New City Council
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bursements.
Receipts from taxes, fines, li
censes and etc., $87,179.50. Ex
penses for the several depart
ments, fire, police, street, health,
school, city, $74,013.62.
Actual balance on hand at the
close of business April 13, 1949,
was $38,329.04 general fund in the
M. & M. Bank. Other accounts on
deposit are Joseph G. MacDougall
Memorial Fund $321.52; bond in
terest and redemption fund $663.
74; Fourth of July Fund $133.93.
The first business of Mayor An
derson was to appoint his stand
ing committees:
Finance and building, Bronson
and Lencer.
Police and Jail, Anderson and
Osborne.
Fire and Water, McAllister and
Cavota.
Streets, Alleys and Lights, Os
borne and Bronson.
Law, Ordinance and Printing.
Lencer and McAllister.
Health and Relief, Cavota and
Anderson.
Don't forget your Milk Fund
Ticket each week!
WALRUS CLUB
SERVICE
CITY CAB
Main 5
Senate Approves
Vast Long-Range
Housing Bill
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about the defeat of practically all
major moves to amend it.
Among the amendments batted
down was one by Senators Bricker
(R.-Ohio) and Cain (R.-Wash.)
which would have prohibited seg
regation on the basis of race,
creed or color in the renting of
: public housing.
The proposal was beaten 49 to
i 31, with supporters of President
Truman’s civil rights program
leading the fight against it.
But the amendment which
i touched off the noisiest fireworks
was one by Senator Taft <R.-Ohio>
! to strike from the bill $12,300,000
: in grants to farmers for improve
(menl of sub-standard farms.
Taft’s amendment was defeated,
41 to 30, after Senator Langer <R.
, Md.) had threatened to talk all
night against it.
The major provisions of the
housing bill are these:
1. The federal government
would contribute up to $308,000,
‘ 000 annually for up to 40 years to
help finance 810,000 public hous
; ing units which would be built in
| the next six years.
1 The federal government’s share
of the cost is a minor part of the
total. Most of it would be met
I from the rents collected, along
with local community contribu
tions. The housing units would be
owned and operated by local com
munities.
2. A five-year slum clearance
program, with two-thirds of the
cost to be met by the federal gov
ernment and the balance by local
communities.
3. A three-part $275,000,000
farm housing program.
| Bomber And
Fighter Fleets To
Stage Maneuvers
(By Elion C. Fay)
WASHINGTON, (£*) — A series
of war games starting next month
will test air force bomber and
fighter fleets—and the vulnerabil
ity of vital American industry to
enemy attack.
Strategists have calculated that
the initial blow by an enemy
would be directed at slugging into
paralysis the great war munitions
cities such as Detroit, Pittsburgh,
New York, Chicago, Boston and
Baltimore. Thus, the code name
for the war games has ominous if
not intended significance:
“Operation Blackjack.”
! Air force officials said that de
tails on the numbers and types of
j planes to be used in the test by
j the strategic air command and the
j air defense command, definite
, dates, etc., are still to be worked
; out.
“Operation Blackjack” is first
of a program of annual air-war
games planned for this and the
next four years.
The 1950 games will be desig
| nated “Operation Poker,” the tar
i get area the same, but with the
j attacking bombers flying from
bases in Caribbean instead of the
United States.
In 1951, “Operation Casino” will
be against targets in the eastern
United States east of the Missis
sippi, with attacks from bases in
Alaska, Newfoundland and the
Caribbean.
In the 1952 games, unnamed
yet, West Coast cities will be the
targets, with attacks launched
from Hawaii and Alaska.
The 1953 schedule contemplates
the entire United States as target
area.
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Friday, AprU 22. 1S4S
Large Crowd Likes
Hi School Comedy
Last evening a large crowd
turned out for the High School
play “Boys About Bobbette”
which was presented in the school
auditorium.
The play, a three-act comedy, I
was exceptionally well cast, with
all participants capably handling
their parts.
