THE NOME NUGGET
Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday by the
NOME PUBLISHING CO.
NOME. ALASKA
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Entered as second class matter October 14, 1943, at the postoffice
•t Nome, Alaska, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
Nome, Alaska, Friday, March 9, 1951
LIBRARIES, SEARS-ROEBUCK, and NW ALASKA
The Sears-Roebuck Foundation’s Southeast Alaska
Circulating Library, which has been in the making for
the past two years, has been officially presented to
southeastern Alaska communities through the library’s
sponsors at a Rotary party recently in Juneau.
The library lasts were made by Juneau and Ketchi
kan librarians and comprise around 1600 books thht will
be circulated and rotated in 20 southeast Alaska com
munities.
James Ryan, Commissioner of Eductation, and oth
er leaders in the project expressed appreciation and
gratitude for the library which in some communities is
the only form of adult education.
This worthy project of Sears is well worth recogni
tion, as we live in the part of Alaska where their cata
log is sometimes the only reading matter some of the
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smaller communities receive.
In the whole of northwestern Alaska, Nome has the
only organized public library, and a similar setup for
the far northern people is well worth investigating. If
our readers in the outlying districts are interested, we
would be glad to gather their viewpoints on the subject.
Dr. Russell V. DeLong
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WELL-KNOWN EVANGELIST
VISITING NOME NAZARENE
A special series of evangelistic
services at the Church of the Naz
arene will begin next Monday,
March 12, with Dr. Russell V. De
Long as the speaker. Well-known
to many Nomeites who have heard i
him speak on his denomination’s
radio program “Showers of Bless
ing,” Dr. DeLcmg will be in Nome
on March 12 and 13 prior to an
engagement in Fairbanks.
Combining his duties as Dean
of ' Nazarene Theological Semin
ary in Kansas City with evangel
istic tours, Dr. DeLong has seen
in the past year literally hundreds
won to the service of Christ. One
of thes$ recent meetings was held
in Nashville, Tenn., as a union
effort, which in its final nights
had to be moved to the Municipal
Auditorium to accommodate the
great number who came to .hear
the Gospel preached.
With him Dr. DeLong will have
motion pictures which he made
on a world-wide tour, returning
to the States in January 1950.
These pictures show the condi
tions which exist in other nations,
and will be of special interest to
Nome citizens.
Services on the two nights,
March 12 and 13, will begin at
7:30 pm., and special music will
be furnished by s a lo i s t s and
groups.
Lifting The Lid
At Juneau
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fy for office by three years of law
practice in Alaska, instead of five.
The sponsor, Sen. Steve Me*
Cutchoen (D-Anchorage) said the
bill was intended to make assis
tant attorney general John Di
mond eligible if he should choose
to run.
Rep. Doris Barnes (R^Wrangell)
introduced a bill to create an of
fice of comptroller to “take over
powers now vested in the govern
or.” The bill proposes that the
legislature choose the first comp
troller. The office would be filled
at a popular election thereafter.
“Little Hatch Acts" introduced
“Little Hatch Acts” were intro
duced in both houses, by Sen.
Elton Engstrom (R-Juneau) in the
Senate, and by Rep. George Mis
co'vich in the lower chamber.
The bills would prohibit anyone
in the Territory’s executive branch
from trying to influence elections. |
Six Representatives introduced I
a bill for referendum on the ques
tion, “should complete control
and operation of Territorial fish
eries be turned over to the Terri
tory by Congress?”
Rep. George Gasser (R-College)
proposed raising the motor fuel
tax from two to three cents a
gallon with one cent earmarked
for keeping roads and. rural air
ports open the year around
Terr. Salary Boost Asked
Sen. Anita Gamick (R-Juneau)
introduced a bill which would
boost all Territorial salaries, with
ar $12,000 top for the attorney
general and commissioners of tax
ation, education and health. The
measure would 'boost salaries paid
the auditor, treasurer and heads
| of most departments to $10,000
! and give lower-scale Territorial
employes a boost of 10 to 15 %.
The Senate fisheries committee
proposed a substitute for a House
bill to oust the governor from the
fisheries experimental commis
sion. The committee proposed in
stead to put the commission under
the Alaska fisheries department.
Korean Casualties
Number 52,448
WASHINGTON, (/P), Announced
American casualties in the Kor
ean war reached 52,448 today, an
increase of 1,773 in a week.
The total, representing notifica
tions to the next of kin through
March 2, included 7,857 killed in
action, 34,692 wounded and9,899
missing in action.
Rep. Waino E. Hendrickson (R
Juneau) introduced a triple-bar
relled Territorial building bill. It
proposes $16,900 for final financ
ing of the projected building at
Juneau, and suggests $100,000 ap
propriations for site acquisitions
for similar buildings at Anchor
age and Fairbanks, with an eye
toward federal grants.
Friday, March 9, 1951
By a vote of 15-9, the Alaska
House of Representatives last
night killed a bill by Rep. W. W.
Laws (R-Nome) to change Alaska’s
October general election to the
same November date as the rest
at the nation.
