THE NOME NUGGET
Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday by the
NOME PUBLISHING CO*
NOME, ALASKA
Telephone 443 - 2381 $1.50 PER MONTH
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E. P. BOUCHER . Managing Editor
CLINTON GRAY . Production Manager
Entered aa second class matter October 14, 1§43, at tfce
post office at Nome, Alaska, under Act of March 3, 18?#.
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National Maritime Day
1IMAY 22 OF EACH YEAR has been set aside as. National Mari
time Day, marking the anniversary of the sailing in 1819
of the S.S. Savannah from Savannah, Ga., for Liverpool, England,
which was the first successful crossing of the Atlantic by a steam
propelled craft.
The development of Alaska as a territory is largely due to
the regular and efficient Merchant Marine fleet which was the
only way freight and passengers could be handled until the advent
of the airplane. Without such a Merchant Marine fleet, Alaska
would not be what it is today. Its prosperity is still dependent on
a constantly modernizing Merchant Marine fleet.
Many changes have taken place since Alaska Steamship Co.
started its historical Bering Sea route. Changes not only in boats,
but handling of cargo as well as qualifications of the crew it
carries. It is regretable that passengers can no longer be carried
profitably, but that is part of the changing picture as Alaska Steam
continues to serve.
200 PEOPLE EVACUATED
FROM VILLAGE OF GALENA
FAIRBANKS to — The village
of Galena evacuated 200 of its in
habitants late yesterday morning,
in the face of threatening flood
waters from the Yukon River.
They were moved by Air Force
ground vehicles to the village of
Campion, about seven miles away.
Galena is about 287 miles west of
Fairbanks.
Civil Defense spokesmen said
about 30 to 40 people remained in
the village. The village itself was
not flooded but the people were
evacuated in a move to prevent
any loss of life.
The Yukon River is reported to
have risen 17 inches in the area
between Beaver, Stevens Village
and Rampart.
A report from Don Lowell, state
Civil Defense Director, said “the
Galena Air Force Station is using
two helicopters and teams of demo
lition experts to remove several
ponderous ice jams on the Yukon
about 15 miles downstream from
Galena.
Fort Yukon has developed no
change from yesterday. The in
habitants who moved to higher
ground have not returned yet, in
view of continued reports that
flood danger stfiB exists.
Fast melting snows and same
feed the Yukon,
approximately 634 i
from I
ANCHORAGE MAN
KILLED IN PLANE CRASH
WASHINGTON (ft — The Pen
tagon has released the names of 22
Navy men and four Army special
ists killed when a four enjpne Navy
plane broke apart in Ebersberg,
Germany, yesterday.
The victims, and their next of
kin include:
Army Specialist Fred L. Bre
shears, Anchorage; bom July, 1935;
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frederick
M. Breshears, Box 1636, Anchor
age; wife, Mrs. Dorothy J. Bre
shears, located Overseas.
OVERPLAYS PART . . .
DEROIT (ft — Opera star Anna
Moffo, 27, collapsed in a faint dur
ing a curtain call in the opera
“Lucia Di Lammermoor” Monday
night.
The lyric soprano had just com
pleted her death scene and was
answermng the applause when she
crumped to the stage.
Dr. Robert Drews, a physchia
trist, examined the Metropolitan
Opera star and said “she so bn-1
mersed herself in the role that
she thought she had died, ft was
a seizure we call ‘momentary his
tionic schizophrenia’.**
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Munz Retires from
(Commercial Flying
! On Sale to Gallelier
William S. “Bill” Munz, veteran
Alaska pilot and owner of Munz
Airways has announced the sale of
his bush airline to Dick Galleher,
owner of Northern Aviation Co.,
effective May 1. Both companies
are based in Nome. Dick Galleher
will head the new company to be
known as Munz - Northern Air
lines.
Bill Munz will retire from com
mercial flying and take over sea
sonal operation of his gold dredge
located at Bluff, 60 miles east of
Nome. Born in Portland, Ore.,
Munz arrived at Seward in 1934
to mine on the Kenai Peninsula.
In 1937 he moved to Nome and
began bush flying operations in
1938 with a single engine Curtis
Robin monoplane. He has since
flown 18,000 hours in the Nome
area during his 25 year operation.
In January of 1948, Munz and
Frank Whaley, experienced bush
pilot, were presented with com
mendations by the Air Force for
their rescue of six airmen from
the wreckage of a B-29 weather
plane which crashed during a
severe storm 126 miles north of
Nome. Rescue attempts cost three
more Air Force planes, including
a large glider brought up from
Anchorage, and the lives of three
paramedics, lost when they at
tempted to jump to the site of the
crashed B-29 during high winds
and blizzard conditions. Munz and
Whaley had offered to assist in
rescue attempts but military au
thorities declined their offer.
After the lost of the medics,
Munz flew in to land his small
bush plane directly beside the
wreckage while a larger military
craft circled overhead, unable to
land. Picking up the most seriously
injured men he returned them to
i the hospital in Nome and a short
time later, Whaley flew in and
picked up the rest of the sur
.
vivors.
