TV Westerns and
Deodorant Commercials
Hanked Lowest on TV
NEW YORK — TV westerns
and deodorant commercials were
given the lowest grades of all
television programming in a poll
conducted by the National Audi
ence Board.
The board, reporting Sunday on
a poll of more than 2,400 “com
munity opinion leaders,” said 68
per cent of the leaders had turn
ed thumbs down on horse operas,
while 91 per cent had turned noses
up at deodorant commercials.
The board judged most Ameri
can television mediocre, with
some notable exceptions:
Top honors went to “CBS Re
ports,” Chet Huntley Reporting”
and “Twentieth Century.”
Next to western shows, at the
other end of the scale, came the
mystery-adventure programs.
They were rated poor or fair by
64 per cent.
Next to dodorants in the com
mercial category were ads for
women’s undergarments, and
drugs. These drew poor or fair
ratings from 78 per cent of the
voters.
The National Audience Board
is a nonprofit organization repre
senting civic, cultural, business,
educational and church groups,
including the General Federation
of Women’s Clubs, the American
Legion and the National Council
of Churches.
Fishery Administrators
To Visit Soviet Union
ROME Uf) — Fishery adminis
trators from the Pacific and Medi
terranean regions will visit the
Soviet Union Sept. ll--Oct. 14
under a U. N. food and agricult
ural organization study tour and
seminar plan, the FOA announced
here.
UNALAKLEET
LODGE
and
RESTAURANT
\ Open the year ’round
Dale and Theckla Friemiring
HOME COOKED FOOD
RATES REASONABLE
Coal Replaces Gold
As Leading Mineral
Commodity in Alaska
JUNEAU UP — Coal replaced
gold as the leading mineral com
modity of Alaska during the year
1960, the U. S. Bureau of Mines
reported today.
The bureau placed a value of
$21,862,000 on all minerals pro
duced in Alaska during the year.
Oil and gas developments dur
ing 1960 dominated Alaska min
eral news, the bureau said, and
a substantial gain in the value of
petroleum and natural gas,
coupled with an increase in the
value of coal, sand and gravel,
stone and mercury, more than
offset what was termed a sizeable
decrease in gold.
The value of all coal produced
in the state last year, the bureau
said, was $6,318,000. Gold was
I next at $5,887,000 and sand and
' gravel was third at $5,483,000.
The value of other mineral
products last year, according to
the Bureau of Mines, was clay,
$10,000; copper, $27,000; mercury,
| $940,000; natural gas, $30,000;
j petroleum, $230,000; silver, $24,
000; stone, $852,000; all other
minerals, such as gem stones,
platinum, uranium, lead and peat,
$1,061,000.
HAD NOT FORGOTTEN . . .
VENICE, Italy UP — Checking
• into the Gritti Palace Hotel, the
Duke of Windsor showed he was
not one to forget a bit of bag
gage. Informants said he called
the hotel porter to inquire about
11 bottles of liquor he left when
he was last at the hotel in 1957.
The liquor was promptly returned.
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT
OF THE STATE OF ALASKA
SECOND JUDICIAL DISTRICT
No. 60-48-P
NOTICE OF HEARING
ON FIRST AND FINAL REPORT
AND ACCOUNT OF ADMINISTRATOR
IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE
OF
ERNEST G. BALL, deceased
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Wil
liam Hoogendom, Administrator of the
above named estate has filed his First
and Final Report and Account, and that
the 12th day of September, 1961, at the
hour of 2:00 p.m. of said day, in the
above named Court, Nome. Alaska, has
by Court Order been fixed as the time
and place for a hearing on said report
and account.
Objections, if any there be, to said
report and account will be heard at this
time.
Dated this 20th day of July, 1961.
WILLIAM HOOGENDORN.
Administrator
Virgil D. Vochoska,
Attorney for Administrator
Publish July 24. 31, Aug. 7, 14, 1961.
Don’t Mind the Rain . . .
BUY
Plastic or Rubber Raincoats
Rubber Footwear
Umbrellas — Hoods — Sou’ westers
from
Cavotu’s
PAINTING
Brush or Spray
Signs
1" **«*«*■*
» Furniture Refinishing
» Texturing
» Auto Painting
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AL INGMAN - MAIN 318
Oueens of Yukon
i v #
I River to Become
Tourist Attraction
OTTAWA (J* — The Canadian
government has approved plans
to make three once-haughty
queens of the Yukon River a ma
jor tourist attraction at White
horse, in the Yukon Territory.
The three paddle-wheelers, now
hulks on the banks of the Yukon
River, are to be placed in a park
to be built on Whisky and Moc
casin Flats, now occupied by 80
squatter’s shacks.
The squatter’s — Indians, half
breeds and whites — will be given
the opportunity of buying low
cost housing to be built on land
purchased from the Whitepass
Yukon Railway. The 50-house de
velopment is expected to cost
about $300,000.
Plans for locating the paddle
wheelers Whitehorse, Klondike
and Casca in the park were dis
closed following a visit to Ihe
city last week by Prime Minister
John Diefenbaker. Members of
the party heard sharp criticism
from residents and tourists that
nothing was being done to pre
serve the boats as a link with the
The boats are beached on the
gold rush days of 1898.
shore of the Yukon River in the
old shipyards on the outskirts of
the town where they were built.
