THE NOME NUGGET
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Entered as second class matter October 14, 1943, at the
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Observance of Labor Dav
w
Labor Day is the one day of the year on which
the fewest possible .number of Americans is required
to work. This includes newspapers which annually
do not publish in observance of an occasidn set aside in
appreciation of the American heritage of freedom. i
Employers and employes alike enjoy the day or
this weekend, set aside to show that workers are free
individuals whether they work for a large corporation
or a very small business.
Employers and employes work together to prosper,
a parnership in production which exists no other place
in the world.
This cooperation is what makes America, the en
vied country of the world, what it is today.
FACTORS OF SURVIVAL
College graduates, especially those with advanced
degrees in certain engineering specialties, have been
receiving starting salaries in industry that would have
seemed fantastic a few years ago.
W. Alton Jones of Cities Service Co. makes this
relevant comment: “To get a job is one thing ... to
make good on it is quite another. Success still does not
go to those who want it delivered like a crown on a
velvet cushion. If anything, the way to success is more
difficult than ever, for the demands of progress keep
incessant pressure on all industry. To get there first
... to produce the best... to offer the most at the least
cost—these are not only the objectives of industrial
■activity, but the factors of survival.”
Interior Dept. Is Taking
Steps to Strengthen
Anchorage Land Office
WASHINGTON, UJV-Steps are
being taken to strengthen the Bu
reau of Land Management office
in Anchorage, Alaska, as the re
sult of a recent investigation of
charges of favoritism and neglect
of duty, the Interior Department
announced today.
One of the first steps will be
assignment of a new manager to
direct the operations at Anbor
age. Virgil O. Seiser, present of
fice manager, will he re-assigned
to a stateside post.
“The investigation did not sub
stantiate complaints of deliberate
favoritism in lease transactions
or willful neglect of duty,” said
the Interior Dept., but did dis
close “administrative weaknesses
in the handling of the office’s
records” and procedures.
MMM HOSPITAL
Admitted: Shirley Haley and
Chas. Gutierrez.
Discharged: Ethel Thomas and
infant son, Audrey Analook and
infant son, Fred Olanna, and C.
Gutierrez.
Mother, 9, and
Premature Son
Doing Fine
LITTLE ROCK, Ark., —A 9
year-old mother and her prema
ture son yesterday were reported
by physicians to be in good con
dition at the University of Arkan
sas Medical Center.
The 2Vi>-pound baby, bom on
Wednesday, was' given a good
chance of survival. It was born
almost two months prematurely.
Hospital officials said the moth
er, a Negro, was the youngest in
their records.
The name of the mother and all
other details about her except
race and age were withheld. Dr.
Eva Dodge, who delivered the in
fant, said the mother’s birthdate
had been verified as March 1948.
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN
Effective this date I am now
the sole owner of Nome Taxi.
(Signed) Chuck Goedde
STORES CLOSED MONDAY
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GREEN’S
CITY FUEL & TRANSFER
MT. ETNA ERUPTS,
THROWING UP
MOLTEN ROCK 500 FT.
CATANIA, Sicily MV-Mt. Etna,
Europe’s tallest voleanb, hurled
molten rock 500 feet into the air
yesterday in rumbling explosions
every three minutes.
The latest eruption, which be
gan four days ago, started to in
crease in violence Wednesday
night.
The explosions are coming from
a relatively recent crater several
hundred yards down the north
east side of the volcano. Lava has
not yet started pouring out, but
scientists said the level of the
molten rock was near the rim of j
j the crater.
$3V2 Billion. Foreign Aid
Bill Leaves Congress
Billion Short of Request
| WASHINGTON, UP)—The House
I today passed 194-122 and sent to
i President Eisenhower a $3,435,
j 810,000 foreign aid money bill.
! This is a billion dollars below Ei
senhower’s original request.
The House action cleared from
Congress the last regular appro
j priation bill for the current fiscal
i year—and perhaps, the most dis
puted one. The Senate passed the
compromise measure last night
by 58 to 19.
The unexpectedly close vote in
House passage showed 107 Dem
ocrats and 87 Republicans for the
measure. Against were 70 Demo
crats and 52 Republicans.
One congressman after another
during the final debate made clear
that he was against voting even
for a bill cut a billion dollars be
low what Eisenhower had wanted.
Sea Otter Population
Along Alaskan Coasts
I Has Had Sharp Increase
WASHINGTON, Of)—1The cur
rent population of sea otters along
the Alaskan and Aleutian Islands
coast may be high as 20,000, the
Interior Department said Wed
nesday. In 1950 the estimate was
set at 8,000 animals.
Director Daniel H. Jantzen of
the Bureau of Sports Fisheries
and Wildlife says a survey by air
plane and boat of the most impor
tant sea otter concentrations out
side of the western Aleutians
(except one in Prince William
Sound) revealed a much larger
number of otters than was gener
ally thought to exist in these oth
er areas.
