THE NOME NUGGET
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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.
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Vote “Yes” On Tuesday
NEXT TUESDAY the qualified voters of Nome will
vote at a special municipal election on a proposi
tion to increase the sales tax from two percent to three
percent.
No one really likes to think about increased taxes,
but that is (the only way the city can maintain its
services and necessary upkeep.
Most of the tax money goes toward the upkeep
of the school and the increased costs for more teachers
and materials, as the school population continues to
increase. Other'necessities include a police and fire
department. A big item for this community is street
repairs and snow removal in the winter. This 'summer
the city will get its first section of black-top streets
through the business district, up Bering Avenue and
to the airport. The city will pay only 10 percent of
the cost of this important improvement, which will
mean much to everyone here.
The City Council has chosen by resolution to
increase the present sales tax by only 1 percent. This
is the fairest tax known, as everyone contributes, both
resident and non-resident.
The taxpayers are urged to support their council’s
determination in this matter — otherwise it will be
necessary to curtail many of the “extra” services such
as clean-up projects, snow removal and sidewalk
repairs. A refusal may also result in trimming the
school budget, cutting down the police and fire serv
ices, and exacting many other economies which would
reflect in inconveniences in the daily life of the entire
community.
A few years ago the residents of Nome voted in a
2 percent tax to build up a revolving fund for the
seawall. Many persons objected at that time, and
those persons now realize that without that tax we
would not have the school we have today, or the pro
tective seawall, and that the tax has not been a burden
on" anyone. One percent additional tax will make
little difference to the individual, but will mean much
in making Nome the pleasant town in which we want
to continue to live.
LAW DAY, U.S.A., MAY 1, 1959
PROGRAM
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT ROOM. 3:30 P.M.
Honorable Walter H. Hodge. District Judge, presiding
Introductory Remarks . Judge Hodge
Invocation ... Fr. Lawrence Nevue, S. J.
Presentation of Colors.Civil Air Patrol Cadets
Introduction of Court Staff and special guests
Presidential Proclamation....Mayor Steffen Andersen
Band Selection.Sextette from
Nome High School Band, Wm. Bixby, Director
“Equality Under Law” ....Mr. James A. von der Heydt
1st Vice President, Alaska Bar Association
The American Creed.Fritz Chambers
“America The Beautiful”.Mrs. Carrie McLain
Mrs. Helen Dunbar, Accompanist
“Respect for Law”.Hon. Russell R. Hermann
United States Attorney
“What Our Courts Can Do for You”.Judge Hodge
The National Anthem.School Band Sextette
Retirement of Colors.Civil Air Patrol Cadets
Benediction.Rev. John Maakestad
— The Public is cordially invited to attend. —
GRASS ROOTS OPINION
From the Corvallis, Ore., Gazette-Times: “It costs
a lot of money to live and work in these United States
and it’s worth it, but we wish the spenders would
think of the taxpayers when they dream up new ways
to give away their hard-earned wages, salaries, pen
sions and dividends.”
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•From the Sierra Madre, Calif., News: Many
persons in our society would like to reserve the protec
tion of the Bill of Rights only for themselves and for
those with whom they agree. But the Bill of Rights
was adopted to guard us all — the gambler, the hood
lum, the political misfit and the ordinary citizen —
from the overwhelming power of the state.”
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TODAY THERE ARE five million alcoholics and
three million problem drinkers. One out of nine who
starts to drink can expect to end in this group. The
tragic difficulties of American alcoholics involve at
least 20 million other people.
We need to employ every available aid in arrest
ing the mounting numbers of casualties which result
from the uses of alcohol. The Church must strengthen
and expand its own ministries to the alcoholic and to
the potential alcoholic. Religious faith offers the
surest guarantee of mental health, moral control and
inner peace.
S/aity 7/jtttei, Director. GAINES DOG RESEARCH CENTER
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Gruening Pictures
Alaska as ‘Bulwark
Of World Defense’
By FRANK W. VAILLE
WASHINGTON, UP) — Senator
Ernest Gruening has proposed that
Congress fully reconsider Alaska’s
defenses so it may become “a
bulwark of defense for the North
American Continent and . . . the
whole free world.”
Such a role, he said, “is an
important part of its destiny.”
Discussing what he called the
“military neglect of Alaska” »prior
to World War II, Gruening told
the Senate Monday he still feels
“very strongly that the defenses
of Alaska are as yet by no means
what they should be.”
Of the worldwide chain of bases
built by the United States in re
cent years, Gruening said “many
are of extremely dubious value”
as the result of opposition within
the nations where they are built.
In some instances, he said,
“there is little question that Uncle
Sam is being blackmailed, if that
may not'be too harsh a word, for
the right of keeping those bases
there.”
. . Whatever defenses we
build in Alaska,” he said, “we
build on the firm rock of U. S.
terrain and within the security of
a 100 per cent loyal American
people. What is built in Alaska
is not liable to sabotage, subver
sion or other adverse factors which
exist in the case of many over
seas bases.
“Alaska’s defenses should be
fully reconsidered to make the 49th
state what is an important part of
its destiny, namely to be a bul
wark of defense for the North
American Continent, and thereby
for the whole free world.”
Gruening called for the defense
reappraisal in a speech criticizing
published (New York Times) ref
erences which he said described
the expulsion of the Japanese from
Attu and Kiska Islands during
World War II as a “costly and
wasteful military diversion.”
The fellow who thinks that the
whole world is against him never
seems to realize that possibly the
world doesn’t even know he is
in it.
Ice Pool Dales
Since 1917, when the Pool
was started, the ice has gone
out at Nenana as follows:
1917— April 30 .11:30 a.m.
1918— May 11. 9:33 a.m.
1919— May 3. 2:33 p.m.
1920— May 11.10:45 a.m.
1921— May 11. 6:42 a.m.
1922— May 12. 1:20 p.m.
1923— May 9 ...'.. 2:00 p.m.
1924— May 11. 3:10 p.m.
1925— May 7. 6:32 p.m.
1926— April 26 . 4:03 p.m.
1927— May 13. 5:42 a.m.
1928— May 6. 4:25 p.m.
1929— May 5. 3:41 p.m.
1930— May 8. 7:03 p.m.
1931— May 10. 9:23 a.m.
1932— May 1.10:15 a.m.
1933— May 8. 7:30 p.m.
1934— April 30 . 2:07 p.m.
1935— May 15. 1:32 p.m.
1936— April 30 .12:58 p.m.
1937— May 12. 8:04 p.m.
1938— May 6. 8:14 p.m.
1939— April 29 . 1:26 p.m.
1940— April 20 . 3:27 p.m.
1941— Ma> 3. 1:50 a.m
1942— April 39 . 1:28 p.m
1S43—April 28 . 7:22 p.m
1944— May 4. 2:08 p.m
1945— May 16. 9:41 a.m.
1346—May 5. 4:40 p.m.
1947— May 3. 5:53 p.m.
1948— May 13.11:13 p.m.
1943— May 14.12:39 p.m,
1950—May 6. 4:14 p.m.
951—April 30 . 5:54 p.m.
1952— May 12. 5:04 p.m.
1953— April 29 . 3:54 p.m.
1954— May 6. 6:01 p.m.
1955— May 9. 2:13 p.m.
1956— May 1.11:24 a.m.
1957— May 5. 9:30 a.m.
1958— April 29 . 2:56 p.m.