THE NOME NUGGET
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Entered as second class matter October 14, 1943, at the
post office at Nome, Alaska, under Act of March 3. 1879.
Regulate Price of Political Ads ? ?
STATE LEGISLATOR RICHARD GREUEL of
Fairbanks has a bill before the Legislature to
regulate the price of political advertising and estab
lish penalties.
The Nugget is not among the newspapers at which
this bill is aimed, as politicians do not have a special
rate, but it seems to be a waste of precious time to
clutter up a busy and important session of our first
Legislature with little grudges, and to single out one
classification of business, only one medium of adver
tising, and expect the State Legislature to set the
prices for that business.
A druggist sells drugs and lots of other things, a
market sells food, oil deliveries keep our homes warm,
and a newspaper — sells advertising. Free enterprise
entitles them all to run their business as they see fit.
Let’s keep it that way !
It Happened In France ...
CORESIDENT WILLIAM A. McDONNELL of the
-T Chamber of Commerce of the United States,
served as a captain in the U. S. Army in France in
1918,” writes Edson B. Smith in the Boston Herald.
“His pay at that time was $200 a month. When ex
changed this amounted to 1,000 francs. Today $200
will buy 84,000 francs.
“Mr. McDonnell points out that if an equivalent
depreciation had happened to the United States dollar,
viz, if it had lost 83/84th of its value, a low-priced car
would now cost $250,000. A $100,000 life insurance
policy would keep a widow in a second-class boarding
house for 10 months. A $100 Social Security check
would buy two pounds of hamburger.
“The moral of the above is that Mr. McDonnell
obviously is of the opinion that the American people
are too smug about inflation.”
ORDERS TO SPEED the long-delayed reduction
of armed forces by over 70,000, plus reduction of the
January draft call by 2,000, plus the fact that the
Selective Service law is due to expire June 30, suggests
an end to the draft. But, there better not be. Lieut.
Gen. Lewis B. Hershey (draft boss since the begin
ning) says we can’t get even the two million we need
without it.
In these times, we’d better listen to the expert.
Governor Pav
Measure Splits
House - Sen. Vote
JUNEAU, tPi — Major action in
Alaska’s Legislature Friday
centered around payment and
power of the Governor’s office.
A split developed when the
House rejected Senate amend
ments to a bill providing salaries
for the Governor and Secretary of
State. The Senate then refused to
rescind its amendments.
Crux of the matter lies in the
Senate vote to boost the House
approved $24,000 salary for the
Governor to $25,000, and the Sen
ate would also increase the Sec
retary’s pay from $17,500 to
$20,000.
Underlying the issue is the ques
i tion of salaries for all state offi
cials. Many legislators feel the
Governor’s salary should provide
a gauge for setting other, pay
scales. Some lawmakers feel top
judges for the yet to be established
judicial system should receive
about $25,000 annually and that
the Governor should not be paid
less.
Voting to rescind the Senate
amendments were senators Frank
Peralrovich, James Nolan, John
Coghill and A1 Owen. Owen,
chairman of the Senate Finance
Committee, had tried unsuccess
fully to lower the Governor’s sal
ary to $24,000.
After Friday’s action there was
some speculation the Governor’s
pay scale may be increased and
the Secretary’s dropped some
what. The free conference commit
tee can completely rewrite the bill
but its recommendations must be
either accepted or rejected in full
by the two houses.
Power of the Governor’s office
was increased last week when the
House approved a Senate bill set
ting uniform terms of office for
all officers of the state government
and it includes those still serving
elected terms carried over from
the old Territorial government.
The bill, requested by the Gov
ernor’s office, clears the way for
the removal of Attorney General
J. Gerald Williams who refused to
resign before serving out the two
years of his elected term. Wil
liams could not be removed until
passage of a uniform tenure act.
The bill would also give the
Governor additional power over
state boards and commissions. Pre
viously these have operated inde
pendently of the chief executive.
THE STUFF WHICH
DREAMS ARE MADE OF . . .
SAN FRANCISCO, (JP> — A jury
awarded Mrs. Lillion Poelke $22,
200 after deciding her neurosis
resulted from being stuck be
tween floors in an elevator —
with a fire in the shaft.
She testified the experience
caused her to have frequent
dreams of being stuck in an ele
vator with a fire in the shaft. The
judgment was against the owners
of her apartment building.
WHY WORRY?
CALL US
and RELAX!
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48 Alaska National Guard Armories To
Be Built In Remote Northern Villages
Forty-eight Eskimo and Indian 1
villages scattered throughout the j
vast land area of northern Alaska j
are scheduled to get new armory
buildings under an Alaska Na
tional Guard program starting
this spring.
! Plans and specifications for the
| prefabricated armory buildings
are being completed by the U. S. i
Army Engineer District, Alaska,
and a call for competitive bids is j
scheduled in March. More than a
million dollars of federally-appro
priated funds for the Alaska Na
tional Guard will be used to build
the armories.
The armories will be built to
provide training stations for the
famous First and Second Scout
Battalions of the National Guard.
100 Planes Will Make
Miami-Alaska Skyway
Flight This Summer
Mi-Alaska Skyway flight of 100 '
civilian planes from Miami, Fla., j
is being planned by Penny Thomp- j
son of Cocoanut Grove, Fla., an,d !
is scheduled to be led by Col. Bob i
Crawford, former ATaskan, and
Air Force pilot, for an 8-day stay
I in Alaska, sometime in June.
VIENNA'S CANINES TRAINED
TO 'STOP, LOOK, LISTEN'
VIENNA, — Most of Vienna’s
dogs are “traffic minded,” arid
know their way when crossing a
street, a local investigation re
vealed.
The survey, conducted by Dr.
Ferdinand Brunner of Vienna’s
veterinary college, showed that
only 14 per cent of the dogs walk- i
ing the streets unleashed proved j
to have poor traffic sense.
The rest were able to cross the
busiest intersections by careful I
listening to any approaching!
j noise, the expert says.
1 As an added, incidental benefit
, the armories will also provide a
j heated meeting place for the var
ious villages — many of which
haven’t such facilities now. The
villages will also benefit from the
fact that the call for bids will
specify that native help is to be
employed in erecting the various
armories.
Each of the armories will be a
20- by 60-foot pre-fabrieated
building, complete with its own
fuel oil heating plant and electric
light plant. Most of the 48 build
ings in the program will be con
structed this year. Preliminary
surveys by the Army Engineers
were completed in December and
more detailed surveys are now
underway.
One of the armories will go in
on Little Diomede Island. Another
is scheduled for Barter Island in
the Arctic Ocean off the far north
east coast of Alaska. Others are
planned for such widely-scattered
communities as Fort Yukon, Dil
lingham, Hooper Bay, Unalakleet,
White Mountain, Mountain Vil
lage, Samson Bay, St. Michaels,
Kotzebue, King Island, Teller and
Teller Mission, Wales, Stebbins,
Shishmaref, Deering, Kivalina,
Point Hope, Wainwright, Selawik,
Shungnak, Kiana, Noorvik and
Noatak;
Quinhagak, Eek, Napashiak,
Kwethluk, Akiak, Akiachnak, Tu
lusak, Napaishak, Tuntutuliag,
Kwigillingok, Kasiglook, Togipk,
Kipnuk, Chefornak, Newtok, Tun
unak, Mekoryuk, Chevak, Alaka
nuk, Shaktoolik, Koyuk and Elirn.
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