THE NOME NUGGET
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Entered as second class matter October 14. 1943. at the postoffice
•t Nome, Alaska, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
Nome, Alaska, Monday, September 12, 1949
CIVIL AIR PATROL SQUADRON FORMED HERE
The formation of a Nome Squadron of tfte Alaska
Wing of the Civil Air Patrol marks another step of
progress in this active community.
The Patrol, which is an auxiliary of the U. S. Air
Force, and which was organized in 1941 under Civilian
Defense, has flown thousands of hours last winter hunt
ing stranded livestock during blizzard conditions, and
aiding stricken families; it is crediated with 20,000 mis
sions during the war.
Vigilance is only one form of the CAP program
however and its 100,000 members.
The training of American youth is one of its outstand
ing achievements, and students from 15 to 17 years of
age are given study courses in navigation as well as or
ientation flights and all the pre-requisites of flight train
ing. Actual flight training is not given however. The aim
is to make better citizens and prepare young people for
civilian aviation in peacetime as well as for possible
duty in the armed forces. This wonderful opportunity
which will be offered to the young people of Nome is
open to girls as well as boys—20'< of the membership
in CAP now being women.
CAP has chosen a fine group of alert citizens for its
officers here, and the community is looking forward
with interest to the development of its youth program.
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CHURCHILL URGES UNITY
“Our dangers are great, but so is our strength,” de
clared Winston Churchill, in addressing the people of
Strasbourg, where the Council of Europe was in the
process of beginning.
The War Prime Minister of Great Britain called at
tention to the long religious, dynastic and nationalistic
wars that Europe has experienced and asked:
“Are we to sink, after all our victories and sufferings, j
into final chaos, into ideological wars thrust upon us by
barbarous and wicked oligarchies, whose fifth column
agents are infiltrating into so many lands?”
This is the question that confronts the free peoples of
the world. It stems, not from the agitated emotions of
people, but from the machinations of ruling regimes,
possessed of the power to regiment their people and to
collect their resources for the purpose of aggressive
militarism. It is the present epitome of the “might
makes right” theory, which finds expression in totali
tarian nations, where ambitious men direct the activi->
ties of millions in accord with their ambitious, and sus
pected programs.
PURCHASE PROCEDURE
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(The Bremerton Sun)
Any housewife will tell you that there’s no trick to
purchasing onions. She merely goes to the grocery store,
weighs ’em out and pays for them. That’s that.
But government red tape can complicate even this
simple chore. The Tax Foundation’s publication, “Tax
Outlook,” reports that an investigator for the House ap
propriations committee recently checked up and discov
ered that an army purchase of onions required 288 sep
arate and distinct actions. After an order for the pur
chaise of some onions was received in Chicago from the
office of the quartermaster general in Washington, this
chain of events ensued:
“The order was:
“Date stamped, time stamped, examined, routed, cop
ied, typed, receipted, entered on other documents, un
derlined, reviewed, and,
“Key punched, card punched, coded, tabulated,
checked, matched, filed, discussed, reviewed, technical
ly, then just plain reviewed, and.
“Indexed, analyzed, mailed, abstracted, printed, reg
Palmer Queen Off
For Hollywood
PALMER, Alaska, (/P) — Miss
Alaskan Statehood fMatanuska
Valley Fair variety) is heading for
Hollywood.
Lavon Roetman. 16-year-old
wearer of the crowm, flew to Seat
tle Saturday via Northwest Air
lines.
She is scheduled for a week’s
stay in Hollywood. The program
calls for her entertainment by
Paramount and Walt Disney stu
dios and Crosby Enterprises. The
Queen is a former Minnesota girl
who has lived here for a year. She
is a senior in Palmer high school.
She is accompanied by Miles
Brandon, an Eskimo tenor from
Dillingham. He won the Fair’s tal
ent contest. Brandon, son of a
fisherman, will go to New York to
attend shows and concerts under
the guidance of Marita Farrell, op
era star. The 24-year-old singer
Issue Report On
Economic Talks
WASHINGTON, </P>. The United
States, Canada and Britain de
cided Saturday that they should
encourage world bank and U. S.
Export-Import bank financing in
sterling area countries to help Bri
tain overcome its economic crisis.
A committee report adopted by
the three-power conference on
Britain’s problems said it felt that
a ‘‘properly directed flow of pro
ductive investment” would help
not only in meeting Britain’s cur
rent dollar shortage but would
also assist the attainment of a pro
per balance between the British
sterling area need for dollars and
its ability to get them.
