THE NOME NUGGET
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HIGH ON THE CASUALTY LIST
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Nome's Progress Will Be
Spurred by Tourist Dollars
We attended the opening of a new and modern
gift shop today of which the owners can be justly
proud. Last Friday we attended the opening of the
new school. The N. C. Store is undergoing extensive
modernization. A new Federal Building is in the process
of starting construction. A very modern airlines office
has just been completed.
Why? Because more and more people are being
convinced that temporary housing is a thing of the
past for Nome and that Nome will continue to grow
into a place we are proud to call home.
Tourist dollars will share in financing the growth
of Nome, and to get those dollars each Alaskan com
munity will have to share in providing the finances to
put it across and make people from all over the world
want to see Alaska. The more people that come to
see it, the more who will leave their dollars behind
and provide the capital which will build the econ
omy of the territory. The money given to the Alaska
Visitors Association for this promotion is not a gift but
an investment, and 25 percent of what is given comes
back to the local Chamber of Commerce for local
tourist promotional work.
Executive Director Frank Whaley is most con
vincing in his presentations, and it is hoped that not
only business people but individuals will turn out to
hear what he has to say at noon tomorrow as guests are
welcome to the Chamber meeting for this worthwhile
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Poster Girl Announced
For 1957 March of Dimes
NEW YORK, (jft—The 19 5 7
March of Dimes poster girl is
four-year-old Marlene Olsen of
Burlington, Mass.
Marlene, daughter of Air Force
Capt. and Mrs. Arnold Olsen, was
stricken with polio in the summer
of 1955.
Her selection was announced
yesterday by Basil O’Connor,
president of the National Founda
tion for Infantile Paralysis.
REPUTATION BOOMERANG
WICKENBURG, Arizona, M—
Seeking action on a long overdue
bill, automobile dealer Bernard
Hill wrote the following letter to
a customer:
“Dear friend, what would all
your neighbors think if we came
to your town and repossessed
your car?” »
,The customer wrote back:
“I have taken this matter up
with my neighobrs and they all
think it would be a lousy trick.”
Mrs. Luce Quits
As Ambassador
To Italy
WASHINGTON, WV-Mrs. Clare
Boothe Luce resigned today as
ambassador to Italy. President
Eisenhower accepted the resigna
tion with an expression of “great
personal regret” and congratula
tions for “a job superbly done.”
The White House announced
the resignation after Mrs. Luce
had conferred with the President
for an hour.
There have been reports for
some time that Mrs. Luce intend
ed to resign and that James D.
Zellerbach. 64-year-old San Fran
cisco industrialist, was under con
sideration as her successor. Zel
lerbach was foreign aid director
in Italy from 1948 to 1950.
Mrs. Luce told reporters she
plans to return to Italy and to
leave her post after the Christmas
holidays.
Mrs. Luce, 53, has been ambas
sador to Italy since early 1953. In
her letter of resignation, which
the White House made public, she
mentioned her recent poor health
and said she would require sev
eral months of real rest. She asked
that her resignation be accepted
“at the earliest convenient mo
ment.”
Appeals Court Won t
Rule in Alaska Appeal
Case Against Can Firm
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 14, I®
—The U.S. Court of Appeals today
dismissed Alaska’s appeal in a
tax case against the American Can
Co. and seven other fish canning
firms. The court said it lacked
jurisdiction.
The appeal was from a Juneau
federal district court order of last
Jan. 21. It had dismissed Alaska’s
complaints against the companies
from which the territory wanted
to collect $175,000 in property tax.
The appeals court said it lacked
jurisdiction to hear the appeal
because it was from a dismissal of
a complaint and not of the action.
It was a purely technical point,
but the court said it would have
to have a judgement of dismissal
of the action on its merits before
it could entertain an appeal.
“This catches us by surprise,”
said J. Gerald Williams, Alaska
attorney general. “We can never
get to a trial because our com
plaint will again be dismissed,”
he said. “We are in a position of
being forced to stay out of court.”
Judge William Healy suggested
Williams get Dist. Judge Walter
H. Hodge at Juneau to grant a
judgment of dismissal of the ac
tion which would then permit
bringing the matter before the
appellate court.
Airliner Gets to Seattle
From Shemya With
One Engine Dead
SEATTLE l/P—A Northwest Or
ient Airlines plane with 44 per
sons aboard limped home the last
700 miles of a flight from Tokyo
Friday night with only three en
gines operating.
The big four-engined Constella
tion landed at Seattle-Tacoma
Airport about three and a half
hours after it reported trouble.
Airline officials said passengers
and crew members reported they
felt no anxiety and the flight was
completed without incident.
The plane had stopped at Shem
ya. far out on the tip of the Aleu
tian Islands, and enroute to Seat
tle when the trouble developed in
a cylinder.
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ARCTIC SANITARY
SERVICE
PHONE RED 181
RUSSIA OFFERS TO DISCUSS
US. ‘OPEN SKIES’ DISARMAMENT
By HAROLD K. MILKS
MOSCOW, MV-The Soviet Union
offered Saturday to discuss Pres
ident Eisenhower’s “open skies"
inspection plan at a new summit
conference on disarmament. The
proposed meeting of the big four
and India would consider Soviet
proposals including destruction of
all H-bomb and A-bomb stock
piles and an end to nuclear bomb
tests.
The Russians said Eisenhower's
plan could be considered "for all
NATO and Warsaw Pact coun
tries.”
Boasts of Strength
The offer was accompanied by
a declaration that the Soviet
Union was now strong enough to
take over “the whole of Western
Europe without the use of rocket
or nuclear weapons.”
Premier Bulganin sent messag
Arthur Eisenhower Will
Be Semi-Retired
KANSAS CITY, W— Arthur Ei
senhower, an older brother of the
President, announced he is going
into semi-retirement.
He has been vice-chairman of
the board of the Commerce Trust
Co., where he started as a mes
senger in 1905.
“I intend to be semi-active and
stay on the board." he said. “My
plans include some traveling, but
this retirement is going to be on
a day-to-day basis.”
Since 1922 the bank has had a
plan under which an employe
must retire at 65 but may be re
employed on a year-to-year basis
up to age 70. Arthur was 70 on
Nov. H.
His brother Dwight, 66 on Oct.
14, recently was re-employed on
a four-year basis.
es to Eisenhower and the Prime
Ministers of Britain, France, In
dia and Communist China out
lining the disarmament proposals.
He said the choice was between
East-West agreement “and a new
world war more terrible than any
we have ever known.”
Limited Inspection
In agreeing to examine Eisen
hower’s open skies plan, Bulganin
said arial inspection should be
limited to an area 800 kilometers
(about 500 miles' on either side
of the border between NATO and
Warsaw Pact countries, “subject
to the approval of the individual
nations.”
Eisenhower proposed at the
summit conference in Geneva in
1955 that the Soviet Union and
the United States exchange mili
tary blueprints of military instal
lations and permit planes of both
countries to make aerial inspec
tions.
The Russians have never ac
cepted the plan.
East-West Differences
The Soviet Union has been
plumping for a long time for an
end to nuclear tests, and interna
tional agreement to ban nuclear
weapons.
The West has insisted that strict
international control measures be
imposed as a first consideration.
Today's Bulganin message said
the Russians wanted to “establish
strict international control to in
sure that these disarmament pro
posals are carried out.”
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