THE NOME NUGGET
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Entered as second class matter October 14, 1943 at the
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The Rescue
SIX OF THE BEST
Sydney, Australia, like many an American com
munity, has been plagued with juvenile crime. Duck
taled teenagers, called bodgie-boys down under, have
wantonly destroyed automobiles, engaged in gang
wars, and beaten innocent bystanders.
Sydney’s answer takes the form of a two-pronged
ordinance. First, the parents must pay for the damage
done by their delinquent offsrpring. Second, as Robert
Ruark vividly phrases it, “A father must, in the pres
ence of a police officer, apply six of the best to sonny
boy’s stern—with a police whip, and to the satisfaction
of the attending officer.”
Sydney has set a precedent that every city and
town could profitably follow.
“George Washington explained why men owe
some of their time to their country. He said, ‘ . . . every
citizen who enjoys protection of a free (unoppressed)
government owes not only a proportion of his property
but even his personal services to the defense of it.’
When Washington spoke, the dangers were small com
pared to the terrible risks of the mid-twentieth cen
tury.” —Quincy, Mass., Patriot Ledger
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i Most Straw Polls Find Eisenhower
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Has Comfortable Lead Over Stevenson
President Eisenhower has a
comfortable lead over Adlai E.
Stevenson in most straw polls as
the campaign draws to a close.
A George Gallup national poll
covering interviews thru last
Wednesday reported the Republi
can President ahead of his Dem
ocratic rival 55 percent to 45 per
cent.
That ratio almost matches the
actual 1952 election results, when
the Eisenhower-Nixon ticket
polled 55.4 percent of the popular
vote.
A national “man in the street”
poll by Kenneth Fink, another
professional poller, gave this re
sult: Eisenhower 54 percent, Ste
venson 46 percent.
Stevenson has continued to
score some gains, however.
Most of the latest available
straws were taken before the Is
raeli invasion of Egypt last Mon
day. Therefore the polls do not
indicate what effect the hostilities
might have on the election tomor
row.
But some newspapers have
made surveys in the past few days j
to sound out voter reaction to the
Middle East hostilities.
The New York Times said its
correspondents in a dozen cities
found that the Middle East crisis
and the anti-Soviet uprisings in
eastern Europe have strengthened
Eisenhower’s re-election bid.
The New York Daily News,
backing Eisenhower editorially,
said its presidential straw poll
shows Adlai E. Stevenson gaining
votes in New York City as a re
sult of the Middle East crisis.
The St. Louis Globe-Democrat,
supporting Eisenhower, said its
final poll of St. Louis, St. Louis
County, and 53 other counties in
eastern Missouri shows Steven
son leading with 49.3 percent of
the vote. Eisenhower received 41.2
percent, and 9.6 percent of voters
were undecided. Missouri has 114
counties.
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LEAGUE OF ALASKA
CITIES ENDS MEETING
(Continued from Page One)
Exemption of motor vehicles
i from property tax with leveies to
be collected with issuance of li
cense and refunds to cities and
other political subdivisions.
Empowering of cities to inspect
property owners’ records for as
sessment purposes; an act to en
able cities to operate sewers as
public utilities.
Recommendation that territori
al bonds be issued to finance five
percent of the local share of Na
tional Guard armories construc
tion; revise residence definition in
election laws and authorize voting
machines; amend territorial law
to make municipal real property
taxes a first lien paramount to all
others; exemption of cities and
territory for performance of po
lice and other activities.
Among resolutions adopted are:
Request appropriation of $50
million to extend Alaska public
works to 1964; authorize APW to
expand remaining balance of ap
propriation with priority given
municipalities and school con
struction.
Request appropriation for a
mental health program, suggest
ing two hospitals in Alaska, vol
untary commitment and proce
dure for mandatory commitment.
Support of rural schools by
taxes; authorization of Alaska
Housing Authority to act as plan
ers for municipalities; and request
for a federal 1957 census to in
clude local units of government
in Alaska.
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Nixon Says Stevenson
Tried to Inflame Passions
On Middle East Question
(By the Associated Press*
In Detroit Wednesday, Vice Pres
ident Nixon said that Adlai E.
Stevenson had “deliberately at
tempted to inflame passions at
home and abroad” in statements
criticizing the administration on
the Middle East question.
Hopping to New York City,
Nixon hit on the civil rights issue
Wednesday night in a speech in
Harlem, an area populated heav
ily by Negroes.
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