscribers not receiving their paper by 5:30 p.m. call
Main 125 for special delivery. After 5:30 call Black 102.
GOOD IDEA !
THIS IS BOY SCOUT WEEK
The 4,700,000 boys and leaders of the Boy Scouts
of America will launch a yearlong National Safety
Good Turn during Boy Scout Week, Feb. 7 to 13.
The Scouts’ national service project was suggested
by President Eisenhower, honorary president of the
Boy Scouts.
In a White House message, President Eisenhower
told the Scouts:
“In our land each individual is of inestimable
worth, yet in no other land do accidents cause a more
terrible loss of human life and limb. This fact cannot
be passively accepted. We must seek new ways to save
the basic resources of our nation: its people.
“Encouraged by the splendid results of your Con
servation Good Turn four years ago, I pow urge you
to adopt Safety as your service project for 1958.
Through the concerted action of your members, and
in cooperation with other organizations, you can alert
the public to the urgent need for reducing the tragic
toll of accidents.
“This is an opportunity for service to your country
in the highest tradition of the Boy Scouts of America.”
During March, April and May, the projects will
involve traffic safety. Outdoor safety projects will
keep Scouts busy in June, July, and August. Home
safety will be featured in September, October, and
November.
Next October, the Boy Seouts will distribute to
approximately 35,000,000 homes a civil defense book
let on family preparedness for emergencies.
t
CURRENT EVENT
National Electrical Week, the traditional seven
day celebration of Thomas Edison’s birthday, occurs
this year from February 10 to 16. You might thought
lessly ask, “Why devote a week to it? Wouldn’t it be
enough just to dance in the streets on his birthday,
the 11th?
But when you stop to give serious thought to
what Thomas Edison started 79 years ago, a day isn’t
enough. We could easily spend all of National Electrical
Week pondering the practical, humanitarian and the
historical aspects of the force which Edison’s discovery
of the electric light first elevated from a laboratory
curiosity to a public servant . . . and still not think
about wanting that dishwasher or portable TV.
Here was a scientific break-through that was, first,
to banish effectively darkness, then to lift the physical
burdens from the books of humanity and move on to
provide all manors of comforts, conveniences and lux
uries—including new and unheard-of forms of enter
tainment. Here was the force that would revolutionize
industry and the world’s way of doing things, that
would infinitely multiply the usefulness of a single
worker—and his income—and thus create a new econ
omy and man’s first serious hope of freedom from want!
Today’s electric power industry — which began
with the formation of an “electric light company”
here and there—is the most vital public utility the
world ever seen. It not only protects us against the
darkness, but against our enemies as well in powering
our V3'r’+' defense industries. It drives the machines that
make the countless things we need and want. It runs
the plants that process our foods—and then provides us
with the means of cooking it—or freezing it first and
then cooking it! All this—as well as the hundreds of
available household appliances and the power to run
them—makes up today’s heritage, the opportunity to
live better electrically.
And it should be mentioned that this industry is
not only vital, but alert to its public responsibility.
This is reflected in the remarkable reliability of service
under all conditions, its preparedness for all manner
of emergencies and disasters, and most of all, perhaps,
in the simple fact that it is the only industry that has
not raised the price of its product in the face of in
creasing costs of production. If your bill is bigger, it
is because you are using more electricity . . . thanks
(in the beginning) to Thomas Edison.
Loan Fund
For Fishermen
In Good Shape
WASHINGTON, UP — Thirty
seven loans totaling $386,816 have
been made to Alaska, Washing
ton and Oregon fishermen from
the fisheries loan fund. None
have gone sour.
The repayment record of the
region’s fishermen was disclosed
in testimony released by a House
Appropriation subcommittee.
Eleven loans were made in Al- |
aska, the largest being for $20,000
to Alfred J. Stear of Ketchikan
for repairs.
The Bureau of Commercial
Fisheries, which made the tabu
lation, said it had approved three
other loans to Alaskans but can
celled them before putting out the
money. It said almost all cancel
lations were at the request of the
recipients.
