THE NOME NUGGET
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NWA Chamber Specifies
Most Advantageous Spots
For Access Roads
The Nome Chamber of Com
merce has been holding special
sessions to determine the most im
portant places for access or pio
neer roads in the area.
This is rather a difficult task
when there are no roads any
where off the main highway. Af
ter careful study, it has been de
, termined that Northwestern Alas
ka will ask for monies from the
million dollars to be spent on ac
cess roads throughout the state
for the following four projects:
Unalakleet to Kaltag, for the
development in the oil industry in
the Kateel area.
Lost River to Teller, to connect
the tin mines to the Alaskan road
system.
Pilgrim Springs to Highway 97,
to open up a lush resort area, and
the possibility of garden products
and dairy products being pro
duced on a commercial basis,
thereby lowering the cost of many
green products during the sum
mer months.
Fox River to White Mountain,
connecting an area of regular
travel and transportation.
Nome will be represented at the
special hearing on the expendi
ture of this money in Fairbanks or
Anchorage, and Phil Holdsworth,
Commissioner of Natural Re
sources, is being apprised of
N.W.A; participation.
SCOUTMASTER WANTED
The Scout Committee of Boy
Scout Troop 666 is in the market
for a Scoutmaster since the an
nouncement of the transfer of Sgt.
John Bandy to Georgia.
Anyone who has had experience
in Scouting and who would like
to become Scoutmaster, is asked
to contact Wilbur Arnold, chair
man of the committee, at Main 65.
Sgt. Bandy rtcommends the
job as a challenging one that is
at times gratifying and rewarding
to the nth degree.
SI SAHLIN COMES HOME
Si Sahlin returned home last
week after spending about eleven
months in the Seward Sanitarium.
CENSUS . . .
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each district must have for each
representative in the House.
The three — each with less than
2,000 total residents — are the
First District, Prince of Wales,
in Southeastern; the Seventh, Cor
dova-McCarthy, in Southcentral,
and the 20th, Upper Yukon, in
the Central region.
The 17th Kuskokwim District,
in the Central Division and the
21st Barrow District in the North
Division each has just over 2,000
total residents, and appear in dan
ger of being merged to adjoining
districts.
The 10th District at Anchorage
now has eight seats in the Alaska
House. If total population were
the basis for representation, the
Anchorage House membership
would jump to 15 when reappor
tionment is completed.
The Fairbanks 19th District now
holds five seats in the House and
would go to seven and perhaps
eight on the basis of total popula
tion.
The key to increased member
ship for those two big districts
rests with the Census Bureau —
and how many of the residents it
classifies as military.
NOTICE
Section 12-4, Code of Ordinances,
City of Nome.
No person shall permit, or suf
fer to accumulate, in or upon any
yard, lot, place or premise, or
upon any street or sidewalk adja
cent to. or abutting upon any lot,
block, place or premises owned
or occupied by him or for which
he may be the agent, within the
City Limits, any stagnant or im
pure water, refuse vegetables, de
cayed or decaying substances,
garbage, swill, offal, fecal matter,
urine or filth of any kind, nor
suffer such yard, lot. place or
premise to be or remain in such
condition as to cause or create a
noisome or offensive smell or at
mosphere, or thereby to be, be
come, cause or create a public
nuisance.
—Health Committee,
Nome Common Council.
Pub. May 9, 11, 13, 16, 18, 20.
Red Premier’s
Wild Antics Serve
To Solidify West
By J. M. ROBERTS
Associated Press News Analyst
Soviet Premier Khrushchev’s
brutal tactics at Paris seems to be
pulling the Western Allies back
from one of the greatest splits
they ever faced.
European public opinion, which
has been highly critical of a long
series of American presummit
mistakes, is now swinging back
behind President Eisenhower.
But the split between East and
West, barring a fantastic reversal
of position on both sides, is the
worst ever. Personal diplomacy
has produced a break in commu
nication.
Demands Satisfaction
Khrushchev’s demand for pun
ishment of Americans who were
only carrying out national policy
is an impossible one, and his
treatment of President Eisenhow
er is intolerable.
It appears he intended to scuttle
the confelence, regardless of the
U-2 incident, because he knew he
would get no concessions on Ber
lin. How can the nation now get
back on the search for real co
existence — not Khrushchev’s
submissive coexistence for any
one else, but coexistence even as
good as what we have had?
