THE NOME NUGGET
Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday by the
NOME PUBLISHING CO.
NOME, ALASKA
Telephone Main 125 $1.50 PER MONTH
P.O. Box 610 $16.00 A YEAR
E. P. BOUCHER . Managing Editor
CLINTON GRAY . Production Manager
Entered as second class matter October 14, 1943, at the
post office at Nome, Alaska, under Act of March 3, 1879.
Subscribers not receiving their paper by 5:30 p.m. call
Main 125 for special delivery. After 5:30 call Black 102.
PICKETING WE APPROVE
H
Conventionitis
HPHE NOME POST of the American Legion has put
in a bid to hold a convention of the American
Legion in Alaska’s favorite convention city — Nome,
and the Legion today welcomes the commander of Post
19, Joe Briones, who arrives today.
Nome 'has one of the oldest posts in the State.
It was organized in 1919, and has been active most of
the time since. Two charter members are known to be
still alive, and both are veterans of World War I.
They are George Goshaw of Nome “temporarily re
siding in Calistoga,” and Ralph Lomen of Seattle.
Legionnaire Goshaw recalls that the first gathering
of World War I veterans was on the Alaska Steamship
Company ship the “Northwestern” near Ketchikan
in January of 1919.
During the past year, Nome has successfully
hosted several important conventions, and extends a
cordial invitation to the American Legion to hold their
1961 convention here. We urge Department Adjutant
Briones to visit business groups and learn for himself
this community’s capacity for housing and entertain
ment, and tourist and historic attractions.
State Rights
THE UNITED STATES achieved greatness on the
grounds of individual freedom, free enterprise and
free competition. With free enterprise as an incentive,
the United States became the greatest nation in the
world.
Alaskans have always had to appeal to Wash
ington for any aid as a Territory, during the past
generation, but now it can start to exlore state rights.
It will be hard to get rid of many of the controls we
now know, but if we want the kind of independence
tihiat is ours as a state, we will have to start studying
what are state rights and what power belongs to the
State of Alaska.
Our State Legislators now have a harder job to
perform, as they in turn must study to preserve these
rights. They are now well-paid legislators, and must
give more of their time the year around to their
responsibilities. Their job is no longer a trip to
Juneau for a couple of months every two years. They
have a real job to do, and their work will be scruti
nized by the voters.
KILOWATTS FOR CHRISTMAS
MIDDLEBORO, Mass., UP) —
Santa Claus will slide down a
utility pole in Middleboro this
Christmas and if lights seem un
usually bright, there’ll be a
reason.
The Municipal Electric Plant
will issue no bills for December
service.
And just to get the new year
off to a good start, the selectmen
also decreed Monday night a 20
per cent discount for those who
pay bills within 10 days during
the first three months of 1960.
Numbered Duplicate Stub Tickets
For Sale at The Nugget
WIEN
ALAS KA
AIRLINES
NEW WINTER
SCHEDULE
Effective Sept. 16
MONDAY
WEDNESDAY
FRIDAY
★ Flight 311 *
Lv. Fairbanks 8:00 am
Ar. Kotzebue 8:50 am
Lv. Kotzebue 9:30 am
Ar. Nome 10:20 am
★ Flight 312 ★
Lv. Nome 11:20 am
Ar. Fairbanks 2:30 pm
TUESDAY
THURSDAY
SATURDAY
★ Flight 311 ★
Lv. Fairbanks 8:00 am
Ar. Nome 9:10 am
★ Flight 312 ★
Lv. Nome 10:10 am
Ar. Kotzebue 11:00 am
Lv. Kotzebue 11:40 am
Ar. Fairbanks 2:30 pm
TWIN BEECH
SERVICE
Between
KOTZEBUE and NOME
and on
Tuesday and Friday
Serving
CANDLE and DEERING
For Information
and Reservations
Call
WIEN ALASKA
Airlines
MAIN 46
Pete Walsh, Station Mgr.
12 Nations Rule Antarctica Off-Limits
To Aggressors And Implements of War
By JOHN SCALI
WASHINGTON, tfl — The So
viet Union joined the United
States and 10 other nations yes
terday in banning war bases, nu
clear explosions and missile sites
forever from the Antarctic.
They took this step in signing
a historic treaty pledging to de
vote the frozen region to peaceful
uses.
They agreed to a revolutionary
inspection system, giving each of
the 12 countries the right to check
each other’s installations.
The nations involved are the
United States, the Soviet Union,
Britain, France. Japan, Chile, Ar
gentina, New Zealand, Australia,
Norway, South Africa and Bel
gium.
The 2,500-word treaty, spelled
out in 14 separate articles, would
neutralize the five million square
South Pole area.
