~ THE NOME NUGGET
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NOME, ALASKA
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Alaska Friends Dedicate Home
In Seattle for Old Sourdoughs
SEATTLE, UP)—On a hill over
looking Boeing Field at 6741 Bea
con Ave., the Alaska Friends1
dedicated their home for Sour
doughs- yesterday, and fulfilled a
ten-year-long dream.
The home will house five mem
bers of the Alaska Friends’, which
is composed of old Alaska sour
doughs. “Everyone in our group
is a Sourdough,” said Mrs. L. D.
Stanley, treasurer of the Alaska
Friends’, and “If you have seen
the ice bre-ak up cn the Yukon,
then that means you have been
snowed in all winter, and you be
come a sourdough,” she said.
Funds for the home were ac
quired thru voluntary contribu
tions. “We do not solicit fotr
funds,” said Mrs. Stanley. “We
rely entirely upon voluntary con
tributions, and most of the time
we do not know where the money
comes from.”
The home can accommodate
only five sourdoughs but plans
are underway for expansion.
“We will be able to take only
five women members at present,”
said Mrs. Stanley, but after we
expand, men will be admitted.
Our gcal is to give the old sour
doughs, who are now living in
hotels and rooming houses, a
place of their own, a place where
they can work as they would in
their own homes.”
The Alaska Friends’ was organ
ized ten years ago with only
eight members. The organization
now has over 300 members in the
U.S., Alaska and Canada.
“With the coming of the air
plane, said Mrs. Staney, the sour
dough vanished, but we hope to
someday get all the old sour
doughs under one roof in our
home.”
Russian Jet
Airliner Enroute
Moscow to N.Y.
NEW YORK, UP>—Russia’s jet
airliner, the TU-104, enroute from
Moscow to New York with United
Nations representatives, landed at
Reykjavik, Iceland’s capital, at
9:37 a.m. EST today and was to
fly to Goose Bay, Labrador, on
its next leg.
CAA chief Norman C. Beuter
at New York said the jet was ap
parently planning to make the
1,400-mile; flight to Goose Bay in
“under three hours.”
The plane, a twin-engine jet, is
to fly on to McGuire Air Force
Base in New Jersey. It will be the
first Russian civilian aircraft to
land on United States soil.
The plane was to land in the
New York area but the city has a
ban on jet planes for their air
ports because of the noise factor.
The State Department has also
approved a flight of a second Rus
sian jet.
The 5,570-mile flight from Mos
cow to McGuire was expected to
take 18 hours total flying time.
The last Russian aircraft to vis
it the U.S.—a military plane in
1937—made a 6,200-mile flight in
62 hours, flying over the North
Pole.
FEDERAL GOV’T
CIVILIAN PAYROLL
HITS NEW HIGH
WASHINGTON, LP)—Sen. Byrd
(D-Va) said today that the federal
government’s civilian payroll ex
ceeded $11 billion last year for
the first time.
Byrd, as chairman of the joint
committee on reduction of non
essential federal expenditures,
said the total for the year ended
June 30 was $11,000,474,000. This
compared with slightly over $10t£
billion in the previous fiscal year
and about $9V£ billion each for
the two preceding fiscal years.
The senator said average civil
ian employemnt during the 12
months also reached a new high
of 2,394,099 persons. This was an
increase of about 60,000 over the
previous fiscal year.
EVANGELIST TO SPEAK AT
ASSEMBLY OF GOD CHURCH
THURSDAY EVENING AT 7:30
Mrs. Thollander, evang^ist
from California, will be the
speaker at the evening service at
the Assembly of God Church to
morrow evening. The service is
to start at 7:30 p.m.
Mrs. Thollander is visiting
here with her daughter, Mrs.
Glenn Lenert and family.
Air Force F-102 Lands
200 Yds Short of Runway;
Pilot Escapes Injury
EDMONTON, Alta., IS")—A tt.S.
Air Force F-102 Delta Dagger
came down 200 yards short of the
landing strip at the Namao air
base here Saturday, damaged a
wing and caught fire, airport of
ficials said.
The pilot escaped injury. An
emergency crew put out the fire
immediately.
phe plane was being flown
from McChord AFB, Wash., to
Alaska. Edmonton was a sched
uled landing point.
NEWS OF
NOMEITES
By LULU FAIRBANKS
Alaska friends will dedicate the
new home at 6741 Beacon Ave. in
Seattle on its 10th birthday Sept.
2. Rev. Arthur Fullerton of Ft.
Yukon will officiate. Refresh
ments will be served and four of
the original founders, Mary Ful
lerton, Anna Iverson, Beatrice
Stanley and Edith Tuttle will
pour.
The home has a five-bed capac
ity, and is provided for true Alas
ka women who are elderly, infirm
or lonely.
The first fall meeting will be
held in the downtown YMCA on
Sept. 5, when a Coffee and Social
Hour will be enjoyed. All Alas
kans are invited to attend these
monthly meetings.
