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filtered as second class matter October 14, 1943, at the
post office at Nome, Alaska, under Act of March 3, 1879.
TRAGEDYJN TWO ACTS
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A Big Stride Taken . . .
THE NOME CITY COUNCIL has been frequently
criticized for being in a rut, for stumbling around
and not getting things done in the right way, for pro
crastinating, for being recalcitrant on matters im
portant to needed improvements of the community;
for not conducting their meetings in a business-like
manner. But Monday night that body took a big stride
in the right direction, much to the surprise of many
people, when they decided that not only the mayor,
but several council members would attend the annual
convention of the League of Alaskan Cities at Anchor
age this week and compare their problems with other
communities and take advantage of the discussions
and forums offered on the well filled agenda.
If Nome is to keep her place among the leading
cities of this big state it must keep pace with the
activities and developments in other communities.
These elected' representatives of the taxpayers
of this community, we know, will come back better
equipped to benefit 'alt of us from their experiences
at the convention. We are no longer an ice-bound iso
lated city, but part of the fastest growing state in the
union and we want to grow with the state.
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Alaska's Resources
Are limitless for
Capital Investment
JUNEAU UP* — The conver
sion of Alaska’s potentially great
resource into industrial gains is
limitless if private capital can be
attracted, the banking magazine
“United States Investor” reports.
In its fall convention issue, the
[ magazine devotes some 14 pages
to the State of Alaska and the
investment opportunities which
exist in the 49th State.
In the lead story, written by a
staff writer, the magazine said
“reliable sources in ' Washington
are betting that Alaska will bene
fit more from stepped up defense
spending than any other state in
the Union.”
The magazine said the $300 mil
lion spent annually for national
defense in Alaska “is sure to
double within the next five years.
Commenting on investment pos
sibilities in the agricultural and
tourism fields and Alaska’s hydro
electric potential, the magazine
said:
“There is no doubt in the minds
of most Alaskans that the state’s
vast resources some day will lead
them to be one of the wealthiest
of the 50 states.
“Already per capita annual in
come at $2,724 is the sixth highest
in the United States. Almost as
important as a drawing card to
the adventuresome businessman
plus the fact that per capita
taxes for $1,000 of income in
1960 was $60.79—lowest of the
50 states.
“With such favorable surround
ings for financial investment, it is
understandable why A 1 a s k a’s
bankers are convinced that pri
vate capital, especially from their
sister banking institutions across
the nfction, is the key to the
state’s economic progress.”
TAKE DOWN SOVIET FLAG
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah —
The Soviet Union’s flag was re
moved Monday from a display
of flags of United Nations mem
bers in Utah’s capitol.
Secretary of State Lament
Toronto, custodian of the (build
ing, said he ordered It removed
because of complaints and “be
cause of the insults Premier
Khrushchev has given President
Eisenhower and President Ken
nedy.”
CYMBALS CLASHED . . .
NOTTINGHAM, England <*> —
Sidney Hollis told the court he
was walking down the main
street conducting the London
Symphony Orchestra. The musi
cians were not visible. But they
were playing the “Thunder and
Lightning Polka,” so he said.
“Then I'came to the place where
the cymbals clash. As I clapped
my hands, one of them slipped
and went straight through a plate
glass window.”
Nottingham Magistrates Court
accepted his explanation Friday
and threw out the charge he
maliciously damaged the window.
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Anger and Fear of Fallout Surges a \
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Around the Northern Hemisphere
By Louis Nevin
LONDON W> — A ground swell
of anger and fear of radioactive
fallout surged around the northern
hemisphere and penetrated to
southern nations Tuesday in the
wake of the Soviet superbomb
blast.
The shock over the explosion,
generally estimated as having the
force of about 30 megatons, or
equal to about 30 million tons of
TNT, was heightened by fear of
an even bigger blast to come.
Premier ’Khrushchev has said
Russia will test a 50-megaton
bomb Oct. 30 or 31.
Prom Norway’s north cape to
the Italian boot, the reaction in
Western Europe was the same:
“Crimes against humanity” and
“war in peacetime upon the in
fants of the world.” t
Countries in Europe closest to
Monday’s test at Novaya Zemlya
in the Arctic showed anxiety
about the dangers of contamina
tion of infants milk from radio
active iodine.
State Police Lieutenants
Redesignated as Captains
•JUNEAU Uf) — Public Safety
Commissioner Martin Underwood
said Tuesday all state police lieu
tenants have been redesignated
captains.
The change, Underwood said,
was made to make the rank com
mensurate with the responsibili
ties of the position the three pre
sent commissioned officers of the
state police hold.
The three affected officers are
E. L. Mayfield, Commander of
the Western District, Anchorage;
William W. Trafton, Commander
of the Northern (District, Fair
banks; and Wesley I. Gilman,
Chief of the Service Section.
Joe College is in more of a
rush to get married than Betty
Coed. About three out of every
ten college men marry while still
in school. But only one out of
eight college women do.
In Japan, sometimes described
as the crossroads of radioactive
fallout current, two major news
papers gave nearly two pages each
to editorial denunciation of the
nuclear detonation, furious read
er comments and suggestions on
how to ward off the hazard.
Here were some of the high
lights of the reaction:
The World Congress of Social
ists at Rome, in the name of 7(1
million voters, protested that the
explosion was a “monstrous crime
against humanity” endangering
the lives of those living and un
born.
Tens of thousands of Italian
high school and university stu
dents in a dozen cities left classes
and paraded in protest.
Queen Elizabeth II solemnly ex
pressed the British government’s
deep regret at the Russian nu
clear tests in a speech read on her
'behalf in the House of Commons.
British Defense Minister Har
old Watkinson told the House of
Commons the government was
taking all possible precautions to
safeguard the milk of the nation’s
babies from contamination.
Earl Bertrand Russell, 89-year
old British pacifist, led a protest
demonstration to the Soviet Em
bassy in London. Only a little
over a month ago he was jailed
for refusing to keep the peace
at a proposed ban-the-bomb rally
demanding Britain’s nuclear dis
armament.
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