THE NOME NUGGET
Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday by the
NOME PUBLISHING CO.
NOME, ALASKA
Telephone 44S - 2381 $1.50 PER MONTH
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E. P. BOUCHER . Managing Editor
CLINTON GRAY .. Production Manager
Entered as second class matter October 14, 1943, at the
poet office at Noma. Alaska, under Act of March 3, 1379.
When Tragedy Strikes . . .
iGEDY has stirred the community in the past
week and brought sorrow to three families. Six
children have lost a mother; four children their
father; and a mother grieves over the child she was
unable to save from the fire in their home.
It is not our privilege to question why these things
must happen. All) friends can do is show their sym
paftihy and understanding. There was no hesitation on
the part of the many persons who heroically aided in
the search for the missing plane, regardless of the
blizzard and cold nor was there delay by the volun
teer firemen who did their best to rescue the child
although the fire was out of control by the time the
alarm was given. These families can be comforted
that everything humanly possible was done, to help
(their loved ones.
The staff of the Nugget expresses, for the entire
community, heartfelt sympathy.
In Memoriam
“They cannot wholly pass away
How far so e'er above.
Nor we, the lingerers, wholly stay
Apart from those we love;
For spirits in eternity,
As shadows in the sun,
Reach backward into time, as we,
Like lifted clouds, reach on.” 'ng,*
Air Transport Assn.
Estimates $30 Million
Net l>oss for 1961
WASHINGTON W — The Air
Transport Assn, estimated Tues
day that the domestic trunk air
line industry will end the year
with a net loss, of $30 million after
taxes and interest.
Stuart Tipton, association pres
ident, told a news conference that
this would be the greatest loss in
the industry's history, and would
occur in spite of coat controls.
The 1961 loss would he the
first for the Trunk Airlines as a
group since 1948, when they lost
Richard Pavlick to Stand
Trial on Charge of Plot
To Assassinate Kennedy
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (A — Rich
ard Pavlick, 74, of Belmont, N.H.,
says he is ready to'stand trial
on a charge of plotting to assas
sinate President Kennedy.
Pavlick was arrested a year
ago in Palm Beach, Fla. Pavlick
told officers, who found several
sticks of dynamite in his car and
motel room, he planned to kill
Kennedy because of "the under-*
handed way he was elected.”
Pavlick has been held at the
federal prison in Springfield,
Mo., under a law that per
mits an accused person to be
held until he ismentally compe
tent to
BLOOMSBURY, N.Y. (A —
Eleven deer leaped off a GO-foot
cliff Monday and landed on a
section of new highway. Four
were killed. f
Chamber Notes
Bill Green, who heads the
State Sanitation Department for
all of Northern Alaska, reported
at the noon meeting of the Cham
ber of Commerce that he has not
found a replacement for Harry
Carter, to head the department’s
work in this area. The office has
been vacant since early fall and he
foresaw no immediate replace
ment.
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Bob Harwood, reporting for the
organization which is in the mak
ing of a museum for Nome, said
that another meeting is scheduled
for Jan. 15, when definite steps
would be taken if enough inter
est is shown.
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President Don Hoover read a
letter from the community of
Teller, expressing their interest
in rural redevolpment. They are
interested in a small cannery to
handle fish during the summer
and reindeer and by-products
during the winter months. The
letter was signed * by Johnny
Kakarak.
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Sen. Lester Bronson urged any
one with problems or projects
which should come before the
next Legislature to call at his
home in the evenings between
now and the middle of January.
He is available, he stated all eve
nings, except on basketball
nights.
• • •
Rev. John Maakestad. repre
senting the Boy Scouts of Amer
ica, as chairman of the local com
mittee, made a presentation of a
beautiful plaque honoring Mr.
and Mrs. Antonio Polet for their
work in Scouting over a period of
many years, and for their contri
butions to the program. The in
scrition reads:
“Mr. and Mrs. Antonio Polet,
founders of the Midnight Sun
Council, Boy Scouts of America.”
The plaque was given to their
daughter, Mrs. Emily Boucher,
and will be part of a memorial
exhibit known as the Polet col
lection, when the Nome museum
is built.
Hie plaque is now on display
at the Nugget office.
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Japan Increases Its
1962 Catch Quotas fen
Fishing in North Pacific
TOKYO W — Japan has in
creased its 1962 catch quotas for
whaling and crab fishing in the
Northern Pacific, the Fishery
Agency reported Tuesday.
The agency said the catch
quota for crab fishing in Bristol
Bay of Alaska has been increased
to 130,000 cases freon 80,000 Set
for 1961.
The 1961 quota of 1,800 sperm
whales for northern whaling was
also increased to 2,100, it said.
But, said the agency, the new
catch quota of sperm whales for
Japanese coastal whaling was
towered from 2,100 to 1,800 to
keep' the tbtal 1962 whaling quota
including Antarctic whaling at
Bin year’s level with i view to
preserving whale resources.
Janitor of Ill-Fated
Hospital Fire Committed
For Psychiartic Treatment
HARTFORD, Conn. (£) — An
employe of the Hartford Hospital,
where 18 persons were killed in
a fire of undetermined cause Fri
day, was committed to a mental
hospital Monday night for psy
chiatric observation.
Police said fire officials said
the employe, Arthur Lafontaine,
a janitor, was not under suspicion
at present.
They said Lafontaine had show
ed the need for psychiatric care
when he testified as a witness
during a hearing into the fire. He
testified he discovered the fire in
a trash chute and fought it with
a fire hose before the alarm was
sounded.
Questioned about what role of
ficials felt Lafontaine may have
played in the fire, Hartford IFire
Chief Thomas Lee said: “Our
minds are open to any possibility.
This man is not a suspect at this
time.”
Investigators said the first con
crete results of their inquiry in
dicate that a hospital employe
may have thrown discarded X-ray
film down the chute in which the
fire began.
NEEDED AH ORGAN . . .
PITTSBURGH UP) — When
Octavia Jones, 53, of Pittsburgh
went before Judge Wm. Cercone
on charges of operating a speak
easy, he asked her why she al
legedly had sold beer and liquor
illegally.
"The church needed an organ,
and I wanted to make some money
to buy one,” she explained.
Judge Cercone fined her $300
and ordered her to pay costs.
Canadians Take Steps
To Prevent Russia from
Passing Off Furs to U.S.
OTTAWA MB — Canadian offi
cials are taking steps to prevent
Russia from passing off Russian
white fox furs as being products
of this country.
The Federal Agriculture De
partment announced Monday that
effective Friday; a stamp with
the word “Canada” will be avail
able but not compulsory for
Canadian pelts. It would be ap
plied by Agriculture Department
inspectors at suitable locations in
the form of a maple leaf with
the lettering side the form. The
ink will be legible after pelt
dressing.
Officials said there have been
suspicions that Russian white fox
duns have been entering Canada
for sale to the United States,
thus beating the U-S. ban on
trade with the USSR.
I Virtually all Canada’s white
i fox skins come from Eskimo trap
pers although in certain periods,
when the fox-population cycle
is at its peak, some Indians take
the animals farther south.
HIT-AND-RUN
PITTSBURG, Kan. U* — Steve
Sumner, 14, delivering news
papers, was knocked off a bicycle
in a collision with a car at 5:30
p.m. Monday. The car driver
didn’t stop.
Steve’s brother, Scott, 13, deli
vering newspapers, was knocked
off a bike in a similar collision
30 minutes later a few blocks
away. The driver didn’t stop.
Neither boy was hurt. The
bikes, both borrowed, weren’t
damaged.
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