THE NOME NUGGET
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Stepping on the Gas
About 40 new cars have arrived in Nome which
will be using our limited highways in addition to the
400 cars now in operation.
More traffic means more chance for accidents.
Last year, in passenger car accidents alone, 40 percent
of the accidents were due to exceeding the speed limit.
The speed limit in the City of Nome is 20 miles per
hour and, in anticipation of the increased number of
cars, the Chief of Police has stated that more and
better traffic signs will soon be seen on our streets.
Roads out of town are classified as unimproved
roads and 35 miles per hour is the speed limit.
James DuPont, of the Delaware Safety Council,
recently told the President’s Committee on Traffic that
Americans are playing “Russian roulette” . . . We
sometimes go the reckless Russians one better by plac
ing two death-dealing cartridges in the chamber of
our gun—alcohol and poor judgment. Then we pull
the trigger—only we call it “stepping on the gas!”
Alaska Freight Lines Tug
I#ogs 3<MUMM) Miles In
(h Years Alaska Service
SEATTLE. IP — A 300.000 mile
voyage, logged at a leisurely 0.7
knots, was celebrated this week
by Alaska Freight Lines
The 300,000 - mile cruise is a
composite affair—100 round trips
the past six and a half years by
the Patrick, one of the freight
line's >1 tugs.
'Skipper Ray Thurston has been
aboard the Patrick on all her !00
tripe, as have Chief Engineer
Richard Goldsmith. First Assist
ant Engineer Lawrence McGuire
and Se aman Jjrrn^ R «wha user
The Patrick paused long enough
In Seattle this week for the com
pany to present a scroll to Skipper
Thurston Then the Patrick was
* off on another routine voyage to
Alaska, towing her barge behind
her, heading out on her next
300,000 miles at the stow but sure
pace of 9.7 knots
ALASKA AIRLINES
From Anchrage: Tom Beltz, P,
M Shea. K V. Beck, R. Wade,
Fmma W lloy a, Rev. and Mrs. W
Mecklenburg, C. MeMareneckle.
L.T. Rota, A1 Sloen, J. Malone. P.
\ LeFleur, G A Kuster, Maj, Kolb,
i P DeBoer, Cap* R. Larson, L.
j Thorbum, J.C., Annabetle, M. J.,
! and J A Reichart,, Nellie Vierra,
T Con ley, Pvt W F McConnell,
J. Smith. Col. W, Lamee, Major
! Simmons. Maj. O. Adams, Rich
S ard Bcckmeyer, Pvt. G. Ricopa,
| Sp 3 M Pane, Lt E. Burke. D
i Droege. Therm Rook ok, Jean
| Okineilo, Alice and Leroy Ash
en feller, Capt. Hennetoerger. Fred
| Doegle, P. Stoffel, R Schrope, R.
I Hume rick, D Henglm, F Evett,
D. Ingalls, Maj. Nolen.
To Anchorage: Dr Fred Lang
sam, Wm. Lincoln, John Wurgum,
DougU.s Swalm, James von der
Heydt, Mira, Williams, Sgt. Liv
ingston, CB. Smyth, Clyde Wui
sor, e JR Burnett, Lt Martin, Sgt.
Hamaker, Al/e DD. White, A3/c
JT Brown. Richard Nicholas
HST Won’t Kiss
Baby Because
It’s Not Sanitary’
OXFORD, England, (tft— Harry
Truman refused to kiss a baby
Thursday because he said it
wasn’t sanitary.
The baby was thrust into the
arms of the former U.S. President
after he had addressed 90 Ameri
can students studying at Oxford
University as Rhodes scholars.
“Kiss him, Mr. President, said
someone in the group of students
surrounding Truman.
“Oh, No!” he replied. “It’s not
sanitary ... I mean it’s not
sanitary from the baby’s point of
view.”
The ex-President said as a can
didate for office back home he
had never done any baby-kissing,
“not even when I needed votes
desperately.”
In more serious vein, Truman
called for a “new Magna Carta”
to include “economic well-being,
... health, education and decent
living standards among our in
alienable rights.”
Earlier Wednesday the ancient
| British university conferred an
| honorary doctorate of civil law
j on him.
“Every person born in the 20th
century is entitled to the benefits
of the 20th century,” Truman
declared in a speech before 400
graduates of Oxford’s Christ
Church College.
Every man should have the
benefit of the best in medicine,
he continued, and every boy and
girl the highest educational train
ing from which they can profit.
The aged, he added, should be
free of economic worries in their
declining years.
Then in obvious reference to
the American Negro, he added:
"In my country, to our sorrow,
there are those who are still
denied full citizenship in some
of our states, and denied full
| stature as human beings by some
of our citizens still living in an
intellectual and moral dark age.”
Egg With Quadruple Yolk
Is On* In 270.000.000
EUREKA. Calif., —Someone’s
hen laid a real bargain egg—one
with four yolks.
