THE NOME NUGGET
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YOU VL G^OT
DOLLARS SPENT HERE WORK FOR YOU
The dollars you spend in our community stay right
here. They go to work building our community and
eventually come back to you in civic improvements
and benefits. But—the dollars you spend and send out
side never work for you again.
Stay-at-Home Dollars help build our churches.
They build better schools and pay teachers’ salaries,
furnish fire protection and provide for the improve
ment of our health and youth programs that make
Nome a better place in which to live.
Look around your local stores a little more thor
oughly before you send that order out this spring and
ask your dealers for quantity prices and see what you
can save through him.
If you still decide to send your money stateside,
don’t complain to the City Council when the streets
get dusty, your sidewalk is broken and your taxes go
up! It’s all up to you.
MORE MOONS THAN VENUS
While we have our doubts that they’re cheaper by
the dozen, that’s the number of earth satellites the U.S.
Government will launch into the wild blue yonder dur
ing the International Geophysical Year, 1957-58. These
20-inch metal balls, stuffed with sundry instruments,
will weigh from 20 to 50 pounds. Each will be hoisted
about 300 miles above the earth by an 11-ton, 3-stage
rocket, touched off from the Florida sands and inclined
to drop its spent sections in the South Atlantic.
On reaching its ceiling, the satellite will be travel
ing about 18,000 mph., enabling it to circle the earth
every hour and a half. It may stav in its orbit for several
weeks or months or even longer, sending back various
data on what it’s like up there. They will also report
from that vantage point, say the experts, what it’s like
down here, giving us better information on our geog
raphy than the map-makers now have.
The cost, as voted by the House Appropriations
Committee, will be $19,262,000.
Actually, the scientists expect to make 18 of these
moonlets. hope to launch 12 and pray that at least eight
of them will stay Up there for a while. But if only one
does, we shall have definite proof that the world really
is round.
Stevenson Says “No Ifs,
Ands or Buts” Alaska
Deserves Statehood Now
CHICAGO, UP — Adlai Steven
son says “there should be Alaskan
statehood now, without delay,
without any ifs, ands or buts."
The Democratic presidential as
pirant’s stand was expressed in a
letter to William A. Egan, presi
dent of5 the Alaska constitutional
convention, released by Steven
son’s campaign headquarters Fri
day.
Stevenson took a poke at Presi
dent Eisenhower in the letter. He
said the President, in asking Con
gress in January to grant state
hood to Alaska and Hawaii, added
“almost as an afterthought, ‘I
trust that progress toward state
hood for Alaska can be made’.”
“Alaska,” Stevenson wrote,
“deserves more than ‘trust’ and
‘progress toward’ which are sym
bols of delay, indecision and
broken promises.”
He said, “statehood will bring
many gains not only to Alaska but
to the nation.”
Bela Sigma Phi
The Beta Sigma Phi Sorority
met Thursday at the home of
Mrs. Beverly Morgan with Mi's.
Rosie Woods as assistant hostess.
New officers were elected at the
meeting. They are:
Mrs. Beverly Morgan, president;
Mrs. Anita Mays, vice' president?
Mrs. Christine Carpenter, .secre
tary; Mrs. Barbara Martin, treas
urer; Mrs. Nancy Goodrich, cor
responding secretary; Mrs. Omie
McCarthy, director, and Mrs. Rose
Silverman, sponsor.
Mrs. Carolyn Reader was wel
comed back after a long absence
from the group.
The Beta Sigs’ Founder’s Day
Dinner , will be held April 27 at
7:30 for members and their guests.
The dinner will be held at the
Bering Sea Club.
There will be no other meeting
of Beta Sigma Phi this month, it
was announced Thursday. In May
there will be three meetings—on
the first, third and fifth Thurs
days.
University Students Fail
To Recognize The U.S.
Bill of Rights
KANSAS CITY, OPu—Would you
recognize the Bill of Rights if it
was shown to you in an “anony
mous” form?
A survey of 560 Northwestern
University students disclosed that
92J/fc per cent of them couldn't.
Dr. Raymond MacVen, North
western assistant professor of
sociology, reported all of the 560
students said they believe in the
Bill of Rights.
