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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. :EDDING HIS COCOON
ataexts—
ITS EVERYBODYS BUSINESS
“If the community can attract a couple of dozen
tourists a day throughout the year, it would be eco
nomically comparable to acquiring a new manufactur
ing industry with an annual payroll of $100,000.”
This interesting fact is from the report of the Alaska
Legislative Council from their report on the develop
ment of industry and resources.
Other interesting facts on the tourist business
show that twenty billion dollars a year are spent by
Americans traveling in the United States, Alaska and
Hawaii. Of this five billion goes for food, three
billion goes for many products they need while travel
ing all the way from fishing tackie to perfume. One
billion goes for dry cleaning and laundry; two billion
for entertainment; five billion for transportation and
four billion for accommodations.
It is estimated by the committee that in 1956 the
amount of money spent by tourist was almost twice
the’ retail value of every automobile manufactured.
It equalled the annual gross sales in recent years of
ten of the nation’s leading corporations.
As Nome is considered a popular spot in Alaska
in the tourist industry it behooves residents to treat
the matter in a business like way instead of an activity
for “if and when” the community has the time and
inc’ination. Its everybodys business.
Three years and 21 notes after the President and
the Kremlin began playing postoffice, Eisenhower
wrote Premier Bulganin: “I begin to wonder whether
we shall get anywhere by continuing to write speeches
to each other?” He discounted the value of “mere pro
longation of repetitive public debate,” but then pro
ceeded to suggest mutual freedom to discuss any sub
ject at a “top level meeting.” Otherwise, he indicated,
“we would end up in the ludicrous posture of just
glaring silently at each other across the table.” Lud
icrous, perhaps, but preferable to Yalta, Pottsdam
and Geneva.
- In the view of Senator Goldwater of Arizona . . .
the whole future course of American liberty resides
in our ultimate decision with respect to the matter
of governmental spending and taxation ...”
Progress Makes
Ghost Towns Of
CAA Stations
i
Sometimes “ghost towns” in
Alaska are made to order.
Gblovin, 75 miles east of Nome
on Norton Sound, Kaltag, Bir-!
ches and Ruby on the banks of:
the Yukon now face operations
by a “ghosting”crew of three
Civil Aeronautics Administration
maintenance technicians who will
strip these CA£. “repeater” sta
tions of all airways communica
tions facilities, empty the fine j
residences of freezers, stoves,
washers and furnishings, and
leave the station alone, in most
cases surrounded by wilderness, j
The use of White Alice facilities j
for airways communications has j
made it possible for the CAA to |
decommission many of its small,-j
remote stations which had been
required to boost communications i
along the 8,000 miles of Alaska*
airways. j
Clarence E. (Ed) Rice, Joe E.!
Lorette and Roderick Williams i
left Nome recently by bush plane
for Golovin, where they will'
crate up the movable items of
the station and ready them for
shipping to other CAA stations
when the ice is gone. They *w:ll
do the same at the Yukon River
stations where tugs and barges
will evacuate the equipment.
The CAA has no immediate
plans for further use of the sta
tion buildings, some of the finest
dwellings in Alaska. It may be
possible to sell them for moving
by barge to other locations.
Meanwhile, Kaltag, Golovin, Ru
by and Birches will be ghost
stations.
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P-TA To Hold First
Convention At v
Anchorage Apr. 18
The first annual convention of
the Alaska Congress of Parents j
and Teachers will be held in
Anchorage April 18, according
to an announcement made ' re
cently by Mrs. James Orr, Jr.,
convention committee chairman.
More than one hundred persons
are scheduled to attend.
To be held in the Loussac Li
brary, the conclave will open at
9 a.m. with the registration of
delegates- representing over fifty
elementary and secondary schools
in Alaska. Election of new ter
ritorial Parent-Teacher Associa
tion officers will be held during
the business meeting,
togethers are held by each state
“Parent-teacher annual get
congress in the United States.
This will mark the first such
meeting in Alaska, and will rep
resent an important step for local
educators,” Mrs. Orr said.
Theme of meeting’s program
highlight will be a symposium
“Views from several vantage
points,” at which guest speakers
will discuss education on local,
national and international levels.
Mrs. John Horning, territorial
PTA president, will preside. The
symposium will be held in the
Sydney Lawrence Auditorium
following a delegates dinner at
thfe Westward Hotel.
Corregidor Limps Into
Mid-Atlantic Harbor
Despite Cracked Hull
PONTA DELGADA, Azores, 1*1
The battered U. S. aircraft car- j
rier Corregidor limped into this
Mid-Atlantic harbor Saturday
to land four crewmen injured in
Atlantic storms Tuesday and to
make repairs,
The World War II combat ves
sel now serving the Navy’s Mili
tary Sea Transport Service suf-1
fered a cracked hull in huge |
waves north of the Azores. The
vessel from Mobile, Ala., was en
route from Barcelona to Pensa
cola.
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