THE NOME NUGGET
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Entered as second class matter October 14, 1943, at the
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TENSE MOMENTS •
OUT FROM UNDER
THE OTHER DAY, in New York City, a $125 mil
lion sale was consumated at public auction in
just two minutes.
The seller was the City, and sale involvel three
municipal power plants supplying electricity to New
York’s extensive sybway system. The buyer was a
business - managed electric company, Consolidated
Edison Co. of New York.
The municipal plants have long been a severe
headache to the City and its taxpayers. Costs have
been very high. Equipment has been allowed to be
come obsolescent. So finally, after years of paying
the big operating bills, the City decided to get out
from under the burden.
By any standard, New York City made a good
deal. The "utility, under the terms of the sale agree
ment, must furnish power to the subway system at
the present fixed rate, less 5 per cent, for ten years.
How can private enterprise do a better, more
economical job Of supplying power than a munici
pality? A large part of the answer is found in the
fact that publicly-owned businesses are generally
politically-managed businesses — and that’s always
expensive. Over the years community after commun
ity, large and small, has found it advantageous to
get out of the power business and to let private enter
prise handle the service. And the gains—to consumers
and taxpayers—have been enermous.__
Hurricane Dot Misses
Main Hawaiian Chain
HONOLULU, lff> — Hurricane
Dot moved well north of the Ha
waiian Islands Saturday and
weakened into a tropical storm.
But her 75-mile-an-hour winds
had flooded and ravaged the Is
land of Kauai at the northern end
of the Hawaiian chain.
Dot’s howling gales ripped roofs
off houses, wrecked old frame
buildings, flattened sugar cane,
knocked down power and tele
phone lines and sent. 1,000 tour
ists and residents to high ground.
Official estimates for the dam
age in Hawaii ranged up to
six million.
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Walking Grandmother
Reaches Portland, Oregon
Destination, from Missouri
PORTLAND, Ore., UP — Walk
ing grandmother Emma Gatewood
arrived here Friday after a 2,000
I mile hike from Independence, Mo.
The 71-year-old grandmother
from Gallipolis, Ohio, was greeted
by more than 5,000 persons as
she ended the three-month jaunt.
She was given a round of recep
i tions and showered with gifts of
food and clothing.
Mrs. Gatewood hasn’t made
plans for her return to Ohio, but
she may take a plane to Los An
geles and appear on television.
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For Sale at The Nugget
Ike’s Europe Jaunt
Includes Meeting
Top Europeans
WASHINGTON, Uf) — President
Eisenhower Saturday broadened
plans for his trip to Western Eur
ope to include talks with Italian
Prime Minister Antonio Segni and
two top officials of NATO.
Separate meetings with the
NATO officials and the Italian
Prime Minister will take place
in Paris after Eienhower has
ended conferences with French
President Charles De Gaulle.
It was announced Friday that
Eisenhower will go to London
August 28 for talks with British
Prime Minister Harold MacMillan,
and then to Paris September 2 for
the meeting with De Gaulle.
Press Secretary Hagerty said
Eisenhower will confer with Jo
seph M. A. H. Luns, Netherlands
Minister of Foreign Affairs and
president of the North Atlantic
Treaty Organization Council, and
with Paul-Henri Spaak, NATO
Secretary General.
Hagerty followed this with a
second announcement that Eisen
hower will meet with the Italian
Prime Minister for discussions on
world' problems of mutual in
terest.
Segni will also visit the United
States starting September 30, |
Hagerty said.
Eisenhower’s trip to West Eur- |
ope is preliminary to his talks in |
Washington with Soviet Premier |
Khrushchev, beginning Septem
ber 15.
“Eskimo Legends’' By
Lela Oman Again On
Sale at Local Stores
The Nugget announces that
let by Lela Oman, is off the press
“Eskimo Legends,” popular book
and again availale for sale at local
stores.
Autographed copies will be
available for those who wish them
for their own libraries or for
gifts.
Lela Oman has carefully trans
lated some of the most unusual
Selawik legends which have been
handed down through the ages
by storytellers of that region.
Mr. and Mrs. Peter Mayac are
the parents of a daughter born
on A j. gust 9 th.
SYTURDAY BASEBALL
American League
New York 3, Kansas City 0.
Bosl >n 4, Detroit 3.
National League
Cinci mati 9, San Francisco 6.
Los Angeles 4, Milwaukee 2.
