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LET S FIND OUT
America has spent millions trying to import people
who don’t want to come here. We have spent still more
millions importing people we don’t want here. Our
methods of testing literacy, health and the immigrant’s
aptitude for American citizenship are archaic. We make
a cursory effort to screen out the criminal and the
insane. But we haven’t the foggiest notion if the next
German, Irishman, Italian or Swede will make a good
citizen of this country—or of any country to which we
might have a hand in sending him.
We don’t really know what effect immigration has
on savings, labor’s wages or the rise and fall of national
incomes. We don’t know what bearing immigration
has on our foreign investments—or on foreign invest
ments in the U.S. For all we know, we may be in the
ironic position of having pumped untold billions into
the rebuilding of European industry, and at the same
time siphoned off from Europe the skilled labor essen
tial to ithis undertaking.
These are a few of the faults, questions and doubts
raised in a special report on immigration just published
by George Washington University. Its shocking revela
tions indicate clearly that Congress is more to be pitied
than censured if its struggle with immigration legisla
tion appears to be an effort to convert the famed melt
ing pot into a mixing bowl. Few acts of Congress are
so subject to pressure groups, special interests, influ
ence wielders and downright lobbying as are immigra
tion laws. Nationality groups, geopolitical do-gooders
and a sprinkling of bleeding-hearts join forces to pro
duce measures that confound and confuse everyone.
Tin Smelter at
Texas City Gets Okay
To Operate Thru 1957
WASHINGTON WV-The Senate
Banking Committee Friday ap
proved a House passed bill auth
orizing continued operation of the
Texas City, Tex., tin smelter until
January 31, 1957.
The measure also directs the
Federal Facilities Corp. to try to
sell the government-owned plant, j
the only tin smelter in the West
ern Hemisphere. Under existing
law it would be closed June 30. 1
18-Year-Old Golf Whiz
Wins British Title
. TROON, Scotland, WV—John Be
harrel, England’s 18-year-old golf
prodigy who is playing for his
health, won the British amateur
championship Saturday with a 5
and 4 victory over Leslie Taylor.
Glasgow insurance man.
The teen-age sensation succeeds
Joe Conrad of San Antonio, Tex.,
who was eliminated in the quarter
finals.
Fin* Job Printing at Th* Nugget
Alaska Visitors
Hospitaly Program
Gets Under Way
SEATTLE—June 1 was the kick
off for the big 1956 Alaska visitors
hospitality program. On that date
distribution began on attractive
pins for visitors, bumper strips
for visitors’ cars, and a visitors
survey will be started.
A welcoming letter from Gov.
B. Frank Heintzleman will be
given to each arriving visitor to
gether with the pin and a post
card survey blank. Arrivals by air
will be given the material by the
stewardesses. Motorists will be
contacted at points of entry at
Haines and Tok unction where
they check through U.S. Customs.
The governor’s letter extends a
cordial welcome to the visitor, ex
plains that the visitor identifica
tion is a gesture of welcome, and
expresses the wish that the visitor
will take out time to visit the
1 “Sourdoughs” while in Alaska.
In his letter he says, “We of Al
aska take great pride in the gran
deur of this virgin vacation land
and like to share with others. . . .
You will find many friends here
and, undoubtedly, some from your
home state or town.
“This (inclosed) identification
will help them in making the next
personal gesture of welcome and
introduction. I sincerely hope
your visit to the Territory of Al
aska will be a pleasant and mem
orable one and that you will visit
US many times in the years ahead.”
The survey cards will yield
much valuable information to the
AVA when the results are com
piled at the end of the season. In
addition to a count on the number
of visitors a fairly accurate ap
proximation of the value of the
1956 tourist season can be made.
WIEN AIRLINES
From Kotzebue: Amos Green,
Mr. and Mrs. Bob Logan, Emory
Chappie, Joshua Sours.
To Kotzebue: Mary Wienard,
John Sahlin, Pauline Witner, Mr.
and Mrs. Corey, Esther Stoney,
Emory Chappie, Marion Sheldon.
To Fairbanks: R. Robke, Hans
Fisher. F. Goff, Lt. Milcauckas,
Sgt. B. Nulty, Sam Hopson, Mr.
and Mrs. Warren Tiffany and
daughter, Albert Miller, Jennie
Bashelier, Wm. Corbin, A2/c E.
Conditt, Al/cJ. Anderson, Lt. C.
Borgensen, Sgt. Levi Bishop, Sgt.
J. Coker, Sgt. J.R. Harper, Sgt.
N.L. Gordon, Lillian Walker.
From Fairbanks: P.D. Koon, H.
Dilnham. Wm. Stansell, Wm. Pat
ton, R. Bickel, H. Bender, Chas.
Hummel, M. Walsh, A. Evans, C.
Jackson, J. Garner, W. Morrin,
F. Eldridge, A. Gayak, S. Hopson,
. Corbett, T. Maxwell, R. Him
ango. E. Knoll, Bill Haley, M.
Jordan, J. Well, J. Stanton, V.
