THE NOME NUGGET
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E. P. BOUCHER . Managing Editor
CLINTON GRAY . Production Manager
Entered as second class matter October 14, 1943, at the
post office at Nome, Alaska, under Act of March 3, 1879.
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‘On The Job’ In Alaska
THE U. S. ARMY Engineer District, Alaska—which
is responsible for construction for the U. S. Army
and U. S. Air Force throughout Alaska and for an
important Civil Works program of river, harbor and
channel improvements, flood control work and water
resources study — celebrates its 13th anniversary
this week.
Organized in 1946, wihen Alaska was on the brink
of a gigantic post-war military construction program,
the Engineer District went into operation on May 1
of that year from a headquarters located on Elmendorf
Air Force Base at Anchorage. Since that time, the
Engineer District has supervised well over q billion
dollars in permanent construction for the Army and
Air Force in Alaska and has also completed numerous
Civil Works projects to aid the economic growth of
the new 49th State.
Today, under the command of Colonel W. C.
Gribble Jr., Alaska District Engineer, the District has
a civilian staff of some 700 persons, the vast majority
of them permanent residents of Alaska. In addition
to its headquarters at Anchorage, and a small Rear
Echelon office in Seattle, the District has eight Resi
dent offices throughout Alaska to directly supervise
construction — Anchorage, Fairbanks, Juneau, Nome,
Fort Greely, Clear, Shemya and Western Alaska.
District employes are “on the job” wherever construc
tion is underway, from Ketchikan to Kotzebue and
from Fairbanks to the tip of the Aleutian Chain.
They are helping Alaska to grow.
“THE ALCOHOL PROBLEM” is many-faceted.
It is a total problem, involving the whole personality
— physically, mentally and spiritually. Alcoholism
is a disease, but to consider it only a disease is insuffi
cient. It is more than ai disease because the early
drinking experience involves the exercise of the indi
vidual’s will power.
Rehabilitation becomes more important as our
studies and surveys show. Only abstinence can be the
real answer and preventive to the problem of alco
holism. But we must try to understand the compulsive
drinker and keep our communications open with him
so that there will be no feeling on his part that he is
totally rejected. We must accept our share of the
responsibility for conditions in human society that
have made every alcoholic such a monstrous “social
problem.”
World-Wide Talent
Used In Filming
‘War and Peace’
Ever since the first moving
image flickered across a screen, j
one of the most elusive dreams of
motion picture men has been to
film the monumental Leo Tolstoy
novel, “War and Peace.” Since
1925, 124 producers have an
nounced they would undertake the
gigantic project and enormous
sums were poured into various at
tempts to adapt the book for the
screen, but no one even managed
to get it before the cameras —
until Italy’s Dino DeLaurentiis.
Producer No. 25, DeLaurentiis
began preliminary work six years
ago, surrounded by the usual pre
dictions of failure, but the proof
of the pudding is a mammoth,
three-hour, twenty-eight-minute
production for Paramount release
that has already had its trium
phant world premiere and will
begin its local run on Sunday at
the Nomerama Theater, with Aud
rey Hepburn, Henry Fonda and
Mel Ferrer starred.
DeLaurentis succeeded where
others failed because he realized
Tolstoy’s work was too challeng
ing for any one man. Marshalling
his forces like a general ,he set
six writers to adapting the book
to the screen, and called in help
from all over the world and from
all sources.
No aspect of the undertaking
was taken lightly. Literary ex
perts were brought to Rome to
interpret various passages of the
novel, others to oversee the au
thenticity of the Russian archi
tecture and to pass on the his
torical accuracy of the battle
scenes.
The actual VistaVision, Tech
nicolor filming of “War and
Peace” required a year, but 30
years and 125 producers after the
first dream of putting it on film,
the dream has come true.
A super camera that can take
pictures at the rate of two million
frames per second is used by the
Naval Ordnance Laboratory, Sil
ver Springs, Md., to show exactly
what happens when an explosive
explodes.
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF
THE INTERIOR. BUREAU OF LAND
MANAGEMENT, Fairbanks Land Office,
518 2nd Avenue. Fairbanks, Alaska.
FLO: MHS: ed F 022610, April 1, 1959.
NOTICE OF PUBLICATION
Notice is hereby given that the Fed
eral Aviation Agency has filed request
Fairbanks 022610 for the conveyance to
the State of Alaska for the Department
of Aviation, the following described tract
of public lands, pursuant to the provi
sions of Section 16 of the Federal Airport
Act of May 13, 1946 (60 Stat. 179.49
U. S. C. 1115), for the construction,
operation and maintenance of a public
airport at:
HOOPER BAY, ALASKA. Commencing
at Corner No. 1, U.S. Survey 2026; Thence
S. 38° 28' 20" W. 8451.4' to the point of
beginning; thence S. 58° 41' W. 1000' to
Corner No. 2; thence N. 31° 19' W. 9200'
to Corner No. 3; thence N. 58° 41' E. 1000'
to Corner No. 4; thence S. 31° 19' E.
9200' to Corner No. 1. Containing approx
imately 211 acres.
The purpose of this notice is to give
persons claiming an interest in the lands
or having bona fide objection to the
conveyance, an opportunity to file with
the Manager, Fairbanks Land Office,
Bureau of Land Managemnt, 518 2nd
Avenue, Fairbanks, Alaska, within 30
days after the last publication, a protest
together with evidence that a copy of the
protest has been served on the applicant.
D. B. LEIGHTNER,
Acting Manager.
Publish April 17, 24, May 1, 8, 1959.
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Asks FCC to Relax
Equal Political
Broadcast Order
WASHINGTON, UP> — 'The Jus
tice Department asked the Fed
eral Communications Commission
this week to reverse its decision
that all political candidates must
be given equal time on radio and
television news programs.
Attorney Qeneral William Rog
ers announced the action at the
White House after a conference
with President Eisenhower. This
was a plain implication that the
full weight of the Administration
was behind the move.
The FCC decision was made in
the case of Lars Daly, who recent
ly was an unsuccessful candidate
for Mayor of Chicago.
Daly protested that radio and
TV stations were giving his oppo
nents more time on news pro
grams, and appealed for a ruling
that he get equal time.
The FCC ordered he be given
equal access to broadcasting time.
Until the Daly incident, there
had been no idea in the broad
casting industry that the section
could be applied to news pro
grams. The general interpretation
of the meaning of the section was
that if broadcasting time was sold
to one political candidate, it must
be made available on the same
terms to other candidates; if giv
en to one, given to all.
Last March 18, White House
Press Secretary James C. Hager
ty reported that Eisenhower
thought the FCC decision in the
Daly case was ridiculous.
Spiritual Truths
Contributed By
Nome Gospel Home
One evening recently an arrow
was shot through the window of
a home in Montclair, New Jersey.
A few minutes later there was
another crash, and in came a
second arrow through another
window with a note attached, con
taining a two-dollar bill and apolo
gizing for breaking the window.
We can all agree that the best
way for the boy to apologize for
what he did would have been to
come to the owner with the
money. His two wrongs could
never make a right. “He that
covereth his sins shall not pros
per; but whoso confesseth and
forsaketh them shall have mercy.”
(Proverbs, 28:13.
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