THE NOME NUGGET
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SIGNS OF SPRING
ift?Mr
DO YOU WANT LOWER POWER RATES?
There is a movement contemplated for the sep
arating of the offices of the telephone and the power
company offices.
For fifty years the community has benefited by
the sharing of office space, expenses, equipment and
staff of these businesses.
As we see it, Nome has not grown to such an
extent that the added expense of separate maintenance
is warranted at this time.
Those urging this change may have good rea
sons for doing this but it seems that if the city-owned
power company has money enough to increase the
annual cost of operation by several thousand dollars,
just to have two separate offices, it would be better to
give the taxpayers the benefit of this expenditure in
lower rates.
Larger communities work toward consolidation
of utilities rather than separation, thereby using the
same staff, same costly bookkeeping machines, heat,
rent etc. as a matter of justifiable economy.
We would welcome comment by others in the
community on the subject. '
Blanket Authority
For Secretary of Defense
Called “Misconception”
WASHINGTON, UPi — Presi
dent Eisenhower Tuesday told
GOP Congressional leaders he
has no intention of seeking blank
et authority for the Secretary of
Defense to control all military
spending.
Senate Republican leader Know
land of California reported the
.President’s position on that con
troversial matter after the lead
ers’ regular weekly meeting with
Eisenhower.
Knowland called it a “miscon
ception” that Eisenhower, in a
special message to Congress April
3, advocated giving the Secretary
of Defense full authority over
military money.
That message outlined the
President’s plan for reorganiza
tion of the military establish
ment. When it was sent to the
eapitol a Presidential aide told
a news conference the - impact of
the plan would be to give the
Secretary of Defense complete
Gov. Rosellini To Speak
At Jefferson-Jackson Day
Dinner At Anchorage
OLYMPIA, Wash., UP) — Gov.
Rosellini will fly to Anchorage,
Alaska, today to address the
Democratic Jefferson - Jackson
Day dinner meeting this evening,
his office announced. The gov
ernor will return to Seattle
Thursday.
WEATHER FORECAST
Fair tonight and Thursday.
Low tonight 0 to -5, high tomor
row 15 to 20.
Temperature at Nenana is 38,
low last night was 23.
control of military funds.
That interpretation set off a
roar at the capitol from Legis
lators opposed to giving up any
part of. Congress’ power of the
purse.
The issue is due for an airing’
at a House Armed Services Com
mittee hearing on the plan, now
set to start a week from today.
Western Ambassadors
Ready To Start Summit
Talk Preparations
LONDON, UR—The three West
ern powers told the ijjoviet Union
today their ambassadors were
ready to begin broad scope sum
mit talk preparations in Mos
tomorrow.
In carefully worded notes de
livered to the Russian govern
ment, the United States, Britain
and France expressed their will
ingness to take the first step on;
the road to a possible top level
meeting if the preparatory work
included basic east-west issues.
They insisted the preliminary
' diplomatic negotiations should
define the major questions divid
ing the four powers in order “to
■bring out the possibilities of
agreement on them.”
Ex-Wife of Jack Dempsey
Dies Of Cancer Tuesday j
HOLLYWOOD, UR — Estelle
Taylor, former actress and ex
wife of boxer Jack Dempsey, died
at her home Tuesday. She was
58.
Miss Taylor had been suffer
ing from some time with cancer
and had been bedfast the last six
months.
In recent years the former
screen actress had interested her
self in the welfare of animal pets.
She was vice chairman of the
Los Angeles City Animal Regula
tion Commission and president of
the P et Owne r s Prote ctive
League.
Her marriage to Dempsey, for
mer heavyweight champion of
world, ended in a Reno, Nev.,
divorce in 1931.
Ptarmigan Season Closes
The ptarmigam season which
opened last August 20th officially
closed last night at midnight, ac
cording to Fish and Wildlife
regulations.
A train of thought is no strong
er than its weakest think.
Lonely Widow Chooses
Life As Catholic Nun
NEW YORK, UP> — Julie Hay
don, 48, actress widow of George
G. Nathan, plans to become a
nun, the New York Post said
Tuesday.
“I want to please God,” she was
quoted, “to make others’ lives
more pleasant. I hope to do the
most possible with my life.”
“With Mr. Nathan gone, I
would be a woman drifting alone
in the world, just meddling in
its affairs.”
“My desire is to keep busy, and
when I get my affairs in order,
I hope to serve God alone.”
Miss Haydon added that as a
nun “I feel I can best live the
life Mr. Nathan would have
wanted me to lead.”
Nathan died last Monday at the
age of 77.
She said that she has spoken
to several Roman Catholic priests
about entering a convent, and
that she would like either to
teach drama in some school or
nurse the ill.
The clerics advised her to con
sider carefully before taking the
ceil, Miss Haydon said, but she
thinks it will be “only a matter
of months.”
Inmates Cause
Extensive Damage
To Mass. Reforatory
CONCORD, Mass., —A bloody
mutiny by inmates at Concord
Reformatory Tuesday left five
guards injured and the prison
furniture shop reduced to ruin.
Eighteen convicts were herded I
into solitary confinement cells i
and questioned in relays through-;
out the night after what was des
cribed as one of the worst inmate
riots in the state’s penal history.
Desperate convicts set fire to
the huge furniture shop, tried to
wreck other buildings and slugged
correction officers and instruc
tors with iron pipes, pieces of
lumber and work tools.
Edward S. Grennan, superin
tendent of the reformatory, said'
the 18 inmates who participated
in the slugfest and arson plot
Monday apparently had no mo
tive but destruction.
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Russian Dance Troupe
Scores Big Hit At
Metropolitan Opera House
NEW YORK, UR — The Moise
yev Dance Company from Mos
cow, the first dance troupe to
reach the United States under a
new American-Soviet cultural ex
change agreement, scored a re
souftding triumph at the Metro
politan Opera House Monday
night.
The troupe of nearly 100 danc
ers, the largest Soviet attraction
ever sent here, offered 1-3 folk
numbers, which had a constant
element of humor. ,
An audience of about 3,600 per
sons applauded, laughed, whistled,
yelled “bravo” and applauded
some more.
The Russians, in turn, partic
ularly the girls, applauded their
American hosts.
M'ikhail Menshikov, Soviet Am
bassador to Washington, and Ar
kady Sobolev, Ambassador to
the United Nations, were the
ranking diplomats present.
Unprecedented crowds—police
said 1,500 persons—gathered at
the stage door to cheer the danc
ers after their performance.
W. G. Rogers, Associated Press
arts editor, said in his review:
“This isn’t ballet, it isn’t really
dance, it is pure rollicking
fun . . .”
“The dancers moved across the
stage in great irresistible rushes,
they stamped, thumped, skipped,
ran, hopped, galloped and trotted.
They did the most extraordinary
pirouettes, they clowned, bur
lesqued and ridiculed, and they,
too, had a hilarious time.”
John Martin wrote in the New
York Times: “It was a great
night . . . and nobody who was
there is likely to forget very
soon ... let us risk understate
ment and call it (the performance)
merely stupendous . . .”
English Girl Steals To
Look Nice For Liberace
LONDON, UP! — Pat Jenkins,
21, was convicted yesterday of
stealing 5 pounds ($14) to buy a
pair of new shoes so she would
look nice waiting at the stage
door for American pianist Lib
erace.
Miss Jenkins, a switchboard
operator described by friends as
a “mad|keen” fan of the pianist,
was sentenced to three months in
jail.
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