It turned up yesterday at the
Poultry Producers of Northern
California plant here—the first in
more than 270 milhon eggs
candled there in 30 years. Man
ager Frank Eggercr said he’s seen
lots of double yolks and an oc
casional triple
The quadruple yolker wasn’t
much larger than a normal egg.
Iceland Will Vote Sunday
On Members of Althing,
World s Oldest Parliament
REYKJAVIK. Iceland, (J» —
Little Iceland wound up its par
liamentary election campaign to
day. For the Writ time in 1.000
year* the rest of the world is
concerned about it.
The four ma»n parties, striving
for a majority of the 99,000 elig
ible votes, made their final cam
(poign speeches On Sunday, the
• little volcanic island in the North
Atlantic will elect 32 member*
to the Althing, the world’s oldest
parliament organised in 930
The chief Issue is the continued
existence of the giant U.S. air
base on the Icelandic peninsula
of Keflaytk. almost midway be
tween Moscow and New York.
The North Atlantic Treaty Or
ganisation. of wh>h Iceland ta a
member, view* the base as a key
bastion for defense of the North
American continent.
Sen. Knowland “Shocked" That State Dept.
Submits Reports to United Nations On .Alaska
And Hawaii As Dependencies of Member Nation
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Thursday Baseball
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Cleveland 5, Boston 0
Kansas City 15, Washington .6
Chicago 1, Baltimore 0
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Brooklyn 9, St. Louis 8
Milwaukee 7, Pittsburgh 2
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
Seattle 4, San Diego 1
Vancouver 6, Hollywood 5
Portland 8, Sacramento 3
San Francisco 7, Los Angeles 3
NEW BOOKS AT KK LIBRARY
The Kegoaya Kozga Library has
acquired some new children’s
books which will be available at
the regular library hours of 7:30
to 9 p.m. Friday and 2:30 to 4 p.m.
Saturday. The books are:
Travel Routes Around the
World, Big Little Island, Mystery
at East Hatchett, Blue Willow, i
Meggy Macintosh, Rabbit Hill, j
Story of Ferdinand, A Charmed
Life, Memoirs of Catherine the
Great, Flying Frontiersmen, and
Yankees in Paradise.
MAY WEATHER SUMMARY
May brought the first really warm
weather of the year, with the last
two days being quite pleasant.
During the month, the snow
near town dwindled to a few iso
lated drifts, and the ice went out
of the local rivers. Tug boats and
barges, which spent the winter on
the banks, were put in the water,
thus marking the start of our
navigation season.
Average May temperature this
year was 38.8 degrees, 5.1 degrees
warmer than usual.
The first air mail letter, sent to
Benjamin Franklin when he was
living in France in 1785, was car
ried in a balloon across the Eng
lish channel.
ATTENTION GIRL SCOUTS
There will be drill team prac
I tice for the Fourth of July parade
| Friday, June 22 and Friday, June
J 29 at 3 p.m. at the Boy Scout
! Hall. All Girl Scouts participating
in the parade are expected to
show up for the practice.
I "♦•on" Dupliceie Receipt Books
at the Nugget
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* WASHINGTON, UP> — senate
Republican leader Knowland said
Wednesday he was “greatly
shocked” to find that the State
Department was submitting re
ports to the United Nations on
Alaska and Hawaii.
Knowland said he had just
learned such reports had been
sent since 1946 under a U.N. char
ter provision covering dependen
cies of member nations.
Knowland said he had written
Secretary of State Dulles express
ing his opposition and asking the
situation be corrected.
The senator said he had no ob
jection to such reports on Guam,
the Virgin Islands and Samoa, but
Hawaii and Alaska were in a dif
ferent category.
Knowland said Hawaii and
Alaska are organized territories
awaiting admission as the 49th
and 50th states, are represented
in the U. S. Congress, have
adopted constitutions which they
would use as states, and have
their own legislative bodies.
Signal Corps Observed
Its 96th Anniversary
Yesterday, June 21st
Yesterday the Army Signal
Corps and the ACS celebrated
their 96th anniversary.
In 1900 the Army Signal Corps
began construction of a telegraph
line from Nome to Safety and in
1903, the system then designated
the Washington Alaska Military
Cable and Telegraph System, put
into regularly operation the first
wireless telegraph system in the
world operated regularly as a
part of a telegraph system handl
ing commercial traffic with any
degree of certainty. Since that
time the system has been closely
associated with the growth of the
territory and technical advances
in the field of communications.
The latest installation under
the ACS is a submarine cable
between Skagway and Ketchikan
with 11 repeater stations.
Alaska Fur Coal Bought In
Boston on First Day of Summer
BOSTON, (ff—On the first day
of summer yesterday, an un
identified bidder bought an Alas
kan fur coat for $120 at the
Boston postal district’s auction of
unclaimed merchandise.