THE NOME NUGGET
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Entered as second class matter October 14. 1943 at the
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HURRICANES, DUSTERS, AND KIPLING
(Christian Science Monitor;
When Rudyard Kipling wrote his famous refrain:
For the female of the species is more deadly than the female,
he made outward enemies of half the women (who
didn’t read the rest of the poem) and, we suspect, secret
friends of some of them—and all the remainder.
When the Weather Bureau decided to give Atlan
tic hurricanes feminine names it aroused the same re
sponse. And when, in spite of the outcry, it determined
to do the same thing again in 1955 it must have had the
same suspicions. In fact, those suspicions have been
reinforced, apparently, by indications that as many
women were flattered as offended. So we start off with
Alice and end somewhere before we get to Zelda—
we hope .
But Kipling also said, as those know who have read
the poem all the way through:
Man’s timid heart is bursting with the things he must not say, ‘
until, as in Midland, Texas, it clean bursts and he
says it.
There the local chamber of commerce has pro
claimed: “We have some of the finest sandstorms in
the world.” And it has approved the idea of naming
the big “dusters” after men.
But—note this—in spite of Kipling:
So it comes that Man, the coward, when he gathers to confer
With his fellow braves in council, dare not leave a place for her
these braves in council, out where “men are men,”
called upon Mrs. Barbara Culver, a Midland attorney,
to come to help them. She did. And she named the
first dust storm Adam.
Hillsboro, Ore., Argus, says: “There is a great
deal of logic in President Eisenhower’s belief that
terms of office of members of the U.S. House of Repre
sentatives should be for four years instead of the pres
ent two. On a four-year term basis the congressmen
would be in a position to do a better job because under
present conditions they must devote too much of their
time to campaigning and give too much thought to
what effect their votes on issues will have on their
reelection.” *
Identical Bills
OK’d to Let Alaska
Apply for Loan
WASHINGTON, UO— House and
Senate Insular Affairs Commit
tees approved yesterday identical
bills authorizing Alaska’s govern
or to apply for a federal loan to
rebuild the territory’s bankrupt
unemployment compensation fund.
Approval of the bills had been
opposed by spokesmen tor the
Alaska Salmon Industry Inc., but
had been backed by Delegate
Bartlett and officials of the De
partments of Interior and Labor.
Purpose of the bills is to waive
provisions of Alaska’s Organic
Act, which the attorney general
has ruled prohibited the territory
from seeking the loan.
Labor Department witnesses
said last week the territory’s un
employment compensation fund
had been depleted April 22 for
the second time this year. A mil
lion dollar advance from the ter
ritory’s general fund replenished
the account on one occasion, but
the advance of a second million
was held up temporarily until a
taxpayer’s suit to block it was
dismissed last week in U.S. Dis
trict Court.
Under terms of an act passed
by Congress last year, the terri
tory would be eligible to borrow
slightly more than three million
dollars on its initial application.
It would again become eligible
for an additional loan, if required,
after three months.
The Senate committee also ap
proved a bill to permit Alaska
legislators to seek election as del
egates to a constitutional conven
tion called this November to draft
a proposed constitution in antici
pation of statehood.
WEATHER FORECAST
Compiled by the
U.S. Dept, of Commerce Weather Bureau
Partly cloudy tonight and to
morrow and warmer. Northeast
winds 15-20 mph. Lowest tem
perature expected tonight 32,
high Thursday 41.
Nome data last 24 hours as of
7 a.m. today: High temperature
38, low 32. Max. wind 24 mph.
from the NE. Sunrise at 3:21 a.m.,
sunset at 8:39 p.m.
Temperatures a year ago today:
high 45, low 33. Extremes this
date since 1907: high 49 in 1953,
low -1 in 1949.
Other stations as of 7 a.m. today:
Station Temp. Weather
Whitehorse 4 Blowing snow
Edmonton 24 Cloudy
Juneau 8 Blowing snow
Ketchikan 37 Cloudy
Seattle 41 Cloudy
Bethel 40 Cloudy
Nenana 44 Part cloudy
McGrath 43 Part cloudy
Anchorage • 38 Cloudy
Fairbanks 48 Cloudy
San Francisco 42 Cloudy
Barrow 54 Cloudy
Kotzebue 40 Rain
Wales 44 Rain
Nome 57 Part cloudy
Unalakleet 54 Cloudy
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Los Angeles Population
Of 6,200,000 Predicted
By 1960, Second to N.Y.
LOS ANGELES, Uft—An insur
ance executive says his company’s
forecasts indicate that Los An
geles will add one million people
and 400,000 new jobs in the next
five years.
H. R. Caley, president of the
American Hardware Mutual In
surance Co., Minneapolis, said
Monday that “by 1960, our fore
casts indicate that the Los An
geles metropolitan area will have
a population of 6,200,000—ex
ceeding that of Chicago and rank
ing it second only to New York.”
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