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Entered as second class matter October 14. 1943. at the
post office at Nome, Alaska, under Act of March 3, 1«7*.
Chamber Relates
Progress Made
In Past Year
• New officers were announced
Monday evening at the Chamber
of Commerce annual banquet with
Sen. Pearse Walsh as president
fqr 1962. Walsh was president in
i960 and filled the position so
capably that he was re-elected to
the board and named to the top
position.
Others elected to fill vacancies
on the Board of Directors were
Prank Couch, vice president; Art
Sundstrotm, secretary; Carl Gla
vinovich, treasurer; Howard
CHnklaw. Other members of the
board now serving terms are Don
Hoover, Bob Harwood, Hugh Gil
bert, Virgil Vochoska and John
Maahestad.
Outgoing president and toast
master for the occasion, Don
Hoover, surveyed the work of this
important civic group for the
past year by following a month
by month progress report start
ing with the Vocational School
Steering Committee witji die re
sulting site being selected,. ; in
Nome. Much credit was given
the committte whose report was
ao thorough that few loop holes
were found. Ibis culminated later
in the year with the generous
■ gift of the land to the City of
Ifome for the Vocational School
by the U.S. Smelting, Mining &
Refining Co. •
Sponsoring the Senior Girl
Scouts resulted in their partidr
pation in the tourist program
which was very successful with
over 2*500 visitors on tour and
tided fey the girls who learned
m\tdi local history and were able
to answer many questions.
In 7una another *#i$nigh| Sup
Festival was nanioiid Thin
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' nequeet lor w eir route to
Bay mmrm
art exhibit, a part of the Festi
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Fairbanks Named as
Top City in Alaska for
Fire Prevention Program
BOSTON UR — "Fairbanks was
named by the National Fire Pre
vention Assn, yesterday as top
city in Alaska for excellence in its
fire prevention program in 1961.
It also won honorable mention
nationally among cities of 5,000
19,000 population.
The ESelson Air Force Base,
was awarded fifth place and El
mendorf AFB, 15th in the nation
al competition between 160 U.S.
Air Force facilities. Winner of
the U.S. Air Force grand award
was Tinker Air Force Base, Okla.
Nearly 1,800 entries in North
America competed in various
phases of the competition. Phila
delphia and Kitchener, Ont., were
grand award city winners in the
United States and Canada.
The awards were for year-round
efforts to reduce fires and educate
the public at home and on the
job.
education, survey
survey officials as
rials for th$ Pt j»
and important mUI
munication and commercial route,
helping unify Northern Alaska.
The Chamber was instrumental
in me opening of the Employ
ment. Security Office here as well
as making the initial suggestion
to the city for a Planning Com
mission which was organized in
the spring.
Among the visiting groups host
ed by the Chamber thert was the
group of 40 who came from far
and wide for the cutting over to
dial phones by the Nome Tele
phone Co.; two Methodist groups,
one for the dedication of the new
Methqdist Church and another for
the evaluation of the rehabilita
tion program started at the MMM
Hospital; the V of Alaska adult
the
ice formed for these groups.
A telegram was read, from
tearse Walsh expressing eoh
ratulations to the Board for the
good work in the past year.
MUSHIN’ THROUGH WASHINGTON
By Fritz Wiiti
Associated Press Special Service
WASHINGTON UP) — An effort
to stimulate sale of Alaska rein
deer meat in the other states is
under way, with an assist from
the Interior Department and its
Bureau of Indian Affairs.
The goal is to develop another
industry in Alaska and also boost
the economic well-being of its
Eskimos and Indians.
The start is small but the po
tential is there, with about 43,000
reindeer in the state, and the de
partment is hopeful it will pay off.
The Department and Indian Bu
reau “are deeply concerned that
the Alaskan reindeer industry
succeeds,” John Carver Jr., As
sistant Secretary of the Interior,
said in a letter to members of the
state congressional delegation.
An airfield capable of handling
aircraft that can carry shipments
has been completed on Nunivak
Island and experimental ship
ments have started, Carver said.
They are designed to test the re
ceptiveness of Washington State
markets to reindeer meat.
In order to help the experiment,
he added, the Department has re
duced the price of the meat at
Makoryuk below what it costs to
produce as the Indian Bureau’s
contribution to the project.
The Department also is assign
ing a meat distribution and mar
keting specialist to its area of
fice in Juneau “to work almost
exclusively on behalf of the rein
deer industry . . . building up the
production and relating slaughter,
[packaging, and transportation to
the market,” Carver said.
