THE NOME NUGGET
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Nome, Alaska, Wednesday, May 23, 1951
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COMMENCEMENT FOR 1951 GRADS
Tomorrow is Commencement for the Class of 1951
and four more Nome-grown seniors will receive their
diplomas and we hope seek higher education.
It is with regret that we see four teachers, who
have done so much for the High School, depart to con
tinue their work in other parts of Alaska and the
States. Their work has been appreciated by students
and townspeople alike and we know they will have
successful careers wherever they go.
The retiring members of the Nome School Board
also deserve a word of praise for their untiring efforts
in obtaining an annex to the school with extra class
rooms, making it possible to carry on the scholastic
training of our young people more efficiently in less
crowded quarters.
CLEAN-UP WEEK
Clean-up week is off to an early start this year
as the snow is off the ground. Some home owners have
cleaned up their yards and are busy painting and re
decorating. If all the next door neighbors will do the
same we can be proud of the place in which we live.
The city is cooperating by carrying away the winter
accummulation of debris. Do your share by piling it
where it is accessible to the trucks. We can’t straighten
out the curves and bumps which the permafrost puts
into our houses, but we can be clean.
Residents New Hampshire
Town Don’t Want To |
Impeach Truman
WAKEFIELD, N. H. — The
residents of this small rural com
munity don’t want to take Presi
dent Truman's job away from him
— although most of them are
known die-hard Republicans.
They voted in a special town
meeting last night on the ques
tion: “Should Harry Truman be
impeached?”
The answer was “no” by a vote
of 43 to 17, with 3o of those pres
ent not voting.
The whole matter was brought
to a head for the first time any-!
where by William N. Sparhawk,
Jr., 32-year-old chicken farmer,
who served as an army captain in ;
World War II.
He circulated a petition for a
special town meeting to vote on
the question. He needed 10 sig
natures but he said 50 residents
signed the petition.
Exactly 100 of the town’s 795
voters showed up for the unusual
meeting in the town hall.
Selectman Albert W. Wiggin
said about 400 persons attended
the regular town meeting in
March. He couldn’t account for
the small attendance last night.
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Crown Prince of Jordan
Wounds Commander of
Jordan's Arab Legion
JERUSALEM, (TP)—The Jeru- j
salem Post said today Crown
Prince Talal of Jordan recently j
shot and wounded Brig. John Efeg- i
got Glubb Pasha, the Briton who
heads Jordan’s Arab Legion.
The Post said Glubb Pasha has j
been confined to bed for more
than a week after being shot in
the arm by the 40-year-old crown
prince, eldest son of King Ab
dullah. He is out of danger.
A week ago yesterday King Ab
U. S. Military Hopes For
Negotiated Korean Peace
WASHINGTON, (/P) — Gen.
Omar Bradley said today that U.S.
military high command hopes a
Korean peace can be negotiated
if United Nations troops “bump
off’ the present Communist of
fensive.
Testifying at Senate hearings,
Bradley said that military men
had hoped in March that some
peace move could be made. He
added:
“We still hope that we will be
in a position to again propose
something through the United Na
tions which would end up in ne
gotiations and cessation of hostili
ties.”
Bradley said that the March
truce effort had to be abandoned
when Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur
served what Secretary of Defense
Marshall described as an “ulti
matum” on the Chinese command
er in the field. This was a MacAr
thur proposal for a cease-fire
which carried also an implication
the war might be widened if the
Chinese commander did not ac
cept it.
Bradley made it plain that Ko
rean strategy has been keyed for
weeks now to the hope peace ne
gotiations might follow if the
Communists’ spring offensive was
met and broken.
dullah left for a state visit to
Turkey and the crown prince took
over as acting king. But on the
following day a dispatch from
Amman, Jordan, said Talal was
taken “suddenly ill” and had to
leave for Beirut, Lebanon, for
treatment.
The Jerusalem Post says Talal
was taken to Beirut to a mental
institution because he acted in a
moment of insanity when he shot
at Glubb Pasiha.
Tension Mounts In Iran
Over Oil Nationalization
TEHRAN, Iran, (/P) — Tension
•mounted today in crisis-torn Teh
ran after some 30,000 Moslems—
booing <the United States and Brit
ain — vowed yesterday 'to wage
holy war if need be, to nationalize
the naition’s rich oil resources.
An air of crisis gripped the
Iranian capital as police and
troops on a 24-hour alert, patrolled
the streets in trucks and on horse
back. A dozen tanks roamed the
city, ready for action.
A resolution declaring “strong
hatred” for the United States and
Britain was cheered wildly at yes
terday’s mass rally, called by Mos
HIGH LIFE IN SINGAPORE
SINGAP6RE, iff) — They’re
drinking more and smoking more
in Singapore. Imports of liquor
into this British crown colony in
1950 totalled 9,000,000 gallons,
2,000,000 more than in 1949.
Tobacco imports in 1950 were
11,680,374 pounds compared with
10,663,493 the preceding year.
lem religious leaders and premier
Mohammed Mossadegh’s National
bloc.
The State Department, which
has urged moderation on both
sides of the oil dispute, has been
accused by Iranians of backing the'
British stand against nationaliza
tion of the oil resources.
Utah Prison Riot
POINT - OF - THE-MOUNTAIN,
Utah, (JP) — Officials promised
punishment Monday for the ring
leaders of a riot that swept
through Utah’s modem new state
prison. There were no serious in
juries.
More than 200 prisoners were
involved in the disorders. They
held eight guards as hostages for
a time. Two escaped and others
were released when an agreement
ended the riot after four and a
half hours.
One nylon stocking contains
about a mile and a quarter of ny
lon yam.
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The University of Washington Fisheries Research Institute,financed
by the Alaska salmon industry, will start its annual tagging of
salmon in Territorial waters this summer. This is an important
part of the Institute’s research program. v
Through this process, the University's Institute is able to study the
habits of the Alaska salmon and thus help perpetuate salmon runs.
Because the salmon industry is the backbone of Alaska’s econ
omy, these studies are important to every person in Alaska. The
industry, since 1946, has allocated nearly a million dollars to finance
these studies. The University’s Institute is an entirely independent,
scientific research organization. Dr. William F. Thompson, who has
won an international reputation for his studies of the halibut and
Fraser River Sockeye, directs the Institute. This research program
cofnplements studies being made by the Fish and Wildlife Service.
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