THE NOME NUGGET
Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday by the
NOME PUBLISHING CO.
NOME, ALASKA
Telephone: Main 125 P.O. Box 618
$1.50 PER MONTH $16.00 A YEAR
E. P. BOUCHER . Managing Editor
Entered as second class matter October 14, 1943, at the
postoffice at Nome, Alaska, under the Act of March 3, 1879. t
THE IMPATIENT COP
- . art
This column is addressed to the nearly fifty per
cent of eligible Alaskan voters who, election after elec
tion, fail to make the short journey to the polls to do
their American duty. If you have been a regular voter
and if you have planned to vote tomorrow, don’t waste
your time by reading any further.
And now with all dutiful citizens turned elsewhere
in this newspaper, let us address the slackers:
Upon you depends the preservation of representa
tive government and our capitalistic system. The trend
which started several years ago with fewer and fewer
people voting on Election Day, is alarming. Representa
tive government can be perpetuated and individual
freedom and responsibility preserved only when the
majority of the people speak. In the Presidential elec
tion of 1948, less than half of the eligible voters in the
United States went to the polls.
If you and the others who have shunned the
polling booths do not soon begin to exercise your right
to vote, the rule of the majority will become the rule
of the few. This not only applies in our national gov
ernment but is equally true in our territorial and mu
nicipal governments.
But, do we hear you say, “What good will my one
little vote do?” That vote of yours is not a little vote,
it is a powerful one. The value of one vote has many
"imes proven to mean the election or defeat of a parti
cular candidate; has meant the passing or defeat of an
important piece of legislation for example:
The Alaska Statehood Bill was defeated in the
last Congress by one vote.
Thomas Jefferson was elected President of the
United States by one vote in the Electoral College.
John Quincy Adams got to be Chief Executive be
cause of one vote.
Rutherford B. Hayes made the White House ‘by
one vote. His election was contested and referred to an
Electoral Commission. Again his margin of victory was
just one vote.
The States of California, Idaho, Oregon, Texas and
Washington were taken into the Union by virtue of
a single vote.
Yes, indeed, your vote is important. Remember:
Bad officials are elected by the good citizens who
do not take the trouble to vote; that voting is your
assurance of freedom; that your very future depends
upon your vote on Election Day.
Whatever your choice, do your job—exercise the
power of that one ballot—vote tomorrow!
House Group Hits
Justice Tom Clark
For Bad Judgment
WASHINGTON, (JP)—A House
judiciary subcommittee closed its
books on the 1946 Kansas City
vote fraud case Saturday with a
final blast against Supreme Court
Justice Tom Clark for using what
it called “extremely poor judg
ment.”
Clark, then attorney general,
approved an “inappropriate, im
proper and unheard of” method
of limiting a preliminary FBI in
vestigation in the case, top com
mitteemen said.
Chairman Chelf <D-Ky) and
Rep. Keating (R-NY) said in a
joint statement Friday that this
“final judgment” of Clark’s pro
cedure was supported by secret
testimony taken from former At
torney General Francis Biddle.
The testimony also was released.
Keating also told newsmen
Saturday the committee had ob
tained new and “very significant
evidence” in another phase of its
investigation of the Justice De
partment.
He would not discuss the evi- !
dence, but indications were it con
cerned the activities o-f a promi
nent Chicago politician in a re
cent case handled by the depart
ment against the Pabst Brewing
Company.
The fresh evidence came during
a closed - door session Saturday
with Raoul Berger, a former Jus
tice Deparment attorney who rep
resented Pabst in troubles with
the government last year.
The company was charged with
violating Pure Food laws by main
taining -an unsanitary granary in
Peoria, 111. A civil suit was dis
missed but the company was fined
$600 on conviction of criminal
charges which it neither contested
nor admitted.
FORD GRANT TO AID
UNTOUCHABLES IN INDIA
NEW DELHI, (yP)—The Ford
Foundation has donated $85,000
toward a suitable memorial to
Mahatma Gandhi.
Disclosing this information in
Parliament, the health minister
said the money would be spent
for the improvement of the Bhan
gi (untouchable) colony in Delhi
where the Mahatma often stayed.
Secret Radar Base Built
(Continued from Page One)
the code name “Spaarvohn” in
honor erf the ’copter pilot.
The next day, 20 more men
were flown there, -along with a
tractor frame and tracks. Within
the next 20 days, 130,000 pounds
of supplies and equipment, in
cluding three tractors and bull
dozers were dropped by para
chute.
An airstrip was scraped out of
the muskeg on a 7 per cent grade
in the valley at the foot of the
mountain. C-82 Flying Boxcars
were able to make the risky land
ings. But so dangerous is the let
down and landing that replace
ment pilots must make 12 trips
from a central supply base to
the strip before handling the con
trols themselves.
The radar base was put into
operation last December, and per
manent buildings and barracks
were completed this summer.
Weather ' conditions are ex
tremely severe and hazardous.
Twice last December the radar
towers blew down.
Later, in the dead of winter
with the thermometer down to 60
below zero, two officers were
blown off the mountain by a 120
mile an hour wind. It took them
26 hours to walk back to the
base on the other side.
The station was put up by men
of the 531st and an Army Avi
ation construction battalion.
Men now stationed there re
ceive double credit toward rota
tion. The normal Alaska tour of
duty now is two years.
It has been calculated that
there are 10 billion tons of gold
in the sea water of the world.
'
/
“But why not, Matilda? After all, aside from taxes,
gasoline costs about the same now as in 1925!"
It takes a far smaller share of your income to keep
your car in gasoline today. Oil men have been beating
increased costs with technical efficiencies that hold
prices down—and yield better gas: two gallons now
do work that used to take three. That’s progress.
Your Progress and Oil Progress Go Hand In Hand
Oil Progress Week—Oct. 12 to 18
STANDARD OIL COMPANY OF CALIFORNIA
plans ahead to serve you better
t
AN ALASKAN REPUBLICAN
says ...
All Alaskan voters should show their patriotic appre
ciation to “Ike” Eisenhower for the great victories that
resulted in peace, by voting Republican on his birthday
tomorrow. A Republican victory would be a wonderful
Alaskan birthday gift, assuring greater defense security
for Alaska and the nation.
Tomorrow, Tuesday, Oct. 14, 1952, is Election Day.
This is Alaska, not Siberia. Every voter should go to the *
polls and vote for his own convictions and take great
pride in his citizenship in a free country. Those candidates
who seek a harvest in votes should make every effort to
get every voter to the polls. Every voter should not wait
to be urged. The voter also should be an active citizen and
not fail to vote and express his own choice in selecting
candidates to represent him in Washington and in Juneau.
Thank You.
Vote For Reoublicans — Win With Ike!