THE NOME NUGGET
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Entered as second class matter October 14. 1943, at the
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Welcome to the Midnight Sun Festival
THE ANNUAL MIDNIGHT SUN FESTIVAL gets
underway this evening at 7 when the Promen
ade starts on Front St. with everyone strolling in their
Gold Rush costumes.
To have fun, one must be part of the act and get
into character for the Festival.
Accessories and materials are available for cos
tuming. Vests, hats, false beards, imitation nugget
jewelry, ladies’ and men’s straw hats, flowers, plumes
add to the gaiety of the occasion.
To newcomers to the community, oldtimers offer
a bit of advice which is to take advantage of the mid
night sun tour which is offered. To see the sun at mid
night where yesterday and tomorrow meet and the
Iron Curtain draws an imaginary line is a never-to
be forgotten experience.
Have fun and live as they did in that era before
taxes!!!
\ T’was Midnight in Alaska
Only forty-five below,
The moon was shining brightly
O’er the glittering ice and snow,
I The caribou were huddled
On a Northern Arctic hill
As the hungry wolves howled madly,
And circled for the kill.
The night was dark and lonely \
A sight your blood to chill,
T’was the land of the Northern Husky
And the home of Sourdough Bill.
Bill lived in a squatty cabin
Just north of the Kuskukwim
In the years of old in search of gold
His hopes have never grown dim.
I’ll find that lode by thunder
If ifc takes the rest of my life,
Then he sipped at his cup of coffee
And grinned at his Eskimo wife.
Now the moral of this story
Is to keep you’re courage strong
Though the way of life is weary
I And the path’s been rough and long.
—By Stanley Davis
| Rickover Says
Service Academies
Should he Banned
WASHINGTON WV—Vice Adm.
Hyman G. Rickover says Congress
ought to consider abolishing the
service academies “if drastic
steps are not taken immediately
to improve them.”
The sharp-tongued Rickover, an
Annapolis graduate, leveled this
and other blasts at service prac
tices in secret testimony last May
to the House Appropriations Com
mittee. His remarks were made
public Sunday.
Rickover lumped all the service
academies in his general criticism
but for the most part confined his
detailed comments to Annapolis
and its products.
The admiral did fire one direct ,
broadside at the Army’s West
Point in sarcastic discussion of
an Army psychiatrist’s study of
why so many cadets have to be
dropped from the corps.
On the basis of the psychia
trist’s findings, Rickover said, he
doubts whether such military
leaders as Alexander the Great,
Hannibal, Julius Caesar, Napo
leon, George Washington, John
Paul Jones, Ulysses Grant or
David Farragut “could have made
the grade at West Point.”
Rickover said midshipmen at
the Naval Academy “are a regi
mented group being trained for
a Navy which no longer exists by
officers, many of whom do not j
know the real needs of today’s |
Navy and who are not aware that
they don’t know.”
The 61-year-old officer, no no
vice at treading on the toes of
service brass, also had some
harsh words for the way the Navy
is run. If a business were operated
the same way, he said, it would
be ruined unless it had unlimited
capital or employed “a damn good
forger.”
As a start toward improving
things, he advocated getting rid
of nearly one-third of the Navy’s
officers.
He also shocked the committee
with the usual statement that he
did not need any more money
for nuclear reactors, wasn’t ask
ing for more and might well
be returning some funds previ
ously made available.
Navy Uses Largest
Stimulated Ocean
WASHINGTON UP — The Navy
Tuesday began using what it
claims is the largest stimulated
ocean in the world.
Enclosed in a five-acre building,
the basin is intended for testing
ship models under realistic rough
sea conditions. Such tests help the
Navy predict the performance of
full-scale vessels.
The basin, with a capacity of
12 million gallons, is a rectangu
lar concrete structure, 240 feet
wide by 360 feet long, with a
water depth of 20 to 35 feet.
The test basin is equipped with
21 devices for creating waves up
to 24 inches in height.
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Reason Shows Khrushchev Will Not
Precipitate a Showdown on Berlin . . .
By J. M. Roberts
Associated Press News Analyst
There are reasons for believing
that Premier Khrushchev will not
I precipitate the showdown over
Berlin which his last ultimatum
I seems to promise.
