THE NOME NUGGET
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NOME, ALASKA
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E. P. BOUCHER ./. Managing Editor
Entered as second class matter October 14, 1943, at the
postoffice at Nome. Alaska, under the Act of March 3. 1879.
PROGRAM TO AID ALASKA PROSPECTORS
We endorse fully the following proposal of the
Territorial Department of Mines.
The Territorial Department of Mines proposes to
nitiate a Prospectors Aid Program and has included
n its proposed budget for the next biennium funds to
cover a program as follows:
What the Department of Mines Would Do
1. Furnish transportation for prospector and six weeks’ sup
plies from nearest outfitting paint to chosen area.
2. Provide transportation for additional supplies every 30 days.
3. Provide some field equipment such as tent, tools, maps,
on loan if required.
4. Permit each prospector to stake the legal number of claims
without recording fees the first two seasons.
5. Provide free assays or identification on samples taken.
6. Provide geologic aid and advice.
What the Prospector Would Be Required to Do
1. File applications for assistance (individuals or partners'*
with the Department of Mines by April 1st.
2. Applicants must be prepared to supply their own pack
sacks, bed rolls and Geiger counter if prospecting for
radioactive material.
3. A $100 bond must be deposited with the Department of
Mines within 15 days of acceptance as security in payment'
for supplies transported in, and to take care of unusual
losses due to excessive “wear and tear” on equipment
loaned; this bond to be returned when any charges have
been repaid.
4. Prospectors must spend a minimum of 90 days engaged
in independent prospecting in the field during the season.
5. Supplies for six weeks must be purchased by each party
and will be transported with them on initial trip ta chosen
area. Satisfactory credit or other arrangements must be
made with stores at point of departure so that additional
supplies may be picked up by Department-furnished
transportation for delivery at 30-day intervals.
G. Applications should state preference with regard to local
ity in which individual desires to prospect. Preference
will be given due consideration.
7. Prospectors will be free to make any arrangements they
wish with individuals or companies as regards disposition
of their claims.
Under the suggested program, applicants would
be thoroughly “screened” before acceptance. Each ap
plicant should have had previous prospecting exper
ience, or have received some type of instructions in
prospecting methods. He should be able to identify
the more common minerals. One Associate Mining En
gineer from the Department’s staff would visit each
party once a month and spend a few days with them,
giving advice, gathering samples, etc.
Individuals or partners would be outfitted and
transported from such points as Ketchikan, Juneau,
Cordova, Anchorage, Fairbanks, or other way points
desired by the individual.
At the end of the prospecting season, the equip
ment loaned to the prospector would be returned to
he Department of Mines in reasonable condition. If
the prospector desired to remain on his prospect and
work it throughout the winter at his own expense, he
could elect to return to the point of outfitting at De
partment expense when ready.
The Department of Mines feels that a program of
this type would do much to open up the most promising
areas of the Territory and increase the mineral output
of Alaska.
Justice is often on the side of the litigant with
the most money.
There are so many minorities demanding atten
tion these days that the majority rarely gets much
consideration.
The politician who can be bought sooner or later
gives himself away.
Short Military Parade
Marks Anniversary Of
Bolshevik Revolution
MOSCOW, (>P) — One of the
shortest military parades ever
seen in Moscow marked the 35th
anniversary celebration today of
the Bolshevik revolution. Prime
Minister Stalin reviewed the pa
rade from his usual place atop the
big marble tomb of Lenin in Red
Square.
Because of low clouds there
was no display of Soviet air
power, as has been the case in
past years.
Before the parade started Mar
shal Semeon Timoshenko, com
mander of the White Russian
military district and one of the
Soviet Union’s military heroes in
World War II, told the nation
the armed forces of the Soviet
Union have everything necessary
to repel an invader.
He denounced “warmongers,”
saying they dream of a new world
war while carrying o'n a bar
barous war against the Korean
people.
