THE NOME NUGGET
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NOME, ALASKA
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Clean Up, Paint Up, Fix Up
Nome is about to have the “New Look” as plans
materialize to make this an all-out clean-up week such
as we have never had before, and such as we have
never needed as badly as we do now.
By cleaning up the community of trash, fire haz
ards and health problems are reduced and civic pride
is increased.
Visitors in our community judge its residents by
the appearance of its streets as they see it. Every
paint Job, every clean-up chore, every minor repair
by each of us is one more step in making Nome the
. kind of a town in which we are proud to live.
Cleanup week is contagious, too, and your neigh
bors will soon get the notion of doing their share when
they see you cleaning up your property.
Let’s really try this year!
Merchants, Base Officers
Softball Winners Monday
In Last Games of Season
In the first game of Monday
night’s softball a*t the high school,
the Merchants routed the Air
Force 40-10 behind Kost and Gray
while Willoberger, Donald, and
Ruffin were battery for the losers.
At 8:30 the High School and the
Base Officers played to a stand
still for five innings when a wild
sixth inning broke up the game
and leveled off at 13-11 in favor
of the winning officers. Pecorelli
and Dunning for the winners
matched Willoya, Mogg and Her
man for the High School.
This was the last baseball game
of the indoor season as activities
connected with the end of the
school year will be occupying the
gym. •
Four U.S. Thunderjets
Land in Australia After
Record - Breaking Flight
NEWCASTLE, Australia, UP) —
Four U. S. Thunderjets landed
here today to complete a record
nonstop Tokyo-to-Australia flight
in 12 hours 2 minutes.
The speedy, single-engire fight
ers, each capable of carrying an
atomic bomb, refueled in the air
three times during their 4,840
mile hop — over Guam, Manus
Island and Townsville, Australia.
The flight, part of a U.S. Air
Force goodwill mission to Aus
tralia extended the nonstop over
water record for single-engine jets
by 355 miles. Col. David Shilling
set the previous mark of 4,485
miles in 1853 on a flight from
Turner Air Force Base, Ga., to
North Africa.
The flight had left Yokota Air
Base, near Tokyo in balmy spring
weather, but landed here in the
Southern Hemisphere’s May au
tumn. A chill gusty wind lashed
the Oceanside Airport and black
clouds scudded across the dark
ening sky.
As the Thunderjets screamed in
for the landing, eight Australian
air force planes roared over the
field in a salute.
The flight was led by Col. Har
old M. McClelland of Avon Park,
Fla.
Six planes originally started the
flight but one jet turned back
after it developed fuel trouble 100
miles out and the other dropped
off at Guam when radio diffi
culties developed.
1st Ph.D. Degree in
Alaska University
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Graduating Class
That part of civilization based
j on family and institutional teach
| ings is the most lasting in value,
an internationally recognized ex
I plorer and scientist told the Uni
| versity of Alaska’s 33rd graduat
ing class Monday.
Sir Hubert Wilkins said that
family behavior sets up the mores
and customs of a people, and the
history of mankind proves that
the slow rate of family progress
has been the brake against mal
adjustment of too rapid advance
ment in civilization.
Sir Hubert received an honor
ary Doctor of Science degree from
the university in recognition of
his accomplishments. These in
clude being on the pioneer air
flight in Antarctica, first trans
arctic airplane flight, and on the
pioneer submarine trip under arc
tic ice in 1931.
Forty-five graduates received
bachelor degrees at the com
mencement ceremony; three, mas
ter’s degrees; and one a Ph.D. in
geophysics. The latter js the first
Ph.D. degree presented by the in
stitution. This advance degree
j went to Masahisa Sugiura. His
j study was supervised by Dr. Syd
I ney Chapman of England, visiting
i professor at the university’s Geo
physical Institute and chairman
of the special committee of the
International Geophysical Year,
1957-58.
The list of graduates includes
T. Neil Davis, bachelor of science,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Ben V. Davis,
Box 45, Nome.
Former Supreme Court
Justice Owen Roberts Dies
PHOENIXVTLLE, Pa. tfV-Owen
J. Roberts, retired former associ
ate justice of the U.S. Supreme
Court, died Tuesday at his home.
He was 80 last May 2, and had
retired from the bench in 1945.
The justice, named to the na
tion’s highest court in 1930 by
former President Herbert Hoover,
died of a heart attack after having
been ill for some time.
Friends quoted him as saying if
he was to die he preferred to be
at home, at his estate 30 miles
west of Philadelphia.
Chou En-Lai Bids
Again for Talks
With U.S. on East
TOKYO, UP)—Premier Chou En
lai of Red China Tuesday renewed
his offer to negotiate with the
United States on easing tension in
the Formosa area but made plain
that “the question of the so-called
cease fire does not arise.”
The reason, he said, was that
“there is no war between (Red)
China and the United States.”
