THE NOME NUGGET
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Entered as second class matter October 14, 1943, at the postofficu
at Nome, Alaska, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
Nome, Alaska, Wednesday, October 25, 1950
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ALASKA-STATES RAIL LINK NEARER REALITY j
Another link in the network of Alaskan roads nears
a reality with one billion dollars in private capital be
ing pledged for the proposed railroad from Fairbanks to j
Watson Lake in Canada. The route proposed goes from'
Fairbanks to Tanana, through the Sikonsing Pass, then
along the Ladue River to the Yukon and Pelly Rivers to I
Watson Lake. |
Willis T. Batcheller, the original planning engineer!
for Grande Coulee dam, said that the ‘railroad, com
bined with the regional development program along
the railroad under a planned economy and private en-;
terprise would largely solve the economic problems of!
the entire Dominiort of Canada.” j
What this railway will do for Canada, the road or
railway connecting Nome with Fairbanks, the last link!
in American communications, will do for the economy
of Alaska by opening up vast areas of mineral land
which has untold wealth, but which is now inaccessible.
SAFETY REQUIRES STRNGTH
“Force must be met with force,” declares Secretary
of the Treasury John W. Snyder, who does not think i
that the people of this country have any notion “of the
size of the defense program” that is underway or that
“a quick end to the Korean war will have no effect” on
the program designed to build up our defenses.
It is high time for all of us to realize the gravity of the ,
menace which faces the free nations and the extent to
which we must rearm if we expect to save our free
doms. The existence of an unprincipled dictatorship,!
controlling a nation of great wealth in people and re
sources, makes possible a sudden, unprovoked attack.
So long as this condition obtains in the world, it is
necessary for free peoples to possess sufficient fighting
strength to balance that of would-be aggressors. At the
present time, it is admitted that the Red Army could
probably overrun Eurpoe and the peace is being main-!
tained, according to the opinion of Mr. Winston Chuch
ill, by the overwhelming preponderance that the United
States possesses in atomic bombs.
The only way we can expect to get better legislation
is to elect better legislators—which places the respon
sibility squarely in the hands of the nation’s voters.
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PUTTING IT ON THE LINE
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Korean Situation
At A Glance —
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army, provided there was no re
vival of a National German army.
Defense minister Jules Moch
will carry the French proposals
to Washington Thursday. In the
American capital, military com
mittees of the North Atlantic
Treaty organization are meeting
to press ahead with plans for a
mutual defense organization. La
ter this week there will be a
meeting of defense ministers.
The fighting still raged between
French-led forces in Indo-China
and the communist-led rebel Viet
minh. French warplanes bombed
Langson, the big border fortress
which they abandoned to the Reds
last Wednesday. The object of the
raid was to destroy ammunition
and fuel dumps left behind by the
French in their rapid withdrawal.
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Foreign Cadets In
Civil Air Patrol
The ninety officers and cadets
from six foreign countries who
recently completed a torur of the
United States as guests of the
Civil Air Patrol undoubtedly will
keep the home folks bug-eyed for
months with tales about life in
America.
But the tale which probably
will be related more often and
with greater enthusiasm than any
other will be the story of Col. D.
Harold Byrd’s fabulous party at
his country place in Dallas, Texas.
Continuing to prepare for its
role as the air arm of civilian de
fense, wing commanders of Civil
Air Patrol 1st Region, comprising
New England, New York and
Pennsylvania met this week with
officials from C. A. P. National
Headquarters at Westover Air
Force Base to firm up policies i
which will govern the part to be j
played by C. A. P. in their re
spective states.
It was further emphasized that
the Civil Air Patrol radar .net
work, which includes over 6.000
licensed stations cvering the en
tire nation, Alaska, Puerto Rico,;
and Hawaii, would be of utmost;
significance in the event of dis-;
ruption of normal communica-1
tions.
Operated on a voluntary basis
by C. A. P. personnel, most of
these stations have their own
emergency power supplies.
Nome C. A. P. will meet on the
first and third Wednesday of ev
ery month. They plan on being
very active this winter.
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Girl Scout News
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We opened our meeting by re-1
citing the Sfiri Scout promise. Af
ter the meeting )v^s called to or
der and the dues collected we
took up old business. We discuss
ed the forthcoming Hallowe’en
party which we all look forward
| to. As the Senior Patrol is to serve
refreshments >jre took up discus-!
sions along this line. Vf? decided
to discuss more about this at our
next meeting.
Mrs. Nerland gave us a very in
teresting talk cm Child Care, a
topic on which we are immensely
interested as we are working on
our Child Care requirements.
When new business was
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brought up we discussed our com
ing Bazaar or sale. Many sugges
tions were brought up on differ
ent sales angles.
A new member came in, Kay
■ Coulthard, who has been sick for
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12 Atlantic Nations
Plan Fast Mobiliza
tion If Need Be
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WASHINGTON, (IP) — The 12
North Atlantic nations, banded to
gether for defense against com
munist armed might* may be able
to create a bigger force and do it
faster than their military plan
ners have hoped.
