THE NOME NUGGET
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ALL-ALASKA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Alaska is growing up. Alaska is getting ready for
statehood. This is evident by the strides made at the
recent meeting at McKinley Park, where businessmen
from all over the territory met with stateside leaders
and discussed the problems confronting the territory
and surveyed the progress made in the last year.
The note of harmony, optimism and willingness
to cooperate was the incentive that will promote and
develop the territory with bigger and stronger strides
than ever before.
A few years ago it was not possible for the average
Alaskan to see beyond the construction boom. Now,
the future of Alaska is brighter, and with the invest
ments being made by private industry at Ketchikan
in pulp, aluminum in Skagway, plywood in Juneau,
and hydro-electric power for all of Alaska, more re
sources can be tapped and more openings made for
new business ventures.
This first all-Alaska meeting has set a new record
in coordinating this big territory and will go down in
history as an important stepping stone in its future
industrial prosperity.
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Far Eeastem fleet. Nome is with
in easy cruising range of their
Siberian bases.
But the Navy so far has repor
ted no encounters with submar
ines by combat ships in Korean
waters or by the scores of supply
vessels moving daily from the
American west coast to Japan and
Korea.
The Navy reply was similar
to answers given in other instanc
es during recent years when re
ports came in of strange submar
ines in various places along the
Atlantic, Pacific and Gulf coasts.
Usually, faint and indefinite
“pings”'on sound gear have made
it impossible to decide whether
they originated from actual sub
marines or were reflected sound
waves from fish, layers of cold
water or other natural causes.
But each report is checked care
fully. In a few instances, it has
been discovered later that U.S.
Navy submarines were maneuv
ering in the area, unknown to
those who picked up submarine
indications.
The possibility that Soviet sub
marines might be scouting the
Alaskan coast in routine patrols
is not ruled out.
Nome is within easy cruising
range of the Russian submarines
which base at ports on the Kam
chatka Peninsula, Dairen at the
top of the Yellow Sea, and at
harbors along the Siberian coast.
Some of them are reported to
be modern snorkel type boats,
capable of long submerged oper
ations.
Tip to a bride: To prepare de
licious soft - cooked eggs, lower
the eggs one at a time into a
saucepan of simmering <not boil
ing) water. Simmer the eggs three
to five minutes, depending on the
degree of doneness desired.
4-Fs To Be Tapped
To Help Meet
Manpower .Needs
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WASHINGTON, (&)— Selective
Service Director Lewis B. Her
shey says some men presently re
jected as “4-Fs” will have to be
tapped to help meet the Armed
Force’s manpower needs of 1,200,
000 men during the coming year.
“From the ‘4-F’ group . . . and
other sources ... is where we
will have to find our people,”
Hershey said in a talk to the 60th
annual meeting of the American
Psychological Association Wed
nesday night. He offered no am
plification of the “other sources.”
In the same speech, Hershey
charged psychologists with some
of the responsibility for the fact
that 400,000 men so far have been
rejected for military service for
failure to pass the Armed 'Forces
qualification tests. Those are tests
designed to measure educational
-mid other mental capacities but
have nothing to do with measur
ing emotional stability, Hershey
said.
He explained to reporters later
that psychologists might have
shown the Army how to make use
of some of these men in some
capacity, or detected some men
who “were smart enough, but
who purposely failed to pass the
tests.”
The Selective Service chief said
that a total of lVfe million men
have been rejected for military
service for various reasons since
the present draft program started.
Two Killed In Crash of
BT-13 Vultee Near Curry
ANCHORAGE, (/P)—Two per
sons were killed and a third ser
iously injured in the crash of a
light plane near Curry, 135 miles
north of here, the Civil Aeronau
tics Administration reported early
Thursday.
The CAA said George V. Bate
ham, 40, a CAA mechanic at Sum
mut, Alaska, and Elmer Skeen,
an Alaska railroad employe, died
in the crash late Tuesday night.
Robert Fisher, also an Alaska
Railroad employe, was 'injured.
He was flown to a hospital here
Wednesday night.
The plane, a BT-13 Vultee, left
Merrill Field here Tuesday to fly
to summit, about 250 miles north
of here. When it failed to reach
Summit at 10:40 p.m., the esti
mated time of arrival, the 10th
Air Rescue Squadron was notified.
Bad weather kept rescue planes
on the ground, however, and a
search was not started until Wed
nesday. A 10th Air Rescue Alba
tross spotted the wreckage about
noon, and a helicopter was sent
to the scene with land-recue tech
nicians.
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French Communists Rally
To Defeat American Aims
PATHS, (iP)—France’s Commu
nist Party, bellwether for the
Moscow parties of western Eur
ope, appealed Thursday for a
“powerful national front” to de
feat American aims.
This call long has been ex
pected. It is part Qf the new popu
lar front drive sparked by Mos
cow in advance of its new peace
offensive. It appears to be an
attempt to lull western Europe to*
a point where it might relax de
fense efforts while Moscow builds
toward its aims in the Far Ea^t.
The appeal was broadcast by
Jacques Duclos, leader of the par
ty in the absence in Moscow of
Maurice Thorez. He told French
Communists Thorez would return
before the end of this year after
a two,-year rest cure in Russia
where he went for treatment of a
paralytic stroke. Anti - Commu
nists in France have made much
propaganda with the slogan “free
Thorez,” a source of constant em
barrassment to the Reds in the
long absence of their boss.
Corn cannot be grown in Eng
land except as a green fodder
plant.
NOTICE
The first official meeting of the
Camera Club will be held at the
City Hall Friday, Sept. 5, at 8 p.m.
Pendleton City Manager
Rejects Anchorage Bid
Of More Than Double Pay
PENDLETON, (/P) — City
Manager Raymond Botch said
yesterday he had turned down an
offer of the Anchorage city man
ager’s post at more than double
his present salary because “I did
n’t feel I had my job done here.”
The Anchorage council offered
the $18,000 a year job to Botch
Saturday. He gets $8,000 here.
Botch has been city manager
for two years, coming here from
Carroll College at Helena, Mont.,
where he was head of business
administration.
F-89 D SCORPION JET GETS
ROCKETS INSTEAD OF GUNS
WASHINGTON, OP)—1The new
F-89 D Scorpion jet interceptor
planes will carry a stronger bite
now: the Air Force says it is
arming them with rockets instead
o'f conventional 20-mm. cannon.
The Scorpion,* with a speed of
over 600 miles an hour, is the
third type of jet fighter in which
| the Air Farce has abandoned
standard guns for the harder
hitting rockets.
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That recently while in Nome, Frank A. Metcalf,
Democratic Highway Engineer who seeks re-election, said
that if you want new roads, your motor gasoline tax will
have to be raised. Do you want to pay a higher tax? If not—
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