THE NOME NUGGET
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Entered as second class matter October 14. 1943. at the /
Dostoffiee at Nome. Alaska, under the Act of March 3. 1879
MORE DEFENSE FOR LESS MONEY
One of the best money-saving ideas we have heard
of yet is actually to be put into operation by the U.S
Air Force, and practically right now!
By next June, 25,000 airmen now serving in depot
operations on foreign bases will have been replaced
by natives of the various countries and transferred
home. During fiscal 1955, an additional 10,000 will be
“repatriated, - all 35,000 to be assigned to duty with
the new Air Force wings as they are organized.
Some indication of the potential savings is seen
in the fact that the Air Force can hire European civil
ians for half the airman’s pay, and Japs for less than
a third . . who can do the work of a man whose training
(which is not being used) cost U.S. taxpayers $14,000.
Savings in Europe are estimated at 36 million dollars,
which will be diverted to activating new wings.
Thus, by next June, we will have 116 combat
wings instead of the scheduled 110, and a year later
120 wmgs—with 10,000 less men than the authorized
strength.
We begin to see what Defense Secretary Wilson
means when he promises more defense for less money.
“David And Bathsheba"
Outstanding Movie At
Theater This Weekend
The local theater has announced
an outstanding picture for Friday
and Saturday nights of this week j
—“David and Bathsheba.”
The technicolor show starring |
Gregory Peck' and Susan Hay- ;
ward is rated as most spectacular
and breathtaking. It rated excep
tionally high among the outstand
ing religious productions of recent ;
years, and is approved by most
church groups.
The management stated that the
late production and many others
which have won high acclaim
have been selected for theater- j
going Nomeites.
Mr. and Mrs. Spencer Strand
are the parents of a son, Gerald,
born Monday at the MMM Hos- ;
pital, weighing eight pounds and I
12 ounces.
Mr. and Mrs. Strand, are with
the Covenant Church at Unala
kleet. Mr. Strand is well known
here, as he assisted in the build
ing the the Covenant Church and
was active with the Covenant
Navigators and Youth for Christ
movements.
He is at present building a
church at Unalakleet.
NOTICE
.At a special meeting of the
Nr.me City Council, held Jan. 12,
1954, the following ordinance,
entitled "An Ordinance of the
Ciiy of Nome, Alaska, confirming
the result of an election held
therein on November 24, 1953,
providing for ihe issuance of
clsciric system revenue bonds of
ih? Ciiy in total principal sum of
S’'5.030, etc.," was approved.
Ordinance No. 361 is posted af
the U. S. Commissioner's office,
U. 5. Fosi Office and the bulletin
bo d of ihe Ciiy Hall for your
fur .her reading and clarification.
Ciiy of Nome,
By Carrie M. McLain,
City Clerk
Publish Jan. 13, 15, 1954
CAB Asked To
Suspend Reduced
Fan Am Fares
WASHINGTON, (#1—Alaska Air
lines has asked the Civil Aero
nautics Board to suspend immedi
ately reduced fares which Pan
American World Airways plans to
i introduce Jan. 24 between Seattle
i and Fairbanks, and Portland., Ore.,
and Fairbanks.
Alaska also asked the board to
reject the existing Pan American
fares between those cities—except
for Pan Am’s southbound DC-4
cargo-plane service. The Alaskan
firm complained that since last
Oct. 1 Pan American has been
offering DC-6 service at rates
I charted all along for slower DC-4
I service.
Alaska Airlines asked the CAB
to reject any DC-6 fare that is not
higher than the $90 DC-4 fare
between Seattle and Fairbanks—
again, except for Pan-American’s
southbound DC-4 cargo-type ser
vice.
The complaint, filed Monday,
said Pan American’sproposed fares
are below cost and would “destroy
the entire U.S.-Alaska tariff struc
ture at substantial cost to the U.S.
| taxpayer.”
It added that Pan American’s
Alaska division mail pay require
ment would almost double- under
the cost burden of DC-6 service
at the proposed reduced fares.
Pan American proposed Jan. 24
to cut the Fairbanks-San Francis
| co fare from S90 to $80 one way,
1 and from $162 to $160 round trip.
It would cut the Portland-Fair
i banks one-way fare from $97 to
[ $87, and the round trip fare from
j $174.60 to $174. The cargo type
1 DC-4 Fairbanks-Seattle fare would
be reduced $5 to $70.
Mrs. W. B. McCarthy returned
yesterday from Juneau where she
had attended a meeting of the
Territorial Welfare Board.
100 Dead, Missing
From Avalanches
In Central Europe
VIENNA, Austria, —More than
100 persons are dead or missing
in a major avalanche disaster in
the Vorarlberg region of Austria,
police at Bregenz reported Tues
day.
