THE NOME NUGGET
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Tourist Industry Needs Support
Tourist season draws near again and with it comes
the responsibility of local business houses to support
the industry with their financial backing.
This is done through the Alaska Visitors Assn., a
co-ordinating group for the territory, specially set up to
sell Alaska to tour agencies and the traveling public
through stateside publicity. This organization has had
its struggles growing up and getting the confidence of
businessmen throughout the territory, but it is steadily
growing with the industry.
Local Chamber of Commerce Chairman Richard
Benson is working hard to get as many voting member
ships from Nome as possible. For several years there
has been but one merchant with faith enough in the
organization to pay for this membership. This year
there are several locally owned businessmen who have
pledged their support, and it is hoped other business
houses will join in during the present campaign and
give their support with memberships. The names of
all Nome members will be published in the near future.
GOOD NEWS FOR THE COMMUNISTS
If a survey made by the Opinion Research Cor
poration among seniors in 86 high schools scattered
across the country is correct, there is something alarm
ingly wrong with American education.
According to the results, 82 percent of these stu
dents do not believe we have competition in business;
60 percent feel owners get too large a share of the
profits; 61 percent reject the profit motive as necessary
to the survival of our free system; 55 percent accept
the classic Communist doctrine of “from each accord
ing to ability, to each according to need,” and 60 per
cent think a worker should not produce all he can.
This should make the men in the Kremlin happy.
For, if such views are widely held and acted upon by
our citizens of tomorrow, we will destrov this nation
from within—which is what the Communists want
beyond anything else.
Nome would be greatly improved if all owners of
* houses would have them repaired, painted, and reno
vated. You would hardly recognize the place.
Sen. Jackson Asks
Eisenhower to
Endorse Statehood
WASHINGTON, I*—Sen. Ja4k
son (D-Wash> Saturday called on
President Eisenhower to endorse
Alaska statehood.
Only through such action, the
chairman of the Senate Territor
ies subcommittee said, is it likely
the Senate would consider acting
on separate bills to admit both
Alaska and Hawaii.
Jackson said he has been urged
by supporters of both territories
to have his committe approve
separate bills since House rejec
tion of the combined bill.
“In the absence of affirmative
action toward Alaska by the
President, however, I feel any
action by our committee would be
a waste of time,” Jackson said.
The senator, who favors the
statehood for both territories, said
he feels there should be no dis
crimination between the two.
He noted that Eisenhower, at a
recent news conference, said he
felt the two territories should be
treated in separate bills.
“But no one asked him the next
question — would he treat them
alike? From what he has said so
far, the impression is that he
would veto an Alaskan bill,” said
Jackson.
The President has frequently
endorsed immediate statehood for
Hawaii, but never for Alaska. In
connection with consideration of
the joint bill, the President recent
ly advised Jackson that while he
felt no bill could remove his pre
sent apprehensions over Alaska,
he would give the proposal his
“earnest consideration” if it in
cluded a provision authorizing the
creation of military reservations
in roughly Jialf the territory.
20-Year Dream Becomes
Nightmare as Thugs
Take $3,000 Trip Money
NEW YORK, UP) —The 20-year
dream of a trip to her native Italy
has become a nightmare for Mrs.
Rose Colavito.
. She and her .husband, Mike,
I saved meagre sums over the years
while they raised their seven
children. Recently reaching a to
tal of $3,000, the couple decided
to fly to Italy July 6.
Friday 55-y<ear-old Mrs. Cola
vito took the money out of the
bank to buy plane tickets and get
ready for the trip.
Near her Brooklyn home two
young thugs robbed her, beat her
and slashed her arm with a knife.
Demo Chairman Butler
Accuses Administration
Of ‘Mishandling’ Vaccine
CLEVELAND, IA*>—Democratic
National Chairman Paul M. Butler
Saturday accused the Eisenhower
Administration of “mishandling”
the Salk polio vaccine situation.
Butler spoke of “heartbreaking
confusion” and said “a thorough
government inspection in the be
ginning could have avoided this
confusion.”
The Democratic chairman struck
out at the administration on this
and other counts in a speech pre
pared for a meeting of the Federa
tion of Democratic Women of
Ohio.
He said U.S. Surgeon General
Leonard A. Scheele, head of the
Public Health Service, “has pro
claimed his faith in the vaccine
and no one will quarrel with his
recommendation for a more thor
ough check.”
“But it is difficult to under
stand,” Butler added, “why the
government didn’t take the lead
ership in the beginning and thus
avoid the mishandling that has
occurred. . . .”
Mary Elizabeth Jolley
To Join Nome Welfare
Office Staff In August
The Department of Public Wel
fare has announced that Miss
Mary Elizabeth Jolley will join
the staff of the Nome District Of
fice about August 1.
Miss Jolley has been a child
welfare worker with the Juneau
District Office since January 1954.
Her undergraduate study was at
Lindenwood College in Missouri.
She received her Master’s degree
in social work from Smith College.
She has a background of both
public assistance and child wel
fare work in the Midwest and on
the East Coast.
Mrs. Salisbury, district repre
sentative, will endeavor to attend
to the most essential child welfare
problems in the interim between
Miss Isabel Miller’s leaving and
Miss Jolley’s arrival in Nome.
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Visiting Girl Scout Official
Helps Local Committee in
Plans for Coming Year
Rosemary Murray, of the Na
tional Field Staff of the Girl
Scouts of America who is on a
visit to all Alaskan troops from
the Seattle branch office, arrived
Friday. She met with the local
Scout committee to discuss the
growing importance of the work
here. She assisted the committee
with many of their problems and
was an inspiration to them, stated
the chairman, Mrs. Jack Jenkins,
for the program planned for the
coming year. I
The committee honored the
guest with a dinner at the Bering
Sea Club. In the party .were Mrs.
Jack Jenkins, Mrs. Bob Emmons,
Mrs. Pete Reader, Mrs. Charles
Fagerstrom, Mrs. V i g g o Wal
terson, Mrs. Boyd Harwood, Mrs.
Carl Glavinovich, Mrs. W. Barber
and Mrs. Ben Goins.
TAKES QUEEN'S COMMAND
TO MAKE DOG OBEY
WINDSOR, England, IM — Rex
is an English sheepdog who does
n’t like rain, but will obey a royal
command.
Rex was taking part in the dog
parade at the Royal Horse Show
here Friday. It began to pour and
Red scuttled into the royal en
closure whbn Queen Elizabeth II
was seated.
His master called him 'back.
Kennel boys whistled at him. But
Rex remained at the Queen’s
feet.
“Rex,” said the Queen, “go back
to the pack.”
Rex went back,.
11 PLANES TO AUSTRALIA
ON GOOD WILL MISSION
SYDNEY, Australia, (if) — The
first of 11 U.S. Air Force planes
coming to Australia on a good
will mission—a giant Globemaster
transport—landed today at Wil
liamstown, 116 miles from Syd
ney. The 11 American planes are
coming from the Far East Air
Force.
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