THE NOME NUGGET
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Bicycle Safely Week
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The importance of Bicycle Safety Week—observed
April 16-21 stateside and good advice here now—can
be judged by statistics. Each year more than 400 chil
dren die in bicycle auto accidents and another 25,000
are injured.
Basic bike safety rules include: Obey all traffic
signs and regulations; walk the bike across heavily
traveled streets and roads; never ride two on a bike;
use the proper lights at night; keep the bike in good
mechanical condition; stop and see that streets are
clear before riding out of alleys or driveways or from
behind parked cars.
Let’s get such life-saving rules as these across to
every bicycle rider at this time.
A Short V isit
Nome welcomes briefly Friday noon the members
of the American Society of Travel Agents who have
come from all over the States to see Alaska and what
it has to offer the tourists.
We don’t know how it happened or who is to blame,
but the time of these guests is so limited that they will
have the barest look at the most publicized, most his
torical town in the territory.
Like so many tourists that come for an hour, they
will say there isn’t time to see those things we really
wanted to see in Nome. They will not be able to say
they had a ride on the extreme end of Highway 97;
or went skin-boat riding in Bering Sea; or fished in any
of its many streams; or panned for gold in the ruby
sands along the beach; or saw ,a King Island dance;
or looked at gold bricks being made; or viewed the
spot that has more wildflowers than any other place
in the world. We could name many other things of
interest.
The Chamber of Commerce will endeavor to show
the guests as much as possible and invite them to come
a-gain and stay overnight next time._
Rep. Saylor Will Ask
Hawaii Statehood Bill
Be Sent to House Floor
WASHINGTON, UP—Rep. Say
lor (R-Pa) of the House Insular
Affairs Committee gave notice
Tuesday he will ask next Tuesday
that it send to the House floor for
action a bill to give statehood to
Hawaii.
He gave his notice after with
drawing an earlier and unexpect
ed request that the committee act
yesterday. This request brought
protests from various committee
members, including several who
normally would be expected to
support a statehood cause.
Saylor’s motion to take the bill
from the territory subcommittee
and send it to the House floor
. came without warning in the
midst of the committee’s regular
weekly session.
The bill is identical with the
Hawaii section of the joint Alaska
Hawaii statehood proposal which
was sent back to committee by the
House last spring.
ARCTIC SANITARY
SERVICE
PHONE RED 181
Phil Holdsworth Helps
Arrange for Renting of
Mining Equipment Here
Phil Holdsworth, head of the
Territorial Department of Mines,
conferred with businessmen and
mining men yesterday on the ser
vices needed in this area.
It was the consensus of opinion,
stated Holdsworth, that an assayer
and engineer was ' needed from
May to December.
Holdsworth stated that rental
equipment, including diamond
drills, geiger counters, mineral
lights and other items are at all
times available at the local de
partment.
As Pete Sandvik is often in the
field at this time of the year, ar
rangement have been made with
Carl Glavinovich of the U. S.
Smelting Co. to rent them out!
when the resident engineer is
out of town so that no time will
be lost by the mine operator who
wishes to rent them.
According to a letter received
from Pete Sather in Seattle, Chris
Totlin and John Solon wTere in a
serious auto accident.
Totlin is reported to have head
injuries and Solon has broken ribs
and collar bone. They are in the
Providence Hospital.
Alaska GOPs
Pick Candidates
For U. S. Congress
JUNEAU. Alaska Republi
cans have nominated candidates
for the congressional delegation
the territory plans to send to j
Washington, D.C., to push its
campaign for statehood.
Robert B. Atwood, publisher of
the Anchorage Times, and John
Butrovich, Fairbanks insurance
man. were nominated for the U.S.
Senate post. Charles Burdick of
Juneau was picked as the GOP
candidate for the single seat the
proposed state would have in the
House of Representatives.
The party’s convention rejected
a plan to agree on coalition candi
dates with the Democrats, who
will pick their nominees later this
month.
The territory will send the del
egation to Congress under the re
cently adopted Tennessee Plan—
so-called because Tennessee was
the first state to elect senators and
representatives in advance of
statehood.
Alaska Republicans elected an
uninstructed delegation of four to
the party’s national convention.
In a newspaper poll all expressed
support for President Eisenhower
and Vice President Nixon “or
whoever might be chosen for the
President’s running mate.”
The delegates are W. W Laws,
Nome; Elton Engstrom, Juneau;
Paul Robison, Anchorage; and
Sylvia Ringstad, Fairbanks. Al
ternates are William Boardman,
Ketchikan; Charles Jones, Nome;
and Bailey Bell and Lowell Ras
mussen, both of Anchorage.
ALASKA AIRLINES
From Anchorage: Mary Willoya,
Louis Schepacatar, Sgt. J. Griffin,
Lt. V. Sawvell, John Ulsher, Chad
Kirk, L- E. Carpenter, B. R. Hole
man, Chuck Frazier, Richard Lee,
Edward Bertics, Richard Corbin,
Wm. McClanahan, John Worgum,
Emily and Louis Spielman, H. M.
Pentezeoz, Lt. James Vopderheit,
Verna Vonderheit, Mrs. Glen Len
ert, Miss Lenert, E. T. Cane, Phil
Hoedsworta.
To Anchorage: Douglas Swalm,
Capt. R. Larson, Maj. Pogue, Ray
Reed, Sgt. Robert Raphoon, Miss
A. Perry, Duke Brown, W. F.
Bowser Jr., O. D. Carlstrom Jr.,
Victor Merrifield, Eric Jackson.
From Unalakleet: Olga Ball. To
Unalakleet: Howard Edison, Har
old Abrams, George Good, A. C.
Steinwandel, Jack Reed, Robert
Prescott.
From Kotzebue: Ruth and Fred
Carey, O. D. Caristrom Jr. W. F.
Bowser Jr. To Kotzebue: Flyod
Singyke, Everett Knoll.
From Moses Point: Stanley Da
vid. To McGrath: Sophie Wall,
Viola Ailak, Sig Kragstad.
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French Colt Lavandin I
Wins 177th English Derby
EPSOM, England, IP—Lavan
din, a French colt owned by
Pierre Wertheimer, rushed down
the stretch in the rain today at Ep
som Downs and won the 177th
running of he English Derby in
a stirring photo finish with Ameri
can-owned Montaval.
Twenty-seven 3-year-olds start
ed in the gruelling mile and one
half race, and Lavandin barely
held off the closing surge of Mon
aval, another French horse, owned
by R.B. Strassburger, formerly of
Norristown, Pa., now living in
France.
A driving rain started soon
after the horses entered the track,
and dampened the spirits of the
huge crowd which included
Archie Moore, world light heavy
weight champion. Moore sported
a top hat and swallow tail morn
ing coat for the races.
Others in the crowd included
the Queen Mother Elizabeth, Prin
cess Margaret and other members
of the royal family.
The Queen’s horse, Atlas, fin
ished out of the money.
NOTICE
The last of CLEAN-UP WEEK
debris shall be picked up by the
City June 9. 1956. After that resi
dents are responsible for their
own debris.
By order of the City Council
Committee on Health and
Sanitation
68 Carrie M. McLain. City Clerk
Clierry’s
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Shower Hath
Smoke Shop
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