2 the NOME NUGGET Monday, May 21, 1956
THE NOME NUGGET
Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday by the
NOME PUBLISHING CO.
NOME. ALASKA
£. P. BOUCHER . Managing Editor
CLINTON GRAY . Production Manager
Telephone: Main 125 $1.50 PER MONTH
P.O. Box 618 $10.00 A YEAR
Entered as second class matter October 14. 1»« at the
poStoffice at Nome. Alaska, under Act of March 3. 18TB
Subscribers not receiving tnelr papers by 5:30 p.m. call
Main 125 for special delivery. After 5:30 call Black 102
“ ... AS HANDSOME DOES
President Eisenhower will proclaim May 22nd as
“Maritime Day.” American vessels around the globe
will be ordered to dress ship for the day. A special mari
time poster «will be blazoned on the sides of the 50,000
mail trucks that serve the U.S. and its possessions, and
• reproductions will he distributed over the nation by
The Propeller Club of the U.S.
Speeches will be made around the country by
leading figures in the shipping world, notably Maritime
Administrator Clarence G. Morse, who will talk in two
of our great inland seaports, Detroit and Buffalo. The
theme of the 1956 observance will be "Modernization
_of ships, port facilities and the operation of both
the need for Americans to meet the challenge of obso
lescence with new ideas and new efficiency, including
atomic propulsion.
Launching of the new supertanker, SS Cities Ser
vice Miami, from the Sparrow’s Point ways of the
Bethlehem Shipbuilding Co. in Baltimore the next day
will provide an impressive example of the administra
tion’s modernization at work. This supertanker is the
second of the oil company’s great new 32,650-ton vessels
to be built under the Maritime Administration Trade
In-and-Build” program, and a third sister ship is now
under construction. These three vessels, which will be
the largest—and no doubt the most completely modern
_in the coastwise service, will replace seven old tank
ers “traded” to the government’s reserve fleet.
Thus, the modernization you will be hearing about
on Maritime Day is in process—not just a laudable
hope. And it should prove that the best and cheapest
way to avoid an emergency is to anticipate it._
California Croaker Leaps
15 Feet 9 Inches to Win
International Competition
ANGELS CAMP, Calif., UP—A
croaker from a bay shore slough
at Oakland, Calif., leaped 15 feet
9 inches to win the International
Frog Olympics yesterday.
Buck Jr., the frog, out-jumped
foreign and domestic competition
without benefit of the surrepti
tious buckshot which stopped
Mark Twain’s “Celebrated Jump
ing Frog of Calaveras County” in
1853.
The winning frog was owned
and trained by Bill Basacker, an
eighth grade student from Oak
land.
The world’s record, established
in 1954 by a local frog named
Lucky, is 16 feet 10 inches in the
standard three-hop jump.
Rail Reai Buried
In Seattle Friday
SEATTLE, UP—Private funeral
services for Ralf Reat, 68, of Nome
and Nenana, were held Friday in
the Bleitz Chapel here. Cremation
followed.
Reat died last Sunday in Ne
nana, where he had lived the past
few months. He lived in Seattle
about 20 years before he moved
to Alaska. In Nome he was an
executive with the Lomen Com
merical Co. for many years. He
retired last year.
Reat recently joined the staff
of the Futana Barge Lines at Ne
nana. Surviving are his wife,
Grace; a sister, Ruth Reat, Vash
on, Wash., and a brother, Ivan
Reat, Lamed, Kansas.
ASTRONOMY NOTES
By OLAF HALVERSON
By means of photography, two
satellites of Jupiter were discov
ered in 1905, another in 1908, and
still another in 1914. More moons
have been discovered in recent
years until there are now 12
satellites revolving around Jupi
ter. This is the greatest number
accompanying any planet.
The last two satellites are very
remote from the planet and are
found to be revolving in the op
posite direction from the others.
The usual direction of satellites in
our solar system is from west to
east like our own moon.
Other exceptions to this rule are
the outermost moon of Saturn, the
moon of Neptune, and all four
moons of Uranus.
TKe ninth moon of Jupiter takes
nearly three years to complete a
revolution, while the nearest
takes only 11 hours and 57 min
utes. It was Roemier, a Danish
astronomer*, who computed the
velocity of light by observing the
moons of Jupiter.
Fine Job Printing at The Nugget
Nome Laundry
& Cleaners
CALL MAIN 29
FOR PICKUP
JOE AMAROK, Proprietor
___________________________
U.S. H-Bomb . . .
(Continued from Page One)
first American H-bomb today was
a standard design Boeing B-52
long-range heavy bomber. Dozens
of times before, the crew, from
the Special Weapons Group at
Kirkland Air Force Base, N.M.,
had dropped inert duplicates of
the H-bomb.
Once before the B-52 had taken
off with a live H-bomb but had to
return after a last-hour postpone
ment. Maj. Floyd A. Amundson,
of Grand Forks, N.D., therefore
had twice to arm the bomb in
flight in preparation for the drop.
