Last B-36 Bomber Makes
Final Trip, To Become
Texas Memorial
EL PASO, Tex., UP) — The last
B-36 bomber roared out from
Biggs Air Force Base here yester
day on a flight to Fort Worth’s
Carter Field.
Then the big queen with the
Sunday punch that was never
used was scheduled to become
history. It will become a memorial
in Fort Worth, where it was man
ufactured.
In its 10-year life span, the
giant 10-engine six-props and four
jets bomber never saw action. But
the Strategic Air Command cred
ited the craft with preventing
atomic war through its global
readiness.
She was the first intercontinen
tal bomber and could have bombed
the Soviet Union from bases in the
continental United States — and
then gone on to land on friendly
soil.
But although continually mod
ernized with newer radar equip
ment, the big plane couldn’t keep
pace with the jet age.
February Calendar
CHICAGO — The Publisher’s
Auxiliary, a national Editor’s
weekly, releases a calendar of
special days, weeks and events for
February:
American Heart Month.
Good Breakfasts Month.
Boy Scout Week — February
7- 13.
National Children’s Health
Week, February 8-14.
National Advertising Week,
February 8-14.
Abraham Lincoln’s Birthday,
February 12.
National Crime Prevention
Week, February 8-14.
National Electrical Week.
Negro History Week, February
8- 15.
Take Tea and See Week, Febru
ary 16-21.
National Pimiento Week, Feb
ruary 12-22.
National Defense Week, Febru
ary 12-22.
World Day of Prayer — Febru
ary 13.
Valentine’s Day, February 14.
Brotherhood Week, February
15-22.
Mardi Gras (Shrove Tuesday),
February 17.
Lent (Religious), Begins with
Ash Wednesday, February 18 to
April 5.
Ash. Wednesday, February 18.
George Washington’s Birthday,
February 22.
Catholic Book Week, February
22-28.
President’s Week, February 24
27; President’s Day, February 23.
Pencil Week, February 23-28.
National Engineer’s Week, Feb
ruary 23-28.
Bachelor’s Day, February 28.
Friday-13th Holds No Terror . . .
CHEYENNE, Wyo., UP — Friday
the 13th caused State Represen
tative Edness Kimball Wilkins no
concern.
She is chairman of the Wyoming
House Committee No. 13 on labor.
She scheduled a meeting of Com
mittee No. 13 on Friday the 13t'n
in Statehouse Room 13.
ORDINANCE NO. 388
(Published by Title Only)
AN ORDINANCE of the City pf
Nome, Alaska, to add a new sec
tion to the Code of Ordinances of
Nome, Alaska, pertaining to the
defrauding of restaurant, coffee
shop, lunch counter, hotel or
lodging place owners or pro
prietors, defining such as a mis
demeanor, prescribing a penalty,
providing for exceptions, and set
ting an effective date.
Passed at a regular meeting of
the Nome Common Council, held
the 9th day of February, 1959.
s/ Steffen Andersen, Mayor
Attest:
s/ Robert F. Scott, Clerk
Publish Feb. 11, 13, 16, 1959
The International Signifieance
Of Alaskan Statehood
By Sen. Ernest Gruening
The admission of Alaska to the
Union as a State has substantial
significance in international af
fairs.
It demonstrates that the United
States practices what it preaches.
It proves that the United States,
true to its professions and to its
best traditions, does not pactice
colonialism. It augers a corres
ponding treatment for the nation’s
only other incorporated territory,
Hawaii, and for the maximum of
self-government of all other of
the remaining dependent areas,
Puerto Rico having already been
granted the status its people de
sired. It shows that the United
States is willing to break other
precedents in order to extend to
a noncontiguous area — for the
first time in history — the full
equality and sovereignty pre
viously conferred on 35 states sub
sequent to the formation of the
nation.
Statehood for Alaska advances
the frontiers of democracy to the
continent’s farthest North and
West. It extends these frontiers
of freedom for the first time into
the Arctic and into the Eastern
Hemisphere—for the Alaskan ter
rain reaches into both these parts
of the globe.
What is particularly striking
about this liberating action is that
Alaska was once Russian-Ameri
ca. But for the vision and wisdom
of William H. Seward, Alaska
might still be groaning under the
tyranny of Moscow.
