THE NOME NUGGET
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Delegate Candidates Needed Now for
Alaska Constitutional Convention
The importance of the Constitutional Convention
cannot be overstressed. This is one of the most impor
tant conventions that has ever been held in the history
of Alaska since it was purchased from Russia.
Second Division needs to send people who know
its history and who are willing to study other state
constitutions so they will go prepared in November
to set up a constitution for the future state that will
need little revision for many years to come.
In our division we have such men and women
whose work permits them to take two months during
the winter to assist in the prepartion of the constitu
tion.
These people should be encouraged and urged to
file their candidacy and be given support.
Local organizations should present names of peo
ple they would like to see represent them. This division
has six delegates.
It is a great honor to be one of these delegates and
May 10th is the deadline so action must be taken very
soon. No delegates have filed to date.
In additional to divisional delegates, seven will be
chosen at large throughout the territory.
SECOND HELPING?
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Fresh Furs Listed
SEATTLE, (jP)—More than 47,
000 fresh furs are listed for sale
at the May 5 Seattle fur exchange
auction.
The list includes 15,000 musk
rats, northwestern and trapped
Alaskans; 2,500 wild mink, “some
nice seasonable Alaskans;” 200
lynx, “mostly Alaskan;” 1,700
Alaskan marten; 600 white fox,
mostly Alaskan; 12,000 beaver,
including Alaska and Northwest
states; 200 otter, mostly Alaskan.
Eggs are valued as a food be
cause they are rich in proteins,
vitamins, and minerals. Like oth
er important protein foods, eggs
should be handled properly to
protect their quality. This means
cooling promptly after they are
gathered from the nest and keep
ing them under refrigeration un
til they are to be used.
Aircraft Carrier Leaves
To Chart North Alaska
ALAMEDA NAVAL AIR STA
TION, Calif., UP)—The aircraft
carrier Windham Bay left Wed
nesday for Alaska with 600 offi
cers and men of the 6th Army’s
30th Engineer Group.
The engineers took 4J helicop
ters and 18 other planes on the
carrier to aid them in mapping
86,000 square miles above the
1 Arctic Circle. The group, which
began charting the area in 1950,
will complete the task in August
' and then return to its home base
in San Francisco.
The location of the Treasury
building in Washington, out of
harmony with the original plan
for the city, was chosen by Presi
dent Jackson, who stuck his cane
in the ground to indicate the site.
Mrs. Fugal, Utah,
Honored as U.S.
Mother of 1955
PLEASANT GROVE, Utah, UP
—A modest Utah widow, mother
of eight grown children, left for
New York City yesterday to ac
cept the title of American Mother
of the Year.
She is Mrs. Lavina Christensen
Fugal, 75, who knew hunger as a
child and since has shrugged off
adversity to raise a family and
become a teacher, homemaker,
churchwoman, farm leader and
grower of prize flowers.
Mrs. Fugal modestly accepted
congratulations from her neigh
bors for the honor and said “a
wonderful husband and eight un
usual children” were responsible.
A daughter of Danish immi
grants, Mrs. Fugal had to pass up
a scholarship at the University of
Utah because she didn’t have
enough clothes to wear.
But at 18, she had obtained a
teacher’s certificate and began
giving lessons in Pleasant Valley
schools. Part of her salary went
to her future husband, then serv
ing a mission in Europe for the
Latter-Day Saints (Mormon)
Church.
In 1900 she married Jens Peter
Fugal, who died in 1945.
Her Pleasant Grove neighbors
say she is known for her drive,
hospitality and ability to get
things done.
Comptroller May Decide
Which Airlines May Share
In Mail Subsidy Funds
WASHINGTON, —A Civil
Aeronautics Board spokesman
said Wednesday the CAB may
ask the comptroller general to de
cide which airlines may share in
mail subsidy funds available
through June 30.
The spokesman told a reporter
this action will be necessary un
less Congress specifies more
clearly the limitations attached
to the $8,900,000 supplementary
appropriation approved for mail
subsidy payments for the remain
der of the fiscal year.
The CAB asked for a $15,200,
000 supplemental appropriation.
It estimates that the authorized
supplemental appropriation will
be expended by May, more than
a month before other funds be
come available in the new fiscal
year.
The board is concerned over
comments made in the House, be
fore approval of the appropria
tion, that the $8,900,000 was to be
made available to local service
airlines only. In the Senate, there
were comments that it would be
for domestic U.S. carriers only.
The airlines operating in Alas
ka and between Alaska and Seat
tle, the two airlines based in the
Hawaiian Islands, and the three
helicopter airlines in New York,
Chicago and Los Angeles are not
considered local service airlines.
They rely heavily on mail subsid
ies, however.
James B. Conant Named
Ambassador to New
German Federal Republic
WASHINGTON, (JV-President
Eisenhower Thursday nominated
James B. Conant to be ambassa
dor to the new federal republic of
Germany.