Not primarily because he left
a similar ultimatum expire with
| out action two years ago, but be
■ cause of factors inherent in the
situation itself.
The Soviet Union cannot back
I its Berlin demands with the threat
I of war, because nobody would
! believe she meant it.
The only conceivable circum
stances which might entice the
Soviets into the dangers of hot
war would be a strike for quick
world domination in the face of
threatened defeat in the cold war.
That would require an all-out
strike against the United States
and Western Europe, not merely
at one of the outposts where
limited action would invite the
same massive retaliation as would
the larger objective.
If this thesis is accepted, it
then appears that even a modicum
of allied firmness about keeping
open the West’s communications
with Berlin will be sufficient to
scotch any conquest of the city
by blackmail.
There is considerable difference
between a risky offensive to eject
a bone from Russia’s political
threat and an allied defense of
the key point in the whole Eu
ropean front against Communism.
On the one side the reasons are
not sufficiently compelling, on the
other they are.
If Khrushchev recognizes these
deficiencies in his own position,
why does he then continue a po
litical operation which may pro
duce no material gain?
The answer may lie in another
question. Isn’t the operation
i - —
1 actually producing a gain for
i him as things go now?
On one side we have a nation
which is trying to convince politi
cally undeveloped areas that it
has a system which produces dy
namic power and a quick rise in
the world.
On the other side are nations
which are in retreat from their
former masterful relations with
these very impressionable areas,
faced down by the rise of nation
alism which the Sino-Soviet
bloc seeks to harness and control
for its own purposes, and too fat
to be enthusiastic about a hard
fight.
At home and in his Eastern Eu
ropean empire Khrushchev plays
on very real fears of a united and
resurgent Germany which not
long ago terrorized the entire
area.
In the world he barks and the
Western powers go into a tizzy,
shivering from peak to peak of
crisis, seeking to avoid the bite
of a new world power. This makes
it appear that the Communist
system has done for the Soviet
Union just what her Premier
claims it can do for other emerg
ing nations.
Doesn’t that represent a con
tinuing profit for a continuing
operation, rather than any im
mediate hope for world recogni
tion of the division of Germany
and control of Berlin?
Queen to Host Billy Graham
LONDON (j'P) — A Buckingham
Palace spokesman said today
Queen Elizabeth II has invited
Billy Graham and his wife to
tea on Thursday.
The American evangelist is on
a revival campaign in Britain.
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, .. —--For Americans Today—I
Expectancy in years
1900- 1919- 1929- 1939- 1949- 1958 !
02 21* 31* 41 51
•White males only.
Source Moalth Information Foundation j
One of the most important results of medical progress in this
century has been a large increase in the average American's work
ing-life expectancy. But, thanks to longer life spans in general,
tne average person also spends
more time outside the labor force
—in school when he is young and
in retirement later.
Health Information Foundation
points out that an American male
baby born in 1958 had a working
life expectancy of 42.3 years, or
11.2 years over the comparable
figure for a baby born in the
1900-02 period. (See chart.) The
working-life expectancy of Amer
ican females has also increased
sharply, from an average of 6.9
years in 1900-02 to 19.9 years in
1958.
During the same period, the
Foundation adds, the average
number of non-working years for
males increased from 16.8 to 24.1.
Thus young men now enter the
labor force more than two years
later, on the average, than was
true at the turn of the century.
And retirement-life expectancy
has more than double* J—fion: 2.7
3
years for a 20-year-old male in
1900 to 6.3 years in 1958.
According to the Foundation,
the increases in both working and
non-working years are part of a
larger trend—the “remarkable in
crease in life expectancy” (or ex
pectation of life from birth to
death). Life expectancy for males
at birth rose from 47.9 years in
1900-02 to 66.4 in 1958, or by
18.5 years.
Longer working-life expectancy
“has been of basic importance in
increasing both national and per
sonal income,” comments George
Bugbee, Foundation President.
“Added work years are one dra
matic result of better and wiser
use of medical care. The oppor
tunity remains for fr^’ ->• im
provement as fhp j s
greater a age ua muacrn
health 'j.i vices.”