The loan program, backed with
$10 million revolving fund, was
set up in 1956 for financing and
refinancing, operations, mainten
ance, repairs, replacement and
equipping fishing vessels whose
operators cannot obtain reason
able financing elsewhere.
STOVE and STACK
CLEANING
USED HEATERS AND
COOK STOVES FOR SALE
CALL TOM TUNGEWENUK
PHONE WHITE 193
Author of “Egg and I”
Victim of Cancer
SEATTLE, Wt—Mrs. Betty Mac
Donald, 49, whose light-hearted
novel “The Egg and I” catapulted
her into literary prominence in
1945, died Friday night of cancer.
She had been ill many months.
“The Egg And I,” a story of life
on a chicken ranch in the rugged
•backwoods country of the Olym
pic Peninsula, quickly became a
best seller, was turned into a
motion picture and was the basis
for the “Ma and Pa Kettle” movie
series.
In 1951, she and her publish
ers were sued for $975,000 by the
Abert Bishop family and Ray
mond H. Johnson, who contended
they were libeled by being por
trayed as the somewhat shiftless
Kettle family. A Superior Court
jury unanimously rejected the
claim.
The B03' Scouts of America now
has an active enrollment of
4,500,00 boys and men.
PIONEER
WATER
DELIVERY
Phone Black 150
Two Fellows Named Mike
Had a Conversation, In
The Capital the Other Day
WASHINGTON, UP)—-Two men
known as Mike got together re
cently at a session of the House
Interior Appropriations subcom
mitee. The topic was Alaska.
After Gov. Mike Stepovich,
making his first appearance be
fore the subcommittee, testified
concerning recent developments
in oil and pulp developments, the
transcript released by the com
mittee showed the following ex
change with Rep. Michael (Mike)
Kirwan (D-Ohio), subcommittee
chairman:
Kirwan: “In other words, ac
cording to what you are saying,
Alaska is going forward by leaps
and bounds.”
Stepovich: “Definitely.”
Kirwan: “It is getting ready for
the day, which is long overdue,
when shg will be admitted to
statehood in this nation. That is
what is in your mind.”
Stepovich: “Yes, sir.”
Kirwan: “At the rate she is
going forward, that day is ap
proaching.”
Stepovich: “There is much we
shall be able to do for the United
States of America as we do go
forward.”
Kirwan: “Much more than she
is doing for you.”
Stepovich: “Yes.”
Kirwan: “Yes, that is the trutn.
I mean that sincerely. You will
be able to do a lot more for this
country or the mainland than the
mainland has done since the day
we purchased Alaska.”
At another point, Stepovich’s
family of eight children drew
praise from Rep. Don Magnuson
(D-Wash). But the Alaskan had
to take second place to Gov. Peter
T. Coleman of American Samoa,
also 38, who has 11 children.
“We need a few more gover
nors like the pair of you . . . you
are all right,” commented Magnu
son, who himself has five chil
dren.
Man Crushed To Death
By Loose Coal In Bin
CHICAGO, UP)—Carmen Pass
era Jr., 20, died beneath 75 tons
of coal in a giant hopper beneath
the Morrison Hotel.
Hotel officials said Passero was
buried when he climbed into the
partly-filled bin to loosen frozen
coal chunks which blocked the
outlet at its bottom. Passero was
an employe of the hotel.
Firemen worked in 15-minute
shifts of six to shovel the coal
into an adjoining bin and recover
Passero’s body.
One of his legs slipped through
the hopper outlet, but the body
was so wedged it could not be
taken out through the small open
ing.
' «tter-size and legal file folder
available ai The Nome Nugget
.. . #
MODERN
Dry Cleaners
and
Laundry
★
Complete Dry Cleaning
and
Laundry Service
★
"DO IT ALL
WITH ONE CALL"
★
Jim and Ruih McLean,
Proprietors <
★
Telephone Main 113