* * *
Mr. and Mrs. Joe (Frona) Sousa,
formerly of Ruby, drove up from
their home at 1115 Taylor Ave.,
San Francisco, to attend the 90th
birthday party of Mrs. Della
Light, who reached her 90th mile
stone on Aug. 18.
The Garden Club and other
groups in the Hiline district,
south of Seattle, joined in staging
a wonderful party for this active
Sourdough who was born in 1867.
* * *
Mr. and Mrs. George Taggart of
Okinawa and their daughter Kay
arrived in Seattle in time for the
birthday of Mr. Sam Taggart on
Aug. 23.
In May, George attended a
fisheries conference in Java with
18 nations participating. Mr. Tag
gart acted as advisor to the U.S.
delegation. Miss Taggart, who
graduated from high school in
June, is planning to remain in the
States for her college education.
& & &
Mr. and Mrs. Clifford F. Schloss
stein have announced the engage
ment of their daughter, Mimi Or
ton, to Mr. Robert James Stevens.
The young couple will be mar
ried on Sept. 27 at the Church of
the Epiphany in Seattle.
The bride-to-be is the grand
daughter of the late Ira and Viola
(Codding) Orton, formerly of
Nome. Her mother was Connie
Orton before her marriage, and
her grandfather a prominent at
torney in both Alaska and Seattle.
* * *
James “Jim” Gaffney, old-time
Nomeite, will be host at the Nome
Headquarters in the Olympic Ho
tel during the International Sour
dough Reunion in Seattle Aug. 29
to Sept. 1.
Among those who will assist
are Carl Lomen, Charles D. Gar
field, George Goshaw, Mrs. Peter
(Esther Fleming) Davison; Stuart
Fleming of Montesano, Wash.;
Mrs. Bertha McKay, Ketchikan;
Lee McCloy, formerly with the
M & M Bank; Mrs. Billy (Grace)
Watts, Mrs. Vesta (Story) Shel
don, C. 0. Sivertsen, and Mrs.
Billy (Neeta) Sale, all of Cali
fornia.
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Anchorage Man, 80,
Killed on Sidewalk
By Learning Driver
ANCHORAGE, UR—George Al
bert Davies, 80, Anchorage, was
fatally injured when struck by a
car while walking on a sidewalk
Saturday afternoon.
Police said Dulcie Clark, 18, of
Spenard lost control of her car
after completing a turn. The car
climbed a curb, struck Davies,
and crashed thru a fence into a
private yard.
Riding with the Clark girl was
James Dowling, also of Spenard.
Dowling was teaching her to
drive.
* * *
Alfred G. Gajewski, 23, was
killed instantly Sunday afternoon
when he was hurled thru the top
of his car at ikile 20 of the Sew
ard Highway.
Police said his car rammed a
culvert.
FISHERMAN LANDS
28-FOOT WHALE
LAUZON, Que., UR—Omer Bel
lerive, a fisherman living here
across the Si. Lawrence River
from Quebec City, tangled with
the catch of his career Saturday.
With the help .of a truck and a
tractor he landed it—a 28-foot
whale.
The small whale became en
tangled in Bellerive’s nets and
after several hours he was able to
beach it.
It is uncommon for whales to
wander this far upstream.
Bellerive has not yet decided
how to dispose of it.
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Maurice Chevalier
Returns to Hollywood
HOLLYWOOD, (^—Maurice
Chevalier—looking much younger
than his 68 years—is here from
Paris to make a movie.
He was greeted at the airport
by a welcoming committee and
J newsmen. He wore a checkered
j cap at a jaunty tilt, a blue shirt
j and matching tie and a double
! breasted suit.
At Least 613
Killed During
Holiday Weekend
(By The Associated Press)
Accidents killed at least 613
Americans during the Labor Day
weekend.
The death toll from traffic was
434, more than two-thirds of all
accident fatalities.
Drownings took 87 lives during
summer’s last holiday. In other'
LABOR DAY DEATH TOLL
Traffic . 435
Drowning . ‘ 87
Miscellaneous . 92
Total . 613 *
types of accidents there were 92
{fatalities, with private plane
crashes accounting for many of
these.
The traffic death toll for the
three-day holiday compared with
435 last year, 438 in 1955, and a
record of 461 for the holiday set
in 1951.
The National Safety Council
had predicted 420 traffic deaths
for this year’s holiday.
Karen Christine -and Robert
Baldwin Jr., who have been
spending the summer here, left
for school Saturday which they
will be attending in Spokane,
Washington.
NOTICE OF HEARING
‘ Notice Is Hereby Given that the
Common Council of the City of
Nome, Alaska,* has, at its regular
meeting of Aug. 26, 1957, fixed
the time and place for a hearing
upon the Petition of the Alaska
Telephone and Telegraph Com
pany for a change in rates.
Such time and place are as
follows:
Monday, Sept. 9, 1957, Council
Chambers, Nome City Hall, 9 p.m.
or as soon thereafter as the mat
ter may be properly heard.
All persons wishing to be heard ^
may appear at the time and place
aforesaid.
Publish Aug. 28, Sept. 4, 6, 9, 1957
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