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VOL. LIII No. 79 NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 4, 1951 Per Copy—15^
1951 4th of July Program
10:30 a.m.—PARADE
Units for parade will assemble at 10:25 a.m. in front of Federal
Building to begin march to City HalL Army, A.N.G. and veterans
to lead, children next. Floats, vehicles, etc., last.
Mrs. Paul Carlson and Mrs. Earl Towner in charge of children
1 10:45 a.m.—CHILDREN’S COSTUME CONTEST
Mrs. Henry Ullrich in charge
1. Best Independence Day Costume.$ 5.00
2. Cutest Costume (age 2 to 10). 5.00
3. Best Native Costume. 5.00
4. Best Decorated Float or Motor Vehicle. 10.00
5. Best Decorated Bicycle. 5.00
6. Best Decorated Building in Town. 10.00
7. Best Decorated Horse Drawn Vehicle. 5.00
4 11:30 a.m.—PATRIOTIC EXERCISES
Invocation and Patriotic Songs.Rev. Paul Carlson
Address of Welcome.Mayor Charles D. Jones
Declaration of Independence.Juanita Fagerstrom
Address of the Day.Capt. S. J. Lemmon
(Commanding Officer MFAB)
12 Noon—FREE ICE CREAM FOR THE CHILDREN
At the City Hall—Firemen in charge
1:00 p.m —CHILDREN S SPORTS
American Legion in charge
Prizes
A 60-yard Dash (Boys 13 lo 16).$3.00 $2.00 $1.00
30-yard Dash (Boys 8 lo 12). 3.00 2.00 1.00
25-yard Dash (Boys 5 lo 7). 3.00 2.00 1.00
, 50-yard Dash (Girls 13 lo 16). 3.00 2.00 1.00
25-yard Dash (Girls 8 lo 12). 3.00 2.00 1.00
20-yard Dash (Girls 5 to 7). 3.00 2.00 1.00
20-yard Dash (Boys and Girls under 5). 3.00 2.00 1.00
25-yard Sack Race (Boys 13 to 16). 3.00 2.00 1.00
25-yard Sack Race (Boys 12 and under). 3.00 2.00 1.00
25-yard Sack Race (Girls 13 lo 16). 3.00 2.00 1.00
25-yard Sack Race (Girls 12 and under). 3.00 2.00 1.00
25-yard 3-Legged Race (Boys 13 to 16). 3.00 2.00 1.00
25-yard 3-Legged Race (Boys 12 and under). 3.00 2.00 1.00
25-yard 3-Legged Race (Girls 13 lo 16). 3.00 2.00 1.00
25-yard 3-Legged Race (Girls 12 and under). 3.00 2.00 1.00
Shoe Scramble—Boys and girls under 13. 3.00 2.00 1.00
200-yard Bicycle Race (Boys 13 lo 16). 3.00 2.00 1.00
100-yard Bicycle Race (Boys 8 lo 12). 3.00 2.00 1.00
50-yard Bicycle Race (Boys 7 and under). 3.00 2.00 1.00
75-yard Bicycle Race (Girls 13 lo 16)... 3.00 2.00 1.00
50-yard Bicycle Race (Girls 8 to 12). 3.00 2.00 1.00
40-yard Bicycle Race (Girls 7 and under). 3.00 2.00 1.00
28-yard Tricycle Race (All 5 to 7).!. 3.00 2.00 1.00
15-yard Tricycle Race (All under 5). 3.00 2.00 1.00
Model T Car Race—All. 20.00 5.00
Trap Shoot on Breakwater east of Bank. 20.00 5.00
FIREWORKS DISPLAY (East of Bank)
(Dark Glasses Furnished)
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i ESKIMO EVENTS
High Kicking. 6.00 4.00
y Blanket Tossing. Men. 5.00 2.00
Blanket Tossing. Women. 5.00 2.00
Kyak Race. All.20.00 5.00
Oomiak Race. All.40.00 10.00
8:00 p.m.—ESKIMO PROGRAM
In High School Gym—Admission Adults: $1.00—Students: .50
Eskimo Dances—Men
Eskimo Dances—Women
^ Blanket Tossing. Women
AMERICAN LEGION DANCE
Immediately Following This Program
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First Chinese Ship Since
Before World War II
Arrives West Coast
SEATTLE, (iP)—-The First Chi
nese Nationalist ship to bring
cargo into this North Pacific port
since before the start of World!
