THE NOME NUGGET
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Entered as second class matter October 14, 1943, at the postoffice
at Nome, Alaska, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
Nome, Alaska, Friday, July 13, 1951
JUST MAKING SUREIT ISNT LOADED
US.
U. S. BUILDS A SUPER-LINER
The 51,500- ton liner United States has been
“launched from her giant graving basin and will take
to the North Atlantic sea lanes in about a year.
The 990-foot liner is the longest ship ever built in
this country, including our warships, and represents
the nation’s first venture in super-liner craft- The con
struction of the ship was heavily subsidized by the
Government, because she has been designed as a naval
vessel. With a potential troop capacity twice that of
any other American-flag liner, the vessel can carry
12.000 to 14,000 troops at high speed, for 10,000 miles,
without stopping for fuel, water or other stores.
The cost of the ship will probably go to $73,000,000.
During peacetime years, it will be operated in com
petition with liners under foreign flags by the United
States Lines. The vessel will be smaller than the gi
gantic British liners, Queen Mary and Queen Eliza
beth, both over 80,000 gross tons, but she will carry
approximately as many passengers and will carry them
fast, having a rating of thirty knots.
The keel of the ship was laid on February 8, 1950.
She is now about seventy per cent finished. The liner
will be more than 101 feet wide, 122 feet high from
keel to top of super-structure and 990 feet long. She
will require a crew of 1,000 men.
GOLDEN GLEAMS
Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do
not find it among gross people. —Samuel Johnson.
The public have an insatiable curiousity to know
everything except what is worth knowing.
—Oscar Wilde
The public! The public! How many fools are needed
to make a public? —Nicholas Chamfort.
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He that does anything for the public is accounted
to do it for nobody. —Thomas Fuller.
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High society is for those who have stopped work
ing and no longer have anything important to do.
—Woodrow Wilson
To get into the best society nowadays, one has
either to feed people, amuse people, or shock people.
—Oscar Wilde
CAB Accused Of
Policy Opposition
To Non-Skeds
WASHINGTON, (JP) — A con
gressional committee has accused
the Civil Aeronautics Board of a
“policy of opposition” to non
scheduled air carriers.
The Board’s policy, if carried
to completion, “would eliminate
this,new segment of air transpor
tation within a year or two,” the
Senate small business committee
said in a formal report.
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“This policy was neither enun
ciated nor adopted until the ser
vice performed by the non-sched
uled industry had gained wide
public acceptance and had estab
lished the pattern for a low-cost,
coach-type of air travel,” the com
mittee said.
Instead of the board’s “death
edict” for non-scheduled operat
ors, the committee said, there
should be a vast expansion of
low-cost, aircoach transportation.
The committee said “there ap
pear reasonable grounds for con
cluding that there exists a certain
identity of interest” between the
board and the regular scheduled
air lines.
The controversial “death edict”
regulation, issued last March but
never put into force, would limit
non - scheduled lines to three
round trips monthly over major
traffic segments plus eight round
trips between all other points.
The “non-skeds” which operate
both as passenger and cargo car
riers, carry no mail. As a result
they get no government subsidies.
Instead of following fixed sched
ules, they fly when business war
rants.
Strike Breaking
Charged Bristol
Bay Strike
SPOKANE, (£>)—'The Washing
ton State Federation of Labor, en
tering the final day of its 49th
annual convention, took up the
last unsettled issue yesterday: a
charge that “certain unions” en
gaged in strike breaking activities
during the recent strike at Bristol
Bay, Alaska.
The convention's grievance com
mittee heard both sides of the
dispute at a two-hour meeting
Wednesday. Afterwards it was
reported a milder version of the
original resolution would reach
the convention floor.
The “toned down” version, a
spokesman said, reaffirms a posi
tion adopted by the State Federa
tion last year, when it agreed that
all AFL unions would oppose any
moves by Harry Bridges, West
Coast longshore leader, to organ
ize in Alaska.
Two striking Bristol Bay unions
announced affiliation with the
Seafarers* International while the
recent strike was on. The Bering
Sea Union broke away from the
Alaska Fishermen's Union (Ind)
which was to be merged with
Bridges* longshoremen.
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Seven Believed Dead In
Jet Engine'Plant Blast
INDIANAPOLIS, (JP) — Seven
men are believed to have died
in an explosion Thursday in the
General Motors Corp. military jet
plant just west of Indianapolis.
Maj. Harold E. .Wilbur, Air
Force public information officer,
said eight men were working in
the small concrete block building
where the explosion ' occurred
shortly before daybreak.
One man was blown from the
building and survived the blast,
although he suffered severe burns.
Two mangled bodies were
brought out about three hours
after the blast.
The major attributed the ex
plosion to gas vapor but he
couldn’t say what set off the blast.
“There was positively no sab
otage,” he said.
135,000 Sockeye Salmon
Taken In First Five Days
Of Fishing Season
SEATTLE, i(/P)—American and
Canadian commercial salmon fish
ermen had a combined take of
135,000 fish in the first five days
of the sockeye season.
Estimates of the International
Pacific Salmon Fisheries Commis
sion released here showed that
the Canadian fleet landed 90,000
sockeye and the American^ 45,000
| in the five - day period , ended
July 6.
The biggest take was on the
July 2 season opening when the
two fishing fleets landed a total
of 33,600 fish.
JOINS CRUSADE — Screen star
Barbara Stanwyck lends her help
to the American Cancer Society's -
1951 Cancer Crusade. The word
"flive,” she says, is the most im
portant one in making this year's
campaign a success. Many of the
nation’s leading entertainers are
I helping to publicize the Crusade.
A lecturer claims a good poker
player could hold down any kind
of an executive job. Sounds logi
cal enough, but what would a
good poker player want with a
job? i
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