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E. P. BOUCHER . Managing Editor
Entered as second class matter October 14, 1943, at the postoffice
at Nome, Alaska, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
Nome, Alaska, Wednesday, April 30, 1952
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TIME TO BUILD FOR PERMANENCE
Two sub offices of the Alaska Public Works
opened in Dillingham and Kodiak this week where
schools and water projects are scheduled to get under
way this summer. Bids were opened this week in Sitka
when the Alaska Public Works project for a new school
becomes a reality.
Fairbanks is at last to have a new water system
which will give the city year-round running water
through a system of heated water pipes.
Other Alaskan towns have also taken advantage
of this method of improving the places which they
call home.
Most of Nome was built from the standpoint of a
temporary place of residence and business. That era
has now passed and the ground work must be laid for
permanent improvements and modernization.
It is recommended that the new City Council
organize themselves for a better Nome. They will no
doubt welcome suggestins as to what the citizens
consider our most pressing needs and take the proper
action as soon as possible.
Georgia Newspaper Men
Get 20 Days In Jail
For Contempt of Court
ROME, Ga., (/P)—Editor Ralph
McGill and Managing Editor W.
H. Fields of the Atlanta Consti
tution are under sentence to serve
20 days in jail and pay a fine of
$200 each for contempt of court.
The contempt citations resulted
from a story the Constitution pub
lished April 21 on a traffic law
violation in Georgia. The story
cited a traffic case and said state
highway patrolmen found no rec
ords as to disposition of the case.
McGill and Fields immediately
filed notice of appeal to the state
supreme court and were released.
After the Constitution publish
ed the story about the traffic case
Judge Nichols asked the news
paper to print a photograph of
bond records in the case and pub
lish a statement he wrote about
it. The Constitution published the
Tax Liens of Over $80,000
Filed Against P.N.A. and
Alaska Airlines
SEATTLE, (/P)—Tax liens were
filed here Tuesday against Pacific
Northern Airways and Alaska Air
lines by Internal Revenue collec
tor Clark Squires who claims the
two owe the government more
than $80,000.
He said Pacific Northern owes
$76,089 for transportation and
withholding taxes and Social Se
curity contributions. His claim
against Alaska Airlines totals
$6,836 forr transportation tax.
judge’s statement but did not
print the photograph.
The judge told the editors: “It
is a sad situation when gentlemen
in your positions can hold your
selves out above the law. I think
the whole situation was calcu
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lated and designed to mislead the
public.”
Treat Writes 20.000
Attend Church Conference
At San Francisco
Rev. Robert Treat of the Com
munity Methodist Church writes
from San Francisco that the con
ference there is well under way
with about 20,000 attending.
Last Thursday evening a choir
of 543 voices sang for the dele
gation in the big San Francisco
Auditorium.
Rev. Treat states that he saw
Bunny Fagerstrom in Tacoma
while enroute to San Francisco.
He visited with Mr. and Mrs.
Jack Wichels who were in San
Francisco and enroute to Nome.
They arrived here yesterday.
While attending the conference,
Rev. Treat is a guest of the Cal
vary Methodist Church.
Toastmasters to Hold Charter
Presentation Thursday Evennig
The Nome Sunset Chapter of
Toastmasters International will
have its Charter Presentation
Night tomorrow evening at 7:00
p.m. in the Firelite Hoorn of the
Board of Trade.
Ted Duffield will be Toastmas
ter for the program, Jim von der
Heydt, Table Topic Master. The
main speakers on the program
will be Fred Parsons, Larry Gal
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vin, Ashley Craft and Don Culver.
The Toastmasters will also car
ry out a parliamentary drill with
the presentation of the charter as
the final event of the evening.
WANT ADS
FOR SALE—High chair in good
condition. Reasonable. Call
Betty Doyle, Main 124. 53
FOR SALE—A-l quonset hut. In
town and all ready to put skids
under. Call Main 42.
FOR SALE—’36 Chevrolet coupe.
Phone Red 40 after 7 p.m. or
Main 88 from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m.