St. Louis 4-5, Philadelphia 3-4.
Pittsburgh 4, Chicago 3.
Pacific Coast League
Salt Lake 3, Vancouver 2.
Phoenix 5, Portland 2.
Spokane 4, San Diego 1.
Seattle 5, Sacramento 4.
SUNDAY RESULTS
American League
Chicago 4-9, Washington 3-0.
Baltimore 4, Cleveland 3.
Detroit 7, Boston 3.
New York 4, Kansas City 3.
National League
Milwaukee 8, Los Angeles 7.
San Francisco 4, Cincinnati 3.
Philadelphia 8-4, St. Louis 3-2.
Pittsburgh 5, Chicago 3.
Pacifc Coast League
Salt Lake 2, Vancouver 1.
j Portland 6-4, Phoenix 3-3.
Spokane 5-2, San Diego 4-13.
Seattle 10, Sacramento 8.
Women are kind. They wear
furs in the summer when animals
don’t need them.
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Gaspe’s Spectacular Natural Wonders
Photo: Courtesy Canadian National Railways
The Gaspe Peninsula of Quebec, land of legend with its rugged
grandeur and magnificent seascapes, is one of the most popular vaca
tion spots in North America. One of the most dramatic and pictur
esque sights in the Gaspe region is Perce Rock. Shaped like a stranded
ship, it lies off the village of Perce, 1,500 feet long and 280 feet high
at the prow; one of the most spectacular natural wonders of Canada.
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California Brush Fire
Takes Toll in Lives and
Injuries to Firemen
RIVERSIDE, Calif., Iff) — Two
firemen died today of burns suf
ered when they and 26 others tried
to make a stand against a rushing
wall of flames near Elsinore.
Two were burned critically and
the other 24 less seriously.
The 28 were trapped Saturday
as flames raced through the tall,
thick brush on the slopes above
the Elsinore resort area.
The fire resulted from a high
way accident. A pick-up truck
ran off the road, fell into a ra
vine and caught fire. Flames from
the truck started the brush fire.
Typical Spinster School
Marm Is Outdated
N-EW YORK — The image of
the typical school teacher as a
waspish spinster is out of date.
A fourth of the nation’ 1,100,000
school teachers are men, and 60
per cent of the females are or have
been married.
This has been discovered by
Sloan Wayland, professor of edu
cation at Teachers College, Colum
bia University, and Edmund de
S. Brunner, chairman of the Bur
i eau of Applied Social Research
at Columbia.
.The researchers found that
male' teachers, after dropping
| from 21 per cent of the teacher
total in 1910 to 16 per cent in
1930, increased to 25 per cent by
1950. The number of male teach
ers doubled from 1910 to 266,000
in 1950.
Women, the researchers found,
often return to teaching after
their children . have grotop up.
While the overall percentage of
women teachers was found to be
; 75, women represent only 65 per
cent of all teachers in the age
group 25 to 39.
Operatic Soprano Callas'
Decorum' Damaged by
Psychological Pasta’ Firm
ROME, — The Rome Appeals
Court has confirmed that the
slim figure of soprano Maria Men
echini Callas doesn’t owe any
thing to Prince Marcantonio Pa
celli’s nonfattening spaghetti.
A court ruling was made pub
lic today afffirming that Pacelli’s
Pasta Company damaged Miss
Callas’ “decorum” by advertising
that its “physiological pasta” had
taken 44 pounds off the once- *
hefty opera star. The court or
dered the two sides to negotiate
the amount of damage.
Tibetan Tribesmen Still
Fight Communist Invaders
KATMANDU, Npal, UPi — Scat
tered fighting is still going on
against the conquering Chinese in
some parts of Tibet’s isolated
wastes, according to refugees f
trickling across the borders into
Nepal. Nepalese officials said the
refugees were Khampas, the tribe
which was in the .forefront of
Tibe t’s unsuccessful struggle
against the Communists earlier
this year.
R.I.T. Dean’s List Names
Young Nome Craftsman
ROCHESTER, N. Y. — “.onald
W. Senungetuk. son of M •. and
Mrs. Willie Senungetuk of Nome,
has been named to the spring
dean’s list at the Rochester Insti
tute of Technology, according to
Dr. Leo F. Smith, dean of instruc
tion.
Ronald, a graduate in 1953 of
Mt. Edgecombe School, Alaska,
is enrolled in the School for
American Craftsmen at R.I.T.
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