THE NOME NUGGET
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Tennessean, 19,
Collects Tines’
With Tin Badge
GALLATIN, Tenn., UD—A 19
year-old Tennessean who police
say stopped out-of-state motorists
and collected “fines” from them
by using a tin badge, a rented car
and a pad of grocery store re
ceipts was free on $7,000 bond
today.
Raymond Clark of Goolettsville
was released yesterday after be
ing charged with impersonating
an officer and taking money un
der false pretenses.
Clark admitted collecting the
“fines,” ranging from $7.50 to
$14.50, from four motorists in
three counties, Deputy Sheriff
Wilburn Harrison of Sumpter
County said.
Officers reported dark stopped
his victims by driving up beside
them and motioning them to the
side of the road. Then he flashed
a dime-store badge labeled “pri
vate detective,” assessed and col
lected a “fine” and wrote out a
receipt on a grocery store blank.
Clark was arrested after police
traced a car he had been driving
to a Nashville rental agency.
Mayokok Sketches On
Display In Polet’s Store
Robert Mayokok, well known
Eskimo artist, who returned
home for the holidays, has an
exhibit of his work on display
at Polet’s Store this week.
Mayokok not only demonstrates
talent with his sketches, but has
written two small books on Es
kimo life and customs which are
widely circulated and in demand.
Mayokok is taking special or
ders for sketches while here. ]
Hhe wilt be'glad to. autograph
-copies of his two hookk “Eskimo
life” and , “Eskimo Customs.” .
University of Alaska
Gets Research Contract
With Dept, of Education
WASHINGTON, MWThe 'De
partment of Health, Education
and Welfare today announced ap
proval of 14 educational research
contracts totaling a half million
dollars with six colleges and uni
versities.
The House of Education, under
the new research program, will
provide $400,187 and ithe institu
tions will add $135,519. The indi
vidual contract amounts were not
given.
The University of Alaska was
included among the contracting
institutions.
Bet Sig Meeting Notes
The meeting of Beta Sigma Phi
was held in the home of Omie
McCarthy on Thursday.
Under Service Projects for the
season Secretary Ruth McLean
reported that ten families were
given presents at Christmas time
by the Sorority.
For the cultural program of the
evening on “Alaska,” Program
Chairman Ruth McLean had the
honor of introducing former Leg
islator M. J. Walsh, who spoke to
the group on the early history
and laws of the territory and the
forming of the constitution.
Director Omie McCarthy then
served pie and ice cream fpr des
sert.
BUG IN HIS EAR
MEMPHIS, Tenn., MWFrank
Rogers, 31, complained to doctors
at City Hospital of a “regular
roaring sound” in his head.
Doctors investigated and last
night removed a small, live roach
from his ear.
Rogers said the insect appar
ently scrambled into his ear while
he slept. The patient left the hos
pital feeling fine.
Alaska Non-Profit Hospitals Will Face Serious
Money Troubles Unless Legislature Provides Relief
CORDOVA, Dec. 26—“Alaskan
non-profit hospitals will face ser
ious financial troubles unless the
Territorial Legislature: provides
some relief in its next session,”
stated Alaska Hospital Associa
tion President Howard E. May,
administrator of the: Cordova
Community Hospital.
‘‘The statement was prompted
by the recent announcement that
the Territorial Department of
Public Welfare would reduce its
payment, starting Jan. 1, 1957, to
non-profit hospitals for care of
those aged and destitute by 25
percent—from $12 a day to $9 a
day to southeastern hospitals;
from $16.20 a day to $12 to hospi
tals in the west and north dis
tricts. Henry Harmon, director of
the Department of Public Wel
fare, stated in a letter to the hos
pitals that the Department is out
of funds for hospital care; and
Forth Worth Man
Named Engineer
For Public Roads
By the Associated Press
Bill Andrews of Fort Worth,
Tex., has been named division
engineer of the Bureau of Public
Roads for Alaska, Acting Gov.
