THE NOME NUGGET
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Entered as second class matter October 14. 1943, at the
post office at Nome, Alaska, under Act of March 3, 1879.
HATCHgPSC> MANY UGLY DUCKLINGS
A Great Day for the Irish
ST. PATRICK’S DAY celebrations had its origin long, long ago
but in America it has a different significance than in Ireland.
This is a day to give affectionate expression of the honor in
which the people of Irish blood and Irish laughter are held by
their fellow Americans.
In the history of this country much important work was done
by the Irish immigrants. Their voices were among the loudest in
defense of the new country and when raised in song their voices
were among the sweetest.
St. Patrick’s Day is a great day for the Irish and all of us,
for Nome has some Irishmen of its own, who have contributed
with brawn, courage, leadership, and statesmanship and continue
to be an important part of our community.
Senate Okehs Bill for Senior
Students to Go to Juneau
As Guests of Legislature
JUNEAU tfh — The Senate gave
its approval to SB288 which pro
vides for the attendance of one
senior from each high school in
the state for one week at each
session of the legislature.
The seniors who make the trip
Would be determined by a debate
among the members of the senior
class at each of the state’s 39
high schools.
Those attending legislative ses
sions would have thfe chance,
through writing a winning essay
at the conclusion of their visit to
the legislature, at a year’s scholar
ship at the University of Alaska.
Senate Approves $550,000 for 28
Additional Staterooms on Ferries
JUNEAU — The Senate ap
proved, by a vote of 17-3, a bill
calling for an appropriation of
$550,000 for installation of 28 ad
ditional staterooms in each of the
three ferries to be used on the
Southeast Alaska Marine Highway
system.
Sen. Howard Bradshaw, a mem
ber of the Senate Finance Com
mittee, told the Senate the addi
tional staterooms would give each
one of the vessels a total of 42
staterooms.
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• Deluxe Mukluks
• Parkas and Ruffs
• Ivory Carvings
• Photography
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Gulf Oil Co. Awarded
Contract to Explore for Oil
And Gas in Port Moller Area
WASHINGTON HP* — Secretary
of the Interior Stewart Udall an
nounced Thursday approval of a
3-year contract with the Gulf Oil
| Corp. of California for explora
tion and oil and gas development
in the Port Moller area in Alaska.
The contract covers about 592,
000 acres. The land involved is on
I the north side of the Alaska Pen
| insula in the Bristol Bay area,
| about 450 miles southwest of An- j
chorage.
During the 5-year period, Gulf
will be required to drill at least j
three exploratory wells and spend
not less than $1 million.
The agreement iS the 15th de-1
velopment contract currently out-!
standing in Alaska. The contracts
cover about 6.9 million acres.
Udall said that since the first de
velopment contract was approved
for Alaska land in February 1053,
20 deep exploratory wells have
been drilled or are now being
drilled in the contract areas.
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EXPERT REPAIRS
What Went Wrong
With Labor Bills?
JUNEAU — Labor’s legisla
tive representatives were attempt
ing to find out what went wrong
on what, for them, will go down
j as “Black Wednesday.”
“I haven’t been able to come
up with an explanation as yet.
There were some funny switches,”
commented State Federation of
Labor lobbyist Henry Hedberg
after a day in which the Senate:
Killed two bills labor wanted.
Passed two bills labor didn’t
want.
And gave labor one minor meas
ure as a consolation prize.
Leading off labor’s unhappy day
in the upper chamber, the Senate
gave final approval to a bill,
SB268, which exempts businesses
with 10 or less employes from the
overtime provisions of the Wages
and Hours Act.
Labor didn’t like it.
The Senate then killed SB205,
an executive request measure
which would have boosted the
basic weekly employment security
benefit amount from $45 to $50.
Labor wanted the bill.
Going the other way, the Sen
ate then passed SB259, which pegs
the state minimum wage at 35
per cent above the prevailing fed
eral minimum wage, in addition
to providing for some exceptions.
Labor was dead set against the
measure.
Labor took another setback
when the upper chamber gave the
axe to a labor-backed bill, SB 199,
which would have established an
exclusive, non-profit state work
men’s compensation i n s u r ance
fund.
The one bill on which labor and
the Senate did agree was SR282.
which would create a lien in favor
of an employe when his employer
fails to make payments to an em
ploye benefit fund.
Hedberg said he had never seen
a single day in which labor had
taken such a beating.
“We’re just going to have to i
try and figure out why it went 3
this way,” Hedberg said.
