THE NOME NUGGET
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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.
SHE'D BETTER FIND OUT WHAT TO DO!
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LIKE THE OLD WOMAN who lived in a shoe,
America is confronted by a population explosion, i
By 1975, we will be a nation of 209 million people.
And, like the old woman, we won’t have enough of
the precious element needed for survival and growth
... water . . . unless the public takes the proper action.
Why not? Today, we use water at a terrific rate.
Every day, enough water is used to flood the entire
.state of Rhode Island with a foot of water.
We’re using more water in our homes. Appli
ances such as dish washers, clothes washers, garbage
disposal units swallow up gallons in seconds. Even
your morning shower uses up five gallons of water a
minute.
We’re using more water in industry and agricul
ture, too. Manufacturing just one ton of steel takes
about 70 thousand gallons. One cow in a dairy herd
drinks 20 gallons of water daily. Crop irrigation uses
(up billions of gallons more each day.
And yet, ironically, our problem is not the lack
of water but the inability to put our need of year
around use of water into the proper presentation to
the right people so the ball can start rolling toward a
modern water and sewage disposal system.
This is essential to our welfare. It’s essential to
get modern new buildings; it’s essential for our per
sonal health and that of our children.
This about it. Can our local situation be improved?
This is a challenge to new civic organizations look
ing for worthwhile projects? This is a challenge to old
civic organizations, to find out why we have failed in
the past and profit by that experience.
GRASSROOTS OPINION
KITTANNING, Pa., Leader-Times: “Motorists as a
group of taxpayers contribute more to the total cost of
government in the United States than any other single
user, profession or occupation.
“One of the interstate highway program penny- 1
per-gallon taxes is due to expire June 30, 1961, but j
don’t wager Congress will relinquish its hold on $600
million so readily.”
]\Vws Notes
By J. M. Roberts
Associated Press News Analyst
The Soviet Union, renewing the
airlift in Laos, her political cam
paign against West Berlin, and
her attacks on the United States
and the United Nations, shows no
sign of waiting for the Kennedy
Administration to come up with
proposals for settlements.
Ignoring the fact that Berlin
is a four-power problem in which
West Germany is technically a
bystander, the Kremlin has by
passed Britain, France and the
United States to warn Bonn that
she still demands that Berlin be
come a demilitarized free city.
Otherwise she will turn control
of access over to the East German
Communists.
That’s the same thing as an ob
lique notice to the West that,
whatever they may expect from
a summit conference, a German
settlement would not be among
them.
* * *
Fidel Castro’s National Agrar
ian Reform Institute, comprised
primarily of workers with little
or no organizational or manage
ment skills, is being shorn of its
powers over industry and sugar
in favor of the two pro-Com
munists, Ernesto Guevara and
Raul Castro. The two have been
assigned to revive the horses that
they have already nearly beaten
to death.
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Many American motorists are
turning away from the express
ways and taking the old winding
routes to get back to the country.
A tourist in West Germany can
achieve a great change in at
mosphere by dropping off one of
the great autobahns to see the
picturesque little towns clustered
around ancient baronial towers.
Jordan now plans to eliminate
the centuries-old winding route
from the Dead Sea to Jerusalem.
Perhaps eliijninate is the wrong
word, and the old road will be
maintained. Else speed will con
quer both beauty and history.
mm*
A neat twist. Katanga’s Moise
Tshombe is offering citizenship
to foreigners including Belgians.
Just the opposite of France and
Portugal, who offer citizenship
to natives of some areas in Africa.
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| Veteran of 30 Years Expresses Her
Views of “Life in the While House”
1 CP'
NEW YORK I/P) — What Presi
dent didn’t want to see servants
about in the White House caus
I ing them to hide in closets some
times? Which lady was the most
considerate?
Lillian Rogers Parks, a veteran
of 30 years as a White House
maid, gives her answers to these
questions in a book to be pub
lished.
Her account of doings at 1600
Pennsylvania Ave. may be one of
the last to be published.
Mrs. Parks tells of hundreds of
incidents involving the occupants
during her three decades—the
amusing, the sad, the embarassing,
and the good and bad points of
those she served.
Regarding various First Ladies:
“I think the behavior of Mrs.
Truman toward the White House
servants set the best example for
any future First Lady. She was
neither too sentimental, nor too
harsh.
‘She didn’t keep looking over
our shoulders, as Mrs. Eisenhower
did; and she didn’t ignore the
work that was done, as Mrs.
