THE NOME NUGGET
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Entered as second class matter October 14, 1943, at the
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wTo Good St. Patrick’
THE FOLLOWING is a poem given by Dr. Hill at
a banquet of the Knights of Robert Emmet in
Nome on March 17th, 1908.
This toast was written by Esther Birdsall Darl
ing, and was sent to the Nugget by Nomeite George
Goshaw .
On that St. Patrick’s Day, the Sons of Ireland
marched eastward on Front Street, from Steadman,
opposite Dan Kelley’s Bucket of Blood Liquorium,
eastward to the Sons of Norway Hall on First Revenue
for food and drink.
“We’ll drink in White Alaska, • x
To the green of Emerald Isle,
Where men are brave and maids are fair,
And Nature seems to smile.
We’ll drink to the Irish rover,
Who drifts toward the frozen pole,
Or toils in the heat of the tropics,
Yet is Irish, Heart and Soul.
We’ll drink to Robert Emmet,
And the Cause he knew was Right,
We’ll drink to Peace with Honor,
Or chance for an honest fight.
We’ll drink to good St. Patrick,
And what he did at Home,
In keeping snakes from the Irish,
MAY HE DO FOR HIS SONS IN NOME ! ”
For These Tragic Victims
EACH SPRING WE AMERICANS rededicate our
selves to the task of helping our neighbors in
need. March is Red Cross Month — a time when we
join and serve with the organization that is on the
job when we need it most. Carrie McLain, Chairman
of the local Red Cross Chapter, has announced the
annual fund raising campaign begins next week.
Local organizations are co-operating by manning a
table in the Post Office foyer.
It may be that tragedy will never strike Nome on
a large scale again. We hope it doesn’t. It may be
that you will never have a loved one in military serv
ice stricken. We hope you do not. It may be that
floods will never again sweep over our area, nor fires
destroy our dwellings. We hope and pray that they
will not.
But there are places where real tragedy does
strike — There are areas devastated by winds and 4
floods, and fires, where people are made homeless.
It is for these that we need and can appreciate
the Red Cross today.
Give your contribution at the Post Office next
week.
Dice Patron Wins Fortune
Before Luck Deserts Him
LAS VEGAS, Nev., OP) — A
gambling casino has gotten back
$9,000 of the $35,000 a Californian
won during a hot run of dice at
the crap table.
Jack Callie of Beverlie Hills, the
lucky shooter, started with $10
and during his fantastic streak
everyone who could crowd up to
the table was betting along with
him. In two hours the house was
reported to have lost $112,000.
A spokesman for the casino said
Callie came back the next night
and dropped $9,000 before decid
ing his luck had run out. He is
president of the Beverly Hills
Bridge Club.
Key West Now Places 2nd
In ‘Southernmost’ Status
KEY WEST, Fla., — No long
er is Key West the southernmost
city in the United States. Con
gress saw to that in voting to ad
mit Hawaii to the union.
Mayor Delio Cobo, after a look
at a map confirmed his worst sus
picions, wired Honolulu’s mayor:
“Congratulations to the south
ernmost city in the U. S. from Dr.
Delio Cobo, mayor of Key West
— formerly the southernmost city
in the U.S.”
Key West, like most of the Flo
rida Keys, is situated between 24
and 25 degrees north of the equa
tor. Honolulu is 21 degrees, 19
minutes north.
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Interior Department Orders Closure
Of Bristol Bay Salmon Fishing Waters
JUNEAU, lif) — Alaskan fisher
men received a rude shock Friday
when the Interior Department
ruled closure of the Bristol Bay
salmon area for all of 1959.
Acting Governor Hugh Wade
immediately said the state has a
“just claim for compensation”
from the Federal government be
cause of the decision which will
seriously affect the economy of
the area.
The closure, which would affect
all but small subsistence-type nets
used by local residents, was or
dered to permit more adequate
spawning escapement. There had
been some hope, recently, that
some restrictions would be im
posed, but not a total ban.
Republican Rep. Jay Hammond
of Naknek said the closure would
affect more than 3,000 residents
of some 21 villages of the Bristol
Bay area. The Legislature already
has approved a memorial asking
Congress to compensate the fish
ermen.
The announcement of the clo
sure reverberated around the na
tion. In the nation’s capitol, Wash
ington Sen. Warren Magnuson an
nounced the appointment of Sen.
Bartlett as chairman of a sub
committee to conduct hearings on
a bill to prohibit importation of
all salmon caught under condi
tions violating sound conservation
practices. The bill, introduced by
Magnuson, Bartlett and Alaska
Sen. Ernest Gruening,' is designed
to curtail Japanese fishing in the
North Pacific.
“The United States provides the
largest market for the Japanese
f. «
salmon industry,” Magnuson said.
“It is unfair for our fishermen to
be subjected to destructive foreign
competition on the one hand, and
the simultaneous destruction of
the resources on which their live
lihood depends.”
W. C. Arnold, managing director
of Alaska Salmon Industry, Inc.,
said in Seattle his group had
hoped to take from 250,000 to
300,000 cases of salmon from the
Bristol Bay area this year even
tinder previously proposed cur
tailments.
Wade Starts Village
Relief Program
With Harbor Funds
JUNEAU, — Temporary pub
lic works programs, aimed at re
lieving economic distress in six
Southeastern Alaska villages,
were instituted Friday by acting
Governor Hugh J. Wade.
The programs were for the vil
lages of Hoonah, Klawock, Hyda- '
burg, Kake, Angoon and Craig.
The action came after Wade ap
proved a bill authorizing a trans
fer of unobligated harbor funds to
finance the programs. The law
limits expenditures in any one
village up to $10,000.
Wade also said his state bud
get would contain a $250,000 item
to cover similar programs in other
distressed communities of Alaska.
A committee of three will admin
ister the program in each of the
six villages and th*e money is to
be used only to cover labor costs.
Paul Gagnon, head of the Alas
ka Rural Development Board,
was appointed by Wade to admin
ister the overall program.
In 1921 the Navy installed the
first radio set in the White House.
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