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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, Wednesday, June 7, 1950
FREEDOM TO LOSE OUR MONEY
Cripple Creek (Colo.) Times Record
It’s going to be interesting to watch the reaction of
the public to Congress' action concerning gambling.
They are starting out with slot machines and plan to
wind up covering all types of gambling.
Now if there one thing the majority of folks like to do
it’s to bet a couple of bucks on a horse or pull a slot
machine handle. It doesn’t matter to them how great
the odds are against them, they just want to do it, that’s
all. And when they know that it’s against law in some
states that seems to make it much more attractive.
But now the Federal Government is coming along
and making it a little tougher for them to lose their
money. We sort of wondered just how the folks are go
ing to take such usurping of their liberty. Back in 1918
the Government’s plan to increase the membership in
the W. C. T. U. didn't work out too well. You see, when
the Government took away their freedom when it came
to drinking they resented the move and ignored the law.
Of course, there are freedoms which the Government
takes away and the great populace seems to like it.
If a farmer wants to get Government support for his
crops he has to plant the amount and the kind Uncle
Sam says. And he is very willing to give up his freedom
in order to receive the Government bounty. As long as
folks get the cash for giving up a freedom it doesn’t
seem to bother them too much. When they can have
security, a little thing like losing some liberties and
freedoms is not even considered.
But when it comes to the point where the Govern
ment is going to take away their pleasures we can ex
pect a big howl. Uncle Sam can tell us what crops to
plant but he can’t tell us when and where we can bet on
a horse.
He can give us the money to live on all right, but if
we want to be suckers for the slot machines we think
it’s none of Uncle’s business. We are willing to lose
some freedoms of we get paid for them, but we won’t
stand for losing our freedoms to lose our money.
It can be said of modern business leaders that some
die but few retire.
OPERATION—PAY CHECK
Jimmy Stewart, veteran
Pilot, prefers Alaska run.
There's an old saying that you
can take a bush pilot out of the
bush and stick him into a uni
form, but it won't fit as well as
a mackinaw and a pair of high
boots.
That goes for Jimmy Stewart.
He is carried on the roster of
Pan American World Airways as
Captain James T. Stewart, but
that doesn’t fool anybody. A good
ly percentage of the total popula
tion of Alaska probably has rid
den with Captain Stewart at one
time or another, and he’s known
to most of them as Jimmy.
Jimmy is not only a master pi
lot; he holds a Bachelor of Science
degree in Civil Engineering from
the University of Alaska. Talk
about it Not him. He’ll talk about
j anything in the world rather than
; himself or his accomplishments.
The flying son of the Stewarts
started his cloud-climbing career
like many another Alaska pilot
I —as a hangar handyman, work
> ing in 1926 for the Fairbanks Air
craft Corporation, getting soaked
in grease right up to his eyebrows
and loving every gob of it.
His teacher was “Smiling Jack”
Hermann. The vehicle was a
Monocoupe. The year was 1935.
Jimmy amassed a staggering
total of three hours and 20 min
utes of dual time before he ran
out of money So Hermann let him
solo on the theory that he wasn’t
going to get any more tuition
money anyhow and the airplane
was insured, so what the heck—
if he’s got the makings of a pilot,
nows the time to find out.
In rapid succession, thereafter,
Jimmy operated a Buhl “Pup”, a
“Swallow” and a “Taylorcraft”
in the wild variety of tasks that
only an Alaskan bush pilot would
think of doing with an airplane.
Pan American had been in Al
| aska for eight years in 194(1 when
the orbits of Juan T. Trippc and
James T. Stewart crossed,
j “I got hungry,” Jimmy says,
j “and somebody told me Pan Am
erican dished out pay checks at
regular intervals and that fur
thermore the checks were good
at the bank, so I figured it was
worth a whirl.”
Pan American got right into the
thick of the war. In 1942 and 1943
Received, U.S. Land Office, Nome,
Alaska Date: Aug. 1, 1944. Hour:
11:55 a.m. Mineral Entry No.0972.
IN THE UNITED STATES
LAND OFFICE FOR THE NOME
LAND DISTRICT. NOME, AL
ASKA.
NOTICE OF APPLICATION
FOR PATENT
Mineral Survey No. 1890
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN 1
that Ralph Lomen by and through !
his attorney-in-fact, Ira D. Orton,
whose post office address is Nome,
Alaska, has made application for
a United States Patent for the
No. 3 Below Discovery placer min
ing claim situated on Newton '
' Creek, No. 1 a tributary of Dry
Creek, a tributary of Snake River,
in the Cape Nome Mining and Re
cording Precinct, Territory of Al
aska, and designated as United
i States Mineral Survey No. 1890
and particularly described in the
: official plat and field notes now
on file in the said Land Office
with magnetic variation at each
corner of the survey of mean val
ue of 17 degrees 12 min. E., as
follows:
Beginning at Cor. No. 1 ident
ical with Cor. No. 2, Survey No.
1166, No. 4 Below placer and Cor.
No. 17, Survey No 1310, Great
Western Group Claim Placer from
whence U.S.L.M. No. 11, bears S.
86 deg. 33 min. W., 7290.75 ft.; E.
j edge Anvil Rock bears N. 40 deg.