The committee report, was re
leased by U. S. treasury secretary
Snyder, as spokesman for the con
ference.
later will continue his musical
studies in Seattle.
istered, inspected, sorted, noted, stores, transmitted and
vouchered.
“Messengers handled it 100 times in rts trip through
18 sub-divisions.”
Maybe we need some housewife’s advice to simplify
the “government style” buying procedure.
IiOW CONGRESS CAN SAVE TIME
The pressure of work upon Congress has led to some
study of plans to speed-up decisions in the two Houses.
One of the suggestions that seem appropriate involves
the dual procedure that Congress follows in connection
with “authorization” and “appropriation” bills.
The Congress does not pass a bill appropriating
money and letting the subject end. What it does, in the
first place, is to pass an authorization bill, which lays
down to general policy to be followed. Thereafter, a spe
cific appropriation bill is introduced.
This means that the authorization bill must go
through a House committee, then the House itself, then
the Senate Committee, then the Senate and, finally, into
a conference where differences between the twm versions
of the authorization bill will be settled. This requires, as
the reader can see, five distinct steps which take much
time.
When the authorization bill has been completed, the
five steps are repeated for the appropriation bill which
actually makes the money available for particular pur
poses. This also takes time. In the Senate, particularly,
there can be prolonged debate over both the authoriza
tion and appropriation measure. It migh be a good idea
for the Congress to eliminate the authorization bills and
to concentrate upon the passage of appropriation bills.
CURFEW SHALL NOT RING-YET
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j C. of C. Board Of
Directors Meet.
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to go ahead with the project in the
amount of $725,000, with further
funds to be forthcoming.
Paul Solka was also introduced
! and stated that he was represent
ing the U. S. Census Bureau and
would immediately begin taking a
complete business census of the
, Nome area, which is the first of
i this type census taken in the Terri
! tory, and would prove very bene
1 ficial, giving much pertinent in
formation for future use by mem
bers of Congress, etc., as hereto
fore there has been no compiled
data regarding the business in the
Territory. Reports are strictly con
fidential, not available to any
other government gaency, and are
destroyed upon compilation of the
necessary information totals.
Chamber of Commerce commit
tees were appointed as follows:
Sanitation, 'Paul A. Mandeville;
Roads, Rivers, and Harbors, Don
Lyle; Tourist, A. Polet; Publicity,
George Beacom; Legislative. Ted
D u f field; Membership, Wood;
Civic Affairs, Gordon Osborne;
Mining and Industry, Steve An
derson.
The group as a whole endorsed
the recommendation that a letter
of appreciation be sent to Carl -J.
Lomen, national councilor for the
Nome Chamber of Commerce, in
asmuch as his unceasing efforts
were mainly responsible for the
construction of the Nome break
water to become an actuality.
It was decided that a general
meeting would be held in the near
future, and a board of directors
meeting this forth-coming Friday
night, at the home of A. Polet.
Following adjournment of the
meeting refreshments were served
by Mrs* Wood.
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Twenty-Three Die
In Crash Of
Canadian Airliner
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stantly.
Eyewitnesses said the plane, a
DC-3, turned suddenly in the air
and plummeted toward a rocky
bluff which rises several hundred
feet from the St. Lawrence River
at this town 40 nvles east of Que
bec city.
Oscar Tremblay, a railway sec
tion hand, said he and four fellow
workment pushed their way four
miles through the underbrush to
the scene of the crash.
‘‘They all died outright,” he said.
Stannard had been a Seattle res
ident for many years and headed
the Alaska Steamship Co., until
1944, when the line was sold by
the Kennecott company to Skinner
and Eddy Corp. He lived in Seat
tle until the late 1930’s.
Only two other crashes have
taken a greater toll of lives in
Canada. They also happened in
Quebec. On July 24, 1948. a Rim
uiski Airlines plane crashed and
•rilled 29 on the Gaspe Peninsula.
On Oct. 19. 1943, a Royal Canadian
Airforce Liberator crashed near
Si. Donat, Quebec, and 24 were
killed.
Parker, 52. was at one time ac
v? in Af ican Copper companies.
Besik c being vice president of
Xennccett, he was president of the
Iron and T.tnnium com
pany. He was vice pres., and di
■ o: the Ala-ka Development
an.’ .Tin r:t! company, and was on
h br H ol director-: ot t-,e Utah
Vipper c >mpa \v, the Bingham
i f G field <Utah 21 !. . ■. i
he Gallup American Coal Co.