THE NOME NUGGET
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Entered as second class matter October 14, 1943, at the
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Shares In America
UNITED STATES SAVINGS BONDS are some
times called “Shares In America.” Now, as the
Treasury Department intensifies its Savings Bonds
campaign, let us see why.
To begin with, the bonds represent the citizen’s
* faith in his country’s fiscal integrity. He is accepting
its word when he buys them just as he accepts it every
time he earns or spends a dollar bill. More than that,
by buying Savings Bonds, he is making sure that the
dollar will remain sound to support the growth of
the United States.
Second, these bonds are one of the easiest and
safest ways to save. Saving can be as important as
spending in our economy, because without saving
there can be no individual capital purchasing. The
interest and principal of the bonds are guaranteed;
they are indestructible assets — lost or destroyed, they
wi]l be replaced; they can be owned jointly and
redeemed easily and quickly at any time. These are
some of their attractions, and the fact that money in
the average E bond is left there for seven years is
testimony that the public responds to them.
Nearly $43 billion in E and H bonds are out
standing, which represents 15 per cent of the national
debt. This broiad base of the debt is very important
to a healthy economy. Savings Bonds sales in 1958
were $4,689 million, and the Treasury’s goal for this
year is $5 billion. “Savings, and the incentive to save,
built this country,” President Eisenhower said the
other day in this respect. It is point well made and
worth remembering.
Belgian King Plans
Springtime Visit To U. S.
WASHINGTON, UP)—King Bau
doin of Belgium is coming to
Washington May 11 to visit Pres
ident Eisenhower. After that he
plans an extensive tour of the
country.
The President invited Baudouin
for the visit. The king will be in
the country for 20 days.
WORD TO THE WISE
TULSA, Okla., UP) — An invi
tation to all Internal Revenue
Service workers to take part in
their annual golf tournament May
8 in Oklahoma City contains this
note of caution:
‘‘Be sure you’re honest*in claim
ing golf scores to get your handi
„ cap.”
A MIGHTY SWAT . . .
BUTTE. Mont., UP) — With the
score tied 4-4 and one on in an
intra-squad game, shortstop Dan
Trobovich of Montana School of
Mines unleashed a mighty belt.
The ball cleared the outfield,
■which is not fenced, and landed
in a car of a passing ore train. It
was carried to Anaconda, 24 miles
away. •
The official * scorer ruled it a
homer and Trobovich’s team won
6-4.
COPS & ROBBERS . . .
KENNEWICK, Wash., UP) —
Motorists traveling a busy state
highway near here thought there
was something odd the way the
elderly looking police officer was
directing traffic.
So did police. They booked Lee
Staker, 67, on a charge of being
drunk. He was wearing a toy
police badge.
"4-on" Duplicate Receipt Book*
available at The Nome Nugget
I Over the Bounding Main !
LOWESTOFT, England, (£> —
Hundreds of Americans and local
yachtsmen gave a champagne
sendoff Saturday for two U. S.
Air Force pilots setting out on a
6,000-mile Atlantic crossing in two
small boats.
Red flares cascaded from the
quayside as the two 48-foot motor
launches chugged out of Lowestoft
Harbor with the Stars and Stripes
fluttering in the breeze.
The boats are captained by Lt.
Col. Richard E. Willsie, 38, of
Long Beach, Calif:, and Maj. How
ard M. Reynolds, Jr., 37, of Or
lando, Fla.
Four other U. S. airmen, an
Englishman, plus a cat and a dog
accompanied them.
Northwest Senators Help
Defeat Labor Restrictions
WASHINGTON, UP) — All six
Democratic senators from Alaska,
Oregon and Washington voted
against the labor bill amendment
by Sen. McClellan (D-Ark) to ban
blackmail picketing and to re
strict organizational picketing.
Five of these six senators also
voted against the McClellan
amendment to outlaw secondary
boycotts. Sen. Bob Bartlett of
Alaska voted for this amendment.
The Senate defeated both pro
posed amendments.
FIRE WHISTLE SIGNALS
HAVE BEEN CHANGED
We are advised that at a re
cent meeting of the City Firemen,
the fire whistle signals were
changed.
