THE NOME NUGGET
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THE MOTOR’S RUNNING ANYWAY
Second Division Loses An Able Legislator
The sudden death of Senator Howard Lyng in
Seattle this week leaves a vacancy in the Legislature
which will be hard to fill. Lyng had been a political
leader from Second Division for. many years and his
experience and leadership has been valuable in the
work and progress of the territorial law makers.
The Democratic party, of which he was a staunch
and fearless member, have depended upon Lyng for
many years to head their political campaigns and much
road development and mining legislation enacted has
been due to his efforts.
Senator Lyng was possessed of the real pioneer
spirit. He was born in Alaska, and while he took his
higher education in California, he returned to the
land of his birth to make his home. As a youth he was
a newsboy for the Nugget. He was the type of Alaskan
who could visualize what the future held for the terri
tory and was not afraid to work for its development.
He leaves friends all over the territory, and in
all walks of life.
Robert Reeve Named By
Heintzleman To Board
Of Police Commissioners
JUNEAU, UPt—The appointment
of Robert C. Reeve, Anchorage
air line official and veteran bush
pilot, to the Territorial Board of
Police Commissioners was an
nounced Wednesday by Governor
Heintzleman.
Reeve will fill the position left
vacant by failure of the 22nd leg
islature to confirm the previous
appointment of William B. Healy,
Anchorage.
BIG BAIT FOR BIG FISH
HONOLULU, (J*) — Marine Sgt.
Richard C. Lawrence and Air
Force Sgt. Charles Hoke, fishing j
from the Fort Weaver dock, yes- '
terday landed a 15 - foot shark
weighing 1,800 pounds. The battle
lasted three hours.
The sergeants said they used a
2-foot hammerhead shark as bait.
“You use that kind of bait and
rig when you expect to catch big
ones,” Lawrence said.
Giant Plane Carries
Record-Breaking Load
From Seattle to Tokyo
SEATTLE, (tf)—They chained
the nose of a giant air freighter to
a ton block of concrete and piled
3,200 pounds of sandbags in its
nose before loading an $11,520
“fare” for the Orient.
The fare was a 7J533-pound
steam turbine, which Northwest
Airlines officials said was the
largest piece of air freight ever
flown across the Pacific Ocean. It
left here yesterday for Hiroshima,
Japan. ,
Because the loading doors of
the big DC-4 are back of the main
landing gear, the turbine’s weight
had to be counterbalanced in the
nose while it was being loaded on
the plane. The ton of concrete and
3,000 pounds of bagged sand did
the trick.
The company usuing the big
turbine needed it now to keep a
project going. That’s why they
sent it by air freight instead of by
steamship, a three-week jaunt.
THE BOARDWALK
By VERA C, SIEGWART
You’ve heard about the “Boardwalk”
In old Atlantic City,
But there’s another one neglected
And I think it’s such a pity.
There’s another one—neglected,
And it’s much closer home;
Has anyone extolled the merit of
Ye Olde Boardwalk—Nome?
My room is hung upon the house
In a delightful little bay.
They would have built it further,
But the Boardwalk’s in the way.
Being yet so near the street
Does make it kinda homey—
Even in the dead of night,
You never can be lonely.
For various types of measured treads
Beat a most irregular track,
Until, it seems, I can hear
Footsteps approaching on horseback.
And when I venture forth upon it,
Tis a pleasure, yes indeed.
Be there a bit of precipitation,
I gain unexpected speed.
But there’s no greater pleasure
Or way of friendship winnin’
Than to stop along the Boardwalk
And do a bit of chinnin’. m
It’s the self-same kind of sidewalk
I’ve seen in Western reels.
What I still can’t comprehend
Is how they walked it with those heels.
Do be careful how you tread it,
Be watchful of your track;
Should ycu tred wrong on the Boardwalk
It may kick you back.
But it has its safety features, too,
Of this let me remind you.
With all its vibrant messages,
Could someone sneak up behind you?
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So I’m feeling quite town-prideful.
Let those Statesiders talk.
We don’t need Atlantic City—
We’ve got our own “Boardwalk!”
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Japanese Deep Sea Fishermen Believed
Invading Pacific Nursery Areas And
Will Destroy Alaska Salmon Industry
SEATTLE, (#>—Sen. Magnuson
<D-Wash) said today Japanese
fishermen may have taken 70
million salmon this year in the
North Pacific and added curtail
ment of high seas fishing off
Alaska may be necessary to pro
tect North American interests.
Magnuson said an increasing
Japanese salmon pack has been
accompanied by a yearly decline
in the American pack from Al
askan waters.
“Unless additional international
understanding between Japan
and the United States is effected
soon,” he said, “all calculations
of conservation agencies will
have to be overhauled.”
The Senate Interstate and For
eign Commerce Commission, head
ed by Magnuson, will conduct
hearings on the North Pacific
fishery problem next month,
starting in Anchorage Oct. 10.
Magnuson said “there is a grow
ing fear that the Japanese may
have invaded the vast North Pa
cific nursery area for interming
ling salmon from both Asia and
North America.”
“It is quite possible that Japa
nese nets have begun to tap the
fish runs of 1957, 1958 and 1960
through the taking of immature
feeders.”
Magnuson said 11 Japanese
mother ships have operated with j
catcher and scout boats that
sweep a 50-mile radius. He com
mented that as a result of their
success several United States
companies are considering outfit
ting their vessels to compete with
the Japanese.
“If this should happen,” he
added, “instead of an increased
conservation program, we might
only have a race to the salmon
nursery to see which nation could
destroy the salmon industry first.
“If existing conditions continue
to prevail off Alaska, no longer
will nature be the dominant fac
tor in separating salmon destined
to the east and to the west.
There will be no possibility for
assuring adequate seeding in the
spawning streams to reproduce
the salmon race.”
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Fire Prevention Week
October 9 Through 15
Have you warned everybody at
home never to use flammable
liquids like gasoline for cleaning
clothes or kerosene for starting
fires?
Searchers Led on
Kidnaper's Trail
By Diap er Theft
SAN FRANCISCO, Uf)—A new
theft of diapers, plus a report of
a heavyset blonde carrying a bun
dle in a blanket, sent searchers
for kidnaped baby Robert Marcus
scurrying to another San Jose
area today.
Mrs. Lois Freeman phoned po
lice she had seen the woman at
daybreak this morning hurrying
toward Twelfth St. on St. John.
The woman wore a dark coat and
carried a baby-sized bundle.
Mrs. Freeman called her hus
band, who ran out to stop the
woman, but she had disappeared.
A hasty check of the baby laun
dry hanging in the Freeman back
yard showed four diapers and two
baby gowns missing.
Gloom settled deeper today on
Dr. and Mrs. Sanford Marcus,
parents of the infant snatched
from his Mt. Zion Hospital crib
last Monday the second day after
his birth. It was reaction after
a brief flare of hope last night
over a week-old foundling boy
abandoned in an Atlantic City,
N.J., church.
Dr. Marcus and his 29-year-old
wife, Hanna, studied an Associat
ed Press wirephoto of the Atlantic
City baby and said:
“He is not our son.”
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