THE NOME NUGGET
Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday by the
NOME PUBLISHING CO.
NOME, ALASKA
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E. P. BOUCHER . Managing Editor
CLINTON GRAY . Production Manager
Entered as second class matter October 14, 1943, at the
post office at Nome. Alaska, under Act of March 3, 1879.
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The First Fifty Years
FIFTY YEARS AGO TOMORROW, Mr. and Mrs.
M. J. Walsh took their marriage vows at St.
Joseph’s Church here and set up housekeeping during
that famous gold rush era of our community. They
stayed to share and be active in the development of
the State of Alaska.
Nome’s growing pains, economic problems, pleas
ures and sorrows were part of their lives as they
reared itheir family of ten children through the rigors
of this pioneering community. They did not falter as
the many crises of the frontier life developed, but met
each issue as it arose. An example of this — the
children needed fresh milk, so the Walsh family had
cows which provided the milk not only for their family
but also nourished other children in Nome for sev
eral years.
Young and old alike have benefited from their
kindly way of life, and many an oldtimer has been
'helped along the way with their thoughtful assistance.
All their four sons who live in Alaska and assist
in its civic develpoment, and their five daughters, are
living tribute of an outstanding Alaskan family.
In this fast moving, fast changing world of today
it is wonderful to see a couple growing old together
and performing this feat so graciously.
Chattanooga Ball
Players Punished
For Game Fixing
COLUMBUS. Ohio, UP) — Two
members of the Chattanooga base
ball club were suspended — one
for life — yesterday as the result
of charges that gamblers had at
tempted to fix games in the
Southern Association.
George M. Trautman, boss of
the minor leagues, announced that
Jesse Levan had been banned for
life for acting as liaison- fnan for
a gamer seeking to get players to
throw Chattanooga games.
The second player, Waldo Gon
zales, was suspended for a year,
effective July 3, for attempting to
obstruct the investigation of the
case.
Trautman said other players
were questioned, but no action
was taken against them.
Can’t Buffalo Bison . . .
SIOUX FALLS, S. D., — The
sports car set may not know it,
but it’s buffalo mating season in
South Dakota. And if they plan
a trip to the bison stamping
grounds, it might be a good idea
to take the old American sedan.
Consider the case of Alfred E.
Schild of Lombard, Ill
Vacationing at Wind Cave Na
tional Park, Schild was parked
surveying a herd of buffalo. Two
of the animals left the herd and
charged across the field toward
Schild’s car — a Volkswagen.
One of the bison ran over the
back end of the car, crumpling
both rear fenders, the trunk lid
and putting a foot through the
back window. Schild’s party es
caped injury.
TRUE ENOUGH
My lady, be wary of Cupid,
And heed the lines of this verse,
To let a fool kiss you is stupid,
But to let a kiss fool you is worse.
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Ketchikan Company
i\pparent Low Bidder On
Sitka Small Harbor Work
JUNEAU, W — A Ketchikan
construction firm, Odin Jensen
and son, has been announced as
the apparent low bidder on a
project to construct a new small
boat harbor at Sitka.
The Alaska Department of
Public Works said the Ketchikan
firm had submitted a bid of
$99,386.50 for the job.
_ The contract award is expected
to be made within the next few
days. Work on the project is
scheduled to begin later this
summer.
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Pete Walsh. Station Mgr.
Bartlett-Gruening Press Measure To
Help Develop Tin Location, Production
WASHINGTON, UPi — Congress
was urged this week to authorize
a federal purchase program for
domestic tin in order to develop
a mining industry in Alaska.
A Senate Interior subcommittee
heard testimony favoring a bill
that would set up such a program.
'Under it the government would
pay up to $1.40 a pound over a
10-year period for production of
10,000 long tons of tin mined in
the United States, including
Alaska.
Witnesses included Ralph
Lomen of Nome and Seattle, who
owns tin property in Alaska, and
Senators Bob Bartlett and Ernest
Gruening, Alaska Democrats, who
are the authors of the bill.
Senator James E. Murray (D
Mont>, Interior Committee chair
man and a cosponsor of the bill,
said the program would “mater
ially decrease our country’s de
pendence on foreign sources of
tin.
“Of all the major strategic and
critical minerals,” Murray said,
“the United States is shorter in a
domestic source of tin than any
other. The only known domestic
deposits of tin in substantial
quantities are in Alaska.”
Lomen said Alaska has shown
it can produce tin, with an out
put of 2,000 tons of metallic con
centrates in the last 50 years.
“It’s important that we develop
tin resources under our own
flag,” he added.
Bartlett submitted a statement
saying the bill would firmly es
tablish a domestic tin industry
“with a really relatively small
sum in financial assistance in
volved.”
Gruening said in a statement:
“There is a reason to believe
that further extensive resources
(of tin ore in Alaska) may be dis
covered if sufficient impetus to
exploration is given. . . . The
prices which would be established
by this legislation are calculated
to provide the incentive for de
velopment.”
Hawaii Victories
Bolster G.O.P.
Hopes for 1960
By JACK BELL
WASHINGTON, W) — Unex
pected victories in Hawaii’s
voting buoyed Republican hopes
that their party may be on the
comeback trail.
Although Democrats disputed
the interpretation, the GOP Na
tional Chairman, Senator Thurston
B. Morton of Kentucky, said the
results point to Republican vic
tories elsewhere in 1960. His party
elected a Governor, Lieutenant
Governor, a United States Senator
and a majority of state senators.
Morton said the results in Ha
waii demonstrated that hard
work, significant support from la
bor and the voters’ response to
“good government” will put the
Republicans back in business in
next year’s Presidential and Con
gressional elections.
However, Senate Majority Lead
er Lyndon Johnson of Texas em
phasized that Democrats had tak
en two of the three seats at stake
in Congress. These included one
senator and the lone House mem
ber. Democrats also held on to
control of the State House of
Representatives.
Johnson said it was not surpris
ing that the Republican appoint
ive Governor, William Quinn, had
defeated Democrat John Burns,
who has been Hawaii’s nonvoting
delegate in Congress.
Johnson said Quinn “had plen
ty of time to build up his posi
tion” and should have won “in
an area which, until recent years,
has been overwhelmingly Repub
lican anyway.”
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