The specialist will be expected
to plan facilities needed for
storage and packaging “necessary
to reach the specialty or gourmet
market for which reindeer meat
might find a considerable outlet,”
Carver added.
The Department reports about
190 Eskimo families receive some
part of their livelihood from rein
deer. More than $200,000 was
realized in 1960 through sale and
use of reindeer meat and pro
ducts, it said.
Carver said it is probable a pro
gram built around reindeer as an
Alaskan industry “will prove cost
ly beyond the regular financial
structure of the Bureau.”
“It may be, therefore, that (the
Bureau) will be compelled to seek
appropriations in furtherance of
the industry and to improve the
levels of livelihood of the natives,”
he added.
A decision on this will await
an over-all report on the experi
mental operation prepared by the
specialist assigned by the Depart
ment.
National Security
“Alaska’s position within sight
of the Soviet Unkai is critically
important to the national security
under today's defense conditions ”
| Sen. E. L. Bartlett fold the Senate
the. other day.
Bartlett pointed out that the two
nations are separated by only 50
miles of open water off the Coast
of Alaska. “A barrier so negli
gible,” he said, *that in the days
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before the Iron Curtain was
dropped, the Eskimos of both
continents traveled across the
winter ice to visit one another.”
Alaska, Bartlett said, provides
“an unequalled platform for
counter-attack weapons,” and it
is a territory over which the
United States has sovereignty.
“This fact by itself justifies full
exploitation of Alaska as a fu
! ture 'base for the weapons which
are now located in allied coun
tries,” he said, adding:
“In those countries, however,
friendly they may be, local po
litical considerations inevitably
impair our freedom of action and
the money spent to maintain
weapons. .
The main military advantage
Alaska offers, he said, is the fact
that by Polar trajectory it is
“thousands of miles closer to Eu
rasia than is any location in the
continental United States.”
“It does not appear reasonable,”
he said, ‘to place ICBM installa
tions on costly real estate in the
southwest . . . when the same in
stallations might as easily be
placed 2,500 miles closer to the
target on public lands.”
Bartlett also stressed the vast
amount of space available for mili
tary training and maneuvers with
out interference with civilian pop
ulations. “Serious consideration
should be given to establishing at
least one training division in Alas
ka in the early future,” he said.
“Intelligent use of Alaska’s po
tentials will go far toward en
suring that this nation has the
strength it needs when it needs
it,” he concluded.
Resolution Calls for
Construction of Boat Canals
JUNEAU (* — A resolution
seeking the construction of small
boat canals at Wales and Teller
Mission by the State Division of
Waters and Harbors was intro
duced Monday by Rep. Bob Blod
gett, (-Teller).
One of the canals would link
Port Clarence and Brevig Lagoon
at Teller Mission and the other
would run from the Chukchi Sea
into Lopp Lagoon near Wales.
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1 Pro+estani Editorial
Hails Kennedy
On Separation of
Church and State
CHICAGO iff) — President Ken
nedy’s record on the issue of
separation of church and state
was hailed Tuesday hy one of
the nation’s leading Protestant
publications.
The praise was voiced in an
editorial of the Christian Century,
an interdenominational Protestant
weekly magazine widely circulated
among clergymen.
“In his first year as President,
John F. Kennedy has compiled a
better record on the issue of sepa
ration of church and state than
any other President we have had
in the past 30 years,” an editor
ial said.
“Our tape measures him not a
smaller but a bigger man than he
was a year ago. We expect that he
will grow even more in the years
ahead.”
The Christian Century editor
ially took to task the Roman Cath
olic magazine America for obser
vations on Kennedy it published
earlier.
in a lead editorial in its Jan.
13 issue the magazine concludes
that the President’s public rela
tionship to his own church has
been entirely negative and that
his approach to Protestants has
been politically motivated,” the
Christian Century said.
“What piques America’s editors
is the fact that President Kennedy
refused to bow to the will of the
•Roman Catholic hierachy in in
cluding parochial schools in his
aid-to-education bill a year ago.
“What riles them even more is
the fact that Mr. Kennedy in pre
senting his education program put
l}is objection to the use of public
hinds for parochial schools on a
solid constitutional basis.
“Stranger still is the editorial’s
inference that it is quite all right
for the President to be a poli
tician in some instances and in
regard to one segment of the
population but not right for him
to be a statesman in resisting the
special interests of another seg
ment.”
the French village of Aroma
is pretty much like any small
community except for one thing:
Its population of 309 includes 148
so-called normal people and 111
inmates of a mental hospital.
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