CITY COUNCIL
The Nome Common Council met
Monday night in the City Hall in
tfcgular meeting.
An ordinance on food handlers
and communicable diseases was
passed.
An amendment to a recent li
quor ordinance permitting liquor
dispensaries to remain open until
1:00 a.m. was passed. The previ
ous ordinance called for closing
midnight. The reason given for
extending the closing hour was
that the summer season was ap
proaching and tourists would ben
efit from the later closing hour.
Opening hour remains at 8:00 a.m.
A notice, calling for bids for the
combination positions in fire and
police departments, was ordered
published, bids to be returned be
fore 5:00 p.m. Monday, May 23,
5,1949.
It was decided to do some slignt
remodelling of the city building
to house the women’s cell in tne
space formerly occupied by the
Public Health Nurse, also to en
large the cell on the main floor
for use or male prisoners. It was
though that it would eliminate the
fire hazard by having prisoners
aon the main floor, instead of,
as previously, irt basement cells.
The council members voted to
increase the payments on the city
bonds to $3,000, from the former
payments annually of $2,000.
The budget for the coming
school year was reported as 1949
50, $81,405. The city share being
$25,826.25; installation of new
toilers and heating system and
checking the electrical wiring.
Student enrollment is expected to
be 300 as it was this year.
It has been reported to the city
council that the Territorial Bu
reau of Mines will build an assay
Valuable Defense
Secrets Learned By
Arctic Soldiers
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uranium.
Most of what the hard-working
American and Canadian soldiers
have found out is shrouded in mil
! itary secrecy.
I But it is known that the joint |
' defense force has drawn on the
I Arctic lore of Eskimos and Indi
j ans. It has tapped the knowledge
of fur traders, trappers and Royal
Canadian mounted police.
For the rest, it worked out on a
trial-and-error basis brand-new
methods of keeping men in such
physical condition they can do
battle under the cruel grip of Arc
tic gales.
In the field of transport, the
army men are known to have used
successfully new adaptations of
motorized sleds. Caterpillar treads
enable them to push forward over
the wind-packed drifts and quak
ing muskeg.
The Canadian army, for its part,
also is preparing northern civili
ans to guard such vital defense
points as the Alaska Highway ff
need be. Hunters, trappers,* lum
bermen and others are being or
ganized in cooperation with the
mounted police and Hudson’s Bay
company.
But in the event of attack, the
burden of defense would fall on
regular military units.
' I
Herb Jenks and Walt Weidman
left yesterday for their camp at
the Silver Bow Mining Co., in the
Kougarok and are looking for
ward to a very busy season.
office here if the city will furnish
the property.
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of six persons killed in the explo
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A bill authorizing the govern- j
ment payment was approved by I
the Senate judiciary coipmittee
Monday. It already has been pass-1
ed by the House.
Five children attending a Sun
day school picnic and Mrs. Archie
Mitchell, wife of their pastor,
were killed by the explosion.
The bill provides that parents
of each of the children receive
$3,000 and that Mrs. Mitchell’s
husband receive $5,000.
Gene Joiner, bush pilot operat-1
ing out of Kotzebue was able to I
make a landing on Diomede Is
land and bring in John and Tom
my Iypana. The natives report
that few walrus have been caught
in that area to date, and poor
hunting during the winter.
ARCTIC CLUB BOARD
MET TUESDAY NIGHT
At a meeting of the Arctic Club
board Tuesday night it was stated
the Queen Contests, and the car
nival were a success. Although the
finance committee report was as
yet incomplete it was reported as
a step toward completion of the
Nome Ice Rink. It is to be on the
school yard.
It was moved, in answer to a
letter from the Walrus Club, to al
low the Arctic Club Hall for use
of tourists this summer, as a dor
mitory.
The Arctic Club went on record
as being in full support of the
Gir’ Scout Bazaar and urges all
its members to buy tickets to the
affair.
A dinner-dance is planned for
Saturday, May 28.
Donald Smith, partner in the
enterprizing Alaska Neon Engin
eering Co. of Anchorage is in
Nome for a few days contacting
merchants interested in neon
signs.
Unions Start
Defense Pleas In
Damage Suit
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woodworkers union passed a reso
lution that they did not want to
load barges at the mill. He said
the woodworkers had voted ' to
turn the work over to the long
shoremen. ( <
Verne Allbright, who testified
he was employed by the iLWlJ
assist the local and advise them
on conduct of their business, was
under cross-examination when
court adjourned. He was to con
tinue on the stand today.
Allbright testified to attending,
union meetings where the trouble
with the mill was discussed but
denied having urged the adopting
of resolutions on what steps
should be taken. He was subjected
to intensive cross-examination . oy
company attorneys Monley Stray
er of Portland and Norman Ban
I field of Juneau.
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