THE NOME NUGGET
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A MARK OF GOOD CITIZENSHIP j
MAY 1 PROCLAIMED LAW DAY, U. S. A.
May 1, 1958, has officially been designated as
Law Day U. S. A. by proclamation of Mike Stepovich,
Governor of Alaska.
The “rule of law” intimately affects the daily
lives of all Americans. In all of our private and public
affairs we look to laws and courts to safeguard every
person’s life and property, and the freedoms estab
lished under our federal and state constitutions.
This adherence to law has contributed greatly
* to our nation’s growth and progress. It has enabled
commerce and industry to build upon a firm founda
tion; the whole complex of our social order has been
erected on a framework of law and justice. Without
this universal recognition of law as the basis of our
free society, individual liberties would be meaningless.
The rule of law is today being vigorously chal
lenged in large areas of the world. Thoughtful men
and women in the Western world are giving fresh at
tention to its meaning. In our own country we must
recognize that the preservation of equal justice under
law is a responsibility of all citizens. The vitality
of our legal system depends upon broad public un
derstanding and support.
It is fitting, therefore'* that throughout the United
States a special day is to be set aside this year for
recognition of the role that law has played in Amer
ican life, and for a rededication of the American
people to its great principles.
This national observance will be known as
LAW DAY U. S. A. and will take place on May 1,
1958. Organizations of all kinds, and the public
schools, are being asked to recognize the day with
special programs. Their purpose will be to focus
public attention upon the fact that respect of law
is vital to the continued growth and strengthening
of the nation to meet the threat of communism and
the new demands of the future. The nation-wide
observance will be an important and significant
demonstration to the world that the American people
are united in their determination to preserve the way
of life which our institutions of law and justice have
made possible.
Law of Sea
Conference Ends
In Deadlock
GTNEVA, (JV-The World Con
ference on th^ Law of the Sea
ended today in a deadlock over a
new definition of territorial wat
ers to replace the classic three
mile limit. The same problem
wrecked a similar League of
Nations meeting 28 years ago.
Five new treaties on other mar
itime matters were approved at
the 86-nation meeting, which has
been going on here for the past
nine weeks under United Nations
auspices. The agreements are
binding on each nation after rat
ification by its government at
home.
In failing to achieve its major
objective, a new formula for ter
ritorial waters, the conference
foundered on the problem of
exclusive fishing rights.
Several nations have made var
ous extensions to widen their
fishing grounds. Chile,. Peru and
Ecuador have declared their ter
ritorial waters extend 200 miles
into the Pacific, where U. S.
trawlers fish. Iceland and Nor
way have ruled foreign trawlers
out of an area created by drawing
a line connecting the most prom
inent headlands on the coast.
This affects British fishermen
who have plied the areas for
years. Russia has extended its
claim into the rich, shallow Si
berian waters which Japanese
fishermen exploit.
The problem was referred back
to the U. N. General Asserpbly,
which prompted Iceland’s Hans
G. Andersen to declare this
would not keep his country from
doing what it could to bolster
its claim to a 12-mile exclusive
fishing zone. Chile, Ecuador and
Peru also said their 200-mile
claim stands.
The major Western maritime
powers, who had unsuccessfully
backed a six-mile compromise,
informed the conference they
would continue to recognize only
the three-mile limit. It was set up
by a Dutch jurist in 1703.
Although the marriage of
cousins is forbidden in many
countries, some primitive tribes
prefer cousin-marriage and even
insist on it.
To the Electors of the Town
of Nome, Division No. Two,
Territory of Alaska
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
that, pursuant to Section 38-7-1,
Alaska Compiled Laws Anno
tated, 1949, and all Federal
Territorial Laws and all Federal
Legislation, and in conformity
therewith, a PRIMARY ELEC
TION will be held on
TUESDAY. APRIL 29. 1958
between the hours of 8 o'clock
a.m. and 8 o'clock p.m., of said
day, for the purpose of nomi
nating candidates of the various
political parties of Alaska for the
following offices,. to-wit:
DELEGATE TO CONGRESS
TERRITORIAL TREASURER
COMMISSIONER OF LABOR
TWO (2) TERRITORIAL
SENATORS
THREE (3) TERRITORIAL
REPRESENTATIVES
The Common Council of the
Town of Nome, having hereto
fore, by ordinance, duly desig
nated the polling place of said
Town of Nome, the Electors are
hereby notified:
That all duly qualified voters
residing within the Town of
Nome will vote at City Hall
Building located on Front Street,
in and upon Lot between blocks
G and H which is Owned by City
of Nome, the same being the duly
designated polling place.
Dated this 24th day of March,
1958
THE COMMON COUNCIL OF
THE TOWN OF NOME
By Robert F. Scott
(Seal) Clerk
Publish April 14, 21. 28. 1958
Congress. Shackles Own Pioneering
By Denying Statehood To Alaska
WASHINGTON, UP) — Alaska
“Sen.” Ernest Gruening Saturday J
drew a parallel in a letter to Sen.
Lyndon Johnson (D-Texas) be
tween remarks in a recent j
speech by the Senator and “its i
obvious implications throughout j
of the desirability of moving
vigorously ahead on Alaskan
statehood.”
A former Alaska governor and
one of three men elected by
Alaskans to lobby for statehood,
Gruening made public the letter
in which he commented on ex
cerpts from the speech given
before a gathering of news
paper editors.
To Johnson’s assertion that the
United States has “put a shackle
on our own pioneering,” the
Alaskan declared:
“Never were truer words said
about Aaska. Territorialism has
certainly shackled our fine pio
neers there, ever since Alaska
came under the flag 91 years
ago.”
Of Johnson’s statement that
“the United States .has with
drawn into a narrow and nar
rowing world of our own choos
ing,” Gruening observed that
“statehood for Alaska would re
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verse this trend ... by extending
the frontiers of democracy to
America’s farthest north and
farthest left.”
Gruening also commented on
Johnson’s assertion thati“we need
to restore—in all our national
policy—the great exuberance and
confidence of a growing, am
bitious and determined nation. . .
(and) to believe again in the
strength of our ideals so that we
are not fearful of their immi
nent subversion and destruction.”
The Alaskan said the. United
States “was a ‘growing, ambitious
and determined nation’ when it
was admitting new states and
moving setadily westward,” and
continued: '
“We believe then ‘in the
strength of our ideals.’ Certainly
the most basic of those ideals
was and is ‘government by con
sent of the governed.’ We shall
not have -been true to that ideal
until we apply it to Alaska.”
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Primary April 29, 1958
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