Waino Hendrickson announced
Saturday night.
Word pi the appointment by
BFR Commissioner Charles Cur
tiss was received in Juneau in a
telegram, which said Andrews
would report to Als.ska “in the
near future.”
Andrews, district engineer in
the Bureau’s regional office at
Fort Worth, succeeds the late
Morton Flint as the top federal
road building official in the ter
ritory.
The new division engineer will
take over from A. F. Ghiglione.
former head of the Alaska Road:
Commission, who has been acting:
engineer since Flint's death two
months ago.
WIEN AIRLINES
From Fairbanks: Mrs. H. Dun
bar, M.C. MacKey, Ruth MacKey,
Lillian Savaria^ Bill Murz, Clara
Reed, Marguerite West, Joseph
Margoux, Theodore Ousey, J.
Corbett, Marjory Morris.
To Fairbanks: Duane Oyloe, Lt.
H.J. Kirchberg, Roy V. Neyland,
Lt. Polizzi, Lt Harrison, Kenneth
Swift, Mr. Houle, Joseph Mar
com, Paul Hagenbarger, Francis
Oumauk, Marguerite West
To Galena: Sgt. Wills.
To Kotzebue: Emory Chappie.
From Kotzebue: W. Kubik, D.
Swalm.
NOME SANITARY
SERVICE
Phone Mtiin 1
P.O. Box 558
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That altho his department has re
quested $1,500,000 for hospital
and medical care in the next 'bi
ennium, the Department of Fi
nance is recommending to the
Legislature the same amount
which has been inadequate in this
present biennium.
Burden of Charily Care
“Hospitals have been having
financial struggles due to rising
operational costs, numerous bad
debts due to a large transient
population and unstable patient
census. This situation is seriously
aggravated by the fact that the
territorial government is not pay
ing its share of the cost for care
of indigents, placing an enormous
burden of charity care upon the
hospitals.
“The territory operates no hos
pitals for care of people who can
not pay hospital bills. Its one fa
cility for the aged, the Pioneers
Home, is overcrowded and is not
a hospital. Only two of the 17
non-profit voluntary hospitals
cannot turn away non-paying pa
tients to the cpunty or city hospi
tal; they must accept everyone,
whether or not they can pay.
Emergency to Save Life
“The 'Deparment of Public Wel
fare has been paying from one
half to three-fourths of the actual
cost of caring for these indigent
patients. Eligibility for Welfare
patients is limited to “emergency
to save life” or “permanent bed
care” cases, usually of elderly
people. Now Welfare reduces the
payment by another 25 percent.
“Alaskan hospitals have been
considering the problem for sev
eral years. At the Alaska Hospital j
Assn, convention last June sev
eral resolutions were passed seek
ing relief from the Legislature.
Among these resolutions was one
asking the Legislature to grant
sufficient appropriation to the
Department of Public Welfare to
pay hospitals on the basis of a
reimbursable cost formula, as the
federal agency, Veterans Admin
istration, now does. The Depart
ment of Public Welfare agreed to
the principle as being just, but is
dependent upon the appropriation
from the Legislature for the mon
ey to make fair payment to hos
pitals.
No Favoritism Wanted
“The non-profit voluntary hos
pital is an integral part of the
health and medical protection to
Alaskan citizens. The government
hospitals are fully utilized, and
could not possibly handle hospital
needs of the civilian population
in addition to their presently as
signed functions. The voluntary
hospitals want no territorial sub
sidies or favoritism; they seek
only fair treatment by the terri
tory—particularly that the Terri
torial Legislature provide money
to the Department of Public Wel
fare to pay its bills for its medic
ally indigent people. The various
municipalities should face the
fact that they, too, have a respon
sibility to the hospitals to pay for
care of their own medically indi
gent.
“Unless this is done, the volun
tary hospitals will have to raise
the rates for the paying private
patient to balance their budgets.”
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