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VOL. LVIII No. 79NOME, ALASKA,
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City of Nome
th of July
Program-1956
10:00 a.m. — CHILDREN’S SPORTS
American Legion, Post 19. Bob Emmons, chairman
25-yard Dash (GirU 5 to 7).$3.00 2.00 1.00
25-yard Dash (Boys 5 to 7). 3.00 2.00 1.00
30-yard Dash (GirU 9 to 9). 3.00 2.00 1.00
50-yard Dash (Boys 9 o 9). 3.00 2.00 1.00
50-yard Dash (GUIs 10 to ID. 3.00 2.00 1.00
75-yard Dash (Boys 10 to ID. 3.00 2.00 1.00
75-yard Dash (GUU 12 to 14). 3.00 2.00 1.00
100-yard Dash (Boys 12-14). 3.00 2.00 1.00
25-yard Sack Race (Boys 10-13) 3.00 2.00 1.00
25-yard Sack Race (GUU 10-13). 3.00 2.00 1.00
25-yard 3-Legged Race (Boys 10-13). 3.00 2.00 1.00
25-yard 3-Legged Race (Girls 10 to 13). 3.00 2.00 1.00
Shoe Scramble (13 years and under). 3.00 2.00 1.00
15-yard Tricycle Race (Boys ft GirU, 3 yrs.) 2.00 1.00
20-yard Tricycle Race (GUU 4 to 5). 2.00 1.00
20-yard Tricycle Race (Boys 4 to 5). 2.00 1.00
50-yard Bicycle Race (Boys ft Girls, 6 to 7) 3.00 2.00 1.00
75-yard Bicycle Race (Boys ft GirU, 8 to 9) 3.00 2.00 1.00
100-yard Bicycle Race (GUU 10 to 11). 3.00 2.00 1.00
100-yard Bicycle Race (Boys 10 to 11). 3.00 2.00 1.00
100-yard Bicycle Race (GirU 12-14). 3.00 2.00 1.00
Vi-miU Bicycle Race (Boys 12-14). 3.00 2.00 1.00
25-yard Egg Race (Married Women Only).... 3.00 2.00 1.00
Giant Tug-of-War (North vs. South)
Pie Eating Contest (Boys ft GUU. 8 to 12) 3.00 2.00 1.00
FREE ICE CREAM FOR THE CHILDREN
Under Direction Nome Volunteer Fire Department
1:30 p.m. — PARADE Bob Emmons, Director
Military Band Coast Guard Units Boy Scouts
Legion Color Guard Air Force Units Girl Scouts
Army Units Alaska Nat'l Guard Cub Scouts
Nary Units CAP Cadets Brownie Scouts
2:00 p.m. — PATRIOTIC EXERCISES
John A. McNees. Master oi Ceremonies
Inrocation . Her. Willard Mecklenburg
National Anthem ... Military Band
Address of Welcome . Mayor Steffen Andersen
Address of Day . Got. B. Frank Heintsleman
"My Country Tis of Thee" . Military Band
Benediction . Father Neil Murphy
3:00 p.m. — ESKIMO SPORTS J°e Amarok. Chairman
High Kicking. Man. 6.00 4.00
High Kicking, Women . 6.00 4.00
Blanket Tossing. Men... 5.00 2.00
Blanket Tossing. Womeiy.. 5.00 2.00
Eskimo Dancing, Men and Women
Eskimo Wrestling (Best 2 out of 3 tails). 10.00 5.00
4:00 p.m. — MILITARY BAND CONCERT
In Front of Federal Building
5:00 p.m. — RETREAT Military Band and Color Guard
6:00 p.m. — BICYCLE RODEO
COMMITTEE IN CHARGE
Mayor Steffen Andersen, Council men Wilbur Arnold and Fred Carota
Public Address System — Juke Box Store
Man Commits Suicide
On Second Attempt
Jumps From ‘
SAN FRANCISCO,
police said, is how William Wai
Lum Chun died:
Chun, 34, jumped out of his
fifth floor room at the YMCA
hotel yesterday.
Badly injured, he climbed to
the roof of the 13-story building
he
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$2,000 WORTH OF BANG
FROM ORE FIRECRACKER
HOBBS, N.M., m—An uniden
tified boy who purchased a hand
ful of firecrackers over the week
end got a lot of bang for his
money.
Mrs. Opal Brock, operator of a
fireworks stand in Texas five
miles east of Hobbs, said the
youngster bought some firecrack
ers, walked outside, lit one and
threw it back into the stand.
The resulting explosion and fire
destroyed the stand and a truck.
Loss was estimated at $2,000,
Jack Whaley Killed in
Crash Near Granite Mt.
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Nome Group
Returns Fronn
New York City
Chief of Police Carl Wtbb and
three Eskimo teen-ager; who
have been in New York City on
TV, returned today load«<: down
with souvenirs, memories and
stories of their adventuie which
will take weeks to tell.
Webb said there wasri’1 much I
they didn’t see, as their limited
time permitted, as news papers,
other organizations and individ
uals were wonderful in taking
them around the city. liven the
two sons of Will Rogers «li‘, came
to see them from their h me in ,
Qklahoma.
Phillip Webb, who was tj have
been on the "Good Mornii g” TV
show with them, was pul. >n an
other show, the ‘‘Pametei Good”
show—a TV program frtu. ■ chi.
dren, as the Nome shov was
strictly an Eskimo prodtc ion. ]
When the group left New Yorrc |
last Sunday they were inte -view- i
ed by the Associated Press in the j
Seat of Honor at Intern..tional ;
Airport.
Phillip Webb was left at Ta- J
coma as he suffered an attack of j
appendicitis and is now i t the
hospital there.