Conant, former president of
Harvard University, has been
serving as U.S. high commission
er to West Germany under the
Allied occupation since Feb. 7,
1953. He assumed the personal
rank of ambassador on June 17,
1953.
The White House said the nom
ination yesterday is for a full
ambassadorship, in view of res
toration of sovereignty to West
Germany under recently ratified
treaties.
Tax Cut: The kindest cut of all.
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY
1955 CANCER CRUSADE
As our readers are aware, the 1955 Cancer Crusade
for funds with which to fight this dread disease will
open on May 1st.
That cancer is one of the worst forms of killers in
man’s fight against disease is a pretty generally ac
cepted truth. Of all the major diseases, perhaps more
Americans fear death from cancer than from any other.
Recent figures of the American Cancer Society
show that one in every four Americans will eventually
develop cancer. Therefore, it is a terrifying disease
in itself and terrifying in its rate of growth and spread
in the United States.
Recent progress, financed by individual contribu
tions, in the fight against pneumonia, polio and other
diseases, has been most promising. The fight against
cancer, however, has not shown as much progress and,
therefore, contributions are still badly needed.
Visitor to Nome
Sends Books Gift
To K. K. Library
J
Dr. E. Richmond Ware, chief
medical director of the Union Oil
Co. of California, who was a visi
tor in Nome last summer, has
sent a large and varied selection
of books as a gift to the K. K.
Library.
Dr. Ware made the trip from
California to Nome on the Union
Oil tanker St. Clair last July, and
during his short stay in Nome ex
pressed a keen interest in the
literary fare of the reading public.
The books received include bi
ographies, fiction, short stories,
essays, poems, philosophy, and an
especially outstanding set of Ara
bian Nights.
The books were shipped via the
Union Oil Co. to Anchorage and
were brought to Nome by cour
tesy of Alaska Airlines.
The library board expresses
appreciation to Dr. Ware for the
fine selection of books to enrich
the library shelves, and also to
| Alaska Airlines for transporta-,
tion.
The books have been cataloged
and will be ready for the shelves
this weekend. Following is a list
of the books.
The Day Lincoln Was Shot —Bishop
As You Were —Alexander Woollcott
Death in Venice and Seven
Other Stories —Thomas Mann
Rainbow in Tahiti —Caroline Guild
The Traitor —William Shirer
Korea Today I —McCune
Rommel, Desert Fox —Desmond Young
Ordeal by Slander —Owen Lattimore
The Timeless Land —Eleanore Dark
Running of the Tide —Esther Forbes
Fifty Years in Alaska —Carl Lomen
Of Whales and Men —Robertson
Lord of Alaska —Chevigny
Lead Kindly Light —Vincent Sheen
Christ Stopped at Eboli —Levi Carlo
Roosevelt Family at Sagamore Hill
Child of the Century —Ben Hecht
Adv. of John Wetherell —C. S. Forester
Men Against the Jungle —Calder
My Brother’s Keeper, Marcia Davenport
Ambition —Charles B-'->ner
The Conquest of Everest—Sir John Hunt
Candle Against the Sun S. Spearman
He Lives —Bishop Pa"* e
Song of the Sky —Guy M”rohie
The Unveiling of Timbuctoo —G. Welch
This I Remember —Eleanor RrK>«e>elt
The Age of the Moguls —Holbrook
What Maisie Knew —Henry James
The Curve and the Tusk —S. Cloete
Memories of Churchill —Raulstcm
I’ll Cry Tomorrow —Lillian Roth
World Almanac, 1954
Poetry —Adelaide Crapsey
The Arabian Nights, 15 vols. complete
A Treasury of Doctor Stories
The Golden Argosy of American
and English Literature.
Selected Essays —Bliss
Strange Tales of the Sea —Lockhart
55 Short Stories from the New Yorker
Strange Crimes at Sea —Davidson
Head Hunting in the Solomon
Islands —Mytinger
Dr. Faustus —Thomas Mann
Modern American Humor —Cerf
Memories and Adventures —A. C. Doyle
Jungle Lore —Jim Corbett
Letters of D. A. Lawrence (L. of Arabia)
Decision in Germany —Gen. Lucius Clay
Incredible NevV York —Lloyd Morris
My India. My America —D. Shridharani
Bandoola _j Williams
Russia and the Russians —Crankshaw
Man-Eaters of Kumson -Corbett
Roosevelt and Hopkins —Sherwood
Origins of the American Revolution
The World Charter Chevalier
Let the People Know _N Angell
The Admirable Lady Mary —Gibbs
Montgomery —Agnes Moorehead
The Goshawk T . H. White
Autobiography of Robert Millik'an
Point Counter Point —Aldous Huxlev
Bhowam Junction —John Masters
Precious ^Bane —Mary7 * Wet>b
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Chinese Scence _-Dr. Needham
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