Leading parts were taken by
Dean Bronson, Olga Hay and
Katherine Bjornstad, all of whom
handled their parts skillfully.
Lois Overbaugh as housekeeper,
j Alice Miller as colored cook, Clara
Seiffert as maid, Lawrence Okpea
luk as house boy, brought many
laughs from the audience with
their comedy portrayal of charac
ter parts.
John Hudert, Kay Miller and
Robert Rose, who portrayed school
boys took their parts well, as did
June Dunbar as a sedate middle
aged spinster.
Joan Engstrom, Jennie Sayers,
Juanita Fagerstrom were perfect
specimens of sophisticated adults,
while Irene Gray was the charm
ing and feminine school girl.
Gary Longley completed the
cast of technician.
Models for the style show in the
play were Clara Jorgenson, Mary
Louise Lyle, Jennie Sayers, Lois
Swanberg and Margaret Bjorn
i stad.
The play was capably directed
by Mrs. W. H. Cameron with Aar
nout Castel as stage manager.
Concensus of many who attend
ed the show was that it was one
i of the best plays presented by the
I high school.
STANLEY MORGAN RECEIVES
RANK OF CAPTAIN
Stanley Morgan, who lias been
in charge of the Nome station of
' the ACS since 1943 has recently
’ received the rank of captain in
recognition of the 28 years of
service in Alaska with that group.
Before coming to Nome, Capt.
Morgan was stationed at Fort Gib
i bons, Fairbanks, Holy Cross, Ruby
and just prior to coming to Nome
spent fifteen years at Point Bar
row.
He retired a couple of years ago
' but was called back into service
' due to his wide and thorough ex
perience with the various techni
cal problems of the ACS. He has
j held the rank of lieutenant since
re-entering the service.
I Capt. Morgan’s family has been
I with him at his early isolated
rHE NOME NUGGET 3
Polk Murderers
Sentenced By
Greek Court
SALONIKA, Greece, (/P>—Greg
ory Staktopoulous, a Greek news
paperman and former communist,
was sentenced to life imprison
ment yesterday for complicity in
the murder last May of George
Polk, American correspondent for
the Columbia Broadcasting Sys
tem.
Staktopo ulous’ 68-year-old
mother, Anna, was acquitted on
the same charge, as requested by
the prosecution. The prosecution
had asked a sentence of only 10 to
20 years for Staktopoulous, who
admitted in court that he was with
Polk on the night of his death. He
contended he was an innocent
dupe of the communists.
Aclam Mounzenides, the man
the prosecution said fired the gun
which killed Polk, got a death
sentence, as did his accused help
er, Evangelos Vasvanas. Neither
Mouzenides nor Vasvanas, who
are communists, have not been
apprehended and both were tried
in absentia.
Polk, correspondent for the Co
lumbia Broadcasting System in
I the United States, was found shot
' in Salonika Bay last May after
i telling friends he was on his way
to interview Markos Vafiades,
then the leader of Greece’s com
1 munist guerrillas.
Polk. 34, had spent two years in
the Middle East as CBS chief cor
respondent. He was born at Fort
; Worth, Tex., and attended the
I Virginia Military Institute. Before
the war he worked as a newspa
perman in Alaska, Shanghai, Paris
i as well as in the United States.
M/S CORAL SEA WILL LEAVE
SEATTLE FOR NOME IN MAY
Word has been received that the
Motorship Coral Sea will leave
Seattle for Nome in May captained
by its owner, Maurice Reaber for
merly first mate on the Baldwin
from 1931 to 1934.
Partner with Mr. Reaber in this
| new enterprise is Ole Hansen who
w’as captain on the Silver Wave,
Meteor and the M/S Donaldson.
The Coral Sea is a 200-ton ves
sel which will be in the trading
business along the coast.
posts. His daughter Beverly was
born at Fairbanks and his son
Barrow at Point Barrow.
We understand a party is in the
making to celebrate Capt. Mor
gan’s promotion.
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