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Entered as second class matter October 14. 1943, at the
post office at Nome, Alaska, under Act of March 3, 1879.
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WE’VE HEARD THEY CAN SHRINK HEADS
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Local Area Mail Is Slow .. .
WITH AIRMAIL and AIR EXPRESS reaching
Nome in three days from the east coast and
overnight from Seattle and Midwestern towns, Alas
kans feel very close to the other states as far as com
munications go. But within Alaska communications
aren’t worked out so well. A subscriber to the Nugget
at Mountain Village sometimes waits for six weeks
for mail from Nome. Other villages in this same area
report similar slowness in mail.
The recent election brought this to light last No
vember, but apparently nothing has been done to give
these people better service.
With mail routes well established, an effort should
me made to help these people who live along the
Yukon. _
Thinking Small . . .
A FRIEND WHOSE HOBBY IS trend-watching
tells us that “compact” washers, dryers, freezers,
and refrigerators are being launched in the American
market to provide fitting accompaniment for the
compact car.
So far so good. Pocket radios, four-ounce suits,
air-weight typewriters, hand-size watermelons, con
centrated juices, smaller furnaces, and compact appli
ances have filled real needs for many people.
But product designers need to keep thinking
small. They haven’t yet compacted everything that
needs compacting. For instance, we commend to their
attention:
Steamer trunks—why can’t they fold up when
not in use?
Hats, string basses, harps, and golf clubs ditto?
Frozen food packages—why aren’t there smaller
sizes or subdividable boxes for one-serving meals?
Garbage—couldn’t more packages be designed to
collapse after use so that one bushel of groceries no
longer results in two bushels of garbage? Why are so
many small objects camouflaged in oversized con
tainers?
Every consumer will have his own list. Just to
keep ours in perspective we have inscribed at the end
of it a frivolous plea for compact compacts so that
women will be able to manage with smaller purses
and fewer worries about getting too much powder on
the nose.
_C. S. Monitor
Two ^ oulhs Pulled
To Safety from
Mendenhall Glacier
By Ward Sims
JUNEAU (7PI — Two bruised,
battered, shivering youths were
hauled to safety today from the
bottom of a 50-foot-deep crevasse
where they survived the night by
huddling together.
The dramatic rescue was staged
in a driving rainstorm which sent
mud and stones pouring into the
crevasse on nearby Mendenhall
Glacier and hampered the search.
Both Roger Morris, 19, and Gale
Good, 19, were suffering from
exposure but appeared in sur
prisingly good condition when
five members of the Rescue Coun
cil Team pulled them out with
ropes dropped to the bottom of
the fissure.
Morris. Good, and a companion,
Jerry Dove, also 19, who brought
out word of their plight last night,
all are from Juneau. They are
recovering at St. Ann’s Hospital
here.
Good, who suffered deep cuts
on his right hand and forehead,
told rescuers that when he and
Morris realized they probably
would have to remain in the cre
vasse all night they laid survival
plans.
They took off their light jacekts
and zipped them into one, wrapped
the improvised garment around
them and clung to one another
through the long darkness.
The two were shaking so with
the cold they could hardly tell
of their ordeal. Morris was badly
bruised but otherwise seemed to
be unhurt.
The three youths had started
out about noon yesterday to ex
plore the edge of the glacier, about
15 miles north of here.
They skirted the glacier along
the valley’s rock wall for about
three-quarters of a mile, then
found they had to make a short
detour onto the treacherous ice
and across the crevasse.
The first two hurdled the cre
vasse but Morris slipped and
tumbled backward down its sheer
ice walls, pulling Good with him.
Dove, the lead climber, was flip
ped backward to the opposite side
of the crevasse, breaking a rib
and bruising his hip. All were
roped together.
Dove, managed to crawl and
stumble off the ice and returned
here to get a search started.
Volunteers hunted vainly
through the night trying to locate I
the youths. They were not found
until Dove was brought from the
hospital to point out the approxi
mate spot this morning.
ORDINANCE NO. 409
AN ORDINANCE of the City of
Nome, Alaska, requiring a Fil
ing Fee of all candidates for
Election to Offices of the City,
and setting an effective date.
Be it ordained and enacted by the
Common Council of the City
of Nome, Alaska, as follows:
That the Code of Ordinances of
Nome, Alaska, is hereby amended,
by adding a section, to be num
bered 7-15, which said section
reads as follows:
Sec. 7-15. Candidates — filing
fee.
