THE NOME NUGGET
Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday by the
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NOME, ALASKA
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E. P. BOUCHER . Managing Editor
Entered as second class matter Octcrber 14, 1943, at the postoffice
at Nome, Alaska, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
Nome, Alaska, Wednesday, August 15, 1951
EDITOR S NOTE — SILVER LINING
(Daily Alaska Empire)
Editors who are experiencing difficulty in the pro
curement of newsprint may be pleased with the
thought that they wouldn’t need as much in a life
time as the Federal Government uses every month.
The United States Government Printing Office
uses 15,000,000 pounds of newsprint every month—
and any editor can figure the circulation he’d need to
use that much. For example, the Daily Alaska Empire
could use that newsprint if our circulation was just
a trifle over six million copies daily.
The pamphlets Uncle puts out with all this news
print have a large and fascinating list of titles, rang
ing all the way from “How to Control Vagrant Cats”
to “Mist Netting for Birds in Japan.”
The knowledge that the government is regaling!
the people with such edifying and educational litera
ture should be a great solace to the many publishers
who have had to suspend publication of their news
papers due to the newsprint shortage.
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CITY COUNCIL MEETS
Monday evening the Nome City
Council met in regular session with
Mayor Jones conducting the meet-1
ing.
A letter was read from the U.S.
Engineers, formally turning over
the maintenance of the Nome sea
wall to the city, as agreed upon in |
June, 1949.
A letter was also read from
Mrs. O. S. Weaver, deploring the
terrible condition of the drains
at Spokane and Lanes Way every
spring. The matter was referred to
the Street Committee after some
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discussion due to the fact that this
drain is in constant use all winter
by the Modern Cleaners.
Resignations of Don Hurlbert as
patrolman and Harry Johnson as
utility man were read and accep
ted, and Ed Knopf was appointed
temporarily to fill the job of pat
rolman. Chief Glass was instruc
ted to study applications for a
regular patrolman.
Hank Drier lodged a complaint
against the A & A Garage for en
croachment on his property in
Block 50, Lots 18 and 19.
Elmer Straub, representing the
Nome Sanitary Service, asked for
the right to have a private garbage
dump within city limits. He claims
too many people are using the
public dump and that the right of
way is always obstructed; also
that debris detrimental to the mo- !
torized equipment of his company
is being left on the roadway. He
proposes to put in a winter dump
at the east end of the seawall,1
building a ramp out over the sea
and beyond the seawall so as not
to interfere with property owners
in that part of town. The matter
was taken under advisement.
It was announced that the city
had purchased a 4-h.p. boiler from
Ed Benick.
Weakening of the road across
Dry Creek near the culverts was
discussed qnd the matter to be in
vestigated as the Air Force had
been taking care of it while it
operated MFAB.
The deliquent sales tax and
property, taxes were discussed.
Recipes for making ice cream
go back as far as 1862.
Iran Rejects New British
Compromise Offer
TEHRAN, Iran |7P)—The Iranian 1
government today rejected the I
latest British compromise offer to
settle the oil dispute, but Britain
refused to take “no” for an an
swer and the talks are continuing.
Deputy Premier Hossein Fatemi
told reporters the British offer
was unacceptable because it did
no conform to Iran’s drastic na
tionalization 1 a w under which
Anglo-Iranian Oil Company pro
perties were taken over.
Chief British negotiator Rich
ard Stokes told a news confer
ence he hoped an agreement might
yet be reached.
Asked if he thought the 10-day
old talks would continue, Stokes
replied: “Oh, yes, I think I can
connvince them our offer is the
best they can get from anybody.” i
Estimate 4,500 Americans
Held in Red Prison Camps
SAN FRANCISCO, (^—Unof
ficial estimates indicated today
that, of the 10,264 Americans of
ficially listed as missing in action
in Korea, as many as 4,500 pro
bably are being held in Commun
ist war prisoner camps.
