THE NOME NUGGET
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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.
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Arab League Rejects
Iraq’s Claim to Kuwait
CAIRO, Egypt UP) — The Arab
League rejected Iraq’s claim to
Kuwait Thursday night and au
thorized plannisg for an Arab
force to protect the oil-rich little
sheikdom’s new independence.
League secretary-general Abdel
Hassouna announced he will hold
urgent consultations with his
military advisers and representa
tives of the Arab States to raise
a special force to replace the
British troops sent to Kuwait after
Iraqi Premier Kassem laid claim
to the former British protector
ate.
The League Council overrode
Iraq’s vehement protests and ad
mitted Kuwait as the group’s 11th
member.
The Iraqi delegation, contend
ing that Kuwait could not be a
league member because it is part
of Iraq, walked out of the coun
cil session before the vote.
FORMER ALASKAN
MRS. KINSEY PASSES
SEATTLE W — Mrs. Eva C.
IKckey, mother of a prominent
former Alaska resident, Mrs.
Robert O. Kinsey, died in Seat
tle Wednesday.
Rosary will be said today and
funeral services will be held Sat
urday. Burial will be in Seattle.
She is survived by a daugh
ter, Mrs. Kinsey, a former Fair
banks resident.
Hot weather warning: A 5 per
cent loss of body salt causes
weariness, a SO per cent loss
leads to dizziness, and a 50 per
cent loss — prostration.
BRING YOUR
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for
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Atomic-Powered
Weather Station to Be
Set Up in Arctic Circle
BALTIMORE UP) — The world’s
[first atomic-powered weather
station, which will be set up on i
an uninhabited island north of the
Arctic Circle, is scheduled to be
shipped from here Sunday.
The automatic recording and
transmittisg unit was built by the
Martin Company’s Nuclear Di
vision under contract with the
Atomic Energy Commission.
The station will be installed
next month on Graham Island, in
Canadian territory some 750 miles
from the North Pole and several
hundred miles northeast of the
Magnetic Pole.
Unmanned, the installation will
collect and relay data on temper
ature, wind and barometric pres
sure, filling a gap in the weather
network between two unmanned
outposts at Resolute Bay and Eu
reka.
The atomic generator for the
weather station is expected to
operate several years without
maintenance or refueling. Heat
produced spontaneously by the
radio-active decay of strontium
90 is converted directly into elec
tricity.
The five great lakes contain
about half of the earth’s supply
of fresh water.
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UDALL VISIT DUE
(From the Petersburg Press*
Events in Alaska demand that Secretary of the Interior Udall,
or his immediate advisors make an extensive trip to Alaska soon.
Alaska’s natives have asked for the visit, directly and indirectly.
Several months ago Indian organizations in the state were asked
their opinion on reorganization of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, a
branch of the Department of the Interior. Recommendations were
to be forwarded to VVm. W. Keller, chairman of a task force on In
dian affairs in the Department of the Interior. Reports were to be
mailed in as the task force wouldn’t have time to visit Alaska.
The strongest recommendation made in the Petersburg area, and
by the state president of the Alaska Native Sisterhood, was that the
task force, or someone, visit the state and hear the native people.
Only results noted from this was that our delegation in Congress
was able to announce increased appropriations for the Bureau of
Indian Affairs including a 10,000-ton yacht for BIA use. Even as
far off as the 49th State, we think Americans have finally learned,
and our overseas diplomacy has graphically illustrated, that money
won’t buy everything. Not only that, natives in Alaska make up a
large portion of the taxpayers footing the bill for this extra money
! and they have a few things to say about how it’s spent.
Washington officials have depended too much on the recom
mendations of their field offices for what should be done. Unfortu
nately, one of the recommendations of some of the Petersburg na
tives is that the BIA office in Juneau be cleaned out from top to
bottom. Washington won’t hear anything like that from its field of
fice. The great white father in Washington, D. C. will only hear what
the field office needs to make the office bigger and more powerful.
Alaska natives are dissatisfied. The most publicized incident
pointing this out is the recent mass duck hunt near Point Barrow.
It took more than the arrest of a couple of Eskimos for hunting out
of season to set off such a mass revolt. The feeling was there; the
arrest was only the match that lit the fuse.
Farther south we find the Indians in Juneau concerned with the
plight of their village in the capital city. A terrible tragedy brought
on by substandard housing resulted in the death by fire of five mem
bers of a family. The natives would like to improve their property
and build it up to safety standards but they can’t get title. Without
title, no bank will loan money. Without bank money, no one—white,
native, or wealthy—can afford the outlay to rebuild their home.