Has personal diplomacy at top
levels, on the ascendant since
Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin,
taken a fatal beating?
Is there a frightening quality
about recent events which will
produce an irresistible demand
that the leaders get back to busi
ness? Or will the Soviet Union
carry her brinkmanship full tilt
into Berlin?
Eight years ago, after the So
viet Union had instigated the
Korean War with disastrous re
sults for her expansionist plans,
she turned to contacts in the
United Nations to get out of it.
If summitry has completely failed,
will the U. N. again become the
vehicle for approach to agree
ments?
Is It Permanent?
Is Khrushchev’s break with
Eisenhower a permanent conces
sion to the tough-liners of inter
national Communism, or will he,
once all the propaganda juice is
squeezed from the plane incident,
return to his search for relaxa
tion of military tensions in order
that the Soviet economic strength
in the world can be increased?
Communication between the
United States and the Soviet
Union remains open at the am
bassadorial and technical levels
where disarmament and nuclear
restrictions are being discussed,
but probably have been damaged.
Can they offer a road back for
more general negotiations?
The West has always been sus
picious of summitry, since fail
ure there tends to produce a point
of no return. There must be a
return, since war cannot be con
templated. But how?
First Electronic
BMEWS Base
Nearing Readiness
By ELTON C. FAY
THULE, Greenland, UPI — On a
rocky Arctic hilltop the first elec
tronic alarm station intended to
warn against rockets from Russia
is nearing readiness.
This Ballistic Missile Early
Warning System (BMEWS) base
has been built in an air of urgency
— sharpened in recent days by
another spectacular demonstra
tion of Soviet skill in technology.
This first of three BMEWS sta
tions — at Thule, in Clear, Alas
ka, and at Fylingdales, England —
will go on the air this fall and be
gin feeding information back to
the high command in the United
States, say its builders.
Today, the U. S. Air Force and
the firms which built Thule’s
BMEWS are beginning to test the
reliability of its electronic brain’s
calculations and predictions, us
ing signals created within the
station.
The complete three-station sys
tem which will scan the skies over
all the approaches from Russia
and her satellites won’t be work
ing for another couple of years.
And when it does, no one can say
with certainty that it will be in
fallible.
The best hope is that it will
provide a minimum 15 minutes of
warning for Western world bomb
ers and missiles to be launched
for retaliation — and for civilian
populations to find what shelter
they may.
Cosily Warning System
It ih almost a billion dollar bet,
Thule’s cost is estimated at about
500 million dollars; the Alaskan
station 328 million; the British
one 115 million; for command and
New Type Cargo Planes
Would Cut Freight Rates
NEW YORK, GPI — Air freight
costs might be cut in half through
the use of turbo-fan powered car
go planes by the nations airlines,
according to president Donald W.
Douglas Jr., of Douglas Aircraft
Company.
Douglas told the American As
sociation of Airport Executives
the new planes might reduce the
present average rate of about 21
cents a ton mile for air freight
to about 10 cents, and thereby
stimulate a marked increase in
air cargo volume.
He said that even without a
turbo-fan program, the airlines
should be able to reduce present
air freight rates substantially con
verting present day jet transport
for cargo purposes.
Douglas expressed doubt super
sonic passenger planes would be
placed in service soon. He asserted
that the cost of developing such
aircraft might run as high as
one billion dollars.
other associated activities in the
United States about nine million.
The Alaskan station is sched
uled for readiness in the summer
of 1961.
Thule BMEWS is designed to
look out to a distance of about
3,000 miles. But because of the
curve of the earth, it won’t catch
the vitally important glimpse of
rockets until they streak up above
the horizon. In a few fleeting sec
onds radar and electronic com
puters must see, analyze and de
termine that attack is coming
and predict where the rockets
will fall.
In those critical seconds
BMEWS must be certain that it is
seeing a weapon and not a peace
ful satellite or a mere meteorite.
Paramount is the requirement for
reliability to avoid a catastrophic
mistake.
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Rocket is fired from White Sands Missile Range. The long
range artillery rocket, a weapon for tactical use to provide
fire support in ground combat operations, is in hands of
troops in U. S., Europe, and Far East.
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