THE NOME NUGGET
Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday by the
NOME PUBLISHING CO.
NOME, ALASKA
Telephone Main 125 $1.50 PER MONTH
P.O. Box «10 $16.00 A YEAR
E. P. BOUCHER . Managing Editor
CLINTON drRAY .. 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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JUST A PEACEFUL DEMONSTRATION
For Abundant Wildlife
AS ROADS ARE BUILT, and plane travel expands,
more and more of the streams in this area will
become available for fishing, and the hills hunted for
game. In other parts of Alaska, much of the country
immediately surrounding the larger towns is com
pletely depleted.
Nome should not wait until that happens here,
but get behind the Isaac Walton League group, to help
gather facts on fishing, hunting, camping, and initiate
-the stocking of streams with fish soon.
To have abundant wildlife takes careful planning
as the population of Alaska continues to grow.
The Isaac Walton League, started in 1922, now
has over 500 active chapters in the nation. Through
co-operation with other states of the union, a better
^understanding of the sports problems of this area
will develop, and a vigorous campaign might make it
possible for Northern Alaskans to enjoy legal duck
and geese hunting.
All persons interested in outdoor life should be
come active members of the new Nome Chapter of
the Isaac Walton League.
to him,
bread and milk
are a feast
It takes so little to bring
joy to the hungry in other
lands. Each $1 sends a
big CARE package of milk
powder, flour, other sta
ples ... a personal gift
of friendship, delivered in
your name. Mail your dol
lars today.
please eare ... hunger hurtsl
CARE Food Crusade
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Shaktoolik News Tells
Hunting Is Poor
The staff of The Nugget en
joyed a copy of the new Shak
toolik newspaper, put out by the
BIA School. It told of an enjoy
able visit from Mr. Kowalczyk of
Nome, and supervisor of BIA
schools in this area, and the visit
of Dr. Fraser and the traveling
nurse, Mrs. Wm. Beltz.
Hunting has not been good, ac
cording to the paper, which states
that “yesterday the men went to
hunt rabbits. They came back in
the afternoon". Ed Nakarak shot
one rabbit. They had no luck.’’
This was contributed by Lars Sa
goonick, who is in the fourth
grade.
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LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Jan. 29, 1960
The Rev. Gerald McCray has
made a statement in his privately
edited paper, published under the
auspices of the Community Meth
odist Church, that more than a
million dollars each year is spent
for liquor by the people of Nome.
This statement is to me, to put
it kindly, an out and out figment
of an overzealous imagination. I
would like to know where our
Methodist minister gets his in
formation on the beverage in
dustry in Nome, and I would
greatly appreciate it if Rev. Mc
Cray would produce facts and fig
ures to back up, what to me, is
a loose statement without founda
tion.
Let Rev. McCray note that the
beverage industry is a legitimate,
tax-paying industry, a vital part
and parcel of our national, state
and city economy. Some of our
nation’s first legislators made
their plans and drew up their
laws in taverns in Boston, Phila
delphia and New York. One of the
nation’s greatest presidents, Ab
raham Lincoln, was once a tavern
owner. And the famous patriot
Patrick Henry, a bartender in his
father’s tavern, termed the tavern
the “cradle of American libertv.”
Would the Rev. McCray prefer
to wipe out the beverage industry
in Nome? If he would, can he by
some miracle come up with en
ough tax money to support the
city, the school, the street, fire
and police departments, to offset
the taxes that this city derives
from the beverage industry in this
town? Do the churches and the
property they hold pay enough
taxes to do this?
The population of Nome is ap
proximately 2,500 with one-half
estimated at under age 21. This
would leave 1,250 adults to con
sume approximately one million
dollars worth of liquor if one is
to believe Rev. McCray’s figures.
Based on a $7 per bottle average
cost, each man and woman over
21 would have to consume 114
bottles of whiskey per year! (Beer
drinkers would have to consume
over 2,500 bottles of beer, and if
one limited themselves to wine, a
total of 500 bottles would (have
to be consumed'.
As this is figured on the re
tail package store price and as
much is purchased by the drink,
one would then, of course, get
less than a bottle of whiskey for
each $7 spent. But even figured
at half, one would arrive at the
conclusion that on an average,
each and every man and woman
in Nome would have to consume
57 bottles of whiskey a year!
Preposterous!
If the Rev. McCray can prove
to me that over a million dollars
were spent by the people of Nome
for liquor then I will personally
eat this letter without benefit of
salt or pepper.
Inquiringly yours,
Paul A. Mandeville
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General Medaris
Retires; Hits Ike’s
Space Policies
HUNTSVILLE, Ala., — Maj.
Gen. John B. Medaris, retiring
as the Army’s top missileman,
leaves with a parting shot at the
Eisenhower Administration’ atti
tude toward space, which he "says
is leading to disaster.
Medaris, 57, leaves the Army
as the Saturn Proiect, the nation’s
biggest missile yet, is toeing turned
over to the National Aeronautics
and Space Administration for
development.
The latest issue of Missile and
Rockets Magazine says Medaris,
in an interview, called the civi
lian-military separation of U. S.
space programs “fundamentally
unrealistic.”
Medaris proposes a single mis
sile-space agency, a joint military
command, and he brushed aside
the contention of President Eisen
hower and others that the armed
forces have no business in explor
ing space.
He said such an attitude is
“utter nonsense.”
During his four years at Red
stone Arsenal he found himself
caught in a sometimes bitter inter
service wrangle over control of
space missiles.
“I’ll personally buy any solu
tion that will cut out the arguing
and debate and get people back
to work,” he has said.
His official retirement Sunday
came two years to the day after
the Army successfully launched
Explorer I. He says he will not
divulge his future plans until
after February 1, but he hopes to
write a book.
Defense Leaders
Switch to Gloomy
Estimate of Reds
WASHINGTON, UP) — Sen.
Henry M. Jackson (D-Wash) says
defense leaders have changed
their estimates of Soviet missile
power since a week ago, and this
time have taken a much more
pessimistic view.
It was a week ago that Sec
retary of Defense Thomas S.
Gates Jr. gave a House commit
tee what was described as an
extremely rosy, reassuring pic
ture of American military might
compared to the Soviet Union’s.
“Some of the rosy color that
Mr. Gates had in his presenta
tion has been taken out,” Jackson
told newsmen Friday after hear
ing secret testimony of Allen
Dulles, Director of the Central
Intelligence Agency.
Gates had contended the United
States will have no gap in its
power to deter any Soviet atomic
attack. This comparel to other es
timates that the Soviet Union will
have a 3-1 superiority in long
range missile power during the
next three years.
~ PANDOLFO DIES
FAIRBANKS—Samuel C. Pan
dolfo died last week in St. Jo
seph’s hospital after a stay of
nearly two months. Mr. Pandolfo
was president of Alaska Reserve
Underwriters and had lived in
Fairbanks lVfe years. His widow,
Agnes, survives.
Mr. Pandolfo visited Nome last
summer.
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