Chou, wTho first made his offer
April 23 at the Asia-African con
ference at Bandung, said his coun
try would prefer to discuss the
Formosan question through a 10
nation conference suggested three
months ago by Soviet Russia, but
said Red China would be willing
to consider alternate proposals.
He stipulated that Chiang Kai
shek’s Nationalist government on
Formosa must be excluded.
Chou charged that the United
States was delaying the talks by
vague and evasive responses.
President Eisenhower said on
April 27 that the United States
would be glad to talk with the
Chinese Communists on a cease
fire, but this was the point that
Chou specifically ruled out in a
report last Friday to Red China’s
National Congress in Peiping.
These were his words:
“The people living in Taiwan
(Formosa* are Chinese people and
the liberation of Taiwan by the
Chinese people is a question of
China’s domestic affair.
“The United States occupation
of Taiwan has created tension in
the Taiwan area and this consti
tutes an international issue be
tween China and the United
States. The two questions cannot
be mixed up. There is no war be
tween China and the United
States so the question of the so
called cease-fire does not arise.
In Taipeh, Formosan National
ist government spokesmen said
Chou’s attitude “shows they have
nothing to talk about with the
United States except surrender.”
A foreign office spokesman
charged the Reds never had any
intention of securing a cease-fire
and Chou had underlined that.
A government information bu
reau spokesman said “the Chinese
Communists want a total Ameri
can surrender in the Formosa area
as the price for peace.”
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Radiation Treatment
Fails to Help Baby With
Inoperable Cancer
CHICAGO, UP)—The maximum
permissible radiation treatment
has done little apparent good for
Nydea Marie Day, a 4-month-old
baby with an inoperable liver
cancer.
The child was flown to Chicago
in mid March from Sitka, Alaska,
in hopes doctors at Illinois Re
search Hospital could give her
health.
Her father, Sgt 1/c Leo Day, re
mained in Chicago as long as he
could, but had to report for duty
last month aboard the Coast
Guard vessel Heather at San Ped
ro, Calif. The baby’s mother is
still with her.
Doctors feel the baby ha:- little
chance to live more than nine
months to one year unless unex
pected response to the radiation
treatment is detected when they
examine her again June 13.
Nome Bakery
and Restaurant
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Daily-Fresh Soft Darigold
PIES ICE CREAM
$1 each 75V qt.
Nome Maid Bread 50^
Fresh Doughnuls .... 75c doz.
Frosted Doughnuls 90c doz.
P.T.A. ELECTS NEW
OFFICERS FOR YEAR
At the PTA meeting at the
school Tuesday evening a commit- j
tee report stated that the tfome
School Board had agreed to in- ;
elude the hot lunch program in'
the 1955-56 budget.
Superintendent Wm. Angell
spoke on the hot lunch program,,
giving the views he had gleaned
from superintendents of other
Alaska schools.
It was also brought out that
the PTA pledged to aid in any j
way they could the carrying out |
of the program next year.
A letter was read setting forth
the wishes of the PTA in recom
mending that the Nome USO Club
remain open after the closing of
Nome Field by the Air Force in
October.
New officers were elected for
next year. They were: Harry
Johnson,( president; Mrs. Wm.
Barber, vice president; Mrs.
Steffen Andersen, secretary; and
Clinton Gray, treasurer.
, On the program for the evening
was Mrs. Lela Oman who told
some Eskimo legends of er people,
similar to such stories included
in a book “Eskimo Legends”
soon to be published in Nome.
Mrs. Emily Boucher gave a
short history of Nome’s public
library now situated in the City
Hall building. She told of it’s
inception in 1902 as the Kegoayah
Kozga Library, how it has sur
vived fire and disaster and time
and now is to participate in the
territory’s new library system.
Memorial Service Planned For
Louis Tungwenuk Thursday At
Community Methodist Church
A memorial service will be held
for Louis Tungwenuk at the Com
munity Methodist Church Thurs
day evening at 7:30 p.m.
Louis Tungwenuk passed away
last week in the Anchorage ANS
hospital and he was buried in
Anchorage.
Relatives of the family from
Point Barrow have arrived for
the memorial service. Friends of
the deceased and of the family
are invited to attend.
FINAL MEETING OF SEASON
FOR MOTHERS' CLUB WILL
BE HELD FRIDAY EVENING
Friday, May 20, at 2:30 p.m., the
Mothers’ Club will hold its final
meeting of the season at the home
of Lewis Hudgins. Mrs. Hudgins
will give a talk and demonstration
on the use of natural foods such
as ' fresh, whole-ground wheat
flour, raw sugar and whole grain
cereals. She will discuss fresh
greens, their use and care.
A view of their greenhouse with
its fresh-growing greens will be
included.
Baby sitters will be provided
for the children at the Recreation
Hall of the Community Center.
ARCTIC SANITARY
SERVICE
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COMING TO
THE THEATER
SUNDAY
•MONDAY
TUESDAY
Dancing Every Saturday Nite I
to the music of our new pianist
J I M R Y A N * I
with “SH-BOOM” on the drums I
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