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What Goes On ?
THE AMERICAN SCHOOL SYSTEM, free to all
people of every race and creed, has been the most
important factor in building and developing Amer
ican citizenship into what it is today.
Alaska has one of the nation’s outstanding edu
cational systems, according to school authorities, and
the Nome school has been fully accredited for many
years.
The Nome School is also the biggest item of
expense on the City of Nome’s budget, absorbing 100
per cent of the property tax income.
Just what goes on in this expensive school of
*ours? Just what is the staff doing to educate your
child and mine? How do they teach our children
since we learned the three Rs a generation ago?
Every parent has the privilege and opportunity of
seeing how Nome School operates, tomorrow, as Con
rad Potter, superintendent and administrator, has
• invited them for a “back-to-school” night, as a special
feature of National Education Week. He and the
-school staff are open to criticism as well as to praise,
and will welcome- any suggestion from parents.
Constructive criticism means interested parents who
are concerned with the future of their children.
Teachers are the people who sometimes are with our .
Children more than we are. ' Parents and teachers
should know and understand each other, as they share
in the development of each child.
Much work has gone into the planning and execu
tion of the Open House program planned for tomor
row evening, and ALL parents in the community can
not only take advantage of the opportunity to see the
school at work, but can show their appreciation by
.turning out 100 per cent. The names of all parents of
school-age children should appear on the pages of the
guest register tomorrow evening.
Fisheries Meeting
Brings No Radical
Salmon Solution
SEATTLE, — The Interna
tional North Pacific Fisheries
Commission meeting ended on a
generally friendly key, but with
some sound of discord in the
background.
The three-nation body, repre
senting Japan, Canada and the
United States, wound up their
sixth annual meeting by passing
on to their respective govern
ments the issue of whether to
change the treaty line that re
stricts Japanese salmon fisher
men to west of the 175 degrees
longitude.
The U. S. proposed again, as at
Tokyo a year ago, that the line
be moved 500 miles westward, to
help conserve Bristol Bay salmon
runs. But the issue remained un
decided by the commission as the
conference ended Saturday.
Iwao Fujita, chairman of the
Japanese section, said many im
portant questions remain to be
answered before the issue can be
settled. He made it clear Japan
does not want to be accused of
depleting any fishery.
“Knowledge of salmon in the
North Pacific is increasing, but
little is known yet as to the
quantity and the seasonal distri
bution of North American salmon
mingling with Asian salmon west
of the treaty line,” Fujita said.
“The problems must be solved
beyond reasonable doubt.”
An observer, whose name was
not disclosed, said it may be ex
pected that Japan next season
will again unofficially and vol
untarily reduce its fishing inten
sity in the disputed area, as it
did last season.
“Japan does not want to run the
risk of an American embargo on
its fishery products,” he said.
Mikado Actor Suffers
Ad-Lib Leg Amputation
NEW YORK, UP) — Actor Mar
tyn Green watched fully conscious
early Saturday while a young
physician amputated his left leg,
crushed by an elevator in a West
side Manhattan public garage.
The British actor was a leading
performer for 30 years in Gilbert
and Sullivan operettas with the
D’Oyly Carte Opera Co. in Lon
don. He came to this country
several years ago.
Green, 60, who has appeared
on Broadway and in television
plays, told police he entered the
elevator to take his sports car to
the second floor. As it went up,
he bent down to check a noise
he heard, leaned out too far, and
was mashed between the elevator
and the shaft.
While the operation was per
formed on the floor of the ele
vator shaft, Green was given
morphine to ease the pain.
‘Promising Way of Life’
WASHINGTON, UP) — Presi
dent Eisenhoper in proclaiming
Thanksgiving £)ay on November
J 26, says the past year has been
one of “progress and heightened
promise for the way of life to
which we are dedicated.
In his usual proclamation Fri
day the President asked Amer
icans to pray for divine guidance
in “the great unfinished task of
achieving peace among men and
nations.”
Noting that this is the 150th
year of Abraham Lincoln’s birth,
Eisenhower said it was fitting to
use the words Lincoln did in 1863
when he established the annual
observance of Thanksgiving.
Among them were expressions
of gratitude for “fruitful fields,”
for “national strength and •vigor,”
and for “singular deliverances
and blessings.”
