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AMERICAN EDUCATION WEEK
(By WILLIAM L. ANGELL, Nome School Supt.)
The 34th annual observance of American Educa
tion Week is announced for Nov. 7-13, 1954 by its
national sponsors, the National Education Association,
the American Legion, the U.S. Office of Education, and
the National Congress of Parents and Teachers.
The central theme, “Good Schools Are Your Re
sponsibility,” is, in effect, a lesson assignment for every
citizen. During the past four years, American educa
tion has become ever more deeply involved in a crisis,
the proportion and consequences of which all too many
are unaware of. Many factors enter into this crisis,
but the two most immediate are: rapidly increasing
population, and failure to provide educational facili
ties to fill the need. If we had been as attentive to edu
cational trends as we have learned to be to our business
cycle, we would have been prompt to recognize and
strike at the problem. We, as citizens, have a respon
sibility, and doubly so, when we realize the mind and
spirit of American democracy is in danger, because
of the crisis in education.
The Nome School Board and teachers extend a
special invitation to all citizens to visit classrooms to
observe the Nome Public School in action. Re-examine
the educational program of your community relative
to: Teaching the Fundamentals Today, Effective Citi
zenship, and Ideals to Live By. Ask yourselves, “How
good is our school?”
GETTING AROUND THE INCOME TAX
Some months ago one of the nation’s leading edu
cational institutions paid $2,700,000 for a large textile
plant in a southern city. The university immediately
leased the property (it is reported) to the original
owners who will not have to pay income taxes. That
is not all. Property owned by by educational institu
tion is not taxable . . .
This method of evading taxes is a bad practice and
should be stopped. If not, the time may come when
most of the property will be owned by the educational
institutions and property owners on the outside will
have to carry the whole tax load.
The pacifists are too often people who let others
win the wars so they can win the peace.
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Veteran Alaska Pilot
Killed in Amphibian Crash
During Rainstorm
JUNEAU, (iPI—Veteran Alaska
pilot James Rinehart, 52, was
killed and a Sitka co'uple was
gravely injured in the crash of an
amphibian plane during a rain
storm Friday, a rescue party ra
dioed Friday night.
The- ground party, which fought
its way Saturday through dense
undergrowth and up tortuous ter
rain to reach the crash scene 75
miles southwest of here, messaged
that no attempt would be made to
move- the two injured passengers
until morning.
The Alaska Coastal Airline
twin-engine plane crashed near
the summit of a peak between the
fishing villages of Pelican City
and Hoonah, on Chicagof Island.
Rinehart, who made his home
in Sitka, was an old-time bush
pilot and had been flying for
Alaska Coastal for the past seven
years. He came to Alaska in 1934
and flew as a bush pilot out of
Petersburg.
Rinehart’s father, Dr. J. Carle
Rinehart, Portland, Ore., was an
early-day pilot and aviation en
thusiast.
JUNEAU, (44—An account of
how he regained consciousness to
find their plane wreckage afire
and how he was able to help his
wife to safety and remove the
dead pilot’s body was told Satur
day by Charles Joseph Sr., of
Sitka.
He told newsmen Rinehart was
making a turn in a mountain pass
when their plane “kind off
dropped” and a wing tip hit the
mountainside. “Then we hit again
—hard,” he continued.
First reports from a rescue par
ty at the wreck scene had said
the Josephs were so severely in
jured they could not be carried
out on stretchers, and a helicopter
was sent in. However, the two
suffered only multiple cuts and
bruisc-s and were in “surprisingly
good condition,” hospital atten
dents said.
The rescue effort was of truly
heroic proportions with hundreds
taking part, leaders said.
Marilyn Monroe Gets
Gynecological Operation
HOLLYWOOD, (4*1—M a r i 1 y n
Monroe successfully underwent a
“minor gynecological operation”
today at Cedars of Lebanon Hos
pital.
Her physician said that her es
tranged husband, Joe DiMaggio,
visited her briefly last night and
planned to see her again this
afternoon.
The actress—in surgery for 45
minutes—entered the hospital
Sunday and is expected to remain
there about four days. She fin
ished work in her current film
yesterday with a session o'f posing
for still pictures.
