THE NOME NUGGET
Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday by the
NOME PUBLISHING CO.
NOME, ALASKA
Telephone 443 - 2381 $1.50 PER MONTH
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E. P. BOUCHER . Managing Editor
CLINTON GRAY . Production Manager
Entered u eecond clue matter October 14, 1943, at the
post office at Nome. Alaska, under Act of March 3, IMS.
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Newspaper Week . . .
TilS IS NEWSPAPER WEE1K, nationally recog
nized in commemorating one of America’s cherish
ed freedoms — Freedom of the Press. It is also the
62nd anniversary of the Nome Nugget which started
on Oct. 8 as the Nome News.
The first editorial by its owner and editor, John
Strong, who was to be the 8th Governor of Alaska
reads as follows:
“The Nome News is here to assist in the develop
ment of this portion of our common country and to
obtain a share if possible in the golden wealth that
has brought the district into prominence.
The News will be a paper for the people and will
in» every way endeavor to conserve the people’s rights
and to advocate such measures, as well as bring the
greatest good to the greatest number. It proposed to
be fair to all and to be in every sense a good news
paper.”
Q This policy has never changed, although the
newspaper has changed hands many times and still
carries on to crusade for a better Nome and a better
Alaska. PP?
COLUMBIA, S.C. UR — South
Caroline is buying a new electric i
chair. Officials say the old one,
installed in 1912, is too danger
, cus to operate. The new chair
was expected to cost about
$15,000.
FAULTY SHELTERS . . .
NASHVILiLE, Tenn. UP> — The
Tennessee Civil 'Defense Agency
has warned that 90 per cent of
the private fallout shelters it has
inspected are faulty—“as bad as
no shelter at jdl.”
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JFK Opposes Red
China’s Entry Into
The United Nations
WASHINGTON UP — President
Kennedy said Thursday that, “the
United States firmly opposes the
entry of the Chinese Communists
into the United Nations” or any
of its agencies.
This was a statement Kennedy
had intended to make at a news
conference had he been asked
about the situation. A question
about it arose Thursday at the
regular news briefing held by
Presidential press secretary Pierre
Salinger.
Salinger was told that there has
been some speculation at the U.N.
on whether exploration of U.S.
relations with Outer Mongolia was
softening this country’s opposi
tion to admitting the Bed Chinese
to the world organization. Outer
Mongolia as well as Red China
are seeking U.N. membership.
Salinger was asked whether
there has been even a slightly
perceptible change in American
policy on this point.
Salinger said probably the best
way to answer this was with the
statement that Kennedy had
ready for last week’s news con
ference. He read it off:
“The United States has always
considered the government of the
Republic of China the only right
ful government representing
China and has always given full
8‘xpport to the position and to all
the rights of that government in
the United Nations. Therefore the
United States firmly opposes the
entry of the Chinese Communists
into the United Nations or into
any of the components of the
United Nations.”
PRIZES OFFERED
BERLIN UP) — The Communists
are offering prizes to children
who betray people trying to es
cape from East Germany.
Footballs and track suits have
been handed out to young in
formers in the border area, the
miliary correspondent of the Com
munist paper Das Volk reported.
The writer, a Maj. Aue, said
the vigilant youngsters were all
members of the Young Pioneers,
the Junior Red Youth movement
for 10 to 14 year-olds.
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U.S. Lofts Rocket to Study
Mother Earth’s Sunbonnet
WASHINGTON — The Unit
ed States yesterday successfully
lofted a space rocket to a height
of more than 4,000 miles to study
mother earth’s “sunbonnet”—the
ionosphere.
The rocket, intended to reach
an altitude of 4,500 statute miles
before returning to the earth,
actually reached an altitude of
4,261.
Space Agency officials said the
experiment could be termed “a
damned good success.”
The 94-pound payload of the
four-stage rocket impacted in the
Atlantic Ocean about 4,424 miles
from its Wallops Island, Va.,
launching site.
The announcement of the suc
cess of the experiment followed
almost two hours of anxious wait
ing in Washington. Scientists at
first were unable to confirm that
the fourth stage had actually ig
nited. They all did.
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CLEAN SWEEP . . .
HOLLYWOOD, Fla. (A —
Thieves ransacked a newly built
home in suburban Miramar and
made off with everything but the
kitchen sink. They did, however,
get the bathroom sink. They also
took the oven and range, fcst
water tank, water pump and filter
system for the swimming pool, a
toilet unit, and a built-in dress
ing table.
Grace Lincoln of ■
Kotzebue Named for Peace
Corps Work in Malaya
WASHINGTON M — An Es
kimo woman, Grace E. Lincoln,
30, of Kotzebue has been named
a candidate for Peace Corps work
in Malaya.
She is among 40 volunteers who
began training this week at North
em Illinois University, DeKalb,
111., and will work there through
Dec. 15, followed by two weeks
home leave before those chosen
go abroad, a Peace Corps spokes
man said.
Miss Lincoln, bom and raised
north of the Arctic Circle, spent
her last year of high school at
Newton Square, Pa., and received
her registered nurse certificate
from the Pennsylvania Hospital
School of Nursing, Philadelphia,
in 1951. She studied at the Uni
versity of ^Pennsylvania and
since 1954 has been an operating
room nurse.
The training program is 60
hours instruction weekly. In Ma
laya the persons chosen will re
ceive four more weeks training,
mostly in the Malayan language.
They will then start work early
next year in the fields of health,
education and rural development,
with nurses and laboratory tech
nicians making up the largest
group.
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