THE NOME NUGGET
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Entered as second class matter October 14, 1943, at the
post office at Nome; Alaska, under Act of March 3. 1879.
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- SO MUCH BLACKER THAN THE KETTLE
Let’s Wash Behind The Ears!
ONCE MORE the annual miracle has come to pass
— The grass is beginning to show here and there.
When the grass starts to grow in this northern
part of the State, it grows fast wherever it is given a
chance. However, there are too many spots covered
with debris, garbage and refuse of all kinds, that
leave ugly spots, which should be green, even if the
season is short.
The Jaycees have set quite a pace this year, with
the wonderful job they are doing on the beach east
of the seawall. The rest of the community should not
have to wait until the annual spring clean-up is ordered
by the City Council, but should get each and every
yard, not only in front of homes and businesses, but in
back as well, clean and tidy, so that every block in
town is the cleanest block in the city.
Ike Victorious In
Veto After Stormy
Senate Debate
WASHINGTON, W> — The Sen
ate yesterday upheld President
Eisenhower's veto of the 251
million-dollar depressed areas bill.
The victory for the President
came after three hours of debate
full of political overtones.
Democrats contended the veto
showed the President and his ad
ministration are insensitive to the
plight of communities suffering
from long-term economic distress.
Republicans replied that Demo
crats were seeking to play politics
-with the issue. GOP senators said
that if the majority in Congress
really wanted to get legislation
on the subject there was plenty
of time to work out a compromise.
The Administration has indi
cated willingness to go along with
expenditure of some smaller sum
in an effort to create jobs in com
munities with chronic unemploy
ment.
The vote was 45 to override and
39 against. This was 11 votes
short of the two-thirds majority
needed to pass legislation over a
veto.
Forty Democrots and five Re
publicans voted to override.
House Votes to Consider
Aid To Schools Measure
WASHINGTON, UP) — Support
ers of federal aid for school con
struction showed . surprising
strength today in beating off an
attempt to keep the matter from
being considered in the House.
By a 367 to 97 vote, the House
agreed to take up a three-year,
97'5-million-dollar bill designed to
provide 40,000 classrooms for the
nation’s school districts.
In the debate that preceded the
vote, however, heavy Republican
applause for all speakers opposing
the bill indicated that the final
vote is liable to be a lot closer.
At least two days have been set
aside for action on the measure
and no votes are expected before
Thursday afternoon.
This is the third time in five
years the House has taken up a
bill for federal aid for school
construction. This time sponsors
are hopeful they can push it
through.
NOME SANITARY
SERVICE
Phone Main 1
P. O. Box 460
Kotzebue Firm
Will Build New
U. S. Post Office
Special to the Nome Nugget
PORTLAND — Acting Post
master Fulton Robinson has been |
advised by Postmaster General ;
Arthur Summerfield that a con
tract has bert signed for construe- |
tion and lease to the Post Office
Department of a new Post Office j
Building at Kotzebue.
Arctic Amusement Co., Inc., of
Kotzebue will construct a frame
building which will contain ap- j
proximately 2,890 square feet of j
interior floor space, with a 300- '
square-foot platform; 975 square
feet for a driveway, and 340
square feet of covered storm front.
Tentative completion date is set
for January, 1961.
The new Post Office will be li
cated on Shore Avenue (Lot 7,
Block 2, Tract Oi, and will be
leased to the Post Office Depart
ment under a 10-year basic agree
ment, with two five-year renewal
options. Specifications call for
modern equipment including an
open patron-service counter.
This is another imortant step
in the Post Office Department’s
modernization program authorized
in the last session of Congress to
improve postal services for the
public. This new postal facility to
be built in Kotzebue is typical of
many others going up elsewhere
throughout the country. One of
1,400 to be built in 1960, it will
remain under private ownership
while leased to the government,
and hence local real estate taxes
will be paid to bear its share of
the cost of local government.
‘Every Centimeter of Red
Soil is Photographed by
U.S.’ — W. German News
HAMBURG, Germany, GPI —
U. S. reconnaissance planes have
photographed “every square centi
meter” of the Soviet Union except
some steppes and inaccessible
mountain areas, the West German
news magazine Der Siegel re
ported.
