Alaska Airlines
Sees Nome As Big
Tourist Attraction
Del Kampmann, manager of
Alaska Airlines, returned home
Monday following the annual
spring meeting in Anchorage.
Attending from Seattle were
Henry Bierds, assistant to the
president, and Richard Gilbert,
senior vice-president. Pete Karel
ia, McGrath station manager, and
Dale Freimering of Unalakleet at
tended from this area also.
Kampmann reports there are i
ibig plans in the making to make j
Nome the most important and in
teresting tourist spot in Alaska.
The grand opening date of the
terminal has been set ahead so
that visitors from some of the
other 49 states may be able to be
here.
Large-scale plans are in the
making for more housing to ac
commodate the number of tourists
v who would like to come here dur
x ing the summer months.
Kampmann, who now heads the
tourist committee of the NWA
C. of C., states that he will be con
ferring with the Chamber of Com
merce and other groups for the
grand opening of the Terminal,
as well as for a colorful program
for the Midnight Sun Festival.
VETERANS ADMINISTRATION
REPRESENTATIVE IN NOME
A. B. Brevik, contact represen
tative for the Veterans Adminis
tration, is scheduled to be in Nome
today and tomorrow, and will as
sist veterans and their dependents
in this area with problems con
cerning benefits administered by
the Veterans Administration.
MERRIFIELDS RETURN FROM
'HEAT' OF NATION'S CAPITOL
Mr. and Mrs. Victor Merrifield
and children recently returned
after spending the winter in
Washington, D.C. Victor was em
ployed by Heddon Contractors, a
construction firm.
The Merrifields left Nome in
September and both said on their
return they couldn’t stand the
heat and humidity of the nation’s
capital.
WEATHER FORECAST
Cloudy with occasional snow
and rain tonight and Thursday.
Lowest temperature expected to
night 30, the high tomorrow 38.
In the last 24 hours: highest
temperature 32, lowest 25. Sunrise
at 4:03 a.m., sunset at 8:00 p.m.
A year ago today: highest tem
perature 34, lowest 29. Extremes
on this date since 1907: highest 54
in 1940, lowest -8 in 1916.
At Nenana at noon today it was
cloudy with a temperature of 36.
NOTICE
A regular meeting of the Nome
Common Council will be held
Thursday, April 23, 1959, at 8 p.m.,
for the purpose of retiring the old
Council and installing the new
City Council.
ROBERT F. SCOTT,
28 City Clerk.
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N. Y. Zoo Makes Request
For Live Baby Seals
An announcement was made at
today’s Rotary luncheon meeting
that the N.Y. Zoo wishes to ac
quire several live baby seals. The
zoo will pay up to $75 for lively,
healthy pups, and any seal hunt
ers who capture any such are re
quested to inform Tom Martin at
the Polaris Hotel.
Guests at the luncheon were:
Norval Duncan of Anchorage; C.
S. Fredricksen, G. Connell, and
Steve Faller, also of Anchorage.
The latter three are engineers for
FAA, here to survey a new site
for the CT (Control Tower) sta
tion just east of town.
National Law Day, May 1,
To Be Observed With
Local Court Program
By Presidential Proclamation
Friday, May 1, has been pro
claimed National Law Day.
The American Bar Association,
in cooperation with the American
Heritage Foundation and the Alas
ka Bar Association, are urging that
appropriate programs be arranged
in communities throughout Alas
ka to engender increasing respect
for law and order, and to better
understand the work of the courts.
A committee has been ap
pointed, headed by Judge Walter
Hodge, with James von der Heydt,
and Russell Hermann, who have
arranged an interesting program
to be held in the Federal Court
Room at 3:30 p.m., on Friday af
ternoon, May 1.
All persons interested in the
work of the law and fn teaching
obedience to the law are special
guests, with the general public
invited.
Ministers of Nome churches are
being requested to devote ser
mons or public announcements to
this idea, from their pulpits next
Sunday.
AXEL WERNER, NOME
MINER, PIONEER, DIES AT
SITKA PIONEER HOME
Axel Werner, former Nome
miner, passed away at the Pio
neer Home at Sitka this morning.
