I HE NOME NUGGET
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Entered ns second class matter October 14, 1943, at the
post office at Nome, Alaska, under Act of March 3. 1879
Let’s All Have a Sav . . .
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A HEARING WILL BE held here tomorrow by
the State Public Service Commission regarding
the proposed rules and regulations on air commerce,
motor freight transportation and public utilities as
well as proposed laws and official reports to the Leg
islature.
These hearings are not just for committees ap
pointed by the Chamber of Commerce and other civic
bodies but open to the public and are of such vital
Importance to the existence of the community which is
dependant on air transportation that the Court Room
should be filled to capacity. If a person has an opinion
on the subjects being discussed, this is the time to voice
them.
Too many persons do not take advantage of these
public hearings to learn about the problems and ad
vantages of proposed legislation and spend too much
time after a law is passed complaining and criticizing
what legislators have done.
Let’s Keep Our Beloved Ones Home ...
NOME IS THE CENTER of Northwestern Alaska,
the pivot around which the communications of
the area, the travel and the economy of the area flows.
It is also the center of a very unique economic situa
tion which must be overcome at any cost if this part
of the State is to have a balanced development.
The youth are channeled off to schools when they
are very young and many ties are lost or they are
shipped away for relocation.
The aged are bundled up and shipped away from
their families when they become helpless never to
see their families or life long friends again.
Without the young and without the old, North
western Alaska has an unnatural situation which is
not good for healthy development.
Northwestern Alaska • must work hard for the
Vocational School which was approved wholehearted
ly in the last election by the voters, so that the youth
of today will be here to do the work of tomorrow. At
the same time the old people must not be forgotten and
agitation and study must be made for an adequate
nursing facility for the aged in the area.
Gambling, Boroughs and Employment
Security Will Be a Repeat Performance
By Wfird T. Sims
Associated Press Stall Writer
JUNEAU W — Gambling, Bor
oughs and Employment Security
should be back for repeat per
formances when the Legislature
opens on Jan. 23 and there are
all indications the same old
wounds will be reopened.
The last Legislature gave the
nod to Alaska’s winter parlor
game, the ice pool guessing con
test, and it okayed certain other
types of gambling, if conducted
on a non-profit basis.
There have been hints from
several quarters in recent months
that a move will be made during
the 1961 session to open the state
to Nevada-type gambling.
If there is such a move, last
year’s squabble will seem like a
lovers’ spat.
The Borough question has been
with the state ever since the Con
stitutional Convention decided to
provide Alaska with an area
wide type of government.
In directing the establishment
of governmental units called Bor
oughs, the Constitutional Conven
tion was stepping into an entire
ly new field and it put the Legis
lature in a tough spot.
The Legislature has no guide
lines to follow. The Borough Sys
tem, as it is envisioned for Alas- |
ka, has never been tried before.
That is the reason the Legisla
ture has stepped gingerly in the
matter of Boroughs.
There has never been any great
dispute, as yet, but there has been j
a great reluctance on the part of
the Senate, at least, to move too
fast on virgin ground.
A Borough Government Bill was
passed by the House last year, but
it failed to get past the Senate,
primarily because the Upper
Chamber felt there were too many
holes in the proposed statute.
A new bill will probably be in
troduced this year, based on a
year long study conducted by the
State Local Affairs Agency and
the State Legislative Council.
It will probably find its greatest
opposition coming from lobbyists
for the cities and the state’s in
dependent school districts.
The cities are reluctant to see
some of their traditional func
tions, such as fire and police pro
tection, possibly taken away from
them.
Schools would lose a great deal
of their independence under the
Borough System, unless the Legis
lature, or the Borough Assembly,
provided for local administration
of schools, with the Borough As
sembly acting only as a general
overseer.
The State Chamber of Com
merce has already indicated it
will push hard to trim the cost of
the State’s Unemployment Com
pensation program to the state’s
businessmen.
C. W. Snedden of Fairbanks,
President of the State Chamber,
advised members of the organiza
tion late last year that “this pro
gram is costing you two or three
GLUE POT
Soda Fountain
CIGARS, CIGARETS
TOBACCO
CANDY
FRESH ICE CREAM
EVERY DAY
times more than the national
average.”
Sneddon’s letter drew quick re
action from Henry Hedberg of
Anchorage, lobbyist for the State
Federation of Labor. Hedberg
said:
“There is no doubt in my mind
that there will be a terrific fight
on Alaska’s Unemployment Se
curity Program made by Mr.
Snedden and his cohorts . .
The Federation of Labor, in its
published legislative program for
1961 and 1962, said it will seek
an increase in unemployment com
pensation benefits and for an ex
tension of the benefit period.
