THE NOME NUGGET
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NOME PUBLISHING CO.
NOME, ALASKA
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THAT'S WHEN IT'LL BE TOUGH r_..
MASONIC TEMPLE REJUVENATED
The Masonic Temple is a shining example of what
can be done to improve the appearance of the commu
nity. A coat of paint, a new sign, new lifetime entrance
lights have rejuvenated one of the oldest buildings in
the community and improved the appearance of the
downtown area a great deal. The outside now compares
favorably with the interior, which was completely mod
ernized and refinished many years ago.
DON’T SPEND IT YET
Optimistic taxpayers may recall that President
Eisenhower in his State of the Union speech last Janu
ary expressed hope for a tax reduction in 1956. They
may be further encouraged by the prognostications of
various “practical” politieans that the Republicans will
propose some tax cuts in advance of next year’s elec
tion.
Rut, on the last day of the fiscal year of 1955, a
Senate vote extended the national debt limit of 281
billions for another year—thus preventing it from
crashing down to the former ceiling of a mere 275
billions.
And since the year ended on June 30 with the
government owing three billions more than on the same
date of 1954, no one should spend too much time dream
ing about what he will do with the extra money the
government might be going to let him have.
A THOUGHT ON THE CIRCUS
There is a circus in Fairbanks and a circus in An
chorage, and there are 500 school children and half the
adult population in Nome who have never seen a circus.
Wouldn’t it be nice if the Shrine Club here could
invite at least one clown and one act to put on one
performance here for the benefit of Shrine hospitals
where some of the crippled children from this area have
gone ? It may be wishful thinking, but it could be done.
“We in the United States have already discovered
that our present high-bracket income tax is not so much
a tax on the rich as it is a tax on the chances of the
poor becoming rich. We are running a great risk of
quietly becoming a socialistic nation through the back
door medium of confiscatory taxation that does things!
to a man’s spirit as well as to his pocketbook.”
—Clem D. Johnston, President,
United States Chamber of Commerce
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Nome’s July 4th
(Continued from Page One)
Nershak, Joe Curran, and Willie
Walker.
50-yard Dash, Girls 13-16: Bob
bie Cannon, Charlene Hudgins,
Valerie Adams.
25-yard Dash, Girls 8-12: Dor
othy Russell, Frances Johnsen,
Carol Carlson.
20-yard Dash, Girls 5-7: Patsy
Longley, Sonia Andersen, Pauline
Beltz.
20-yard Dash, All under 5:
Cathy Beltz, Mary Frances
Goedde.
25-yard Sack Race, Boys 13-16:
Wayne Russell, Jerry Trigg, Allan
Attatayuk.
25-yard Sack Race, Boys 12 and
under: Billy Muller, Charlie Ner
shak, Mike Simon.
25-yard Sack Race, Girls 13-16:
Elva Ahmasuk, Suzanne Fager
strom, Charlene Hudgins.
25-yard Sack Race, Girls 12 and
under: Carol Carlson, Lurisse
Lowe, Roberta Apok.
25-yard 3-Legged Race, Boys 13
-16: Richard Benson and Wayne
Russell, Jerry Trigg and Isaac
■ Tingook, Taylor Moto and Lee
Oman.
25-yard 3-Legged Race, Boys 12
and under: Billy Muller - Johnny
Herman, Robert Oksoktaruk - El
mer Tetpon, Jerry Cavota - Roy
Carlson.
25-yard 3-Legged Race, Girls
13-16: Suzanne Fagerstrom - Janet
Muller, Valerie Adams - Gladys
Walker, Bobby Cannon - Charlene
Hudgins.
25-yard 3-Legged Race, Girls 12
and under: Carolyn and Frances
Johnson, Gale Mclver - Stella
Moto, Bertha Attatayuk - Ida
Cabinboy.
Shoe Scramble, Boys and Girls
under 13: Roy Carlson, Valerie
Adams, Billy Muller.
200-yard Bicycle Race, Boys 13
16: Chuck Fagerstrom, Richard
Benson, Earl Towner.
200-yard Bicycle Race, Boys 8
12: Roy Carlson, Billy Muller, Ray
Arnold.
50-yard Bicycle Race, Boys 7
and under: Jackie Morris.
75-yard Bicycle Race, Girls 13
to 16: Suzanne Fagerstrom, Char
lene Hudgins, Valerie Adams.
50-yard Bicycle Race, Girls 8
12: Lurisse Lowe, Ruth Towner,
Carol Carlson.
40-yard Bicycle Race, Girls 7
and under: Randy Asbridge.
20-yard Tricycle Race, All 5-7:
Janice Mclver, Jackie Morris,
Donnie Young.
15-yard Tricycle Race, All un
der 5: Jimmy Wilkie, James Kel
liher, Rose Anne Emmons.
Vi-Mile Foot Race, All 16 and
under: Jerry Trigg, Robert Bahn
ke, Bruce Russell.