They are rapidly deteriorating
and a sign warns tourists to keep
away.
They will be placed on cement
foundations when they are moved
to the park, probably in about
two years, after the housing de
velopment has been completed.
Gordon Robertson, Deputy North
ern Affairs Minister, said one of
the boats likely will be turned
into a museum.
Plans also are being considered
for fireproofing the log cabin of
Sam McGee and a small museum
operated by the city of White
horse adjacent to the cabin. This
museum contains irreplaceable
items and the days of the gold
rush, including photographs of
Klondike Kate and Diamond Lil.
U.S.-Soviet Union Break
Off Disarmament Talks
MOSCOW LD — The United
States and the Soviet Union Sat
urday broke of their consultation
about disarmament talks, but said
it will be resumed at some un
specified date in the future.
The two powers unable to reach
any agreement in the talks which
began in Washington early this
month and moved to Moscow on
July 17.
They had been asked by the
United Nations to decide what
countries should take part in a
new disarmament conference and
just what they should discuss.
When asked for a date when
the United States and the Soviet
Union would meet again to try
to break the deadlock so the
multi-national talks could get
under way, President Kennedy’s
representative, John J. McCloy,
said “probably in some weeks.”
GLUE POT
Soda Fountain
Cigars—Cigarettes
Tobacco
Candy
Fresh Ice Cream
Every Day
j
3-Year-Old Boy Is Lone
Survivor of Family of
Six in Auto-Truck Crash
POCATELLO, Idaho UB — “I
think they’re all gone,” said the
quiet, bandaged boy on the hos
pital bed. “I think my mommy
and daddy and everybody died.”
It was Clifford Thompson’s only
mention Friday of a tragic truth:
He is the sole survivor of a fam
ily of six.
A dump truck careened off a
parked car into the family sta
tion wagon Thursday evening.
Clifford’s parents, Mr. and Mrs.
James H. Thompson of Tacoma,
Wn., were killed instantly. So
was Cheryl Elizabeth, his sister
who was 17 months old. Of his
two brothers, Earl, 5, died on the
way to the hospital and John
Frank, 2, died some 18 hours
later.
“I think he does now,” a hos
pital spokesman said of Clifford.
“Nobody has told him this. But
like a 3-year-old he’s kind of
aware of it even though he doesn't
seem to be.”
Clifford himself survived with
several cuts, scrapes and bruises,
and what may be a shoulder frac
ture.
5 GERMAN TOURISTS FREEZE
TO DEATH IN AUSTRIAN ALPS
INNSBRUCK, Austria UR —
Five German tourists froze to
death in the area of Austria’s
tallest mountain peak, police re
ported Saturday. This brought to
42 the unofficial death toll in the
Austrian Alps this season.
The German climbers sought to
scale the 12,400-foot-high Gross
Glockner peak by way of the
difficult Studel Ridge Friday
when they got caught in a raging
snow storm.
SUBSCRIBE TO THE NUGGET
Unexpected Guest . . .
RALEIGH, N. C. UP — This is
the way it was reported by news
and observer columnist Charles
Craven:
A Jacksonville, N. C., under
taker was returning from Kinston
with a body. He had a passenger
in his hearse. During a heavy
rain, the undertaker stopped at
a service station for cigarettes.
A Marine, hitchhiking back to
Camp Lejeune, asked the pas
senger for a ride. The passenger
said yes if the Marine didn’t mind
riding in back with the body and
the Marine climbed in.
The undertaker returned and
resumed his journey, unaware of
the Marine in back. A few miles
down the road, the Marine slid
back the glass partition, tapped
the undertaker on the shoulder
and asked, “is it all right to smoke
back here?”
The driver lost control of the
hearse and ran into a ditch. No
one was hurt but a wrecker was
needed to pull the hearse out.
Harry Truman Says
Kennedy’s Speech Has
Called Russia's Bluff
LITTLE FALLS, Minn. UP —
Former President Harry Truman
said Saturday the Russians are
bluffing over Berlin and that
President Kennedy’s speech called
their bluff.
“The Russians are the greatest
bluffers in the history of the
world,” Truman said. “When their
bluff is called, they quit. Their
bluff has been called by Presi
dent Kennedy’s speech last week.’'
Russia does not want war, and
“is scared to death of what’s
behind her,” he said, referring
to Red China.
As President, Truman himself
! answered the Berlin crisis of 1948
j with the airlift.
DAILY SERVICE
I FAIRBANKS
— NOME —
KOTZEBUE
Flight 311 DAILY Flight 312
Lv. Fairbanks *8:00 ajn. Ar. Nome 9:10 a.m.
Lv. Nome 1:30 p.m. Ar. Kotzebue 2:15 p.m.
Lv. Kotzebue 2:45 p.m. Ar. Fairbanks *5:35 p.m.
Flight 309 Flight 310
DAILY EXCEPT SATURDAY
Lv. Fairbanks * 2:30 p.m. Ar. Kotzebue 4:05 p.m.
Lv. Kotzebue 5:00 pjn. Ar. Nome 6:10 p.m.
Lv. Nome 7:00 p.m. Ar. Fairbanks *10:55 p.m.
* Alaska Standard Time—All other times Bering Standard
POLAR SEA TOURS
--- Start June 5 ---
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