and Harless have all visited Nome.
All will go to bat for us, so we
should secure the rule, which will
* mean that the bill can be brought
up on the floor on any day and
pass with a majority vote.
I know that you would appreci
ate it, could you have some of
the temperature that we are ex
periencing back here at this time.
A couple days ago it hit 90 deg.
and has been up in the 80’s most
of the time the past three days.
Heat, coupled with rain, makes
it difficult for a Nomeite jo trav
el at the speed that is required
these days here in Washington to
beat out the adjournment.
•
It was fortunate that there was
someone here watching the bill
a set-back such as it received
Monday in the Senate could have
killed the bill completely. I am
not certain just what the true
reasons for having it go over but
the fact that those responsible
are now doing what they can to
correct that mistake and support
ing the measure, may prove an
advantage to us rather than a
^ disadvantage, as it directs special
attention to the bill. It should,
come up on the'floor of the Sen
ate again this coming Monday
MARJORIE BOGARD ELIES
TO KOTZEBUE VIA WIEN'S
Marjorie Bogard, bookkeeper
for Archie Ferguson and manager
of his hotel, stayed overnight here
Tuesday enroute with Wien’s for
Kotzebue from Fairbanks.
Elwood Aturak was also a pas
senger on the same flight to Kot
zebue and George Biggins to
Cleary Creek.
JIMMY WILLIAMS COMES
TO RESUME HIS WORK
Jimmy Williams, painter, is
back again to resume his work
redecorating in Nome, having been
away for several months.
(May 17.) and with passage by
the Upper House, conditions will
be improved for passage by the
House.
That is the condition today
and I trust that my next letter
will see our measure before the
Appropriations Committee of both
Houses.
With best good wishes to you
all and the trust that some work
on the sea wall can be accomp
lished by the Army Engineers
this summer, I am, *
Respectfully yours,
Carl J. Lomen.
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G. R. JACKSON TELLS
OF NOME SEAWALL
AT ROTARY LUNCHEON
At the regular noon luncheon
Thursday, the Nome Rotary Club
had as their guests G. R. Jack
son, president of the Miners and
Merchant Bank of Nome, and
John Cross of Dcering, <”a sub
urb of Nome,”*.
Following the luncheon, Mr.
Jackson told the group about the
intricacies of Washington when
you want something done, such
as the Nome Seawall.
He stated that he and Carl Lo
men traveled many weary hours
and miles in order to meet the
necessary officials and Congress
Senators and Representatives on
the matter of getting the bill be
fore the two Houses.
Mr. Jackson read a copy of a
letter he received from Mr. Lomen
which was addressed to the City
Counsil and which is printed on
another page of this paper.
Mr. Cross stated that he was
of the impression that all people
who live in this northern section
consider themselves citizens of
Nome and he saw no reason for
thinking otherwise as Nome is
the most important town in the
Northwestern Alaska area.
Nomination of officers was the
next order of business, and elec
tions were announced for next
week.
SCHOOL NOTES
Numerous pictures have been
taken during the past week for
:he 1943 Polaris. Individual cap
and gown pictures have been tak
en cf the Seniors, while group
pictures have been taken of the
classes and class rooms.
The baccalaureate service giv
en last Sunday was well-attended.
Chaplain A. Darling, of the Marks
Air Force Base, gave valuable
information to the graduating
class.
.Monday and Tuesday were de
voted to final examinations.
We left our books and school
rooms behind last Wednesday
when we went on our school pic
nic. It was a glorious occasion
to trek our way up Anvil Moun
tain with skiis, lunches and other
necessities. We basked ourselves
in the warm sunshine from above
to be reflected again from the
snow below until we began to
tan.
Commencement exercises were
Thursday evening. May 20th. A
large crowd expressed their ap
preciation of the commencement
address given by Rev. M. Day.
Our congratulations go to the
Seniors: Florence Bell, Bertha H.
Bjornstad, George Bourdon, Mae
H. Castel, Robert K. Lewis, Ar
thur W. McLain, Corinne M. Sny
der, Loretta A. Snyder, and Ellen
E. Waldheim.
Reports were given out this
morning thus terminating the
school year.
The High School wishes all the
readers of "School Notes" a very
pleasant summer.
The history or chronology of
ancient Assyria rests upon an ec
lipse of the sun observed in Nin
eveh in the middle of the reign
of Jeroboam the Second on June
15, 763 B.C.
APPROXIMATELY 85 PER
cent of the United States corn crop
goes to market in the form of
meat, according to the Encyclo
paedia Britannica. Livestock are
grown on more than 5,000,000
•farms and provide the largest sell
ing source of cash income for the
United States farmer.
New Bishop ror
Alaska Catholics
Assumes Duties
SEATTLE, — (/P) —Pope Pius
XII once remarked that Alaskan
Bishops must be preserved by the
snows, but Alaska’s new Catholic
Bishop has no intention of test
ing the theory. Instead, the Most
Rev. Francis Doyle Gleeson hopes
to avoid dog-sled travel whenever
practical, he said last night.
Leaving yesterday morning on
the steamer Alaska to assume
his new duties as vicar apostolic
to the Northland, Bishop Gleeson
plans to cover as much of Alaska
this summer as possible.
% "I hope to visit all the main
cities and all .the missions,” he
said, ‘‘and that will call for air
plane travel. I’m afraid that, at
my age, any approach to stren
uous dog-sledding will have to be
discreet.”
The new bishop, formerly of
the Jesuit indian mission at Omak.
will be formally installed at cere
monies in the Church of the Nat
ivity in Juneau on May 30. Ac
companying him to Alaska to at
Kiley Kriekm>n
Died In Central
FAIRBANKS, —<A*i — A. R.
"Riley” Erickson, one of Alaska’s
oldest residents, died yesterday
at Central where he had operated
a roadhouse since 1911. He was
87.
Erickson came to Alaska as a
fisherman in 1882, hiked over
Chilkoot Pass to Dawson duing
the gold rush, and moved to Fair
banks in 1903. He was born in
Norway.
tend the installation is the Rev.
Harold Small, Society of Jesuits
Provincial, and the Rev. A. J.
Ferretti, Bishop Gleeson’s secre
tary.
Bishop Gleeson paid tribute to
his two immediate predecessors,
a
Bishop Joseph R. Crimont, the
pioneer Alaskan prelate, and Bish
op Walter J. Fitzgerald, both
Jesuits.
The prelate, whose full title is
Vicar Apostolic of Alaska and
Titular Bishop of Cotena, was
consecrated Bishop on April 5,
at St. Aloysius Church in Spok
ane. He never has visited Alaska.
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