THE NOME NUGGET
Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday by the
NOME PUBLISHING CO.
NOME, ALASKA
Telephone: Main 125 P.O. Box 618
$1.50 PER MONTH $16.00 A YEAR
E. P. BOUCHER . Managing Editor
CLINTON GRAY . Production Manager
Entered as second class matter October 14, 1943, at the
postoffice at Nome, Alaska, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
“THE OPEN DOOR”
Today is Seward’s Day and Alaska under the U.S.
is 86 years old.
It has come a long way since the United States
government, with a great deal of opposition, paid the
czar of Russia $7,200,000 for it.
The same type of opposition which was voiced
at that time in Congress, still persists, only today the
opposition fights against statehood and against ade
quate defense and against the extension of the inter
national highway.
One of Second Division’s pioneer residents, George
Goshaw, has summed up Alaska’s outstanding needs
m an article entitled “The Open Door,” in the current
issue of a national publication. The present day Musts
for Alaska are:
1st—A greater Air Force in Alaska, especially in
the Nome district.
2nd—The construction of an extension of the pre
sent Alaska Highway from Fairbanks to Nome and
Wales.
3rd—Settlement of more people on farm lands.
4th—Further development of the oil, natural gas
and mineral potentialities.
5th — Further development of Alaska’s immense
forestry resources.
6th—Take the government out of commercial busi
nesses.
7 th—Establish needed industries for the employ
ment of the Eskimos.
Alaska is the Open Door to this continent. It is
in Alaska that the cities and our people can have great
er protection. Alaska must be made strong in defense
and with a strong America, there can be peace for our
country and for the world. A weak Alaska and an un
defended northern Alaska invites war.
NOME NUGGET ADS PAY BIG DIVIDENDS
V.F.W. FIGHT CARD
NOME SCHOOL GYMNASIUM
SATURDAY, APRIL 4 - - 8 p. m.
Three 2-Minute Rounds—or less
—1—
Clyde Nershak, 140 lbs. vs. Gil Ozenna, 145 lbs.
—2—
Guy Ryan, 145 lbs. vs. McClure, 150 lbs.
—3—
Denton Howard, 165 lbs. vs. Sgt. Rogers, 180 lbs.
—4—
Harold Perkins, 170 lbs. vs. Chas. Sindelar, 180 lbs.
—5—
Larry Minix, 216 lbs. vs. Sgt. Dick Miller, 195 lbs.
—TAG WRESTLING MATCH—
Four Grapplers to be Announced Later
Boxing Referee Judges
Les Bronson Ernie Gustafson
Wrestling Referee Luther Dunbar
Ray Blastervold Jim McLean
Timekeeper
Art Paulos
wooner Bing Crosby Became an Author
By Merely “Talking” His Life Experiences
Thanks to his personal portable Dictaphone machine, Bing could
relax and “talk” his autobiography “Call Me Lucky” while travel
ing between Hollywood and Europe.
i m a very plain fellow whose
most prominent characteristic is
chronic inertia,” Bing Crosby told
the managing editor of a national
weekly magazine in replying to
the suggestion that he write his
life story for serial publication.
If inertia is a Crosby character
istic it wasn’t apparent when Bing
got to work on his Bing’s-eye view
of Bing. Nor is it apparent in the
complete story of his life now de
lighting millions.
Bing had a “secret weapon.” He
didn't write his story. He talked
it — to a portable Dictaphone
Time-Master. During an actual
talking period of 12 days he “au
thored” 200,000 words with his
electronic dictating machine
urhich sounds like * reeord for a
part-time, non-professional au
thor.
^ete Martin, the magazine's
or, worked with Bing, cover
mg a distance of 20,000 miles here
and abroad. Every free moment
they had, they set the microphone
on a desk between them and just
talked, with Pete prodding Bing’s
memory with questions he had
collected from scores of Bing’s
friends and associates.
Every word was recorded on the
machine’s 30-minute Dietabelt
records. Each day the pliable plas
tic belts were mailed to Pete’s
secretary, who transcribed them
in typed form, ready for Pete to
edit. Forty belts in all were used,
and transcribed onto 640 sheets of
triple-spaeed typed paper.
Bing’s talkathon put no great
strain on him, because for yean
he has beat using a Time-Master.
He first used one extensively in
the movie "Top O’ The Morning,”
and since then has never been
without one.
Communists Agree
Exchange Sick and
Wounded POWs
TOKYO, oft — The Communists
agreed Saturday night to a U.N.
offer to exchange sick and wound
ed prisoners before the end of the
Korean war, and at the same time
proposed immediate resumption
of the suspended armistice talks.
The Reds said such an exchange
could lead to “smooth settlement”
of the entire POW question, which
broke up the armistice talks at
Panmuniom last Och,-8.