24 min. W.; Newton Rock bears
! N. 1 deg. 35 min. \V.; Radio Tower
; at Nome bears S. 43 deg. 24 min.
I W.; U.S.L.M. No. 1399 bears S. 23
deg. 44 min. W.; thence N. 17 deg.
i 17 min. E., 1041.66 ft. to Cor. No.
2; thence N. 81 deg. 08 min. E.,
661.90 ft. to Cor. No. 3; thence S.
16 deg. 01 min. W., 1587.19 ft. to
Cor. No. 4; thence N. 45 deg. 37
min. W., 333.0 ft. to Cor. No. 5;
thence N. 55 deg. 33 min. W.,
347.52 ft. to Cor. No. 1 and place
of beginning, containing an area
Jimmy was flying under a Navy
contract out in the Aleutians.
Then he was shifted to the Pacif
ic and learned what long-range,
transocean flying is like. For two
years—1944 and 1945—he flew
Pan Am’s Pacific routes, out to
the embattled islands where the
arrogance of imperial Japan was
being humbled, and “down under”
to Australia.
In 1945, he wandered over to
the other half of the blobe and
worked the Air Transport Com
mand operations that Pan Am
was running between Miami and
New York and Europe.
Bv mid-1946. the international
; airline was back in civilian dress
and ,Ti*-nmv ^tewa"t, bavin" seen
mo: t of the world, couldn't wait
to get back to the best part of it.
He bid in on the Alaska run. He
got it. He has it now. and if he
has his way about it he won’t
transfer—ever.
Alaskans are that way about
their country.
PROPOSED AIDS FOR SMALL BUSINESSES
President Truman, in his message to Congress pro
posing aid to small business, reported that the nation’s
business system is thriving but “not growing fast
enough.” He pointed out that employment remains at a
high level but that there are not enough new jobs being
created to absorb new growth in the nation’s labor force.
Despite an uptur nin business, we have more unemploy
. ment than a year ago.
Mr. Truman believes that expansion of our economy
is required to provide fuller markets for the rising pro
ductive capacity of factories and farms and to provide
adequate employment opportunities fo ra growing labor
force. He points out that more than ninety per cent of
the nation’s four million business concerns are classified
as small and they provide jobs for over 20,000,000 par
sons, or roughly half of private non-farm employment.
WIEN ALASKA AIRLINES
ANNOUNCES NEW SCHEDULE
Wien Airlines are announcing
in this issue a new schedule which
is probably the biggest and most
complete flight schedule Nome
has had by a major airline.
These daily flights will bring
in an average of ..5 passengers
every day from all over the States
many of whom are tourists who
plan to stay over night and see
as much of the far north as pos
sible.
They will be working cooper
atively with several major air
lines from the States, whose net
works cover the country.
It is hoped that with this set-up
it will possible to accomodate the
visitors in the hotels in a more
efficient manner than last year,
when they came less frequently
with bigger loads.
of 18.223 acres.
There are no conflicting claims.
The adjoining claims are:
On the N., Survey No. 1335,
“Dov-e Fraction”.
On the E., Survey No. 1182, No.
7 Below Discovery.
On the S., Survey No. 1166, No.
4 Below Placer.
On the W., Survey No. 1310,
Great Western Group Claim Pla
cer.
The original certificate of loca
tion of said placer mining claim
is recorded in the office of the Re
corder of said Mining District and
Precinct in Vol. 216, Page 79 of
the records of locations of said
District.
The mineral monument to
which this claim is tied is de
scribed as follows:
U.S.L.M. No. 11 is a fir post,
6 in. sq. 5 ft. above ground in
stone mound. It is situated about
70 ft. east of the Bessie Road from
Nome and about 2.7 miles N.E. of
the mouth of Snake River, and is
in Lat. 64 deg. 32 min. N., Long.
165 deg. 22 min. W.
Dated the 1st day of August,
1944.
Mrs. Helen M. Bockman
Acting Register
Pub. June 7, 14, 21, 28, July 5,
12, 19. 26, Aug. 1, 8, 15.
NOTICE OF HEARING FIN
AL ACCOUNT AND PETITION
FOR ORDER SETTLING FINAL
ACCOUNT FOR DISTRIBUTION
DECREEINd HEIRS AND CLO
SING ESTATE.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
THAT Louis H. Keir, Administra
tor of the Estate of Antony Jur
ack, deceased, has presented and
filed herein for final settlement in
the Probate Court for the Fortuna
Ledge, Precinct, Second Division,
Territory of Alaska his first and
final account of such administra
tions, together with a petition for
an order settling account for dis
tribution and closing said estate
and the Court room of the Pro
bate Judge, shall be the place and
the first day of August 1950, the
date, at 2 p.m. the time, of said
date at the Court room of said
Court, in the Post Office Building
at Fortuna Ledge, Alaska, has
been set for the hearing of the
petition and account, and all per
sons interested in said estate are
notified then and there to appear
and show cause if any there be,
why said account should not be
settled and allowed and said es
tate be closed.
At such hearing the Court will
decree Louis H. Keir a resident of
Fortuna Ledge, to be the sole
heir to said estate.
Dated at Fortuna Ledge, this
27th day of May, 1950.
Louis H. Keir
Administrator