Go Kart Raffle to
Be Held Sunday
The unofficial reports on the
Go-Kart raffle ticket sales indi
cate that rather than a $1,000
purse the Arctic Club of Nome is
considering a 5 lb. sack of dog
biscuits, stated Dick Galleher.
There has also been other sug
gestions for first prize including
returning the tickets and giving
the race winner the Go-Kart. One
group favors feeding the ticket
chairman to the winning team,
but it is not known if this is a
serious consideration.
The $400 Go-Kart equipped
with a real “hot" Mac 6 engine
is presently on display at the
North Star and the drawing will
be held Sunday after the Eskimo
dances. The club urges everyone
to buy a ticket on the Go-Kart
to help make next spring’s Nome
Dog Race purse the biggest ever.
Tickets are now on sale at the
North Star, Morgans, Aukruk
Lanes, Del Kampmann. Joyce
Galleher and Beverly Bohrer and
her assistants.
FESTIVAL VISITORS
Festival visitors yesterday en
joying the celebration and on
Wien tour are Mr. and Mrs.
Robert Sprague of Los Angeles
with their three children, Robert
Jr., Billy and Lois. Mr. Sprague
and family flew to Anchorage to
attend the meeting of the Federal
Home Loan Bank Board. He is
president of Pioneer Savings of
Los Angeles. He represents Alas
ka on the FHLB Board.
Also on the tour were Stella
Scheckter of Concord, N. H.; Mrs. |
Rose and Jerome Scheckter of
Philadelphia; Mr. and Mrs. Wal
ter Maynard of Minneapolis; I
Clara Taborelli of Cliffside Park, j
N. J.; Tom Kocaj, Niagara Falls,
N.Y.; Mrs. Ed Berry, Troy, N.Y.;
Agness Morton, Palo Alto, Calif.;
Maxine Pepple of Woodside,
N. Y.; Ralph Simmons, Missoula,
Mont.; Adeline Bellinger, Dallas,
Tex.; Mr. and Mrs. Norman Pit
nger, El Paso, Tex.; Elmer
Srantchorn; Taylorville, 111.; Dr.
A. Leatherbarrow, New Bruns
wick, Canada, and E. G. Gott
schalk, Granville, N. Y.
UNEXPECTED LAYOVER
Festival visitors who had an
unexpected extended stay here
due to disrupted plane schedule
were able to take in some of the
special features of the holiday.
Among them were Olive Tim
brook of Toledo, Ohio and Mar
garet Hein of Portland, Ore. |
Clarence Irrigoo Visits
Here Enroute to Tacoma
Passing through Nome yester
day were Clarence Irrigoo, Gam
bell reporter for the Nugget who
is enroute to Tacoma to attend
a Presbyterian Synod and plans
to be gone a couple of weeks.
With him was John Walunga
and two grandchildren. John is
enroute to Seward to visit for
the winter with his son. The old
er granddaughter will attend the
summer session of the University
of Alaska.
REV. GORDON GOULD
DUE HERE MONDAY
Rev. Gordon Gould of the Divi
sion of Methodist Missions from
Philadelphia, will arrive here on
Monday with a group of traveling
ministers and laymen who are
seeing Methodist work in the 49th
state.
They will be honored at a
coffee and reception hour at the
Fellowship Hall of the church at
8 o’clock Monday evening. At
this time Carrie McLain will show
pictures of old Nome and Charlie
Jones will give a history of the
church in Nome.
As Rev. Gould has many
friends here of all denominations
the informal reception will be
open to the community and all
tourists and visitors interested, 1
stated Rev. Gerald McCray.
DEPARTURES
Robert Reed, superintendent of
the MMM Hospital, left for Fair
banks to participate in the meet
ing of hospital heads to discuss
special rates for long term aged
patients. The subject is being con
sidered as the first step in help
for the aged and follows the
recommendations of former Presi
dent Eisenhower’s White House
Conference on Aging.
Also leaving for Fairbanks were
Sheila O’Brien, David Hill, Jes
sie and Leonard Clark, W. Al
dreidge, J. Thompson, C. Cra
cen, Agnes Morton, Mr. and Mrs.
Rittinger, Catherine and Ralph
Simmons.