The POW issue was the only
one left unsolved.
A spokesman here said the U.N.
Command could bring an ex
change of sick and wounded j
“within a matter of days.”
Gen. Mark Clark, U.N. Far East j
commander who made the ex- j
change offer Feb. 22, said he ■
would favor resumption of the i
talks if the Reds are sincere in '
their acceptance.
Clark told a reporter:
“We are going to study this
offer very closely. We want to be
sure there isn’t anything in it we
don’t understand.”
The Red move covers only sick
and wounded prisoners—a small
percentage of the 123,000 Reds
held in Allied camps.
The Chinese said Dec. 18 they
were holding 3,198 American pri
soners but there are no immediate
figures on the number eligible
for such an exchange.
The Red answer came in a let
ter delivered at Panmunjom,
which also was broadcast over the
Communist Peiping radio.
Its tone was mild and concilia
tory, unlike some of the bitter
invective previously used in criti
cizing the U.N.
It came as the world specu
THREE OF FOUR KILLED
IN PALMER HWY. CRASH
ANCHORAGE, UP) — A speeding
automobile hurtled out of control
from the Palmer Highway north
of here Sunday, killing three o-f
the four occupants.
The Alaska Highway Patrol
said two of the victims were air
men from Elmendorf Air Force
base. The third was the wife of
an airman who was critically in
jured in the crash.
The Highway Patrol said the
speeding car tailed to negotiate
a curve. It rolled 500 feet before
stopping.
BRITISH AMBASSADOR TO
RUSSIA RECALLED FOR
"URGENT CONSULTATION"
MOSCOW, (A*)—'The British For
eign Office today recalled Am
bassador Sir Alvary Gascoigne for
what it described as urgent con
sultation.
The envoy is leaving here to
morrow morning, not even re
maining for the Queen Mary
memorial services he had plan
ned at the embassy for noon to
morrow.
"GREAT MEN" COLLIDE
GOSHEN, N.Y., 1® — A minor
three-car collision on Route 17 on
a recent icy evening ended with
laughter instead of recriminations
when the drivers presented their
licenses for identification.
William H. Taft of Middletown
was startled when he found him
self in conversation with Robert
E. Lee; Taft and Lee were more
surprised when the third man
turned out to be Andrew Jackson.
lated on the effect the recent
death of Russian Premier Joseph
Stalin might have had on both
the hot and cold war.
Beta Sigs Report on
Hot Lunch Program
(Continued from Page One)
Harwood, Mrs. Reeves Havens,
Mrs. Omie McCarthy, Miss Ellen
Waldheim, Mrs. W. E. Shea, Mrs.
Glen Lenert, Mrs. Conrad Yen
ney, Mrs. Johnny Jones, Miss Lois
Swanberg, Mrs. Rebecca Eben,
Mrs. Luke Chastain.
It was a great aid to be able
to depend on one student each
day from Mrs. Cameron’s class:
Helen Glavinovich, Mary Jeanne
Boucher, Donna Lyle, Anna Ailak,
Dianne Boucher, Diane Swanberg,
Carolyn Glavinovich, Lucy Ann
Fagerstrom, Mary Okpealuk, Sig
rid Olsen, Arlene Hawk, Margaret ,
Willoya, Edith Morten, Madeline
Piscoya, Jimmy Roth and Jack
Muller.
Other students assisted during
their lunch hours: Mary Jo Swan
berg, Lorene Larson, Carol Jean
Miller, Reba Tungwenuk, Larry
Oscarson, Bessie Aukon, Ruth
Fagerstrom, Sadie Bell, Minnie
Abloogalook, Paul Glavinovich,,
Suzanne Fagerstrom, Murphy
Nuglene, Charlotte Oscarson, Elva
Ahmasuk and Mary Itook. Mrs.
Margaret Adams Rudzevice help
ed regularly while she was in
Nome.
Appreciation is expressed to
Mr. and Mrs., Ernie Gustafson of
the North Star Bakery for soup
donated one day each week dur
ing the entire program. The Cath
olic ladies gave the extra cake
and sandwiches from their St.
Patrick’s Day party as a treat for
all the children on March 18 and
for the smaller children on the
19th.
Cash donations were received
from the Lavinia Wallace Young
Mission and from an anonymous
individual; on Feb. 5 soup was re
ceived from the Arctic Lunch.
School Superintendent Wm.
Angel and all of the teachers de
serve special mention for their
cooperation in the arrangements
at the school and for their extra
work in overseeing the children
in the gym during the lunch hour.
NOTICE TO LOCKER RENTERS
At Marlin's Cold Slorage. leave
your key and locker number with
Mrs. Martin at North Star Grill
by April 1. as il may be neces
sary to remove contents during
repair work.
38 Martin Cold Storage
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