Interior Department Seeks
Increased Rents for
Public Mineral Leases
WASHINGTON, UP) — The In
terior Department is asking Con
gress to increase rentals for min
eral leases on public domain lands
to discourage speculation in leases.
Present law provides for a min
imum rental on non-competitive
oil and gas leases of 25 cents an
acre a year with a waiver of all
rentals for the second and third
years. The Department is asking
the minimum be fixed at 50 cents
an acre and the waiver eliminated.
Secretary of the Interior Fred
A. Seaton told Congress that the
low rental and the waiver enable
speculators to hold a lease for
several years in hope of selling
it at a profit.
COLD FEET . . .
DETROIT, UP) — A sparrow,
dallying over a meal of bread
crumbs, found its feet frozen in
a puddle.
Cass Kulsea, a bird watcher,
noticed its predicament.
Kulsea said he chipped the bird
loose with his pocket knife but
there was so much ice around its
feet it couldn’t move.
Kulsea took the bird in his
home, held it under a faucet and
ran warm water over the ice un
til it melted. Then he released
the sparrow.
It went back to the bread
crumbs.
Eisenhower Terms
Talks With Mexico
Pres. ‘Successful’
WASHINGTON, (J*) — President
Eisenhower returned Saturday
from a two-day visit with Mexico’s
President Adolfo Lopez Mateos.
The White House described the
trip “all in all a very highly suc
cessful” journey.
James C. Hagerty, White House
Press Secretary, told reporters:
“The President returned to
Washington with a feeling he has
a friend, and the two will be in
close touch with each other. This
isn’t the last time they will get
in touch with each other.”
Hagerty’s remarks elaborated
on a joint statement Eisenhower
and Mateos issued at the conclu
sion of their talks Friday night
in Acapulco, Mexico.
A highlight of their communi
que was an agreement that a 100
million-dollar dam should be built
jointly by the United States and
Mexico on the Rio Grande River.
The project — known as the
Diablo Dam — has been in the
talking stage for 10 years. Con
gress now must be called to appro
priate the U. S. share and Mexi
co must figure out how to pay
its portion of the cost.
The press secretary said Eisen
hower told Mateos at the airport
in Acapulco Friday night he hoped
the Mexico President could visit
him in the United States.
L. A. Church Group
Advises Parents ‘Stay
Home’ on Meeting Night
LONG BEACH, Calif., — The
Unitarian Church’s parent-educa
tion meeting, scheduled for tonight
has been cancelled.
The reason, as given in the
church newsletter:
All Unitarians who have chil
dren want to be better parents.
They join P:TA groups, enroll in
night classes in child psychology,
work in cooperative nurseries and
Cub Scouts.
“One way or another, they go
to meetings, meetings, meetings.
Maybe, too many meetings. Per
haps the best way to learn how
to be a good parent is to stay
home and practice.
“Anyway, that’s what we are ad
vocating. We ask that all parents
stay home with their children the
evening of February 23, and glory
in family joy. Pop corn, read stor
ies, play games, love one another
more than usual.”
NOTICE
Beginning March 1, 1959, all
cars and trucks operating in the
City of Nome must have 1959 City
License Stickers. The stickers
must be displayed on the wind
shield of the vehicles. Only Fed
eral, State and City vehicles are
exempt. All servicemen owning
private vehicles will no longer be
exempt from this license.
John Marvik,
25 Chief of Police '
U. S. Airman Racing To
Bring Bride Home From
Remote Northern Islands
ABERDEEN, Scotland, !#) — A
U. S. airman sailed the North Sea
by fishing smack today bound for
the remote Faroe Islands in a
race against time to get to his
bride-to-be in Iceland.
Airman Walter Baldwin, 28, of
Cleveland, Ohio, has covered 1,600
miles by sea in a week, to pick
up Kristen Anthons. He is to re
turn to the United States April 2.
To marry before then, under Ice
landic law, Kristen must be in
Iceland by February 28.
Baldwin went from Iceland to
the Shetland Islands, horth of
Scotland, but couldn’t get passage
from there to the Faroes. He took
a cattle boat to Aberdeen.
Then he encountered Jans Jen
sen, master of the Faroese fish
ing smack Grunnigen. When Bald
win told his story, Jensen ex
claimed, “Why I know Kristen,”
and took the airman aboard. Bald
win’s next problem will be getting
back with the girl.
The couple met in Iceland nine
months ago when Kristen was
there as a nurse.
NOTICE!
Deadline for 1959 Automobile
Tabs is February 28, 1959. After
that dale automobiles operated
without 1959 tabs will be illegal.
Tabs are purchased at Depart
ment of Taxation. This office is
open until Noon Saturdays.
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Wiki Missile Blasts
Hole On Rancli
In New Mexico
EL PASO, Tex., — A mighty
Nike-Hercules shook off its
shackles, went astray and missed
a cluster of southern New Mexico
ranch -buildings by a scant 200
yards. *
An explosive charge, which was
ment to destroy it in flight in
case it went out of control, blew
up when the rocket speared in,
gouging a hole 10 feet deep and
30 feet wide.
It was a close call for five
adults and one child, but a mili
tary spokesman said no one was
“even scratched.”
The closest building was a
stone-walled barn with a gabled
wooden roof. The blast lifted the
roof and set it down again. In
side, playing next to a stack of
sacked cattle feed was Karen
Mauldin, 18 months old.
Outside, working in the corrals,
were her father, Kenneth, and the
ranch owner, Don T. Lee, and his
son, Charles.
The missile was fired from Mc
Gregor Missile Training Range in
south central New Mexico.
Find Juneau Man Innocent
Of Forgery Charge
JUNEAU, UP) — A former ter
ritorial Department of Finance
employe, John Dapcevich of Ju
neau, was found innocent of for
gery last week by a jury of 11
women and one man in federal
district court here.
Dapcevich had been charged
with forging a $651 territorial
warrant in November of 1957
which had been made out to Mrs.
Don Felt for purchase of fuels
supplies for a territorial school at
Dot Lake.
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Chamber of Commerce
Meets Every Monday Noon at
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Worthy Matron
Helen Dunbax
Secretary
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Jim Blanning
President
Bob Grant
Secretary
Wednesday Luncheon
Parent-Teachers Assn.
Meets last Tuesday of every
month at School.
ROSCOE WILKIE, President
MARY DIEDE. Secretary.
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