Roosevelt did. Mrs. Truman was \
the most considerate First Lady
in recent decades.”
“Mrs. Hoover kept the White
House in the most turmoil. Things I
were always in such a state of j
flux that it would be quite true
to say that she never did get com
pletely settled. Almost every
room was in a torn up state, and
as soon as it was fixed one way,
she would decided it would look
better another way.”
Mrs. Roosevelt: “If you angered
her, you were a dead duck. Let
one servant prove himself ‘unable
to get along with the rest of the
help,’ let him be caught quarrel
some or irritable, and out he
would go.”
Mrs. Eisenhower: “By compari
son, Mrs. Eisenhower lost her
temper frequently, but got over
it just as quickly, and did not fire
anyone. In fact, she would be
exceptionally nice to make up for
it.” She also ordered that all left
over food be saved for later use.
“The Hoovers were fierce about
servants being neither seen, nor
heard, and heaven help you if
you were caught in the hall when
the President was coming. It was
sort of a scandal around the
White House, the way we would
dodge into a particular closet.”
Hoover’s successor, Roosevelt,
“gave the order to stop this and
‘just act natural.’ ” Truman was
“the most insistent that we be at
ease.”
Roosevelt: He had great per
sonal wealth and gave “the im
pression of great generosity,” but
was a penny-pincher on house
hold expenses. He also was “very
sensitive to the feeling of others,
a quality that made him most
kind to help.”
Eisenhower had such a hot tem
per his wife was in constant fear
he would “bust out at the wrong
time,” but: “He and the First
Lady shared an amazing bond
that was a joy to behold. She was
the most feminine of the four
First Ladies I had worked for, and
showed the greatest possessive
ness toward her husband.”
WANTED TO SNUGGLE . . .
CAPE TOWN, South Africa
— A cobra more than five feet
long curled around Mrs. B. K.
Morse’s ankles as she sat in her
living room. Mrs. Morse, para
lyzed in both legs, had to wait
for a relative to come and kill the
snake.
WINTER schedule
FAIRBANKS TO NOME (Via Kotzebue)
EACH MONDAY and FRIDAY — FLIGHT 309
Lv. Fairbanks *7:30 a.m. Ar. Kotzebue 8:20 a.m.
Lv. Kotzebue 9:00 a.m. Ar. Nome 9:45 a.m.
EACH WEDNESDAY — FLIGHT 309
Lv. Fairbanks *7:30 a.m. Ar. Kotzebue 9:00 a.m.
Lv. Kotzebue 9:40 a.m. Ar. Nome 10:45 a.m.
FAIRBANKS TO NOME
EACH TUESDAY and SATURDAY — FLIGHT 311
Lv. Fairbanks *7:30 a.m. Ar. Tanana *8:05 a.m.
Lv. Tanana *8:15 a.m. Ar. Galena *8:55 a.m.
Lv. Galena *9:25 a.m. Ar. Nome 9:25 a.m.
FAIRBANKS TO NOME (Direct)
EACH THURSDAY — FLIGHT 311
Lv. Fairbanks *7:30 a.m. Ar. Nome 8:40 a.m.
NOME TO FAIRBANKS (Direct)
EACH MONDAY — FLIGHT 310
Lv. Nome 10:45 a.m. Ar. Fairbanks *1:55 p m.
EACH WEDNESDAY — FLIGHT 310
Lv. Nome 4:30 p.m. Ar. Fairbanks *8:40 p.m.
EACH FRIDAY — FLIGHT 310
Lv. Nome 2:00 p.m. Ar. Fairbanks *5:10 p.m.
NOME TO FAIRBANKS (Via Kotzebue)
EACH TUESDAY and SATURDAY — FLIGHT 312
Lv. Nome 10:25 p.m. Ar. Kotzebue 11:10 a.m.
Lv. Kotzebue 11:50 a.m. Ar. Galene *1:45 p.m.
Lv. Galena *2:00 p.m. Ar. Tanana *2:40 p.m.
Lv. Tanana *2:50 p.m. Ar. Fairbanks *3:25 p.m.
EACH THURSDAY — FLIGHT 312
Lv. Nome 9:40 a.m. Ar. Kotzebue 10:25 a.m.
Lv. Kotezebue 11:05 a.m. Ar. Fairbanks *1:55 p.m.
(*) Alaska Standard Time. All other times Bering Standard
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