This prospect, cheering to a
nervous western world, developed
today out of the opening session
yesterday of the military com
mittee of the North Atlantic treaty
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organization.
It resulted, essentially, from
three things:
1. The urgent plea by American
Gen. Omar Bradley to the com
mittee for action now to bring
into being an integrated land, sea
and air force to resist any new
military thrusts by Russia or her
communist satellites.
2. A move in me military com
mittee, sparked by one of the
smaller nations, to contribute to
the combined defensive organiza
tion a larger force than had been
blueprinted.
3. The overt act of communism
—bring war to Korea—which has ,
stepped up the tempo of rearma
ment by most of the Atlantic na
tions, whether or not they are
fighting in the Far Eastern con
flict.
A spokesman for the American
delegation to the conference did
not identify the small country
that set off the move to speed up
formation of the combined forces,
but he said the idea immediately
gained approval from the other
chiefs of staff who represent the
treaty nations.
Territorial Senate
Will Be Even Split
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(By The Associated Press»
With most of the important ab
sentee ballots counted, the lineup
for the Lower House of Alaska’s
Legislature stood today at 15,
Demacrats and 9 Republicans.
The Republicans have won six
out of eight contested Senate
seats to assure an eight-to-eight
party split in the Senate.
Only one House seat appeared
still to be in doubt. It is the fifth
seat in the Fourth Division. The
unofficial count o*f the absentee
votes at Fairbanks left Thomas A. j
Jones, Nenana Democrat, ahead
by three votes. Before the count j
of the absentee votes, he had
pulled ahead of Alden Wilbur,
Republican, by 11 votes.
Two outlying precincts were
still unreported in the Division. It,
was the late reporting precincts
that allowed Jones to overcome
Wilbur’s early lead. j
Half the 375 absentee ballots
had been counted up to this morn
ing in the First (Southeastern) Di
, visnon without changing the
standings in the rapes there.
The Ho.use standings by D,ivi-1
sipn$ was:
First—Five Republicans and
three Democrats;
Second — Three Dempcrats and
pne Republican;
Third—Seven Dempcrats and no
Republicans;
Fourth Three Republicans and
two Democrat?.
Mustard grows almost every
, where in the world
the last two weeks.
Our meeting was dismissed with
the singing of, Day Is Done.
Kay Coulthard, Scribe.
To Establish
Women’s Clubs
Institutes
WASHINGTON, (/P)—The Gen
eral Federation of Women’s Clubs
authorized the establishment of
institutes ter teach women about
the American economic system
Saturday.
The move was sponsored by
Mrs. Ambrose N. Diehl who said
women will be able to help
strengthen the system once they
are informed of how it works.
An appeal for club members to
support legislation to give the
District of Columbia representa
tion in Congress and Alaska state
hood was also voiced.
Mrs. Leslie B. Wright of Wash
ington said the proposals would
be accepted by Congress if every
one of the Federation’s 775,000
voting members asked her Con
gressman for his vote.
Hearing On
Alaska Maritime
Screening Dispute
SEATTLE (yP)—A brief hear
ing was held here Monday to de
termine whether a maritime dis
pute which has halted passenger *
service to Alaska should be in
vestigated by a Congressional
committee.
Rep. Hugh B. Mitchell <D.
Wash.) conducted the closed hear
ing which was attended by repre
sentatives of the Alaska Steam
ship Co., government agencies and
an AFL union official.
The Marine Cooks and Stew
ards’ Union <Ind.‘, one of the
principals in the dispute, carried
out its announced boycott of the
meeting. Union spokesmen said
last week they would not attend
the meeting unless it was opened
to the press and public, charging
it could not “expect fair treat
ment in a ‘star chamber’ session.”
In a statement issued after the
hearing, Mitchell called the ab
sence of the union representative
“an affront to a committee of
Congress.”
He said he would report the
facts gathered yesterday to the
House committee on labor and
education.
“It will be up to the committee
to decide if there will be a hear
ing by full committee, and whe
ther representatives of the Marine
Cooks will be subpoenaed,” Mit
chell said.
Mitchell said a closed executive
hearing by a Congressional com
mittee is “customary procedure to
develop facts without prejudice”
and learn whether a full scale
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hearing is warranted.
Passenger service was suspend
ed to Alaska aftpr protest? by the
stewards’ union over security
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screenings procedures by the
coast guard brought repeated de
lays.
Bess Ch}mb£jtlj)ip, operator of
the Adventurer’s Club of Kotze
bue was a visitor in town tMs
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week, having arrived from Fair
banks.
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Mr* and Mrs. Ben Gillette left
for an extended vacation in the
States. Thay plan tp spend their
time, through the holidays in and
around Seattle and later make a
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trip to southern California.
Theage of chivalry ended
abruptly when girls started drop
ping Kleenex instead of handker
chiefs.