Atty. Gen. Rules Stores
Giving Away Merchandise
Operate A Lottery
JUNEAU (JP) — Stores which of
fer free merchandise, trips or
cash to persons buying items in
the store are technically opera
ting a lottery, Atty. Gen. Ralph
Moody said Tuesday.
In an opinion written for Dis
trict Attorney George Hayes at
Anchorage, Moody said such of
fers have, under the strict in
terpretation of what constitutes a
lottery the three necessary ele
ments of a lottery, chance, con
sideration and prize.
Hayes, in asking for the opin
ion, had posed the following hypo
thetical case:
“When a store offers free mer
chandise to be given away on a
certain date or a trip to Hawaii
or $1,000 in cash and the only
thing a person must do to be eli
gible is to buy merchandise, etc.
or bring cleaning to the store,
does this constitute a lottery?”
Moody said that such an offer
does constitute a lottery.
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FIVE MEN FILE APPLICATION
TO ESTABLISH STATE
MUTUAL SAVINGS BANK
JUNEAU UP) — Commissioner
A. H. Romick of the State De
partment of Commerce said yes
terday that five Anchorage men
1 have filed an application for au
thority to establish a state mutual
savings bank.
The new bank, if the application
is approved, would be known as
the Alaska Mutual Savings Bank.
It would be located in Anchorage.
The corporators are R. L. Ret
tig, S. L. Landry, Victor V. Gill,
Robert J. Shimek and Melvin L.
Cook.
Nation's Center of Population
Moved 57 Miles West
WASHINGTON UP) — The na
tion’s center of population, based
on the 1960 census, has moved 57
miles west from its 1950 location.
Secretary of Commerce Luther
Hodges said the new center is
6Vfe miles northwest of Centralia,
in Southern Illinois, and approxi
mately 50 miles east of East St.
Louis, 111.
The 1950 population center was
located near Olney, 111.
Hodges said the population cen
ter is the point to which all resi
dents of the 50 states could travel
for a convention and rack up the
smallest possible total travel
mileage.
TURNER-EGAN REPEAT VOWS
Harvey Turner of the State Di
vision of Aviation and Patricia
Egan of Anchorage were married
April 8 in Anchorage at the Holy
Family Catholic Church. Mr. Tur
ner is well known here and his
wife is a teacher in the Anchor
age High School.
John Amundsen, son of Rev.
and Mrs. Roald Amundsen is
being flown out today for medical
treatment due to a head injury.
He will be accompanied by his
mother and a nurse.
City Council Sets Up
Planning Commission
The Nome City Council at their
t meeting Monday night set up a
; Planning Commission which will
| be made up of nine members and
which wall be a representative
group with long range planning
| for the community in coopera
I tion with other civic groups.
Representatives of a Baptist
| college which inherited the Anna
| Anderson property will confer
here this week with the city on
acquiring the Front Street pro
perty to widen the street at the
junction of First Ave. West, Ber
ing Street and Front Street.
Several matters were tabled by
the Council for consideration of
the new Council which takes over
this month. Tabled were the
j wage scale changes for city em
ployes and acquisition of a street
boiler.
The Nome Bowlers Assn, pre
sented the Council with an as
signment to the M and M Bank
of their city property in co nec
tion with the small business loan
which they are obtaining through
the bank.
The Alaska Department of
Health has requested the city to
provide $1,800 toward the rental
of the quarters for the city health
nurse at the MMM Hospital. This
also was left for the new Council.
The Council approved the action
of the Fire and Police Chief Bob
Oliver requesting that an FBI
Police School be held here some
time next summer. This depart
ment was also instructed to draw
up specifications for a new patrol
car and presentation to the Coun
cil at a special meeting.
Don Hoover, president of the
Chamber of Commerce asked the
Council for additional support in
continuing the efforts being made
for the selection of Nome as the
Vocational School location.
SUBSCRIBE TO THE NUGGET
Communism May
Conquer the World Due
To Yankee Optimism
CHICAGO <#> — Adm. Arleigh
A. Burke, U. S. Chief of Naval
Operations, said Tuesday totali
tarian Communism may conquer
the world because of what he
termed traditional Yankee opti
mism.
Burke said an optimistic re
fusal to acknowledge the extent
of the Communist threat, and a
pre-occupation with the military
aspect of the struggle has caused
many Americans to “fool them
selves that there is no threat.”
The Communists, he said, “hope
that our own indifference, our
own preoccupation with material
things will in themselves weaken
the ideas and the ideals they seek
.0 destroy.”
Burke, speaking at the seventh
annual National Military-Industri
al and Education Conference, said
“Americans are naturally optimis
tic.”
He said Americans “often tend
to indulge in wishful thinking.
And when faced with stern re
alities, Americans often have a
nostalgia for the good old days.”
Many recognized the urgency of
the Communist threat, he said,
“but there remain many others in
private life in our affluent so
ciety who are so self-satisfied, so
comfortable, so content that they
cannot be bothered with the dan
gers which surround them.”
Burke said many nations have
fallen to conquerors because their
“citizens were self-satisfied, pla
cid, self-confident, money-getting,
pleasure-loving people, honoring
success and hugging their fi
nancial security.”
The nation’s military strength
must be maintained, he said, but
“national security is based on
courage, not on money nor on
material wealth, nor on military
power.”
Gov. Egan Signs Into Law
Priority Fishing Rights
For Alaskan Residents
JUNEAU (.Pi — Gov, Egan Tues
i day signed into law a bill which
would grant Alaskan residents
priority fishing rights in years of
: extremely poor salmon runs.
The measure had been ques
tioned on unconstitutional grounds
before its passage by the Legis
: lalure.
In brief, the bill would empower
the State Board of Fish and
Game to give residents of the
various fishing areas priority
fishing rights in off years, to the
exclusion of residents of other
areas of Alaska and non residents.
The board would be able to lift
the restriction if a run larger than
that expected developed or if the
resident fisherman of the area
took at least 1,000 fish apiece.
Egan said the bill provides a
means for “limiting fishing under
emergency circumstances to give
consideration to human life” as
well as to conservation of the
state’s salmon fishery.
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