THE NOME NUGGET
Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday by the ,
NOME PUBLISHING CO.
NOME, ALASKA
Telephone Main 125 $1.50 PER MONTH
P.O. Box 610 $16.00 A YEAR
E. P. BOUCHER . Managing Editor
CLINTON GRAY . Production Manager
Entered as second clasi matter October 14, 1943, at the
post office at Nome. Alaska, under Act of March 3, 1879.
From Nome’s Colorful Past
FOR SEVERAL YEARS there has been talk of
having a museum and historical library in the
community so that its colorful past may be preserved
for posterity. Little by little the relics of the frontier
days are destroyed or carried away to other states.
Some people just talked about what should be
done, while others got busy and did it! Carrie McLain,
who has been historian for the Pioneer Women of
Alaska for many years and whose home has become
the resting place for many of these early-day souven
irs, has voluntarily taken the first step in setting up
a museum. She opened this week a picture gallery
which completely lines the walls of the Pioneer Igloo
and tells the story of early-day Nome. She is giving
her own time each day so that visitors may see these
pictures and as soon as possible will set a definite
time each day so that residents may also view the
collection and get a first hand lecture about them
from Carrie herself.
With pioneers like Carrie to head the project,
Nome will soon have a museum ho house its relics
and preserve its history!
Mrs. McLain will be glad to accept large or small
contributions to the museum.
Drive 400 Scenic Miles At Nome
Recently a feature write in one of our
State newspapers sympathized with a local
citizen who has a Cadillac here and no roads on which
to drive.
Apparently Nome is not advertising one of her
most intriguing attractions, which is more than 200
miles of fine roads, going east, west and north of the
city. As the roads do not connect, it is necessary to
return on each road before choosing another, which
brings the total mileage for any car, wanting to see
as much of Alaska as possible in this area, to cover
400 miles.
All the roads are scenic and historical, as they
wind through or near mining camps, each of which is
a story in itself. These roads also lead to rivers and
creeks abounding in trout, char or grayling. Hundreds
of different flora decorate the hillsides.
It is true that we need a road that connects us
^ with the other roads of the United States of America,
but let it not be said that we now have no roads !
James Stewart Wins
Reserve Promotion Hassle
WASHINGTON, [Bh — Movie
star James Stewart at long last
won promotion today to brigadier
general in the Air Force Reserves.
By voice vote and without a
word of debate, the Senate finally
approved the promotion which has
been bogged in controversy since
1957.
The long delay was due chiefly
to opposition from Senator Mar
garet Chase Smith (R-Mainel who
questioned that Stewart, a World
War II combat pilot, had put in
as much time as he should have
at Reserve duties.
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Pete Walsh, Station Mgr.
Spectacular July 4th
Celebration Feature of
Colorful Nomerama Classic
In a spectacular and colorful
reproduction of a 1915 July 4th
parade and celebration in a Mis
souri town, 350 extras were em
ployed in filming scenes for C. V.
Whitney’s “The Missouri Travel
er.” The stirring scenes were shot
on a Mid-West street set.
The July 4th celebration in
cludes not only a parade, but also
an exciting trotting horse match
race, a furious fist fight between
top character actors Lee Marvin
and Garry Merrill, fire works and
shooting of a cannon.
“The Missouri Traveler” is the
richly nostalgic story of a small
Mid-West town and its human and
humorous characters. Starring
Brandon de Wilde in the title role,
it features newcomer Mary Hos
ford playing the leading feminine
part.
GIRL SCOUTS TO MEET
MONDAY NIGHT FOR TRIP
TO CAMP DEXTER
Mrs. Dunbar advises that girls
of the 5th, 6th and 7th Grades
Girl Scouts who are going to Camp
Dexter are to meet at her home
at 2 p.m. on Monday, July 27,
with all equipment.
Parents’ Night at camp will be
held Friday, July 31, commencing
at 7:30 p.m.
