THE NOME NUGGET
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NOME, ALASKA
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Entered as second class matter October 14, 1943, at the
post office at Nome. Alaska, under Act of March 3, 1879.
Tundra Fires
The weather is good, the roads are getting longer
and better all the time.
Picnics are in order up and down the countryside.
Fishermen are trying out new streams and lakes.
The new country north of Nome is feeding
grounds of the wildlife of the area both small and large.
These grounds can be destroyed so quickly by a
match or cigarette tossed out of a car window or a
picnic fire or cigarette left carelessly.
We are informed that lichens such as reindeer
moss destroyed on the tundra by fire take from 35 to
100 years to replace themselves thus destroying food
for the game and causing birds and animals to go far
ther and farther from Nome for their food.
We do not have tall timber, but this does not lessen
the need to preserve and take care of what nature has
provided for the wildlife of this area.
Be careful!
Alaska Airlines
To Anchorage: Geo. McCaffer
ty, R. Winkler, V. Fraazen, Joe
Bando, T. McClintock, W. Bailey,
Capt. Hartman, L. Brown, Tom
Carroll, J. Amonson, Dr. Brink
man, J. Wilder, Wm. Rich, H.
Smart, R. Couver, A. Smith, O.E.
Stancil, Do;f Ille, Geo. Banta,
R. Rhea, Calvin Reese, Sgt. Dur
bin, C. Peltier, Rose Alson, Marie
Denton, J. Fortuny, Gabriel Muk
toyuk, Howard Whitmore.
From Anchorage: Mildred Cap
lan, James von der Heydt, Bruce
Winton, Gladys Dunkle, W. E.
Fry, E. F. Kvinsland, Mr. and
Mrs. S.L. Smith, W.T. Higgins,
E. Priebe, J. Hennington, Richard
Egge, Geo. Banta, Boyd Harwood,
Richard Rhea.
From Unalakleet: Sig Krog
stadt, Mr. Lyon, Byron G. Reed,
Lloyd Tom.
To Kotzebue: J. O’Neill, Mr.
Barnett.
Wien Airlines
From Fairbanks: Mr. and Mrs.
John McNees, Roger McNees, W.
Niles, Mary Ahnanguk, Ada Jake,
Mr. Nagel, C. Bakke, Wm. Cun
ningham, E. Wilson, Lloyd Best,
G.C. James, L. Ricks, L. Lange,
D. Freeman, Katherine Ezuko
meow, Nancy Kungak, P. Tock
too, Amy Ramel, Roy Dennis, K.
Wilson, Lois Kowchee, J. Wana
maker, Thos. Canada, Mr. and
Mrs. Frank Lambrecht and son
Robert, Mike Sullivan, G. Rowe,
Audrey Nesbitt, Walt Wigger, W.
Bowing.
From Kotzebue: Ed McAlister,
Donald Hobbs, Ronald Senunge
tuk, Donald Ille, W.G. Brinkman,
Ralph Cunningham.
From Deering: Clifford Mills,
Dan Karmun.
From Candle: Herb Hadley.
To Kotzebue: Howard Green,
Fred Greene, W.F. Brinkman, J.
Swan, Raymond Hennessey, W.
Ventrine, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Walk
er, Jane, Ruth and Ed Walker
Jr., May Penrod, Anne and Emily
Iyahuk, Aurelia Grade.
To Candle: Elmer Grade.
To Fairbanks: Mr. and Mrs.
Richard Hoogendorn, Dick Jones,
John Kessel, E. Priebe, Claire
Rousse, Regine Coudeville, Cas
per Skieretki, C.L. Thornton, W.
Higgins.
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Senate Group Hearing
Of Statehood Bills
Postponed a Week
WASHINGTON, (ff^—Senate In
terior Committee consideration of
the Alaska and Hawaii statehood
bills, originally scheduled for to
morrow, has been postponed at
least a week.
Committee aides said reports
on the legislation as it has been
approved by the territories sub
committee earlier this month
have not been completed.
The reports, they said, may be
available for distribution to com
mittee members tomorrow or the
next day. The present plan is to
give the committeemen a chance
to study the reports in advance of
a planned committee meeting on
July 30.
COLD DOWN UNDER
SYDNEY, Australia, Iff)—Syd
ney had its coldest morning in
two years with a temperature of
40.2 today.
Other spots were even colder
end the federal capital, Canberra,
registered 25 degrees.
ARCTIC HEAT Y/AVE
WITH 100° IN LAPLAND
OSLO, Norway, (ff)—A heat
wave has hit northern Norway.
Temperatures reached 100 de
grees in the Lapland city of Ksr
asjok above the Arctic Circle.
Author Kenneth Roberts
Dies at Age of 71
KENNEBUNKPORT, Maine, (ff)
—Kenneth Roberts, the author
whose best selling novels brought
the drama of the nation’s history
to millions of readers, died yes
terday in this seacoast village of
his birth. He was 71.
