THE NOME NUGGET
Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday by the
NOME PUBLISHING CO.
NOME, ALASKA
Telephone: Main 125 P.O. Box 618
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E. P. BOUCHER . Managing Editor
CLINTON GRAY . Production Manager
Entered as second class matter October 14, 1943, at the
postoffice at Nome, Alaska, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
SOMETHING NEW HAS BEEN
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Though little information is available to the press
in Washington, there are increasing signs that U. S.
spies are causing concern in the Iron Curtain countries
in the Balkans and eastern Europe. Recently the Polish
government issued a statement which, in effect, told
the United States government that one million dollars
spent for spy work in Poland had been largely wasted.
No reply, of course, came from Washington. In
Czechoslovakia charges have repeatedly been made by
Prague commies about U.S. spies. Only silence has
been Washington’s answer. And in the Balkans the
Reds are getting touchy over the work of U.S. spies.
All this attention indicates that spies are doing their
job well.
The major reason for current concern behind the
Iron Curtain is thought to be the strain through which
the satellite countries economies are now passing. In
Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and other satellites
production totals are being missed. Workers are show
ing increased unrest as living conditions fail to im
prove or improve too slowly.
The Russians have responded to the trouble by
increasing workers’ quotas, for the same pay, and this
is causing unrest. The entire satellite population is
experiencing a wave of unrest — as western Europe
steadily recovers economically and enjoys more of the
luxuries of life. Thus U.S. spies have an increasingly
good opportuntiy to enlist the aid of defectionists and
disillusioned citizens in these countries.
The extent of concern and publicity given our
spy-work abroad indicates serious concern on the part
of the Communists. The U.S.—which has never main
tained much of a spy system in peacetime, until now—
seems to have an active network of informers in the
Balkans and eastern Europe today.
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New Style of Play To Be
Introduced Tonight In
Kangaroo-Whizkid Game
By HERB WILLIAMS
Local fans will be treated to
a doubleheader basketball pro
gram tonight, when starting at 7
Kangas’ Kangaroos will challenge
the Williams Whizkids in their
third game of a hotly contested |
series. The Kangaroos have won
the first two games and will be
gunning for their third, while the
Whizkids will be out to avenge
their earlier losses. A new style
of play will be introduced by the
two coaches to make the game a
little more exciting.
Following the preliminary tilt,
at 8:15 the Nome Nanooks face
the CAP which is still looking for
win No. 1 in the second half of
league play, after losing three.
The High School is currently tied
for second place with a two-and
one record with the 23rd Eclats.
Swanberg, Willoya, Greene and
Bell are the big scoring punch for
the Nanooks while Kramer, Dann,
Kliest -and McClure lead the CAP
attack.
MUSHER CANNON DUE BACK j
FOR FUR RENDEZVOUS TREK
ANCHORAGE, UP — A dog mush
er, Charles Cannon, and his team
of five dogs are due back in Al
aska in time to enter the Anchor
■age-Seward dog team trek Jan. 29.
This parade will be longer for
Cannon than the inaugural last
Tuesday as it will take the 10
teams entered in the event two
days to complete the route.
It’s an annual pre-Fur Rendez
vous trek.
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SCOTSMAN TO BE EXHUMED
FOR WOODEN LEG FORTUNE
SYDNEY, Australia, UP) — The
public trustee’s office yesterday
ordered exhumation of Scotsman
Donald McDonald’s body to deter
mine if a small fortune is cached
in his wooden leg.
Relatives in Scotland believe
the 56-year-old seaman hid his
life’s savings there and they re
quested the body be exhumed.
Rescued From Disabled Ship
SEATTLE, (#) — John Bez, son
of the prominent Alaska cannery
and fish trap operator, Nick Bez,
was rescued early Tuesday morn
ing by the Coast Guard from the
freezer ship, Toni-B., which was
disabled near the Coos Bay off
the Oregon coast.
The Tony-B. left Seattle Satur
day for exploration fishing near
South America.
WEATHER FORECAST
Compiled by tbe
U.S. Dept, of Commerce Weather Bureau
Cloudy with light snow and a
slight rise in temperature tonight
and Saturday. Easterly winds 10
to 15 mph Saturday. Low temper
ature expected tonight -3; high
tomorrow 12.
Nome data last 24 hours as of
7:00' a.m. today: High temperature
-15, low -29. Maximum wind 12
mph from ENE. Sunrise 9:12 a.m.,
sunset 3:16 p.m.
A year ago today: high temper
ature 10, low 1. Extremes this
date since 1907: high 36 in 1929;
low -30 in 1919.
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Alaska 1952 Coal
Output Greatest in
Industry History
SEATTLE, U’)—Coal production
in Alaska during 1952 reached the
highest level in the history of the
industry, the U. S. Bureau of
Mines reported Wednesday.
In a preliminary resume of the
territory’s mineral output last
year, the bureau said Alaska’s
gold still ranks first in value, but
the increased production of coal,
in second place, was largely re
sponsible for boosting the 1952
over-all mineral value to $21,033,
000, more than 1 Vz million greater
than 1951.
Statistics from 1951 indicate
Alaska’s coal production last year
was worth well over $4 million.
First place gold produced $8,
169,980 for the territory, a decline
of aout $200,000 from 1951. The
decline, said the bureau, was
“less than expected.” It resulted
from a mining slow-up due to
high labor and material costs.
ALASKA STEAM TELETYPE
HOOKUP NEARS COMPLETION
SEATTLE, — The Alaska
Steamship Co. will complete tele
type hookup between Seattle and
its principal Alaska agencies —
Fairbanks, Anchorage, Seward,
Juneau and Ketchikan — early
next month.
The system is expected to be
extended later to Valdez.
Alaska Steam will rely on its
new communication system for
scheduling vessel movements as
well as passenger and cargo res
ervations.
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Gruening Not Among
Applicants for Presidency
of University of Alaska *
SEATTLE, W) — The long-time
head of the University of Alaska
Board of Regents said yesterday
the board will give careful con
sideration to all applicants for the
university presidency — but that
Governor Gruening is not among
the applicants.
There has been widespread con
jecture among Alaskans as to
whether the governor, whose term
will expire in April, might be
considered favorably for the uni
versity office to be vacated by Dr.
Terris Moore at the end of the
present school year.
Gruening said in Seattle Wed- i
nesday, enroute home to Juneau,
that he has not asked for the job.
The season on applications for
the presidency of the university
is still open, and will be for some ►
time to come—for the governor
or anyone else.
Hearing Scheduled Soon On
Barge Service Between Alaska
And Mississippi River Points
SEATTLE, WR — Hearings are
expected to be held within the
next few weeks on the Alaska
Freight Lines’ application for a
permit to operate a common-car
rier barge service between Alas
ka, Pacific Coast ports, and cities
on the Mississippi River and its
tributaries.
The company also announced it .
had received a contract to' haul
Army cargo by barge from Mis
sissippi River points to Alaska,
and will begin this service within
the next 30 days.
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