THE NOME NUGGET
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NOME PUBLISHING CO.
, NOME, ALASKA
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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 27, 1951
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Alaska Airlines’ Inaugural Flight
The inaugural flight of the Alaska Airlines on its
Portland-Nome schedule brought to Nome five of the
large party of Portland and Seattle business men who
made the flight to the territory, joined by Alaskans
along the way.
Although we regret that more of the party did
not have time to complete the trip into Nome, due to
the weather, we are glad that Marshall Dana and his
four companions were our guests overnight.
Nome is the “end of the line” of this historic oc
casion and the people here are doubly appreciative
for the new contacts made and its trade possibilities:
for the future.
Nome needs this connection with the States not
only for itself but because it is the base for all the
villages north of Nome which must be supplied as
economically as possible.
Congratulations to Alaska Airlines.
Authoress To Get
Material For
Book On Alaska
SEATTLE, (/P)—It seems that
Kathryn Winslow of Chicago,
wrote a highly successful book
on the Klondike gold rush with
out ever setting foot in the far
north. It was published last Jan
uard under the title, “Big Pan
Out.” #
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Now, she’s starting her second
book on Alaska, but this time
she’s gathering her material first
hand. She will leave Seattle Sat
urday on the first leg of a 20,000
mile 'air trip that will take her
to almost every town and ham
let in the Territory. “I want to
tell the story of the Western
Union representatives and the
men of the Army Signal Corps
who began dickering with Bus
sia for the purchase of Alaska
back in the sixties.”
Miss Winslow feels she knows
Alaska although she has never
been there. Her first interest
came when she “fell heir” to the
Snakes Pay Youthful
Dealer’s Trip Expenses
JACKSONVILLE, Fla., (JP) —
Fourteen-year-old Gene Berman
and his 23 snakes were nearer
Drexel Hill, Pa., his home, today.
Police picked him up yesterday
thinking he was a runaway.
They found he was carrying in
a box a four-foot, seven-inch boa
constrictor, 81 baby constrictors,
and a three-foot everglades rat
snake.
Gene told horrified police
women at the juvenile department
of headquarters he was a dealer
in snakes, that “it pays my ex
penses for trips.”
diaries and journals of a fab
ulous Englishman, the late How
ard B. Sutherland, who had been
an adventurer all over the world.
It was from Sutherland’s memoirs
that she got her material far “Big
Pan-Out.”
Her personal ambition on the
trip to make a flight over the
North Pole, but she admitted that
“it might be difficult to arrange.”
Stepfather Admits Killing
20-Year-Old Daughter
STERLING, Colo., (/P)— Frank
Walter Kristy, 47, was held for
California authorities Thursday
after admitting he fired the shot
that killed the stepdaughter “I
loved.”
Police chief O.L. Walker of Ster
ling announced that Kristy signed
a statement after his arrest Wed
nesday admitting that his gun
went off while he and Betty Jean
Ansen, 20, argued near Burbank,
Calif., July 5.
Walker said that Kristy, who
listed his home as Downey. Calif.,
told him he forced her to leave
the home of her mother, Mrs.
Margaret Kristy, at Newhall, Calif.
In his statement, as released by
the police chief, Kristy said in part:
“We got into an argument. The
argument got pretty bad. I had
the doors open on both sides. We
got out of the car. We were still
arguing. I was trying to get her
to go along.
“Then all I remember the gun
going off and she rolled down the
hill. Then I got in the car and
drove off.”
Mt. Mageik, Near Mt.
Katmai Is Erupting
KODIAK, (JP)—An airline pilot
landed here Wednesday night
with word that Mt. Mageik, not
Mt. Katmai as first reported, is
the active volcano on the Alaska
Peninsula.
The volcano erupted Tuesday
with clouds erf smoke and ash.
Alaska Airlines pilot Vince Daly
made a second flight over the
area Wednesday. He reported an
“atom bomb-like cloud of smoke”
arising from Mt. Axzik, several
miles southwest of Katmai, the
volcano which caused widespread
damage in 1912 eruption.
Daly said ash continues to fall
on Kukak, a cannery on the main
land coast, but resident have not
been evacuated.
Samples of drinking water from
the vicinity of the volcano were
to be tested at the naval base here.
Daly, who brought back the
samples, had reported after his
first flight the crater still smok
ing so that visibility was but two
miles. He said fine ash and smoke
was hanging over a 180-mile area.
Girl Friend
Witnesses Slaying
Tacoma Girl
TACOMA, (JP)—An impulse to
play hookey from beauty school,
“a spur of the moment thing,”
led to the rape-slaying two and
a half years ago of 17-year-old
Noreen McNicholas, a girl friend
who said she witnessed the fatal
attack said Tuesday night.
Eighteen-year-old * Ella Mae
Cooper gave details of events she
said preceded the brutal murder
in a park at nearby Spanaway.
Earlier in the day, FBI agents
at Burlingame, Calif., arrested
Bill Smith, Jr., 28, identified by
Ella Mae as Noreen’s slayer, on a
first degree murder warrant is
sued here.
Prosecutor John J. O’Connell,
who signed the murder warrant,
said the girl’s memory had been
psychologically “blocked” since
the tragedy.
Describing events of the day of
the slaying, Ella Mae told re
porter Dan Couglin, “all we
wanted to do was to play hookey
from school—it was only just a
spur of the moment thing . . .”
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Korean War Hero Is
Named Aid to Eisenhower
PARIS, </P) — Gen. Dwight D.
Eisenhower, supreme Allied com
mander in Europe, today named
the Korean war hero, Brig. Gen.
John J. (Mike) Michaelis as his
observer in conferences to form a
European army.
The altar is the dividing line
in a man’s life—before marriage
the would-be bride makes over
him, and afterwards starts making
him over.
Taxation is the most successful
levy ever made upon selfishness.
U. S. Battle Casualties
In Korea Reach 79,723
WASHINGTON, (JP> — An
nounced U. S. battle casualties in
Korea reached 79,723 today, an
increase of 384 since last week.
Only two previous casualty re
ports showed a lower one-week
rise since the Defense Department
began issuing its summaries last
August 7.
The smallest one-week toll —
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413—was reported last week, re
flecting the comparative lull in
fighting since the first efforts to
achieve a cease-fire.
Today weekly report based on
notifications to familes through
last Friday reported:
Killed in action.11,777
Wounded .56,125
Missing .12,237
Totals . 79,139
Battle deaths . 13,230
Current missing .10,632
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