e We Ready? . . .
44HPHE UNITED STATES has not sold itself to the
world. A nation that knows how -to popularize
com flakes and luxury automobiles certainly ought
to -be able to tell -the world the simple truth about what
it is doing and why it is doing it.” So said Lyndon
Johnson, Vice President of the United States when he
returned from making his good will tour abroad.
What he said also applies to the State of Alaska
because the farther east one travels in the lower
forty-eight the less the other Americans know about
Alaska and its .vacation possibilities. It is expected
that Century 21 Fair in Seattle will lure at least a
million -people to the Pacific Northwest who would
not have come otherwise and of -this million many will
include Alaska in their trip.
Are we ready ?
Dawson, which has only 700 residents, grappled
with the problem of housing and have now incorpo
rated “Klondike Tent Cities Ltd.” While the -luxury
tents planned to house about 700 visitors daily are
far from the canvas that sheltered the thousands of
miners of .the gold rush days, they will be quite a
novelty and the investment is reported to be only
about $75,000.
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It is (time Nome started some concrete planning
for next summer to attract more overnight tours.
They could* profit by this plan which was initiated by
only -35 investors. _ ■
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Nehru Warns
Red China to
Stay Out of India
NEW DELHI <*> — Prime Min
ister Nehru asserted Tuesday Red
China has threatened to enter
India’s northeast region and de
clared if an invasion comes “we
shall resist and repel it”
Nehru summarized before Par
liament a new note from Peiping
on the simmering border dispute
which he said may toe “a major
trouble spot of the world for the
next few years.”
The text of the note disclosed
the Chinese said their troops
would be justified in entering
India’s northeast region but added
that Peiping intends to refrain
from crossing the (border there. In
the Parliamentary debate, Nehru
omitted mention of this part of
the note.
Nehru said Peiping complained
India was “stepping up military
oositions and building new posts”
in the disputed area of Kashmir
and in such areas as Bara Hoti
west of the Tibetan border.
The area is more than 1,000
miles west of India’s northeast
frontier region supposedly threat
ened toy invasion.
Nehru said the Chinese hinted
that “if our military activities
are not stopped they may have
to take action by sending troops
south of the McMahon line.” India
claims the British-drawn line is
the northeastern border but China
says the border lies approximate
ly 100 miles farther south.
Nehru was vague about which
military activities the Chinese
meant might tough off an inva
sion. He said the note complained,
among other things, of Indian air
craft flying over Chinese terri
tory.
Short-Order Business . . .
AZTEC, Nil. «*> — .A profitable
short-order busine^^’i^^^ip^
at the jail Monday.
Sheriff Floyd Stock said a
trusty, Billy Blake, 25, Nashville,
Tenn., had been working as a
cook in the jail kitchen.
Stock learned that for at least
a couple of days Blake had been
frying hamburgers and cheese
burgers, wrapping them, and de
livering them to the other pri
soners at 35 to 50 cents each.
Blake has now been moved
back to a cell — away from the
kitchen.
Blake is serving a six-month
term on a forgery count.
ALASKA CAP CADETS HAVE
CHANCE FOR SCHOLARSHIPS
Civil Air Patrol is offering $10,
000 worth of scholarships to its
cadets in Alaska alone.
To qualify for these scholarships
you must do the following: (1) Be
a cadet in the Civil Air Patrol,
(2) Hold the Certificate of Pro
fiency, and (3) Have a “C” aver
age in school.
Several of these scholarships
have $4,Cud added, $1,000 each
year of school. Last year then
were hardly enough cadets apply
ing for these scholarships.
Ike Says U.S. Should
Not Over-Militarize
NEW YORK OP — Former Pres
ident Dwight Eisenhower says the
United States must not over
militarize in panic over Soviet
threat, although it must be pre
pared to stand pat against the
Soviet Union for possible decades
to come.
‘The Russians will strive ear
nestly to avoid general nuclear
war, but they will use every
conceivable device to spread false
hoods and distortions, so as to
create confusion, fear and loss of
confidence throughout the free
world,” Eisenhower said.
“We must always be ready to
negotiate, tout never to enter into
bargaining where there is im
plied a weakening of principle or
where freedom may thereby be,
in the slightest degree, diluted,”
he added.
The former President, writing
in the Saturday Evening Post, said
it is vital for the American people
to stand behind the government
and President whenever “they
call upon us for sensible things
and services necessary to meet
every crisis of the future.”
U.S. Sets Up New
Station in Antarctica
WASHINGTON UP) — Capping
a feat of aerial logistics, the Unit
ed States has established a new
scientific station in a remote area
of Antarctica.
This was reported Tuesday by
the National Science Foundation
on the basis of a radio dispatch
from Its Antarctica headquarters
at MciMurdo Sound.
The new station, called Ski-Hi,
was set up Sunday in a formid
able area of ice-capped terrain
lying between the Palmer Penin
sula and the Sentinel Mountains.
It is 700 miles from the nearest
previous American station, Byrd
. Station, and some 1,500 miles from
coastal McMurdo.
Ski-Hi was established only
after weeks of waiting for favor
able weather, tricky reconnais
sance flying, and a dramatic air
hauling and dropping erf supplies
by Navy and Air Force aircraft.
It is designed to make new
measurements of die earth’s mag
netic field and of the ionosphere
—the layer of electrified air that
plays a key role in terrestrial
radio communications.
The particular geographical site
was chosen because it is the “con
jugate point” for an invisible line
of magnetic force whose northern
terminal lies 8,500 miles away in
Parc Des Lauren-tides, northern
Quebec Privtnce, Canada.
DECEMBER 7 IS “CD DAY"
JUNEAU UP) —- Gov. Wm.
yesterday proclaimed Dec. 7 as'
“Civil Defense Day” in the State
561 Alaska
Taxpayers Have
Money Coming
Revenue Commissioner Peter
Gatz made 'public a list of 561
Alaska taxpayers to whom the
Alaska Department of Revenue
has been unable to make delivery
of income tax refunds for 1959
and I960.
In each case, Gatz said, war
rants for payment of the refunds
have been returned by the Post
Office Department for various
reasons.
Refunds involved total in ex
cess of $9,000 and individual war
rants average approximately $17
each.
Lists identifying the individual
taxpayers are being mailed to all
newspapers, radio and television,
stations in Alaska as well as to
members of the Alaska Legisla
ture and Alaska’s congressional
delegation.
Persons entitled to refunds may
claim them by communicating
with ihe Department of Revenue,
Alaska Office Bldg., Juneau,
giving their Social Security num
ber, the address used on the re
turn for which refund is being
made and their present address.
Inupiat Wants Hawkins to
Remain as Area Director
JUNEAU UP) — The chairman
of last month’s Inupiat (first great
gathering of the Eskimos) at Bar
row has urged Commissioner
Philleo Nash of the Bureau of
Indian Affairs to retain James
Hawkins as Area Director for
Alaska.
Hawkins is scheduled to be re
placed by Robert Bennett, for
merly Assistant Area Director at
Aberdeen, S.D.
In a letter to Nash, Guy Oka
kok, chairman of the Inupiat, said A
Hawkins always worked closely m
with the Eskimo villages and un- 1
derstands the problems of Alas- ■
ka’s natives.
Qkakok’s letter was signed by
each of the delegates to the Inu
pist from some 25 villages from
Bethel to Barter Island.
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Available at The Nome Nugget
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