TIIE NOME NUGGET
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Entered as second class matter October 14. 1943, at the postoffice
•t Nome, Alaska, under the Act of March 3. 1879.
ELECTION PROCEDURE DISCUSSED
By Edward H. Sims
The functioning of Congress, the election of its mem
bers and the election of U. S. presidents, might all be
radically changed if two proposed constitutional am
endments ever become realities. One has passed the
Senate by a two-thirds margin, and is due to be tested,
or die in the House in the next seventy five days.
The other is not being given serious consideration at
this session but it may bob up in the 82nd Congress. The
proposal, which its backers believe will improve the j
functioning of Congress, is one to limit congressional
terms to one. House members would be elected to one
term, probably a four-year term, and Senators would
be allowed to serve but the one six-year term.
The major difficulty in final victory for this proposal!
is that it must first clear both Houses by two-thirds ;
votes. It is highly unlikely that the powers that be in
the House would ever allow themselves to be voted out
of comfortable seniority chairs. Six years ago the other
plan—to improve the system of electing a President—
was considered a long shot. But today it stands passed
in one house and needing only a two-thirds House vote
'to go to the states. I
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That proposal would alter the Electoral College •
method of choosing Presidents. The college would be
all but abandoned in name. Instead of the candidate re- |
ceiving the most popular votes being given all a state’s j
electoral votes, he would get only his share; that is, the j
percentage of his popular vote would be computed, and
he would receive that percentage of the state’s elector-!
al vote.
Many voters do not realize it, but, under our present
election system, a President can be elected who re
ceives fewer popular votes than his opponent. All he
need do is get one vote morethan his opponent in six or
eight key states. His opponent might get every vote'
cast in more than thirty states, and only 18 fewer in the j
other eighteen states, but he would lose, because to can-!
didates receiving the most popular votes now gets all
the electoral votes which actually elects a president.
To correct this situation, and to give small, less pop
ulous states, a chance to grow a president, the Lodge
Gossett amendment has been put forward. Representa
tive Ed Gossett says he believes it will pass the House
by the necessary two-thirds margin later in the session.
He believes when members fully understand it. they
will support it.
Gossett and Senator Henry Lodge know that pre5i
dential candidates these days must come from the big
states, so they can pull down a bloc of electoral votes,
as a home son. But if electoral votes weren’t cast as a
bloc, then a candidate might be chosen on his real quali
fications, and not his state residence.
If congressmen were not eligible for reelection, there
would be less tendency among them to pass pressure
group legislation, less political legislation and more
statesmanlike legislation. Of the two proposals, this one
is farthest from view at the present time, though both
are being talked on Capitol Hill.
ACHESON ANSWERS THE QUESTIONS
Secretary of State Dean Acheson. in an unusual meet
ing with members of the Senate and House of Repres
entatives, recently explained what has been accom
plished by the free nations of the world in their effort to
build a “balanced collective force” in line with the
terms of the North Atlantic Treaty.
NEWS IN BRIEF
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exceed $2,000,000.
The huge processing and can
ning plant, with about four acres
of building space under roof, pro
duced both orange and grapefruit
concentrates. About a quarter of
a million boxes of citrus fruit
were lost in the fire.
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CHARLESTON, Miss., (JP) —
The premature birth of a baby
daughter to a 10-year-old Negro
girl here last May 25 was re
vealed yesterday.
The child, Sarah Lee Moore,
was born to Sarah Moore who
will celebrate her eleventh birth
day Oct. 3.
The baby was so small at birth
it was fed with an eye dropper for
a week. Then it began nursing.
Since then the baby has been
cared for by the mother and mem
bers of the health department
staff.
East Germany—The Soviet-li
censed ADN news agency said
East Germany is to have a new
Navy police to protect fishing
fleets in the Baltic and guard
against smuggling. It is part of a
military force called illegal by
western powers.
“AMERASIA” CASE
PROBED IN SENATE
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assertion by Senator Hickeiiloop
ci (K-Iowa).
Mclnerney said there is no
truth to a statement by Hicken
looper that documents the gov
ernment recovered from Amer
asir. headquarters five years ago
included one which showed the
wartime location of American
flee units.
Mclnerney also denied pub
lish! d reports that certain other
highly secret document:-: were
among those seized by the FBI*
and the old office of strategic
services <OSS>.