Roberts, who had been in bed
for a week, suffered coronary
thrombosis. He recently had com
pleted proof reeding “Water Un
limited,” a book for October pub
lication.
Roberts first hit the best seller
list in 1937 with his “Northwest
Passage,” a story of French and
Indian War days.
Prior to this he had produced
a series of romantic novels deal
ing with the Revolution and the
War of 1812.
Admiral Leaves
To Meet Fleet
On Arctic Mission
SEATTLE, UP—A man “with
my fingers crossed,” Read Adm.
Frederick C. Stelter Jr. sailed
Saturday for a rendezvous with
his 48-ship task force at the ice
fringed top of the world.
The admiral commands the
supply fleet which will carry
food, fuel and other necessities to
the scattered outposts of the Dis
tant Early Warning (DEW) Line.
In the holds are 19,655 measure
ment tons of general cargo and
193,000 barrels of petroleum
products.
Underwater Demolition
A 38-man Navy underwater
demolition team is working ahead
of the fleet to clear the frosty
beaches where cargo will be un
loaded. Survey ships left port on
July 1. Supply vessels began
heading northward last Monday.
Aboard his flagship, El Dorado,
the admiral will rendezvous with
the fleet July 23 off Icy Cape,
round the rim of the continent,
and skirt the polar ice pack for
1,750 miles to deliver the cargoes
at the DEW Line’s faraway places.
In the fleet are two icebreakers
—the Navy’s Burton Island and
Canada’s Labrador—p 1 u s three
Coast Guard cutters. These will
lead the way in a search for a
deep-draft arctic passage from the
Pacific to the Atlantic Oceans
thru Bellot Strait.
Centuries Old Dream
“The route,” said Adm. Stelter,
“may be the key to the centuries
old dream of a practical deep
draft northwest passage.”
“We expect ice conditions to be
more favorable this year than be
fore,” he said, “but I have my
fingers crossed. We’ll be back
when we get out.”
Good Prices Are
Predicted for Furs
( From ANICA News )
We quote from July 11th 1957
fur market bulletin issued by the
Seattle Fur Exchange:
Mink—Every reason to believe
there will be e good call for win
ter mink this coming year.
White Fox—A strong improve
ment indicated. The coming sea
' son should be a more profitable
one for both trader and trapper.
Again as in the past several
years the PURE WHITE SKINS
will bring THE BEST PRICES.
Beaver—The market is holding
strong. Entirely cleaned out of
Alaska beaver.
Muskrat—July sale a complete
sellout. Prices extremely firm.
Otter—This fur continues to be
strong and will be a leader thru
out the coming year.
Lynx—Prices showing an im
provement. If current trend con
tinues, it should make it worth
while for trappers to operate.
Marten—Fair demand. Skins
can be sold readily but at very
low prices: $12 to $14 for males,
$6 to $7 for females.
Mrs. Mildred Lomen. widow of
Alfred Lomen, is visiting in Fair
banks with her son Alfred Lomen
Jr., and family, having taken a
tourist trip by bus from her
home in Seattle.
ARCTIC SANITARY
SERVICE
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Russia Closes Vladivostok Bay
.To Navigation by Foreign Ships
LONDON 0?)—The Soviet Union
Saturday closed Vladivostok Bay
to navigation by foreign ships and
airplanes. The bay lies around
and to the south of the city of
Vladivostok, the U.S.S.R.’s big
Far Eastern port.
A broadcast by Moscow radio
said: “Navigation by foreign
ships and foreign planes in the
area of the bay can take place
only with permission of Soviet
authorities, with the exception of
cases of foreign ships entering or
leaving the port of Nakhodaa.”
Nakhodaa' is a smaller port
about 50 miles southeast of Vlad
ivostok.
The broadcast added: “The
U.S.S.R. Council of Ministers has
considered the question of boun
daries of Soviet internal waters
in the vicinity of Peter the Great
• Vladivostok) Bay and has estab
lished that the boundaries of So
viet internationals in this area,
and the demarcation line in the
direction of the sea of Soviet ter
ritorial waters, will be a line
joining the estuary of the river
Tyumen-Ula with Cape Povorot
ny.”
Cape Povorotny is about 72
miles southeast of Vladivostok,
where the waters of Vladivostok
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Bay join the Sea of Japan. The
river Tyumen-Ula runs into Vlad
ivostok Bay about 100 miles
southwest of Vladivostok.
Western Reaction
Major canning and other proc
essing establishments lie on the
shores of the bay.
First reaction of some Western
students of Soviet affairs to the
closing of the bay was that it was
a military-political decision rath
er than one initiated by the Rus
sian Ministry of Fisheries.
The westernmost tip of the de
marcation line lies just north of
the northeasternmost tip of North
Korea.
U.S. Consulate Closed
The United States maintained
a consulate at Vladivostok, but
during the cold war with the
West in the last years of Stalin’s
life, the Soviets forced the Ameri
cans to close that post.
Even when it was open, the
Russians would allow only three
or four Americans to be posted
there at the same time and secret
police watched them closely.
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