THE NOME NUGGET
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Entered as second class matter October 14. 1943, at the
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Spring Fancy
IN THE SPRINGTIME, everyone’s fancy turns to !
green and growing things — not only in window
boxes — but to the desire to have green growth
outside the homes, beautifying the community.
Charles Jones calls attention to the fact that
several years ago, Rube Gremer brought a small
spruce from Council and planted it at the cemetery
after the gravel bad been 'hauled in that area. The
tree has prospered, and seeds have scattered over the
area, and small spruces are growing in various places
in the cemetery.
A concerted effort on the part of one or more
groups, making a project of either bringing in spruce
or gathering cones and scattering seed, could be the
start of an interesting and inexpensive improvement
campaign to beautify Nome.
A project for the Pioneers whose friends are
buried on Belmont Point could be two rows of small
spruce along the road through the cemetery, as a
starter. _
Editors Think Nixon
Will Take Presidency
WASHINGTON, W — A group
of newspaper editors expressed the
opinion in a poll last week that the
Republican Party would win the
Presidency next November. The
vote was a narrow 45*42
They also voted overwhelming
ly that Adlai Stevenson would
vein the Democratic Presidential
nomination and unanimously that
Richard Nixon would get the Re
ublican nomination.
The editors, members of the
American Society of Newspaper
Editors, were polled at the annual
breakfast given them by the
Washington Professional Chapter
of Sigma Delta Chi, a national
professional journalistic frater
nity.
Asked who they thought would
be the Presidential nominees, the
editors voted: Democratic — Ste
venson, 46, Sen. Lyndon Johnson
16, Sen. John Kennedy 14, Sen.
Stuart Symington 11, Sen. Hubert
Humphrey 1, and Gov. Orval
Faubus of Arkansas 1. Republican
— Nixon, unanimous.
NOME BOWLING
LEAGUE STANDINGS
Town W L Pci.
Milan 24 4 -857
Baring Sea Club 20 7 .806
Linamants 21 11 -656
B. P. R. 20 12 -625
Morgan's 18 14 .563
Polar Bar 20 16 .556
F, A. A, 15 17 .469
N. C. Co, 13 19 .406
All Girl Team 12 20 -375
Federal Electric 11 25 -308
Airlines 8 24 .156
FILL ER UP—NO CHARGE I
LOS ANGELES, (fl) — Two phy
sicists say plain old tap water may
someday operate the family auto
mobile.
Doctors A. M. Zarem and W. V.
Wright of Detroit said erperiments
are under way with a process
which breaks water into hydrogen
and oxygen, then fuses them back
together, giving off an electrical
impulse.
A tractor has been operated us
ing the system, they told the
Southwest Metals and Minerals
Conference.
Contract Awarded for
Work to Lengthen
Fairbanks Airport
JUNEAU, UP) — Award of a
$962,358 contract to McLaughlin
Beck of Seattle for second stage
work on a Fairbanks International
Airport project was announced
Saturday by the Alaska Depart
ment of Public Works.
The joint venture by the Se
attle firms submitted the low bid
on the job to extend the state
owned airport’s runway by 4,300
feet. The contract award had been
held up pending the lifting of a
federal freeze on airport con
struction funds at the field.
The money was released last
Monday after more than a month
of review of the plans. The delay
was caused by a study of whether
Ladd Air Force Base near Fair
banks might be available for
continued commercial jet opera
tions.
S. S. Mullen of Seattle was the
second low bidder on the Fair
banks International Airport pro
ject, with a bid of $1,103,640. The
state estimate for the work wag
$1,353,453.
JOHN RAUCH RESIGNS
John Rauch, principal of the
Nome High School, has resigned
to take an administrative position
as principal of the Seward School.
Mr. Rauch has been at Nome
School for several years, and has
spent his summers at summer
school working toward his mas
ter’s degree. Mrs. Rauch is with
ACS as long-distance operator.
Wayne Eben Home In
Unalakleel Is Burned Out
KICY reports a fire in Unala
kleet which destroyed the home
of Wayne Eben, who with his
family of four children, have been
left without any personal belong
ings.
KICY is calling for donations of
clothing for the needy family to
be left at their studio or at the
Covenant Church.