Chief Webb said he feels that
the goal of the trip, which v’as to
raise funds for a youth venter,
in Nome, has met with mo it fa- !
vorable results and morn y is
coming in small amounts irc-m all
over the country. Contr •b.rtions
are being received from peoFple
who liked the show, from people
who have visited Alaska, and
from children who want to help
get the Youth Center started and
from many other unetp'?^ted j
sources.
Jack Whaley, who recently took over the man
agement jf Munz Airways, was found dead in the
wreckage of hu plane early this morning about *0
mile.* southwest of Granite Mountain or approximately
18O miles from Nome.
'.V);aley lent Nome yesterday morning with a loud
of produce for the Morrison-Knudson Company con
Airborne Rnda; Wing
To Operate Between
Hawaii and Aleutians
HONOLULU The Navy has
commissioned tne first two squad
rons o? an airt/urne early waning
radar wiug which will operate 40
Super Constellations be'ween Ha
waii and the Aleutians.
The big '.org-range .radar
planes, operating steadily across
the Norii Pacific, will establish
an extension of the continental
distant radar waning line which
stretches across A.aska and the
artti -• regions of Canada.
The Navy said commissioning
of two more squadrons would
follow yesterday’s activation. It
said crews will begin training
flight immediately, but did not
say -then the airborne radsr proj
ect would be in full oneration.
Bartlett ;Vsks Issue of
Salmon Stamp in Sitka
WASHINGTON, (#1—Delegate
Bartlett proposed lodny that a
soon to be issued commemorative
postage st.ur.p honoring the king
salmon be given its first day sale
at Sitka.
He broached his idea m a letter
tn Albert J. Robertson, assistant
Tiost nasler general suggesting
the stamp be placeu on sale Oct.
1, which is the 89 th anniver
sa’y of the trar.s.er of Alaska by
Russia, to the United States,
which occurred in Sitka.
'itruction site war Haycock.
When he did not arrive on ;chcd
tue, a search was organized, wivt.
3)1 available aircraft searching
the hilly area along the course
from here to Haycock.
The area searched was not on«y
hilly but wooded in patches,
which made it hard to see, es
pecially as there wos an overcast
and some fog.
The plane, a twin -engine De
Haviland Dove recently put into
service here, was spotted ac 9:35
last eve: ing by a CAT plane
owned by Martin Oh.on and flown
by Bill Doyle wi‘h Martin Olson
as observer.
As is was impossible to land,
they reported back to Moses
Point.
An Air Force Albatross v-ith
paramedics aboard was sent frrm
Fairbanks and was directed to
the wreck, which was d’rectly on
course. About 5:00 this morning
two medics wer. dropped who
ascertained that Wha'ey was
dead.
Mrs Whaley and three children
v/ete scheduled to arrive today
from Fairbanks to mak: their
home he e.
Whaley came to Nome as a
young man with his .pother and
two brothers and spent several
years here. His b:ether, Frank
Whaley, row director of the Al
aska Visitors Association, is liv
ing in Anchorage, and George
Whaley and family are with Pan
American Airways in Seattle.
Whaley was sssoctated lor Sev
eral years with Wier. Airlines and
was active in community affairs
in Fairbanks. I-Ie resigned from
Wiens and the Fairbanks City
Council to take over the manage
ment of ,'4unz Airways.
A helicopter is scheduled to
meet a Munz plane a‘. Mos* -s
Point somt ’(me todky, according
to Jack Jet.Kins, v.'ho was ; -soci
ateu with Whaley here, to bring
out thf- body
Other flye.-* known to have as
sisted r, til" search are fif»j
Ro>t. Kolb of the Alaska Nations.
Guard, Boo Jacob.; Jo'm Hutch
ison, and Eddy llaucn, all a.’
Alaska A.dines, Howard .Mays oa
.Safeway ah ways and J«.ckJ»nl
ins of MunL Airways.
TH1TT HAS BET *ER LUCK
DENVER. I/ft—Mrs. Frances R.
Karsh attempted to start ner 1952
ear bu„ no Ivvk. A. hither motorist
gave the c:r a push for several
blocks. Still it -wouldn’t f.tart Sh*
Uf. he car * ith tk" *.ej 3 U u.
Returning two hoe.-s Is ter, .he
fcjnd *er iw hao I’wn sioi*n.
First Polish Rebels Put on Trial
As Rumors Multiply in Poznan
BERLIN, Oft—The Red P>lish
rulers of purge-ridden Poznan to
day put on trial he first ol the
rebel workers jailed after last
week's bloody three-day revolt.
A responsible Communist affi
cial arriving from Poznan 3aid
the workers were taken lrom
prison and put before secret po
lice courts.
But the Communist added the
police trials were only for “sec
ondary” violators among the h un
dreds of rebel workers jailed by
the Communist security forces.
No Executions
“I know of no executions 'hat
have taken place,” he said. He
added that during his stay in Poz
nan he had been in contact with
Polish officials.
The Communist, who is not a
Pole himself, asked his narte ind
nationality be withheld.
Two Danish businessmei who
reached Ber'in from Poznan this
morning told newsmen fhe ter
rorized cHy was full of rumors
and one of the." is that some ex
ecutnrvs of workers took piano as
early as .Tune 29—th» day the
revolt began.
You Choice of Rumor
**But we never heard anything
lo confirm these rumors,' one of
Ute Danish businessmen sa»d
“Poznan now is the pli;e whale
yea can pick up any kind of ru
mor you want.”
The tria's come as Poland's
ruling Com nunis-’ Party crack, d
down on “) ix arid cowardly” offi
cials charged w». h failing to head
off the Poznan revolt.
ADN, the official r»trws agency
of ComirurJst East Germany, said
Polish leaders had launch^-* iu
vestigavons to fine oof why party
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