Historically, not only was Alas
ka once part of what now has be
come the most brutal totalitarian
regime in modern times, but, geo
graphically, Alaska lies within
naked-eye view of the Soviet po
lice state. Only 54 miles separate
Alaska and Siberia across Bering
Strait. The Siberian headlands
which rise to 11,000 feet are clear
ly seen from the Alaskan main
land. They are visible also from
St. Lawrence Island, an Alaskan
island in the Bering Sea.
Two other islands, Little Dio
mede and Big Diomede, the for
mer American, the latter Russian,
lies within 2V£ miles of each other.
Thus Alaska is the nearest free
country to the Soviet state and
the contrast between these two
adjacent systems of government
and the two ways of life is re
vealed for the whole world to see.
This contrast and this difference
may be specifically illustrated by
what has happened on the two
Diomedes. Both islands were for
merly inhabited by Eskimos, there
being a small village on each,
both extant before the coming of
the white man. The American Es
kimos continue to live there, fol
lowing their peaceable pursuits,
enjoying the blessings of liberty,
as loyal and patriotic a group of
Americans as can be found under
the flag. I was happy to enlist
those who were not in the armed
forces in our Alaska Territorial
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Guard in the early days of World
War II; and they are now active
members of the Alaska National
Guard, enrolled in its scout bat
talions.
In contrast, Russia’s Eskimos on
Big Diomede have been uprooted
from their ancestral homes and
forcibly deported to the mainland
of Siberia. With that deportation,
the friendly visiting that had
taken place between the inhabi
tants of the two islands for gen
erations, ceased abruptly.
Thus we have in those far nor
thern latitudes a striking illustra
tion of contrasting freedom and
serfdom. It is to be hoped that
our Voice of America will make
clear to the world the profound
difference between Uncle Sam’s
treatment of its dependencies —
for Alaska was such a dependency
prior to statehood—and Russia’s
treatment of its satellites.
Alaska versus Hungary. Gaze
on this picture and on that.
In the one case there is the
grant of full equality. There is ap
plication by due process of law of
the .most basic of American prin
ciples, the principle of govern
ment by consent of the governed.
In the other case we have, by a
dictatorial exercise of power, for
cible deportation and the suppres
sion of freedom which in varying
degree all Russian subjects suffer.
In the continuing struggle for
the understanding and sympathy
of the wavering and uncommitted
peoples of the earth, Alaskan
statehood should be of great value
as a shining example.
“By their deeds ye shall know
them.” The deed of making Alas
ka the 49th state in the American
Union speaks for more loudly
than words could.
That the 49th state was once
Russian-Ameriean, that it is, geo
graphically, Russia’s nearest
neighbor belonging to the free
world — for all Russia’s other
neighbors have been subverted to
the Kremlin’s rule — sounds a
clarion call to all mankind.
Alaskan statehood exceeds the
propaganda value of a dozen
sputniks. It is a missile—an inter
continental missile suggests itself
— which cannot be intercepted
and carries its message to the
ends of the earth for all time.
The Boy Scouts International
Bureau at Ottawa, Canada, co
ordinates Scouting in 67 nations.
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Former Nome Resident
Killed In Seward Collision
Walter E. Merrill was killed in
stantly, and two others suffered
minor injuries in a traffic acci
dent on the outskirts of Seward,
State Police reported.
Merrill is the son of Bert Mer
ril of this city, and brother of
Wallace Merrill. He was born in
Point Hope, and resided at the
time of the accident on Fourth
of July Creek near Seward.
WHAT A STORM!
KANSAS CITY, Kan., UP) —
James L. Tinker told police he left
his car at a service station during
a storm on February 2 after it
had stalled.
had stalled. But now, Tinker says,
he can’t even remember where
the station is.
For Packing, Painting or Puppies
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Nome Education Assn. Meets
The new Nome Education Asso
ciation held its second meeting
yesterday.
interesting report on the proceed
ings of the third delegate assem
bly of the Alaska Education Assn.,
which met at Juneau in October.
The subject of this meeting was
the- progress of education under
statehood and was of much con
cern to all educators in the state.
Treasurer Olaf Halverson re
ported that the Nome group had
attained 100 per cent membership
among Nome teachers.
The Home Repairs Merit Badge
is the one most earned by Boy
Scouts in recent years.
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