TIIE NOME NUGGET
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NOME, ALASKA
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CLINTON GRAY . Production Manager
Entered as second class matter October 14, 1943, at the
pest office at Nome, Alaska, under Act of March 3, 1879.
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WHO ARE YOU WORKING FOR?
SUPPOSE YOU EARN $4,500 a year, and put
in a 40 - hour week.
If that’s your situation, said the Citizens Public
Expenditure Survey, you work all day Monday and
until 1:45 p.m. Tuesday without making any money
for yourself. The money you earn in that time all goes
to the government in taxes.
If you earn more than $4,500 a year the amount
of your time given to the tax collector rapidly and
progressively increases. And if you get into the really
big income brackets, very little of your working time
results in take-home pay for you.
It’s commonly said and believed that defense costs
are almost solely responsible for the present burden
of taxation and the size of the federal budgets. But
the fact remains that, in the 1955-61 period, defense
costs rose ony 12 per cent, while non-defense items
rose 43 per cent.
As the survey sees the situation. “If we Ameri
cans spent more time trying to get our tax money
spent wisely, we’d have enough money left to make
us happy — and not the raft of worries caused by
the lack of it.”
CHANGE SHOES
One day I saw a mother slip her foot from out her shoe
And as I sat there watching, I wondered what she’d do.
She took an angry squalling child and turned him across her knee
And squarely on the bottom, she paddled, one, two, three.
She quickly put her shoe on and gently sat the tot
Upon the step and waited for his little sobs to stop.
I don’t know what she said to him or what he said to her
But I know they were still good friends as they sat together, there.
I wish we more modern mothers could buy those same firm
slippers
And when pressure must be brought to bear, our persuaders
would be with us.
The needle heels of the shoes today just simply can’t be used.
We couldn’t even catah our child in such a pair of shoes.
We hear so much these days of the term, delinquency,
An ugy word applied to kids from one to twenty-three,
So let’s change back to the “slip off” slipper and tho you’ll
hate to wield it,
You wiU some day note with a mother’s pride, what love and
a well placed shoe did.
— Eleanor Carlisle, Cedoux, Sask., Canada
Cuban Slaps
Restrictions On
U.S. Ambassador
HAVANA, l/P) — Fidel Castro's
government Saturday slapped
tight restrictions on movements of
U.S, Ambassador Philip Bonsai
in Havana in retaliation for the
U. S. curb on the Cuban prime
minister’s travels during the U.N.
General Assembly.
The diplomatic quarantine cap
ped a series of anti - American
measures taken on the eve of
Castro’s departure for New York.
Armed militiamen Friday night
seized three American - owned
banks operating on the island.
The Castro government started
a new international furore by or
dering the expulsion of an attrac
tive U.S. Embassy secretary, Mrs.
Marjorie Lennox, 26, on spy
charges.
Three other North Americans
were ordered expelled on the
same charges.
Foreign Minister Raul Roa told
Bonsai he was restricted to the
Havana area where the Embassy
is situated and to going to and
from his residence five miles out
side the city.
In a note to Bonsai, Roa said
the restriction action against the
U.S. envoy was taken because of
“the arbitrary confinement im
posed by North American author
ities on the activities” of Prime
Minister Fidel Castro in New
York.
Roa told Bonsai he would have
to take “the usual route” to and
from the Embassy residence. He
added sarcastically that the re
strictions were inspired “by the
plan to offer your excellency
every kind of security.”
League of Alaskan Writers
Meet In Anchorage In Oct.
The Sixth Annual Conference
of the League of Alaskan Writers
will be held in Anchorage Oct.
7, 8 and 9.
A contest will be the highlight
of the conference, and prizes and
awards will be given in the short
fiction, non-fiction, juvenile, TV
play and poetry categories. Writ
ers throughout Alaska may enter
their manuscripts. The deadline
for entry is midnight Sept. 19.
For information, contest rules,
and application blanks write:
Contest, League of Alaskan Writ
ers, Box 2038, Anchorage.
The conference program will
feature speakers, exhibits, social
get - togethers, and a gala ban
quet as a finale.
Smallpox Breaks Out In Congo
GENEVA, UP)—'The U.N. World
Health Organization reports wide
spread though localized, out
breaks of smallpox in the Congo.
It adds that starving lepers are
fleeing their institutions to seek
food in their home villages.
Call. . .
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Oil Oil
Publisher Urges Newsmen
To Enter Public Office
BERKELEY, Calif., Wl — Paul
Leake, both a newspaper pub
lisher and state office holder, to
day urged more newsmen to enter
public office because “government
needs men trained to seek out the
dark corners and raise the lan
tern.”
Leake, publisher of the Wood
land Democrat and member of the
State Board of Equalization, said,
"The newspaper business has
produced its share of misfits.”
“But to a far greater extent it
has produced fine Americans —
able to dig out truth, smoke out
lies, unmask fraud and turn the
spotlight on crime and corrup
tion.
“The editor is not gullible and
is hard to impress. He’s forgot
ten more gimmicks than gray
flannel-suit sharpies will ever
learn.”
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available at The Nome Nugget
STATE OF ALASKA
INVITATION TO BIDDERS
Sealed bids will be received by
the Department of Administration
of the State of Alaska at 517 Al
aska Office Building, Box 2420,
Juneau, Alaska, until 2:00 p.m. on
October 19, 1960, and then pub
licly opened for the following:
PUBLIC SALE; M/V "CRANE"
General specifications: 90' long,
20' beam, 12' draft. Single
screw, Washington - Estep 200
H.P. Diesel. Complete bid speci
fications may be obtained from:
State of Alaska. Department of
Administration, Division of
Supply, Box 2420, Juneau, Al
aska.
The State reserves the right to
reject any and all bids and to
waive any formality in bidding
procedures.
Signed: R. G. Berg,
Director, Division of Supply
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Sterling Croell Appointed
Education Specialist In
Nome BIA Field Office
The appointment of Sterling
Croell as Education Specialist for
the Nome District of the Bureau
of Indian Affairs has been an
nounced by James Hawkins, Area
Director.
Mr. Croell’s new duties will in
clude the supervision of teachers
and schools within a wide area of
Arctic Alaska, ranging from Point
Hope to Stebbins and St. Michael,
and including all of Norton Sound,
the Seward Peninsula and the
Noatak-Kobuk region.
Mr. Croell will be part of the
Nome Field Office which is under
the direction of Robert Grant.
He will replace Warren Tiffany
who was recently appointed Sup
erintendent of the Wrangell In
stitute.
The last duty station for Mr.
Croell was Barrow where he was
District Principal of the largest,
day school operated by the BIA.
The Barrow school is also the
most northerly in the nation. He
has been at Barrow since 1955.
He has also taught at Stebbins,
Wales, Kiana, Wainwright and
Unalakleet.
8.21 Inches of Rain In 24 Hours
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., <JP>
—West Palm Beach and its sub
urb were deluged with 8.21 in
ches of rain Saturday night and
Sunday. Seven inches fell in one
five hour period. Many streets
were flooded and impassable but
most homes stayed dry. It was the
greatest 24-hour rainfall here in
10 years.