After a brief period of unrest
within local military circles, the
skill and daring of these two men
were recognized anjd they were
both awarded the Air Medal by
Gen. Tooey Spaatz, Commanding
General of the Air Force, and a
presidential Citation from Presi
dent Harry S. Truman.
Galleher, well known Alaska
bush pilot, moved to Western
Alaska in 1051. Employed by
Northern Consolidate Airlines, he
flew out of Bethel and Dillingham
for three years. From 1955 to 1057
he flew between Red Devil and
Anchorage Carrying mercury from
the mining operation there. In 1057
he and his Wife, Joyce, moved to
Home to establish Northern Avia
tion Co. They have two children,
Gail 4, and Brian %.
Late in 1051, Galleher estab
lished regular scheduled service
from Nome to Bethel for passengers
and freight, the first scheduled
flight service offered between the
two towns.
Munz - Northern Airlines will
operate six airplanes from Nome
including a new twin-engine Aero
Commander 680, which cruises at
over 200 miles an hour and is the
only one of its type in Alaska.
With offices in die Alaska Airlines
Bldg, at Nome, they will be re
presenting Alaska Airlines, Inc., as
a downtown ticket office and in
formation center, in addition to
their own airline committments.
Merging the two operations will
bring the faster twin - engine
equipment into service to many
of the Nm-th western Alaska points,
Galleher says, and additionally of
fer the smaller bush aircraft for
flights not requiring the twin.
The only planned change in the
operation is the same change to
Munz - Northern Airlines.
The three things people fib
about more are; their age; the
number of times #sey go to church,
and bow often they brush their
teeth
sKpff . ‘11 . ' ' . ' v> :
Reds Again Set Up
’Sanctuary System
| For Guerrillas
By J. M. Roberts
j Associated Press News Analyst
Red China, already deeply in
i volved as a supporter of the Com
munist guerrilla warfare in Indo
china, is setting up once more
within her territory the “sanct
uary” system of bases she employed
in the Korean War, and making
noises as she did before her inter
vention there. „
The situation may well face the
United States with the early
necessity of making new decisions
about the “sanctuary” system, and
it would seem unlikely the decision
will be the same as in 1950,
If all-out war comes to Indo
china the situation will be differ
ent from that of Korea.
This will not be a narrow front
relatively easy to defend, and the
number of Asians available for de
fense of the longer front will not
be in proportion to the South
Korean forces. Nor will there be
any heroic patriotic figure such as
Syngman Rhee around whom the
armies can rally. The Thais will
fight in self-defense, but what the
others will do, lacking as they are
in any real attachment to their
governments, is only a guess—and
a not too hopeful guess.
It may be that an unequivocal
warning to Red Chir*a, citing the
obsolescence of the “sanctuary”
idea under the circumstances, is in
order before she puts too much
reliance upon it. Once an over
whelming building of support bases
is completed and a massive Chin
ese infiltration starts, effective re
taliation would present a serious
threat of general war.
Red China’s immediate inten-1
tions, beyond logistic support of
FESTIVAL
Every day more local organiza
tions are submitting their plans to
cooperate with the Midnight Sun
Festival to make it a bigger and
better affair.
The Jaycees announced yesterday
I that they would be in charge of
a real reindeer barbecue; organize
a raft race; and marshal the beard
contest with its Kangaroo Court.
$973,943 Paid Out In Benefits
JUNEAU UPi — A total of $973,
943 in unemployment insurance
benefits were paid out to Alaskans
during the month of April, State
Labor Commissioner Gil Johnson
said today.
Of the total $877,825 was dis
bursed under the provisions of the
state jobless program and the re
mainder was paid out under the
terms of two federal unemploy
ment benefit programs.
. - -
the Laotian and Vietnamese guer
rillas, are not known.
| There are reasons, however—
and this has been true for more
than a year—to fear that Peiping
will soon resort to dangerous ad
ventures in order to stave off the
political results of economic fail
ures in a search for living space
which she dare not seek — as yet
— in Siberia.
The massive infiltration of Hong
Kong by Chinese who may or may
not be true refugees already has
led to fears that Peiping eventually
will come up with a Sudetan-like
claim such as Hitler made against
Czechoslovakia. The Chinese Reds
are great for planning — though
neither wise or successful in carry
ing it out — and we may be
seeing the beginning of a broad
political-military push toward ter
ritorial objectives which long have
been entertained by the Chinese—
non-Communist as well as Com
munist.
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Lv. Fairbanks *8:00 a.m. At.
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LV. Nome 1:30 p.m. At. Kotzebue 2:15 p.m.
Lv! Kotzebue 2:45 p.m
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BETWEEN NOME AND BARROW VIA KOTZEBUE
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Lv. Nome 8:30 a.m. Ar, Kotzebue 9:30 sliu.
Lv. Kotzebue 10:15 a.tri. Af. Barrow 1:25 p.m.
^ Barrow 2:00 p.m. At Kotzebue 3:10 p.m.
L*- Kotzebue 3^55 p.m. A7. NdSi 4:55 p.m.
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N°me 6:45 p.m. Ar. Fairbanks *9:45 p.m
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