ROTARY CLUB
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Nome Rotary Club met yester
day noon at the Bering Sea Club
with its new president Don Lyle
presiding.
T/\*v4r»r» Detzer of the Methodist
Church was Rotary’s
guest and spoke briefly to the
club.
New committee heads were
named including: club ervice, Bill
Angell, vocational service. Bob
Treat, community service, George
Bayer, international service, Stan
Morgan.
GLADYS MILLER
PASSES ON
Gladys Miller, 10 year old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Albert
Miller of Teller, passed away this
morning at the hospital after an
Illness of several weeks.
Surviving her are four other
children in the family.
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U.S. Commissioner’s Court
Walter Lynch was given a 90
day suspended sentence for disor
derly conduct.
Martin Richards was given a
sentence of 30 days and his per
mit to drive suspended.
Albert Martin was fined $10.00
for being drunk in a car.
Emma Henry was given a sen
tence of ten days for being drunk
in a private dwelling.
The Social Rooms of the Meth
odist Federated Church which
connect the parsonage and the
church proper, built in about 1902,
are being tom down this week as
they are inadequate to meet the
present recreational program of
the church. A new and large unit
will replace this part of the build
ing, and will be built by Will Gil
lis, contractor.
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NEWS IN BRIEF
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A maintenance crew has been
at the mine since it closed.
For many years the, mine was
the second largest hard rock gold
producer in Alaska.
Officers of the mine are all
from Seattle. They are George
Meagher, president; and directors
Wallace Lew Kay, Dan Goon,
Frank Spackert and W. Sam
Shinn.
JUNEAU, (/P) — A three-week
old strike by teamsters was set
tled yesterday with contractors
agreeing to pay $2.08 per hour.
Prospects of an early settlement
of a laborers’ Strike called July 3
appear bright. The laborers are
asking $2 an hour. A compromise
offer of $1.80 has been rejected,
but negotiations are proceeding.
JUNEAU., (JP) —Representatives
of five fish-buying firms signed
an agreement yesterday with the
United Trollers of Alaska, Local
j 100, to pay a minimum of 22 cents
a pound for Cohoe salmon; 23
| cents minimum for small reds and
22 cents for whites, effective im
mediately.
It was called the first time in
(history that the trollers’ organiza
j tion had a minimum price on Co
hoes. The trollers were represent
| ed by union men from Juneau,
Wrangell, Sitka and Ketchikan.
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RICHMOND, Va. (IP) — The
daughter of Basil O’Connor, pres
ident of the National Infantile
Paralysis Foundation, is in a hos
pital here today undergoing treat
ment for the disease.
She is Mrs. Sidney Culver, 30,
and mother of five. Mrs. Culver
was brought by ambulance here
yesterday afternoon. A definite
diagnosis of polio was made last
night.
i WAKEFIELD, Mass. (IP) — A
, meek voice asked Wakefield fire
men over the phone if they would
do a woman a great favor.
They indicated they might.
“Well,” asked Mrs. Arthur E.
Goodwin, “will you turn off the
gas in my home and save the car
rots?” i
Mrs. Goodwin explained that
she was in Topsfield—20 miles
away—and had left the gas bur
ing under a pan of carrots.
The firemen saved the carrots
—and possibly the house from an
explosion.
Dorothy Winninghoff, represen
tative of the Logan-Cache Knit
ting Mills is enjoying her first
visit to Nome alohtught she has
been in other parts of the Terri
tory before. She states she is sat
isfying a life-long ambition in
seeing this famous historical spot
with such a colorful past.
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James Lydon - Lois Collier
Congress Will Not •
Give Truman Un
limited Powers
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manpower and throw at least ten
billion dollars more into the arms
production pot.
The ten billion dollar fund re
quest brought the comment from
Seantor Bussell (D.-Ga.) that it
looks like a big war instead of a
little one.” v*
*Rep. Halleck CR.-Ind.) said Con
gress won’t give any “blank
check” authority to the President
but will “do what is necessary to
guaranteed our security and our
binding commitments.”
Senator O’Mahoney (D.-Wyo.)
and Rep. Horton (R.-Ky.‘ both
called for enactment of excess
profits taxes.
Rep. Arends (R.-Ill.) said he was
happy the President didn’t ask for
price controls. It will be up to
Congress to determine if, and
when, they are necessary, he said.
Senator Lyndon Johnson (D.
8ex.) said he wished the President
had asked for full mobilization of
industry and manpower, adding
that “This is not a piecemeal fight
we are in.”
Sunday well spent brings a
week of content. Nazarene Church
Fort Yukon May
Be Saved from Fire *
FAIRBANKS, iff) — The 500
residents of Fort Yukon stood
ready to evacuate their Arctic
Circle village yesterday, but dis
trict forester Tof Bennett said “if
there’s no flareup, there’s a good
chance the village may be saved.”
A brisk wind, which threatened
for two days to sweep a forest^ A
fife right into the heart of the
village, died down yesterday. The
fire was curbed, temporarily at
least, only a quarter mile away.
A heavy smoke cloud still blan
| keted the area and prevented
planes from carrying in additional
fire-fighting equipment. Fliers
from the 10th Rescue Squadroif
here, 150 miles from Fort Yukon,
were unable to take off from their
own field because of smoke.
Smoke from the forest fires
around Fairbanks and Fort Yukon
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is reported to have been carried
by the wind as far as Kotzebue
and is now clearing with a west
wind.
The Brightest Spot on Front
Street today is the Nome Hard
ware which has a newly finished
front of asbestos shingles and
fresh paint. ?
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