THE NOME NUGGET
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Entered as second class matter October 14, 1943 at the
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THE PROMPTER
THERE’S A SONG
By HAROLD SALISBURY
There’s a song in the charm of the Arctic
Where the psalms of the barren terrain
Resound o’er the vast of the tundra
And sing o’er the Bering domain,
There is music abroad in its greatness
That stirs in your soul as you stand
And drink in the melodic essence
And gaze o’er this mystical land,
There are leagues of untouched desolation,
There are regions unknown and untrod,
There are oceans defying intrusion
And ice-fields known only to God !
But the glory that beams in its presence
And the song that its countenance sings
Wakes a counterpart song in the spirit
As you sense the deep rapture it brings,
' JKIHE
But a paradox lives in the Arctic
As many a paradox may
For the useless and beautiful tundra
In her careless and mystical way
Veils vast veins of the metal of yellow,
- Hides vaults of the costliest dust
Which, by bitter, long winter is guarded
From the touch of the traveller’s lust,
But lured by the North and its greatness
Man greatly devises his way
And when Eunich-blizzards of Winter
Withdraw to indulge a short stay
« He forces her silence with power,
- Overcomes her resistance with stealth
Through the season of nightless existence,
And steals from her ancestral wealth ! -
Oh, the gold that through centuries unnumbered
Has brought both man’s pleasure and woes!
The metal intrinsically worthless,
Which, by marking the high, brands the low,
The stuff that brings pomp in its courtege,
The stuff that obscures the true goal
Which, man in his arrogance worships
And for which he barters his soul!
But the gold in her hidden recesses
Man may take with his blood, sweat and skill
For the tangible things,- they are transient
And exist but to die with man’s will!
But the gold that’s the charm of the Arctic
Resounds o’er her mystic domain
In the song of her transcendent beauty
With its sweet, everlasting refrain.
Alaska Caribou
Killed Wantonly
JUNEAU, UP)—'The heavy kill of
migrating caribou crossing Taylor
Highway near Fairbanks is not
out of hand but some of the hunt
ers are, Clarence Rhode of the
Fish and Wildlife Service said
Saturday.
Rhode urged hunters to take
more care in selecting animals to
shoot. He said many caribou were
crippled last week from shots
fired blindly into the herd, which
has been estimated at 30,000 ani
mals.
“This herd-shooting is the result
of inexperience and poor sports
manship,” Rhode said. “If this
kind of shooting continues, more
restrictions will result.”
More than 840 caribou were
shot Friday, adding to a similar
number the day before, but the
big herd can stand it, Rhode said.
This year, regulations were re
laxed following two lean hunting
years. The Alaska Game Commis
sion’s 14-mile restricted area at a
point on the highway where the
caribou usually cross was reduced
to 100 yards and the season was
lengthened.
COP WHACKS HIS SERGEANT
ON HEAD WITH BILLY CLUB
LOUISVILLE Ky., OP)—A police
patrolman whacked his sergeant
on the head with a billy Friday
night. ..
The blow delivered by Patrol
man Charles Allgood wasn’t, of
course, intended for Sgt. Clarence
Silberisen. But it caused a small
gash that required four stitches.
Escaping the whack while re
sisting the officers’ attempt to
put him in the holdover was
James Hodges who, finally locked
up, was charged with drunken
ness.
WEATHER FORECAST
Compiled by the
U.S. Dept, of Commerce Weather Burea1
Partly cloudy today with north
erly winds 18-25 mph. with gusts.
Clear tonight and Tuesday with
slowly decreasing northerly wind.
Low temperature expected tonight
15, high Tuesday 20.
Nome data last 24 hours as of
7 a.m. today: High temperature
32, low 22. Max. wind 28 mph.
from the north. Sunrise 7:21 a.m.,
sunset 4:09 p.m.
Temperatures a year ago today:
high 37, low 23. Extremes this
date since 1907: high 49 in 1926,
low 1 in 1908.
Other stations as of 7 a.m. today:
Station Temp. Weather
Barrow 23 Snow
Kotzebue 35 Part cloudy
Wales 53 Part cloudy
Gambell 40 Rain
Nome 45 Cloudy
Bethel 54 Rain
McGrath 64 Fog
Anchorage 22 Cloudy
Fairbanks 16 Part cloudy
Edmonton 23 Blowing snow
Whitehorse 29 Cloudy
Juneau 23 Part cloudy
Ketchikan 28 Part cloudy
Seattle # 19 Cloudy
San Francisco 38 Rain
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David Schine Gets
Army Discharge;
Flies Plane to N.Y. .
FORT DIX, N.J., G. David
Schine, a key figure in the Mc
Carthy-Army hearings a year ago,
was discharged from the Army
i Saturday. He then took off for
! New York at the controls of a pri
vate plane.
Schine had told public relations
officers here he didn’t want to be
interviewed or have his picture
taken.
Schine, a specialist third class
in the Military Police—a rank
equivalent to that of corporal—
spent 11 months of his two-year
hitch at Ft. Richardson, Alaska.
The 27-year-old son of a hotel
chain operator was the unpaid
consultant to Sen. Joseph McCar
thy when the senator headed a
subcommittee which probed al
leged subversive activities among
government employes.
During the McCarthy - Army
hearings, the Army claimed the
McCarthy group brought improp- i
er pressure on the Army to get j
preferential treatment for Schine. j
But the McCarthy camp charged !
Schine was used as a “hostage” to !
force the committee to go easy in j
its investigation for alleged Com
munists in the Army.
PORK ON THE CAMPUS
BARBOURVILLE Ky., UD—Pork
pie hats should be the rage among
Union College’s freshman class.
It includes a Pigg, a Hogg, a
Bacon, and two Hamms.
Gov. Goodwin Knight
Announces He'll Be
Favorite Son Candidate
By the Associated Press
In New York, California’s Gov.
Goodwin Knight said he would be
a “favorite son” candidate for the
1956 GOP nomination if Eisen
hower does not seek reelection.
An aide said after Knight’s con
ference statement, however, this
does not mean the govei'nor is
seeking the presidential nomina
tion.
He said it is in line with a pre
vious declaration of Knight—crit
icized by backers of Vice Presi
dent Nixon—he intends to insure
an uncommitteed California dele
gation to next year’s Republican
National Convention.
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