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WHEN THERE’S A CHILL IN THE AIR
(From the COMMUNITY METHODIST CHURCH BULLETIN)
As a representative of the Nome Ministerial Asso
ciation, the pastor attended the last City Council
meeting. The only other citizens present besides the
Council members were the Chief of Police and his wife.
It seems quite deplorable that other citizens of
this community are not sufficiently concerned about
good city government to attend the Council meetings.
Why shouldn’t every civic organization have a repre
sentative present? And why shouldn’t many citizens
at least attend occasionally?
As the mayor put it that night, “This is about the
usual number present and it is not very encouraging
to us who are elected by the people to conduct the
affairs of their city government. We welcome the
presence of all citizens, who, after all, are responsible
for whatever decisions we make.”
Let’s take a turn attending the Council meetings,
which are held upstairs in the City Hall every second
and fourth Mondays at 8 o’clock.
HOW ABOUT TONIGHT?
FREE ENTERPRISE CREATES PROSPERITY
“It is due to the play of free enterprise that the
United States has prospered above all other nations,”
says the Oregon Voter. “This prosperity is felt in the
purchasing power of all our population. To stifle it by
withholding all of our natural resources for exclusive
development by public ownership is to retard our
economic progress and development and diminish the
prosperity that would ensue.”
The factual record backs that up. Keep it in mind
next time you hear socialist arguments for government
monopoly of waterpower, mineral resources, atomic
energy for peacetime use, or anything else.
International Falls, Colo., Plainsman: “The United
States now has more than 17 million acres in tree farms,
a fact which bespeaks considerable foresight on the
part of a generation which has often been depicted as
careless in its attitude toward natural resources.
The key to satisfaction and enjoyment in life is
philosophy, not money.
Courage shows in a woman’s eyes; pluck in her
nicely arched brows.
Nixon Says Reds
Plan to Work Thru
Democratic Party
(By the Associated Press)
Vice President Nixon says he
has a “secret memorandum” of
the Communist Party that shows
it is “determined to conduct its
program within the Democratic
Party.”
At almost the same hour as
Nixon spoke Friday night, Demo
crat Adlai Stevenson accused
Nixon of leading a Republican
congressional campaign that can
be described as “McCarthyism in
a white collar.”
Nixon told a GOP rally at Butte,
Montana, that a memorandum to
California Communist leaders said
that under the two-party system
“the first attempt must be to fight
out the issues within the ranks of
the Democratic Party.”
The Vice President said the
Communist Party is trying to
“make its policies the policies of
the Democratic Party.
Stevenson, at a party rally in
Milwaukee, said Nixo'n is “back
at the old reliable again—Com
munists in government.” He con
tended Nixon has “repudiated”
President Eisenhower by trying
to make this—instead of the Eis
enhower record—the major cam
paign issue.
Secretary of the Interior Doug
las McKay last night charged in
St. Louis that “the Democrats
have never yet solved the unem
ployment problem without war.’1
McKay, addressing a GOP rally,
said the Eisenhower Administra
tion has gone from a war to a
peacetime economy with less un
employment than any Democratic
regime can claim.
260 Haitians Die
In Landslide
PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, UP)—
An estimated 260 persons were
reported buried in a tremendous
landslide that thundered down
Tuesday on the remote mountain
village of Berly, 20 miles so'uth
of here.
Capt. P. Burchett, head of the
Inter-American Geodetic Survey,
brought back word of the disaster
Friday after landing at the site
of the buried village in a helicop
ter.
He said the estimate of fatali
ties was based on reports by local
police. They said the only survi
vors were a child who fled ahead
of the rumbling earth slide and a
woman who was visiting out of
town.
A Red Cross party which hiked
to the scene said only six houses
still stood on Berly’s outskirts.
The rescue party had to travel 35
hours through mountains to reach
the village.
The landslide presumably re
sulted from floods in the wake of
Hurricane Hazel.
WEATHER FORECAST
Complied by the
U.S. Dept, of Commerce Weather Bureau
Partly cloudy tonight and Tues
day. Winds east to southeast 15-25
mph. Lowest temperature expec
ted tonight 32, high Tuesday 40.
Nome data last 24 hours as of
7 a.m. today: High temperature
37, lowest 23. Max. wind 23 mph.
from the SE. Sunrise 7:25 a.m.,
sunset 4:06 p.m.
Temperatures a year ago today:
high 30, low 10. Extremes this
date since 1907: high 45 in 1937,
low 5 in 1935.
Technically, a goose is a female,
the male being the gander.
U.S. C-47 With 21 Airmen
Vanishes On Flight
From Rome to Lyon
PARIS, (TP)—A U.S. Air Force
C-47 carrying 21 airmen has van
ished on a flight through stormy
weather from Rome to Lyon,
France, and—even as the search
for it was under way—an(uniden
tified plane was reported to have
fallen into the Mediterranean off
Corsica today.