Delegates hailed the treaty,
climaxing seven weeks of inten
sive negotiations, as another sig
nificant move to ease East-West
tensions.
Besides ruling the Antarctic
out-of-bounds as a military area,
the 12 signatory nations agreed to
continue peaceful scientific re
search projects, and to swap spe
cialists and information.
They also promised to stand to
gether, using “appropriate efforts
consistent with the charter of the
United Nations” to make certain
no other country violates the
peaceful uses of the Antarctic.
The treaty, subject to ratifica
tion by each country’s legislature,
would be open for all 82 United
Nations members to join.
Countries not U. N. members,
such as West Germany and Com
munist China, would join only by
unanimous vote of all 12 signing
powers.
CHAMBER NOTES j
Northwest Alaska Chamber of j
Commerce held its regular noon |
meeting on Monday. Vice-Presi- !
dent Pearse Walsh presided, and
the following topics were dis
cussed:
The possibility of Nome busi
nesses doing on the Saturdays
after Christmas and New Year
holidays was brought up, and Mrs.
Ruth McLean and Bob Harwood
were asked to make inquiries of
the various merchants, and to
report on the subject.
Captain O’Rourke gave a very
interesting and informative re
port of events occurring at the
recent convention of Alaska Na
tional Guard Officers. He advised
that such convention for 1960
would be held in Nome on the
13th and 14th of August, with
probably 60 to 80 people in at
tendance.
Senator Bronson said that as
yet a satisfactory answer had not
been received to inquiries about
the Employment Security ques
tion, and that unless something
in this regard is done immediate
ly, further legislation should
properly be left to the legislators.
He further advised that he would
be available from January 1 to
15 for any suggestions or discus
sion with reference to legislation
passed at the last session of the
Legislature or proposed for the
coming session, stating that he had
a complete file of bills past and i
proposed for such reference as
was desired.
The Secretary Requested volun
teers to answer several letters, and
Mike Walsh, Mrs. Don Hoover and
Rev. Orval Schmidt said they
would assist.
Guests introduced were Mrs.
Gladys Wilkes, Exuetive Director,
Farthest North Girl Scout Coun
cil, and Mr. Tom Steel, Insurance
Adjuster, Anchorage.
Superase Bond Typing Paper
For Sale at The Nugget
At The J & L
FOR THE MAN . . .
• ALL WOOL SWEATERS
• LINED MITTS AND
GLOVES
• GLOVE AND MITT
LINERS v
FOR THE BOY . . .
• WARM LINED MITTS
• ALL RUBBER SHOE
PACKS
-£
J. & L.
TRADING POST
Phone:- MAIN 75
Khrushchev Tells
Hungarians Reds
Would Scrap War
By ANTHONY PEARCE
BUDAPEST, Hungary, [Rh —
Soviet Premier Khrushchev said
yesterday that the Soviet Union
has a stockpile of rockets with
nuclear warheads sufficient to
“raze to the ground all our po
potential eenmies.”
But the visiting Premier said
the Soviet Union was “ready to
destroy all these stockpiles at
once if a universal disarmament
program is adopted.”
The Soviet Union still wants
an East-West summit meeting as
soon as possible, he told the Con
gress of the Hungarian Commu
nist Party, the first since the 1956
anti-Soviet revolt in Hungary.
Blaming the 1956 Hungarian
revolt on the “serious mistakes”
of the Stalinist leaders of Hun
gary at that time, Khrushchev de
clared that nevertheless “imperial
ist hopes” for the collapse of
Communism in this country were
dead.
The Soviet Premier said the
proposed East-West summit con
ference must be approached “in
a reasonable way, taking account
of the wishes of the other parties.”
In this connection, Khrushchev
continued, French President
Charles De Gaulle’s desire to
meet with him prior to the sum
mit meeting was not unreasonable
and “perhaps this will make for
better understanding at the sum
mit.”
The Soviet leader denied “for
eign press fabrications” that the^_
Soviet Union has abandoned the
idea of an early summit meeting.
Khrushchev’s visit to De Gaulle
is scheduled for the last two weeks
in March, which postpones the
East-West summit at leat until
late April.
A certain relaxation of inter
national tension has been brought
about, he continued, by the Soviet 1
pi'cposal for total disarmament,
Khrushchev’s visit to the United
States and his meetings with
President Eisenhower.
Khrushchev warned that the
Soviet desire for peace is not a
sign of weakness. He called once
more for an end to the. Western
occupation of West Berlin and a
German peace treaty.
"4-on" Duplicate Receipt Books
available at The Nome Nugget
Call BLACK 65 For I
Arctic Sanitary I
Service I
mtmmmmmmmtmnaemsrrx