THE NOME NUGGET
Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday by the
NOME PUBLISHING CO.
NOME, ALASKA
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E. P. BOUCHER ... Managing* Editor
CLINTON GRAY . Production Manager
Entered as second class matter October 14, 1943, at the
post office at Nome. Alaska, under Act of March 3, 1879,
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ALL IN ONE BIG BASKET
PHONE TAX SHOULD GO
From the federal government’s viewpoint, the 10
per cent excise tax on all telephone service is a fine
thing. It can’t be evaded by the taxpayer, because he
has to fork over the money when he £>ays his monthly
phone bill. And the funds roll in without much effort
on the government’s part, because the phone com
panies do the work of collecting from the people.
But from most any other angle, it’s an exceed
ingly bad tax. In the first place, it’s discriminatory.
There’s no excise tax on water, gas, or electricity.
In fact, the telephone is the only essential household
utility that is so taxed.
In the second £>lace, the excise tax is a burden
some surcharge on top of all the other telephone com
pany taxes each customer must help pay. It’s been
figured that out of every $1 the average user pays for
telephone service, 28 cents goes to taxes.
The telephone excise tax has been with us as an
“emergency” levy since 1941. For the last 10 years,
the federal revenue acts haven’t even mentioned a
termination date for that tax. We think you should
tell Washington whether you want it to become a
permanent part of the tax structure—or whether you
feel as we do, that it should be repealed.
DEMISE OF THE DAILY WORKER
Had the Communist Party organ, the Daily Work
er, been a bona fide participant in the American forum
of opinion, most newspapers would regret its passing.
For they believe that voices coming even from ex
tremes of the Left and Right contribute in their way
to ensuring free and full discussion of public affairs.
But the Daily Worker existed from the very be
ginning as much the voice of Moscow as it was the
voice of Americans who, for one reason or another,
had been won over to Marxist social and economic
doctrines. And by all accounts it was by action of the
Kremlin that the Daily Worker folded up.
We would like to think that this represents some
change of heart—that the Red high command had
“seen the light” and decided no longer to cloak its
message in the garb of a newspaper operating among
free newspapers. It is more likely, however, the Krem
lin saw that the Daily Worker’s steadily shrinking cir
culation was no help to Moscow’s prestige. And that
Khrushchev et al will seek some less conspicuous ve
hicle for exporting Communism.
Russians Explode Two v H
More Nuclear Weapons
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WASHINGTON, W—'Two more
Russian nuclear weapon tests j
have been reported by the Atom- •
ic Energy Commission.
Both occurred Friday, the AEC
said — one north of the Arctic
Circle and the other at “the us
ual Siberian testihg site.”
The announcement said neither
was in the megaton range. A
megaton is the equivalent of a
million tons of TNT.
Friday’s tests were the 30th and
31st Soviet atomic explosions re
ported by the AEC. The agency
has said, however, it doesn’t an
nounce all Russian tests it detects.
Russia Elects 1,373
Candidates To
Siipreme Soviet
MOSCOW, Itf) — The Soviet
people gave their usual rousing j
vote of support to their leaders j
in nationwide elections for parlia- ;
ment yesterday. A visiting Am
erican observer said the one-1
ticket voting was “very well or- j
ganized.”
The only question was the per
centage of the Soviet Union’s 130
million eligible voters who turned ;
out to ballot.
Early returns showed nearly as j
big voter response as the 99.93 j
per cent that cast ballots in the
last elections in 1954.
Martial music and get-out-the
vote slogans blaring from loud
speakers spurred the citizens over j
18. There were 1,378 candidates
nominated by Communist party
leaders for the same number of
seats in the Supreme Soviet, the
Soviet Union’s two-house parlia
ment.
* A three - man American team
observed the preliminaries and
the election, returning a Soviet
visit to the 1956 presidential elec
tion. They are Prof. Richard
Scammon, chief of the Political
Elections Section of the U.S. Gov
ernmental Affairs Institute; Cyril
E. Black, professor of history at
Princeton University and Hedley
W. Donovan, manager editor of
Fortune magazine.
Referring to Communist party
chief Khrushchev’s claim that
there is not a single worker in the
U.S. Congress, Scammon said the
Americans “tried to explain that
ours is not a class strata society,
that Congress does not repre
sent the workers, the farmers or
the intelligeneia as such but
represents the people — all the
peqple.”
NOTICE OF
MUNICIPAL ELECTION
Nolice Is Hereby Given that the
Annual Municipal and School
Board Election will be held Tues
day, April 1, 1958 at the City
Hall, Nome, Alaska, for the pur
pose of electing the following of
ficers, io-wit:
MAYOR
ONE MEMBER OF NOME
COMMON COUNCIL FOR 1
YEAR TERM
THREE MEMBERS OF NOME
COMMON COUNCIL FOR 2
YEAR TERM
CITY CLERK
CITY TREASURER
ONE MEMBER OF SCHOOL
BOARD FOR 1 YEAR TERM
ONE MEMBER OF SCHOOL
BOARD FOR 3 YEAR TERM
ONE MEMBER OF SCHOOL
BOARD FOR 5 YEAR TERM
ONE MEMBER OF UTILITY
BOARD FOR 5 YEAR TERM
A qualified voter must be
twenty-one (21) years of age; a
citizen of the United Slates; a
resident of Alaska for one year,
end of the City of Nome for
thirty (30) days prior to date of
election.
Polls will be open at 8:00
o'clock a.m. and close at 6:00
o'clock p.m.
Robert F. Scott,
City Clerk
Publish March 17, 21, 24, 1958.
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Two Small Children Die
In Barrow Home Fire
BARROW, UP)—Two small chil
dren died in a lire hdfe Friday
in the home of their parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Burton Rexford.,
The parents were at work at
the time and Mrs. Rexford’s
mother had just stepped out of
the house.
Bud Kanayurak dashed into the
burning building and rescued his
4-year old granddaughter, Loretta
June Rexford, oldest of four Rex
ford children. The youngest chil
dren, Elizabeth Joyce, 2, and Bar
bara, 1, died in the fire. The only
boy in the family, Delbert James.
3, ran to safety.
Five Million Acres of
Land Burned In Alaska
In Fires During 1957
WASHINGTON, — Severe
blazes in Alaska caused a sharp
increase last year in over-all for
est and range fire losses on Inter
ior Department lands.
The Department reported today
a total of 5,220,070 acres of fed
eral and Indian lands were burn
ed over during 1957, compared
with 631,375 acres in 1956 and a
10-year average of 923,536 acres.
Most of the 1957 damage was
caused by 403 fires which de
stroyed 4,839,281 acres in Alaska.
The Department said the major
cause was lightning.
HOT LUNCH MENUS
Monday—Boiled beans, carrots
and peas, stewed prunes, bread,
butter and milk.
Tuesday—Vegetable soup with
meat, peanut, butter sandw'ich,
rice pudding, milk.
Wednesday — Cheese rarebit,
fruit jello, bread, butter and
milk. ..
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