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2 THE NOME NUGGET Friday. January 13. 1956
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Educators Drop Proposal To
integrate’ Native Students
O
FAIRBANKS, Jan. 11—Leading
educators from all over Alaska
concluded a one-day meeting here
last night after reaching an agree
ment concerning secondary edu
cation for Alaska’s young native
people in the villages.
At the same time they dropped
a proposal advanced more than a
year ago to integrate students
from the outlying areas into the
public school systems of Alaska's
major cities.
Representatives of bo’h the Al
aska Native Service and the Ter
ritorial Department of Education
reached the following conclusions
at the meeting.
1. Elementary education should
toe provided as near to the homes
of the native children as possible.
2. Regional high schools should
toe established in native areas to
provide secondary education.
3. That Congress should be
asked for a special appropriation
of $10,000,000 to be used for hous
ing projects at the villages.
William Olsen, director of the
Alaska Native Sendee, .said that
the regional high schools as
planned at the meeting would be
built in such places as Kotzebue,
Unalakleet and other native cen
ters to serve a wide area around
the school. They would be board
ing schools, under the plan drawn
up.
Olsen said that in the interim
period the ANS could continue to
provide secondary education to
children in the villages at the Mt.
Edgecumbe school near Sitka.
Olsen said that the Mt. Edge
cumbe school now has about 600
students from 136 native villages
in Alaska. He feels that sooner or
later secondary education must be
provided native young people in
areas closer to their homes.
Last year ANS officials dis
cussed a plan to establish dormi
tories in larger cities and sending
native children from the villages
to the cities where they would at
tend public high schools. This
plan met some opposition in Alas
ka from those who felt that this
would tend to drain Alaska’s vil
lages and put native children in
an environment that would con
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fuse them.
Olsen said he fully concurred
with the plan, drawn up yesterday.
The plan would require appro
priations from either the territory
or the federal government before
it could be carried out.
Plans for the housing develop
ment were advanced to improve
general living conditions within
rural centers where schools are
to be established. This would tend
to develop a number of new areas
in the territory rather than cen
tering population around Fair
banks and Anchorage.
Some 25 educators attended the
meeting, including Olsen, Max
Penrod, ANS education director
in Alaska; Donald DaFoe, com
missioner of education for Alaska;
Paul Windsor, assistant area di
rector for the ANS at Bethel, and
Wavne Pratt, education expert
from the Bureau of Indian Af
| fairs, Washington D.C.
Pilot Eddie Olson Lost
In Yukon Territory
ANCHORAGE, Uf) — Search
planes failed in a day-long hunt
Wednesday for two civilians miss
ing on an Alaska Freight Lines
flight into the frigid Yukon Ter
ritory of Canada.
Still sought are Eddie Olson,
Anchorage pilot, and his passen
ger, Guy Rivers. They left Eagle,
Alaska, Monday morning to inter
cept a Freight Lines snow train
coming down from the Canadian
Arctic coast but never arrived at
their destination.
One of the men aboard an Air
Rescue Service search plane from
Ladd Air Force Base was A1
Wright, a civilian employe of the
freight line. His brother, Forest,
and Andy Warwick, both of Fair
banks, disappeared on a short
flight in the same territory last
December 6. No trace of them has
been found.
Ironically, Eddie 'Olson took
over Forest Wright’s iob when
Forest disappeared.
Eddie Olson was a bush pilot
j for Alaska Airlines at Nome
about a year ago.
NOTICE
Sealed bids for furnace oil in
lots of four hundred (400) gallons
or over, and stove oil by the gal
lon, for the Cily of Nome, on a
12 monlh basis, are requested to
be in City Clerk's Office by Jan.
23, 1956 at 5:00 p.m. The City
reserves the right to reject any
and all bids.
Nome Common Council,
By Carrie M. McLain,
City Clerk
Publish Jan. 11, 13, 16, 1956.
