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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A Friend of Alaska Visits Nome
NOME IS HAPPY TO WELCOME a delegate of the
General Federation of Women’s Clubs and its
president Miss Chloe Gifford, here on a three-week
tour of the new state.
The General Federation of Women’s Clubs is an
organization outstanding in its efforts assisting Alaska
to achieve statehood.
For many years, Alaska statehood was urged by
this organization through its women’s clubs in all
48 states.' Their educational programs and letters to
congressmen of all the states helped us to get out of
the icebox.
When Mildred Hermann, Alaskan attorney, was
president of the Alaska Federation, hbr stirring appeal
to the convention was largely responsible for the in
terest which developed and the intense campaign car
ried' on in our behalf.
No group anywhere did more for our cause than
these women of America. The Nome Home Arts Club
is proud to be a member of this outstanding group of
women’s clubs.
MEN IN THE SERVICE
Army Pvt. Norman R. Brown
recently arrived in Germany and
is now a member of the 40th
Ordnance Company in Karlsruhe,
Germany. He is a switcboard op
erator, entered the Army last
February and. received his basic
training at Fort Ord, Calif. He is
22 years old and the son of Willie
Brown of Nome.
Jimmy Arey, 17, son of Mr. and
Mrs. William Arey of Kotzebue,
is undergoing basic training with
the 8th Battle Group at Fort Ord,
Calif.
Army Pvt. John Penatac, 18,
son of Charles Penatac "of Nome,
is scheduled to complete advanced
individual light weapons training
.this week at Fort Ord, Calif.
Army Pvt. Walter C. Analoak,
18, son of Mrs. Lottie Analoak of
Nome, completed the food service
course last month at Fort Ord. He
received training in cooking, bak
ing, meat cutting and operating
a field kitchen.
FAA Adopts New Rules
Governing Physical and
Mental Standards
WASHINGTON, UP) — The Fed
eral Aviation Agency has written
new rules governing the physical
and mental standards required of
any person who pilots a plane or
acts as a flight crew member or
an airport traffic controller.
The regulations bar alcoholics,
narcotics addicts, epileptics and
persons with mental disorders, as
well as those with heart ailments
and diabetes.
The new standards, effective
Oct. 15, incorporate practices that
have been followed informally for
many years, an FAA spokesman
said.
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Fish Catch Up Over ’58
WASHINGTON, The catch
of fish and shellfish in the United
States totaled more than two bil
lion pounds during the first seven
months of 1959.
The Interior Department re
ported the figure and said it rep
resented an increase of 17 per
cent over landings in the similar
1958 period.
Alaska salmon showed the big
gest decrease, from 239 million
pounds taken thru Aug. 16, 1958,
to 122 million pounds landed by
the same date in 1959.
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Comparative Prices Finds
Nome High on The Stick
Egg and coffee prices declined,
while meat prices generally in
creased in Alaska during the
months of April, May, and June,
1959. The over-all result for 40
items in an Alaska “Market Bas
ket” was a slight reduction in
retail food prices.
The quarterly survey by the
University of Alaska’s Agricul
tural Extension Service shows
that prices dropped in six of the
eight cities surveyed. Anchorage
dropped by 83 cents and Fair
banks dropped by 53 cents. The
cost of the “Market Basket”
ranged from $19.31 in Ketchikan
to $28.87 in Nome and averaged
$22.61 for the nine Alaska cities,
or 34 per cent above Seattle
prices.
In May, the total price of 40
comparable items was $16.87 in
Seattle, and average $16.17 for
the other 48 states.
Egg prices ranged from 60 cents
a dozen in Ketchikan for Grade
A to 89 cents a dozen in Nome.
June prices for the “basket”
were: Seattle $16-87, Ketchikan
'$19.31, Petersburg $20.72, Juneau
$20.53, Kodiak $21.69, Seward
$22.35, Anchorage $22.24, Palmer
$21.81, Fairbanks $’4.99, Nome
$28,87.
President Expected To
Sign Third-Try Billion
Dollar Housing Bill
WASHINGTON, Ifft—The House
Thursday sent to President Eisen
hower a third-try, billion-dollar
housing bill which carried ad
vance administration approval.
The action came on a loudly
shouted voice vote.
Two previous, and more costly
measures were vetoed by the
President.
Passed 86-7 by the Senate Wed
nesday, the new bill was pruned
of some of the features found ob
jctionable by the President in the
first two vetoed measures.
It omitted 50 million dollars of
loans for college classrooms,
which Eisenhower criticized as
the start of a new program of
federal aid to education which he
said has no place in housing leg
islation.
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Russians Will Catch More
Bottomfish In Bering Sea
Than All U.S. West Coast
SEATTLE, (/PI—A. U.S. fisheries
expert said the huge Russian
trawl fleet now operating in the
Bering Sea will catch more bot
tom fish than the entire U.S.
West Coast trawl fleet.
Lee Alverson, chief of North
Pacific fisheries exploration for
the U.S. Bureau of Commercial
Fisheries, said the combined bot
tomfish catch of the Soviet and
Japanese trawl fleets operating in
the Bering Sea will run at least
250 million pounds a year.
U.S. trawl fishermen operating
out of California, Oregon and
Washington ports normally bring
in from 80 to 100 million pounds
of bottomfish a year.
Alverson said the Russian trawl
fleet, which is catching yellowfin
sole principally, will probably
take about 100 million pounds of
bottomfish this year, while the
Japanese fleet will take some 150
million pounds — cod, flounder
and sole.
Alverson’s estimate of the Rus
sian and Japanese trawl fleet
catch does not include the fish
caught by Japan’s high seas sal
mon fleet.
Train Rams Loaded
School Bus — 7 Die
MOUNTAIN LAKE PARK, Md.,
W*)—A St. Louis-to-Baltimore pas
senger train rammed a stalled
school bus at a grade crossing in
mountainous western Maryland
Tuesday, killing seven of the 26
children on the bus. Eight to 10
others were reported seriously in
jured.
The Baltimore and Ohio’s Dip
lomat, running about on time,
struck the loaded bus at 8:30 a.m.
at a crossing marked by a flash
ing light and bell.
The bus driver, Leroy Camp
bell, 59 ,told authorities that after
the bus stalled he opened the door
and tried to get the children out.
After a half-dozen or so scram
bled out the door, the rest jam
med the doorway, blocking it.
Then the engine hit the bus
broadside, knocking the vehicle
down the track on its side 40 to
50 feet.
Campbell, who owned the bus,
has driven the same : ate for
four years. He has a sal driving
record - with the court School
system for more than 2 > years.
No one seemed to know what
caused the bus to stall on the
crossing.
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