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.
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1962 Graduates . . .
npO ALL STUDENTS graduating from Nome High School the
-*■ staff of the Nome Nugget extends its congratulations and
best wishes for a successful future life.
The community is especially proud of the high percentage
of students who are going oh to seek higher education, as 12 out
of 16 have indicated they plan to do and have been accepted.
Most of them will continue their studies in the State of Alaska.
The United States is still the land of opportunity. Taxes arc
higher than they have ever been, but jobs are plentiful for those
who prepare themselves and earning power is higher than ever
before.
Opportunities are unlimited for the American with a will
to succeed, and a willingness to work hard. In this day and age
it may take the young American to foreign countries and remote
areas of the world, but young Americans can always be proud that
they are Americans. »r .
We realize that die Communist menace is perhaps the greatest
we have faced, but in this atomic age, the world has many un
explored possibilities and nature holds many undiscovered secrets,
For the 1962 graduate we quote from Edward Everett Hale:
*'I am only one man, but 1 am one man; I can’t do everything
but I can do something; what I can do, 1 ought to do; and what
I ought to do, by the Grace of God I will do.”
Through The Needle's Eye
five at a Hme, narrow strips of its new lightweight tin plate have been
threaded through the eye of an upholstery needle by Jones & Laugh fin
Steel Corporation In this greatly enlarged photograph to dramatise
the space and weight savings possible with the mart modem form of
2 Eskimo Leaders
Make a Plea for
Aboriginal Rights
WASHINGTON UP) — Two Es
kimo leaders presented to Interior
Department officials Tuesday a
plea of the Eskimos for what they
say are their aboriginal rights.
Guy Okakok, from Point Bar
row, and Paul Tiulana, from King
Island in the Bering Sea, were
luncheon guests of Secretary Stew
art Udall and Asst. Secretary John
Carver, Jr.
Carver invited the Eskimos here
when he learned they were going
to New York where they spoke at
the Annual Convention of the As
sociation of American Indian
Affairs last week.
Okakok was chairman of a con
ference of representatives of Es
kimo villages in Western and
Northern Alaska which Carver
addressed last year at Point Bar
row.
This was called Inupiat Paitot,
and was sponsored by the associa
tion though it was run by the
natives. The association agreed to
the request of the natives to
sponsor Inupiat, described as a
committee to enable the isolated
villages to speak to each other
and together to protect the abori
ginal land and hunting rights which
they call Inupiat Paitot.
Carver recalled that when the
natives assembled last year some
found they could not understand
the dialect of others, but as nearly
all could speak English because
they had attended Indian Bureau
schools, they conducted much of
their business in English.
Okakok said before the luncheon
that he and Tiulana welcome the
opportunity to discuss with the
Interior officials the Inupiat Paitot
withdrawal for Eskimo use of most
of the land on the Northern Arctic
slope.
i ney aiso menuonea pruuiexns
of the King Islanders, federal re
strictions sow being imposed os
hunting of ducks by the Eskimos
for food, and the possibility of
making natural gas available to
the village of Barrow from the
Navy’s gas reserves in the area.
“We are mainly interested in
aboriginal rights,” said Tiulana.
“In the right to hunt, fish and
cany on traditional activities and
have the land on which to do this
and live.”
Carver recalled he was given
beautiful hand - carved figurines
made from walrus tusks by King
Islanders when he spoke at Bar
row. In turn, he presented some
gifts to Okakok and Tiulana yes
terday.
These included photographs of
President Kennedy, books, contain
ing pictures of interesting places in
Washington, and engraved tea
spoons. Carver said the spoons
were for their Eskimos’ ladyfolks
and the books were for the schools
in their communities.
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REV. A. L. ABRAHAMSON
TO SPEAK HERE AT
LUTHERAN CHURCH
Rev. A. L. Abrahamson, pastor
of the Central Lutheran Church in
Anchorage, will be guest speaker
at Our Savior’s Lutheran Church,
beginning Sunday morning, May
20 at 11 am. and continuing each
evening at 7:30 through Thursday,
May 24.
Rev. Abrahamson was bom in
Todd County, Minn. He attended
Concordia College, Moorehead,
Minn., and Luther Seminary, St.
Paul, Minn., where he received his
B.Th.
He has served parishes in Bad
ger, Minn., Morris, HI., Canton,
S.D., and Yankton, S.D. He was
Lutheran Youth Evangelist for
two years, and prior to coming to
Alaska, was present of Augustana
Lutheran Academy at Canton, S.D.
He came to Alaska in 1950 to
become pastor of the Anchorage
church. Rev. Abrahamson is mar
ried. and a son and daughter,
both married, live in Anchorage.