Mussolini’s Body Is
Turned Over to Widow
ROME, (#)—The Italian govern-'
ment today turned the body of
Benito Mussolini over to his wid
ow at St. Cassiano Cemetery in
Predappio.
The body was brought in a
truck from its long-secret burial
place for transfer to the Musso
j Inii family vault at Predappio,
the Mussolini birthplace.
Despite the fact the action was
taken by the government without
prior announcement, a small
crowd gathered in the cemetery
where the black-clad widow of
the former dictator received the
body. The widow, Rachele, had
come secretly frmo the island of
Iscba where she has been living
a retired life since the war.
Pan Will Take Fight
For Seattle Passengers
To Washington, D.C.,
SAN FRANCISCO, ffl-Pan
American Airways said Wednes
day it would take its fight to
Washington, D.C., for permission
to pick up passengers in Seattle1
enroute to Tokyo via the great
circle route, respite refusal by the
San Francisco Public Utilities
Commission to support the bid.
Robert Murray, Pan American
vice president in charge of the j
Pacific Alaska Division, said the
existing Civil Aeronautics Board
ruling stipulates PAA can stop in ;
Seattle only to refuel.
But Murray explained that if!
PAA could pick up passengers in j
Seattle it would have enough pas- J
sengers to warrant seven flights
weekly. .Otherwise, Murray said,
contemplated traffic would war
rant only two flights weekly.
“It could only hurt San Fran
cisco to support Seattle as a gate
way to the Orient,” said Edward
B. Baron, a San Francisco Public
Utilities commissioner, said.
Spokesmen for Western and
.United Airlines also opposed the
move.
SOURDOUGHS MEET
IN SEATTLE FOR 26th
ANNUAL REUNION
SEATTLE, (jf>—Alaskans and
ex-Alaskans who answered the
call of gold in the 1890s began
assembling here yesterday for the
26th annual International Sour
dough Reunion.
More than 700 men and women
from all parts of the United
States, Alaska and Canada were
registering for the four-day meet
ing which started last night.
The reunion is celebrating the
60th anniversary of the famous
“ton of gold” ship, the Portland,!
which arrived in Seattle with its
cargo July 17, 1897, and touched
off the Alaska gold rush.
The program calls for a busi
ness meeting last night, a grand
ball tonight, a banquet Saturday
night and a picnic Sunday.
U.S. Air Force Starts
Rescue of 19 Norwegians
Marooned on Ice Floe
Westover Air Force Base, Mass.
(J*—The Air Force reported yes
terday four of 19 Norwegian sea
men have been lifted from an
arctic ice floe where they had
been marooned five days.
The Air Force expected that
the others would be plucked to
safety Later.
A helicopter based at Thule,!
Greenland, picked up the four;
and landed them at an airstrip j
some 750 miles from Thule. From j
there they will be taken aboard a
ship. All men appeared to be in j
good condition.
The 19 became marooned when
their 292-foot ship became stuck
in an ice pack. The ship had been
supplying a scientific and hunting
station operated in north Green
land by the Norwegian Polar In
stitute.
Washington State
First Oil Well
l .
Making Good Start
ABERDEEN, Wash., UP>—Sun
shine Mining Co.’s wildcat oil
[ well, solo performer in Washing
ton’s debut as an oil producing
state, has checked out satisfactor
ily in the first phase of produc
tion testing, company officials
said yesterday.
The well is located just off the
beach near Ocean City about 20
miles northwest of here.
A. F. Wynn, general manager
of the firm’s petroleum division,
said two 500-barrel standby tanks
had been filled in the well’s ini
tial five days of flow. And he
added: “It looks better than it
ever did to me.”
The flow will remain cut off
until contracts for the sale of the
oil are completed.
Sunshine President Robert M.
Hardy Jr., of Spokane, said that
on the basis of tests so far the
well definitely is a producer.
In Commissioner’s Court
Sam Thomas, driving a car
without the owner’s consent was
sentenced to 180 days suspended.
Steve Luke was ordered to pay
$50 a month on a charge of non
support.
John Hickey was fined $100
and given a 30-day suspended
sentence for being drunk and dis
orderly.
Cable Ship Starts
Repair Operation on
States-Alaska Line
SEATTLE, UP)—The cable ship
Basil O. Lenoir arrived yesterday
morning at the scene of the break
in the Alaska Communication
System cable about 20 miles south
of Petersburg, ACS headquarters
here reported.
The cable was broken Saturday
and the Lenoir took off for the
scene from here Sunday. Grap
pling for the south end of the
cable has started, a radio mes
sage from the ship said.
ACS engineers have tentatively
decided the break was caused by
an underwater slide of mud and
silt.
Breaking of the cable disrupted
telephone and news services to
and from Alaska for a time until
an auxiliary system by radio
could be set up.
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