Steve Pederson Leaves To Start
Repair Work On Council Dredge
Steve Pederson, who heads the
Nugget Mining Co., at Council,
leaves today to start the repair
work on his dredge and several
tractors in preparation for a busy
mining season anticipated. The
dredge is located on the Niukluk
River just above Council.
ADMITTED TO HOSPITAL
Diane Fagen, Dorothy Angusuc,
Rita Angnabooguk.
Discharged—Ruth Angabooguk,
Peter Larson Sr., Joe Hanaka,
Annie Adams, Ronald Davis,
Jerry Adsuna, Gus Bjornstad.
Red Crossbreeding Succeeds
LONDON, W! — Red China
claimed Friday experimenters
have crossed a Yorkshire sow and
a Holstein bull to produce stur
dier, faster growing pigs.
Radio Peiping said the crossing
by artificial insemination was
conducted a year ago at a pig
breeding farm of a peasant com
mune near Chungking, in west
ern China. Four pigs were pro
duced.
GLUE POT
Soda Fountain
CIGARS, CIGARETS
TOBACCO
CANDY
FRESH ICE CREAM
EVERY DAY
Bonding Programs
Will Appear On
November Ballot
JUNEAU, OP) — Governor Egan
Saturday signed into law legisla
tion that will put six proposed
general obligation bonding pro
grams totaling 29V& million dollars
before the voters of Alaska in the
November general election.
A seventh cmpanion bill also
was approved by the Governor,
setting out the authority and lim
its within which the state may act
to provide bonding for capitol im
provements.
In a message to the adjourned
Legislature commenting on his ap
proval of the bonding proposals,
the Governor said some of the
programs were essential in terms
of both present needs and future
development. Others he described
as necessary for meeting day to
day obligations of the state gov
ernment.
The bonding bills provide for
30-year retirement at a maximum
six per cent interest.
The Governor’s approval of the
seven bills raised to 175 the num
ber of laws enacted so far this
year.
Pacific Storm Moving In
On Formosa with Winds
Up to 85 Miles per Hour
MANILA, (iP) — Pacific storm
Karen blew up into a hyphoon to
day and was reported moving
toward Formosa with 85-mile cen
ter winds.
The Manila weather bureau
said Karen was about 100 miles
west of central Luzon Island, cur
ving to the northwest at 8 mph.
Karen zigzagged through the
Philippines over the weekend,
leaving behind eight known dead
and scores of persons unaccounted
for. Newspaper reports put the
number of missing anywhere from
73 to 110.
NOME SANITARY
SERVICE
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(Living Costs Hit New
I Record High in March
! WASHINGTON, IIP) — The na
| tion’s living costs hit a new rec
I ord in March.
[ The first rise in food prices in
six months edged the Labor De
■ partment’s consumer price index
| to a new peak of 125.7 per cent
of the 1947-49 living cost average.
The average price increase over
'he February level was only one
tenth of one per cent. The March
average was 1.6 per cent above
the same month last year.
Arnold Chase, Labor Depart
ment chief, said he saw no cause
for alarm in the fact that living
costs have hit a new high. He
said prices actually have not gone
up as much as experts had be
lieved they would.
Sons of American Negroes in
Germany Find Friendly Welcome
Inilo Nation's Labor Market
FRANKFURT, Germany, IIP) —
The first 1,000 German children
fathered by American Negro sol
diers left school this Easter.
None had to look wice for a
job. In a country once notorious
for its “master race” claims, ap
pearance of the colored teen-agers
on the labor market posed no
problem. West Germany has its
worst labor shortage in history.
Vacancies outnumber jobless.
Jailed Hero . . .
FULGA, Calif., (IP) —■ Butte
County Sheriffs deputies congrat
ulated Elmer Johnson for risking
his life to pull a crippled man from
a burning mountain cabin. They
praised him all the way to the jail.
Johnson had just rescued Mc
Kinley Johnson (no relative) from
the cabin fire that burned McKin
ley’s 90-year-old father, Oscar, to
death.
Elmer was booked for failure to
answer a 4-yearold traffic war
rant. He remained in jail because
he couldn’t post $110 bail.
NOTICE
The lax rale on 1959 real and
personal properly assessments of
the City of Nome has been set at
V/2 per cent. 1959 property taxes
are now due and payable.
Robert F. Scott,
City Clerk.
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