UNMANNED AUTO
KILLS OWNER
PENOLA, Va. GP) — An empty
automobile, rolling down an in
cline on which it had been park
ed, ran over and killed its owner
Sunday near this eastern Vir
ginia community.
State police said Charles Henry
Goodall, 44, parked his car and
got out to open a gate.
He failed to set the parking
brake, police said, and the car
rolled over Goodall and dragged
him 70 feet before crashing into
a tree.
FLOATING MINES STILL
HAMPER JAPANESE SHIPPING
TOKYO 0P> — Japanese ship
ping is still haunted by floating
mines planted during World War
II.
The Maritime Self-Defense
Agency estimates 10,000 U.S.-made
magnetic mines are floating about.
Plans are under way to launch
a three-year mine-sweeping oper
ation to get rid of these explo
sives.
Eisenhower Will Send
His Final Nonpolitical
Budget to Congress
WASHINGTON 101 ^ Republi
can leaders said Tuesday Presi
dent Eisenhower will send Con
gress a balanced, nonpolitical
budget for the fiscal year start
ing July 1. They also said the
budget for the current year will
end up in the black.
Eisenhower’s budget message is
to go to the capitol Monday.
The description of it as balanced
and nonpolitical came from Sen.
Everett Dirksen of Illinois and
Rep. Charles Halleck of Indiana,
the Senate and House GOP lead
ers, after they had conferred with
Eisenhower for more than two
hours.
Dirksen told newsmen at the
White House: “This budget would
be the same if Dwight Eisenhower
were to continue in office.
Dirksen and Halleck declined
to give the budget figures.
But they said the budget pro-;
vides for projects that are neces
sary for the national well-being
yet will “keep our fiscal House
in order by living within our
revenues.”
Dirksen said Eisenhower in his
budget message will again stress
the necessity of living within
revenues.
Halleck, taking note of various
“task force” recommendations to
President-elect John F. Ken
nedy, said some of these spend
ing recommendations could throw
the budget completely out of bal
ance.
It was the last meeting of the
Republican leaders with Eisen
hower before he leaves office
Jan. 20.
No wonder it’s so hard for many
of us to see our way clear. . . .
Some 90 million Americans have
the vision problem called astig
matism.
WINTER SCHEDULE ,
FAIRBANKS TO NOME (Via Kotzebue)
EACH MONDAY and FRIDAY — FLIGHT 309
Lv. Fairbanks *7:30 a.m. Ar. Kotzebue 8:20 a.m.
Lv. Kotzebue 9:00 a.m. Ar. Nome 9:45 a.m.
EACH WEDNESDAY — FLIGHT 309
Lv. Fairbanks *7:30 a.m. Ar. Kotzebue 9:00 a.m.
Lv. Kotzebue 9:40 a.m. Ar. Nome 10:45 a.m.
FAIRBANKS TO NOME
EACH TUESDAY and SATURDAY — FLIGHT 311
Lv. Fairbanks *7:30 a.m. Ar, Tanana *8:05 am.
Lv. Tanana *8:15 a.m. Ar. Galena *8:55 a.m.
Lv. Galena *9:25 a.m. Ar. Nome 9:25 a.m.
FAIRBANKS TO NOME (Direct)
EACH THURSDAY — FLIGHT 311
Lv. Fairbanks *7:30 a.m. Ar. Nome 8:40 a.m.
NOME TO FAIRBANKS (Direct)
EACH MONDAY — FLIGHT 310
Lv. Nome 10:45 a.m. Ar. Fairbanks *1:55 p.m.
EACH WEDNESDAY — FLIGHT 310
Lv. Nome 4:30 pm. Ar. Fairbanks *8:40 p.m.
EACH FRIDAY — FLIGHT 310
[Lv. Nome 2:00 p.m. Ar. Fairbanks *5:10 pm.
- NOME TO FAIRBANKS (Via Kotzebue)
EACH TUESDAY and SATURDAY — FLIGHT 312
Lv. Nome 10:25 p.m. Ar. Kotzebue 11:10 a.m.
Lv. Kotzebue 11:50 am. Ar. Galene *1:45 p.m.
Lv. Galena *2:00 pm. Ar. Tanana *2:40 pm.
Lv. Tanana *2:50 p.m. Ar. Fairbanks *3:25 p.m.
EACH THURSDAY — FLIGHT 312
Lv. Nome 9:40 am. Ar. Kotzebue 10:25 am.
Lv. Kotezebue 11:05 am. Ar. Fairbanks *1:55 pm.
(*) Alaska Standard Time, All other times Bering Standard
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