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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.
BUSY AS A YOU-KNOW-WHAT
Fairbanks is having its Golden Days, Anchorage
is known for its annual Rendezvous. For many
years 4he NWA Fair was the local attraction which
brought visitors from near and far but since it
ceased to function there has not been a big event to
take i s place.
Nome is fortunate in having a most active tour
ist committee with the Chamber of Commerce this
year who are initiating the Midnight Sun Festival, a
three day celebration full of events in which every
one can participate.
They are asking the cooperation of the com
munity to back them with old time costumes and
masks Saturday; they are asking for as many child
ren as possible to take part in the parade on Friday;
they are asking all boats be ready to enter the reget
ta on Sunday; they are asking the weather man to co
operate; for everyone to bring their lunch on the
seawall during the races.
Let’s cooperate and have fun, and make the first
Midnight Sun Festival lively and colorful.
Worker Sets Off
Reaction In
Atomic Plant
OAK RIDGE, Term., UP — A
nuclear reaction—set off acci
dentally by an atomic plant
worker—released some deadly
radiation Monday, but there was
no nuclear explosion.
The Atomic Energy Commis
sion said eight employees, whose
badges showed some exposure to
radiation, were held in the plant
dispensary for observation.
Four other persons in the area
at the time were checked, but
their badges indicated they had
not been subjected to excessive
radiation.
An automatic alarm sounded
about 2 p.m., indicating a rise
in the level of radiation in a vast
nuclear energy facility.
The commission said in a state- '
mcnt that the incident apparently i
occurred “when an employee!
emptied a small container of
enriched uranium into a larger
drum. The change in the geom
etry of the container apparently
created a critical mass and a
nuclear reaction occurred. There
was no huclear explosion.”
vigilance
Final victory
over cancer will come from
the research laboratory. But
there are victories today.
Many cancers can be cured
when detected early and
treated promptly. Vigilance
is the key to this victory.
There are seven signals
which might mean cancer.
Vigilance in heeding them
could mean victory over can
cer for you.
1. Unusual bleeding or discharge.
2. A lump or thickening in the
breast or elsewhere. 3. A sore
that does not heal. 4. Change in
bowel or bladder habits.
5. Hoarseness or cough. 6. Indi
gestion or difficulty in swallow
ing. 7. Change in a wart or mole.
If your signal lasts longer than
two weeks, go to your doctor to
learn if it means cancer.
AMERICAN
CANCER
SOCIETY
Adams Contacts |
For Goldfine
!
Only Routine
WASHINGTON, UR — Sherman j
Adams testified if he had had |
more experience “I believe I j
would have acted a little more j
prudently” in making inquiries j
on behalf of his friend and bene- j
factor Bernard Goldfine.
President Eisenhower’s top aide j
—sometimes called the assistant \
President—pleaded too that “I |
am ignorant of the rules and j
regulations” when told that both i
the Securities and Exchange
Commissions and the Federal
Trade Commission violated them
in response to his inquiries about
Goldfine’s affairs.
Adams swore to a House in
vestigating committee that he
never sought any improper favors
of Goldfine, a Boston industrialist
who made gifts to him and Eisen
hower.
He said he makes “legions”
of telephone calls to federal agen
cies without influencing their
conduct.
And, though he said he might
have acted differently with more
experience, he told a House sub
committee which questioned him
more than two hours “I have no
excuse to offer; I did not come
here to make apologies.”
Two years ago, Adams said,
he tightened up on the contacts
between the presidential staff
and executive agencies to avoid
“implications in case of instances
like this.”
Committee counsel Robert Lish
man told Adams that one of his
inquiries in 1954 resulted in
Goldfine’s obtaining information
in violation of law and regula
tions of the Federal Trade Com-,
mission.
Adams said he had no know
ledge of this result and no in
tention of bringing it about.
Throughout his appearance on
the stand, Adams insisted there
was never any attempt to bring
White House influence to bear
on behalf of Goldfine or anyone
else and that if any mistakes
were made, they were mistakes of
judgment or due to inexperience.
Just before he left the stand,
Chairman Oren Harris CD Arfc)
asked Adams whether, in view of
all that had been brought out,
“you think that in these instances
you may have overstepped the
bounds of propriety?”
Adams replied that in retro
spect “I think a greater; measure
of prudence would have obviated
some of the questions before your
committee—I cannot wholly dis
agree with some of the implica
tions in your question.”
