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Independence Day Holiday
To Extend Over 3 Days
JUNEAU, UP — This year’s
Independence Day holiday will
extend over a three-day weekend
for state employes.
Governor William Egan has is
sued a proclamation designating
Friday, July 3, as a holiday for
state workers.
Federal employes, with the ex
ception of postal workers, earlier
had been given a holiday on the
Friday before the July 4 celebra
tions.
Egan’s holiday proclamation
noted that many communities in
Alaska have scheduled Indepen
dence Day observances extending
over the long weekend.
The extra day off, the gover
nor said, would permit state
workers “to participate fully in
these memorable observances
.throughout Alaska, when the star
emblematic of our great state
takes its rightful place in our
national emblem.”
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Patterson’s Fight
Manager Will Seek
Return Match
By HUGH FULLERTON JR.
NEW YORK, UP) — “I think
there will be a return bout and I
believe it will be the biggest draw
in the history of boxing.”
The speaker was Gus D’Amato,
the mysterious mastermind who
dreamed up the fight that cost his
fighter, Floyd Patterson, the world
heavyweight- championship Fri
day night.
“I think Johansson will want to
prove that this was no fluke,”
D’Amato added. “There’s a return
bout clause in the contract.”
Some 40 minutes before, Swe
den’s Ingemar Johansson had
stopped Patterson in 2:03 of the
third round of a rain-plagued bout
in Yankee Stadium. The discon
solate ex-champion had spent
most of the intervening time in
an inner room before he came out,
fully dressed and showing few
battle scars.
He backed into Mickey Mantle’s
dressing cubicle and the white
haired manager stood in front of
him, relaying answers to shouted
questions and adding his own
opinions.
“I didn’t see the punch coming,”
j said the soft-voiced Patterson. “I
I don’t really know where it
I landed.” D’Amato then explained:
“I saw it. It landed right here —
' between the eyes.”
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Possible H-Bomb
Devastation Shown
To U. S. Congress
By WHITNEY SHOEMAKER
WASHINGTON, iff) Congress has
been told that H-bomb war could
cripple or possibly devastate large
areas of combat nations and their
innocent neighbors.
Excluding the mightiest kind of
assault imaginable with today’s
knowledge of nuclear arms, even
the fighting nations could in time
— though perhaps it would take
generations — recover.
And there would be no global
disaster — no radioactive scourge
to wipe out all life in the world.
These were opinions expressed
or implied in hearings last week
before a Senate-House Atomic En
ergy subcommittee pondering the
effects of nuclear war.
The subcommittee scenario as
sumed that an enemy lambasted
71 U. S. cities and 153 military
and atomic installations with
bombs and missiles packing the
power of nearly lVfc billon tons of
TNT.
The Office of Civil and Defense
Mobilization electronically turned
out figures indicating 54,800,000
of the nation’s 177 million men,
women and children supposedly
were killed outright or died later
of injuries. Another 21 Vi million
were hurt but survived.
“The nation could recover,”
Rep. Chet Holifield (D-Calif) con
cluded, despite such a horrifying
toll of lives. Holifield heads the
subcommittee, which ended its
hearings Friday.
Alaska Has Nation’s
Highest Minimum Wage
Alaska, which already previ
ously had the highest state mini
mum wage, stepped farther out in
front by broadening coverage and
raising its $1.25 minimum to $1.50.
Besides' raising the minimum
wage and closing some legal loop
holes, this bill recently provided
for the establishing of a division
known as the “Wages and Hours
Division,” with a director in
charge, under the Labor ^Commis
sioner. The director, or his author
ized representative, will have full
powers to investigate wages, re
lated conditions and standards of
employment, as well as full sub
poena powers.
Nome Directory
Northwestern Alaska
Chamber of Commerce
Meets Every Monday Noon at ^
North Star Dining Room
Jerry Manning, President
ALASKA CHAPTER NO. 1
Order of Eastern Star
Doris Wilke
Worthy Matron
Helen Dunbar
Secretary
Meets First and Third Mondays
ANVIL LODGE
No. 140
HERB JENKS, W.M.
Norvji V. Lewis, Sec.
Meets First and Third Thursday
of Each Month _
NOME ROTARY CLUB
Jim Blanning
President
Bob Grant
Secretary
Wednesday Luncheor
Parent-Teachers Assn.
Meets last Tuesday of every
month at School.
WERNER BOHRER, President
VESTA SUNDSTROM, Secty.
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