His furleral is scheduled for to
morrow afternoon at 2:30. He is
a member of Igloo No. 1 of the
Pioneers of Alaska.
NOME BOWLERS ASSOCIATION
LEAGUE STANDING
(as of April 19, 1959)
W. L. Pet.
Trading Post 23 5 .821
F.A.A. 23.5 8.5 .735
B.P.R. 20 8 .714
Liniment Squad 18.5 9.5 .661
Bering Sea 18.5 9.5 .661
Mizers, Inc. 13 11 .542
Federal Electric 15 17 .469
Weather Bureau 13 15 .464
Morgans 12 16 .429
Polar "Bar 12 16 .429
Airlines 10 14 .417
N. C. Sluggers 7.5 20.5^. .268
Hospital Cases 5 23 .179
North Star 5 27 .156
The following .teams please
check with Carl Glavinovich on a
Make-Up Date:
. Mizers vs. Airlines
SS NENANA is scheduled io sail from
Seattle June 2nd. Cargo accepted at Ames
Terminal from May 18 through May 29.
I Write:
Nome Agent For Information
Unalakleet Asks
To Affiliate With
NWA Chamber
By RUTH McLEAN
Inquiries have been received 'by
the NWA Chamber of Commerce
from Unalakleet concerning the
possibilty of a Chamber there af
filiating with the Nome organiza
tion. Dale Freimering, Alaska
Airlines agent at Unalakleet, was
a guest at the Monday luncheon
meeting and asked the Board of
Directors to consider this pro
posal. Later the board met and ar
ranged to extend an invitation to
the Unalakleet group to affiliate
with, the NWA Chamber, a coor
dination which would add
strength for work on problems of
common interest.
President Jerry Manning re
minded the Chamber that on May
21, 22 and 23 the executive board
of the state chamber will meet in
Nome, and he requested that reso
lutions on issues of current inter
est be prepared to present to the
board.
The NWA Chamber agrees to
endorse Project Chariot at Cape
Thompson and supporting the
Kotzebue Chamber, will ask for
the re-instatement of the original
project Plowshare.
Del Kampmann, Nome manager,
announced that plans for the dedi
cation of the new air terminal
were discussed at a recent meet
ing of Alaska Airlines managers.
In the interests of tourist promo
tion and publicity for the City of
Nome, Mr. Kampmann stated,
Alaska Airlines is considering
holding the dedication ceremonies
during the Midnight Sun Festival,
to help publicize that event. Pres
ident Manning offered the cooper
ation of the Chamber to help ar
range the affair.
Interest in the new state is
shown in the flow of correspon
dence received by the secretary,
including requests for tourist ma
terial from New York State, and
a request for membership in the
Nome Chamber from a Connecti
cut firm. Also a lengthy wire was
received from Mrs. Jo Napoleon,
stating that 20th-Century Fox will
produce a weekly television show
about Modern Alaska, with loca
tion shooting taking place over the
course of a year. «Mr. and Mrs.
Napoleon will bring their group
to Nome soon. In the meantime,
they asked for an order of winter
fur garments, which has been been
filled by Polet’s and* the Nome
Skin Sewers. Another letter
letter asked the Chamber for
sources of pictures of reindeer for
use in an article by the National
Geographic Magazine.
The Chamber Member of the
Week is F. S. “Dusty” Rhode,
F.A.A. station manager, who is
an active member of Chamber and
C.A.P., and editor of the Rotary
Club “Sluice Box.”
Guests at the Monday luncheon
included Mrs. Del Kampmann,
Dale Freimering of Unalakleet,
Ted Thaxter of Venezuela, and
Rupert Chisolm, Myland Ever
heart and Bill Weir of Las Cruces,
New Mexico. Mr. Chisolm is presi
dent of the Las Cruces Chamber
of Commerce. He flew his party
to Northwestern Alaska in his
own plane, and all were success
ful in bagging a polar bear.
Admitted^ to Hospital: Joseph
Kakik, Charles Hoyt.
Transferred to Anchorage hos
pital: Gordon Attatayuk, Phillip
Talayunna.
Discharged: Ella Kitchin.
Fine Job Printing At The Nugget.
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