A workman in Morsiglia, on the
west coast of the French island,
said he saw the two-engine plane
fly at low altitude and crash in
the wind-lashed water a mile and
a half offshore shortly after noon.
A few minutes later, the French
News Agency reported wreckage
of that plane had been spotted by
U.S. and French pilots searching
fo'r the C-47, missing since 5 p.m.
Sunday.
Meanwhile U. S., French and
Italian planes and helicopters
still circled over the Mediter
ranean between Corsica and the
French coast and over the French
Alps seeking the C-47, which was
based at Manston, England.
In the Alps, the search center
ed over Mt. Mounier, north of
Nice. The throbbing of plane en
gines and a big explosion were
heard in two villages at the foot
of the mountain last night.
PLUM OUT OF LUCK
BILLINGS, Mont., I7PI—Things
went plum wrong for 31-year-old
Albert L. Foster the other day.
The Melstone, Mont., man took
a bite out of a plum while driv
ing along a highway. He decided
he didn’t like it and, without look
ing, tossed it out the window.
The plum spattered against the
windshield of the car behind,
driven by highway patroman
Ernie Dedycker.
Foster forfeited a $10 appear
ance bond when his case reached
court. The charge: “Dumping gar
bage on a public highway.”
Rev. Mjorud Opens
Series of Services for
Lutheran Evangelism Week
BOTHEL, Wash., UP>—'The Rev.
A. Herbert Mjorud, Anchorage
evangelist and former Seattle at
torney, opened five days of ser
vices here Sunday in observance
o'f Lutheran Evangelism Week.
Mr. Mjorud is pastor of the
First Lutheran Church, Anchor
age. Before taking up studies for
the ministry in 1945, he was cap
tain of a fishing vessel and presi
dent of the Fishermen’s Coopera
tive Assn. He captained the 1933
University of Washington rowing
crew to a national championship.
GIRL SCOUT NEWS
Officers are Mary Andersen,
president; Rose Marie Cavota,
secretary and scribe; and Mina
Tungwenuk, patrol leader.
Troop leaders are Mrs. Ander
sen and Mrs. Gooch.
Other girls in the troop are
Lorene Nershak, Agnes Rock, Ber
nice Cannon, and Bertha Iokien
na.
—Rose Marie Cavota, Scribe
Indians to Get
Hearing on Claims
In Oil-Rich Area
ANCHORAGE, Iff)—A public
hearing on Indian claims to land
in the Icy Bay area of Cook Inlet
has been ordered held in Anchor
age starting Nov. 20.
The hearing was ordered by Ed
ward Woozley, director of the
Bureau of Land Management in
Washington, D.C. It is the first
official step toward settling the
question of native rights to poten
tial oil lands in Alaska, according
to Lowell Puckett, area adminis
trator for the bureau.
Woozley’s order was issued
after Yakutat area natives pro
tested issuance of oil leases on
13,560 acres of land in the Icy
Bay region. The protests were re
jected earlier this year by Virgil
Seiser, Land Office manager.
Seiser ruled there had been in
sufficient showing of actual occu
pancy and possession by the In
dians and that the extent of rights
of the natives had not been de
fined by Congress.
Woozley said, in ordering the
hearings, that no final determina
tion could be made by Washing
ton officials until all facts have
been presented to the Interior De
partment in public hearings.
Halloween-Mask Bandits
Rob Anchorage Bar
Of $1,500—Day’s Receipts
ANCHORAGE, Iff)—Three armed
bandits wearing halloween masks
robbed a downtown Anchorage
bar early Friday of $1,500 after
holding the bartender and two
customers prisoner for 5¥z hours.
The trio entered the bar just
before 1 a.m. closing time and
threatened to kill the bartender,
Ralph Simms, if he did not di
vulge the combination to a large
safe.
Simms finally convinced the
gunmen he did not know the com
bination. With that, they bound
Simms and the two customers,
Mr. and Mrs. Terry Boyden, and
wheeled in an acetylene torch
with which they tried until 6:30
a.m. to cut the safe open.
The robbers fled in the car of
a janitor, Mack McCoy, who ar
rived about 6:15 a.m. with his
wife and 13-year-old son to clean
up the place.
The $1,500 taken by the trio
was the previous day’s receipts,
which had not been put in the
safe.
AUTHOR OF LINDBERGH
KIDNAP LAW DIES AT 78
SPRINGFIELD, Mo., Iff)—Ros
coe C. Patterson, author of the
Lindbergh kidnap law when he
served as U.S. senator from Mis
souri, died Friday night at his
home. He was 78.
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unto, but to minister, and to give His
life a ransom to many."
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