Stalin, who will be 73 on Dec.
21, walked up about 40 steps to
a landing, where he raised his
right hand in greeting to foreign
diplomats, including those of the
U.S. and other Western powers,
who" were in reviewing stands to
see the show. Then he walked up
the remaining 30 or 40 steps to
the usual reviewing place. Stalin
made the long walk up the steps
with no apparent exertion.
Rotary Sees Legion Film
Yesterday’s Rotary meeting pro
gram included a film on the Am
erican Legion - convention at Los
Angeles in 1950. Dan Jones pro
vided the film.
A visiting Rotarian and former
resident of Nome, Charles Clasby,
was present.
Nome Directory
ROTARY CLUB
OF NOME
Thursday Luncheon
Boyd Harwood, Pres.
George Bayer, Secy.
Alaska Chapter No. 1
Order of Eastern Star
Dorothy Young
Rosa B. Hagen
Worthy Matron
Secretary
Meetings 1st and 3rd Mondays
HAGEN
JEWELER AND OPTICIAN
Court House Is Opposite Us
Phone Main 40'
ANVIL LODGE
No. 140
Meets First and
Third Thursday
each mouth
WILL M. GILLIS, W. M.
NORVIN W. LEWIS, Secy.
Northwestern Alaska
Chamber of Commerce
Meets
EVERY TUESDAY NOON
Larry Galvin, President
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POLAR CURIO SHOP
Ike Agrees to Meet
Truman Soon For
Talks on Peace
AUGUSTA, Ga„ (/P)— General j
Dwight D. Eisenhower suggested j
Thursday that he meet in about j
10 days with President Truman
to discuss the problem of peace. '
Eisenhower replied to a tele
gram from the President in which
Truman proposed such a meeting.
Following is the text of Eisen
hower’s reply to the President: |
‘ Thank you for your telegram.
I am gratified by your suggestion
that we have a personal meeting
in the interests of orderly tran
sition. Because I obviously re
quire a reasonable time for con
versations and conferences lead
ing up to the designation of im
portant assistants, I respectfully
suggest that we tentatively plan
the proposed meeting for the early
part of the. week beginning Nov.
17.
“In the meanwhile, with your
permission, I shall try to take im
mediate advantage of your sug
gestion concerning a budgetary
representative and will addition
ally propose other individuals for
indoctrination in several ot the
other departments in the federal
government. In- this way our own
conference can achieve maximum
results. I share your hope that we
rnaj" present to the world an Am
erican unity in basic issues.
“Respectfully, Dwight D. Eisen
hower.”
"4-on" Duplicate Receipt Books
At The Nugget Office
State Dept. Ready
For GOP Shakeup
WASHINGTON, UP)—'The State
Department, target of Republican
attack for six years, got ready
Thursday to face a Republican
shakeup.
Probably no other agency in
Washington outside the White
House was so stunned by Gen.
Dwight D. Eisenhower’s election
victory Tuesday night. Unques
tionably it meant that heads will
roll. Estimates of the number of
high officials and diplomats who
will get the ax range from around
40 to 100 or more.
That Secretary Dean Acheson
is out, no one disputes. He has
planned for months to return to
his Washington 1 a w practice
whether Eisenhower or Gov. Ad
lai Stevenson succeeded Truman.
The top echelon under Acheson
embraces upwards of 20 persons,
including an undersecretary, dep
uties, and assistant secretaries.
In addition there are men who
have been closely identified with
Acheson’s policies, such as Philip
Jessup, ambassador at large, and
policy planning chief Paul Nitze,
former Wall Street investment
banker.
Abroad a total of 72 ambassa
dors and ministers head up U.S.
diplomatic missions. Of those, de
partment officials said Thursday,
approximately 50 are career for
eign service officers and the rest
are political appointees.
Many changes in foreign posts
are expected to be worked out by
the Eisenhower administration
over the first months of next year.
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