On the first occasion he had to
pull its fangs before the big plane
swooped in for a landing on the
comparatively short runway of
Eniwetok Island.
But this morning when Maj.
Charles T. Smith of Pittsburgh,
Kan., opened the throttles of the
eight jet engines and sent the
bomber screaming into the air, he
was off on a history-making mis
! .-don. He headed his great craft to
the east toward Bikini Atoll, 190
| miles away. Far up, so high there
! was no sight or sound of him in
! ;he dark sky, Smith and Bombar
I dier Maj. Dwight E. Durner of
i Charlotte, Mich., took the swift
1 flying plane over the target in
I dry runs.
Dropped at 600 mph.
They were ready. One more
wide turn over a half-circle of a
dozen miles and they were homing
on the target, which showed on
the n&ar sight, at an altitude of
about 50,000 feet, and at a speed
of about 600 miles per hour the
bomb was dropped.
It was seven miles short of the
bullseye, but the speed of the
plane sent the bomb plunging on
ward as it fell. Smith banked the
B-52 sharply and poured on the
power as he raced away.
He probably was 15 miles dis
tant when the moment came.
Behind and beneath there was
the hydrogen blast—the flash of
scorching heat that came almost
simultaneously with the great
light. Then the shock wave of the
explosion reached out to shake
the fleeing bomber.
Nude Painting of
Actress Brings Press
Agents’ Dream to Life
LAS VEGAS, OP—An aspiring
actress of voluptuous proportions
rebelled last night when a new
hotel unveiled a nude painting of
her in its casino.
‘‘I don’t want to be a Marilyn
Monroe!” blonde Sandra Giles, 22,
wailed as the artist took the wraps
off a shameless nude in repose.
“I want to be an actress. I didn’t
pose that way! I had a bathing
suit on!”
She thereupon slapped artist
Philip Paval, who once had the
King of Denmark sit for him. ft
was not a hard slap.
Her press agent then slapped
the hotel’s press agent. Everybody
threatened to sue everybody else.
The whole melee was a press
agent’s dream. The press agents
punched dreamily, too.
Paval took all the two-fisted
press agentry calmly. After all, he
explained, the hotel had paid him
82,500 to paint “a lady of chance”
portrait. He hired Miss Giles as
the model.
“Certainly she posed in a bath
ing suit,” the artist admitted. “But
I used my imagination.”
The Dept, of Commerce esti
mates that 90 percent of the U.S.
public has never flown in a com
mercial airliner.
"4-on" Duplicate Receipt Books
at the Nugget
Senate Passes Improved Farm Bill
And Hopes President Will Sign It
WASHINGTON, Secretary
of Agriculture Benson gave his
qualified approval to the new
farm bill passed by the Senate on
a voice vote Friday night.
Benson said the bill is “rather
complicated, with a number of
amendments” and he has not had
an opportunity to study each in
detail.
“However,” he said in a state
ment, “a quick check of the bill
indicates that, overall, it has been
much improved from the stand
point of the Department of Agri
culture.”
Senate leaders expressed hope
the new farm bill will become law
next week without further con
troversy.
The bill replaces a more com
prehensive measure Eisenhower
vetoed April 16. As its principal
feature it authorizes the $1,200,
000,000 soil bank program he re
quested as a means of paying
farmers to rake surplus crop land
out of production.
Neither the Senate nor the
House approved, however, Eisen
hower’s request for authority to
pay farmers this year a portion
of the money to which they would
be entitled for compliance next
year.
The measure still includes some
provisions to which Eisenhower
has objected, but Senate com
promises on feed grain supports
and parity levels tended to bring
those features closer to Eisen
hower’s views.
| Missing from the bill are re
quirements for rigid, higher sup
port prices, a two-way system of
figuring parity prices and many
other provisions which brought on
Eisenhower’s veto of ’ the earlier
measure^ Parity is a price deter
mined by law to be fair to farm
ers in relation to their costs.
; . .~
It’s Bronson courtesy
And service first
To fill your tanks
1
And quench your
thirst.
- **
BRONSON
W A I E R
DELIVERY
PHONE MAIN 19
-—
VERSES FROM NEW TESTAMENT BOOKS f
The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some men 2
count slackness; but is longsuffering to usward, not willing
that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
II Peter 3:9
MINERS & MERCHANTS
BANK OF ALASKA
NOME ALASKA
RPM Automotive Grease replaces four special
greases . . . lubricates wheel bearings, chassis bearings,
universal joints, and water pumps. It makes lube jobs
faster and easier -no need to stop and change either
grease or gun. t
Save time, work and money with multi-purpose
RPM Automotive Grease on your car, truck, and farm
machinery. Available in popular size packages as well
as special new 12-oz. cartridges that just fit your grease
gun and help keep grease clean.
STANDARD OIL COMPANY
OF CALIFORNIA
r ~ tasted ~~ sfflKTtrca'•r&u&sestesxxmft