THE NOME NUGGET
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Entered as second class matter October 14, 1943, at the
post office at Nome. Alaska, under Act of March 3, 1879.
GRIM CHOICE!
7
Nome's Twenty-Four Years of Progress
TWENTY-FOUR YEARS ago today the business
district of Nome went up in flames and its narrow
planked streets, in a brief four-hour period, were gone
forever. Almost immediately, rebuilding started with
bigger,, more modern buildings and wider streets.
Another Court House came into use, and now it is
about to close its doors for a newer model. A sea wall
protects the town from extreme storms; paved streets
are projected for next summer; a road is being built
to connect the Bering Sea Coast with the rest of North
America; fir.e-proof buildings are taking the place of
wooden structures, and most important of all, Alas
kans are first-class citizens, at last.
We’ve come a long way since the fire of 1934, but
until we complete the projected water and sewerage
system, which has been lost somewhere between the
City Council and the APW in Juneau, we cannot call
ourselves residents of a modern town. Our local civic
groups must unite in their efforts to get this project
under way again for the good of all Nome residents.
Bay Shore, New York, Sentinel and Journal:
“Let’s suppose you’re on a 400-mile trip. Statistics
show that if you whiz along at 75 m.p.h., the chances
of someone getting killed if an accident occurs are 1
in 8. Drive 65 m.p.h. and' you chances of dying if an
accident occurs are a lot slimmer — 1 in 20. At that
speed, it’ll take about an hour more on the road.
Slow down to 55, though, and if a collision takes place
the chance of a fatality occurring is 1 in 50. The slower
speed will mean a couple niore hours of driving on the
400-mile jaunt.”
If you are an average American motorist, driving
your oar 10,000 miles a year, your personal trans
portation bill will come to $1,078 in 1958, am Ameri
can Automobile Association survey finds. Biggest
item—$565—is depreciation.
National Review reports that the United States
has the highest per capita debt of any nation—$1,591.
Great Britain is close behind with $1,496. All other
nations have debts far under these figures.
A new record for public use of the national wild
life refuge was set in 1957, when more than 8,500,000
people visited them for recreational purposes, the
Wildlife Management Institute reports. Sports fish
ing attracted almost one-third of the visitors.
Soviets Agree To 8-Nation Conference
For Attempt At Easing World Tension
By ROY ESSOYAN
MOSCOW, UP) — The Soviet
Union has agreed to exploratory
talks with the West on ways to
prevent surprise attacks. An
agreement by experts on a work
able system could lead to political
discussions on establishing safe
guards against another Pearl
Harbor.
In answer to a series of notes
from President Eisenhower, the
Kremlin agreed Monday to meet
in Geneva. The Soviet note handed
to U. S. Charge’ d’Affaires Rich
ard H. Davis proposed the eight
nation talks begin Nov. 10.
The meeting would follow the
precedent of technical talks that
ended Aug. 21 with East-West
agreement on ways to police a
nuclear weapons^tests ban. The
United States, Britain and the {
Soviet Union are to begin political
negotiations on an actual ban in
Geneva Oct. 31.
The two related aspects of i
rasing world tesion, by possible j
nuclear weapons test ban and i
safeguards against surprise at
tack, contribute to Soviet Pre
mier Khrushchev’s on-again off
again drive for a summit confer
ence. At the same time, they rep
resent the type of thorough prep
aration that the United States in
sists must precede any meeting i
by heads of government.
The Soviet note suggested that
a technical agreement on prevent
ing surprise attacks “undoubted
ly will facilitate fruitful examina
tion of the question. ... at a meet
ing of heads of government.” The
Kremlin had not sought similarly
to use the nuclear weapons test
discussions to press for a summit
meeting. ,
For the Nov. 10 talks, the Krem
lin proposed equal representation
of'the North Atlantic Treaty Or
ganization and the anti-NATO
Warsaw pact. The note suggested
the attendance of the United
States, Britain, France and Bel
gium for the West and the Soviet
Union, Poland, Czechoslovakia and
Romania for the East. The same
nations participated in nuclear
ban technical talks' except for
Canada, which took part instead
of Belgium.
L. W. Rockefeller
Named To Head
Recreation Commission
NEWPORT, R. I., Uft — Presi
dent Eisenhower Monday named.
Lawrence W. Rockefeller to be
chairman of the new outdoor rec
reation resources review commis
sion.
Congress crea+e'd the seven
member commission at the last
session to study and make recom
mendations regarding develop
ment of - the nation’s recreation
resources.
Rockefeller, president and di
rector of Rockefeller Brothers,
Inc., New York, is a founder at
the conservation foundation.
At his vacation headquarters,
Eisenhower also named to the
commission Bernard Orell, 'Wice
President of the Weyerhauser
Lumber Corp., Tacoma, Wash.
father of Grace
Sues Bricklayers
Slander
PHILADELPHIA, Ufi — John B.
Kelly, father of Princess Grace of
Monaco, has filed a $100,000 suit
against a union local. The suit
says the union, in a pamphlet,
questioned Kelly’s honesty.
The millionaire contractor filed
the suit Monday in Common Pleas
court against Local 1, Bricklayers,
Masons and Plasterers Interna
tional Union.
Kelly accused the local of stat
ing in a pamphlet that his com
pany was behind in its payments
to the union’s welfare fund. Kelly
denied the accusations.
A former bricklayer himself,
Kelly holds a life membership
card in Local 1.
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