All candidates for election to
offices of the city shall pay to
the city clerk a fee of $10.00 at
the time the declaration of can
didacy is filed.
This ordinance shall be in full
force and effect immediately up
on its passage by the Common
Council and the approval of the
Mayor.
Passed by the Common Council
of the City of Nome, Alaska, at
regular session assembled on the
13th day of March, 1961.
/s/ Steffen Andersen,
(Seal) Mayor
/ s/ Robert F. Scott.
Attest: City Clerk
Publish March 15, 17, 20, 1961
Both House an<l
Senate Act on
Pioneers’ Home
JUNEAU (J5! — Debate waxed
hot and heavy in both the House
and Senate Friday on two meas
ures dealing with the State
Pioneers’ Home at Sitka.
The Senate completed legisla
tive action on a bill which would
require 15 years or more resi
dence in the state before a per
son could be admitted to the Pio
neers’ Home. The requirement
now is five years residency.
The House approved a bill
which would raise the monthly al
lowance now is $15 for those who
receive Social Security or who
have other income and $10 for
those who have no income.
Sen. George McNabb opposed
raising the residency require
ments on the grounds they would
be to stiff at the present time.
“There is still space in the
home,” McNabb said, “and if we
restrict it too much we’ll find
ourselves with a great big build
ing only half full.”
Sens. Lester Bronson and Paul
Greimann Sr. said there was a
need to raise the residency re
quirements.
Greiman said he knew of sev
eral pioneers from the Fairbanks
area whose applications were held
for several months before they
could gain entrance to the home.
Bronson said he knew person
ally of a blind Nome man, an
Alaskan of some 50 years stand
ing, who had to wait some six
months to get into the home.
The allowance bill, authored by
Rep. Frank Cashel, originally call
ed for an increase to $30. It was
amended down to $20 on the
recommendation of the Finance
and Judiciary Committees.
“Fifty cents a day is a very
small amount for pioneers spend
ing the last part of their lives
in the home,” Cashel said, speak
ing against the amendment. “I
hope to be there myself some day
and I hope I get more than $20
a month.”
“The way I feel after working
on the State Affairs and Finance
Committees. I’m going to be there
darned soon,” countered Rep.
Morgan Reed. “And I think $20
would be plenty.”
“If we have so much extra
money, we should enlarge the
home so that it can accommodate
more people.”
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News Roundup
By J. !W. Roberts
The difficulties of the United
Nations armed forces in the Con
go have not served to kill the
old idea that eventually a dis
armed world will have to keep
the peace with a central police
force.
The commonwealth n a t i o n 5
have just endorsed the idea, which
would leave individual countries
with only enough military force
for internal security.
There are 1,001 difficulties in
the way. Not even the first step
toward individual disarmament is
in sight. But people keep coming
back to the same point. Its place
in the world’s dreams is as per
sistent as the other widespread
belief, that peace will come when
all nations are willing to sub
merge selfish interests in favor
of morality — the Golden Rule.
* * *
Some people at the common
wealth meeting expressed the be
lief, after South Africa’s with
drawal, that apartheid will event
ually be recognized as an econ
omic impossibility.
Oddly enough, while apartheid
is an extreme right-wing policy
in South Africa, looking toward
establishment of an all-Com
munist party in the United States.
It was one of the first agitations
conducted by the party in this
country, and has been revived
just recently. The distance be
tween extreme right and left is
never very great.
• • •
King Saud’s order to the United
States to get out of her military
airbase at Dhahran emphasizes
that he is no longer truly king in
his own country. He has yielded
too many powers to his half
brother, Prince Faisal, sometimes
amounting to almost complete
sovereignty. Faisal is a Egypt
Gamal Abdel Nasser man. He sup
ports the policy barring Jews
from working with foreign oil
companies in Saudi Arabia, or
from serving in the American
Armed Forces at the base.
The next manifestation of anti
western policy undoubtedly will
be directed against the oil com
panies. The danger is not the loss
of Arabian oil to the west, which
is rapidly approaching a position
where it will not be needed, but
in the possibility that the Com
munists will grab the oil and add
it to flow from their own wells
which they are now using to up
set the world market.
The American Medical Assn,
journal, bible of physicians, gives
this epitaph for a slow restaurant
serviter: “Here lies John, the
waiter. God finally caught his
eye.”
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