THE NOME NUGGET
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Entered M second class matter October 14, 1943, at the
post office at Nome, Alaska, under Act of March 3, 1879.
THE INSEPARABLES
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A Means of Unity . . .
TIE 'AIR ROUTE which was established this winter
to Bethel is already proving to be a means of unit
ing the far-flung Northwestern Alaska in more ways
than osne.
Last month a charming High school senior was
able to participate here in /the Junior Miss Contest
for the first time and this week the Bethel High School
basketball team is welcomed here as it makes its first
visit to play the Nome Nanoofos.
The local high school team has already had an
exchange of games wiith the students of Unalakleet
and these games are but forerunners of what better
transportation can do to develop and unify this part
of Alaska.
These visitors are in a sense pioneering as they
aire the first to wing their way to Nome from the
other schools in Western Alaska.
Looking Ahead
By George S. Benson
President of National Education Program
INFILTRATION BY MAIL
"1VTEBRASKA Congressman Glenn Cunningham is
1 ^ planning to push with vigor House Resolution No.
9004, which he introduced in the last Congress near
the close of the session. This is a bill that would stop
the present administration policy of permitting Com
munist propaganda mailings to be delivered in this
country without additional postage from ports of entry.
To allow this material to come into our country at all
is beyond understanding, but to distribute it free
seems a bit like asking the postman to join the Red
conspiracy.
Congressman Cunningham cannot understand
how the administration can ask the American people
for increased postal- rates and at the same time allow
this flood of propaganda to go through the mails free.
Since every piece <xf mail handled costs money it can
be said with some justification that the Communists
are responsible for a portion of the deficit the Post
Office Department experiences each year. Rather
tragic irony, don’t you think, that Chairman Khrush
chev should contribute in such various ways to the
deficits of the U.S. budget?
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Exercise Great
Bear Scheduled
To Get Underway
ANCHORAGE UP! — Airborne
troops from Canada’s famed
Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light
Infantry and U.S. soldiers from
Ft. Devens, Mass., will join forces
this month as the friendly force
in efforts to dislodge an “ag
gressor” from Alaskan soil.
The International military ef
fort will be one of the high points
of Exercise Great Bear, which
will be held Feb. 12-21.
Aggressor forces will be played
by the 1st Battle Group, 9th In
fantry, reinforced, whose home
station is Ft. Wainwright, near
Fairbanks.
Maneuver directer is Maj. Gen.
J. H. Michaelis, Commander of
| U.S. Army forces in Alaska. He
I said some 8,000 troops will take
part.
Exercise Great Bear will be the
first time U.S. and Canadian
troops have joined in a winter
maneuver since 1950, when they
took part in a war game near
Delta Junction. It will also test
joint cold weather military doc
trine.
U.S. Army, Alaska, is charged
with development and testing of
cold weather doctrine for the tri
partite forces of the United States,
Canada and Great Britain.
Also taking part in the maneu
ver will be elements of the Alas
ka Army National Guard Scout
Battalions.
Exercise Great Bear will be
played in one of the most rugged
areas over which an Army maneu
ver has ever been held. The site
chosen for the war game is a
strip of virtually undeveloped
land running east of the Alaska
Highway from Tanacross to Eiel
son Air Force Base, near Fair
banks. The area is from 20 tc
30 miles wide, and about 16C
miles long. It encloses some 3,20C
square miles.
During the period of the actual
exercise, the aggressor from
Ft Wainwright will move down
the maneuver area in an effort
to drive to Tok. The combined
U.S.-Canadian friendly forces will
attempt to engage and repel the
enemy. It is what the Army calls
a “free” maneuver, which gives
combat commanders maximum
flexibility.
No scenario is written in ad
vance to assure that the friendly
forces win.
NO PAROLE FORESEEN
FOR U-2 PILOT GARY POWERS
MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. Ufi —
The wife of an American U-2 pilol
imprisoned by the Russians say:
her husband has no hope that his
10-year sentence for espionage
will be reduced.
Mrs. Francis Gary Powers sait
she received a letter from hei
husband that expressed despond
ency over word from Soviet of
ficials that the seriousness of hi:
crime prevented consideration oi
clemency or parole.
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“Our files are full of mem
oranda indicating constant con
ferences with the Bureau of In
dian Affairs area office educa
tion personnel. Nothing in our
files would indicate that the Bu
reau objected in any way to our
embarking upon this project, nor
is there indication that the Bureau
thought we were attempting to
‘call the shots’ in this field.”
Egan said the third reason given
Moody was that the BIA was going
to build regional high schools in
villages rather than operate board
ing schools for native children.
“This would be a valid reason
and difficult to combat were it not
that the Nome school was planned
and justified as a school to sup
plement the regional high schools,”
the Governor told Riley.
Egan said that in September of
last year Hawkins had said in a
letter to the governor that there
would be a need for the Nome
school and a boarding school at
the University of Alaska for 500
students.
“The scope of the State’s plan
to build the school at Nome is de
pendent upon the nature of par
ticipation by the Bureau of In
dian Affairs,” £gan said.
“If the Bureau of Indian Affairs
does not participate, it is neces
sary that we build to take care
of only those students not now
able to attend high school and
who can find relatives, friends
or people to house them.
“That is not good planning.”
German Mina Disaster
SAABRUECKEN, Germany (*>
—A giant explosion ripped thru
a coal mine today, killing 107
miners and leaving 72 still trap
ped in caved-in tunnels. Another
85 miners were injured in one of
, Germany’s worst mine disasters.
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Kennedy Seeks
$5.7 Billion In
Aid to Education
WASHINGTON — President
Kennedy told Congress Tuesday a
crisis in American schooling
makes it imperative that a five
year $5.7 billion aid to education
program be enacted this year. He
asked no help for church and pri
vate elementary and high schools.
It was this exclusion of paro
chial schools that stalled the aid
for classroom construction and
teachers’ salaries program last
year in a congressional row over
help for church schools.
But Kennedy, a Roman Catholic
said again in a special message
that his program offers “the max
imum scope permitted by our
Constitution.” He contends fed
eral outlays for church schools
would violate the constitutional
concept of separation of church
and state.
Kennedy’s program of federal
loans, grants and scholarships at
every level of learning would cost
$1.5 billion in the fiscal year be
ginning July 1.
He said the outlay would be
“the most profitable investment
society can make.”
As if to refute reports that his
administration would be willing
to forego funds for aiding public
school construction and higher
teachers’ pay, the President put
! that contested measure at the
(top of his list.
Next came aid for college con
struction and scholarships, which
are given a better chance of be
coming law. Third was an array
of “special” education and train
ing programs with emphasis on
more support for science and en
gineering, medical and dental
training, and a broad attack on
adult illiteracy.
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The Unique History Of Blue Cross
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In 1
Dallas, Texas, formed their own
"hospitalization fund." In return
for a yearly dues payment of $6.00,
each member was assured needed
care in Baylor University Hospital.
The idea spread to other hospitals
and groups, then to other cities.
This was the birth of Blue Cross.
These pre-payment p
helped stabilize hospital income
during the hard depression years.
Many hospitals would otherwise
have had to close their doors. In
1933 the American Hospital Asso
ciation drew up a list of approval
standards which all such Plans must
meet. Most important is this: each
must operate solely in the public
interest, with no individual or group
making a profit.
The Blue Cross was accepted as the
official Plan symbol in 1939. The
American Hospital Association seal
in the center means that Plan stand
ards, which are reviewed each year,
meet the AHA requirements. Blue
Cross has now enrolled more than 56
million people in the United States.
This is more people than have ever
joined such a voluntary movement in
all the world's history.