One objection to the change was
the observation by Rep. Wendell
P. Kaz <iD-Anchorage) it would
end the distinction “as Alaska
goes, so goes the nation.”
The House passed unanimously
a memorial asking the Bureau of
Budget to approve funds for a
Nome-to-Teller Hoad.
Most of the two-hour night ses
sion was devoted to \ reading a
long bill expanding powers of the
Alaska Housing Authority.
The House, before going into
its first night session, passed a
bill by Hep. Doris Barnes <R
Wrangell) for sports fishing. It
sets a dollnr-a-year license for
Alaskans, three for non-residents.
Eskimos, Indians and Aleuts are
exempt for personal use fishing.
The vote was 18-4.
The House also approved 20-3 a
deficiency appropriation erf $50,
000 for the Taxation Dept., and
okayed bills for repaying interest
to school districts which had to
borrow because Territorial funds
were not received.
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BERT OGBURN of FAIRBANKS
PASSES IN ARIZONA
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Funeral services were held on
March 3 in Mesa, Ariz., for R. H.
Ogburn, well-known Fairbanks
mining man after a long illness.
Mr. Ogburn retired last fall as
manager of the U S Smelting Co.
in Fairbanks where he has been
for the past 25 years with the
company.
He was an outstanding engineer
who contributed much toward the
development of mining in sub
arctic gold placer mining.
First Aid Course in Progress
i
Ralph O .Zwolsam, field repre
sentative in the safety and service
division of the American Red
Cross, is conducting a course in
First Aid for instructors at the
Health Clinic. The course is hall
over tonight and will continue all
of next week, three hours each
night.
Those taking the course.will in
turn train other people in. the
community in connection with
Civil Defense, of which this is
part of the program.
Those taking the course are: .
Marc Anderson, Rose Bronson,
Martha Craft, Robert Hall, Don
Hurlbert, Marie Grant, Daisy
Keene, Frances Killins, Martha
Major, John McNees, G. A. Morin,
i Margaret Mozee, Fred Parsons,
Caroline Reader, Nels Swanberg,
Ella Tanner, Eileen Uttech, Ellen
Waldheim, and Emma Willoya.
Mr. Zwolsam has been instruct
ing in Ketchikan, Juneau, Anchor
age and Fairbanks and leaves
Nome for southwestern Alaska
'next week.
SEAL BOUNTY CUT
JUNEAU, (iP)—The House pass
es fifteen to five a bill to cut hair
seal bounty from $6 to $3. Limit
of 50 bounties per person included.
Bill eliminates Arctic coast from
bounties but was amended to keep
Norton and Kotzebue sounds in
bounty zone. Bill now goes to the
Senate.
Roads and Mining
(By Richard E. Lee)
(Part III)
The reason for defense is also
obvious, as this area is, by geo
graphical location, within closest
striking distance by a possible en
emy attack force and should, by
that very nature of circumstances,
be provided with suitable and ade
quate defense measures, foremost
and first of which should be a con
necting supply road to this area.
A road is likewise as important to
supply our own forces here should
we carry a war to the enemy. Our
Delegate to Congress, E. L. Bart
lett, has been working earnestly
and diligently in an attempt to
make this road one of the several
projects of construction planned
for Alaska.
It is apparent the hardest task
is to educate the American people
and our National Congress into
recognizing the value and position
of Alaska and its people as being
an actual part of the United
States of America, with its full
equity and rights in a share of the
national budget for development
of its land and resources that the
people of Alaska have for all these
years stepped back and relin
quished. It has, however, come to
be realized, gradually and by de
grees that Alaska is more than
just .Uncle Sam's ice-box, or a
source of obtaining a lot of gold,
or a lot of fish or furs, without
returning anything to it in com
pensation.
It is now becoming recognized
as a bulwark of defense for all of
North America or for that matter
all of democracy, a region that
must be fortified and expanded
militarily, to be used as an out
post of defense for our United
States or as a springboard for as
sault, whichever the case^ may be.
Alaska is also becoming to be
recognized, and which is more im
portant, as a huge reservoir of
mineral wealth, virgin and un
touched, to augment and bolster
the rapidly depleting resources of
the United States.
It is for the foregoing reasons,
now more than ever, that it is im
perative to push and drive and
awaken our country into the real
ization that an expansive policy of
road construction throughout
Alaska cannot wait. We of Sew
ard Peninsula, feel we have wait
ed long enough, 52 years; have
begged, pleaded and argued with
out results, long enough. It is time
consideration and recognition of
orur needs be supported and given
a place of merit on the agenda of
accomplishment. We do not ask
for unreasonable things..' We do
not ask for many things. But rest
assured what we do ask for is real
ly ai\d urgently needed.
Therefore, we the people of the
Second Division, as spoken for
through the medium of the North
western Alaska Chamber of Com
merce, do respectfully plead and
implore that every consideration
in its behalf be made to reinstate
and re-allocate those funds set up
for this current year to be ex
pended on construction of the 27
mile long Nome-Solomon section
of the Nome-Council road.
We thank you most sincerely.
(The End)