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4,800 Letters Found In
Mail Carrier’s Car
PITTSBURGH, ® — Richard
A. Conrad of suburban Wilkins
- burg, a former substitute mail
carrier, was arrested last Feb
ruary when postal inspectors
found 4,800 pieces of mail dating
back to October, 1957, in his car.
Conrad pleaded guilty Wednes
day to delaying the mail. He
was fined $400 and placed on
three years probation.
ORDER AND NOTICE OF
PRIMARY AND
SPECIAL ELECTION
To the Electors of the Town of
Nome, Northwestern District,
Territory of Alaska:
Notice is hereby given that
pursuant to Executive Order
Number 1 of the Governor of
the Territory of Alaska, and in
conformity therewith a Primary
and Special Election will be held
on TUESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1958
between the hours of 8va.m. and
8 o'clock p.m. of said day (1) To
nominate candidates of the vari
ous political parties of Alaska for
the following offices, to wit:
A Governor of Alaska
A Secretary of Alaska
Two (2) United States Senators
One (1) United States
Representative
Twenty (20) State Senators
Forty (40) State Representatives
(2) To adopt or reject, by sep
arate ballot on each, the three
propositions relating to statehood.
The Common Council of the
town of Nome, having heretofore,
by motion, duly designated the
Voting Precincts of said town
and the polling place in each
thereof, the Electors are hereby
notified:
That all duly qualified voters
residing within the boundaries of
said Town of Nortle which are
as follows: The City limits of
the Townsite of Nome, will vote
at City Hall building, located on
Front street, in and upon lot be
tween blocks G and H which is
owned by City of Nome and oc
cupied by City of Nome the same
being the duly designated polling
place in and for Town of Nome.
Dated this 11th day of August,
1958.
(Signed)
The Common Council of
the Town of Nome
By Robert F. Scott, Clerk1
Nellie Revell, Nation’s
Most Famous Invalid
Passed Away Tuesday
NEW YORK, m — Nellie Re
vellj noted newspaper woman,
author, and theatrical press agent
who once was termed the nation’s
most famous invalid, is dead at 85.
Miss Revell died Tuesday at a
hospital. Final rites will be
held at Springfield, 111., where
she had her first newspaper job
on the old Illinois Republican,
edited and published by her
father.
In the early 1920’s she was
hospitalized with a severe spinal
illness. Bedridden for several
years in St. Vincent’s Hospital
here, she wrote two books:
“Right off the chest” and “Fight
in’ Through.”
When she emerged from the
hospital, confined to a wheel
chair, about 1,200 celebrities gave
her a coming'-out party.
M\ss Revell was one of the
first women to cover a prize
fight. Jim Corbett objected to
her plan to attend his fight with
Bob Fitzsimmons.
Miss Revell told Corbett: “If
I don’t come neither will Fitz
simmons. I don’t think he has
to, anyway. He could lick you
by mail.”
Corbett, amused, invited her to
the fight. Fitzsimmons won.
In 1950, while recuperating
from a cataract operation on her
left eye, she was asked when
she planned to have the same
operation on her right eye.
She replied “Soon as my left
eye^heals up. I can’t run out of
eyes, honey. They’ve operated
on me for everything except
dandruff.”
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232 Candidates
Seek 65 Positions
In State Gov’t
A total of .232 candidates, seek
ing nomination to 65 positions in
the new Alaska state government,
will be on the ballots when Alas
kans vote Aug. 26 in the first
state primary.
Fourteen of the political hope
fuls are bidding for places on the
Nov. 25 general election ballot
for state and national offices.
Five of them will be elected—to
fill two U.S. Senate seats, one
in the U.S. House, the governor’s
office and the position of secre
tary of state.
There are 154 candidates in the
field for 40 seats open in the
first state House of Representa
tives. There are 64 candidates
seeking nomination to the fall
election for 20 places in the first
state Senate.
One Republican already is
virtually assured of election to
the state Senate. He is John
Coghill of Nenana, who is with
out opposition from either his
own or the Democratic party in
Yukon-Kuskokwim Senate dis
trict.
• Only the unlikely possibility
that an independent candidate
might enter the race and defeat
him in the general election
stands in Coghill’s way to a two
year term in the first state Sen
ate.
In addition, the Republicans al
so seem assured of winning the
four-year state Senate seat from
the Bristol Bay-Bethel District.
And the Democrats apparently
have sewed up the two-year
state Senate term from the
Southeastern at Large District.
Three Republicans are the only
candidates filed in the Bristol
Bay-Bethel Senate District. They
are Richard Jensen, King Salmon;
Harry Shawback, Naknek, and
Jack E. Weise, Bethel. Two
Democrats — James Nolan of
Wrangell and George Laiblin—
are the only candidates for the
Southeastern District two-year
Also without opposition of any
kind in the primary are two Re
publican candidates for House
seats—Denton R. Moore of Kok
honak Bay from the Bristol Bay
District, and James Hoffman,
Bethel, from the Bethel District.
Two Democrats also appear as
sured of election in the House
without opposition. They are
Charles J. Franz, Port Moller, for
the Aleutian Island District, and
John Nusunginya, Barrow, for
the Barrow District.
Only on the Democratic side—
and then only three races—are
there contests for nomination on
the state and national level.
Three Democrats are seeking
nomination for governor, and
two each seek the nomination as
Democratic choice for the U.S.
House and as secretary of state.
Fine Job Printing At The Nugget.
Seattle Firm Buys
Old Alaska Ferry
JUNEAU, UP) — The Chilkoot,
the old Southeastern Alaska auto
mobile ferry, is to be sold to
Arctic Terminal, Inc., Seattle, for
$37,500.
The Seattle firm’s offer was
$6,840 higher than the next best
bid for the converted wartime
landing ship.
Six bids were received for the
old ferry, which was replaced on
the Juneau-Haines Lynn Canal
run last year by the new Chilkat.
The sale was approved by the
Alaska Department of Highways,
which operates the 65-mile ferry
run between the capitol and the
Haines link to the Alaska High
way.
ANDERSON, S.C., UP) — A class
of Duke Power Co. trainee line
men and repairmen were prac
ticing how to dig postholes. One
trainee carved out a beautiful
hole—but he cut through a cable
leading to a company substation
and knocked out 26 pairs of tele
phone circuits.
Vic Rivers Says
No Tax Increases
Appear Necessary
JUNEAU, — No tax increases
for Alaskans appear necessary for
the support of a state govern
ment, it was reported Thurs
day by Territorial Senate Presi
dent Victor Rivers, Democratic
candidate for governor of the
new state of Alaska.
Rivers conferred in the Juneau
office of tax commissioner Robert
Stevenson, and said the “financial
position of the territory is far
ahead of estimate of spending
nfade by the last legislature.
The territorial fund is in good
shape and under the present rate
of income the new state will not
be forced to carry any additional
burdens.”
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