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, Monday, July 16, 1951 .
PEACE PiPE - OR SMOKE SCREEN
MORE MONEY FOR VETERANS
The up-to-this-time economy-minded House of
Representatives went on a free spending spree the
other day and passed eleven bills, involving initial out
lays of around $770,000,000 for hospital construction
and other programs, designed to benefit war veterans.
All of the measures were approved by “voice
votes,” which means that no record was made of how
•anv member of the House voted. None of the bills was
given clearance by the Rules Committee but came be
fore the House on a seldom-used rule which allows
committee chairmen to call up bills approved by leg
islative committees
The costliest item provided for the construction
of twenty-four new hospitals and the enlargement of
fourteen others. This would result in 16,000 additional
beds for veterans ,at an estimated cost of $335,600,000.
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GOLDEN GLEAMS
You can understand what goes on in Congress
when you realize that every member represents a dis
trict and nobody represents the nation.
There are a few individuals in every community
who really believe in the dictator principle, provided
they can be the dictator.
Culture is the product of versatility and leisure,
aided and abetted by some cash.
These are the three pillars of society—education,
charity and piety. —Hebrew Proverb
Oldest Surviving Civil
War Veteran Celebrates
His 110th Birthday
ROCHESTER, N. Y., (/P) — The
oldest surviving veteran of the
Civil War today had two big sou
venirs on his 110th birthday, a
letter from President Truman and
a quantity of big black cigars.
James A. Hard celebrated his
birthday yesterday greeting 200
guests at a reception in the nurs
ing home where he lives.
President Truman wrote, . . . “it
gives me a great deal of plea
sure to extend to you my cordial
felicitations.”
Fashion Show—
Nudist Style
MAYS LANDING, N. J., (JP)—
A nudist group will hold a fashion
show here.
Clothes to be modeled at the
show “are all designed for quick
and easy removal once the wearer
is safely inside a nudist camp,” a
spokesman said.
The group, the Eastern Sun
bathing Association, is holding its
annual convention here.
Effective advertising represents
a felicitous blending of brains and
printer’s ink and it pay dividends
in the end.
Washburn Party
Reach Summit of
Mount McKinley
FAIRBANKS, (fP) — Bradford
Washburn, Boston explorer, said
Friday night his party, which
made the first west side ascent of
Mt, McKinley last wefek, had dis
covered a way to reach the sum
mit of North America’s highest
mountain “safely and quickly.”
Washburn was flown here by
Dr. Terris Moore, president of the
University of Alaska, who picked
him up at the mountain’s 10,000-.
foot level at the head of Hakiltana
Glacier. Coming out also in Dr.
Moore’s small plane were James
Gale of Anhorage and Capt. Wil
liam D. Hackett of Denver, who
made the climb with Washburn.
Five other members of the party
still are on the mountain, ex
pected to reach the summit at any
hour.
Washburn said the mountain
might be used in the future as a
site for a fixed-position radar sta
tion or cosmic ray laboratory, if
such an installation is desired
above the 18,000 foot level.
He said he believed the dis
covery of an easy route. to the
summit more than justified the
project, which is sponsored jointly
by Denver University, the Boston
Museum of Science and the Uni-!
versity of Alaska.
Washburn said further that
scientific information gathered on
the ascent proved that Dr. Fred
erick A. Cook never reached the
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summit of Mt. McKinley, as he
claimed to have done in 1906.
“We found it is impossible to
have climbed the mountain over
the route Dr. Cook described,”
said Washburn. “Our findings in
dicated that Cook no doubt cir
cumnavigated the mountain as he
claimed, but he never climbed to
the summit over the route he de
scribed.”
Washburn’s party mapped the
west side of the mountain and
studied its geology.
Legal Blanks at The Nugget officf
Fatal Highway Shooting
To Come Before Military
Court at Elmendorf Base
ANCHORAGE, —A military
court martial will convene Tues
day at Edmendorf Air Force Base
to try Pfc. Chester W. Pitts, 27, of
Terrell, Tex., in connection with
the fatal shooting of Pvt. Herbert
E. Brown, 19, of Denver.
Brown was killed June 12 while
driving a truck on the Alaska
Highway about five miles from
Big Delta, where both men were
stationed.
Specifically, Pitts is charged
with the “unlawful killing of
Private Brown.” He will be de
fended by a military attorney of
his own choosing. The court mar
tial will include from five to nine
members and be open to the pub
lic, the military announced. :
Announce International
Allocation Plan For
Newsprint by 14 Nations
WASHINGTON, (£>)—An inter
national allocation plan for news
print may be announced Aug. 15.
That was the target date set Sat
urday by a 14-nation committee
studying the newsprint supply
and demand situation for a 27
nation raw materials conference.
Could one who punches a time
clock be called a man of the hour?
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’copter Rescues
Injured Boy
SEATTLE, (/P) — The Coast
Guard and a Boy Scout troop
joined forces yesterday to rescue
a Scout who was injured in a
30-foot fall off a Cascade moun
tain cliff. »
While Chief Enlisted Pilot Char
les E. Mueller hovered overhead
in a Coast Guard helicopter flown
from Port Angeles, the Scouts,
armed with hatchets, hacked at
underbrush in the Snoqualmie
Pass area to provide clearance
for a safe landing.
Then the ’copter landed and
picked up 14-year-crld John Pear
son, the Seattle Scout who had
suffered brain concussion and pos
sible skull fracture in the fall Sat
urday.
John was on a hiking trip with
11 other Scouts at the time of the
accident. Fellow Scouts slipped
his unconscious body i nto a
sleeping bag and sent messengers
for help.
Hospital attendants at Seattle
told the boy’s parents, Mr. and
Mrs. E. J. Pearson, his life may
have been saved by the fact he
was not moved until the helicop
ter reached the area.
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