THE NOME NUGGET
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Entered as second class matter October 14, 1943, at the
post office at Nome, Alaska, under Act of March 3, 1879.
FICTION CAN BE STRANGER THAN TRUTH
Let’s Make Use of Nome’s Land Office
LAST YEAR the Second District lost its land office
in Nome due to lack of interest and insufficient
business to warrant keeping an agent here.
Although its activity may be limited the need
exists if there is to be development and progress.
However the fact that its services were not used may
have been because it was not understood by many
people just what its functions were.
Dan Jones, director of the 4th Division Office,
explained recently that it really involves many im
portant phases concerning public land.
It has stockpiled many tons of fire-fighting equip
ment and supplies for forest and tundra fires as well
as trained fire fighters to handle the conservation of
federal property. This office is the place to report
tundra fires.
Anyone having cabins or summer cottages out
side of the city limits would do well to talk over with
.the agent in this office their rights to the land on
which they are located. If the camps are not legally
located, this is the place to correct the situations.
Homesites, homesteads, mining claims all come
under the Land Office. Salmon Lake campers, now
trespasser, will be advised on how to hold their camp
ing privileges.
Reindeer grazing areas are also a concern of this j
department. Just how this affects our reindeer indus
try is a factor little known and of economical impor
tance to this area.
Requests for parks, park areas adjacent to cities
such as ours, is something that should be explored
while the land is still federal land, stated Jones. Such
an area or probably two such areas, one adjacent to
the beach and another in the foothills should be con
sidered. This is a worthy project for a civic group
to study and confer with the Land Office on avail
ability, and has been undertaken by the Home Arts
Club.
Park sites are already being studied along High
way 97 and an aerial survey will make some definite
choices, for public trailer camps and picnic grounds.
It is hoped that the setting aside of the Lava Beds as a
permanent “wonder of the world” will be considered.
The agent of the local office will welcome discus
sing any of these things with anyone interested and
every visit will be tabulated as a record of the use of
the office which is on a trial basis only for this summer.
Treasury Department
Considering Income Tax
Cut for Next Year
WASHINGTON UP—'The Treas
ury is considering an income tax
cut for next year.
This was indicated Friday by
Secretary Douglas Dillon, al
though he carefully avoided mak
ing any commitments about fu
ture tax policy.
Questioned by the House Ways
; and Means Committee on present
j and future plans, Dillon remark
ed with apparent approval: There
is “one theory the income tax,
especially should be somewhat
| lower. The idea is that a tax re
duction would be an incentive to
! higher economic activity.”
When questioned about a step
by-step reduction, Dillon said it
is under study but that he doesn’t
know what his department will
recommend.
10 Second Twister
Kills 13 People
POT POTEAU, Okla. UP — A
tornado that didn’t last 10 sec
onds killed 13 persons and in
jured 59 late Friday at it tore
through two tiny towns in Eastern
Oklahoma.
“It didn’t last 10 seconds,” said
Charles Lewallen.
But in those 10 seconds the big,
happy reunion turned into a
nightmare. Four members of the
family were killed, nine injured,
including two children.
The storm was the worst of
many that blanketed most of Ok
lahoma for the second straight
day. It came on the first anniver
sary of a tornado that killed 13
and injured, more than 100 at
Wilburton, just 40 miles to the
west.
There was little warning as the
twister smashed out of a torrential
rain.
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Shepard’s Hide Into Space Gives
Lift to U.S. Prestige in the World
By The Associated Press
LONDON UP* — Alan B. Shep
ard’s ride into space gave a lift
to lagging U. S. prestige in the
world and the wide open display
of the adventure brought cheers.
Western Europe praised both
Shepard’s courage and the cou
rage of the United States in not
wrapping its first manned space
shot in secrecy. Even the Com
munist world admired the astro
naut’s fearlessness.
British newspapers reflected
West’s relief that the United
States had achieved success after
a long and anxious wait. A Lon
don Daily Sketch editorial voiced
a feeling widespread in Britain:
“Technically, they were run
ners-up. Morally, the cup is theirs.
Every setback, every postpone
ment was mercilessly exposed.
“This is the kind of achieve
ment we understand in our part
of the world. That’s the way we
like to have done it.”
Shepard’s 5,100 miles an hour
—“what a ride!”—formed the
same huge headline in the Mail,
the Express and the Mirror.
Chancellor Adenauer of West
Germany, Prime Minister Mac
Millan of Britain and Premier
Fanfani of Italy cabled their con
gratulations to President Ken
nedy.
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The reaction in Communist
capitals was admiration for Shep
ard, mild praise for the feat it
self and reminders that the U. S.
astronaut’s flight could not com
pare historically or technically
with Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gag
arin’s space orbit of last month.
Soviet Premier Khrushchev in
dicated his awareness of Shepard’s
flight without mentioning it
specifically. He praised Gagarin
in a speech at Erevan, Soviet Ar
menia, and said the Russian major
flew “around the globe precisely
—not just up and down.”
Soviet citizens got the news in
cut-and-dried fashion, the first
broadcast disclosing it 90 minutes
after Shepard landed in the At
lantic. Radio Free Europe beamed
bulletins and eyewitness accounts
behind the Iron Curtain.
The Red radio in Czechoslova
kia described the rocket flight as
“primitive and outmoded.” But
both Czech and Hungarian broad
casts praised Shepard himself as
a hero.
The Red Chinese press in Hong
Kong was disparaging. The Com
munist Daily said the U. S. space
shot was a propaganda stunt.
Four Canadians Will
Try to Scale Mt. McKinley
VANCOUVER, B. C. UP> — Four
men from Nanaimo, Burnaby,
Vancouver and Consort, Alta.,
left here Friday to begin an as
sault on 20,320-foot Mount Mc
Kinley, North America’s highest
peak.
They hope to become the first
all-Canadian expedition to con
quer the peak.
All are members of the B. C.
Mountaineering Club which is
sponsoring the expedition.
“Other Canadians have made it
to the top, but there has never
been an all-Canadian group try
it,” Himmelsbach, leader of the
expedition said.
“We hope to make the summit
] in about two weeks. Just in case,
: though, we have supplies for 28
1 days on the mountain. If the
, weather is right we should have
| time left to try a couple of more
I climbs.”
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