* War II apprived early yesterday.
The ship, Hai Yu. was reported
to have 9,000 tons of scrap metal
aboard. It is operated by the
t China Merchants Steam Naviga
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FHA Head Resigns
JUNEAU, OP) — C. C. Staples
■announced yesterday his resigna
tion as Territorial Director of the
Federal Housing Administration,
effective July 27. He will return
to -the States after having held
the FHA post for two years. No
successor has been named.
tion Co., of Taipeh, Formosa.
The Coast Guard said it car
ried a crew of 6.
Near Disastrous
Oil Fire Averted
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Here Monday
A fire which has been predicted
and feared all spring broke out
Monday evening in the ACS area.
A native carelessly lit a trash
burner which was sitting in a
pool of the diesel oil which covers
the tundra from the ACS station
and extends right into the resi
dential area northeast of town.
The area was flooded last win
ter when a storage tank of the
ACS leaked about 30,000 gallons
of oil, which has now penetrated
a wide area about 150 feet near
the tanks to an area about 300
feet wide near town.
In a very short time the fire
spread over several acres of
ground. Fanned by a south wind,
the blaze was directed toward the
ACS transmitter station and the
several family residences there.
The quick thinking of Cpl. Dev
eraux Vandervoort of the ACS,
who, with the ACS D-8 went di
rectly into the blaze ahead of the
fire, piling up tundra, and Harry
Johnson with his big bulldozer,
are credited with holding the fire
in check although it covered near
ly a hundred foot front. It was
so hot where these men were
maneuvering their ’dozers that
they had to shield their faces from
the heat and smoke.
Volunteer Kammerer assisted
Vandervoort, working the blade so
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End of Fiscal 1951
Nets U. S. Govt.
$3 Billion Surplus
WASHINGTON, (/P)—1The gov
ernment began sliding back into
the red today after chalking up
a $3,509,782,625.25 budget surplus
for fiscal 1951, ended Sunday.
Secretary of the Treasury Sny
der, who announced the final 1951
figures Monday, said government
spending may exceed income as
much as $3,500,000,000 over the
next three months. Expenditures
in July, August and September
will continue heavy but tax re
ceipts will be seasonally light.
Furthermore, Snyder predicted,
fiscal 1952 as a whole will pile
up a $10,000,000,000 deficit “un
less appropriate new taxes are
enacted as soon as possible.” The
House has voted a $7,200,000,000
tax hike. The Senate gives indi
cations of making it less, despite
the administration’s insistence on
a budget-balancing boost of $10
billion.
The nearly $3,510,000,000 sur
plus of fiscal 1951 will go down
in the books as the 76th in the
nation’s history. It was the big
gest so far except for the $8,419,
000,000 record setter of three
years ago. The third largest sur
plus was $1,155,000,000 recorded
24 years ago.
Treasury records show 25 years
of deficits.
U. N. and Reds
To Meet July 10
For Peace Talks
(By the Associated Press)
The Allied command agreed
Tuesday to an Armistice meeting
next week with the iReds in Korea
and tried to speed it up to stop*
the killing war.
Gen. Ridgway proposed a pre
liminary meeting Thursday.
The United Nations commander
in-chief accepted July 10 as the
-time for cease-fire talks. He said
he would like to meet sooner if
the Communists can make it. July
10 was the earliest date proposed
by the Reds’ top generals.