Senator McCarthy <R - V/is.>,
whose communists in-government
charges touched off a new Amer
asia inquiry, reported that he
knows “beyond the* slightest shad
ow of a doubt” that the materi
el in question was seized in 1945
by government agents.
McCarthy added that other doc
uments equally important also
were recovered and now are* in
ocssess" >’i of the Jt.st ce Dept
The Amerasia Magazine* case
broke in June, 19*5, after rill
and OSS raids nad turned up
hundreds of confi J_* itial federal
pipers in the offices of the ;.?r
Cistern rffairs publication, and
elsewhere.
The questioning to which the Secretary submitted
was unique and said to be without parallel in the past
one hundred and sixty years. Members of Congress,
who have been critical of the State Department, had
their inning, but the general comment that the meeting
was “a good thing” did not diminish the dissatisfaction
of the critics.
The essence of the Secretary s report was that the
United States would not rely upon its own arms alone
but upon its allies to complement its defense efforts.
The same thing applies to the other nations involved.
The inevitable conclusion of this doctrine is that if one
of the nations is attacked, the other nations will be mor
ally bound to throw their part of the common defense
force into the struggle. This “pooling” of defenses and
immediate aid to an attacked ally are somewhat revo
lutionary in American policies but seem to cause little
opposition.
Nome can solve some of its problems if the people
here will get together and think of the common good.
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Clever Footwork
When other talesmen pur their feet on the
desk, they're loafing, but when John Chain,
Philadelphia representative of the Wr.'iit
Manufacturing Co., puts his up like this
le's doing his best selling.
PHILADELPHIA, PA. — Joi n
Chain, a Philadelphia rubber tile
salesman, has injected a novel note
into his selling efforts, which he
terms “The John Chain Reaction”.
Abraham Lincoln used to refer to
his hat as his “office”. Mr. Chain
tails his shoes his “Laboratory”. An
jxponent of the graphic demons^ra
tion in selling rubber tile, he has
lad his own shoes completely soled
with Wrightex, the product he sods.
“What would happen to a V* inch
piece of our rubber tile if 200 pounds
pressed it and scuffed it on the same
ipot over 1,000 times every day v h
io protective waxing or bu
For the answer Mr. Chain has . o
ook to his own feet. That s..... ,e
ittle demonstration has already seld
lundreds of square feet of rubber
file for him. “Whenever a customer
isks how my product wears,” be
lays, “I just hold up my shoe, tell
tim when I had the sole made. He
■an see for himself .. . and the sale
CHARTER TRIP OF TOURISTS
WELCOMED. ENTERTAINED
BY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
The first charter trip of tour
ists from Anchorage for the sum
mer season arrived Saturday via
Kotzebue, carried by the Alaska
Airlines and were welcomed by
members of the Chamber of Com
merce at The field.
As a special welcome to inaug
urate the season members of the
Tourist Committee of the Cham
ber of Commerce headed by Joe
Wallace and Paul Spurlock, as
sisted by Mrs. Levers of the ANS
planned an exhibit of arts and
crafts in the recreation room of
the Wallace Hotel, followed by
native dancing.
Participating were Robert Ok
pealok of Diomede with an ivory
display; local native artists Rob
ert Mayokok, Wilbut Walluk and
George Agaphuk who displayed
their work; and Emma Willoya of
the Nome Skin Sevyers, who dis
played artifacts from Point Hope,
and other items of interest.
The native dances were under
the direction of a King Islander
couple Ursula and Frank Elanna.
In the tourist party was Steve
McCutcheon, Drother of the head
of the Alaska Airlines and the
following visitors:—
Carl Berlin, Donna Engel, Bea
Huhman, Mickey MeCaryk, Grace
Plantagenet, Flo Burdick, Ger
trude Bly, Maynard Hahlstrom,
Clara Chobe, Alva Sidlcr, Joan
Perry, Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence
Hurley, Agnes Hughes, Louis
Mayes, Ruth Putman, Pauline
Brock, Nancy Sweeney, Gene
Kasroski, Pat Stassick.
The party departed on Sunday
1 about noon.
Just saw the last word in movie
mysteries. The murdered turned
out to be an usher in the balcony.
If your money goes to your
head, at least you know where it
went.