The magazine said the work
was done by 12 U-2 jets in about
150 flights over a four-year period.
The article did not give any
source of information but began
with a profile of Allen Dulles,
Central Intelligence Agency di
rector. The information on the U-2
flights was not directly attributed
to Dulles and the writer, Claus
Jacobi, refused to say whether he
had interviewed the intelligence
chief.
800-Mile Yukon Outboard
Marathon Begins May 28
FAIRBANKS, UPi — Nineteen
racers are entered in the May 28
Circle City to Fairbanks Yukon
and Tanana River Outboard Mara
thon.
The course will be run over 800
miles of some of the roughest
river water in Alaska, and will
be the longest continuously run
marathon on the North American
continent.
The Ketchikan to Seattle mara
thon is only about 600 miles.
Boats will travel to Circle City
by trailer. At midnight, May 28,
they will set off carrying about
600 pounds of fuel.
Refueling will be allowed at
Tanana and the rules require
that racers must leave the village
with no more than 80 gallons
aboard.
It is expected the grinding mar
athon race will require each boat
to be underway continuously from
30 to 35 hours.
By far the worst obstacle con
fronting racers will be the treach
erous Yukon River flats extend
ing for about 250 miles down
stream from Circle City. Here the
river is wide and shallow and
filled with numerous islands,
sloughs, blind passages, sandbars
and other hazard to navigation.
IKE’S SPEECH j
(Continued from Page One)
with a recommendation that the
U. N. itself conduct such aerial re
connaissance.
Should the U.N. accept this
proposal, the President went on.
he is repared to propose addition
ally that the United States supply
part of the aircraft and equip
ment required.
Defended Espionage for Security
Eisenhower again vigorously
defended espionage for the pur
pose of protecting national secur
ity.
Dealing with this government’s
first announcement that the U2
was only on a weather mission
and apparently had strayed by ac
cident into Soviet airspace, Eisen
hower also defended that state
ment which has stirred great con
troversy.
“As to our government’s initial
statement about this flight,” Ei
senhower said, “This was issued
to 'protect the pilot, his mission
and our intelligence processes, at j
a time when the true facts were I
still undetermined.
“Our first information about the
failure of this mission did not dis
close whether the pilot was still
alive, was trying to escape, was
avoiding interrogation, or whether
both plane and pilot had been de
stroyed.
“Protection of our intelligence
system and the pilot, and conceal
ment of the planes mission, still
seemed imperative. It must be re
membered that over a long period
these flights have given us infor
mation of the greatest importance
to the nation’s security.
“Their success has been nothing
short of remarkable.”
Eisenhower reviewed Khrush
chev’s now well-known tirade
against him and the United States.
Khrushchev’s stand in demand
ing a public apology by Eisen
hower for the U2 flight torpedoed
the summit conference, Eisen
hower repeated.
He also said again that:
“It is apparent that the Soviets
had decided even before the So
viet delegation left Moscow that
my trip to the Soviet Union
should be canceled and that no
thing constructive from their
viewpoint would come out of the
summit conference.”
j Sanitation Aides Plan for
I Summer Construction of
! Fish Drying Racks
(from Alaska's Health, for June)
By WARREN GRIFFIN
Since the beginning of the Alas
ka Native Village Sanitation Aide
program in 1954, on-the-job train
ing of sanitation aide personnel
has figured prominently in its
work.
The most recent training and
program planning sessions were
held at Kotzebue during the week
of Feb. 1. Seven sanitation aides
from the Norton Sound area at
tended the meeting.
An aspect of the February meet
ing that had not been included
in previous sessions was planning
for summer demonstration pro
jects in the communities repre
sented by the aides. The Kotzebue
area aides made final plans to
construct, as a demonstration
project in each village, screened
drying racks for fish. Each village
will use available local material
for framework construction. “Fi
[ berglas” screening will be furn
ished by the program budget.
Labor will be contributed by the
villages participating in the pro
ject.
Norton Sound aides and super
visor have planned completion of
a village demonstration water
supply at Shaktoolik, a water sup
ply at Koyuk and at White Moun
tain, and completion of the water
supply project under way at Gam
bell on St. Lawrence Island. A
demonstration water supply pro
ject for Savoonga also will be
attempted.
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