THE NOME NUGGET
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To Be Happy In Nome ...
WHAT DO PEOPLE DO in Nome during those dark
winter days is a question that is asked the Cham
ber of Commerce and individuals repeatedly. This is
asked by people who do not live in Alaska, as well as
new people who are in residence here.
Let’s take this week as an example. For those
interested in civic development we have the Chamber
of Commerce meeting on Monday noon, the KK Li
brary Board meeting on Monday evening, the City
Council meeting on Monday evening. Tuesday the
School Board is in session on educational problems.
Wednesday the Rotary Club has its regular meeting.
Every evening this week members of the Volunteer
Fire Department will be stringing the Christmas lights.
Choirs of seven churches are busy practicing. Scout
leaders for over a hundred boys and Girl Scout leaders
for more than a hundred girls have weekly meetings.
Winter sports include a bowling tournament now
under way, a basketball, tournament in progress.
If you want to help the community there is a place
for you; if you can sing, there is a choir for you; if you
like children, Scout leaders will welcome more help;
if you like sports, just make the fact known.
If you want to be happy in Nome, get busy and
do something for somebody else.
Economic Law For Farmers
IN A YEAR OF consistent Republican defeat, our
incorruptable Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft
Benson has won what may well be the most important
election since the New Deal’s inauguration of crop
controls land price supports back in the ’30’s. Mr.
' Benson has fought consistently against high crop sub
sidies and Government control of production ever
since he became Secretary. It is gratifying now —
and particularly in view of the lack of Administration
support — that American corn farmers have voted
two-and-a-half to one for independence and economic
law.
Dare we hope that, beginning on the farm,
America is regaining its sanity ?
PROPOSE 11 DEPTS . . .
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signed to 11 departments,” said
PAS — a Chicago consulting and
research agtncv hired last spxing
by the Statehood Committee to
study transxtirnal steps betweer
Territorial arvi ^tate • * v. i;\
“This number is small enough
to permit the Governor to exer
cise effective control,” the report
added. “It simplifies the govern
ment structure and makes it more
responsive to citizen needs.”
The report recommended crea
tion of these departments in the
new State government:
Administration,- Law, Revenue,
Education, Health and Welfare,
Labor and Commerce, Local Af
fairs, Military Affairs, Natural Re
sources, Public Safety, Public
Works.
Under the PAS proposal, the
elected Secretary of State would
supervise activities and affairs of
professional licensing boards.
The Board of Regents, which
administers the affairs of the Uni
versity of Alaska, would be ap
pointed by the Governor as pro
vided in the State Constitution.
The PAS organization plan
would incorporate into the 11 de
partments, and under the Secre
tary of State, all the present ac
tivities of the Territorial govern
ment.
The major change would be the
combining of the now-separate De
partments of Health and Welfare
into one agency.
The PAS proposal also recom
mended that the Commissioner of
Education be appointed by the
Governor instead of by the board
of education. It said the present
board should “be abolished, or,
at most, retained only as an id
visory agency.”
The proposal concerning the De
partment of Education was ex
pected to meet heavy opposition
from professional teacher and ed
ucation groups. Many have urged
no change in present procedure
— which includes appointment of
the commissioner by the Board of
Education.
SNOWBALLS IN HELL . . .
ANN ARBOR, Mich., UP) — A
snowball stood a pretty good
chance in Hell today.
The head man reported Hell
frozen over, with six inches of
snow under foot. The temperature
got down to 10 above zero over
night.
Hell is a tiny Michigan commu
nity 18 miles northwest of Ann
Arbor. The head man is Mayor
Erdly van Sickle.
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Egan Named As
Grand Marshal In
Rose Bowl Parade
PASADENA, Calif., UP) — Alas
ka’s first Governor was named
Grand Marshal of the 70th Annual
Tournament of Roses Monday.
William A. Egan, elected Gov
ernor of the 49th State on Novem
ber 25, will ride at the head of
the Rose Parade and be an hon
ored guest at the Rose Bowl foot
ball game.
President Stanley K. Brown of
the Tournament of Roses Associa
tion, said Egan symbolizes “Amer
ica’s most down to earth adven
ture in 1958” — the creation of
a new state.
Fresh Trout—55c—MERC
B52 Stratofortress Crash
Kills At Least 3 Crewmen
ALTTJS, Okla., UP) — A Strategic
Air Command Stratofortress
crashed in flames near here early
today, killing at least three crew
members but leaving the fate of
five in doubt.
Air Force and civilian search
parties comibed a wide area in
southwest Oklahoma this ’ morn
ing, hoping to find survivors of
the fiery crash. One survivor and
the bodies of three other crew
men were found.
The B52, trailing long fingers
of flame, crashed six miles north
of here around midnight.
A spokesman at Altus Air Force
Base said there was a “possibili
ty” that other crew members may
have parachuted to safety.
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