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A PROCLAMATION
WHEREAS: The President of
the United States has issued a
proclamation calling upon all
the citizens of this Nation to
observe Wednesday, November
11, 1959, as Veterans Day to
commemmorate and to pay ap
propriate homage to the vet
erans of all the wars of this
Nation who have contributed
so much to the preservation of
this Nation; to remember the
sacrifices of all those who
fought so valiantly on the seas
in the air and on the foreign
shores to preserve our heritage
of freedom, and
WHEREAS, the Governor of
the State of Alaska by procla
mation has further requested all
citizens of the State of Alaska
to observe Wednesday, Novem
ber 11, 1959, as Veterans Day,
NOW, THEREFORE, I, Stef
fen Andersen Mayor of the
City of Nome, Alaska, do here
by call upon all the citizens of
Nome to observe Wednesday,
November 11, 1959, as Veterans
Day. I request all citizens of
this City, business enterprises,
veterans' organizations and city
officials to assist that State
Committee for the observance
of Veterans Day in every way
possible for ihe observance of
November 11, 1959 with appro
priate ceremonies.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF I
have hereunto set my hand and
caused the official seal of the
City of Nome to be affixed.
Done at the City of Nome, this
7th day of November, 1959.
(SEAL) ‘
Signed
STEFFEN ANDERSEN,
Mayor of Nome.
Metlakatla Leader
Expects Favorable
Fish Trap Riding
SEATTLE, UP) — A spokesman
for the Metlakatla Indians says
they are confident the Supreme
Court will uphold plans of three
fishing villages to continue using
traps despite a state ban on such
operations.
So said John W. Smith, assist
ant to the Superintendent of Met
lakatla’s cooperative cannery here
today.
Smith, Metlakatla Indian, is
here as an adviser to the American
section of the International North
Pacific Fisheries Commission.
The Supreme Court in July
granted a preliminary injunction
blocking the State of Alaska from
halting operation of 11 fish traps
in Metlakatla, Kake and Angoon.
The case is scheduled to be-re
viewed by the court next month.
“We think we have a good
chance to win,” Smith said.
“Fishing is our only industry in
Metlakatla, our livelihood.”
The Metlakatla cannery packed
about 55,000 cases of salmon in
the past season, compared with
62,000 the year before.
“We made ' a little profit,”
Smith said.
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State, Prediets Big
Alaska Wealth
FAIRBANKS — Senator Stuart
Symington (D-Mo) predicted last
week a “bright future for the
State of Alaska if its great re
sources are developed in a sound
and orderly manner.”
In remarks prepared for deliv
ery at a Democratic meeting here,
the Missouri senator called for
“a coordinated effort on the part
of private industry, and local, state
anc^ federal governments to devel
op the resources of this new state.
“Perhaps no other section of our
country has more economic poten
tial than Alaska.
“But its resources are largely
undeveloped, and much of them
even undiscovered.
“The discovery of oil and gas
in the Kenai Peninsula indicates
what tremendous wealth lies in
Alaska’s mountains, forests,
streams and valleys. Thirty-two of
the 33 minerals considered by our
government as strategic are
known to be available in Alaska.
“Transportation and power are
keys to effective development of
this natural wealth. For this rea
son, it is important to move for
ward with expansion of the high
' way network, airport facilities,
I and more power-producing capa
j city in the state.
Spmington asked that “high
priority be given to plans to de
velop the potential of the mighty
Yukon River.
“The Rampart Dam with a po
tential of 5 million kilowatts,
could be the largest hydro-electric
project in the United States,” he
said.
Chest-Rugs Promise
He-Man Torso
By HAL McCLURE
NEW YORK UP) — Do you envy
; those hairy-chested he-men who
i stalk the beaches and pools?
Worry no more, Hairless Joe.
; Toss away your turtle-neck beach
j sweater — they’ve come up with
I chest hair falsies, for men.
The latest in chest tapestries
[ was unveiled Sunday at the open
ing session of the National Bar
ber Show.
- Whe wears chest rugs?
“Usually little scrawny fel
lows,” answers pretty Dia 'a Tess
ler, president of a hair-making
£irm. “I never ask my clients why
they want them. I figure it’s their
own business.”
The preferred shade: brown.
“The people at the barber show
came to. me and suggested we
make up a chest falsie as a stunt,”
Miss Tessler said. “But I said, ‘I
have many customers using them
already.’ They seemed surprised.”
Miss Tessler, whose main busi
ness is toupees — or toppers, as
they say in the trade — uses real
imported hair for the chest rugs.
New College Association Officers
SPOKANE, Ufi — Dr. J. Spen
cer Carlson, Associate Dean of
Students at the University of Ore
gon, was elected president of the
Northwest College Personnel As
sociation Friday, succeeding Don
ald K. Anderson, assistant to the
president of the University of
Washington.
Betty Lyster of the University
of Alaska, Fairbanks, was chosen
the association’s first vice presi
dent for Alaska. '
2,000 EMBARK TO SAIL
FOR KODIAK MANEUVERS
SEATTLE, W) — Two thousand
sailors and Marines arrived at
Pier 91 Saturday en route to Ko
diak, for amphibious maneuvers.
The men are aboard the attack
! transport Paul Revere, the attack
1 cargo ship Skagit, and two land
ing ships, the Gunston Hall and
Monticello.
[ The ships will leave Tuesday.