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Entered as second class matter October 14. 1943, at the
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Two Vacant Chairs
NOME IS SAYING FAREWELL this week to a
couple who leave many friends in the community.
They are a distinct part of this community, having
come by choice to make Nome their home, and have
taken an active part in diversified activities.
They both accepted responsibility graciously and
executed their tasks faithfully and consciensciouisly,
so that many organizations have benefited by their
leadership.
' Nome is proud to have Jim von der Heydt chosen
as one of the State’s new Superior Court Judges,
and although it leaves the community without
legal counsel for the time being, those who have
worked with him know that Governor Egan has made
an excellent choice.
NEHRU REJECTS CHOU OFFER
NEW DELHI, India, UP)—Prime
Minister Nehru today rejected
Communist China’s proposals for
mutual troop withdrawals along
the disputed Tibetan-Indian bor
der and* for an immediate meet
ing with Premier Chou En-Lai.
Nehru told anxious members of
Parliament that Chou’s No. il pro
posal for troop withdrawals
seemed impractical.
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ASTRONOMY NOTES
By OLAF HALVERSON
One reason for our believing
that the moon has no atmosphere
is that our satellite has no dim
ming effect upon stars that come
close to the moon. The disappear
ance of stars at the edge of the
moon is exceedingly sudden. If
the moon had an atmosphere,
there would be a gradual dimin
ishing of the star’s light.
The spectroscope, too, shows
no change in the star’s spectrum
when it is close to the moon’s
edge. Also, during solar eclipses,
the moon’s outline seen against
the sun is always very sharply
j defined. Some scientists have
thought it possible that there
may be traces of water and at
mosphere yet lingering at the bot
! tom of deep valleys. No observa
I tions have yet confirmed this
hypothesis.
Perhaps the moon, in some
early stage of her history, had an
atmosphere, though not a very
extensive one. It may have been
partly absorbed by lunar rocks.
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Politicos Open Campaign With Salvos
From Heavy Artillery, for 1960 Victory
By the Associated Press
Political guns are thundering
surprisingly loud in advance of
next year’s Presidential season.
Presidential hopefuls now beat
ing the bushes are Vice President
Richard M. Nixon, Senator John
F. Kennedy (D-Mass) and New
York’s Governor Nelson A. Rocke
feller. None of these rrten actually
admit they are running for Pres
idential nominations next year.
A Democratic elder statesman, i
W. Averell Harriman, and a pos
sible Democratic Presidential dark j
horse, Governor Edmund G.
Brown of California, conferred at [
Sacramento, Calif., and took the
occasion to throw a few bricks at
the Republicans.
Nixon, speaking at Indianapolis j
Friday, said the farm issue “will
very possibly be the major issue [
on the domestic scene in 1960.”
Nixon said it is “out of the
question” that he would run again j
as a vice presidential candidate |
but that “I still feel it’s too early j
to announce 1960 plans.”
The Vice President patted
Rockefeller, his main Republican :
Ike Creates Committee
To Deal with Inter
American Relations
AUGUSTA, Ga., UP) — Presi
dent Eisenhower approved Sat
urday creation of a national ad
visory committee on inter-Amer
ican relations, recently strained
by troubles with Cuba and Pan
ama.
Secretary of State Christian A.
Herter will serve as chairman.
The committee will have six other
members from outside the gov
ernment, including Eisenhower’s
brother, Dr. Milton S. Eisenhower.
Asked whether the setting up
of the committee was precipitated
by anti-American sentiment in
Cuba and riots in Panama di
rected at the United States, White
House spokesman Wayne Hawks
told newsmen he didn’t know
whether this was so.
A White House statement said
this:
“In authorizing the establish
ment of this committee, the Pres
ident expressed his conviction
that it would perform a very
helpful function both in terms
of developing useful ideas with
respect to our inter-American re
lations and in promoting wider
understanding of these relations
among the peoples of this coun
try.”
Creation of the committee was j
recommended by the President’s
brother, who has gone to Latin;
America on several missions for'
the Administration, in a report
last January.
rival, on the back for being a
“very effective campaigner.” But
Nixon added that the New York
Governor “does not have the ex
perience at campaigning national
ly that some others have had.” He
presumably meant himself.
Kennedy, at Milwaukee, bor
rowed a phrase from Sir Winston
Churchill by saying a new admin
istration is needed to overcome
the gains made by the Soviet
Union in the past Seven years
while “the locusts had eaten.”
The Russians, said the Massa
chusetts Senator, have beaten us
into outer space, around the sun,
to the moon, and surpassed us in
rocket engines and new fuels.
“All this they have done,” Ken
nedy said, “while we for seven
years have cuj our forces, re
duced our budgets, held back our
missile programs, wasted our
money and time and scientific
talent.”
He likened the situation to that
which confronted England 23
years ago. He quoted Churchill as
saying then the British govern
ment had been blind to the men
ace of the Nazis in “the years the
locusts had eaten.”
Rockefeller, at several appear
ances during the day at San Fran
cisco, dodged saying he was in
the running for the nomination.
Told that Nixon expects him to
run, he said: “That’s his opinion.
I haven’t made up my mind.”
Harriman and Brown' at a joint
news conference in Sacramento
said the Republicans have failed
to recognize the nation must
grow, resulting in a tight money
policy which stymies adequate
credit for schools, and small busi
ness.
“And,” said Harriman, “Re
publican peace is about the same
as Khrushchev’s peaceful coex
istence. There’s a cessation of hos
tilities but no real peace.”
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Mail to Save Globemaster
SAN FRANCISCO, UP) — If you
sent any first class mail to mili
ary personnel in Hawaii, the Phil
ippines or Formosa which would
have reached San Francisco on
November 7 and 8, you might as
well do it all over again.
The Navy says mail accumu
lating here on those two days
was jettisoned by a Military Air
Transport Service Globemaster
November 10 after it lost two
engines and turned back to Ham
ilton Air Force Base. The big
plane tossed overboard 11 tons of
cargo to enable it to limp back on
its two remaining engines.
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