THE NOME NUGGET
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Entered as second class matter October 14, 1943, at the postoffice
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Nome, Alaska, Friday, January 19, 1951_
TO THE MEMBERS OF
THE 20th LEGISLATURE
JUNEAU, ALASKA
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numerous, therefore if you stick
to your promise and all of our 8
members confide, study and work
together, we will have a better
chance for you to bring home the
bacon.
We hope that the following will
assist you in laying a permanent
foundation for a constructive pro
gram of development of our val
uable industrial and economic re
sources.
Just recently we were ourselves
surprised when we received such
flattering compliments when we
presentedi our facts in behalf of
the question on defense—
“Is Northwestern Alaska worth
Defending?
Are we of any value to the na
tion?”
Our facts and arguments must
have been convincing when we re
ceived the following statements i
“You gentlement have said very
little about defense, what you
really want and need is help to
develop your large economic and
industrial industries.”
Gentlement, these same reports
are available for your study and
will be furnished for your consid
eration, we urge you to give us
much of your valuable time and
endeavor to be able to attain for us
our just portion of die appropria
tions to which we are entitled.
ROADS
We all agree that Roads super
sede all other needs.
Recently we helped to organize
the Alaska Good Roads Associa-!
tion with the purpose in mind to
focus the need of Roads to the at- j
tention of the people Territorially
and Nationally, and lay programs;
that are constructive and to the
immediate needs with an eye to
the future, we therefore recom
mend the following:
1— Strong effort should be ex
erted to have the item of the Solo
mon Road re-incorporated in thei
National Budget, and resolutions
should forthwith be introduced
and passed as soon as possible by
die Legislature and presented to
the Bureau of Budget.
2— To continue the rehabilitation
of the Seward Peninsula Railroad.
To ask the Alaska Road Commis
sion for the adoption of a program
of improvement toward securing
permanent and lasting benefits, by
adoption of a progressive plan of
paralleling the track with a Road.
3— To complete the survey *nd
begin construction of the Nome
Teller Road. *
4— The survey* of the Road from
Teller to Tin City, Lost River and
York for the purpose of continu
ous production of tin.
5— Work for the General Road
appropriation for improveme n t
and maintenance to bring our
roads up to standard.
MINING
■We need an adequate appropri
ation for the Territorial Depart
ment of Mines, to permit them to
adopt a prospecting program to
r continue their reports and endeav
ors in assisting the miner and
prospector.
We are mindful and apprecia
tive of the support given at the
last session in having the of
fice reopened and obtaining Mr.
Dan Jones* services. We wish to
compliment him in the successful
term of office which has received
much praise.
We urge that the completion of
the office be carried through this
coming season. We prefer an all
concrete building—something per
manent, as it is about time we get
something of a permanent nature
and not a make-shift building. Af
ter all the Territory and the future
State should calculate to stay
awhile..
HYDROELECTRIC POWER
Since the last report made by
the Reclamation Department three
years ago, which, was very favor
able and feasible, and an ef
fort was made by the Alaska
Delevopment Board to put over an
overall appropriation for the de
velopment of water power in Alas
ka. The campaign proved ineffec
tive against the opposiiton of the
Western Power Senators, but at
the time we obtained promises
that when the West would get all
the power that was needed in the
West, that we would receive as
sistance in the promotion of the
necessary Water Power in North
western Alaska.
We now believe that a start
should be made and a memorial
should be introduced in Congress
asking for such power as the na
tion needs the development of
strategic minerals.
Northwestern Alaska has the
strategic minerals, and the recent
tin development and production
shipped out this fall, shows the
possibilities in store for us.
When installed, the cost of op
eration of Water Power is very
small; the savings and benefits
toward the deevlopment of our in
dustries would prove the greatest
stimulus for greater prosperity
and increase in population.
SMALL TOWN GOVERNMENT
Nome is the only incorporated
city in the Second Division of First
Class. There are none of Second
Class. j
There are several native local
i
town councils, which have proven
very ineffective in the general J
economy of the locality in which
they are situated, or to the econo
my of the Division.
We hold that there is no great
er incentive to the growth and per- i
manency of any community than
that of enjoying the right of self
' government; the money derived
from the revenue and from taxes
spent in the city in which it is
levied, and the .expenditure of
said funds benefits and creates fa
cilities which develops every phase
of the economic life of said , town
and leads and encourages the
growth of population which in
turn builds up business and indus
tries.
We recommend to you to intro
duce a bill amending Section 2481
of the Laws of Alaska, permitting
20* instead of 75 persons, to peti
tion the Federal Judge for per
mission to hold an election to in
corporate a City of Second Class.
EDUCATION FACILITIES
The recent small appropriation
for two additional class rooms is
insufficient to accommodate the
pupils that are demanding the
privilege of attending school. This
make-shift arrangement is danger
ous and detrimental. The whole
Divisional school system is lacking
and falls short of facilities and of
fers no encouragement or continu
ity of school curriculum.
Nome has the only High School
in the Division.
The Grammar Schools in the Di
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vision have no connection or un
derstanding ad to where to go to
obtain High School education, iri
order to enter the University of
Alaska and complete the educa
tion to which every child under
I the American Flag is entitled to
receive.
We recommend that in Nomef
I being geographically situated, and
i having the facilities that could be
! extended, a Divisional High School
with dormitories be erected to Ac
commodate the students of the Di
i
vision; and sufficiently large to ac
coihmodate additional class rooms
and housing for the teachers.