Henceforth:
1 Whistle — East of Division
Street.
2 Whistles — West of Division
Street.
(Division Street runs between
Morgan’s and Wien Airlines.)
-AND NO FURTHER!
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Northeastern States - Canadians Cheer
Opening 600-Mile St. Lawrence Seaway
MONTREAL, UP) — The St.
Lawrence Seaway, a project de
bated by politicians for half a cen
tury and completed by 15,000
workers in five years, was opened
Saturday to shipping traffic of
the world.
Shortly after 8 a.m., the ice
breaker D’Iberville, laden with
government officials, Parliamen
tarians, newspapermen and sea
way officials, moved into the en
trance of the seaway just below
Montreal’s Jacques Cartier Bridge.
Behind the D’Iberville was a
flotilla of flag-bedecked canalers,
freighters, tankers and tugs. Some
70 ships were waiting to move
westward through the new water
way toward the North American
Continent’s heartland, 2,400 miles
from the Atlantic Ocean.
At Ogdensburg, N. Y., the west
ern end of the 600-mile seaway,
nineteen Canadian-owned cargo
ships started to move toward Mon
treal and the sea.
Although no formal ceremonies
were planned, hundreds of persons
got up early to watch the first
ships pass through the Montreal
end of the seaway. They gathered
mainly along the seaway bank
near St. Lambert, across the St.
Lawrence River from Montreal.
Overh'ead planes and helicop
ters, many carrying photographers,
flew up and down the seaway as
the flotilla slowly moved along.
Formal dedication ceremonies
will be held June 26 with Presi
dent Eisenhower and Queen Eliza
beth. Eisenhower opened th U. S.
built locks near Massena, N. Y.,
last July.
Cargoes aboard the ships indi
cate what the wheat belt consumer
can expect directly from abroad:
automobiles, French champagne,
Scotch whisky, beer, wool, glass
ware, Belfast twine, ham, benzine,
jute, nails and refrigerators. Ma
jor tonnage from the west will be
grain.
The five-year, 475-million-dol
lar project was financed jointly
by U. S. and Canadian taxpayers.
Canadians bore the major costs, as
the largest portion of the water
way lies within Canada.
It is expected that tolls will pay
operating costs during the next 50
years, with the United States get
ting $1 and Canada $3 from every
$4 in tolls.
The seaway begins at Montreal
1,000 miles from the Atlantic, and
snakes along the south shore of
the St. Lawrence River for 135
miles to Lake Ontario. Fourteen
locks hoist ships 550 feet above
the water level at Montreal to the
water level at the seaway’s ex
tremity in Port Colburne, Ont.
From Niagara Falls west, ships
utilize Lakes Erie, Michigan,
Huron and Superior.
Since the lakes and rivers freeze
in winter, navigation is a spring
fall affair.
The power behind the seaway
is the huge Saunders-Moses hydro
electric dam near Massena. The
dam, reacing 3,200 feet across the
St. Lawrence from New York to
Ontario, backs up river waters to
cover white-cap rapids that
halted explorers hunting the leg
endary Northwest Passage cen
turies ago.
Fin* Job Printing At The Nugget.
Mushing
Through Washington
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The Fairbanks artist won’t be
on hand to witness another of her
triumphs — an October exhibit
in the Women’s City Club gallery
in New York City.
When she returns to Alaska
next week, she says, she plans to
remain there — “forever.”
Non-federal land holdings in
Alaska amount to only 1,243,826
of its 365,481,600 acres — or less
than 1 out of each 293 acres.
A Bureau of Land Management
table supplied by Sen. Ernest
Gruening shows that as of last
June 30 federal agencies had
staked a claim to 92,477,206 acres.
An additional 271,760,568 acres
were classified as vacant lands.
Even the 1,245,826 acres listed
as non-federal include 574,928
acres in unperfected land and
mineral entries where title tech
nically remains in the government.
Title to only 668,898 acres has
actually passed from federal
control.
Agency land holdings range
from 46,320,548.2 acres held by
various Department of Interior
divisons to the 1.1 acres over which
the Department of Justice has
hoisted its flag.