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THE NOME NUGGET
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NOME, ALASKA
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Entered as second class matter October 14, 1943, at the
post office at Nome, Alaska, under Act of March 3, 1879.
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PERSONS, NOT PEOPLE
(Christian Science Monitor),
Late in 1865 the Ku Klux Klan was organized in
the little city of Pulaski, Tennessee.
Late in 1956 the physicians of Pulaski and sur
rounding countryside elected Dr. William A. Lewis,
a Negro, president of the Giles County Medical Asso
ciation, an accredited affiliate of the American Medical
Association.
Did the good doctors of this county in south-central
Tennessee, just across the Alabama border, choose Dr.
Lewis because he is a Negro—as a symbol, perhaps,
of some sudden repudiation of the South’s traditional
separateness between the races?
Apparently not. Said the society’s secretary: “We
are not trying to ram integration down anybody’s
throat. . . We wanted to pay him the honor ... I’d
rather have Dr. Lewis as a friend of mine than some
white people I know.”
No resounding pronouncement about a new racial
amity, but a simple statement which gets down to
cases—and individuals. It is a statement, however,
which points toward a golden key and which suggests
that the Giles County Medical Association, wittingly
or not, is presenting a demonstration of how to use it.
When Americans,-North and South, begin think
ing of persons instead of people, of the merits of indi
viduals instead of “stereotypes” about race, then they,
too, will have picked up this golden key and begun, to
unlock one of the thorniest problems in the nation’s
history.
DUSTING THE GUEST ROOM
Expectations are that Washington soon will roll
out the red carpet for the urbane, aristocratic son of
a lady from Spencer, Indiana, who is now Prime Min
ister of Great Britain. Harold MacMillan, formerly
chancellor of the Exchequer, and believed to be the
choice of Sir Winston Churchill for the top job, was
a World War II buddy of General Eisenhower.
Could be that Mr. MacMillan was selected to
succeed the ailing Sir Anthony Eden because of the
importance of smoothing official U.S. feathers, ruffled
by the Egyptian invasion. But perhaps he was chosen
over Richard A. Butler, Lord Privy Seal, for less
ponderous reasons. For one thing, the shift will be
simpler for the MacMillans. They have only to move
next door, from No. 11 Downing Street to No. 10.
It will be handy, too, in dealing with America, to
have an ex-chancellor of the Exchequer at the helm.
Alaska Airlines
From Anchorage: D. J. Morri.s,
Dixie Keenan, Lillie Walker,
Capt. S. Wieczorek, Jack Brunner,
V. S. Jones, MajI Frederick Wil
loughby, G. T. Posch, W. C. Dan
iels, Fred Cote, John Davis, Hugh
Kelso, E. J. Ingebright.
To Anchorage: Mr. and Mrs.
William Doyle, Steven, Alan and
Lorin Doyle, Charles W. Swim,
W. F. Baltedonia, James Dock
stader, Harry Anderson.
From Unalakleet: George Bay- j
er, Frank Kameroff, Henry Ko-|
buk, Walter Snack, Gordon Nash- |
alook, Freddie Oyoumick. To I
Unalakleet: Michael Sullivan.
From Kotzebue: Aileen Stone, I
Thomas Punguk, Harry Ander-1
Christian Dior Unveils
New ‘Liberty Line’
In Women’s Fashions
PARIS, UP—Christian Dior yes
terday celebrated his 10th anni
versary as the top Paris designer
with another Long New Look.
Unveiling his “Liberty Line”
collection of spring fashions, he
dropped skirts by a good four
inches—to more than mid-calf—
and encased the feminine torso in
a slim tube, hobble-tight below
and with daringly low and wide
necklines.
son, Frank Long. To Kotzebue:
Bob Oliver, Robert Thomas.
Airliner and Jet
Collide, Killing t
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from cloudless skies.
The big silver airliner, a DC-7
being readied by Douglas Aircraft
for delivery to Continental Air
Lines, turned in a vast curve,
spouting flames and smoke. As
•the angle of its dive steepened, it
came apart piece by piece, filling
the air with debris.
The jet, an F-89 Scorpion being
tested by Northrop Aircraft, Inc.,
went down several miles east of
Pacoima.
"It kept going straight for a
moment," said Jack Bacich, 41,
who was working in his yard at
the time. "Then it banked
slightly and went str aight down
into the ground."
Curtis A. Adams, 28, a radar
man, parachuted from the jet. He
was picked up, injured but alive,
in the brush-covered hills near
Glendale. In the hospital, Adams
told reporters:
“We had completed the second
of three passes we were making
to test our radar. I saw something
loom up on the left side. After
that I’m not sure what happened.
"There was a dash . . . We
I lost our cockpit canopy . . . fire
J came in. There wasn't much
j time to think of anything. I
guess I bailed out. I can't fig
ure how we collided with that
airliner ... I just can't figure
it out."
The school ground and the hos
! pittals were scenes of anguish as
j parents swarmed about trying to
j find their children.
