THE NOME NUGGET
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Entered as second class matter October 14, 1943, at the
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SCHOOL CHILDREN SAVE MONEY
Mercer C. MacPherson, chairman of the Ameri
can Bankers Association’s committee on School Savings
Banking, announced recently that over 3,450,000
pupils had accumulated savings in 500 banks through
out the country. According to the latest figures, these
pupils, in 10,000 grade and high schools, have increased
their savings by about $21,000,000 in the last year.
MacPherson terms this increase a “very satisfac
tory” one. He also notes that this is the sixth con
secutive year in which school children have increased
their savings by a large margin.
The trend among children to save is probably
being encouraged by movies, talks and other influences,
which the banks and savings institutions are providing
schools in every section of the country.
If the trend continues, it might be possible for
Papa to borrow ten bucks once in a while from a
\'Ounger member of the family.
TOO PRACTICAL
The Army says it’s sorry, but it’s just out of the
question for the mothers of those 23 American “pro
gressives” who want to stay with the Reds to go to
Korea to talk their sons out of the idea.
The Army, in fact the Secretary of the Army, him
self, will see to it, they said, that any letters to these
men from any relatives will be delivered to them per
sonally.
There are three reasons why Mom can’t go over
herself:
1. The men are in the custody of a neutral re
patriation commission.
2. The militarized zone where interviews would
take place is not under UN Command.
3. Explainer teams . . . are limited to seven mem
bers for each thousand repatriates.
In other words, that “neutral” repatriation com
mission wouldn’t like it.
Belgian Airliner
Carries 44 Persons
To Flaming Death
FRANKFURT, Germany, Ufi— At
least 11 Americans and possibly
12, were listed Thursday among
the 44 persons killed in the crash
of a big Belgian Sabena airliner
near here.
The two-engine Convair plum
meted into a wooded area Wed
nesday four minutes after its de
layed takeoff from Frankfurt.
Witnesses said the plane fal
tered in flight, apparently because
of trouble with one engine.
Officials worked all night to
investigate the cause of the acci
dent, which was the second worst
commercial air disaster ever in
Cermany.
All 40 passengers and the crew
of four died in the burning wreck
age. The bodies, almost unrecog
nizably battered, were taken to a
mortuary at Frankfurt’s munici
pal hospital.
The passengers, who included
12 women and 3 children, repres
ented eight nations. The plane was
enroute from Salzburg, Austria to
London.
The one motor road crossing the
180th meridian of longitude—the
International Date Line—lies on
Taveuni Island in the Fijis.
Canadian Pipeline
Brings Oil To
Pacific Coast
VANCOUVER, B.C., Iff) — The
“big inchers,” the rugged high
booted men who know the oil
fields of the world, watched yes
terday as the fabulous oil-wealth
of Alberta was “tapped” fcfr Paci
fic Coast service.
The 24-inch pipeline running
from near Edmonton to the big
tank farm outside Vancouver,
costing $97,000,000 and stretching
711 miles across the Rockies,
opened for business.
At strategic pumping stations,
giant valves turned and oil gushed
through to tidewater refineries.
Started in the spring of 1952,
the trans-mountain pipeline com
pany’s “big pipe” snaked its way
over the mountains as 1,500 men
toiled through rocks, muskeg,
rangelands, and the lush farm
lands of the Fraser Valley.
The line is desigend to trans
port initially up to 120,000 bar
rels a day. More than 50,000 will
be required daily to meet the B.C.
demand. The ultimate goal is for
a daily capacity of 200,000 barrels.
A Dane named Christen Jacob
sen Drakenberg attained the
greatest longevity in modem times
—living to the age of 146 years.
Army Says Navy Search
Plane Figures In
Enemy Sighting
ANCHORAGE, UP—The Alaska
Defense Command says it is in
vestigating only the sighting of
an unidentified submarine off St.
Lawrence Island during National
Guard maneuvering in August.
The plane reported seen over
the area was a U.S. Navy search
craft called in to investigate the
appearance of a mystery subma
rine, the Command announced
Thursday.
A thick haze is believed to have
made the plane’s marking illeg
ible.
Reports said the submarine was
painted black and bore no identi
fying markings. The Army ack
nowledged the reports Wednesday
but refused to elaborate further.
The Defense Command report
said that “the time the aircraft
was reported coincides with the
time a Navy PBM search plane
was over the area. It had been
dispatched to investigate the re
port of the alleged submarine.”
A spokesman said immediate
results of the search proved
negative.
About 17 percent of Great Salt
Lake, Utah, is salt, compared to
three and one-half percent of the
ocean.
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PLEBISCITE FOR TRIESTE?
, Premier Guissepee Pella of Italy advocates that
the future of the Free Territory of Trieste be submitted
to a plebiscite. This is in reply to the recommendation
of Marshal Tito' that the city of Trieste be internation
alized and the rest of the disputed territory be given
to Yugoslavia.
Offhand a plebiscite seems a very fair way of
settling a territorial dispute. But as onb gets into the
subject questions arise:
Should the voting unit be the entire free terri
tory, including both occupation zones? If so, the Italian
vote of the city of Trieste and other coastal towns could
be expected to swamp the vote of the Slovenes and
Croats in the rural villages.
Or should the voting be by districts? This would
seem fairer. And, if so, the borders should be drawn
as nearly as possible along ethnic lines to divide the
200,000 or more Italians from the 90,000 Yugoslavs.
It might be that a ballot would help bring the
local statistics and indications of sentiment down to
date. But in all probability a boundary commission
which could lay down good district lines for a plebis
cite could map out a reasonably satisfactory basis for
division of the territory. The problem, then, as now,
would be to get Italy and Yugoslavia to accept it.
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Heintzleman Asks
Release Of Coal
Reserve To Alaska
WASHINGTON, UP) — Gov. B.
Frank Heintzleman of Alaska says
he will seek immediate release by
the Interior Department of the
Eska coal reserve in the Mata
nuska coal fields near Anchorage.
His statement came after a con
ference on Alaska’s coal resources
Wednesday with Asst. Secretary
of the Interior Orme Lewis, Wil
liam Strand, director of the Office
of Territories, and Charles W.
Connor, who headed a three-man
codl survey team in Alaska last
summer.
Connor reported that coal mine
operators in the territory will be
able to supply all anticipated mil
itary and civilian requirements
there for the next several years.
He said it is not expected that
the proposed oil pipeline from
Haines to the interior of Alaska
will handle grades of oil that will
compete with coal.
Connor recommended construc
tion of a railroad spur to reach
the two coal mines now operating
in the Healy River field.
FORMER REPRESENTATIVE TO
U.N. GETS ORDER OF LENIN
MOSCOW, UP) — Moscow news
papers announced Thursday the
Supreme Scwiet has awarded the
top-ranking order erf Lenin to
Dmitri Z. Manuilsky, former for
eign minister of the Ukraine and
once that Soviet republic’s rep
resentative at the United Nations.
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NOTICE TO VOTERS
REAL property and PERSON
AL property owners, whose names
appeared on the 1952 Assessment
Roll of the City of Nome, and
who are qualified electors, are
eligible to vote at the forthcoming
Special Election, OCT. 19, 1953.
No qualified voter shall be per
mitted to vote who has not regis
tered at the City Clerk's Office
prior to the election.
CITY OF NOME
By Carrie M. McLain,
City Clerk
Publish Sept. 30, Oct. 7, 14, 16.