Whaley Asks
Seattle ‘Grubstake’
Alaska Tourism
(The Seattle Times)
SEATTLE, Jan. 4—Frank H.
Whaley, 49, a bush pilot in a busi
ness . suit, today asked Seattle to
help “grubstake” Alaska’s third
biggest industry: the tourist trade.
Whaley is “prospecting” for
$10,000 from Seattle businessmen
with Alaska connections because
“tourists traveling to and from
Alaska spend an average of four
days in Seattle.”
Whaley is executive director of
the Alaska Visitors Assn. In 20
years as a Nome bush pilot he has
spent almost 8,000 hours in the
air in single-engined planes. He
was a member of the Alaska leg
islature, as representative and sen
ator, from 1941 to 1947.
The 1955 legislature appropri
ated $100,000 to be made available
to the Alaska Visitors’ Assn, on a
2-to-l ratio. The association is
conducting a drive for $50,000 to
qualify for the full appropriation.
The association plans an $85,
000 “stateside” advertising cam
paign to regain tourist trade lost
last year with the termination of
passenger-steamship traffic to the
territory.
Alaska’s tourist business was
valued at about $12,000,000 in
1954 and $10,000,000 in 1955. Only
fishing and mining surpass tour
ism as territorial industries.
Whaley showed Alaska films to
the Alaska Salesmen’s Society last
Saturday afternoon in the Arctic
Club and to the Alaska division of
the Seattle Chamber of Com
merce Monday noon in the Cham
ber of Commerce Building.
"Alaska produced only $9,000,
000 worth of gold last year,” said
Whaley. "The average tourist
spends $500 in Alaska. The price
of gold is fixed at $420 a pound.
“So a tourist is worth a pound
of gold—and is a lot easier to
find.”
Delegates Rush...
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want to peruse closely every sec
tion of each article before pass
ing it into history.
Observers agree that the dele
gates are still fired by much the
same excitement and fervor they
brought with them to this con
vention on Nov. fl. Almost no
complaining is heard about the
exhausting schedule.
The delegates have become an
accepted fixture around the Uni
versity of Alaska campus where
the convention is being held. The
400 students know exactly wrhich
hours, twice a day, the convention
will converge upon the one cof
fee house and they arrange their
own schedules accordingly.
It’s a regimented life—one in
which the delegates obviously see
a challenge and a worthy goal.
The many newscomers to this
far north section of Alaska ap
parently are fascinated by the
winter. Several times the con
vention has been conducted in
45 to 50 degrees below zero wea
ther, but no sessions have been
cancelled.
Grouped for transportation and
meals twice daily, the delegates
have been forged into together
ness. But rather than minding
this they are protecting and de
fending it.
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Johhny Warren Trial For
Murder of Cecil Wells To |
Start In Fairbanks May 14
FAIRBANKS, IflV—May 14 has;
been set as the date for Johnny
Warren, Los Angeles jazz drum
mer, to go on trial for the 'first
degree murder of Cecil Wells.
The date was set yesterday by
District Judge Vernon Forbes.
Warren ’was not present at the
hearing and is believed to toe in
California. He is free under
$10,000 bond.
Wells, Fairbanks automobile
dealer and gold mine operator,
was killed in his apartment Oct.
17, 1952. His widow, Diane, told
police she was beaten and Wells
shot toy robbers who entered their
Fairbanks apartment that mor
ning.
A grand jury subsequently in
dicted Mrs. Wells and Warren for
first degree murder. She later
committed suicide in California
while free on bail.
Volunteer Firemen Thank
Public For Help On
Xmas Lighting Project
The Volunteer Fire Department
wishes to thank the people -»'>f
Nome for their splendid coopera
tion in the project to string
Christmas lights on Front Street.
Total collections came to S651.75
and expenditures to $415.74. The
invoice for the lights and wire has
not been received yet and the
Volunteers entertain hopes that
the remaining balance of $238.01
will cover it.