The Senate killed the exclusive <
state workmen’s compensation i
fund proposal by going along with ’
a motion for indefinite postpone- <
ment offered by Sen. W. O. Smith, i
When, the Senate gpt to the
lien bill, the last of five labor i
measures on me calendar, Sen.
George McNabb recognized that
labor’s forces had had a rough
day,
“From my record today,” Mc
Nabb said, “I am somewhat re
luctant to speak on this bill.”
But he did, and it sailed through,
19-0.
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C21 Donations are Tax Deductible
JUNEAU W» — Gov. Wm. Egan
said today contributions made
toward helping finance Alaska’s
Century 21 exposition exhibit in
Seattle have been declared tax
deductible for federal income tax
purposes.
Egan said the ruling was made
by Lewis Conrad, District Director
of the Internal Revenue Service
at Anchorage.
FLYING TIGERS TRANSPORT
PLANE CRASHES AT ADAK
ANCHORAGE UR — A Flying
Tigers Airline transport plane
carrying a secret military cargo
and a crew of seven crashed and
burned at Adak in the Aleutian
Islands yesterday. One man was
killed.
Flying Tigers’ headquarters at
Burbank, Calif., said the dead
man was J. M. Johnstone, 25, of
Jersey City, N.J., the fight engi
neer.
Flying Tiger said the air
freighter was landing to refuel
at Adak Naval Air Station at 4:14
a.m. for a flight across the North
Pacific to a U.S. military base in
the Orient.
The spokesman said he could
not. disclose the destination or the
cargo.
The four-engine Lockheed Con
stellation took off from Travis
Air Force Base in California.
The airline planned to send a
a plane to Adak to pick up sur
vivors and investigate the acci
dent.
President Signs Bill to Permit
Training of Unemployed Workers
WASHINGTON Iff) — President
Kennedy has signed legislation
which will permit training up to
a million unemployed workers for
new skills.
The three-year, $345-million
j program is designed to help both
those who lose their jobs through
automation and those whose skills
limit them to low-paying jobs.
Kennedy described the bill as
perhaps the most significant leg
islation in the area of employment
since the Employment Act of
1956. That law set up a govern
ment policy of seeking to main
tain full employment.
Washing Machine Butter . . .
SIBLEY, Iowa UP! — Farmers in
northwest Iowa can’t get their
milk to market because of snow
clogged roads.
One farm wife is meeting the
situation by using her washing
machine to churn cream from the
milk into butter.
Mrs. Peter Steensma, who lives
oh a farm near here, first tried
a il 5-gallon batch but found it
was to© much for the washing ma
chihe. Now she’s using the cream
in 10-gallon batches.
This section of Iowa has been
snowbound for six days. t
$160,090 Sought to
Review Div. Hwys.
Accounting System
I JUNEAU Gf} — The administra
j tion Thursday asked the legisla
| ture for $160,000 to make a com
! plete review of the Division of
i Highways’ accounting system and
! rewrite or reconstruct the agency’s
finacial records.
The request was submitted to
the Joint Senate-House Finance
Committee by State Planning Di
rector George Nichols and Public
Works Commissioner Richard
Downing,
The work will be carried out
under the supervision of the Seat
tle accounting firm of Peat, Mar
wick, Mitchell & Co. if the ad
ministration’s request is granted.
The administration’s request
was submitted before Gov. Wm.
Egan signed an executive order
making the Highways Division a
full-fledged department.
In making the request, Down
ing and Nichols said:
“The existing highway account
ing system, and related proced
ures, have not been fully devel
oped.
The accounting records are not
currently maintained, there being
a lag of two months or more in
the fiscal year 1901-4062 activities.
“The fiscal year 1960-1961 ac
counting records will have to be
rewritten or re-constructed to ac
curately reflect expenditures and
provide documentation sufficient
for Bureau of Public Roads audit.”
Nichols and Downing told the
Finance Committee the work to be
done will probably be completed
by March 31, 1963.
The estimated cost of retaining
the Seattle firm was listed at
$100,000, although Peat, Marwick,
Mitchell & Co. told Nichols similar
studies have resulted in costs up
to $150,000.
Downing and Nichols said the
study is “designed to provide top
level consulting services, coopera
tion and coordination with the
Bureau of Public Roads, and co
ordination with the Department of
Administration central accounting
system.
“The estimate of cost is based
upon availably data, and consider
ing the complexity of the prob
lem and the size and scope of the
lighway program, it wiil be
money well spent."
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