THE NOME NUGGET
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NOME, ALASKA
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THE NEW DANIEL
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TO THE GRADUATING SENIORS OF 1953
Tomorrow evening the members of the Class of
1953 receive their diplomas at the Nome High School.
We congratulate these young people who have com
pleted a twelve-year course of study and hope that
they will continue to get more learning in various
fields.
The process of education has made tremendous
strides since the ancient days when the “three R’s”
were supposed to include the curriculum of a modern
school.
While it is true that the fundamental problem of
our institutions of learning is to give the. student a
proficiency in the use of so-called tools of the brain,
and if pursued long enough, to acquaint the mind with
the broad outlines of man’s progress from savagery to
civilization, the scope of the modern school has been
widely expanded.
When one considers the vastly extended ramifi
cations of the precesses of teaching, there is no occasion
to wonder at the increased cost of education. Never
theless when we think of the expense involved, we
should also bear in mind that ignorance is the most
expensive luxury ever enjoyed by a careless people.
NEW URANIUM SOURCE
A new source of uranium has been discovered in
the United States—in Utah. Called “umohite,” it was
discovered by Columbia University mineralogists in
samples of minerals taken from an Atomic Energy
Commission mine near Marysvale, Utah.
Umohite contains about 48 percent uranium. It
is technically classified as a hydrous uranium molyb
date.
The interesting part of the picture is that only
one mine is known to contain the mineral. Others
are likely to be found in the West, according to ex
perts, and are most likely to be found on sites of extinct
volcanoes, where there is likely to be some prospecting
in 1953 as a result of the discovery.
Bootlegging — The Internal Revenue Bureau re
ports that federal agents seized 5,189 illegal stills in
the last six months of 1952, compared with 4,781 stills
in the same period of 1951.
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Opposition To
Railroad to Alaska
Voiced at Tacoma
TACOMA, UP — Opposition to
any immediate buildup of a rail
road to Alaska was voiced at the
Pacific Northwest Trade Associ
ation meeting Monday.
Col. John R. Noyes, a former
road commissioner in Alaska who
now is attached to the Army En
gineers School at Fort Belvoir,
Va., said:
“A railroad to Alaska is not
justified at this time and should
not be supptorted by this associa
tion.”
But he said he was in favor of
a new highway up the Rocky
Mountain Trench, and he ener
getically urged the adoption by
shippers to Alaska of what he
called a “van service” type of op
eration.
Briefly, he explained, this in
volves shipping of goods in her
metically-sealed, pilferage-proof
containers which can be moved on
trucks and railway flat cars to
and from ships without inter
ference by thieving longshoremen
and sailors.
Another government official,
Joseph P. Flakne, chief of the
Alaska division of the Office of
Territories of the Department of
Interior sounded the possibility of
subsidies in Alaska maritime
transportation.
Among other things, he also’
urged the establishment of a port
authority for all the ports of Alas
ka, proposed the use of pontoon
type loading beaches and urged
the redevelopment of river trans
portation in the territory.
Tenants On Sit-Down
Strike Evicted From N.Y.
Housing Development
NEW ' YORK, —A city mar
shal used a sledge hammer today
to break into a three-room apart
ment and evict a Negro' family
and 50 persons who had locked
themselves in to prevent it.
More than a score of police
watched City Marshal William H.
Goldstone and six aides batter
down the door of the apartment
in one of the city’s largest private
housing developments.
The door forced, the marshal
cut a safety chain and police es
corted the 50 persons — Negro
and white men and women—out
of the building. The last person
out was Mrs. Michael Decatur,
who with her husband and two
children occupied the apartment.
The door smashing followed a
few hours after six women aban
doned a lock-and-chain sitdown
protest against the same eviction
in the downtown offices of the
Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.,
which operates the Parkchester
Housing Development in the
Bronx.
Police took no part in the door
breaking, but they led the occu
pants out after the city marshal
gained entrance.
The marshal acted on a court
order obtained by the company.
The Decaturs had obtained the
apartment on a sub-lease, and the
company said it would not renew
the lease because it does not allow
subleasing.
NOTICE
Junior Police Pairol will hold
iis regular meeting Saturday af
ternoon at 3:00 p.m. at the City
HalL The meeting regularly sche
duled for May 16 was cancelled
due to Armed Forces Day.
Clyde Glass,
. Chief of Police
Alaska 44Another
Corregidor” In
War With Russia
TACOMA, (JPl—^Alaska would
become “another Corregidor” in
the event of a war with Russia,
the Pacific Northwest Trade As
sociation was told Monday.
Frank E. Landsburg, district
director for the Interstate Com
merce Commission’s Bureau of
Motor Carriers, said that opinion
resulted from a recent survey of
transportation between Alaska
and the United States and Canada.
“We do not now have a de
pendable supply line by sea, nor
a practical one by land,” he told
300 PNTA delegates here for their
annual convention. “That is our
fatal weakness.”
Landsburg said in the event of
war Russian submarines could
cut off the sea lanes overnight.
A railroad to Alaska would be
the best possible supply line,” he
said, but lacking such a railroad,
“the most realistic move we could
now make would be to provide a
highway all along the route such
a railroad would take.”
He described the present high
way as inadequate and declared
“It will never have more than
cursory value. It could not pos
sibly meet military requirements
in the event of war with Russia.
It is impassable to heavy duty
traffic for several months of the
year. It is much too long.”
Other speakers included Alaska
Gov. B. Frank Heintzleman, Can
adian Sen. J. G. Turgeon of Ott
awa, and William B. Brown, sec
retary-treasurer of the American
Viscose Corp., an investor in a
40 - million dollar pulp plant at
Ketchikan.
Turgeon warned the good re
lations of the United States and
Canada are threatened by the
possibility of new import restric
tions.
Brown said Alaskans, seeking
investment capital could take a
tip from Canada where strong in
ducements are liberal treatment
and sources jyf accurate informa
tion.
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TV For Anchorage
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Planned Before
Year’s End
WASHINGTON, — Northern
Television, Inc., Tuesday applied
to the Communications Commis
sion for a television station at
Anchorage—the first such appli
cation from Alaska.
The company proposes opera
tions on channel 11 and “as
sumed” that it will at some time
have a network affiliation.
It has a total of 24 stockhold
ers, all living in Alaska and rep
resenting different business and
professional activities.
Company officers are president,
A. G. Hiebert, manager of radio
station KENI; vice-president, Jack
M. Walden, KENI’s chief engi
neer; secretary, James E. Weir,
an attorney; and treasurer, Robt.
H. Romig, Anchorage insurance
man.
The station cost was estimated
at about $172,310. 4
Hiebert announced at Anchor
age that the Northern Television
Corp. hopes to have the first pro
gram on the air before the year’s
end.
The firm’s announcement said
it will take three to four months
for processing before actual con
struction can be started and that
no difficulty is anticipated in pro
cessing of the application.
The transmitter and studios will
be in the Mt. McKinley apartment
building.
Most of the income of the is
land of Capri comes from tourists.
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