THE NOME NUGGET
Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday by the
NOME PUBLISHING CO.
NOME. ALASKA
Telephone: Main 125 P. O. Bbx 618
$1.50 PER MONTH $16.00 A YEAR
W. A. Boucher .Owner-Publisher
Entered as second class matter October 14. 1943. at the postoffice
■t Nome, Alaska, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
Nome, Alaska, Wednesday, September 7, 1949
ORCHIDS TO A. C. S.
The Alaska Communications System which is com
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memorating its 49th year of service in the Territory has
issued a souvenir pamphlet with an unusually interest
ing cover and containing many pages of historical data
and pictures, not only of employees through the forty
nine years but greetings and congratulatory messages
from Governor Gruening and Delegate E. L. Bartlett.
One full page is devoted to the late Brigadier General
William “Billy” Mitchell, who at one time was a 1st
Lieut, in the ACS and served at St. Michaels in 190i.
and later had charge of the open wire from Igloo to the
Yukon until 1903.
Familiar faces of former operators at Nome include
those of Capt. M. Kapelowitz, Capt. M. A. Johnson,
Capt. V. S. Page and many others still with the service.
The ACS had its beginning in Nome in July or August
of 1900, according to the bulletin, when a 24-mile long
telegraph line in Alaska from Nome to Porf Safety was
started, via Fort Davis. On September 15, 1900, the line
was completed, and electrical communications in the
Territory thus became a reality and the Washington
Alaska Military Cable and Telegraph (WAMCATS) be
gan active transmission of messages.
Until that time Nome’s only communication with the
world during the long winter months was by dog team.
The achievements of the organization since 1900 are
many, and Alaskan newspapers attest for the service
and co-operation of the ACS throughout the Territory.
SOVIETS JAM “THE VOICE ’
The Russian^ seem determined to keep the “Voice of
America" from converting the Communists to the ways
of the Western world. George V. Allen, asst. secy, of
state, who directs the Voice broadcasts, says that the
Kremlin is using about four times the number of trans
mitters to jam American broadcasts as are used by the
U. S. in its entire worldwide broadcasting program.
Secy, of state Dean Acheson says that, since April, the
Soviet has been carrying out “an all-out effort to jam
transmitters." He concludes, from the complex, costly
operation, that took months of careful planning, that the
Soviet leaders are mort anxious than ever to isolate the
Russian people from access to “truth and fact about the
broadcast programs, using more than 250 different
outside world.”
THE CONFERENCE TABLE
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Two Drown In
Auto Mishap
Near Fairbanks
FAIRBANKS, OP) — The U. S.
Marshal reported two peo pie
drowned Sunday when a car miss
ed a bridge as the driver turned
her head to speak to persons in the
rear seat.
The marshal said he was told of
the mishap by Mrs. James Hann.
whom he identified as the driver
and wife of one of the victims. The
other person who died was Mrs.
Charlotte Slater, former Seattle
business woman.
The car plunged into Noyes
Slough about one mile north of
Fairbanks before dawn. Passing
motorists noticed its tracks leading
off the road and investigated.
They found the car upside down,
its headlights still burning.
Hann, superintendent of the
Slater Construction company, for
merly lived in Everett, Wash. Mrs.
Slater operated a floral and nov
elty shop in Seattle before coming
to Fairbanks. Her husband is one
Two Tots Smother
In lee Box
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ST. PAUL, Minn. (^P)—A city
wide search lor two small St. Paul
children ended last night when
i theri smothered bodies were found
I in an ice box, stored in a neigh
• bor’s garage.
The tiny victims were Franklin
Sherer, five and two and one-half
year old Sandra, a tot for whom
Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Sherer, the
boy’s parents, were caring pending
1 her adoption by the family.
Police said they would question
playmates to learn if the two
pulled the doors closed accidental
ly or whether they had been shut
by other children. They could not
be opened from the inside.
of the owners of the construction
company bearing his name.
Officials of the fire and police
departments tried without success
to revive the victims by artificial
respiration.
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Girls Battle For
! Miss America Title
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ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. {&)—
Fifty-two blondes and brunettes—
but no redheads—yesterday began
the annual battle for the Miss
America crown and all that goes
with it.
For a week the girls will com
pete in various phases of the con
test. And the final judgment on
beauty must be on the up and up
—no "falsies” or padding in the
bathing suits is allowed.
The girls represent 45 states,
four big cities. Hawaii, Puerto R.co
and Canada. Only three states—
Delaware, Idaho and Rhode Island
—don’t have on entry. New York,
Chicago, Philadelphia and Wash
ington each sent an, entry.
The pageant opened yesterday
afternoon at 3 o’clock with a Mardi
Gras parade on the boardwalk
The first preliminary contest is
scheduled for tonight at conven
i tion hall. The field will be nar
! rowed to 14 on Saturday night,
and from these the new Miss
America will be chosen.
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