THE NOME NUGGET
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Good Luck Mushers!
DOG RACING, which originated in Nome in 1908,
and which grew to become a sport of international j
interest, has had its ups and downs in the place of its j
origin, but during the past few years the enthusiasm
has grown, and races in Fairbanks and Anchorage
have been major events in their winter programs.
In the villages -of the north there is also increaed
interest and many fine teams have been racing
throughout the area.
To prepare for the event requires a tremendous
amount of work, and the members of the Arctic Club
and its active Dog Race committee are to be compli
mented for the program this weekend.
In addition to raising money, they have also had
the worry each year of whether the trail will be good
in early Spring, and if it will be stormy in late seasons.
They have had to find many ways to raise the
money for this civic venture which brings people from
other parts of the state. This year the purse is larger
than it has been for many years, and many good teams
have entered.
May the best team win!
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Wisconsin Congressman
Appointed U. S. Delegate
To Law of Seas Conference
WASHINGTON, Mt — Rep.
William Van Pelt (D-Wis) has been
named an American delegate to
the United Nations conference on
the Law of the Sea now in prog
ress at Geneva, Switzerland.
He said he will fly to Geneva
Sunday from New York and re
turn April 15.
“International law generally
recognizes three miles as being
the limit of the territorial sea,”
Van Pelt said. “However, the So
viet bloc, including the USSR and
the satellite countries, presently
claim 12 miles.
“If the Russian position pre
vails there will be 111 straits
throughout the world removed
from their present high seas
status. Even if the territorial sea
is defined at six miles, there will
be 63 straits taken from the high
seas and added to the sovereign
jurisdiction of various nations.”
Politicos Still In
Dark After First
Big Popularity Test
By RELMAN MORIN
MILWAUKEE, (tf) — Senator
John Kennedy’s showing in the
Wisconsin Presidential primary
cast little light on the question:
Will the Midwestern Protestant
farmer vote for Kennedy next
November if the Senator from
Massachusetts is the Democratic
candidate for President?
And Vice President Richard
Nixon’s showing left unanswered
an equally big political puzzler:
Can he pull enough indepen
dents to be elected if he is the
Republican candidate?
Analysts hoped to find answers
to these questions in Wisconsin
last Tuesday. For in this state,
Catholics constitute an estimated
30 per cent of the total vote. Four
of its six Congressional districts
are primarily agriculural. And it
has probably the highest percen
tage of independent voters of any
state in the nation, thousands of
people who just don’t give solid
allegiance to either major political
party.
There is no agreement on the
two big questions.
Kennedy, in winning, carried
one farm district. He said this
proves his religion would be no
handicap in Protestant farm areas
of the Middle West.
In that district, the seventh, he
ran ahead of Sen. Hubert Hum
phrey of Minnesota by 6,122 votes
out of 61,013 cast in the Demo
cratic primary.
But a single county, Portage,
gave him an edge of 5,065 votes
over Humphrey. It is a strongly
Catholic community.
The state’s election law per
mits Republicans to “cross over”
and vote for a Democratic candi
date, and vice versa.
“Crossovers” by Republicans
who voted for both Kennedy and
Humphrey undoubtedly were a
factor that affected all three of
the principals, including Nixon.
For example, there are two
counties, Grant and Richland, that
have long been Republican strong
holds. They went Democratic last
Tuesday.
So it appears that Nixon may
have been caught in the crossfire
between Kennedy and Humphrey,
set off in part by the religious
issue.
CHURCH THIEF
DETROIT, Wl — Mary Bugaski,
70, knelt quietly at the communion
rail in Sts. Peter and Paul Roman
Catholic Church Thursday, her
purse at her feet.
The purse contained $4,500.
Someone stole it as she received
communion.
Mrs. Bugaski told police she
received the money on an insur
ance policy following the death of
a relative last year. She said she
carried the money with her since
that time because she distrusted
banks.
Mr. and Mrs. Guy lone of White
Mountain are the parents of a
daughter, born yesterday at the
Hospital.
ADMITTED TO HOSPITAL
Nora lone, Aarnout Castell Sr.
Discharged — Jimmie La Pierre.
Ruby Outwater, L. Ozenna Jr.
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Visiting Seattle C of C
Delegate Offers Plan for
Joint Tourist Development
JUNEAU, (jPI — A co-operative
program by Washington and
Alaska to attract tourists was
proposed here Wednesday night
by George Prescott, manager of
tourist promotion for the Wash
ington State Department of Com
merce and Economic Develop
ment.
“Good tourist promotion results
in good industrial development,”
Prescott said at a banquet given
by the Seattle Chamber of Com
merce delegation touring Alaska.
W ashington entertained more
than four million tourists last
year, Prescott said. Alaska and
Washington, working together,
could increase this number, he
added.
The Seattle delegation was to
return home last night after lunch
ing with the Ketchikan Chamber
of Commerce.
State Public Works Dept.
Offers Jobs to BPR Men
JUNEAU — The Department of
Public Works, Division of High
ways, is now engaged in preparing
offers of employment to all Bur
eau of Public Roads employes.
These offers were to be mailed
prior to April 7.
The Bureau of Public Roads
mailed termination notices on
April 1, effective date July 1.
An orderly transition is ex
pected, although adjustments
are to be expected in the overall
organzation due to the transfer
from Federal to State manage
ment of our highway system.
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Early Day Alaska Book
Treasures Now at Library
The Kegoyah Kozga Public Li
brary has received two books for
its historical Alaskan collection,
both of which are rare and val
uable.
One is The Cruise of the U. S.
Revenue Cutter Bear for the relief
of the whalers in the Arctic Ocean
in 1897 and 1898, and was pub
lished in 1899.
The other is The American Ex
pedition, by Sven Waxell, and is
the account of Bering’s second
in-command of the famous voyage
of jliscovery that established the
true position of America in rela
tion to Asia, and the first authen
tic account of the natives of the
Aleutian Islands. The manuscript
was lost for nearly two hundred
years, and the first printing in
English made at the University
of Edinburg in 1952 from the ori
ginal Danish manuscript.
These gifts are an appropriate
Library Week contribution from
an anonymous donor.
Justified Expense
NEW YORK, Iff) — Census taker
Katherine Halquist of Nennedy,
N. Y., will be reimbursed for
money spent to hire a horse when
she couldn’t drive her car be
cause of floods. Regional census
director Arthur F. Young didn’t
reveal the amount of money in
volved, in his announcement
Thursday.
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