For years, the lack of proper
school facilities has been the di
rect cause of the loss of popula
tion, especially in the remotest
i iffO%3Zj£.
parts of the Division. Parents hav
ing children who reach the High
School age, when no facilities were
available, have moved out of
Alaska or to some other part of
the Territory.
A well organized school system
is the biggest asset of any State or
Territory.
The Second Division needs this
encouragement
RESTOCKING OUR RIVERS
AND LAKES WITH FISH
Our former neglect and lack of
regulations, that has permitted or
closed its eyes to over-fishing, has
finally shown its results. We now
urgently need a program of re
stocking our lakes and rivers with
fish.
We suggest that you petition the
Fish and Wild Life Service to un
dertake such a program, and intro
duce a bill for an appropriation for
such necessary wbrk. This work
should be .begun at once.
TERRITORIAL FAIRS
The industrial and agricultural
Fairs have been so successful in
the past, and have created a whole
lot of interest and educational op
portunities.
On account of Territorial finan
cial difficulties, and other reasons,
no demands have been made on
the Treasury of the Territory for
funds to help Fairs. But the law
should be continued and appropri
ation made to permit the Fairs to
be held if the people of the Divi
sions elect to have one in the near
future.
ALASKA DEVELOPMENT
BOARD
The unfailing duty performed
by the Alaska Development Board
is a real justification of its unerr
ing service, that in accordance to
the Law of its creation, has accom
plished so much in the interest of
the economic and industrial life of
the Territory, the Board has mer
ited favorable consideration and
we urge you to support the budget
that they have submitted for the
coining biennium.
NATIVE ECONOMY AND THE
REINDEER INDUSTRY
The Reindeer Industry should be
supported and assisted. The fight
against the wolf^ menace has been
won, but the protection has to con
tinue. The new herds should be
protected by Territorial laws and
violators should be punished. Sup
port should be Extended to the de
velopment of more herds.
The bounty on the wolves should
be re-enacted.
Special commendation should be
recorded and made public for the
faithful and efficient protection to
wild life by the Fish and Wild
Life Service.
THE TOURIST INDUSTRY
We urge you to support and vote
for matching funds with the Alas
ka Visitors Association, for the de
velopment of ah all-year-around
Tourist season. We look toward the
.realization of a grdat increase iri
Tourist business. All States ahd
nations profit by this industry. W”e
have so much to offer and the vis
itors have so much more to see
when he comes here.
Let us use every effort atid sup*
.port to make this industry—our
No. .L,.
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS
SUGGESTED AFTER THE SU*
MISSION OF THE PfiOORAM
BY THE COMMITTEE
1— Bill for a subsidy of a boat
to carry mail and freight coastwise
from St. (Michael to Kotzebue.
2— Bill to grant miners a larger
exemption to conform with pres
ent labor costs.
3— A bill to be submitted for
the establishment of a branch of
fice of the Employment Security
Commission.
4— A bill for the erection of a
suitable Territorial Building to
house all Territorial agencies with
offices.
5— Resolution. In the event that
the Territorial Assay Office is
•built on the lot given to- it by the
City of Nome, we urge that a per
manent structure be built of con
crete instead of using an old Army
building.
6— Resolution should be intro
duced for a new Federal Building
or to join with the Territory and
erect a larger building to house all
Federal and Territorial offices.
6— Resolutions should be intro
duced to support the present plans
for a Mental Hospital in the Ter
ritory, and to work for the elimin
ation of trials by jury of all insane
persons.
7— To re-introduce Resolutions
for a road between Nome and
Fairbanks.
8— Support the Bill for larger
appropriations, sufficient t6 pro
vide for the Juvenile Welfare
Program.
9— To fumiSh to “ Aliens with
similar classifications as citizens
the sairife Old Age Assistance.
10— Resolution for Commission
ers to be placed on a salary basis,
or that the Territory subsidize of
fices that can not make the pres
ent allowable salary from fees of
the Office.
tl—-Support appropriation for
the Office of Vital Statistics to be
increased, to give it sufficient
funds to meet its obligatidns.
12—To continue the subsidy for
the control of Hair Seals, both the
common and the spotted varieties.
Korean Situation
At A Glance —
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fense chiefs in Rome. Communists
staging protest demonstrations.
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Frida#, January 19, 1950
Uriited Notions proWl force re
occupies burnt out Wonju, key
central Korean rail and road hub,
without meeting opposition. Two
. air-supported Allied attack regi
ments battle with communists
near Yongwol, leaving 1,000 com
: munists dead and routing the re
i mainder. The big Red offensive is
expected to break out soon.
Non-communist members of the
Un N. at Lake Success appear di
vided on the U. S. proposal to con
demn Red China as aggressor.
Araftr-Asian bloc considers still
another appeal to Peiping. U. S.
will have no truck With any new
peace proposal, and asks free
world to face the facts of aggres
sion.
j Washington was concerned over
a statemeht by U. S. MdJ. Gen.
Emmett (Rosie) ODonriett who at
March Air Base itt California ad
vqcated the use of the atom bomb
against the communist Chinese. \
The man who directed the first
six months of tJ. N. bombing in
Korea said: “They'il understand
the lash when it’s put to them.”
, There was no indicatidn whe
. ther any action against O'Donnell
; for his explosive statement is con
• templated but Washington is step
ping gingerly through a maze of
. delicate international situations
jand such statements have been
frowned upon and cohdertmed in
the past. The President is the only
one who can authorize atomic
warfare and he Has hot done so. 1
| Gen. Dwight D. Elsenhower ar
, rived in the tiny Duchy of Luxem
bourg today on his tour to align *
the military strength of the At
lantic 'Pact nations.