THE NOME NUGGET
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Polio Vaccine Safe Here
First and second graders will receive their polio
shots this week after a cautious delay by our careful
health officer.
Alaska has been fortunate in that the vaccine
shipped to the territory came from a source which is
not disputed or in question in any way.
Although unfortunately there has been tragedy in
• the first inoculations in certain parts of the country,
there is now proof that polio cases among children
are running about 500 fewer at this time than they were
during the same period in 1954. Certainly that is some
thing to make everyone in this country thankful. It
shows that the vaccine has already achieved results
and parents should not be hesitant about allowing their
children to receive these shots this week, through the
Alaska Public Health Department.
An Opportunity for Better Housing
Fairbanks is the first city in the Territory to take
advantage of the National Housing Act of 1954 to elim
inate blighted areas in their community under the
Alaska Housing Authority.
Much of the health problem in our community is
due to crowded housing conditions and the use of small
shacks which should be condemned.
One of our civic-minded organizations should con
tact the Dedevelopment Division of the Alaska Housing
Authority to see how Nome could qualify for low-cost
housing projects to change this condition. It is better
and cheaper in the long run to prevent disease than to
try to cure, and heal the sick after they are infected.
Ontario-Upland, Calif., Report: “The blunt truth
is that guaranteed annual employment will not work
in a free economy because that freedom includes free
dom of customers to buy where they choose. To have
any bona fide value, a guaranteed annual wage would
have to be linked to a guaranteed annual market.”
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According to travel editors, you can save a heap of
money vacationing in some of those exotic foreign
places . . . that is, if you’re rich enough to get there.
Appeal Court Judge Tells
How Reds Brain Washed
Him In Lengthy 1949 Trial
HUTCHINSON, Kan., UP*—
Judge Harbld R. Medina of the
U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals,
New York, says he has all the
sympathy in the world for those
who have gone through Commun
ist brain washing.
He said he underwent the pro
cess with protection from all the
authorities in this country for
nine bitter months in 1949 while
presiding at a Communist trial.
Prisoners are without protec
tion and therefore subjected to
even worse treatment by the
Moscow - trained forces, Medina
told the Kansas Bar Association
FHday night.
“Think of what they did to me,”
he added. “They had me to the
point where I was afraid of
height. I never did like height
but when they chanted ‘Jump,’
‘Jump’ after former Secretary
Forrestal jumped, I began to feel
fearful.”
He referred to the late James
Forerstal, former Secretary of the
Navy, who jumped to his death.
At one time, he said, he recess
ed the 1949 trial and ran for his
chambers. As he did so, the Com
munist attorneys exchanged
knowing looks, he added.
Medina admitted he lay down
in his chambers and prayed.
Libyan King To Marry
Egyptian Commoner
CAIRO, Egypt, (J*) — Libyan
circles in Cairo said their king,
66-year-old Idriss I, will arrive in
Egypt tomorrow to marry Alia
Abdel Moneim Lamloun, 38-year
old daughter of a rich Egyptian
landowner.
Miss Moneim Lamloun, whose
family is of Libyan origin, will
be the second of the four wives
. his Moslem religion allows the
king. His first wife of many years,
fortyish Queen Fatima, has given
him no* sons. Under Moslem law
only a male can succeed to the
throne.
Libyan sources said the king
has never seen his bride-to-be.
Princess Margaret Visits
British Troops In Germany
BONN, Germany, (J*>—Princess
Margaret arrived here by plane
today for a brief visit to British
troops in West Germany.
Because of a typhoid epidemic
in the Ruhr, she will stay only
one day instead of until Wednes
day as originally planned.
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New Gas Tax To Aid In Building
The Nome-To-Fairbanks Road
When the 1955 Legislature upped -
motor fuel oil taxes from two to
five cents per gallon for on-high
way use and transferred support
of the Department of Territorial
Police to the General Fund, it
made available more road money
than Alaska has ever had before.
Territorial Highway Engineer
Irving McKay Reed told Jessen’s
Weekly of Fairbanks his office
has already begun laying plans for
more road activity than has ever
before been undertaken by the
territory in anticipation of this
increased revenue.
Although technically his office
will receive no additional revenue
from the gas tax until the end of
most of the 1955 construction sea
son—the increase does not take
effect until July 1—a second bill
passed by the Legislature permit
ted Reed’s department to borrow
$1 million from the General Fund
to be paid back by the motor fuel
oil tax receipts by June 30, 1957.
To date, Reed reported, a num
ber of projects have been under
taken by his office. They include a
request to the Alaska Road Com
mission to order enough culverts
to extend the proposed Nome
Fairbanks route seven miles up
Nome River. This, the highway
engineer said, is the amount of
work which could be handled this
year with ARC personnel and
equipment now available at Nome.
Culverts were ordered, he said,
with the “idea in mind” of an ex
PUZZLE CORNER
A man is about to start on a
27,000-mile trip. If his tires are
good for exactly 18,000 miles, how
many spare tires will he need?
See page 4 for answer.
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tension of the Nome-Teller road.
Culverts are also being stockpiled
for roads to finish connecting the
city of Seldovia to the nearby
chrome mining area, a project that
will be undertaken by bid or force
account this year.
Congress has appropriated $200,
000 to the Alaska Road Commis
sion for construction of small farm
and industrial access roads. Reed
reports his office has agreed to
match this amount from available
and anticipated territorial funds
for this program and the ARC has
given the territory full choice in
these roads.
Suits Seeking $33,000
Filed By Territory Under
Repealed Property Tax
JUNEAU, Uft—Four more suits
have been filed by the territory
for collection of property taxes
under the General Property Tax
law that was enacted in 1949 and
repealed in 1953.
Suits seeking about $33,000
were filed this week against the
New England Fish Co., P. E.
Harris Co., the Pacific and Arctic
Railway and Navigation Co. and
Oceanic Fisheries Co.
Suits were filed earlier against
three major packers and a can
company.
During the legislature’s session,
a total of $1,200,000 was listed as
outstanding under the repealed
law, which was held valid in the
federal courts last year after hav
ing been involved in court chal
lenges since 1949.
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