The toll was announced as other
vast snowslides throughout the
mountain lands of central Europe
claimed at least 23 dead and 44
missing.
The avalanches, roaring down
the Alps, severed communications
and isolated hundreds of villages.
Officials said it might be days
| before the full toll is known.
Police said that more than 50
of the victims of the Vorarlberg
disaster were missing in the vill
age of Blons.
Twenty-three houses in the
town, in the great Walser Valley
near the Swiss frontier, were cov
ered by a huge series of snow
slides Monday.
The avalanches blocked the
small Lutzbaeh River and many
of the missing were feared to be
drowned in the dammed - up
j waters.
I The other 50 persons listed as
I dead or missing were from scat
tered villages in Vorarlberg Prov
j ince, police said. The reports in
dicated that the sudden avalanch
es may add up to the nation’s
worst snow disaster. Only three
years ago more than 124 people
were buried alive in a similar
catastrophe.
The slides—ancient foes of Eu
rope’s hardy mountain folk—cut
a wide swathe of death and de
struction through tiny picture
postcard villages in the Austrian
Tyrol, the Bavarian Alps, north
ern Italy and Switzerland.
Rescue squads toiled by lantern
light through the night in frantic
efforts to dig out people buried by
huge masses of melting snow
which, carrying tree trunks and
huge boulders in their wake,
thundered down over their homes.
Rescued Flier Tells
Of Sleepless Week
On Arctic Icepack
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items he possessed. But the search
plane passed on.
About four hours later, the
drone of another search plane
was heard and he spread his
sleeping bag on the snow and ran
back and .forth near it. This time
the crew of plane sighted him in
the gloom.
The search pilot was unable to
•land on the jagged ice-, but the
pilot summoned a smaller Wien
Airlines plane from Barrow. The
light plane landed in total dark’
ness, skidding to a stop only 20
feet from a huge pressure ridge.
Thebedeau was hosptialized
alongside his wife who had given
birth to the twins, a boy and a
girl, while her mate was lost. He
will be hospitalized for a few
days, nursing frozen fingers, toes,
cheeks and ears. The frostbite is
not considered serious.
Capt. Joe Walker, commander
of the 74th Air Rescue Squadron,
said it was a miracle his planes
had found the lone man on the
trackless, dark Arctic ice pack.
At this time'of the year there is
only an' hour or two of dim twi
light at midday and darkness pre
vails the remainder of the 24
hours. ^
N O T I C S
Methodist Church official board
meeting prosiponed until next j
week.
GOP Plans For
Taft-Hartley Draw
Blast From Demos
WASHINGTON, UP)— Republican
J plans to speed consideration of
President Eisenhower’s proposals
for revising the Taft-Hartley la
bor law Tuesday drew Democratic
cries of “dictatorial and steam
roller tactics.”
The Republican majority of the
Senate Labor Committee, headed
by Chairman H. Alexander Smith
of New Jersey, moved to dispense
with hearings and to bring the
Eisenhower program to an early
vote in the committee.
Smith, who introduced legisla
tion to carry out the 14-point pro
gram right after it reached Capi
tol Hill Monday, said lengthy
hearings last year fully covered
the issues involved.
But committee Democrats, led
by Sen. Murray of Montana,
charged the Republican speed-up
strategy amounted to “dictatorial
and steamroller tactics.”
Murray said in an interview
•that Secretary of Labor Mitchell
should be called to explain the
recommendations. If the Republi
cans refuse to do this, Murray
contended, it would mean “they
are trying to ram this down our
throats.”
Union Paid Ritchie
Reward For Story
DETROIT, (2P)—Walter Reuther’s
CIO United Auto Workers Union
paid Donald Ritchie $5,090 in re
ward money for his story of the
union president’s attempted mur
der.
Presumably what might be left
of the money was aiding Ritchie
in his flight—the fifth day since
he slipped out of police “protec
tive custody” and never reap
peared.
The* big auto union, a partic
pant in total offers of $220,000 in
rewards in the Walter and Victor
Reuiher shootings in 1948 and
1949, publicly declared Monday
night it paid the $5,000 to Ritchie.
Ritchie, 33-year-old Canadian
petty thief, is the* missing key
witness in the assault conspiracy
case against four men and is also
now himself a defendant. A war
rant was sworn out against him
Monday.
As the fantastic case brought
new ramifications, there we-re
these other developments:
1. The two policemen guards
who permitted Ritchie* to slip free
from a Detroit hotel suite were
given lie detector examinations.
2. Wayne County prosecutor
Gerald K. O’Brien ordered a con
ference of subordinates and oth
ers to get, he said, all the facts
relating to the payment to Ritchie.
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