THE NOME NUGGET
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CLINTON GRAY . Pr®duction Manager
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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PROGRESS BRINGS PROBLEMS
WITH OUR NEW ASPHALT ROADS come prob
leans of modernization that call for action by
the City Council. Heretofore it has been customary
for tractors and bulldozers and other heavy equip
ment to use our main thoroughfare. It was not unusual
to see houses moved via Front Street.
This is now all a thing of the past as such vehicles
can no longer use the asphalt streets and road to the
airport. The city does not have an ordinance as yet
prohibiting tracked vehicles from driving over the
asphalt nor have fines been set up for violations of
the use of the new highway—and they should not be
necessary because we should all be proud of this
improvement to the community and do everything
possible to ensure the preservation of our modern
roadway.
Gilbert Burck writes in Fortune: Americans are
buying some 630 million books a year (including
paperbacks and juveniles but not textbooks), up from
330 million ten years ago. The success of the paper- '
backs, which are selling several hundred million
copies a year, is enormously significant. A large per
centage of the total is trash, but paperback versions
of “The Iliad” and “The Odyssey” have together sold
more than a million copies. . . “The paperbacks,” says
Clifton Fadiman, “are democratizing reading. They
are conferring upon it the simple, healthy status of
a normal habit.”
“There is no such thing as a free lunch . . . not
even when the government provides it. Every lunch
has to be paid for . . . by soipebody. The same is
true of government aids, benefits and services.
“They are not free. All of these things have to
be paid for by somebody, and that somebody is
we . . .‘the people.” —Carrizo Springs, Tex., Javelin.
From the Wichita, Kans., Democrat — “One
explanation advanced for the mushrooming growth
of governmental expenditures is that such are required
-because of the tremendous rate of growth of popula
tion. The Tax Foundation, Inc., recently came forth
with findings which pretty well belie the explana
tion. In the past 20 years, says the Foundation, U. S.
population has increased by some 33 per cent — but
the cost of government, federal, state and local, has
increased almost 600 per cent.”
Mystery Bomb
Kills Elderly
Seattle Woman
SEATTLE, I#—A mystery bomb
blast killed a Seattle widow Wed
nesday night as she picked up a
strange paper sack left near her
porch in a well-to-do neighbor
hood.
Two women friends, who had
just arrived on a visit, were in
jured slightly.
The widow, Mrs. Pearl Kongsle,
! died moments after the bomb ex
i ploded on the concrete sidewalk
leading to the duplex where she
lived. One of her legs was blown
off.
Minor injuries were suffered by
Mrs. Edith F. Friedman and Mrs.
Alberta Bowman, who were
bringing a pie to Mrs. Kongsle.
They were standing on the front
porch after telling their friend
. about the “strange sack” in the
i yard.
Police said neighbors saw three
! juvenile boys running from the
scene just before the blast about
9 p.m. An automobile sped away
without lights and “clashing
| gears” moments later.
Mrs. Kongsle, in her late 50’s,
was t he widow of Capt. Guy
Kongsle, a deputy in the U. S.
I Shipping Commissioner’s office
here until his death 10 years ago.
The explosion rocked the West
. Seattle neighborhood, breaking
: windows in several homes, shat
tering Mrs. Kongsle’s front porch
and blowing a foot-wide crater in
the concrete sidewalk,
j One of the women arriving on
the visit noticed the sack on the
walk, started to pick it up, then
put it down again “when some
thing inside rolled.”
Mrs. Bowman went into the
house and told Mrs. Kongsle,
“Pearl, there’s something out
there.”
Mrs. Kongsle immediately went
out to investigate, and was killed.
After hearing a radio report
of an explosion in West Seattle, a
boy telephoned police and asked:
“Could that have been a
bomb?”
Police said he hung up at once.
They were unable to trace the
call.
Son of Secretary Wade Passes
Distric! of Columbia Bar Exams
WASHINGTON, UP> — Among
[those announced as passing the
^District of Columbia Bar examin
1 ation was High G. Wade, son of
the Alaska Secretary of State,
i Hugh J. Wade.
The younger Wade was gradu
j ated from Catholic University law
! school here in June.
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ALASKAN OFFICIALS EXPRESS
DISSATISFACTION WITH LIAISON
ON ‘PROJECT CHARIOT’ PROJECT
i Leading scientists associated
j with the proposed Cape Thomp
j son nuclear explosion last week
! said they will advise their super
iors of State of Alaska dissatis
faction with the extent of present i
; liaison between state agencies_an'd
| the developing project Chariot.
-This was the outcome of an
hour-long meeting by Secretary
of State Hugh Wade and heads
of three state departments with
John Wolfe, chief of the Atomic
Energy Commission’s Environ
mental Sciences Branch; Gerald
Johnson, associate director, Law
rence Radiation Laboratory, Li
vermore, Calif., and other project
: officials.
Wade told the project repre
sentatives:
“We’re unhappy with present
arrangements—present liaison.”
Citing statements by Johnson
earlier in the session that Alaska
Gov. William Egan would have
I authority to stop the project at
j any stage, Wade said he felt it
i was only practical to expect the
AEC to make every effort to meet
possible state objections.
Johnson had assured state of
ficials earlier that “if the Gover
nor says he considers it unsafe, it
(the explosion* will never be done
—whatever his reasons.”
The session, followed public re
lease of a letter and statement of
policy by Gov. Egan to President
Eisenhower, AEC and the con
gressional Joint Committee on
Atomic Energy spelling out state
desires for AEC provision of
funds to permit the state to place
its own man at the project for re
search and liaison.
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Reiterating the state’s position,
Clarence Anderson, Commissioner
of Fish and Game, declared:
“The AEC is sponsoring this
project, not the state. We should
n’t be put to the burden of meet
ing an expense imposed by AEC.”
Wolfe, however, restated the
commission’s contention that it
could provide funds only for re
search and not for liaison pur
poses.
Johnson said it was recognized
that there has been difficulty in
keeping interested groups in Al
aska informed as to the project’s
development, but said efforts to
do so have gone beyond similar
liaison with officials in other
states.
He emphasized that no author
ity exists at the present time for
actual detonation of the explo
sion. Prior to such a decision, he
said, additional authority must be
obtained this winter to go ahead
with further research and let con
struction contracts for work next
1 summer. The actual detonation, if
approved, is scheduled for 1961.
Others sitting in the session in
cluded Paul Windsor, Commis
sioner of Health and Welfare, and
Phil Holdsworth, Commissioner
of Natural Resources.
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