THE NOME NUGGET
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Entered as second class matter October 14, 1943 at the
postoffice at Nome. Alaska, under Act of March 3. 1879
UNMASKED
On the very day the Atomic Energy Commission
reported that “ . . . the Soviets have resumed testing of
nuclear weapons,” Premier Nikolai Bulganin gave his
answer to President Eisenhower’s Geneva proposal to
exchange military “blueprints” and permit aerial re
conn aisance of each other’s countries.
In 10,000 carefully chosen words, comprising a
report to the Supreme Soviet on the Geneva summit
conference, Bulganin said “No.” He praised the confer
ence, said it was a “serious step toward peace.” But he
ridiculed the Eisenhower offer on the ground that
either side could hide anything it wanted to.
Bulganin said “no” simply because he didn’t dare
say “yes.” We had too much to learn from such an
arrangement, Russia too little. You can build defense
plants underground, camouflage many others. But
you can’t hide starvation, vast slave camps, the misery
of millions or an inordinate military build-up except
behind an Iron Curtain.
When Bulganin said “no,” he snatched away the
smirking false-face that had so nearly deceived the
free nations. Of course the Communists have not
changed. But it took President Eisenhower’s daring
challenge to unmask them.
WEATHER FORECAST
Compiled by the
U.S. Dept, of Commerce Weather Bureau
Mostly cloudy with scattered
showers tonight and Thursday.
Cooler Thursday. Winds W to SW
15-20 mph. with occasional strong
gusts. Low temperature expect
ed tonight 43, high Thursday 57.
Nome data last 24 hours as of
7 a.m. today: High temperature
61, low 42. Max. wind 34 mph.
from the NW. Sunrise 3:59 ajn.,
sunset 8:12 p.m.
Temperatures a year ago today:
high 55, low 52. Extremes this
date since 1907: high 68 in 1950,
low 24 in 1929.
Other stations as of 7 a.m. today:
Station Temp. Weather
Barrow 44 Rain
Kotzebue 53 Rain
Wales 52 Cloudy
Nome 54 Part cloudy
Unalakleet 56 Part cloudy
Bethel 54 Cloudy
McGrath 53 Part cloudy
Anchorage 59 Clear
Fairbanks 49 Part cloudy
Whitehorse 44 Part cloudy
Edmonton 68 Part cloudy
Juneau 53 Part cloudy
Ketchikan 53 Rain
Seattle 65 Clear
San Francisco 61 Part cloudy
Genuine $11 Bill In
Real U. S. Money
PHILADELPHIA, OP) — An $11
15111” — genuine American money
— turned up in Philadelphia to
day.
Miss Lillian Knoff, a federal
government secretary, has the
odd bill which one stamp and
coin dealer here said might be
worth many thousands of dol
lars, depending on what a col
lector might want to pay for it.
The bill has the $1 “Washing
ton face” and the seal back of j
a $10 bill. Miss Knoff said she!
didn’t know where or how she j
got it, but discovered it among j
the bills in her wallet several
weeks ago.
She’s been carrying it as a sou
venir ever since unaware until
last night of its value.
Takes Three Days To
Convince Police They
Had The Wrong Man
BOSTON, iff)—It took Edward
White, 32, three days to convince
authorities they had the wrong
man in jail.
White, father of three, was ar
rested while in' bed before dawn
Saturday and hustled to jail on
a warrant dated Sept. 16, 1953,
charging an Edward White with
using an auto without authority.
He protested his innocence to
jail guards all day Saturday, Sun
day and Monday. Finally author
ities took his fingerprints and
found they did not match those
of the Edward White who was
wanted.
Police said it was an honest
case of mistaken identity. White
said he forgave the police be
cause “they were only trying to
do their job.”
Two Philadelphia Tots
Suffocate In Refrigerator
PHILADELPHIA, (iP - Two
young brothers playing in an
abandoned refrigerator were
trapped and suffocated last night.
The victims were Lee Andrews,
two, and his brother, Lewis,
five, whose bodies were found
by their mother when she opened
the refrigerator in a vacant first
floor apartment of their north
Philadelphia tenement.
The mother, Mrs. Veronica An
drews, 21, had just returned
from a police station where she
reported the boys missing. She
told police she opened the door of
the refrigerator with apprehen
sion.
The boys were jammed inside, I
clad only in shorts. She pulled
them from the tiny cubicle and1
summoned aid.
BENSON SEEKS SPECIAL SESSION
JUNEAU—Territorial Commis-3
sioner of Labor Henry Benson has
announced that he will ask Gov.
