THE NOME NUGGET
Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday by the
NOME PUBLISHING CO.
NOME, ALASKA
E. P. BOUCHER . Managing Editor
CLINTON GRAY . Production Manager
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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.
Subscribers not receiving their paper ;by 5:30 p.m. call
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NWA Chamber of Commerce
Deserves Our Support
^HE Northwestern Alaska Chamber of Commerce is
one of the oldest organizations in the community.
Continuously since its pioneering days the members
most of whom are business men have kept alerted to
the needs of Nome and Alaska and has been a connect
ing link with Nome, the States and the national cap
ital. Its voice has always received recognition. Its
vigorous work brought aid during flood and fire dis
asters. The untiring efforts by its members, who now
number 52, have aided 'n "-he recent years to lav the
ground work for better schools, federal building,
roads, seawall protection, improved tourist attrac
tions’ statehood, and many other improvements.
The men and women who do this work are com
pensated only by what they accomplish in making
Nome the kind of place we want it to be.
Their annual membership drive is now on. They
will not ask individuals to become members but will
welcome any members to increase the working power
for more civic development. Business and profes
sional people should be proud to be members of this
group.
ARE WE PRETTY ENOUGH ?
^JENATOR Neuberger has introduced a bill in the
Senate that sets some sort of a record for irrespon
sible invasion of public rights. He wants the govern
ment to get the rights to great tracts of land — at
public expense — to provide “scenic easements” along
the roads.
-;In ths way, he hopes to sponsor dainty highways
that conform to his personal idea of what commercial
roadways should be. He doesn’t like the looks of free
enterprise highways.
This impersonalized Dainty Highway would
mean higher taxes for everyone by increasing costs
and reducing revenue from businesses along the roads.
Small business provides more than two million jobs.
Is it possible in America to close thousands of
businesses because someone doesn’t like ther looks?
We think not. Picture a bureaucrat walking into this
community and saying: “Sorry, you’re not pretty
enough. You’ll have to go.”
Businesses aren’t always works of art. Fertilizer
makers, smoky factories, noisy mills, meat packers,
curb markets, or newspaper print shops — each some
times displeases eye and ear. But each also contributes
mightily to an all-time-high economy. Each provides
jobs, spends money locally, pays taxes. So do all
the businesses along our highways.
Alaska Telephone
Corp. Officials
Convicted of Fraud
NEW YORK, UP> — Walter F.
Teller, Jersey City, N. J., stock
broker, and two Seattle business
men have been convicted of de
frauding 1,400 persons of nearly
$900,000 through the sale of bonds
of the Alaska Telephone Corp.
A Brooklyn federal court jury
deliberated 3Vi> hours before find
ing the defendants guilty last night
on all 36 counts of the indict
ment.
Judge Mortimer W. Byers set
sentencing for April 12 and con
tinued their bail of $2,500 each.
The trio each faces a possible
maximum sentence of five years
in prison and $10,000 fin on each
count.
The jury had been hearing tes
timony for more than six weeks.
Convicted with Tellier, 55, were
Albert O. Proctor, 43, president of
the Alaska Telephone Corp., and
Elton B. Jones, 48, secretary
treasurer of the firm.
A previous trial of the three
ended last Oct. 12 with a hung
jury.
Richard F. Burke, chief of de
fense counsel, contended that the
purchasers of the bonds were well
aware of their speculative nature.
Paul Windels Jr., special assist
ant U. S. Attorney, said the de
fendants had told prospective in
[ vestors that the telephone com
pany was in sound financial con
dition and had rosy earning pros
pects.
He said the frauds were perpe
trated through misstatements of
fact in printed circulars and tele
phone conversations by Tellier’s
employes.
j The phone company, Windels
I said, had lost money every year
j since its formation in 1948.
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j Pan Am Adopts
New Schedule
On April 1, Pan American will
! adopt a new schedule for the
1 Nome service. It will be quite
I similar to the one operated last
year.
This new schedule provides for
am increase in the frequency from
one to two flights per week—on
Tuesday and Saturday.
The flight between Seattle and
Fairbanks will be operated with
I Strato-Clipper equipment, and the
| travel time on that sector is only
[ six hours of extremely comfort
able flying. Excellent connections
both north and south are provided
at Fairbanks. Because of the air
port conditions, the DC-4 equip
ment will be used between Fair
banks and Nome.
Paid Adv.
“Rats and matches” were in past
years blamed for causing fire, but
experiments have proven that
when rats are placed in a cage
with matches, the rats will starve
to death without gnawing the
match heads.
Atom Reactor Core of
Test Unit Explodes
LOS ALAMOS, N. M., UR —
The AEC said today the core of
a test atomic power reactor ex
ploded during testing on Feb. 12.
No one was injured, but the
power unit was destroyed.
The reactor core — in essence
a stripped down model of a power
reactor — was, because of its
“naked” nature, whimsically
dubbed “the Godiva.”
It consisted of a sphere of ura
nium 235 about 63A inches in dia
meter suspended on a tripod.
The AEC announcement said no
damage was done to the building
“and radiation contamination . . .
has (been removed by standard
— cleaning methods.
Bill to Regulate Coin
Operated Machines Passes
In Territorial House
JUNEAU, <JP)—The controversial
pinball machine control bill went
thru the House Wednesday on an
18-6 vote. The bill contains only
provisions for taxing and licens
ing various forms of coin-operated
machines. Another part of the or
iginal bill, providing for police
powers and limits on the number
of machines, now is included in a
separate bill that still is in the
House Judiciary Committee.
The license tax bill was ap
proved after a number of amend
ments. Chief among them was one
which restored to present levels
some fees which would have been
lowered in the original draft
CANADA MARKS 15TH
ANNIV. OF BUILDING
ALCAN HIGHWAY
DAWSON CREEK, B. C., CP) —
The Alaskan Highway, built by
the United States as a wartime
measure, is becoming a busy com
mercial route playing a part in
opening Canada’s northern lands
to development.
It is just 15 years since a group
of U. S. Army Engineers arrived
here to begin construction.
Today a Canadian Army staff
of 350 men repair the roadway and
bridges during the summer and
patrol and snowplow during the
winter, along the 1,221-mile Cana
dian section.
Every year more than 20,000
vehicles carry 75,000 passengers
and 13,000 tons of freight on the
road.
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COMING
TO
THE
THEATER
JAMES
STEWART
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PUBLIC NOTICE
by
Territorial Board of Public Accountancy
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN OF
FORTHCOMING EXAMINATION
AS FOLLOWS:
For certification of “Certified Public
Account” and “Public Accountant”,
May 15, 16, and 17, 1957.
Anyone wishing to take either of the above examinations
should make application to A. van Sevenier, Secretary
of the Board, P.O. Box 859. Anchorage. Alaska,
on or before March 31, 1957.
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