But when the first 10 amend
ments of the Constitution were
presented to them as an unidenti
fied document, most of the stu
dents didn’t know what they were
looking at.
A LAMB TO LEAD LIONS
LOS ANGELES, OP — Car] C.
Lamb has been chosen to head
the Lions Club here. Unopposed,
he was nominated unanimously
for president by the committee on
officers.
Today Is the Last
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Retirement of Gen. Gruenther
May Mean An Air Force Officer
Will Head Joint Chiefs of Staff
BY ELTON C. FAY <
WASHINGTON, UP)—The forth
coming retirement of Army Gen.
Alfred M. Gruenther may mean
the Air Force is a step nearer to
having an air officer picked as
chairman of the strategy-making
joint chiefs of staff.
The official announcement
Gruenther is leaving the Army
late this year seems to put an
end to persistent reports Presi
dent Eisenhower might name him
JCS chairman when a vacancy
occurs next year.
Until his retirement, Gruenther
will continue as supreme com
mander of NATO in Europe.
The service unification law un
der which the joint chiefs organi
zation was created does not speci
fy that the chairmanship must be
rotated among the services. How
ever, in the approximately eight
years of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
the organization has been headed
by one Army general (Omar Brad
ley) and one Navy admiral (Ar
thur Radford), each serving two
terms. The Air Force’s hope is
that at least a custom has been
established.
The Air Force may be confront
ed with choosing not one but two
officers for top spots next year—
the JCS chairmanship and the
post of chief of staff of the Air
Force. The second term of Gen.
Nathan F. Twining as USAF chief
will expire in June 1957.
Gen. Lauris Norstad, air deputy
to Gruenther and now designated
as Gruenther’s successor in the
Hit in Eye by Papar II9II,
Man Sues for $40,000
LOS ANGELES, UP)—When he
opened the peephole in his door,
Harry Macofsky said, a woman
1 process server poked the papers
through and they hit him in the
eye.
In his suit for $40,000, Macof
sky, a scrap metal dealer, charged
that Miss Edna Lee Alexander
had rolled the papers into a tight
tube and caused him a painful
injury which impaired his sight.
Supporting Nome and Seward Peninsula
through the
Northwestern Alaska
Chamber of Commerce
COMPLETE LIST FOR 1956 OF MEMBERS OF THE
NORTHWESTERN ALASKA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Polar Bar
Nome Liquor Store
Billikin Gift Shop
Polaris Hotel
Nome Drug Store
Wien Airlines, Inc.
Northern Commercial Co.
Miners & Merchants Bank
Wallace Hotel
Q Cab
Morgan & Son
Cavota’s Store
Alaska Telephone and
Telegraph Service
Polet’s Store
Trading Post
Glue Pot
Arctic Oil Delivery
Larry Galvin
Nome Publishing Co.
Alaska Steamship Co.
F. H. Molitor and Co.
Pan American Airways
Board of Trade
Lomen Commercial Co.
Arctic Sanitary Service
Pioneer Water Delivery
Alaska Cab
Nome Bakery
Nome Specialty Sales
The Theater
Dr. Fred Langsam
James von der Heydt
Russell Hermann
Rev. Don Bruckner
Rev. Thomas Knudson
Rev. Willard Mecklenburg
Judge Walter Hodge
Maj. F. Siegwart
Maj. R. Kolb
George Weyer
William Barber
A. E. Bohrer
Margaret Bohrer
Frank Morris
Mary E. Jolley
John McNees
supreme command of NATO forc
es, long has been mentioned in
speculation regarding both top
domestic posts.
President Eisenhower, with
whom Norstad served when the
Chief Executive was wartime
commander, has praised the young
general on several occasions.
However, Norstad will not take
over his new job until late this
year—which means he would be
in that post for little more than a
half year before the high com
mand vacancies occur in Wash
ington.
Among the upper echelon air
generals whose names also figure
in speculation over the chief of
staff and JCS chairman posts are:
Gen. Thomas D. White, vice
chief of the Air Force; Gen. Cur
tis E. LeMay, chief of the Strate
gic Air Command; Gen. Earle E.
Partridge, chief of the Air Defense
Command; Gen. Otto P. Yeyland,
chief of the Tactical Air Com
mand; and Gen. Laurence Kuter,
chief of the Far East Command.
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