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^ JHERESKMTO BE SO MANY STEPS
. . . BUT NO RECESS
By January 15, an 18-man salary commission, set
up by Congress before it knocked off last i\ugust 1,
will report to President Eisenhower and to Congress.
It will say, we think, that our solons ought to get a
raise of $10,000 a year. It may also recommend the
same for Federal judges.
The first witnesses to be heard by the commission
in opening three days of public hearings were Presi
dent George Meany of the American Federation of
Labor, and Morris B. Mitchell, of Minneapolis, repre
senting the American Bar Association. Both thought
the raise would be a good idea—for the Congressmen
and the judges too.
Representatives and Senators are now paid $12,500
in salary, plus a taxable expense allowance of $2,500,
plus further allowance for staff salaries, telegrams and
long-distance calls, office space at home, free postage
for official mail and 20 cents a mile for one round-trip
to Washington per year.
We think Congressmen should get $25,000 a year,
for certainly no man should be in Congress unless he’s
worth that much elsewhere. But we think while this
commendable salary adjustment is being made, there
should be some changes in the rules too. We think it
should be paid for a year’s work, not six or seven
months. And as for the perquisites, they would then
have no need for that office at home.
We have a Big Time country now. There’s some
thing doing every day. And Congress ought to be tend
ing to it.
ADAM HAD ’EM
With the peaceful atom shoving the warlike atom
off the front page, we are indebted to the Whaley
Eaton Service in Washington for some facts that make
this excitement a little more understandable: Today,
Uranium 235 costs $9,000 per pound, or half as much
as coal—in energy content. Atomic power plants may
produce 34 times as many kilowatts per dollar of fuel.
By the year 2,000, the AEC estimates power produc
tion (with atoms) at six times today’s.
You may never have an atomic engine in your car.
Highbrow: A person who enjoys a thing until it
becomes popular.
Review of Mining
Potentialities Of
Seward Peninsula
By HOWARD LYNG
Territorial Senator
The eleventh in a series of articles
exclusive to the Nome Nugget
The claim-staking accomplished
b.y Dr. A. N. Kittlesen, Johan Tor
nensis, Gabe Price, Jafet Lind
berg, Eric 0. Lindeberg and John
Brynteson during the September
and October, 1898, trips from Gol
ovin to Snake River resulted in
the following:
— ANVIL CREEK —
No. 1 Below, Jafet Lindberg;
No. 2 Below, Jafet Lindberg for
Wm. A. Kjillman; No. 3 Below,
John Brynteson for J. R. Gregory;
No. 4 Below, Jafet Lindberg for
John Dexter; No. 5 Below, A. N.
Kittlesen for R. T. Lyng; No. 6
Below, G. W. Price for T. T. Lane;
all on Sept. 22, 1898.
No. 1 Above, John Brynteson;
No. 2 Above, John Brynteson for
P. H. Anderson; No. 3 Above, John
Brynteson for J. L. Hagelin; No. 4
Above, John Brynteson for A. E.
Karlsoh; No. 5 Above, Eric O.
Lindbloom; all on Sept. 22, 1898.
No. 6 Above. Anvil Creek claims
were staked 1500 feet long in
September. In October these were
shortened to conform with the
adopted unit of length: 1320 feet.
This resulted in shortening Dis
covery by 180 feet of the upper
end; No. 1 Above by 360 ft.; No. 2
Above by 540 ft.; No. 3 Above by
720 ft.; No. 4 Above by 1260 ft.;
thus eliminating all by 60 feet of
No. 6 Above.
No. 7 Above, A. W. Kittleson;
No. 8 Above, G. W. Price; No. 9
Above, G. W. Price for T. L. Price;
No. 10 Above, J. S. Tomensis; all
on Oct. 18, 1898.
— SPECIMEN GULCH —
No. 1, Jafet Lindeberg for Wm.
Bassi; No. 2, Jafet Lindberg for
O. Paulson; both on Sept. 26, 1898.
— QUARTZ CREEK —
No. 1, Jafet Lindeberg for M.
Kjelsberg, Sept. 26, 1393.
— DRY CREEK —
Eskimo Chief or Discovery, G.
W. Price, Oct. 20, 1898; No. 1
Above, Jafet Lindeberg for Wm.
