I Saturday’s Pioneer Roof Garden
In Tradition of Fine Entertainment
By Senator Howard Lyng
Saturday, Dec. 11, will witness
the annual Pioneer Roof Garden,
given each winter under the aus
pices of Nome’s Pioneer Igloo
No. 1, the mother Igloo of the
many spread throughout Alaska.
Many of the splendid great
hearted pioneers who participated
I in the Roof Garden parties when
Nome was young are gone from
among us—yet there is a surpris
ing number still with us who are
enthusiastically lending their time
and spirit, assisting in making this
latest Roof Garden a worthy suc
cessor of those that have gone
before.
To one who has been a resident
of Nome through the years, the
words “Pioneer Roof Garden’’
precipitate a nostalgia for the
past, and conjure up before the
mind’s eye a ghostly retinue that
silently passes in review within
the walls of memory.
Included in this vista of the
past is the happy recollection of
the many gladsome evenings
spent in the society of friends,
enjoying the games, programs,
song fests, dancing, and other fea
tures of entertainment that these
annual Roof Gardens always
bring forth. The current Roof
Garden gives every promise of
being just as gay, entertaining,
and as full of wholesome fun as
those of yesteryear.
Vancouver Crime Wave
Continues As Two Banks
Robbed of $10,000
VANCOUVER, B. C., <tfl—Six
weeks of major crime in the West
Coast city erupted with new vio
lence Friday night as bank rob
bers struck twice in outlying dis
tricts, escaping with an estimated
$10,000 and touching off a des
perate manhunt.
A determined bid by the City
of Vancouver to stamp out the
crime wave by arming special
flying squads with machine guns
apparently pushed the gunmen
into the suburbs.
Three men, operating with pro
fessional precision, looted a West
Vancouver bank of $7,500 and a
lone bandit walked out of a New
, Westminster bank with loot esti
mated at $2,500.
Police had few clues, as has
been the case in six other bank
robberies in the Vancouver met
ropolitan area in the last six
••weeks. The area has a population
of about 485;000.
Bartlett Urges Wilson
To Help Get Better
Alaska Rail Rates
WASHINGTON, UR—Delegate
Bartlett (D-Alaska) Saturday
urged Secretary of Defense Wil
son to put his “full support” be
hind a program to obtain an
equitable rate adjustment of rail
rates on shipments to and from
Alaska.
He made public a letter in
which he advised Wilson the rate
adjustment proposal is supported
by the General Services Adminis
tration, Alaska’s Gov. Heintzle
man, Secretary of Interior McKay
and himself.
He said such an adjustment
would “materially contribute to
increasing a standard of living of
our people while promoting a
more intensive economic develop
ment of the territory.”
Only one in 15 British house
holders own washing machines.
At this time of the year, when
winter takes over, most of us are
inclined to spend too much time
at home, and possibly neglect
some of the amenities of modern
society relating to friendship, the
good neighbor theory, and to
community well-being. It is large
ly with this thought in mind that
Pioneer Igloo No. 1 urges the
entire community to attend and
participate in the 46th annual
Roof Garden, guaranteeing to all
an evening of pleasurable enter
tainment, and affording the op
portunity of spending an evening
in the company of your friends.
The place: Nome ^School Gym;
the date: Saturday, December 11;
the time: 8:00 p.m.
j Five Crewmen Drown
As Tug Sinks in Blizzard
SYDNEY, N.S., Ufi—Five crew
men of the Canadian tug Rouella
I drowned Friday when the 85-ton
j ship foundered in mountainous
' waves during a North Atlantic
blizzard.
News of the tragedy a few miles
off Cape Smokey, N.S., was
1 brought here Saturday by a trawl
er which arrived with five sur
vivors of the tug.
The rescued men spent four
hours in an open lifeboat before
they were picked up.
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