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HOME AHTS CLUB
The Home Arts Club will meet
j next Tuesday evening at the
I home of Martha Craft with Ingrid
j Walterson as eo-hostess.
I An interesting program is
i planned.
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j Bandit Returns
| Loot With Bonius
ALTON, 111., iff)—A mysterious
package arrived Wednesday at
the home of Mr. and Mrs. William
H. Evans. It borft a Jacksonville,
111., postmark and only “J.James”
for a return address.
“Looks like a bomb,” the post
man said.
Mrs. Evans opened it and found
$7,712.
This was about $2,700 more
than she reported to police was
taken from her in a stickup in her
front yard Monday.
With the money was a note:
“I am returning your money as
I have no wish for the cops or
police to track me dawn. If I had
known there was that much I
! wouldn’t have attempted it.
“The Bandit.”
Mrs. Evans and her husband
operate two bakeries in Alton.
She told police she was robbed of
about $1,000 in bakery receipts
and $4,000. she always carried
with her., as a surprise for her
husband in case they ever needed
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Beta Sigma Phi Sale of
Candy, Cookies, Aprons
lo Be Held Tomorrow
Beta Sigma Phi have announced
their first service project for 1957
which will be their annual Candy,
Cookie and Apron Sale.
The sale is scheduled to be held
on Saturday, Feb. 2, at the N. C.
Store.
Members are busy making
lovely aprons which will make
unusually attractive gifts. Their
delicious home-made cookies and
candy sell readily.
j House Group Asks
Extra Funds for
Social Security
WASHINGTON, (M—The House
Appropriations Committee, today
recommended $275 million to pay
for improved social security bene
fits voted by the last Congress.
It included that amount in a
catch-all bill calling for $335,
090,000 in supplemental funds for
tne remaining five months of the
current fiscal year. The over-all
total was $46,997,500 less than
President Eisenhower had re
quested.
The extra funds for the Social
Security Administration would
boost to $1,575,000,000 the amount
provided for the program for the
fiscal year ending next June 30.
The committee set aside an ex
I tra $15 million for emergency
conservation measures in drought
stricken states. The President had
asked for $25 million for this
purpose, but the committee said
j the lesser sum would be enough
j for the five months remaining in
this fiscal year.
j WEATHER REPORT |
Compiled by the
, U.S. Dept, of Commerce Weather Bureau ;
Cloudy with fog and snow or
1 freezing drizzle tonight and Sat
| urday. Little change in tempera
| ture. Lowest temperature expect
| ed tonight. 25, highest expected
Saturday. 30 degrees.
Some data last 24- hours as of
7 a.m. today: Precipitation: .05 in.
Highest temperature 26, low 15.
| Max. wind 8 mph. from the west.
Sun rises 8:45 a.m., sets 3:47 p.m.
Extreme temperatures this date
since 1907: highest 33 in 1926,
lowest -38 in 1910.
Other stations, 7 a.m. today
Station Temp. Weather
Barrow -4 Cloudy
Kotzebue 26 Snow
Wales 30 Blowing snow
j Gambell 33 Blowing snow
| Nome 26 Snow
| Unalakleet 30 Snow
! Bethel 17 Fog
! McGrath 3 Cloudy
, Anchorage 7 Fog
j Fairbanks 15 Snow
j Whitehorse -6 Part cloudy
Edmonton . -7 Snow
J Juneau 12 Cloudy
Ketchikan 37 Clear
Seattle 31 Snow
San Francisco 50 Cloudy |
We will build Nome with you.
MINERS & MERCHANTS
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Legislature Hears
Seaton Speak on
Statehood ‘Fight’
JUNEAU, Iff)—An applauding
Alaska Legislature yesterday
heard Secretary of the Interior
Seaton say the battle for state
hood for the territory faces a
“long and uphill fight in Con
gress.
His appearance, believed to be
the first ever before the Legisla
ture by a Cabinet officer, was
made before a hastily summoned
joint session. He spoke for about
eight minutes.
Members rose to give him a
standing ovation when he said
the statehood fight is one “the
Administration does not intend
to lose if it is at all possible to
help it.”
The Interior secretary has
made a whirlwind tour of the
huge territory and will return-to
the States tomorrow. He said he
hopes to visit Hawaii next month.
The secretary told the legisla
tors statehood has “the complete
and unequivocal support of the
President,” which, he said, “goes
a long way in Washington.”
“No one needs to question my
own stand on statehood,” he con
tinued. “I have said many times
before and I am delighted to say
here again that I am completely
in favor of statehood.”
Before his speech, Seaton was
presented with the legislature’s
first completed act—a memorial
asking the 85th Congress to grant
statehood.
POLICEMAN FATHER FREES
SELF-HANDCUFFED SON
WACO, Texas, UP>—Four-year
old. Bruce Alan Gibson was hap
pier than usual to see his police
man father come home Wednes
day.
Bruce got into his father’s chest
of drawers and pulled out a pair
of handcuffs to play with. A few
minutes^ later his ankles were
cuffed together.
His father, Police Sgt. Glenn
Gibson, had to make an emer
gency call to his home to free his
son.
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