City Council Meets
An interesting meeting of the
city council brought out about 40
citizens to participate in the dis
cussions.
Councilwoman Resigns
The resignation of Rita Harper
as councilwoman was accepted
as her term was for one year
and she does not plan to return
until May.
Four fire calls were reported
for the month of December with
Volunteer fees paid amounting to
$104.50.
The Police Dept, report showed
19 arrest_ with $185 in fines; five
traffic violations and one traffic
fine of $10.
Twenty-nine dogs were im
pounded with 22 unclaimed ani
mals disposed of.
New Traffic Controls
Councilman Gillis obtained the
unanimous consent of the council
to set up a four-way stop at
Third and Division <Nazarene
Church corner). A no - parking
sign was approved for the area in
front of 'the bank and the public
was cautioned that no parking is
permitted within 15 feet of fire
hydrants.
Dogs Big Issue
The big issue of the meeting i
was over the proposed dog ordin-J
ance with many present protest- j
ing the proposed annual fees of,
$5 for male dogs and $10 for \
females. Many were in favor of;
a $1 fee for males and $2 fee
for females.
It was explained that the ord
inance was proposed because
there were so many complaints,
to the city police concerning stray
dogs and the higher fee was to
finance the controlling of the i
situation. The mayor stated that
the council had no intention of
passing any ordinance which the
public does not approve, and that
this is the time for everyone to
speak up so that a suitable ord
inance may be drawn up for the
elimination of the strays.
Chief Jenks reported that the
41 dogs disposed of in the past
two months is not even a good
start. He said that 15 to 20 dogs
is the average on the city dump
at night, but they are so wary
that the police have been unable
to catch them.
Sally Carrighar, who has been
corresponding with outside hu
mane .societies, reported on suit
able equipment for dog catching,
and mentioned special gloves as
well as the dog stick, a device
used for catching wild dogs.
Three bids were received on
supplying oil to the city with
Green’s City Fuel being awarded
the contract.
Cily Car Licenses Discontinued
City driver’s licenses which
have been issued for many years,
have been discontinued as the
territorial license required covers
the situation. City stickers for
cars are still required, however.
Wm. Barber reported that the
U.S. Smelting Co. was willing to
grant a long-term lease on the
property used by the ball park if
the city would assume the re
sponsibility for maintenance.
The mayor agreed to meet with
the baseball committee in the near
future.
Councilman Lewis reported
that a Modine radiator had been
installed in the men”s cell of the
city jail to make it more com
fortable during cold weather.
The ancient Greeks believed
that the tongues of snakes had
healing properties, hence the
snake in the symbol used by doc
tors.
American Back From Siberia Says
Guards Killed 110 in Rebellion
Russians Planning
Nuclear Blasts to
Change Weather
By Eddy Gilmore
LONDON, (#)—There are good
indications that the Russians are ;
going to use nuclear explosions—
on a scale unmatched in history
—to blast out a central Asian sea
that may change the weather of
Europe.
Western diplomats have brought
back reports from Moscow that
the Russians are plannig to create
such a sea as part of a long-term
program to change the physical
surface of Siberia and the waste
lands to the south.
Last autumn the Soviet Council
of Applied Sciences in Moscow
published an outline revealing
plans that a vast area in Siberia
would be irrigated and criss
crossed by a system of canals
and dams. *
This, said the Soviet experts,
would change the weather in
Siberia, making the winters and
summers milder. Western meteor
ologists say this probably would
have a profound effect on the
weather throughout Europe, also
making winters milder there.
Returning diplomats also report
Soviet plans to divert two of Si
beria’s big rivers, the Ob and the
Yenisei, both of which flow north
to the arctic seas.
They said Russian scientists
have privately revealed they hope
to be able to make these water
ways flow southward, forming a
Central Asian sea.
The diplomats said nuclear ex
plosions, in which the Soviet
armed forces could test their
atomic and hydrogen weapons,
would be used to blast out the
tremendous land areas necessary
to bring all this about.
Potato growers sometimes are
puzzled by the seed pods, looking
like tomatoes, which grow on the j
plants, but experts say that if the
seeds are planted, each separate I
seed will develop a different kind j
of potato, almost never the same !
kind found on the plant that pro- !
duced the seed.
P BERLIN, MP)—An American re
leased from a Soviet slave labor
camp at Vorkuta said Tuesday a
rebellion flared there in July,
1953, in which guards mowed
down 110 prisoners on the spot
and wounded 500 more.
John H. Noble, 31, of Detroit,
who was released by the Russians
on Saturday after 9!^ years of im
prisonment, told a news confer
ence the vast network of prisons
in Russia “needs only a spark” to
explode in open revolt.
Noble said the revolt at Vokuta,
in arctic Russia northeast of Mos
cow, was inspired and organized
by followers of the executed So
viet secret police chief L. P. Beria,
who was then under arrest. From
50 to 60 persons were executed
later, he said, as a result of the I
revolt.
Noble said the slave labor camp
at Vorkuta contained more than
a half million inmates, of whom
95 per cent were dedicated td op
posing the Soviet regime.
Noble said the inmates got the
impression Beria’s men were try
ing to foment revolution through
out the Soviet Union to overthrow
Premier Georgi Malenkov’s re
gime.
Noble described how he and his
father, a camera manufacturer,
were trapped in Dresden by World
War II and were compelled to re
main there under local interment.
Both were arrested in 1945 by the
Russians. The father was released
seven years later. Young Noble
was taken from a German prison
to Vokuta in 1950.
He said he was sentenced to 15
years, although he was never
tried, and added:
“All they ever told me was that
we were guilty of having received
American officers and soldiers in
our home in 1945 and that we had
American food in our possession.”
Even when he was released, the
Russians declined any explana
tion.
Life in the Siberian labor camp,
he said, is “horrible and hopeless.”
“None of us ever expected to
return,” he said.
Noble was put to coal mining.
He said the temperature some
times reached as low as 40 degrees
below zero, and on one occasion
it fell to 72 below.
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Stalin’s Playboy Son
In Moscow Prison
According to Red Rumor
BERLIN, (vW—John H. Noble
said Tuesday he heard while a
prisoner at Vorkuta that Lt. Gen.
Vassily Stalin, playboy son of the
late dictator, is in Lubianka Pris
on in Moscow.
Noble, released by 'the Russians
last Saturday after 9years im
prisonment, said the rumor—
heard before in the west—filtered
all the way north from Moscow to
Vorkuta through the Russian
guards’ grapevine and then to the
prisoners.
Young Stalin’s name has not
been mentioned in the Soviet
press since July, 1952, about
seven months before his father’s
death.
There have been other reports
Vassily died in a slave labor camp
last fall.
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Alumi Girls, Merchants
Down High School, ACS
In Tuesday Basketball
The Alumni Girls, paced by
Marge Hay’s 22-point splurge,
had little trouble in beating the
high school girls 36-30, despite
the fact that Margie Willoya of
the high school meshed 24 points.
The Alumni Girl thus are one up
on the high school having won
two and lost one.
In the second game the well
conditioned Merchants rolled by
the ACS 68-33. The ACS got the
first quarter edge 10 to 5 but
were soon passed by the superior
speed, passing and co-ordinatio^i
of the Merchants.
High point men of the even
ing were Harold Bell of the Mer
chants and Bill Nystrom of the
ACS with 14 points each.
Regular league play will con
tinue Friday evening.
Fine Job Printing at The Nugget
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