The Volunteers are especially
grateful to local persons who
helped string the wire, and the
ACS and the Army for messenger
wire donated.
Following are the business
houses and individuals and then
contributions to the Christmas
tree lighting project:
$50—Glue Pot, Nome Drug, The
Polaris, Polar Bar.
$40—Bering Sea Club.
$25—N.C. Company.
$20—M and M Bank, Dr. Lang
sam, Hagen’s Jewelry Store, and
Green’s City Fuel and Transfer.
$15—Bronson Water Delivery.
$10—Cavota’s, Alaska Airlines,
Board of Trade, North Star Grill,
Harry Lewis, Norvin Lewis, Earl
Towner, Ernie Bohrer, Billikin
Gift Shop, Golden Goose Bar, The
Theater, Nome Liquor Store, Bob
Shick, Anchor Tavern, Alaska Tel
and Tel, Beta Sigma Phi, Special
ty Sales, Larry Galvin.
$5—Wien Airlines, Nome Nug
get, Service Cleaners, Alaska Cab,
Polet’s Store, Trading Post, The
Breakers, Wilbur Arnold, Chuck
Lewis, Nome Bakery, The Hut,
Dean Martin, Arctic Oil Delivery,
Martin’s Cold Storage, Q Cab,
Morgan and Son, Howard Mays.
$2—Bob Reddaway, Gary Long
ley, Bob Powell, Barbara Martin,
Mike Vivieros, Cherry’s Barber
Shop.
$1 — Steve Andersen, Barney
Crosby, Don Grinsell, Ronny
Coons, Mrs. Oumok, Walter Atuk,
Geo. Chapman, Emery Ewall, R
Luke, J. Carter, Jennie Attatayuk,
Nick Nickelson, M. Yates, H,
Alexander.
$.75—Mrs. Ailak.
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Eisenhower Asks
1% Billion Federal
Grants for Schools
WASHINGTON, UP— President
Eisenhower asked Congress yes
terday to provide 1V4 billion dol
lars in federal grants over the
next live y<?ars to help conquer
the nation’s critical school short
age.
In a special message, the Presi
dent also asked authority for fed
eral purchase of up to 750 mil
lion dollars worth of local school
bonds — if school districts cannot
sell them in private markets at
reasonable interest rates—and 20
million dollars for grants to the
states for school planning.
In summary, this wbuld mean a
federal outlay over five years of
some $2,020,000,000 with 750 mil
lion to be returned through even
tual payment of the bonds.
The states would be required
to match the federal grants for
construction.
“With this program,” Eisen
hower said, “we can lay the basis
for better education in America
in the years ahead. In this way
we keep faith with our children.”
The President made no mention
of a question already stirring Con
gress—whether federal education
aid should go only to states ad
hering to the Supreme Court’s
ruling barring race segregation in
public schools.
One reason Congress got no
where in the last session on school
aid was a split over this question.
Territorial Tax Take
Up $1,600,000 Over 54
JUNEAU, UP—Tax increases en
acted by the last legislature ac
count for most of the more than
$1,600,000 gain in 1955 territorial
collections.
Tax Commissioner Karl Dewey,
in reporting $16,203,500 for the
year, said more than a million of
the increase over 1954 came from
the higher levies on income and
motor fuels.
The income tax led the wray
with a take of $.6,394,132, an in
crease of $333,780.
The motor fuels tax collect 011s
of $2,050,885 were $728,745 higher.
Gains also were reported under
the tobacco, raw fish and school
head taxes. Receipts were lower
for the liquor and business license
levies.
The First Division (southeast
Alaska) had the biggest increase
but the Third Division (Anchor
age* continued to have the biggest
collections.
By divisions:
First—up $830,620 to more than
five million.
Second—$77,240 above 1954.
Third—$7,822,002 total; $232,150
increase.
Fourth—$3,084,224 total; $776,
926 increase.
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