Visitors to Nome
In fog-covered Nome, five states
and one territory were well rep
resented Saturday by a group of
22 visitors who arrived via Wien’s
Arctic Circle Tour.
Many of the visitors were from
Illinois. They were:
Misses Lean M. Melvin, Carnn,
Edna K. Silva, Troy, Wilma (Call
me Bill) J. Louden, Carbondale,
Una Winters, Flora, Edna Ham
mand, Bement, Ina Brown, Pinck
neyville, and Dr. Floyd F. Cun
ningham, chairman of the depart
ment of geography and geology,
Southern Illinois University, Car
bendale, Illinois.
Dr. Cunningham is at present
directing a geography field course
in Alaska — 21 students and in
structors in the group. Dr. Cun
ningham readily agreed with this
writer that our chambers of com
merce and the Alaska legislature
encourage groups of college stu
dents studying geology to take
summer field courses in the actual
work of prospecting for minerals
of all kinds in the territory. No
doubt transportation companies,
air, sea and rail, would also en
courage such a movement by re
duced fares.
Other visitors were:
Mr. and Mrs. Donald E. Darling,
Northway, Alaska; Alice E. Rea
aan, Ruby Pickett, Edna M. Up
dick, all of Eielson A. F. Base;
Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Sheldon and
son Warren; Dr..and Mrs. J. Bey
erle and son, Pasadena, Calif.;
Mrs. Phyllis Tucker, Salem, Ore.;
Peggy Schrenk, Lansdowne, Pa.;
Olive Hartung, Olympia, Wash.
Miss Hartung returned to Nome
on the fiftieth anniversary of her
leaving Nome in 1904, when her
parents sent her to Seattle in the
care of a captain of one of the out
going steamers, as her mother was
then ill. For years she has looked
forward to this visit and now, she
will ever be happy.
This entire group remained in
the bus for the tour around Nome
without first registering at the
N.V.A., as all were eager to see
just Nome. Eleven of the group
remained overnight, six at the
Polaris and five at the Wallace.
All departed Sunday evening for
Fairbanks.
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65 to 1 Victory Margin
U.S. Air Force Over Migs
In Past Two Months
SEOUL, Wl—The U.S. 5th Air
Force Tuesday announced a 65
to-1 victory margin over Com
munist MIG jets in the past two
months of flashing aerial battles
high over northwest Korea.
A comparative lull fell over the
ground front after savage hill
clashes between the Communists
and South Korean troops at truce
preparations proceeded busily at
Panmunjom.
Announcement of the aerial
victory came with the disclosure
that two U. S. Sabre jets were
shot down Monday — the first
since May 17 — with one pilot
blasting two MIGs out of the sky
before he went down.
In the same period, more than
two months, Allied Sabre pilots
destroyed 131 of the sleek, swept
wing MIGS, the Air Force said.
South Korean tspops wrested
five hills from the Chinese early
Tuesday but failed to dislodge the
Reds from a sixth.
The Murderer’s Cat
LONDON, WP)—A cat belonging
to John Christie, strangler of wo
men who was hanged last Wed
nesday, was executed Tuesday.
The reason given by the Royal
Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals was that
Christie’s cat was too mean to live
with anyone.
After the arrest of Christie, who
said he killed seven women and
was convicted for the murder of
his wife, the cat roamed near
Christie's dingy flat. The society
finally caught it, but concluded
that the cat had turned savage
and was beyond rehabilitation.
“We waited until after Chris
tie’s execution, and decided re
luctantly 'that his cat would have
to meet the same fate,” a society
official said. “Many offered it a
home, but it was past being happy
in human society.”
DEATH ON GLENN HIGHWAY
ANCHORAGE, UPV—Floyd White,
33, Anchorage laborer, was killed
Sunday morning on a curve at
Eagle River on the Glenn High
way when his car crashed through
barricades and warning signs.
White was the 10th person to
die at the curve.
Road crews had set up the bar
ricades before starting to erect a
steel guard rail to prevent such
accidents.
Legal Blanks at The Nome Nugget
Arctic Sanitary Service
Phone RED 181
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WE CARRY A LARGE ASSORTMENT OF .
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Corporations Are
“Slaughtering”
Small Miners
WASHINGTON, Iff)—The House
Small Business Committee report
ed Monday ithat little mining en
terprises are being “slaughtered
at an alarming rate.”
In a report based on hearings
concerning conditions in the lead
zinc industry, the committee said:
“The reduction in the number
of these small independent busi
nesses in the mining districts of
the nation has reached as high as
90 per cent in some areas and in
others miners are being sold out
to larger competitors because the
small producer ‘cannot compete’
with the larger integrated corpor
ations.”
• The committee said its hearings
showed that dumping of foreign-,
mined lead and zinc was driving
some domestic producers into
bankruptcy and causing serious
economic repercussions in the in
dustry.
“The cost of producing lead and
zinc outside the United States is
much less than it is within the
United States, largely due to the
high living standards maintained
here,” it reported.
The committee said it considers
the preservation of the domestic
mining industry “purely that of
enlightened self interest of the
nation.”
SAN ANSELMO, Calif., UP) —
As a police car hove into sight re
cently, several motorists quickly
pulled to the side of the highway.
Drivers, traveling too fast,
slowed down and fell in behind
the police car.
The police car led the caravan
along sedately until the driver,
a young garage attendant, turned
in suddenly at the police station
to return it after an overhaul job.
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