TWO FISHERIES MEN
LOST IN BROOKS RANGE
Two' fisheries biologists from
Anchorage are the subject of an
aerial search in the Brooks Range.
The two left Venetie, on the
Yukon River, Sunday in a Fish
and Wildlife Service Cessna 180.
They are Gordon Watson and
Donald Thurston, both of An
chorage. Watson, pilot of the air
craft, has four children and
Thurston has two.
GIRL SCOUTS BUSY
AT CAMP DEXTER
The following Girl Scouts are
attending Camp Dexter:
Sharon Reader, Diane Wilke,
Judy Bixby, Barbara Mclver, Jay
Woodcock, Ann Chambers, Pearl
Johnson, Jo. Chambers, Beverly
Bohrer. Mary Andersen is the
assistant leader and Mrs. Dunlap
is camp leader.
Tuesday afternoon the girls
went on an eight-mile hike, then
that evening Sharon Reader had a
birthday party and received many
pretty gifts.
They have also been swim
ming in Nome River, made camp
kits in arts and crafts, and are
now working on small plaques.
The only city in the world
which owns a glacier from which
it gets its water supply is Boulder,
Colo. Boulder owns the Arapahoe
glacier which could provide water
for a population of 100,000.
Services Begin . . .
THIS SUNDAY!
AT THE
BIBLE
BAPTIST
CHURCH
— Front and Steadman —
• 10 A.M.—BIBLE SCHOOL
• 11 A.M.—PREACHING
SERVICE
• 7 P.M.—PREACHING
SERVICE
WEDNESDAY NIGHT
• 7 P.M.—BIBLE STUDY and
PRAYER SERVICE
— BOB LEIGHT —
Missionary Pastor
Bristol Bay Gains,
Thanks to Japanese
Voluntary Cutback
SEATTLE, LP — An improving
1959 Bristol Bay Red Salmon Fish
ery with both spawning escape
ment and the catch up, was re
port in Seattle Wednesday by the
federal government’s top commer
cial fisheries official.
Donald L. McKernan, of Wash
ington, D. C., director of the Bur
eau of Commercial Fisheries of
the United States Fish and Wild
life Service, added:
“The entire run has shown a
greater improvement over the
parent run than we expected.”
McKernan, stopped in Seattle
on his way to Washington after an
inspection of bureau operations
in Alaska, said figures through
July 20 show a spawning escape
ment of 7,300,000 fish.
Through the same date, the Bris
tol Bay commercial fishery had
I taken 4,500,000 red salmon.
Through July 19, McKernan
said, the commercial pack totaled
308,000 cases of 48 one-pound cans
each. The season closes Friday
and he expects a season pack of
from 325,000 to 330,000 cases.
The Bristol Bay red salmon fish
ery has averaged 300,000 cases
during the two previous years as
against a historic norm of 600,000
cases.
A development foreshadowing
continuing improvement in spawn
ing escapement, McKernan said,
is the favorable downstream es
capement of fingerling salmon
bound out to sea.
Last winter, the government
closed the valuable Bristol Bay
fishery to commercial operations.
However, it was reopened late in
the spring to a limited fishery.
McKernan attributed the higher -
than-expected catch to the fact
that the controversial Japanese
high seas salmon fleet has taken
few red salmon of North Amer
ican stock.
McKernan said the Japanese
have stayed farther west of the
North Pacific Salmon “treaty line”
than they have in the past sev
eral years. He emphasized:
“This is strictly a unilateral ac
tion by the Japanese. Contrary to
some reports, no official or unoffi
cial agreements between the two
governments or between the two
industries has had anything to do
with this. The Japanese have done
it on their own.”
McKernan predicted that the
fishery may improve next year.
He said:
“If the Japuanese fish as con
servatively next year as they have
this year, if distribution of North
American stocks is as favorable as
it has been this year, the harvest
can be closer to normal — 600,000
cases — than it has been for sev
eral years.”
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