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BEGINNINNG —
SEPTEMBER 29
The DINING ROOM and COFFEE SHOP
of the
BERING SEA CLUB
Will Be Open From
4 p.m, TO MIDNIGHT
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SPECIALIZING IN
CHOICE STEAKS - - - SALADS
and SEA FOODS
Hurricane-Helene Causes Great
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Damage to North Carolina Coast
WILMINGTON, N. C., iff) — Up
and down the coast stand houses
with- roofs ripped open. Battered
trees gleam nakedly against the
sky, their shorn limbs piled up
on streets and roads. Telephone
poles sag crazily.
On the miles of beaches, the
surf washes over tens of thous
ands of conch shells, more sou
venirs of the weekend’s hurri
cane Helene.
Damage from the hurricane is
estimated in the millions of dol
lars. But there is no loss of life.
Residents, recalling hurricanes
of 1954-55, were prepared when
Helene swirled past the Carolinas
and the Virginia capes, well off
shore, with winds up to 140 miles
an hour.
A Civil Defense spokesman said
the people “gave us no argument”
when asked to evacuate.
There were scattered personal
injuries. The Red Cross said 4,950
persons were cared for at 65
shelters.
Spinning shoreward Saturday
morning from the southeast, Hel
ene passed up most of South Car
olina’s lush resort area.
Moving toward the jutting
North Carolina coastline, she
smashed a 300-foot pier at Ocean
Isle Beach, N. C., damaged most
of the • houses at Holden Beach
and sent high water over the pro
tective sand dunes at Long Beach,
damaging roads. This was in the
forenoon.
She hit hardest at Southport,
tucked inside the elbow of the
Cape Fear, and Wilmington, 30
miles north. She never came in
land, staying about 35 miles off
shore. All communications were
knocked out at Southport and the
town was in need of water until
auxiliary pumps were brought in.
“The only thing that saved us,”
said some Southport citizens, was
that the winds and the tide were
working against each other.”
In 1883 Krakatoa erupted in the
Netherlands Indies and violent
explosions destroyed two thirds
Of the island. Sea waves occurred
as far away as Cape Horn, and
possibly England. It is estimated
that 36,000 were killed.
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Butrovich Calls
For Creating State
Board of Education
John Butrovich, Republican
candidate for Governor, last week •
called for the creation of a State
Board of Education to keep poli
tics out of the school system.
Butrovich, in the opening speech
of his campaign in Anchorage,
spoke before the Anchorage Re
publican Club at Loussac Library.
His talk was carried on both TV
and radio.
Noting that under Alaska’s
new Constitution, the first state
hood governor could appoint a
Commissioner of Education, Butro
vich said:
“If I am elected I shall urge
the Legislature to create a State
Board of Education, with author
ity to select the Commissioner of
Education subject to approval of
the Governor. That would insure
that the appointment would be
made on the basis of qualifica
tion. It would keep politick out
of the school system.”
Butrovich commended the pres
ent school system, which he
called one of the best, if not the
best, among all the states. His
proposal, he said, would continue
that system.
Butrovich said he was certain
Alaska could meet the problems
of transition from a Territory to
Statehood, “providing the Legis
lature does not try to go too far
too fast.”
“Alaska has felt growing pains
for some time and our govern
ment is now big business,” .he
said. “The budget in 1945 was ap
proximately $5,000,000 for the
biennium. In 1957 it was approx
imately $40,000,000. It has not
been easy to hold the line and
still carry on the normal func
tions of government.
P-TA Meeting Tuesday
Tomorrow evening the program
of the P-TA meeting will center
on parents meeting the teachers,
many of whom are new to the
community. There will be reports
for last year, and some music has
been planned. All parents are
urged to attend.
NORTH STAR N<"*'V
SERVICING NOME
The MS North Star arrived in
the roadstead yesterday, and is
discharging Nuniva’- reindeer for
Eskimo families. The King Is
land and Diomede residents are
scheduled to depart today or to
morrow.
Navy Ships in Operation Deep
freeze have made the deepest pen
etration into Antarctica’s ice
clogged seas of any ships in
history.
Nome Directory
Norfhwesiern Alaska
Chamber of Commerce
Meets Every Monday Noon at
North Siar Dining Room
Jerry Manning, President
ALASKA CHAPTER,. NO l
Order of Eastern Star
\'$■ jj Milared Harwood
> M't Worthy Matron
Helen Dunbai
V Secretary
Meets First and Third Mondays
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No. 140
J. A. von der Heydt, W.M.
Norvji v . Lewis, Sec.
Recessed Until Oct. 2
NOME ROTARY CLUB
Jim Blannins
r- i President
Bob Grant
t- Secretary
Wednesday Luncheon