FOR SALE—Sears small gasoline
Kenmore heater. New. $5. C.M.
Irrigoo, Gambell, Alaska. 52
NOME GARAGE now open, im
mediate and efficient service.
Complete automotive repairs,
Front and Mettler Way. Expert
mechanics to do your work.
WANTED—Man in this city who
is desirous of starting a real
estate business. Friendly type
with wide acquaintance and in
clination to serve others. Above
all must be honest and perser
vering. Impeccable references
required. Training in the field
will be given the right man. If
you are interested and can fill
the requirements, write to
Arden R. Daniels, Director of
Agencies, Bob Dow & Associ
ates, Box 406, Fairbanks,
Alaska. tf
Construction Of
Ketchikan Pulp
Mill to Start
BELLINGHAM, Wash., (/P) —
The Ketchikan Pulp Company, a
joint venture of the American
Viscose Corporation and the Pu
get Sound Pulp and Timber Com
pany of Bellingham, will start
construction immediately of a
$46,000,000 pulp plant at Ketchi
kan, Alaska, president Lawson P.
Turcotte announced Tuesday.
The general construction con
tract has been awarded Howard
S. Wright and Company, Seattle,
and Guy F. Atkinson Company,
San Francisco. They will be asso
ciated under the name of the
Ward Cove Builders.
The firm, first of its kind to tap
Alaska’s vast pulpwood supply,
expects to start producing pulp
in its new plant in June, 1954.
The plant will rise on a 55-acre
tract at Ward Cove, six miles
from Ketchikan. Engineers plan
a 300-ton minimum daily capacity
output of high-alpha pulp. Seven
hundred men will be employed in
the plant and logging operations
and upwards of 400 in the con
struction of the mill.
Fr6m the start, Turcotte said,
the plant will have an assured
perpetual supply of timber
through its contract with the
United States Forest Service, and
an assured market for its pulp
through a 20-year contract with
American Viscose Corporation.
The project will include the
building of a dam at Lake Con
nell, three miles from Ward Cove.
The company will also build its
own water distribution system
and generate its own power and
steam, using waste pulp liquor.
April 28—Major General Wil
liam D. Old received a Navy
“well done” for the Alaskan Air
Command today from Rear Ad
miral Edgar A. Cruise, command
er of the Alaska sea frontier, for
air force assistance to a marooned
Navy P2V patrol bomber.
Admiral Cruise’s message said:
“Desire express my apprecia
tion to Alaskan Air Command,
particularly Lt. Col. Fletcher, and
information addressees fo*r efforts
and assistance which made possi
ble P2V engine change on T-3 and
successful return of ski-jump air
craft personnel to home base.
Well done.”
Pan Am Stratocruiser
With 50 Aboard Missing
Over Brazilian Jungle
PORT OF SPAIN. Trinidad, (A>)
—A Pan American Stratocruiser
with 50 persons aboard was over
due here Tuesday and was re
ported missing over Brazilian
jungle territory.
The 1 -million-dollar Boeing
plane, a luxury ship flying the El
Presidente route from Rio de Jan
eiro to New York, was carrying
41 passengers and a crew of nine,
Pan American Airways reported.
The Stratocruiser is the first of
that type to be reported missing.
The Stratocruiser is a double
deck plane, with a lounge on the
lower deck. It offers a luxury ser
vice at an extra fare, with berths
available for those who want
them.
PAN AMERICAN AIRWAYS
Arriving Tuesday from Fair
banks were Jack Taissen, Joe
Reindele, Albin Poison, W. R.
Blair, John Mellone, Oscar Morg
gordon, Mr. and Mrs. Marcelle
Stirn; from Seattle, Phillip Will
ett, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Wichels,
Mrs. John Kanari, Cicil Stemler.
Three radio technicians for Pan
American who will assist on the
repairs of the damaged ship are
William Perac, Robert Knight,
Henry Sernack and an inspector
for the company, Charles Vanye.
Outbound passengers were Roy
Earling and Jim Crawford for
Fairbanks, Gus Hinson for Ju
neau, Chaijes Berg and Mary Paul
for Seattle.
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