Powers, G. Tilton, L. Brandon,
C. Brandon, W. Howard, B. Frank.
W. Treat, S. Hale, P. Warner, W.
Wixom, W. Hardison, J. Buhler,
L. Nelson, L. Singleton, C. Bain,
J. Bain, F. Gentry, M. Gull, E.
Hanes, F. Moers, J. Bailey, F.
Grimes, I. Renner, R. Cramer, L.
Guddeback, H. Graham, B. Davis,
D. Workman, G. Burgess.
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Texas Millionaire
Jesse Jones Dies at 82
HOUSTON, Tex., UP—Jesse H.
Jones, a Tennessee farm boy who
built one of the nation’s largest
fortunes despite only a fifth grade
education, is dead.
The wartime secretary of Com
merce and head of the Reconstruc
tion Finance Corp. died Friday
night at the age of 82.
He served under Presidents
Woodrow' Wilson, Herbert Hoover
and Franklin D. Roosevelt.
As the No. 1 citizen of Houston,
he built the skyline of the South’s
largest city,owning 25 buildings.
He was publisher of the Houston
Chronicle and owned three of the
city’s largest hotels.
Jones underwent an operation
March 28 for a kidney blockage.
Horses From Seattle
Are Sensation in Alaska
SEATTLE, U’'—The crew of the
motorship Susitna learned recent
ly that a horse is an animal some
Alaskans have never seen.
The Alaska Steamship Co. ves
sel carried three horses from Se
attle to Skagway. The animals
were a sensation.
School was dismissed at Met
lakatla so the children could see
the. horses.
The horses also received an en
thusiastic welcome at Wrangell.
Leo McCormick. Alaska Line
agent, said Wrangell had been,
literally, “a one-horse town” up
to 12 years ago, when the one
horse died. That meant Wrangell
children up to 12 years old had
never, seen a horse there.
May Weather Summary
May weather brought Nome the
first really warm weather of the
year, with the last ten days being
quite pleasant.
During the month, the snow
near town dwindled to a few iso
lated drifts, and the ice went out
of the local rivers. Tug boats and
barges, which spent the winter on
the banks, were put in the ater,
thus marking the start of our nav
igation season.
The average temperature for
the month was 38.8 degrees, 5.1
degrees wanner than normal. The
highest temperature was 62 on the
24th; lowest was 25 on the 12th
and the 13th.
Maps issued for the invasion of
Europe in WWII are estimated to
have cost more than $5,000,000
per month.
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Saturday Dance Nets
$500 For The Nome
Youth Center Fund
The benefit dance held last
Saturday at the school gym netted
more than $500 for the Youth
Center Fund. This leaves $2,500
more needed to pay for the trip
of Nome teen-agers to the “Good
Morning” TV show in New York
City June 29.
The cake, given by the North
The Arctic Combo from the
Bering Sea Club played for the
dance.
Star Bakery was won by Pat
Yates.
The punch sold at the dance
was donated by the Polaris Hotel.
The door prizes were awarded
as follows:
Ticket on Unalakleet excursion,
W. C. Stephenson; fox fur from
Polet’s, Arlene Muller; the camera
from Nome Drug, Airman Wells
of Nome Field; fishing rod, reel
and lure from Galvin, A1 Doyle;
steak dinner at Polaris Hotel, Vera
Siegwart, and $10 worth of rec
ords at Nome Specialty Sales, Sam
Haleson.
Next Saturday at The Theater
those who are going to New York
will be chosen.
The committee wishes to thank
all who helped make the dance a
success, and feel that the spirit
shown by the teen-agers to help
raise the money should set an
example to the rest of the com
munity. It truly shows that the
children themselves want and are
willing to work for a youth center.
! Doctor Puts Sick Pup
' In Hospital Incubator,
I Is Suspended From Staff
EDMONTON, Alberta, IdV-Dr.
, Eardley S. Allin, suspended from
membership on the medical staff
I of Royal Alexandra Hospital here,
said today he had “certainly no
! intention of deceiving anyone”
when he requested admission to
the hospital for a sick puppy, and
listed it in the nurses’ order book
as “Bahy Allin.”
The hospital board suspended
Dr. Allin by a majority vote, rul
ing that he violated regulations
by placing a sick puppy in one of
the hospital’s incubators, normal
ly used for caring for babies.
The puppy was later removed
from the hospital and died.
The dog, a seven-month-old toy
poodle, had contracted pneumonia.
Dr. Allin said: “My wife was
worn out and upset as if the pup
py had been a child, and she
pleaded with me, as a last resort,
to phone a hospital.”
He said there was no great ob
jection when he arrived at the
hospital,” possibly because the
nurses felt almost as sorry for the
animal as I did.”
Next morning the assistant su
perintendent of nurses said the
animal could not be kept there bul
“that I could take it home in the
incubator, which 1 did. The ani
mal died May 21.
He said he personally sterilized
the incubator before returning it
to the hospital, but the hospital
refused to accept it so he paid for
a new machine.
The ability to do without has
put many a man in a position to
do as he pleases.