THE NOME NUGGET
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NOME, ALASKA
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Entered as second class matter October 14, 1943, at the postoffice
at Nome, Alaska, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
Nome, Alaska, Wednesday, August 8, 1951
NEW POLICY OF BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS
The short talk given Tuesday noon at the Cham
ber of Commerce meeting, by Dillon Meyers, Commis
sioner for the Bureau of Indian Affairs, expressed a
new policy and a step forward in the administration
of native affairs.
The Alaska Native Service has finally seen the
light and has decided that natives should be trained
to be a part of the American way of life rather than
as a “curio'' set apart on a reservation.
The new policy indicates that reservations are a
thing of the past and such disgraceful attempts as were
made at Shungnak and Barrow are now but history.
Little by little, the service will withdraw from the
Territory, turning it over to those who live here. The
start is gradually being made by turning over the
schools to the Territory, correlating all schools into
one system. i
This has been an important decision for the de
partment to make and those leaders who made it have
shown wisdom by so doing. i
KING ISLANDERS HOSTS AT POTLATCH
For the first time since the N.W.A. Fair started,
a visiting group of natives will be hosts to the Eskimo
people in the community. The King Islanders are re
turning the hospitality extended to them these many
years, by having the Potlatch at their village this year,
w-here all the native people will gather and celebrate
the opening of the Fair.
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Search Pressed For
King’s Plane, Party
At Seward Glacier
JUNEAU, (/P) — A wealthy
scientist who came to Alaska three
weeks ago to study glaciers, press
ed a search today for his wife,
their daughter and pilot, missing
since July 27 in the expedition’s
supply plane.
The scientist, Walter A. Wood
of Par Hills, N. J., learned only
Saturday of the family tragedy
when he and three others were
picked off Malaspina Glacier by
an Air Farce plane in response to
a message they wrote in the snow.
Missing aboard the supply
plane, a Norseman, were Woods’
wife and 18-year-old daughter,
Valerie, and pilot Maurice King.
The supply plane was last heard
from when it visited an ice study
camp on Seward Glacier, a finger
of Malaspina, and then took off
for Wood’s camp. Its disappear
ance was reported when it failed
to return later to Yakutat.
Human Leg Is
Found on Beach
Near Yakutat
ANCHORAGE, (/P) — The dis
covery of a human leg and parts
of a pair of green whipcord trou
sers on the beach at Yakutat was
held a possible clue Tuesday to
the fate of a Korean airlift plane
missing since July 21 with 38 per
sons aboard.
Tenth Rescue Squadron officials
said searchers are now expected
to* concentrate their search for the
craft along shore waters of the
Yakutat area.
Three Juneau doctors said the
leg came from a large human
male and that it had been ex
posed to water about two weeks
—about the length of time since i
the airlift plane disappeared.
The trousers, which were found
some distance from the leg, were
from a different person, officials
said. A check was being made of
laundry marks for further clues
to the persons who wore them.
There was no positive confirma
tion from Canadian Pacific Air- j
lines, operators of the airlift plane
that either find was connected
with persons aboard the ship.
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Trousers Found On Coast!
Proved Not Clue To
Missing Transport
JUNEAU, (/P)—A pair of pants
recovered along the Alaska coast1
were discarded today as a possible
clue to' a missing Korea airlift
plane.
Mrs. Fred Wetche of Juneau
; said last night she is sure they
were the pants of her husband,
who was lost off Yakobi Rock in
the Cape Spencer region fast fall.
She told U.S. Commissioner Gor
don Gray she recognized the laun
dry mark, as published in the Ju
neau newspaper.
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Gray described to her a mended
pocket and she said it correspond
ed to mending she did.
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Russia Makes New
Bid for Five-Power
“Peace” Pact
WASHINGTON, <£>) — Russia
has made a new bid for a five
power “peace” pact. First reaction
here •augured a flat rejection.
Russian President Nikolai
Shvernik revived the two-year
old Soviet offer last night in a
surprise letter to President Tru
man.
“It’s the same old chestnut tied
with a new ribbon,” said a high
American official who studied the
letter’s contents.
Shvernik’s message, bristling
with denunciations of Western
“war-mongering,” was accom
panied by a 2500-word resolution
proclaiming Russia’s alleged dedi
cation to world peace.”
In his letter, Shvernik called
for an agreement by the U.S., Rus
sia, Britain, France and commun
ist China to disarm and prohibit
manufacture of atomic weapons.
He reiterated Russia’s willingness
ter agree to some form of inspec
tion as a guarantee of her good
faith.
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Virgin of Fatima Not Aboard
Today's Pan American Plane
The statue, Virgin of Fatima,
scheduled to arrive on Pan Am
erican Airways today, did not
arrive, we are advised. Another
date will be set, when it is as
certained that the famed statue
will arrive, and it will be placed
on display at the Catholic Church.
Nugget Ads Bring Quick Results i
Virginia Hill Will Test
Govt. Claim She Owes
$161,00 In Back Taxes
SPOKANE, (/P)—Virginia Hill,
whose home and personal belong
ings were seized and said by the
government for non-payment of
income taxes, said Monday she
would file a petition in the tax
court of the United States con
testing the government’s claim
that she owes $161,000 in back
taxes.
Auction of her equity in a
$35,000 house brought $14,750.
The sale of her jewelry, mink
coats and household effects
brought about $15,000.
WEST POINT, N. Y., (/P)—.West
Point pledged Tuesday it will
play its 1951 football schedule.
“We will always play our sched
ule,” said Maj. Gen. Frederick A.
Irving, the academy superintend
ent.
“We will try to make up in
fight what we lack in talent.”
Most of the football squad is
facing dismissal in the current
investigation of cheating on ex
aminations in classroom work.
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