Tricycle Race, 3 and under:
Cheryl Mclver, Danny Walsh,
Russell Emmons.
Best Decorated Bike: Glenn
Goodrich, Ricky Young.
Best Costume: Ruth Anne Em
mons, Rusty and Ethel Emmons.
Donul-Ealing Contest: Henry
Jack, ‘Arthur Nuglene, Walter
Cabinboy.
Pie-Eating Contest: Bert James,
Allen Paneok.
Nikita Khrushchev
at U.S.
July 4 Party
By RICHARD KASISCHKE
MOSCOW, GW—Communist Par
ty Secretary Nikita Khrushchev
said Monday that Russia wants an
agreement “on an honest basis” at
the Geneva summit talks but it is
strong enough to wait if the West
is not prepared to negotiate seri
ously.
Khrushchev’s host at the U.S.
Embassy’s Fourth of July party,
Charge d’Affaires Walter N.
Walmsley, replied: “I do not think
the President of the United States
would go to Geneva without seri
ous reasons.”
The Communist Party Boss and
other top Russian officials includ
ing Premier Nikolai Bulganin, put
in a surprise appearance at the
party. No such highranking group
of Soviet leaders have ever before
attended an embassy function.
In a speech he said he wanted
to make'to the guests, Khrushchev
said the Russians are not going to
the July 18 conference “with
broken legs”—crippled by harvest
failures or other weaknesses in
the Soviet economy.
“We are going upright like sol
diers to meet with worthy part
ners, and that is the only right
way,” he declared. “If we talk on
an equal basis . . . and if the talks
are honest and sincere, equal to
equal, something will come of it.”
Postoffice Bomb
MUNICH, Germany, —A bomb
parcel exploded yesterday in the
lobby of the postoffice of suburb
an Schwabing, killing two persons
and injuring 20.
Police said they did not know
to whom the package was ad
dressed. Schwabing is known as
an artists’ colony.
Alaska Steamship Ca..
Buys 2nd Ship in 6 Months
Purchase by Alaska Steamship
Co. of the second ship within six
months was announced Sunday by
Melville McKinstry, vice presi
dent and general manager of the
line.
The new acquisition is the Lib
erty ship Volunteer State which
the Alaska Line is obtaining from
the States Marine Corp. of New
York. ,
The addition of the Volunteer
State increases to seven the num
ber of vessels purchased by the
Alaska Line since World War II,
a total of 66,000 tons. Five of these
are steamships of Liberty type,
two are Knot-type motorships.
In addition, Alaska Steam has
six Knot-type vessels of 36,000 '
| tons under charter from the Mari
j time Administration or a total
fleet of owned and chartered ves
sels of 102,000 tons.
Eisenhower Sends Sen.
Lyndon Johnson Wishes
For Speedy Recovery
WASHINGTON, OP)—President
Eisenhower yesterday sent per
sonal wishes for a speedy recov
ery to Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson
(D-Texas), hospitalized after a
heart attack Saturday.
The Senate Democratic leader
was reported at Bethesda Naval
Hospital to be still in serious con
dition with “no change in the last
24 hours.” Yesterday’s bulletin
said he was “making satisfactory
progress.”
The President, who returned af
ter midnight from his long holiday
weekend in the Catoctin Moun
tains of Maryland, sent a letter to
Johnson as his first business yes
terday.
Nature is a great teacher, if
[ you care to take lessons.
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To the Jets
By HAROLD SALISBURY
From nowhere to here in a volcanic blast
Then hissing away with a power that’s vast
And a whistling keyed
To equal the speed
And a speed with a furious past!
They follow the wrack of the thunderbolt’s track
As they shoot with a scream through the sky
Soaring far to explore, with roar and furore,
The altitudes endless and high,
With a swish and a zoom,- with racket and fume,
They dart through the clouds as they climb,
Devouring space with a powerful grace
And defying staid distance and time!
Like bullets expelled from the cannons of hell
In fusillades full of delight
They flash o’er the earth as scream-drones give birth
To the clatter that quiet indicts,
With sonic vibration and raw detonation
They pierce the wide sky that they rend
Midst a whistling strain,- void of everything sane,
The value of time to contend !
A meteor’s flight,- stars falling at night,
Are transposed to gossip gone by
By the blasting through space at so magic a pace
Of the Jets as they conquer the sky,
The towns over-passed by them, fabulous fast,
Must, a beach full of pebbles resemble
As they savagely roar with demoniac roar,
Time’s customs to shake and make tremble !
They burst into sight,- e’er you know it they’re right
Overhead with dynamic vibration
Then dotting the far horizon they are
And lost in the soft cloud formation,
Whether racket or speed is greater, decreed,
Is a question,- but certain and well
They both spell extremes,- to be heard, felt and seen
And for foes,- made to deal out pure hell !
From nowhere to here in a volcanic blast
Then hissing away with a power that’s vast
And a whistling keyed
To equal the speed
And a speed with a furious past !