THE NOME NUGGET
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Rural Rehabilitation Program
For Second Division Discussed
At Forum Meeting with Benson
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changing and those in Alaska
must make plans to earn for pro
gress and not expect it to be doled
out to them. Each village, he said,
must learn that they cannot shift
their needs onto the territory
' but must “be aware the problem
is theirs and Juneau cannot solve
it for them”—community im
provements must be self-liquid
ating.
While Influence Spoils Natives
Father Carrol, who lives on
King Island, stated that all vil
lages cannot be classed in one
category. Kotzebue, he stated, is
no longer a village but a tourist
center, while King Island is a vil
lage. It can be self-supporting by
hunting but this is not true of
Kotzebue. He said King Island’s
problems are not great and he is
not particularly in favor of the
proposed airport as he feels the
white influence rather contamin
ates and spoils the native. He be
lieves that the native should be
educated to adapt himself and
must learn to use his money pro
perly. He suggested King Island
as a potential for a small crab
cannery.
Carrol also stated that he was
alarmed over the proposed con
gressional action which would al
low whites to kill wairus and limit
each hunter to five walrus per
year. This, he stated, would be an
end to the natural economy of
ivory carving of the King Island
Eskimo, as no carver could get
along on ten tusks a year and
survive.
Inquiring along the lines of vo
cational training, Benson learned
that no regular vocational work
was planned here by the Univer
sity of Alaska Extension Service,
although it was available.
First Need Is Roads
Daisy Keene, ANS itinerant
nurse for this area, reported that
she visited 14 schools and stated
that a limited amount of voca
tional training was given in the
ANS school along with what she
taught on health. She felt that the
first need in this area was roads,
because the road work not only
gave regular employment, but
opened up new territory for de
velopment.
She recommended some chang
es in the present law which would
require a TB patient or any other
patient with a communicable dis
ease confined in a hospital to re
main there until released by a
doctor.
She also suggested that it be
possible for a prisoner in a federal
jail to serve his sentence in a hos
pital if he has tuberculosis.
From her observances visiting
throughout the area she expressed
herself strongly on liquor being al
lowed in villages where there was
no law enforcing egency to con
trol the situation as it results in
VD and nutritional problems.
Of the many places where she
goes only three had decent places
for a nurse to sleep or conduct her
clinic and she urged that proper
quarters be planned for the future.
Hot Lunch Program Desirable
Reporting on hot lunch pro
grams both Daisy Keene and Mar
garet McDonald, public health
nurse, stated a marked improve
ment in the students who receive
this extra food allowance at noon.
Reporting on the local hot lunch
program, Superintendent W. An
gell stated that Nome has not
been able to participate in the
federal program because there is
no room in the school, so a local
women’s group, the Home Arts,
has raised the funds locally and
donated the labor to give hot
lunches during the two coldest
months of the year, which is not
long enough.
Benson stated that plenty of
meat, gravy and cheese would be
available for hot lunch programs
this year.
Ben Young, Second Division
road commissioner, reported on
the unfortunate condition of the
Territorial Road Fund and the
great need, stating that the inade
quate fund allows $60,000 for the
Nome River Road which will ul
timately connect with Fairbanks.
Also a road at Kotzebue to its
water supply will be built.
If there were funds, the next
project would be Nome to Teller.
He^ stated that it was hoped that
at the next meeting of road com
missioners it would be possible to
have monies not earmarked for
definite projects.
Senators Howard Lyng and
Charles Jones reviewed the work
of the last legislature and the un
fortunate way in which the road
fund money was robbed to assist
with the Highway Police Dept.
More Money For Rural Areas
Commissioner Benson explairfed
how the more populated areas in
the territory were monopolizing
various territorial aid money and
public works and how this must
be recognized and worked out so
that the rural areas would have a
better proportion of these funds.
George Goshaw stated that if
roads were built, good health,
education, sanitation and the rest
would follow automatically. He
also urged that a tannery be con
structed so that Alaska could
process its own seal from the
Pribilof Islands and that Shak
toolik be surveyed as a timber
potential and a sawmill built
there.
Commissioner Benson urged
those present to send in sugges
tions from this area before the
meeting of territorial department
heads on August 20—care of the
Territorial Department of Labor
at Juneau, Alaska.
Alaska RR. Could
Maintain Ship
Passenger Service
SEATTLE, —Twin develop
ments came Wednesday in the
search for a means of keeping
passenger ships moving to and
from Alaska, including a sugges
tion that the Alaska Railroad
might step into' the picture.
They were:
1. Undersecretaries of the inter
ior and defense named a commit
tee to attempt to preserve the
service;
2. Rep. Tollefson (R-Wash) an
nounced the House Merchant
Marine and Fisheries Committee
will hold a hearing in Seattle,
probably in September, at which
it will inquire into the Alaska
shipping problem along with the
“critical condition o'f the local
shipbuilding industry.”
Members named to the interior
defense committee are Orme
Lewis, assistant secretary of the
interior, and representatives of
the Defense Department and the
Military Sea Transportation Ser
vice.
