2 THE NOME NUGGET Friday, May 8. 1953
THE NOME NUGGET
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NOME, ALASKA
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CLINTON GRAY . Production Manager
Entered as second class matter October 14, 1943, at the
postoffice at Nome, Alaska, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
NOME - FAIRBANKS TEAMWORK
Nome welcomes 27 businessmen of Fairbanks to
morrow in a step toward bringing the biggest commu
nities of the Second and Fourth Divisions together by
way of airlines.
Both communities are working toward a common
goal—more and better roads and closer communication
among northern Alaskans. Roads to the northwest will
mean bigger business for Fairbanks.
Teamwork is needed also in the fastest-growing
industry Alaska has ever seen—the tourist industry.
Unless an overall plan is laid out for the entertainment
and housing of visitors to Alaska the development may
be retarded. Alaska needs the tourist as much as the
tourist needs Alaska. We are told that for every tour
ist that covers Alaska, ten would come if accomodations
could be found.
By working together and pooling ideas and plans,
a permanent industry that will help build the country
can and will be mapped out.
Welcome! and come again, Fairbanks!
Perhaps, if we all work hard enough, next time you
can come over the last link in the North American
highway system—the road that leads to Nome.
OUR OWN CORONATION DAY
Alaska Food Prices Follow
U.S. Downward Trend
Retail food prices in Alaska
seem to follow the general trend
of U.S. prices with a time-lag of
about three months.
At the turn of the year, prices
in the U.S. for meat, poultry and
fish were down from previous
levels. Pork prices had increased.
Milk and butter were down as
were eggs, fats and oils, sugars
and sweets. Fruits and vegetables
had risen slightly. ,
These trends continued through
February, the last report avail
able, except that declines in prices
of fresh vegetables offset increas
es in fresh fruit prices.
We are warned by the Bureau
of Labor Statistics, however,. that
“the fall in retail food prices
shows signs of abating. . . ”
The survey of Alaska food pric
es conducted by economists of the'
Agricultural Experiment Station
for the past two years now is
being made on a quarterly basis.
March 15 food prices in Juneau
were 6.2 percent below the high
level erf last Dec. 15, and 4.8
percent below Jan. 15 a year ago.
Anchorage prices averaged 2.7
below Dec. 15 prices and three
percent below Jan. 15, 1952.
Palmer prices were 2.3 percent
below December and 2.6 percent
below Jan. 15, 1952. Fairbanks
averages continued a slow in
crease, being 0.9 percent above
last December and 1.9 percent
above January, 1952.
Earthquake Rocks Chile
SANTIAGO, UPI — Chile’s gov
ernment announced that nine per
sons were killed and 22 others
injured in the violent earthquake
that shook the nation Wednesday.
Thousands of families were made
homeless.
The death toll was lower than
f
had been feared.
Travel Agent
Predicts Tourist
Boom For Alaska
Twelve travel agents from Cal
ifornia, Oregon and Washington,
and eight other representatives
of i nterested allied industries
were guests of the Nome Visitors
Association last Wednesday night
at a dinner and entertainment at
the Bering Sea Club. The travej
group is on a tour of Alaska to
see at first hand the attractions
which will help them sell tours
to the north.
Boyd Harwood was the master
of ceremonies and he introduced
Chuck West of the Alaska Travel
Bureau of Fairbanks and he in
turn introduced the visitors to
the assembled Nomeites. Mr. West
recalled that a group of six travel
agents came to Alaska last year
to look over possible tourist at
tractions. He said tourists are
definitely interested in the Arctic
and with 1,500 travel agencies op
the Pacific Coast selling Alaska,
this new industry should experi
ence an unprecedented boom.
Dan Jones presented the factual
background of, Nome, beginning
in 1731 when the Russians first
landed on SewTard Peninsula.
Bob Curtis of Alaska Airlines
told the visitors what bush flying
could mean to tourists—the oppor
tunity to see at first hand, from
low-flying bush planes, beaver
dams, bears fishing in streams,
etc. He brought out the excel
lent picture - taking possibilities
from these small planes.
Judge J. Earl Cooper of the
District Court was the speaker
of the evening. Judge Cooper
pointed out to the visitors the
items of historical interest which
attracted his attention. Speaking
as an Alaskan but as a compar
ative newcomer to Nome, he said
that what interested him would
no doubt prove of interest to a
tourist. The judge discussed var
ious possible side tours, panning
for gold, fishing for tomcod and
crabs, talking to oldtimers of the
area, as a means of occupying
the visitors while they are here
and having them leave with a
good impression of our town, that
a satisfied tourist is a walking
and talking advertisement.