Bassi, Sept. 27, 1898; No. 2 Above,
John Brynteson for A. E. Karlson,
Sept. 27, 1898; No. 3 Above, John
Brynteson for N. O. Hultberg,
Sept. 27, 1898; No. 4 Above, Eric
O. Lindbloom, Sept. 27 1898; No. 5
Above, Jafet Lindeberg, Sept. 27,
1898; No. 6 Above, John Brynte
sen, Sept. 27, 1898; No. 7 Above,
John S. Tornensis, Oct. 20, 1898.
— MOUNTAIN CREEK —
E. O. Lindbloom Claim, Erik O.
Lindbloom, Sept. 18, 1898; No. 1
Below, G. W. Price, Oct. HQ, 1898;
No. 1 Above, John Brynteson,
Sept. 19, 1898.
— SNOW GULCH —
No. 1., John Brynteson; No. 2,
Jafet Lindeberg; No. 3, E. O. Lind
bloom; all Sept. 20, 1898.
— GLACIER CREEK —
Utica or Discovery, G. W. Price;
No. 1 Below, A. N. Kittlesen for
Robert Lyng; both Oct. 19, 1898.
— ROCK CREEK —
Francisco Claim, A. N. Kittle
sen, Oct. 19, 1898; No. 1 Above,
John Brynteson for P. H. Ander
son, Sept. 20, 1898; No. 2 Above,
■Jafet Lindeberg, Sept. 20, 1898;
No. 3, Erik O. Lindbloom, Sept.
20, 1898; No. 4 Above, John Bryn
teson for J. L. Hagelin, Sept. 20,
1898; No. 5 Above, John Brynte
son, Sept. 20, 1898; No. 1 Below,
G. W. Price, Oct. 19, 1898.
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Vets Built More And
Better Homes In ’53, VA
Home Loans Indicate
WASHINGTON, m— The Veter
ans Administration said Satur
day it guaranteed nearly five per
cent more GI home loans during
1953 than in 1952 and that the
houses cost more.
The average price, the agency
said, was $11,275, compared to
$10,915 in 1952, in part because of
demand for larger houses with
more equipment.
The VA said in a year-end re
view of its 1953 loan guaranty
operations that it guaranteed more
than 320,000 home loans totalling
over three billion dollars. The
1952 totals were 306,000 home
loans exceeding $2,700,000,000
About two-thirds of the 320,000
veterans who Obtained loans last
year bought newly-built homes.
The VA figured the new homes
financed under its new program—
about 200,000 — accounted for
about 20 per cent of all new one
family homes built over the na
tion in 1953.
More than half of the world’s
gainfully employed people are
farmers.
On Nov. 10 the expedition left
Snake River for Golovin. Record
er A. N. Kittleson, shortly after
reaching Golovin, took the articles
of organization of the Cape Nome
Mining District, via dog team, to
the U.S. Commissioner at St. Mi
ohael and filed them for record.
No secret was made of the stak
ings at Nome and a stampede from
every direction soon followed.
(To be Continued)
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Fairbanks Bishop
Among 10 Top
Young Americans
TULSA, Okla., W) — A young
Fairbanks, Alaska, Episcopal bish
op and a Seattle geologist and
explorer who has pioneered in
scientific work on the Juneau ice
field were named Saturday among
the 10 top young American men
of 1953 by the’U.S. Junior Cham
ber of Commerce.
The 10 are all between the ages
of 21 and 36 and such selections
are made annually by the Jaycees
group. They will be honored at
a banquet Jan. 23 at Seattle.
They included:
Bishop William Jones Gordon
Jr., 35, Fairbanks; for constant
ly risking his life to bring religion
to Alaska.
Maynard Malcolm Miller, 32,
Seattle; geologist, explorer, writer
and lecturer; for outstanding lead
ership in the field of geological
science, including the organiza
tion and direction of the Juneau
icefield research project.
Bishop Gordon, nicknamed the
“Flying Bishop,” has a diocese of
an area of 586,000 square miles.
At the age of 29 he was the
youngest man ever to be elected
a bishop in the Episcopal Church.
Miller organized and directed
the first Juneau Icefield Project
which covered the unexplored
1,000 - square mile plateau near
Juneau. His work there has been
continued by governmental agen
cies and private organizations and
the Air Force has repeatedly in
vited him as a consultant on mat
ters involving the Arctic.
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