In this part of Alaska we have the fish trap problem which
evolved when the BIA, concerned about its money invested in traps,
and salmon packers who have been operating the canneries for the
native villages decided they would lose money if the traps didn’t
operate. Since the BIA and the packers have the villages in finan
cial servitude the traps went in and created an embarassing prob
lem for the entire Alaska Native Brotherhood.
The Alaska Natives are now faced with what to do about the
Indian claim money which will be awarded them. As one Native
leader told the Press: “Last time they gave us $7 million, six
million went to administration and one million to the program.”
They don’t want that again.
The BIA, with its typical government approach, is running
around in circles. To satisfy the Eskimos who recently conducted
the big duck shoot, they devised a way to ship them to Southeast
Alaska to be loggers. Last year, because of the lack of work in
Alaska, BIA was relocating Southeast Alaska Indians in California.
Watch for the next thrilling installment of this serial when BIA
announces it is sending California Indians to northern Alaska to
work for the Fish and Wildlife Service banding ducks!
Secretary Udall should understand that the Native people in
Alaska are not the same people he sees on reservations in Arizona,
dozing in the shade of an adobe hut. The First Alaska State Legis
lature was presided over by an Eskimo, the Second by an Indian.
The Alaska Native works as a missionary, minister, cannery worker,
teacher and businessman. They want to train more of their people
in professions and trades. They want improved housing and com
munity facilities, not just another welfare handout.
The Alaska Native is a taxpayer and a strong supporter of
Alaska statehood because, like everyone else, he was tired of
Washington’s remote control of the old territory.
We strongly urge the secretary to make a trip to Alaska to
hear the Natives, to see the problems.
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Violent Rainstorm Batters
Charleston, West Virginia
CHARLESTON, W. Va. OP — A
violent rainstorm, with boiling
clouds so low they seemed to
skim the hilltops, deluged Char
leston Wednesday night. The
downpour transformed brooks
into roaring rivers that spread
death and destruction down the
area’s narrow valleys.
Twelve persons were confirmed
dead, six of them children.
Five thousand homes, a large
segment of the city was without
gas and electricity to reduce the
threat of fires and explosions.
The storm, in less than four
hours, dumped more than five
inches of rain on the area — a
record for the city.
Small creeks that usually dry
up in the summer became raging
torrents that picked up buildings
as if they were children’s blocks
and dashed them against each
other.
Charleston, a city of some
85,000, lies in a narrow valley
whose steep hills on every side
provide one-sided funnels, as you
would fold a piece of paper to
pour water into a narrow
mouthed jar.
4TH INSTALLMENT PLAN . . .
BOSTON (TP — A robber has
collected $4,300 from the Bene
ficial Finance Co. on the four
installment plan.
He picked up his latest in
stallment Thursday, taking $700 at
gunpoint.
On July 20, 1960, the same
thief robbed the same office of
$900. He also robbed the office
between the first theft and the
fourth on the anniversary date.
Dennis Marquiss. who has been
manager of the Aukruk Lanes
since it opened announced today
that he would be leaving for An
chorage where other work has
been offered him.
j IN MAGISTRATE’S COURT
J Sam Atuk, Perry Kagoona and
j Isaac Eben were each fined $50
j for disorderly conduct.
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT
OF THE STATE OF ALASKA
SECOND JUDICIAL DISTRICT
NO. 1098
NOTICE OF HEARING ON FINAL
REPORT AN ACCOUNT AND
DETERMINATION OF INHERITANCE
IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE
OF
AARNOUT CASTEL, Deceased
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that
Aamout Castel, Jr., of Nome, Alaska,
Executor With Will Annexed herein, has
filed his Final Report and Account, and
that the 5th day of September, 1961,
at the hour of 2:00 p. m. of said day, in
the above-named court, Nome, Alaska,
has by Court Order been fixed as the
time and place for a Hearing on said
Report and Account; and also, at such
time and place the Court will determine
and adjudicate the beneficiaries of this
OBJECTIONS, if any there be, to said
report and account proof of heirship will
be heard at this time.
DATED this 11th day of July, 1961.
AARNOUT CASTEL, JR.
EXECUTOR W/W/A
Virpil D. Vochoska,
Atorney for Executor.
Publish July 21, 28, Aug. 4, 11, 1961.
Sunday Night
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“Eight Jewels In
The Ring”
An Illustrated Sermon
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• Sunday School—10:00
• Worship Service—11:00
Rev. Bob Leight
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