Kotzebue passengers, were Ira
Gallahorn, Jimmie Lane, Roy
Wall, Alice Timbrook, Tony Fos
ter, Nels Parling and Tillman
Adams.
NOTE OF APPRECIATION
I want to thank Dr. Barrow so
much for helping me, and all the
nurses and the good cooks too.
Gcd bless each of you and H.
Brown to bring me to the hos
pital from The Nook.
Dora Titus
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Nels Swanberg Sr.
Passes Away in Tacoma
Ncls Swanberg has received the
sad news of the passing of his
father Nels Swanberg Sr., who
died in his sleep last night at Mid
land Rest Home in Tacoma,
i Mr. Swanberg who was born in
i Sweden in 1870 and went to Ta
' coma in 1886, pioneered in the
Cook Inlet ai’ea in 1896, and came
to Nome in 1900 by the unique
and perilous way of a canoe down
the Yukon River. Mr. Swanberg
will be remembered by many of
his friends here as a wonderful
story teller of tales of the Stam
pede Days.
The elder Swanbergs married
in Nome in 1901 and they cele
brated their golden wedding an
niversary here in 1951.
He is survived by his son, Nels
Jr., and a daughter also of this
community, Mrs. Axel Edman,
four grandchildren and ten great
grandchildren.
Mr. and Mrs. Swanberg and
Mrs. Edman are scheduled to
leave tomorrow for Tacoma to at
tend the funeral.
SOURDOUGHS TO HOLD
REUNION IN SEATTLE
The 30th Reunion of Interna
tional Sourdoughs will be held
in Seattle on August 24, 25, 26
and 27 of this year. Those attend
ing are asked to make their re
servations directly with the hotel
of their choice. The Olympic, Earl
and Hungerford are the official
headquarters.
On the committee from Nome
are Bill Kelsey and Dick Sund
quist. Helge Pedersen and Mary
Ann Hopkins are on the Auxiliary
Committee.
CALLING ALL BEARDS
Following the Eskimo dances
on Front Street Saturday evening
j at about 7:15 all contestants in
i the beard growing contest are re
quested to make their appearance
I at the dance stand where the four
I winners will be chosen by im
' partial judges.
Judging will be for: the most
distinguished, the bushiest, the
most exotic, and for the fuzziest
beard.
BENA SHALLIT GRADUATES
Bena Shallit, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Ben Shallit, formerly of
Nome, graduated from St. Jo
seph’s Academy in Tucson, Ariz.,
and as a graduation present re
turned to Lignite with her father,
who owns the Cripple Coal Co.
Bena will enter the Arizona State
College in the fall.
IN SUPERIOR COURT
The case of Vern Miller vs.
Armin Bohrer was dismissed
yesterday.
Ralph Ahkingak was held to
answer to the Grand Jury on two
counts of forgery with bail set
at $1,000. The bindover was from
Barrow.
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8th Grade Students From
BIA Schools to Attend
U of A Special Course
Charles Oxereok of Wales, and
Ester Walunga of Gambell, 8th
grade students, are in Nome en
route to the University of Alaska
for a special six-weeks course
starting June 24, for outstanding
native children from BIA schools.
Robert Grant, BIA district of
ficial, stated that the course is
a pilot program, which if suc
cessful, will continue in future
years. The class will be com
posed of 24 students, eight of
whom will be from this district,
six from Bethel, six from Fair
banks, and six from S.E. Alaska.
The course will have a three
fold purpose. It will give credit
work for University of Alaska
education students, and graduate
students, as well as practice
teaching credit for BIA teachers.
This requirement is new for BIA
teachers.
It will also give the students
from rural Alaska an insight into
higher learning. They will be
able, stated Grant, to return to
their homes and tell the other
children about the way people
live in the large centers of the
state.
The students ohosen from this
area, in addition to Charles and
Ester, are Harry Lisbourne and
Ernest Frankson of Point Hope;
Jean Bighead of Stebbins; Edna
Seetot of Teller Mission; Eleanor
Escholt of White Mountains, and
Charlotte Jemewouk of Elim.
Thought For Today . . .
A parasite is one who goes
through a revolving door on an
other’s push.