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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.
A Tribute to Our Retiring Mayor . . .
IF EVERY PUBLIC MINDED citizen had the record
of civic service as the retiring mayor of Nome, Stef
fen Andersen, this community would be the most out
standing, model municipality in the whole USA.
Starting in 1947 Andersen served on the City
Council until 1949. This was followed by two years
as Mayor. After an interlude of two years he was
again elected to that executive office in 1953 and has
served in the post for the past eight years.
Tomorrow evening he turns over the responsi
bility of municipal leadership to a new mayor having j
completed twelve busy years which have carried !
Nome through many important improvements and I
crises.
Some people might think that presiding as chair
man at council meetings and officiating at greeting
dignitaries who come frequently to this part of the
state is the main function of the mayor. Actually he
serves on many boards and in many capacities relat
ing to civic matters which frequently takes all his
leisure hours, every night of the week.
He leaves an enviable record and his experi
ence can be a valuable assistance to the new council
and mayor.
The community joins with the staff of the Nugget
in extending appreciation at this time and the hope
that he will act in an advisory capacity to the new
officials as there are some very important years im
mediately ahead for Nome.
Circuit Court of Appeals
Will Convene in Alaska
ANCHORAGE UP> — U. S. Dis
trict Judge Walter Hodge said
Tuesday that the U. S. Ninth Cir
cuit Court of Appeals in Septem
ber will conduct court sessions
in Alaska for the first time.
The nine-member appellate
court sits regularly in San Fran
cisco. Hodge said he did not know
at this time how many members
of the court would come to Alas
ka or where in the 49th State
the court would convene.
The court will hear seven ap
peals in Alaska. Five of the cases
originated in Fairbanks, two else
where, the judge said.
The appellate judges will hear
the appeals from Sept. 5-8.
Senate Turns Down GOP
On Substitute Wage Bill
WASHINGTON UP) — The Sen- j
ate Tuesday turned back a Re- i
publican substitute aimed to cut
down the scope of President Ken- |
nedy’s minimum wage bill.
Thus the administration scored
a victory on the first major test i
on the legislation. The roll call j
vote was 63-34.
Other proposals to whittle the
Kennedy bill were expected to
win more support later but ad
ministration lieutenants remained
confident these could be defeated.
The administration bill would
raise the present $1 minimum to
$1.25 in two steps and bring an
additional 4,086,000 employes un
der the Wages and Hours Law.
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Nikita Out on a
Limb - Promises
Full Aid to Castro
By J. M. Roberts
Associated Press News Analyst
Soviet Premier Khrushchev,
! with his promise of all aid neces
j sarv to preserve the Fidel Castro
J regime in Cuba, has put himself
j on a limb.
He is gambling, for the sake of
| a strong propaganda s'rike artainst
! the United States, on the possi
bility that the current counter
revolutionary effort will prove
too little and too early.
Indeed, in the absence of solid
news from Cuba, this possibility
caused considerable worry in the
I United States.
There are conflicting elements
involved in any assessment of the
situation. Some exile sources,
after their bold statements of
Monday, are now trying to make
it appear that the Cuban coastal
operations have the limited objec
tive of supplying and rallying in
ternal revolt. This does not come
from major leaders. It does have
some semblance of advance pre
paration of an alibi. Certainly
there was no indication Tuesday
that the island had caught fire
with a desire for liberation from
dictatorship. There is still hope,
of course, that the few small fires
will spread and merge.
On the other hand, the usually
vocative Castro regime is being
very quiet about the military situ
ation. That could mean it is
heavily involved and highly wor
ried, or that it is laying the
groundwork for an attempt to
make a victory over a small force
appear to be an opposition-shat
tering achievement.
The Communists have made
1 six major gambits, sacrificing
points in their coexistence cam
paign in the hope of tactical
! achievements in their expansion
i program. These are in the Congo,
with regard to Berlin, with arms
and the promise of more aid in
Cuba and Laos, the threat to
Formosa, and the attempt to emas
culate the United Nations.
Their efforts have fizzled, at
least for the time being, every
where except Cuba and Laos.
Communism needs a victory, and
Khrushchev may even need one
at home. It was noticeable that
his statement on Cuba for home
consumption was less belligerent
than the one for the rest of the
world.
As it stands now, Cuba is a
victory, and Laos a partial one.
In the eyes of the emerging
countries which the Soviet Union
is trying to impress with her
abilities as a savior and defender
an eventual defeat in Cuba will
look worse after the “all aid
necessary” statement that it would
have without it.
That Khrushchev has any inten
tion of really trying to keep the
propaganda promise, right on the
doorstep of the United States, is
hardly believable.
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; Gnv*. Egan Signs 12 More
Bills Bringing Total to 114
JUNEAU W) — A bill which
would permit ihe State Depart
ment of Public Safety to hire
special officers to aid State
: Police in maintaining law and
order in remote areas was signed
into law by Gov. Egan Tuesday.
The bill was the subject of
. heated debates in the 1961 Legis
, lature before it finally won the
! approval of both Houses.
The measure was one of 12
signed by Egan Tuesday bringing
to 114 the number of new statutes
placed on the State’s Books as a
result of the 1961 legislative ses
sion.
Egan also inked his signature
to a bill which will require the
registration of all securities sold
in Alaska and to another meas
ure which provides for state regu
lation of all civil aeronautics
within the state.
Egan signed two bills reluctant
ly late Monday.
One of the new acts establishes
a system of weights and measures
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’H Mr re Missiles
With Greater Survivability
WASHINGTON UP) — Secretary
of Defense Robert S. McNamara
1 said Tuesday the need at this
time to set up more missiles with
“greater survivability” led to a
decision to concentrate now on
fixed base Minuteman ICBMs.
But McNamara told the Senate
Appropriations Subcommittee that
the Defense Department will push
development, of moving train
platforms for the Minuteman —
a system he said would be 60
per cent more costly and involves
still unsolved technical problems.
He opened the Kennedy Ad
ministration’s case for its proposed
$44 billion for defense spending
in the year starting next July 1.
for the State of Alaska.
Egan noted that the bill had
been amended to permit the sale
of meat, poultry and seafood by
unit as well as by weight.
“From the consumer’s stand
point, salp by unit is undesirable
for its affect is to cause different
buyers to pay different prices
since each unit will not be the
same weight,” Egan said in an
accompanying letter.
“Nothwithstanding this one
feature, enactment of the bill is
of great importance and I am
signing it in the intention of pro
posing an amendment next year to
restore its original language as to
sale by weight only.”
The second bill, would permit
aliens to purchase resident hunt
ing, fishing, trapping, guide or
commercial fishing licenses un
der certain circumstances.
When the bill was proposed by
Egan, an alien, in order to pur
chase a resident license, must
have lived in Alaska for 12 con
secutive months and maintained
a voting residence in the state
except for the U. S. citizenship
requirement.
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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 a.m.
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 p.m. Ar. Fairbanks *8:40 p.m.
EACH FRIDAY — FLIGHT 310
Lv. Nome 2:00 p.m. Ar. Fairbanks *5:10 p.m.
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 a.m. Ar. Galene *1:45 p.m.
Lv. Galena . *2:00 p.m. Ar. Tanana *2:40 p.m.
Lv. Tanana *2:50 p.m. Ar. Fairbanks *3:25 p.m.
EACH THURSDAY — FLIGHT 312
Lv. Nome 9:40 a.m. Ar. Kotzebue 10:25 a.m.
Lv. Kotezebue 11:05 a.m. Ar. Fairbanks *1:55 p.m.
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