THE NOME NUGGET
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Entered as second class matter October 14, 1943, at the
postoffice at Nome, Alaska, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
THE SHOWDOWN
LAND OWNERS SHOULD REGISTER
If you are a law-abiding citizen you will register
your real property with the U.S. commissioner or take
the chance of paying a $5.00 fine next July.
If you don’t file by July, the law enacted by the
1953 legislature says the territorial land commissioner
may sell it. The land commissioner doesn’t think he
will but the law says he can.
The law was written for the purpose of releasing
privately owned property which stands idle because
its owners have left the territory or died. The territory
had a land registration law several years ago but it
was repealed when the property tax was enacted. It
has been repealed, so we are back where we started.
It seems as though the 1953 legislature overdid
itself by including municipalities which already have
registration by city tax, but it appears to be simpler
to add the the confuson by registering everything
within or without the city and be on the safe side.
The Nugget will provide forms which meet the
approval of the U.S. commissioner.
WE CAN T MATCH NUMBERS
It now appears that Defense Secretary Charles E.
Wilson is the boss of our armed forces, and that the
joint chiefs of staff will go back and sit down—and
start figuring out how to get along with ten percent
less manpower. Cutbacks have been ordered in the
Army, Navy and Marine Corps (but the addition of
10,000 men in the Air Force) beginning with the next
fiscal year, on July 1st. The net effect will be a re
duction from the present 3,500,000 to 3,100,000 and a
budget saving of one billion dollars.
Aside from economy, it would also seem to be a
good time to find out how much fighting power per
man we can pack into our forces. Unless by virtue
of better weapons, training and leadership, we can give
our soldiers and sailors — like Sir Galahad — “the
strength of ten,” we’ll be a poor match for the Com
munist hordes.
The Eisenhower administration will win or lose
the next election on the state of the nation, not the
state of the nation during the Truman administration.
This is the time of year when advertising pays
double dividends.
Kotzebue News
Kotzebue’s new community
building opened for the first time
December 11 with a carnival for
■the kids. Fish ponds, dart games,
wheel of fortune, ice cream cones,
doughnuts, brought out most of
the children of the village at 5
o’clock. Festivities continued until
8:30 only, to keep in line with
the 9 o’clock curfew.
Whistles blew, horns tooted,
kids yelled and gaped at Cowboy
Pete while they threw darts at
Billy the Beluga and cleaned out
the fish ponds and wheel of for
tune down to the last balloon dec
oration.
Planned by the building com
mittee, under direction of Alice
Connolly, chairman, the adults
had their turn the following night.
Bingo was played with winners
having a hard choice between
blankets, card tables, bedspreads,
tackle boxes, fishing poles and
some 25 different prizes. Beaver
Jackson was the lucky winner of
the door prize, a free round trip
to Fairbanks through the courtesy
of Bill Peterson.
Christmas games will be held
in the new building with a dance
on New Year’s Eve. As planned,
it will be called the Billy Levy
Memorial Building in memory of
the Kotzebue bojr who had a gift
for friendship.
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Muriel Hannah of New York is
the house guest of Mr. and Mrs.
N. G. Hanson. Miss Hannah is
particularly well - known in the
territory for the mural map of
Alaska made for Northern Con
solidated from which calendars
and many reproductions have
been made. The original map was
shown at the Alaska Science Con
ference in Washington, D. C., in
1950, and it was displayed for
some weeks at the Field Museum
in Chicago.
Miss Hannah is making Eskimo
studies in Kotzebue to the delight
and ardent admiration of her fa
vorite subjects, the children. Upon
her departure she will go to the
Kuskokwim area to do addition
al Eskimo portrait work.
* * *
Mr. and Mrs. Louis Fisher who
have been stationed in Kotzebue
as dental officer and assistant
with the ANS are enroute to their
new station at the ANS hospital
recently opened in Anchorage.
* *
Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Halsten
and daughter will leave Kotzebue
in the immediate future for the
states, where the girls will stay
with relatives in Portland, Ore.,
while their parents fly east for an
extended trip to Chicago, New
York, Washington and other At
lantic coast points. Mr. Halsten,
manager of the Kotzebue CAA
station for the past year, is being
replaced by Carl Malinak, former
station manager at Annette Island.
* * *
Blanche Todhunter, daughter of
Mrs. Martha Todhunter, and John
Octuck, son of Mrs. Harold Jacob
sou, were married recently in
Kotzebue, where they will make
their home.
SEVEN WIN FREE TURKEYS
Seven customers of the Nome
Hardware and U. S. Mercantile
Stores are assured of turkey for
their Christmas dinner as they
received free turkeys last week,
given by the two firms.
They are: James Savok, Ray
Tveter, Robert Heath, Arthur Cox,
Willie Senungetuk, John Kokaluk,
Frank Pushruk, and Father Neil
Murphy.
Four more turkeys are avail
able for customer numbers —
350,351 — 361,777 — 361,362 —
and 361,681.
Elmer Dolan Is
Indicted by Grand
Jury for Perjury
KANSAS CITY, WV-One of the
officers who arrested kidnaper
Carl Austin Hall has been in
dicted on a charge of perjury by
a federal grand jury probing the
missing Greenlease ransom
money.
The indictment was returned
late Friday against Elmer Dolan,
25, shortly after he had appeared
before the grand jury.
Dolan and Lt. Louis Shoulders
arrested Hall in St. Louis Oct. 6.
Dolan was suspended by .the
St. Louis police board Dec. 10
pending a hearing on charges
growing out of the handling of
the arrest.
Shoulders resigned from the
police force in October, charging
the investigation into the arrest
was “assassinating and destroy
ing” his character.
Hall contended to the end that
two suitcases containing the $600,
000 ransom money were not taken
to a police station with him after
his arrest. Later $303,720 of the
ransom money was missing.
Dolan said both suitcases were
taken to the station with Hall.
Several persons who were in
the station when Hall was taken
in testified they saw no suitcases.
Shoulders at one time said he and
Dolan had taken he suitcases to
the station at the time Hall was
booked. Later he said he “slipped”
the suitcases into the station 10
minutes after Hall was taken in.
In the indictment, the grand
jury charged:
“The testimony of Elmer Dolan,
as he then and there well knew
and believed, was untrue and
false in that the suitcases men
tioned, containing the ransom
money were not taken into the
police station at the time or in
the manner alleged in the testi
mony.”
Following arraignment, Dolan
was jailed in default of $25,000
bond.
At his home in St. Louis, Shoul
ders stated he has “Nothing at
all to say” about the indictment.
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