Heintzleman to call a special ses
sion of the legislature on or about
November 1.
Benson said he would ask for
the special session to take care of
unemployment benefits, to pro
vide additional money for the
rural benefit program and to act
on appointments to several boards
and commissions.
According to Benson, the new
Unemployment Compensation bill
of the last legislature isn’t pro
ducing enough revenue now. For
this reason, the special session
should be held about Nov. 1, when
results of the bill can be properly
evaluated. Also more money must
be provided for the rural benefit
program due to the failure of the
salmon season in Bristol Bay and
southeastern Alaska.
Benson also stated that he is
leaving Washington D.C. Aug. 20
to confer with the Departments
of Interior, Labor and Commerce
in protest to use of troop labor on
Alaska defense projects.
Benson specifically pointed out
projects at Utopia Creek and Ga
lena, where troop labor has been
used completely or partially to
construct the installations. He
said native labor is available for
these projects and natives should
be given the jobs. Many of them
are now on relief.
Benson stated, “Relief is a lux
ury we can’t afford when the na
tives have the capacity to work.”
He estimated that about 700
natives living near these projects
are going to be in desperate plight j
this winter due to the failure of
the Bristol Bay salmon run.
Benson said he was going to
confer on the troop labor move
ment on the Washington level be
cause the local military officials
are not here long enough to get a
program started.
PET PYTHON ESCAPES
SCARBOROUGH, England, UR
—Adrian Darley has appealed to
anyone finding his pet 15-foot
python to treat the snake kindly.
Reporting the snake’s escape,
Darley told police: ,
“Ticky is perfectly harmless
and docile. He eats only rats and
mice. But I’ve had him since he
was only two feet long and he
may have forgotten by now how
to catch them for himself.”
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Magnuson’s Interstate
Commerce Committee
To Be In Seattle In Oct.
SEATTLE, W—Sen. Magnuson
(D-Wash) and four other mem
bers of his Senate Interstate and
Foreign Commerce Committee
will come to Seattle October 12
for hearings on Alaska transport
ation problems and other matters,
he told the Seattle Chamber of
Commerce Monday.
Senators scheduled to conduct
the hearings with Magnuson are
John W. Bricker (R-0>, John
Marshall Butler (R-Md), George
A. Smathers (D-Fla) and John O.
Pastore (D-RI).
Site of the hearings has not
been set.
The announcement was the first
official word that Magnuson
would bring his subcommittee
here, but he had hoped to hold
hearings this fall in both Seattle
and Alaska cities.
TUNDRA TODDLER
By HAROLD SALISBURY
The afternoon was fair and mild
But wet winds deemed to stir
When strayed away from camp-fire’s glow
The littlest wanderer,
A tow-head toddler, four years old,
- Weighs thirty pounds of joy,
Wandered alone across the wilds
His curiousness t’ employ,
Led by his bubbling wonderment
Far from his playmates gay
As mother’s care he left behind
To go his childish way,
Thoughtless of cold, impending rain
And beasts of savagery
He roamed the stretches treacherous
Where night was soon to be,
r
Fearless of bogs and gulches deep,
Thick brush and rough ravine
That lie in wait for little feet,
He stalked his new found dream!
No one knows the devious paths
That knew his toddling step,
No one knows the fun or fear
He had,- or where he slept,
Though unknown dangers lurked about
This stranger to the wild
In sweet assurance plodded on
In faith that crowns the child!
And soon, engulfed within the night
While hosts of searchers sought,
He roamed the land alone, the while
The whole town was distraught!
For all the countryside replied
To calls of dire despair,
The countryside, as one, replied
In person and in prayer,
In unity they lent their aid
Though weighed by fearful stress
And searched together through the night
Nor slacked in weariness,
But dread o’ershadowed all the scene
With many an evil sign
As fear grew strong and hope grew weak
Ih tragedy’s design,
But. blackest night precedes the dawn
As cheer o’erfloods despair
When in the light of newer faith
Hope’s day breaks bright and fair!
And with the day the airplanes came
And with the planes,- success!
For Tim, unhurt but hungry was
Delivered from distress,
The toddler, distant from his start,
Was found five miles away
And a million miles of anguish from
His smiles of yesterday!
Thank God for planes and pilots who
Delivered him from harm!
For Timmie Walsh is home again
Safe in his mother’s arms, *
Thank God for brightness in the morn
That melted night’s dismay!
Thank God for the surge of human hearts
That beat in Nome that day!
Who put their shoulders to the wheel,
- The Wheel of Love, with might,
And wrenched from grief, their happiness
And morning from the night!
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