From War Hero to President
On the night of August 1, 1943, during the critical days
of the Pacific war, one of the Navy’s hit-and-run mosquito
boats, PT-109, was rammed by a Japanese destroyer and split
in half. „
An eyewitness on another ship reported the boat destroyed,
and its skipper, Lt. John F, Kennedy, dead—a report that was
later flashed around the world,
But skipper Kennedy and all
but two of his crew miracu
lously survived the collision,
and were very much alive,
Shouting and calling oul
names, the survivors found
each other in the darkness, and
gathered around their skipper,
In a weird and watery kind
of town meeting, they decided
against surrender, and set oul
to swim to the nearest island,
One shipmate, too injured tc
swim, had to be towed, with
the strap of his safety jacket
held in Kennedy’s teeth. For
five desperate exhausting hours,
the skipper of the sunken PT
boat, the man believed dead,
towed his shipmate through
waters infested with sharks,
mines and Japanese warships.
The grueling feat landed all
the survivors on a small island,
with little food and virtually
no hope of being rescued. A
superior ' swimmer, Kennedy
took on the responsibility of
somehow contacting American
authorities. With scarcely any
rest, swimming from island to
island, traversing rugged cor
al reefs that left him bleeding
and exhausted, risking death
against seemingly insuperable
odds, Kennedy ultimately led
his men back to an American
base, after what Richard Tre
gaskis termed “six days of
hell.”
In “John F. Kennedy: War
Hero,” Tregaskis, author also
of “Guadalcanal Diary," tells
Skipper Kennedy
the story of those remarkable
“secret” weapons, the mosquito
boats. Davids harassing Japa
nese Goliaths. At the center of
the story lies the heroic ad
venture of the PT-109, whose
skipper was destined to be
come President of the United
States.
Just issued by Dell Books
in paperback, “John F. Ken
nedy: War Hero,” is exciting
reporting both because of the
incredible feats it describes,
and for the background it pro
vides to the. ultimate making
of an American President.
JAP MINISTER CONFERS
WITH INTERIOR DEPT.
ON ALASKA PROBLEM
WASHINGTON W — Ichiro
Kono, Minister of Agriculture and
Forestry for Japan, and Secretary
of Interior Stewart Udall conferred
today on various problems, includ
ing uiltrs about Alaska.
Kono expressed the Japanese
desire to obtain more timber from
this country. He said the price of
timber is expected to rise in Japan
this summer or fall.
Udall told him a timber avail
ability and marketing study is now
underway in Alaska, including a
survey of the Yukon River basin,
on which a report would be ready
in about 60 days.
The recent incident in which
Alaska seized a couple of Japanese
fishing boats came up during the
discussion. Both Udall and Kono
were described as having expressed
complete agreement that every ef
fort must be made to avoid such
incidents and that things of that
nature must not be allowed to
obscure the common interest of
the two nations.
Ground work was also laid for
a thorough discussion this year re
garding exports of tuna to this
country by Japan.
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FLASH BLIZZARD TAKES
LIVES OF THREE SOLDIERS
ANCHORAGE UR — A sudden
blizzard in the lower reaches of
the Chugach Mountains about 15
lives of three Fort Richardson
soldiers and hospitalized nine
others early yesterday.
All the men were members of
Co. C, 1st Battle Group, 23rd
Infantry.
The deaths and injuries came
during a mountain training exer
cise when the men were struck
by a sudden blizzard as they were
crossing tile steep, bald ridge be
tween Ship Creek and the south
fork of Campbell Creek.
The men were at about the
4,000-foot level on the ridge when
the storm struck about midnight.
The wind was estimated at more
than 70 miles per hour.
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BANG! BANG! BANG!
LONDON Ufi — Martin Butler,
aged 3, walked up behind his
mother yesterday and said “Bang!
Bang! You’re dead.”
Then came a third bang. Mrs.
Butler, 23, winced, whirled around
and found Martin standing there
with a 22-caliber pi3tol in his
hand.
Mrs. Butler was taken to a hos
pital for removal of the slug. Her
doctor said she would be unable
to sit comfortably for some time
but should heal up nicely in the
end.
The gun was owned by her
father-in-law, Leslie Thompson,
who kept it around to protect his
news stand.
“Good thing Martin didn’t pull
the trigger again,” commented
Thompson. “It had six more cart
ridges in it.”
A REAL TREAT FOR REUBEN
Reuben Attatayak, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Joe Attatayak, one of the
most energetic newsboys at the
Nugget, i$ being given a real treat
by his school teacher, Lavonne
Small, who is taking Reuben to
Oklahoma to spend the summer.
Reuben, who is 12, is looking for
ward eargerly to seeing many
things he has read about and will
be writing to his friends of his
adventures and experiences.
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