Kitimat Liquor Store Called For
To Relieve ‘Desperate Situation’
KITIMAT, B.C., (£>—Reeve Wil-«
bur Hallman, in a drive on boot
legging and excessive drinking in
this north coast aluminum town,
yesterday called on the provincial
government to open a liquor store
here to combat a “desperate situa
tion.”
“Liquor is .coming in in great
quantities,” he said in an inter
view. “We are in-a desperate situ
ation and until we get a store
where the individual may buy his
liquor by the bottle, we will have
excessive ordering.”
At present, he said, liquor had
to be ordered a week in advance
by sea or air from Vancouver, 40
miles to the south or by rail from
Terrace, B.C., 40 miles to the
north.
“At one time last Christmas,”
Reeve said, “there w^s 28 tons of
liquor on the dock. Planes would
book passengers on the outward
flights only, returning with full
loads of liquor.”
Construction workers in the
past few years, he said, had been
ordering their liquor by the case,
then selling half of it at $10 a
bottle to cover the shipping cost
and pay for their own habit.
“Our convictions for bootleg
ging are few,” he said, “but ru
mors say a man went out here in
1953 with $20,000 in tax-free mon
ey made by bootlegging.”
* Hallman said excessive drink
ing was encouraged by the system
because “nobody is going to send
down to Vancouver or up to Ter
race for one bottle. He usually
orders a case or half a case to have
. some around the house in case he
wants somebody in on a Saturday
night.
Only legal liquor outlet within
Kitimat is the Kitimat Hotel with
a beer parlor seating 600.
“There are usually long line
ups Friday and Saturday nights—
two come out and two more go in.
At Victoria, Col. Donald McGu
gan, chairman of the Liquor Con
trol Board, said the matter is
“under consideration.”
“Kitimat is entitled to a liquor
store,” he said, “and will have
one as soon as suitable premises
are available.”
GIRL SCOUT NEWS
Mrs. Liebig opened the meeting
because there aren’t enough girls
in our troop. She said we would
have to combine with another
troop "if we didn’t get enough
girls. These are the girls we have
now:
Catherine Siegwart, Ann Cham
bers, and Janet Jones. These are
real Girl Scouts because they
have already paid their dues.
If you want to be a Girl Scout
we will be glad to have you. The
meeting is on Friday at 4:00 to
5:30, for fifth, sixth and seventh
graders at the Kozga building.
At the next meeting we will
plan a skating party or some kind
of a party.
—Catherine Siegwart and
Ann Chambers,
Acting Scribes
WEATHER FORECAST
Compiled by the
U.S. Dept, of Commerce Weather Burea*
Clear with northerly winds 10
to 15 mph. and colder. Lowest
temperature expected tonight 8,
highest Saturday 20.
Nome data last 25 hours as of
7 a.m. today: High temperature
20, low 5. Max. wind 18 mph.
from the north. Sunrise 7:57 a.m.,
sunset 3:32 p.m.
Temperatures a year ago today:
high 39, low 32. Extremes this
date since 1907: highest 48 in
1928, lowest -10 in 1908.
MMM HOSPITAL
Admitted; Tom Tungwenuk and
Aamout Castel.
Discharged: Wm. Analoak and
Janet Tocktoo.
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Rotarians Hear Address
On Sanitation Program
Guests at the Rotary luncheon
Thursday were: Amos Alter, Al
aska Dept, of Health, Juneau;
Floyd W. Schneider and Leon E.
Hammarley, CAA, Anchorage;
Richard Holmgren, and Ivan Gil
liam, Alaska Dept, of Health, Ju
neau; Jack Aiblee, USAF, An
chorage, and R. W. Oliver, Nome.
Richard Holmgren addressed
the Rotarians on the Sanitation
Aid Program being conducted by
the Dept, of Health among the
natives of Alaska. A class is now
in progress at the MMM Hospital
for six representatives of native
villages of the Second Division.
Mr. Holmgren also showed a
short film taken of the pilot pro
gram initiated at Bethel last year.
The purpose of the sanitation
program is to teach the natives of
the villages to dispose of garbage
and waste in a sanitary manner
with the materials readily at hand
and also to provide for themselves
good, uncontaminated water.
BOOKKEEPING WAS EASY
NORTH ADAMS, Mass., UR —
Edward V. Dempsey, who ran for
the city council last month, sub
mitted his campaign expense form
yesterday as required by law.
It listed: “no contributions, no
expenditures, no success.”
Lelier-Sise File Folders For
Sale At The Nome Nugget Office
Israel and Egypt
In Biggest Fight
Since 1948 War
JERUSALEM, (JB—Israeli and
Egyptian forces battled in the Tel
Aujaganizana demilitarized fron
tier zone in the worst fighting be
tween them since the end of the
1948 Palestine War.
Reports of casualties from both
sides gave a total of 204 Israels
and 50 Egyptians killed in the
clash, which started Wednesday
night.
The battle was for the El Sabha
checkpost, which, according to the
Egyptians, has changed hands two
times. The post is in the demilitar
ized zone but inside Israeli terri
tory.
Israelis, complaining that it had
been occupied previously by
Egyptians in violation of the arm
istice, seized it in an attack on
Wednesday night. The Israeli for
eign ministry Thursday said the
attack had succeeded in “expel
ling the Egyptian invader” from
Israeli territory.
El Sabha is about nine miles
south of the El Auja-Nizana U.N.
armistice headquarters and dom
inates a strategically important
plateau on the border.
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