THE NOME NUGGET
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Golden Opportunity For Khrushchev
RUSSIA’S KHRUSHCHEV is coming to America.
Some Americans are pleased and think some good
will come of the visit. Others are filled with repug
nance at the thought of the “butcher of Budapest”
being honored in the capitol of the United States.
From Kotzebue comes an inspiration that could
make Khrushchev’s visit to America become one of
historical significance.
It has been suggested that the Nome Chamber of
Commerce invite him to Nome where he could open
the door to Siberia by returning home via the route
which Alaska Airlines would like to establish.
Opening trade with Siberia would remove a hps- !
tile and invisible barrier and be one of the most im- !
portant steps ever taken toward international peace. ;
If Khrushchev means business be could make him
self a hero by demonstrating to the world that the
Western world is free to trade with its neighbors- in
Siberia.
GRASS ROOTS OPINION
From the Whitewater, Kansas, Independent —
“Recently we started to explain to a friend why we
hoped to continue operation of The Independent.
Since we felt the future of our nation depended on
intelligent grass-roots thinking, we felt the smallest
community in the nation was far more important than
the biggest city . . . that the smallest newspaper was
iperhaps more important than the largest daily . . .
that if the smallest community couldn’t take care of
its own welfare, the county couldn’t, or the state, or
the nation, or the world.”
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President Will
Proclaim Hawaii
Statehood Friday
WASHINGTON, UP) — President
Eisenhower will formally pro
caim Hawaii as the Fiftieth State
at noon Friday.
The proclamation ceremony will
be held at the White House. Eis
enhower will return here from his
Gettysburg, Pa., farm to sign the
proclamation.
Press Secretary James C. Hag
ertv said the President at the
same time will issue an order on
a design for a new 50-star flag
to become officially effective next
July 4.
Proclaiming of Hawaiian state
hood Friday will permit the new
state’s delegation in Congress to
take their oaths before Congress
adjourns. In an election July 29
Hawaiian voters.chose one Repub
lican and one Democratic senator
and a Democratic representative.
They also elected Wiliam F.
Quinn, a Republican, as Governor.
Quinn had suggested that the
President proclaim Hawaiian
statehood on a Friday so its State
Legislature could convene a week
from the following Monday. Under
the law the Legislature meets ten
days after the proclamation.
U.S.S. Wasp Suffers Two
Dead, 20 Injured from
Helicopter Explosion
QUONSET POINT, R. I., UPt —
The aircrat carrier \JSS Wasp —
a hangar compartment blackened
by an explosion — brought two
dead and some 20 injured crew
men into port here today.
The big ship was participating
in antisubmarine maneuvers about
250 miles off the Virginia coast
Tuesday afternoon when she was
shaken by an explosion.
The blast occurred when a heli
copter engine “overspeeded” dm •
ing a routine test in the hangar
area just below the carrier’s
flight deck.
The ’copter’s pilot was killed,
and an aviation apprentice
drowned in an elevator pit while
fighting the resultant fire.
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Women's Club Delegation
Due Here Sept. 11-12
WASHINGTON — Twenty-two
members of the General Federa
tion of Women’s Clubs wil leave
for Aaska on September 1, ac
cording to information given Sen
ator Bartlett by Mrs. Leslie B.
I
Wright, member of the Federa- i
tion under whose auspices the |
'trip is being made. ,
Termed the “Alaska Statehood ;
Tripd’ the group will be headed |
by the Federation’s president,
Miss Chloe Gifford. “The Federa- j
tion was constant over many years
in its unswerving devotion to
Alaska statehood, and no group
anywhere in this country did
more for the cause,” Senator Bart
lett stated last week in efxpress- j
ing the hope that as many Alas- !
kans as possible will be able to!
meet with the grouji.
The trip will start in Vancouver I
on September 1, and will be in j
Kotzebue and Nome on the 11th |
and 12th. They will leave again ;
for Seattle from Anchorage on j
September 19.
Editors Want More \
Cooperation from
Professors of Journalism
HOUSTON, Tex.. Iflt — Editors
from the 49 continental United
States have been named to a na
tional advisory council created to
bring about greater cooperation
between journalism professors
and working newsmen.
Robert C. Atwood, publisher
editor of the Anchorage Times,
will represent Alaska. The ap
pointees were announced yester
day by Bruce Underwood, head of
the Department of Journalism at
the University of Houston and
president of the American Society
of Journalism School Adminis
trators.
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—Photo courtesy of Frank Whaley and Jessen’s Weekly
CARRIE McLAIN gives a short lecture with historical pictures on the golden
past of Nome, to a group of tourists in the Pioneer Igloo.
The display of unusual and valuable pictures is open to the public on Tuesday
and Thursday evenings. The display is the nucleus of the Historical Society
being formed for the Nome area.