Mrs. Longley
Succeeds Lyng On
Public Welfare
(Special to The Nugget)
JUNEAU — Governor Gruening
today announced the appointment
of Mrs. Frances Longley to the
Board of Public Welfare. She will
represent the Second Division and
will succeed Howard Lyng who is
retiring from the board.
Mrs. Longley was born in Nome
in 1911. She was the first Eskimo
girl to graduate from the Nome
High School in 1930 and attend
ed school at Chemawa, Oregon for
nine years. She has been active in
civil affairs in Nome and is well
acquainted with the needs of the
people of the Second Division.
Mrs. Longley is the mother of
five children.
The other members of the board
in addition to Governor Gruening,
who is chairman, are the Rever
end Edgar Gallant of Skagway,
Mrs. Robert B. Atwood of Anchor
age and Ivar Skarland, professor
of Anthropology and instructor of
Sociology at the University of
Alaska, who was appointed re
cently to take the place of Mrs.
Clifford Smith who had resigned
because of departure from the
Territory.
PAN AMERICAN AIRWAYS
REPORTS GOOD YEAR
SEATTLE, (£>)—Pan American
World Airways reported today
business was good in 1949 on its
Transpacific and Alaska routes.
Final figures for the year show
total mail traffic up 32 per cent
over 1948. Clipper cargo volume
was up 28 per cent and passenger
traffic increased 1.4 per cent over
the previous year.
The Pacific-Alaska division car
ried 6,383,999 ton-miles of mail in
1949 compared with 4,834,000 torn
miles in 1948. Cargo traffic
boomed up to 9,829,182 pounds last
year compared with 7,671,673
pounds in 1948.
A perfect safety record estab
lished by Pan American in 1948
was repeated in 1949.
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States Getting
Alaska's Weather
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<By The Associated Press)
An Alaskan-born storm whis
tled through the peaks of the Sis
kiyou Mountains in California
yesterday, bringing rain, snow
and high winds to the coast.
In middle America rescue work
ers sloshed through muck to plug
leaking dikes along rampaging
rivers.
The blast that hit northern
California was termed a “virtual
blizzard.”
Hghway patrolmen closed High
way 99 south of Dunsmuir in the
snow-struck Mt. Shasta area. A
bus driver told of fighting seven
hours to inch his vehicle from
Dunsmuir to Weed—just 18 miles.
Between California and Nevada
in Historic Donner Pass, snow
slashed through the pass in the
Sierras at from 30 to 40 miles per
hour. Weathermen class this speed
as a “moderate gale,” but its force
will sway a whole tree.
In southern California, more
rain was expected which might
end a cold snap that followed week
end rains. Ice covered Los Angeles
county roads Monday.
In the Indiana-Illinois flood
area, more rain dripped down on
the waterlogged floodlands. Emer
gency squads sweated on in their
rescue work.
Strong winds prevailed through
out most of the flood region, cre
ating a new hazard. Weather bur
eau officials said the high winds
would make "heavy seas.” of wa
ter in the lowlands.
Damage to crops and property
mounted as waters spilled over
thousands of acres of rich farm
lands. The critical situation at
Vincennes, Ind., appeared some
what eased as the rain-swollen
Wabash River receded slowly dur
ing the night.
Meanwhile, a cold wave, with
winds up to 50 miles an hour,
moved across Montana, the east
ern Dakotas and Minnesota.
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Rhode Island was the best cul
tivated of the colonies when the
Pilgrims took over from the Indi
ans.
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NOME NUGGET
! Investors’ Claim
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; For Return Of
Funds Denied
^Anchorage Times)
Oregon investors suing the Kou
garok Dredging Corporation to re
scind a contract won a $70,000
court victory when Judge Anthony
J. Dimond handed down his de
cision in the case.
I The Kougarok Dreding Corpo
j ration, headed by Percy J. Cutting,
was ordered to return to the Kou
garok Consolidated Placers, Inc.,
some 349,566 shares of stock val
ued by the attorney for the latter
at $73,000.
At the same time Judge Dimond
denied the Oregon investors* claim
for $20,000 advanced to K. D. C.
on grounds that at least part of
the money was used for operating
expenses. Neither party is to re
cover costs of the action except
Audrey Cutting.
Early in the trial of the case ;
which dragged on for five weeks j
in federal court here, Judge Di-!
mond ruled that Mrs. Cutting was <
not a proper defendant in the ac- •
tion. By his decision she is entitled |
to recover costs from the Oregon
investors who brought the suit j
against the Kougarok Dredging j
Corporation and Cutting.
Ultimate decision in the case
rested with the presiding judge,
but an advisory jury heard the
testimony and returned a verdict (
Oct. 27 against Cutting on five is- i
sues up for its decision.