Throughout his stay in the
witness chair, Adams insisted he
only routinely contacted the
FTC and the SEC for Goldfine.
And he said he received many
favors from Goldfine only in
nocently, as an old friend.
There were spots of harsh
Democratic criticism.
“I went through the campaign
of 1952 under the whiplash of a
very critical judgment imposed
by others on persons in public
life,” Rep. John E. Moss '(D-Calif)
told Adams.
Adams was one of those critical
of what the Republicans called
the mess in Washington when
they campaigned to put a “clean
as-a-hounds tooth” government
under Eisenhower.
Moss told Adams:
“I think you must apply the
same rules at all times” to per
sons in public life—not set up
different standards depending on
political party.”
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Communists Kill
Two Leaders Of
1956 Revolt
VIENNA, UP) — Communist
Hungary has executed two lead
ers of the Soviet-crushed Hun
garian revolt in October and
November 1956, former Premier
Imre Nagy and Defense Minister I
Minister Pal Maleter.
Moscow broke the word first |
in what looked to Vienna observ
ers like the start of a new
Kremlin purge of Titoists in the
satellites seeking some indepen
dence from Moscow’s domination.
Foreign diplomats in Belgrade
view the execution of Nagy as
a direct Kremlin slap at the
Yugoslav president.
Budapest radio said Nagy and
Maleter refused to make full
confessions to ths People’s Court
Bench of the Supreme Court
which tried them secretly in
Budapest. The dates of the trial
and of the execution were not
made public.
Reeve Airways To
Carry Navy Bulk
Mail To Aleutians
WASHINGTON, UP) — Alaska’s
Reeve Aleutian Airways asked
the Civil Aeronautics Board yes
' terday for 53 cents a ton-mile
for carrying second, third and
fourth class Navy bulk mail.
Reeve pointed out that its cur
rent pay for carrying regular
air mail between Anchorage and
the Alaskan Peninsula and the
Aleutian Islands is $1.29 a mail
ton-mile.
The afrline said that effective
July 6 it will have an opportun
| ity to carry 300,000 pounds an
| nually of Navy bulk mail of the
second, third and fourth classes,
between Anchorage and Adak.
This mail formerly was carried
by Navy aircraft.
Letter-size and legal file folders
available at The Nome Nugget
CAA Celebrates
20th Birthday
Celebration of the 20th anni
versary of the Civil Aeronautics
Administration will take place
throughout the U. S. and Alaska
during the week of June 23-28.
Acting Governor Waino Hen
drickson will speak at a “kickoff”
i dinner meeting sponsored by the
j Juneau Chamber of Commerce
i June 23, along with Administra
| tor Allen D. Hulen of the CAA’s
Fifth Region, and Halford P.
! Noggle, Special Representative
of James T. Pyle, Administrator
of Civil Aeronautics in Washing
ton. John C. Hooper, Secretary
of the Regional Air Space Sub
committee, will speak at noon
June 23 before the Kiwanis Club
in Fairbanks at the Travelers Inn.
On June 24, the Acting Gover
nor, Administrator Hulen and Mr.
Noggle, will speak before the *
Chamber of Commerce at a noon
meeting in Fairbanks at the
Travelers Inn. George S. Mc
Kean, Deputy Regional Admin
istrator, will speak to the Cor
dova Chamber of Commerce at a
luncheon June 24.
Hulen and Noggle will appear
at a general public meeting in
Nome the evning of June 24,
where civil aviation interests and
Nome citizens will help the
CAA celebrate its 20th birthday.
Noggle and Charles E. Planck,
Public Information Officer, Fifth
Region, will speak before the
Junior Chamber of Commerce in
Fairbanks at noon June 25, and
Joel T. Caudle, Airways Oper
ations Specialist, will speak to
the Golden Heart Toastmasters
Club in Fairbanks at noon on the
same day.
BRYAN, Tex., UR — Gene Hart
is going to have to wait a bit
for the gas bill to his furniture
store. Charles Munday, . meter
I reader, discovered a swarm of
; bees had built a honeycomb be
I tween the meter lid and its
glass face.
NEW
SUMMER COTTONS
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BE READY FOR THE
MIDNIGHT SUN
FESTIVAL
with something fresh
and definitely New Look
Wear a Sack - don’t be a Sad Sack