Ridgway agreed to their sug
gestion that negotiators meet in
Kae-Song, ancient Korean capital
near the 38th parallel, instead of
aboard a Danish hospital ship as
he had proposed.
A reply from the Chinese and
North Korean commanders was
hoped for soon. None had been
reported nine hours after U. N.
radios began broadcasting Ridg
way’s message.
His message was the -third in
preliminary radio exchanges be
tween opposing commanders.
The Chinese Reds’ Peiping radio
said the cease fire would be on
the 38th parallel. President Syng
man Rhee of South Korea said
“We cannot accept” an armistice
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Four U. S. Reds
Fail To Appear
To Go To Prison
NEW YORK, (IP) — Four top
U. S. Communists failed to sur
render <to begin serving prison
terms today, heightening specula
tion they had either gone under
ground or fled the country.
Federal Judge Sylvester J.
Ryan, who yesterday had set a
9:30 a.m. deadline for their sur
render, immediately ordered bonds
of the four forfeited. Each had
been free on $20,000 bail fur
nished by the Civil Rights Con
gress, an organization tagged sub
versive by the U.S. Attorney Gen
eral’s office.
Seven other leaders, also mem
bers of the party’s American
Politburo, began serving their pri
son terms yesterday. The four
missing leaders were to have ap
peared in court at the same time.
The four, object of a nation
wide FBI and police search, are
Henry Winston, the party’s na
tional organization secretary; New
York State chairman Robert
Thompson, Illinois chairman Gil
bert Green and party national sec
retary Gus Hall.
The 11 leaders were convicted
nearly three years ago of plotting
to teach the forcible overthrow of
the United States government.
The U. S. Supreme Court upheld
their convictions last June 4.
All four off the missing Reds are
American - born but each has
either visited or studied in Russia.
Dream Theater
Presents Special
Benefit Showing
In cooperation with the McKin
ley Foundation which operates for
the benefit of the Alaska Crippled
Children’s Association, the Dream
Theater has announced that two
wonderful Alaska films will be
shown next Thursday evening, re
placing the regular scheduled
show.
Half of the proceeds from the
showing will go to the Alaska
Crippled Children’s Fund.
The pictures are “Self Dumping
Lake George” a film which takes
the spectator on an expedition to
the glacier country northeast of
Anchorage.
Lake George is a body of water
16 miles long, 5 miles wide and
over 200 feet deep, trapped in a
vast glacial region of the Chu
gach Mountain Range. The giant
Knik Glacier, moving over 100
feet a year runs directly into a
mountain of solid rock 6,000 feet
high, sealing the lake, which fills
with water from melting snow
and glacier ice. The trapped water
begins to eat at the ice of the
glacier until it has traveled about
seven miles before it dumps
through its channel of ice bergs.
Ice is carried to the sea, 60 miles
away, down Knik Arm of Cook’s
Inlet. It is a “wonder of the
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Alaska Steam Schedules
21 Sailings This Month
SEATTLE, (/P) — Near-record
sailings in the next month will
move -thousands of tons of cargo
north to almost every port in
Alaska, the Alaska Steamship
Company announced today.
The company’s freighters*
schedule lists 21 sailings between
July 3 and August 3. T£e schedule
includes twd passenger cargo
ships which steam north from
Seattle each week.
The MS Ring Splice, traditional
Christmas ship of the Arctic, is
down for a sailing this month.
The vessel will sail July 11 with
a year’s supply for Kotzebue Bay.
It will visit Kotzebue, Shishmaref.
Deering, Keewalik and Nome.
(By the Associated Press)
Monday Scores
National League
Brooklyn 6—Boston 1
Pittsburgh 7—Chicago 2
New York 4—Philadelphia 3
St. Louis 8—Cincinnati 2
American League
New York 14—Philadelphia 5
Boston 5—Washington -2
Cleveland 3—Chicago 2
Only games scheduled
No Pacific Coast League games
scheduled.
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