In finding that the Oregon syn- !
dicate was entitled to cancel its
part of the contract, Judge Dimond
declared that Cutting according to
the jury’s verdict, was responsible
i for the acts that resulted in the
I suit.
“I see no reason to disregard the
advisory jury’s verdict,” he told
Attorney Bailey Bell, chief coun
sel for the Kougarok Dredging
Corporation in the trial.
Cutting currently is serving the
unfinished portion of a year’s
sentence at the Washington State
detention camp. He was sent there
for medical treatment and report
edly is teaching algebra at the
camp.
Bell indicated that he will file
1 a motion for a new trial and, that
move failing, appeal the judgment.
Wendell Kay was attorney for
the Oregan investors who include
E. Royce,, A. L. Schneider, Doug
las E. Owens, Charles C. Stearns,
Carl and John McNutt and Thomas
Chapman.
SOLOMON NEWS
Solomon, Alaska,
Jan. 4, 1950
Nome Nugget,
Nome, Alaska.
Much to the children’s joy, San
ta Claus arrived Dec. 23rd which
was a day early in order to attend
i the School Christmas Program,
; thus seeing that each one received
both a gift and treats.
The village was humming with
a tivities from then on until the
close of New Year’s Day. The an
nual Christmas feast and party
was held in the church, with all
kinds of native and white man’s
food including pie and cake.
Church services were held each
| evening, then followed games and
parties at teh school. Thees activi
ties reached their climax with a
watch night service from 11:00 to
12:00 New Year’s Eve. Thus is was
a wide-awake crowd that greeted
the New Year of 1950.
MILTON ADAMS,
Eskimo Church Pastor.
Machinists Ask
Strengthening Of
Northwest Defense
WASHINGTON i/P)—A plea for
strengthening the defense of the
Pacific Northwest and Ala| k a
against a “sneak attack” wag is
sued today by A. J. Hayes, presi
dent of the International Associa-1
tion of Machinists.
He declared those areas are now ,
vulnerable to a surprise attack
which “might well put us out of;
business before we have a chance
to get into operation.”
Hayes issued this statement in
his capacity as vice chairman of
the All America Defense Associa
tion, which he said will sponsor a
public meeting here next Thurs
day to focus attention on the
“weakness of our northwest de
fenses.”
Speakers tor that meeting, he !
said, wil be Dr. Vannevar Buuh,
former head of the national re- 1
search and development board;
Wallace F. Bennett, past president
of the National Association of
manufacturers; Gov Ernest Gruen
ing of Alaska, Hayes and Senator j
Magnuson <D.-Wash.).
Magnuson said the association
was formed by civilians to corre
late and give aid on defense prob
lems.
Health Institute
For Alaska
JUNEAU, (&)—'The Territorial
government heard today that a
$975,000 appropriation, plus con
tract authority for $6,375,000 for
an Arctic Health Institute at the
University of Alaska has been in
cluded in President Truman’s
budget.
Dr. C. Earl Albrecht, Territorial
commissioner of health, was so in
formed by Delegate Bartlett from
Washington, D. C.
The University board oi regents ;
already has donated the land upon
which the building could be con
structed.
Albrecht termed establishment
Assessment Work
Can Be Applied
On Current Year
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—
j (</P> Special Washington Service'
WASHINGTON (A>), The House
public lands committee took steps
today to assure diligent claimants
of mining claims that they can
take advantage of an assessment
work moratorium declared for the
fiscal year which ended June 30,
1949.
A bill to allow a moratorium on
assessment work for that year was
passqd at the last session of Con
gress. It provided that in cases
claimants had done the reuired
assessment work before the bill
was passed, the moratorium could
be applied to the present fiscal
year, ending June 30.
Claimants wishing to take ad
vantage of the provision were re
quired to file notice of their in
tention by last August 1.
Rep. Engle (D.-Calif.) said, how
ever, that due to some confusion,
many had failed to do so. He in
sisted that diligent claimants w*10
had done their work should not be
discriminated against merely be
cause of this.
The committee approved a bill
extending the time in whicn to
file such notice of intention until
next July 1.
The public lands committee also
voted to act, if necessary, to dis
charge the rules committee from
having jurisdiction over a bill to
provide incentive payments for
the conservation and exploration
of critical minerals and a measure
relating to Alaskan homestead
laws.
of the institute vital to Alaska’s
future, as conduct of research
into Arctic health problems would
focus the eyes of the scientific
world on the movement.
“Of countries which have vast
holdings in Arctic regions, only
Russia has established research
centers in such areas,” he said.
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Population in Europe more than
doubled between 1800 and 1900.
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