THE NOME NUGGET
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This Is Girl Scout Week . . .
THIS IS GIRL SCOUT WEEK and over a hundred
girls in Nome from Brownies to Senior Scouts
are proudly wearing their uniforms as they celebrate
their 49th anniversary with other Scouts all over the
United States.
“On my honor, I will try, to do my duty to God
and my country, to help other people at all times, to
obey the Girl Scout Laws.”
The Girl Scouts in Nome have grown from a small
group which met in the Federated Church (Methodist
Church ) several years ago and organized a lone troop
to the present organization which is part of a North
ern Alaska Council.
During the years a scout camp was established
and many local women gave generously of their time
to develop the program so that it could be what it is
today.
These girls are the citizens of tomorrow and their
many accomplishments and aims for the betterment
of this community deserve our continued cooperation
and encouragement.
Richard Nixon Joins
Los Angeles Law Firm
LOS ANGELES UPi — Richard |
Nixon, who rose from a small
town lawyer to Vice President
of the United States, is back in
a law office.
The defeated Republican Presi
dential candidate ended two
^onths of speculation about his
te~Ure when he told a news con
duce:
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STOWAWAY . . .
SEATTLE UP — The Alaska
Steamship Co. is back in the pas
senger business, though not purr
manently.
The passenger was a cat — a
cold, hungry calico kitten. She
walked out of a cargo van when
they opened it at Pier 42. She
must have spent at least a week
in there since the van was load
ed.
Milk and catfood filled out
enough of the cat’s sagging calico
hide to restore some of her nine
lives. She made friends fast.
FALLS 1,000 FEET AND LIVES
LONDON UP—Tass claimed that
a member of a Soviet geological
expedition fell 1,000 feet from a
helicopter into a huge snowbank
and was unhurt. The Soviet news
agency said the man opened the j
door of the helicopter, over north
east Russia to get rid of a ciga- l
suov stub> and the airstream J
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Tennessee Legislature
Refuses Reapportion
Legislative Representation
WASHINGTON (if) — The Jus
tice Department contends the fed
eral courts are empowered to cor
rect discriminatory apportionment
of state legislative representatives
where the legislature itself re
fuses to act.
A brief was filed with the Su
preme Court Tuesday, in a case
involving Tennessee.
Solicitor General Archibald Cox
asserted:
“Numerous states have done
nothing with regard to apportion
ment of state legislatures for 25
to 50 years. The only realistic
remedy is federal judicial action.”
The Tennessee case involves a
complain by citizens groups from
populous areas that there has
been no apportionment of state
representatives and senators since j
1901, although the state constitu- \
tion requires a new apportion- |
ment at least every 10 years.
Our Backyard Should
Be The Testing Ground
LOS ANGELES OR — An Air
Force officer says citizens should
find out what an enemy attack
is like, and a good way is to test
missiles over home territory, as
the Russians do, for psychologi
cal effect.
Lt. Col. Roy O. Roberts of Hol
loman Air Force Base, N. M., told
a news conference yesterday:
“We will evacuate certain cor- !
ridors for the time being
just as we do at sea. The chance
of accident would be small be
cause the missiles tested would
be of the reliable type and sub
ject to destruction in the air if
they get out of line.
Asbestos Claims Filed
In British Columbia
PRINCE GEORGE, B. C. UP> —
The first claims have been filed
with the submining recorder’s of
fice hero in an asbestos rush that
began last week after a report
that seven large bodies of “ultra
basic’’ rock had been found south
west of this northern interior
British Columbia city.
Claims have been filed by
partners Douglas Hanbury and Ian
MacDonald, who say they are
working on their own. The
claims are near Naltesby Lake,
about 32 miles southwest of here.
There have been unconfirmed
reports one of several large
mining companies exploring the
area has staked 125 claims which
have not yet been filed.
One source said as many as 25
helicopters and small planes were
seen in the area during the week
end.
Meanwhile, Harold Moffat,
chairman of the Industrial De
velopment Commission here, said
he didn’t have “much hope” for
establishment of an asbestos in
dustry here.
PULSE RATE OF X15
PILOTS DOUBLES IN FLIGHT
LOS ANGELES (T! — The pulse
rate of X15 pilots doubles during
flights, one of the fliers reports.
It happens, he said, when the
tiny plane is dropped from the
wing of its B52 mother ship, when
the rocket engine is stopped and
when the sub-winged craft swoops
in for a power-off landing at 200
miles an hour.
‘The heart beat jumps from a
normal of about 70 beats per min
ute to 140 or 160 beats at these
times,” Air Force Maj. Bob White
told a news conference at the
American Rocket Society meeting.
Wreckage of Missing
Anchorage Plane Is
Found Near Olympia
OLYMPIA, Wash, (/P> — A body
identified as that of missing pilot
Ray Maher of Anchorage was
found in the wreck of a twin-en
gined airplane near Olympia late
Tuesday.
Wiliam Gebenini, director of
the Washington Aeronautics Com
mission, said a search party found
papers in the pilot’s pockets which
“definitely identified” him.
Maher had been missing since
March 3 when he vanished on a
flight from Red Bluff, Calif., to
Anchorage. He disappeared just
after he radioed he planned to
land at the Olympia Airport, south
of the city.
The plane crashed seven miles
west of the airport, in the side of
a hill at a level about 800 feet
higher than the airport. The hills
in the area run up as high as
3,000 feet.
Highway Division Holds
Two-Day Conference
JUNEAU UPl — A two day con
ference to coordinate the High
way Division’s summer construc
tion program ended here today.
Director T. D. Sherard said
highway engineers from all dis
tricts of Alaska attended the meet
ing.
They included Lee Hubbard,
district engineer, Anchorage;
Woody Johansen, district engi
neer, Fairbanks; Richard Stickel,
district engineer, Valdez; Tom
Shanley, district engineer, Ju
neau; Sam Johnson, assistant state
construction engineer, Nome; J.
H. Myers, state maintenance en
gineer, Anchorage; and Edwin
Mills, state traffic engineer, An
chorage.
j . . ‘Another Successful Intercept
Army
THE ARMY $ HAWK (lower right) finds and destroys the CORPORAL ballistic missile I left and top)
on January 23 at the White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico. The "defending" HAWK missile
battery had only a few seconds to acquire the target and to fire the HAWK. The CORPORAL,
fired as a target, arched high above the earth in its ballistic trajectory and was intercepted as it
plunged earthward from the fringes of space.
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,t Army
MEMBERS of the 552d Engineer Company construct a bridge across the Danube River in p-epara
fion for Winter Shield II. The primary purpose of the exercise was to train the individual soldiei
and small unit leader in simulated combat conditions, emphasizing the combat readiness of out
forces in Germany.