THE NOME NUGGET
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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, June 13, 1951
VIEWS AND REVIEWS
What They Say Whether Right or Wrong
Harold W. Dodds, president, Princeton University:
“The sure way to provoke World War III is to leave
Europe open to easy conquest by the Kremlin.”
Benjamin Farber, Presbyterian preacher: “Some
thing has happened to our ideas of right and wrong
in private and public life.”
Anthony Eden, former British Foreign Minister:
“It was the United States'alone that saved the life of
Western Europe.”
George Santayana, 87-year-old philosopher: “A
Christian calls himself a sinner, but he seldom regrets
his sins and hardly ever corrects them.” I
Senators Protest
Waste of Manpower
In Armed Services
WASHINGTON, (JP) — Investi
gating senators have protested
what they call “a waste of physi
cally fit manpower” in all the
armed services.
A spot check at 16 Army, Navy,
Air Force and Marine training
centers, a Senate Armed Services
subcommittee said Monday night,
disclosed 95,784 enlisted men and
officers in jobs or duties which
non-combat personnel could fill. It
referred to these men as a “chair
corps.”
Chairman Lyndon Johnson <D
Tex> of the investigating group,
said “these men represent a waste
of physically fit manpower which
this nation cannot afford.”
The report urged that thousands
of jobs now filled by “combat
qualified” men be given to less
able bodied or “limited service”
men, to women in the armed serv
ices or to civilians.”
Icing Conditions
Caused Crash Of
Eight F-84 Jets
WASHINGTON, (/P) — The Air
Force yesterday ruled out sabot
age and said icing of engine inlet
screens caused the crash of eight
jet fighters over Indiana last Fri
day.
The investigation conducted by
the Air Force, the FBI, and air
plane manufacturers has revealed
*‘no indication of sabotage,” the
Air Force said.
The eight planes were among
34 F-84 Thunderjets flying from
Austin, Tex., to Selfridge Field,
Mich. The eight crashed a few
minutes after taking off after a
refueling stop at Wright-Patterson
Field, Dayton, Ohio.
Three pilots were killed.
The preliminary investigation
showed that the icing was “due to
a peculiar set of localized atmo
spheric conditions,” the Air Force
statement asserted.
A thunderstorm had struck the
area around Richmond, Ind., just
before the planes crashed in the
largest mass jet disaster in history.
Former Government
Executive Attacks
Truman’s Spending
WASHINGTON, {/P) — William
Jeffers, former railroad and gov
ernment executive, says President
Truman is a “fakir first class” us
ing the Korean war as an excuse
for a spending splurge.
It was Jeffers’ second blast at
the President and his tax pol
icies. Previously, he had charged
that Mr. Truman was pouring the
taxpayers’ money “down a hun
dred rat holes” and had lost the
people’s confidence.
Both attacks were made in let
ters addressed to Vice President
Barkley and distributed to all !
members of the Senate, over
which Barkley presides.
“This man Truman, who is a
fakir first and who is getting
$50,000 a year tax-free, which I
consider highway robbery, is using
the Korean situation as a device
for all kinds of expenditures that
have nothing to do with defense,”
Jeffers wrote in his latest letter.
Jeffers was the former head of
the Union Pacific Railroad and
boss Of the government rubber
program during World War II. He
is now living in Pasadena, Calif.,
j on a pension.
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ALASKA AND BRAZIL
! FURNISH TREES for ICELAND
| REYJAVIK, Iceland, (JP)—Trees
of Brazilian origin may decorate
gardens and parks in the capital
of treeless Iceland in a few years.
Kaj A. Svanholm of Rio de Jan
eiro has offered the city 5,000
eucalyptus plants from Brazil. He
visited Iceland last summer and
thinks they might grow well.
Last fall the Iceland govern
i ment sent a special envoy to Alas
• ka to gather seeds for Iceland’s
j forestry program.
—
Kotzebue ‘News
This year Barrow is having an
eight-whale and Point Hope a
four-whale celebration, but Kot
zebue enjoyed its own brand of
gala festivities with a cleanup
week in which probably more ton
nage was involved than in the
whaling activities, and which cer
tainly brought into the picture
every individual in the village.
Frank Whaley, manager of
Wien’s Kotzebue branch, thought
the people of the village would be
interested in cooperating on a
clean-up program, and called a
meeting which (brought such re
sponse his plan was put into inr
mediate action. The village was
divided into the north and south
sections, each section headed by a
committee of five. The north was
chairmanned by Harold Brown,
and the south by Burt Neilly.
All the heavy equipment in
town was donated for service dur
ing the evening hours, but in spite
of the heavy traffic in “dumping”
and much personal application,
cleanup work was carried over
into the next week, with plans
throughout the summer months,
to carry out “dumping” details
an innovation in Kotzebue which
will have enthusiastic support.
The week ended with a big
meeting near the city airport on
Saturday night, when Frank an
nounced the winning section, the
south, to the cheers of the resi
dents of that end of town. John
Curtis was the winner of the five
dollar cash prize, donated by the
N. G. Hanson Trading Company,
for the cleanest yard in town. All
the “southerners” attended a free
show at the Midnight Sun Theatre
the following Monday night, with
free candy, gum, and popcorn,
while the north end residents
were clearing up the unfinished
“dumping” details of the north
section. But the south enders gave
their ready support to the “north
erners” by finishing up the north
end “dumping” several nights
later while the losers enjoyed the
same show.
The big meeting climaxed with
native dancing to the drums and
singing of Frankie Lazarus, Ches
ter Seveck, Levi Rexford, and
Charlie Jensen. The people of the
village responded enthusiastically
to several tap dancing sequences
by Nina, Neva, and Frank Whaley.
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Archie Ferguson returned to
Kotzebue from Naknek where he
supervised the unloading of oil
from an Alaska Steamship freight
er into his carriers for delivery
up-river. He states the Alaska
Steamship vessel returned to Se
attle with all other freight des
tined for the canneries *and busi
nesses of that area, due to strike
conditions. He announced Union
Oil is building storage tanks at
Naknek, and will also put in large
installations at York, south of
Wales, to handle tanker dis
charges. Archie says he completed
arrangements in Nome to lease the
MS Kotzebue to Morrison-Knud
sen for the summer activities.
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