Miss Monroe has filed suit for
divorce from DiMaggio but has
seen him several times since their
separation.
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— Pearl Davis —
Gold Production in U.S. and Alaska
Shows Increase in 1953 Over 1952
WASHINGTON, UP)—Gold produc
tion in the- United States gold pro
duction increased three percent in
1953, reversing the downward
trend of 1951 and 1952.
The Interior Department’s Bu
reau of Mines reporte-d the 1953
output totaled 1,958,281 fine ounc
es compared with 1,893,261 ounc
es in 1952. The 1953 production,
however, was less than half the
average for the five pre-war
years, 1936-1940.
In some gold-producing areas,
a decline in production last year
was attributed to rising costs of
labor and supplies for straight
gold mining operations, or to less
activity at lead and zinc mines
which yield gold as a by-product.
The Treasury buying price for
gold has remained constant at $35
an ounce.
The overall gain in production
was attributed in part to a sub
stantial increase in the yield of
by-product gold from copper min
ing in some areas.
South Dakota again was the
leading gold-producing state in
1953, followed in orde-r by Utah,
Alaska, and California.
Nearly all of the South Dakota
yield of 534,987 ounces was ob
tained from gold ore at the
Homestake Mine.
Utah’s production of 483,430
ounces came principally as a by
product of copper mining in the
Bingham district. Alaska’s 253,785
ounces resulted almost entirely
from placer mining operations,
mainly bucket line dredging.
Straight gold mining, both lode
and placer, yielded most of Cali
fornia’s 234,591 ounces.
In 1952, South Dakota produced
482,534 ounces, Utah 435,507, Al
aska 240,557 and California 258,
176.
BALD HEAD CLUB
PROTESTS BARBER RATES
DARIEN, Conn., UP)—The Bald
Head Club of America yesterday
named a committee to investigate
fees charged by barbers.
Members attending the biennial
meeting here said barbers should
charge by the hair—not by the j
head.
Wendell Corey’s Wife
Attacked by Housekeeper,
Rescued by Motorists
Beverly Hills, Calif., UP)—The
wife of Actor Wendell Corey was
rescued by passing motorists Fri
dya when her housekeeper sud
denly attacked Mrs. Corey, police
reported.
Miss Frieda Donahue, 35, was
taken to the County Hospital’s
psychiatric ward.
The actor's wife said she was
shepherding her children Robin,
11; Jonathan, 8, and Jennifer, 5,
across busy Canon Drive to their
school.
Mrs. Alice Corey told police:
“Frieda stopped me and told
me not to take the children across.
I tried to pacify her, but she be
gan to scream that the children ,
weren’t mine, that they were hers.
In the ensuing struggle, she
said, four passing motorists
stopped their cars and leaped out
to subdue the housekeeper. The
children, unharmed, were taken
to school.
Corey is in the east with a tour
ing company of “The Caine Mu
tiny Court Martial.”
Ike to Dedicate Museum
WASHINGTON, UP)—President
Eisenhower will fly next Wednes
day to his boyhood home in Abi
lene, Kansas, to dedicate a wing
of the Eisenhower Museum now
under construction.
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IMPORTANT NOTICE
TERRITORIAL SCHOOL TAX FOR 1954
NOW DUE AND PAYABLE
Tax is due and payable after January 1 of
each year and becomes delinquent after Dec. 1.
A Penalty of $2.50 Attaches If Not Paid
On or Before December 1, 19a4.
Who Must Pay School Tax:
All male and female persons over 21 and under 55.
Exemptions:
Insane Persons
Active Military or Naval Personnel
Unemployed Dependent Females
Permanently Injured—unable to earn a living
EMPLOYERS ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR COLLECTION
1 OF TAX FROM THEIR EMPLOYEES.
Failure or Neglect to Pay the School Tax is a Mis
demeanor and subject to arrest and a fine not more
than $100 or imprisonment of not more than 90 days.
Payment should be made to your local school
tax collector, Department of Taxation, Box
259, Nome, Alaska—on Front Street.