The prisoners are said to be
confined near Kanggye, deep in
side North Korea about 20 miles
from the Manchurian frontier.
The number of American and
other U.N. prisoners never has
been announced by the Reds. Al
lied sources estimate the total
number at approximately 10,000.
The Allies have announced they
hold 164,706 counted prisoners of
war. Most of them are North Ko
reans.
Whether prisoners will be ex
changed on a man-for-man basis
or by lot will have to be decided
by the negotiators.
TROUT CREEK, N. Y., (JP)—A
school house which cost $500 to
build in 1899 will be remodelled
at a cost of $1,000.
Frank M. Clark of Oneonta, the
contractor who built the frame
school, recalls he paid two car
penters $1 a day, plus board, and
worked them 18 hours a day. They
finished the job in 20 days.
PAA Announces
New Low Fares
New low passenger fares, with
reductions of 10 to 15 percent, be
tween Seattle and Portland, and
the Alaska cities of Anchorage
and Fairbanks we *e announced
today by Pan American World
Airways, effective August 12.
New one-way fare from Seattle
to Anchorage and Fairbanks is
$90 in each case, reductions of 10
and 14 percent respectively over
former fares of $100 and $105.
From Portland, via connecting
airline to Seattle, the new fares
are reduced to $97 to Anchorage
and Fairbanks, again cuts of 10
and 14 percent over former fares
of $108 and $113 respectively.
New roundtrip fares, reflecting
the same reductions, are $162
from Seattle to Anchorage or
Fairbanks, and $174.60 from Port
land to the two Alaska cities.
ARMLESS, LEGLESS MAN
FACES BAD CHECK CHARGE
LOS ANGELES, (/P) — Orville
Rambo, who has no -arms or legs,
is slated to stand trial Aug. 29
on charges of writing three bad
checks.
Police said Rambo holds a pen
between his chin and shoulder.
NOTICE
The Territorial Public Health
Nurse, Marie Grant, will be on
annual leave from August 13 to
August 27. During her absence the
Public Health Clinic will be closed.
WEATHER FORECAST
Compiled by U.S. Dept, of Commeae,
Weather Bureau
Forecast Nome: Mostly clear
tonight, increasing cold Thursday
Gentle westerly winds. Lowest
temperature tonight 41, highest
tomorrow 58.
Sunrise at 3:30 a m., sunset at
8:20 p.m.
Data for other selected stations
as of 7 a.m. today:
Station Temp. Weather
Barrow 41 Rain
Point Hope 46 Drizzle
Kotzebue 48 Rain
Wales * 45 Fair
Gambell 45 Cloudy
>fome 48 Clear
Unalakleet 49 Part cloudy
Bethel 52 Rain
McGrath 59 Rain
Anchorage 55 Cloudy
Fairbanks 59 Cloudy
Edmonton 66 Part cloudy
WAR CONTRACTS
The Senate Small Business
Committee reports that ten big
companies have received forty per
cent of the dollar volume of de
fense contracts since Korea and
called for an immediate reversal
of “this trend of concentration of
defense contracts.” It said fifty
companies command two-thirds of
the dollar volume of post-Korea
contracts. In World War II, ten
companies controlled 30 per cent
of the dollar volume and 100 com
panies two-thirds.
Nugget Ads Bring Quick Results
Green Flares May Be
Clue To Missing Bomber
KODIAK, Alaska, i/P) — Hope
for 12 naval airmen missing since
Sunday in an Alaska-based patrol
bomber was pinned on a series of
green flares sighted about 40
miles northeast of Adak, in the
Aleutians Island chain.
An investigation was being con
ducted by the Navy tug Baga
duce.
The intermittent flashes were
seen by a Navy search pilot, but
fog and rain blotted out the
ground and sea. Nothing could be
seen that might lie on the sur
face.
The PB4-Y-2 Privateer disap
peared on an operational flight
from its home field at Kodiak.
Three officers and nine enlisted
men were aboard.
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