% , THE NOME NUGGET Monday, March 21. 1960
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PROGRESS REPORT-AND SOCIAL NOTE
Help for Crippled Children ,
THE EASTER SEAL CAMPAIGN in Nome starts
today and those familiar -little jars placed in
business houses for the next couple of weeks will be
little reminders of the many children who have been
aided the jiast year, and the many more who need
assistance.
1960 marks the 39th year of service to Crippled
children by this volunteer fund-raising campaign at
Easter time. * '
In 1959, 1,744 persons were aided from this fund
for rehabilitation.
Many people will receive direct appeals, with the
receipt of envelopes with Easter Seal stamps. Use
these stamps as reminders to others to do their bit for
the handicapped children of Alaska. They buy
research to aid them and improve their conditions.
From the McClure, Pa., Plain Dealer: “There are two
kinds of taxes: good ones and bad ones. Good taxes
are those that are levied upon other people, and bad
taxes are those that we must pay. '
“Likewise, there are wise and foolish expendi
tures of public funds, the former promotes our ideas
of public necessity, and the latter does not put cash
into our pockets.”
From the Chewelah, Wn,. Independent: “Legislation is
being drafted . , . to regulate all actions of the petro
leum industry in the State of Washington. As
contemplated,-the board would regulate production,
refining, transportation, distribution and sale. . . .
“Passing another law, licensing the gasoline
dealers, and forcing a price control on gasoline, is not
' in the best public interest. If this can be done with
gasoline, who, or what product will be next on the
list of government control?”
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Reds Offer to Sign
Honpr Treaty to
Ban Atom'Testing
By MICHAEL GOLDSMITH
GENEVA. GW—Soviet delegates
Saturday accepted conditionally
President Eisenhower’s plan for
a partial nuclear-test ban.
They offered to sign an honor
system treaty with the United
States and Britain immediately to
bar big tests — oceanic, atmos
pheric or underground — if the
two Western powers joined the
Soviet Union in a promise to re
frain indefinitely from conduct
ing small underground blasts.
Under the Soviet proposal
there would be no international
control to insure compliance with
the moraorium.
Soviet Delegate Semyon Tsarap
kin told a special meeting of the
long deadlocked Big Three nuclear
conference that the moratorium
would toe accompanied toy a joint
three-power scientific study to
deal with the problem of small
underground blasts. This is the
sort of explosion the United States
maintains cannot be policed with
existing detection techniques.
,.Tsarapkin blamed the United
States for the conference's ina
bility to conclude a comprehen
sive treaty. U. S. Ambassador
James Wardsworth challenged
him on this ground.
But both Wardsworth and Brit
ish Minister of Stgte David Orms
by-Gore characterized Tsarapkin’s
proposal as an important state
ment.
Tsarapkin’s move came three
days after the U. S. Atomic En
ergy Commission had announced
plans for Operation Gnome, the
explosion of a nuclear device for
peaceful scientific purposes,
planned in New Mexico next
January.
U. S. Ambassador
Will Return to
Havana Post
. WASHINGTON UPl —- Ambas
sador Philip Bonsai is returning
soon to his post in Cuba — prob
ably this week. With him will go
the government’s hope that he
can improve relations with Fidel
Castro.
Bonsai was called home Jan.
25 for consultaion. It was an im
plied rebuke to Premier Castro’s
mounting anti-American attacks.
Castro had accused the American
and Spanish Ambassadors of help
ing anti-Castro elements in ‘Cuba.
At that time Secretary of State
Christian Herter reportedly told
the Senate Foreign Relations Com
mittee this w(as the most insult
ing charge Castro has hurled yet.
Since then, however, Castro im
plied the United States had some
thing to do with the explosion
of a French munitions ship in
Havana Harbor, though he offered
no proof.
In spite of these vitriolic at
tacks, TJ. S. officials have been
treading carefully with Castro.
They fear any open reprisal
would throw Castro’s government
dloser to the Soviet orbit. And
they express continuing friendship
with the people of Cuba.
The Staife Department announce
ment of Bonsai’s return said the
Castro government has assured
the United States there are no
charges against Bonsai, and that
any charges in the semi-official
newspaper Revolucion are not to
be taken as expressing the gov
ernment view.
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| Michigan 59ers’ Wilderness Hardships
Shows Need for Preparation—Grnening
By FRITZ WITTI
WASHINGTON, OP) — Senator
Ernest Gruening said last week
the hardships suffered by a band
of Mchigan settlers in Alaska may
help other would-be homesteaders
do better in the future.
“It seems to me that the Michi
gan 59ers didn’t know exactly
what they were getting into.”
Gruening told a reporter. “I don’t
think most of them were ade
quately prepared.”
- Gruening had printed in Fri
day’s Congressional Record a pub
lished account of the tribulations
of the Detroit area group which
went to Alaska last year.
The article said only four of
the original 41 families who made
the trip, plus three “winter bach
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Family of Five Found
Dead Near Site of
Triple Cave Murder
SENECA, 111., UFi — A family
of five was found shot to death in
their Seneca home Saturday.
Authorities termed the deaths
murder and suicide.
The victims wer^ a factory
worker, his wife and their three
children, one girl and two boys.
Police said the children were
slain, in their beds with a pistol.
Seneca is a LaSalle County vil
lage about 12 miles east of Ottawa.
The death of the family was
the second case of multiple vio
lent deaths in LaSalle County
last week. Wednesday, the bodies
of three socially prominent wo
men from Riverside, 111., were
found bludgeoned to death, ap
parently by a sex maniac, in
Starved Rock State Park, about
20 miles west of Seneca.
elors,” still remain in the rugged
wilderness north of Anchorage.
“To settle in wilderness areas,”
Gruening said, “you must be a
real do-it-yourselfer, be ade
quately financed and have real
know-how.”
“Above all, settlers should be
realistic about the prospects and
get all available information be
fore starting out.”
He said he believed the group’s
insistence on starting out as a
community, making it impossible
for them to settle on the more
hospitable and more crowded
Kenai Peninsula, had-much to do
with the failure of the expedition.
The original settlers finally
picked the isolated Susitna Val
ley, 115 miles north of Anchorage.
“Now that we’re a state,”
Gruening said, “I think things
can be done more efficiently. It
might be possible for the state to
set aside certain lands especially
for such settlement.”
Many Alaskan homesteaders
have had much better luck than
the Detroit group, Gruening
added. “Some have homesteaded
their 160 acres with very little
effort, developed it, and been able
,to sell the surplus for as much
as $500 an acre, keeping perhaps
40 acres for themselves free and
clear.”
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MacArthur Operated On
NEW YORK, (At—Gen. Douglas
MacArthur was operated on Sat
urday for a prostate gland ail
ment. A 1st Army spokesman said
his postoperative condition was
excellent.
The 80-year-old general had
four doctors in attendance during
the operation at Lenox Hill Hos
pital. Dr. George W. Slaughter
was in charge.
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