The Times correspondent in
Washington said an Interior De
partment spokesman suggested
the Alaska Railroad as a possible
agency to step into' the shipping
breach if Alaska Steamship Co.
drops its service after the summer
season.
The railroad, under its organi
zation act, has broad authority' to
do “anything to develop the ter
ritory.”
"HICS" WIN AT AUCTION
DUNCAN, Okla., W—L. D.
Pryor, a furniture and appliance
dealer, knows now he shouldn’t
have attended that livestock auc
tion with the hiccoughs.
Pryor said he responded invol
untarily with a “hie” e#ich time
the bid was raised, and went
home the bewildered owner of
six Shetland ponies.
ISAAC EBEN
•k SAW FILING if
Sharpening Tools
7 to 8 a.m. — 5 to 6 p.m.
Corner 1st Ave. & Dirision St.
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Alaska’s Population Now
Estimated At 222,100
Including The Military
From the Office of the Governor
JUNEAU—Gov. B. Frank Heint
zleman today announced that Al
aska's population has continued
to show a steady growth during
the year 1953, according to esti
mates of monthly population pre
pared cooperatively by the Office
of the Governor, Alaska Develop
ment Board, Bureau of Vital Sta
tistics of the Alaska Department
of Health, and the U.S. Bureau of
the Census as of July 1, 1953, the
last date for which total military
personnel fin Alaska is available
for publication.
The territory’s total population,
including military personnel sta
tioned in Alaska was estimated at
222,100. Of these, approximately
173,100 were civilians, including
civilian dependents of military
personnel.
Alaskan Writer Arraigned
For Wild Shooting
In Wilderness
Russell Annabel, well known
Alaskan writer, Was arraigned in
U.S. commissioner’s court this
week on charges of firing 14 shots
at close range at Keith Capper.
Annabel, one of Anchorage’s
oldest residents and well-known
author, allegedly fired the shots
at Capper at Capper’s cabin at
Montana Station near Mile 208 on
the Alaska Railroad. Capper’s
cheek was grazed by one of the
bullets fired, officials said.
Capper is a former prominent
Anchorage businessman, and once
owned considerable property here,
including the Aleutian Buildinf
and Radio Station KBYR.
He has been a long-time friend
of Annabel’s.
THURSDAY BALL SCORES
American League
New York 5-7, Philadelphia 4-1
Cleveland 10, Detroit 1
Washington 9-0, Boston 5-5
National League
Cincinnati 8, Chicago 6
Milwaukee 3, St. Louis 1
Pacific Coast League
Portland 4-5, Los Angeles 0-6
Oakland 5-2, Seattle 1-0
San Diego 8, Hollywood 3
Sacramento 3, San Francisco 1
Fine Job Printing at the Nugget
ALASKA AIRLINES
• Arriving from Anchorage: Maj. '
J. H. Williams, H. W. Johnson,
Capt. C. Cooper, John Bell, Sgt.
August.
To Anchorage:
Wilson Gonangnan, R. J. Som
mers, Maj. Dunning, Col. Bush,
Howard Day, Rev. R. Havens, Sr.
From Moses Point: Henry
Annie, Langford, Patrick, La Vern
and Ricky Adams.
WIEN AIRLINES
Kotzebue to Nome: George Mal
oney, Howard Day, Mr. and Mrs.
Earl Miller, Mr. and Mrs. C. G.
Statzer. Thirty-six through tour
ists visited in Nome for a few
hours.
To Fairbanks: Edna, Dennis and
Gerald Potter, A. Berner, R. W.
Meyers, Miss Betts, Dr. and Mrs.
Kuhlenbeck, Robert John, James
Pohl, Rosemarie Davis and infant,
Lt. Purtell, Glen Shaffer.
Fairbanks to Nome: J. D. Craw
ford, Jean Fish, E. A. Parker,
Noland Turley, Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Hughes.
To Galena: Chet Patterson.
MUNZ AIRWAYS
To Lost River: Joe Regula,
Gussie Walters.
To Wales: Lt. Col. Harry R.
Bush, Sgt. F. R. Petriken, Lt. Al
bert Cavenaugh.
To Teller: Norman Esenituk,
Mrs. Ralph Alexander and family,
Mrs. Karl Bashelier.
From Lost River: Elton Soo'loo
gouk.
From Teller: Bertha Barr, Sam
Okboak.
To Wales: Bennie Bell, Pfc. Al
fred E. Riccomi, Edith Scammon.
To Tin City: William Brown,
F. G. Fish, N. E. Turley.
Mr. and Mrs. Herb Engsirom
received the glad news o'f the
arrival of a new grandson to their
daughter, Joanne McGinley, in
Seattle on Aug. 6, weighing 8
pounds, 8 ounces.
The Engstroms are mining at
Basin Creek.
CORRECTION
Viggo Valtyrson, who recently
beceme a United States citizen,
as reported in the last issue of the
Nugget, was born in Nroway, not
Iceland.
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