Fred Bookman recited the poem
“Old Prospectors Do Not Die” and
Bob Renshaw, in appropriate cos
tume, pantomimed the action. At
the end of the poem, Renshaw
“panned” some gravel and made
a “strike”—miniature gold pokes
filled with ruby sand from Nome’s
beaches and each containing a
gold nugget. There was a poke
for each of the visitors.
Sam Mogg and the Nome Es
kimo Dancers then entertained
with ceremonial and traditional
dances which the group does so
well.
All arrangements for the enter
tainment were made by a special
committee of the NVA headed by
George Goshaw. The committee
wishes to acknowledge the fine
cooperation and help from the
following:
Wilbur Walluk for designing
individual place cards.
The Arctic Cab and Q. Cab for
providing transportation.
Polet’s fur factory for the seal
skin gold “pokes”, Dan Jones for
the ruby sand, Mrs. Esther Wal
lace for the real gold nuggets,
and to the Nome Nugget for the
labels.
To Mrs. Cameron and the high
school students who designed and
printed souvenir programs.
To* Mr. and Mrs. Wallace for
providing the dinner music play
ed by A1 Kazakevicius.
And to' the Nome Eskimo Danc
ers for their fine performance.
' —
Mother of The Year
(Continued trom Page One)
The hearts of all of us have
warmed to this Alaskan mother
who has not only reared 10 out of
her 13 children into citizens of
whom we can be proud, but who
has lived a life of service to her
friends and neighbors, both native
and white.”
Delia Hamilton, an Athabaskan
Indian, was born in Shageluck.
Orphaned at the age of seven, she
was rescued, reared and educated
by the missionaries and teachers
at the Episcopal Mission at Anvik,
Alaska.
Mrs. Clumpner points out that
although she hasn’t belonged to
clubs or civic organizations, Mrs.
Watson has done much worth
while work in such services as
bringing babies into the world,
preparing the dead for burial,
caring for the sick and giving
helpful advice and guidance to
the inexperienced.
“Her humility gives one the
impression that she is shy and
timid, but folks who know her
realize that this very small wo
man has a big heart, a strong
character, and a great faith.”
The choice of Delia Hamilton
Watson as 1953 Alaskan Mother
of the Year should bring hope and
encouragement to Christian Mis
sionaries everywhere, and partic
ularly those who have given up
most of the comforts of civiliza
tion to go into the remote native
villages of the far north.
Ralph W. Starkley, Alaska Air
lines vice president, gave Mrs.
Watson hearty welcome and made
flight arrangements for her to
spend a week with a son and
daughters in Walla Walla, Wash.
Among patents granted last
year were one for a pocket-size
typewriter and one for a special
spaghetti fork with rotating
prongs.
‘Life’ Photos Show
American Soldiers
As Reds’ Prisoners
NEW YORK, (ff) — Photographs
published Thursday by “Life”
Magazine show that hundreds of
Americans — presumably listed as
missing in the early days of the
Korean War — at least survived
battle as prisoners.
Closeups of a number of pris
oners are shown, but no names
were available. There is no word
on what has happened to the men
since—in Red retreats and prison
camps.
The photographs were taken in
and near Seoul on July 18, 21 and
22, 1950—which was two weeks
after the first Americans entered
battle—the magazine said.
Life gave this background: the
pictures were taken “under cir
cumstances so strange and peri
lous that their source cannot be
revealed even yet.” The material
was checked and found “clearly
authentic.”
One of the pictures shows cap
tured Americans being forced to
carry Red propaganda banners
through streets of Seoul as civil
ians line the sidewalks. Another
photograph shows a group, of Am
ericans being forced to sit bare
foot to hear denunciation of “U.S.
aggression.” Still other pictures
show prisoners, some of ithem
bandaged, in various stages of
their journey to prison camps.
The soldiers shown in the pic
tures, Life said, “must have come
from the 24th Infantry Division,
first and until July 20 (1950> the
only U. S. unit committed in
Korea.”
TRAIL LEADS COPS TO
NINE BOYS BEHIND BARS
BINGHAMTON, N.Y., (ff) — De
tectives played a childhood game
— the paper chase — and found
nine boys behind the bars.
The bars were candy bars stolen
from the Binghamton warehouse
terminal.
Police said they followed a trail
of discarded candybar wrappers
about a quarter mile from the
warehouse to a hillside where the
boys, aged 9 to 13, had had a
candy picnic, and to the home of
one of them.
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