THE NOME NUGGET
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E. P. BOUCHER .... Managing Editor
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Entered a* second class matter October 14. 1943, at the
post office at Nome. Alaska, under Act of March 3, 1879.
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In the American Tradition . . ,
V^7HILE THE WORLD is being bombarded with
W fantastic claims about Communist accomplish
ments, and Russia’s bility to wipe out the human race,
it is refreshing to read the following constructive re
marks by Burli S. Watson, chairman of Cities Service:
“It is in the American tradition not to be satis
fied with less than maximum achievement. . . At the
same time, it is well to remember that economic pro
gress is never one of uninterrupted flight forward.
^Rather it is the sum total of advances, pauses, and even
some slipping back.
“Since the turn of the century, the United States
has experienced a financial panic (1907); a stock
market crash (1929); a subsequent ‘depression’; and,
along the line, less violent reversals generally styled
‘recessions’. In this period of time, however, living
standards reached the highest levels ever achieved. . .
“Three out of every five American families have
become owners of their own homes, compared to one
in three in 1900. Far better educational opportunities
are being offered to American young people . . . (and
there are) seven times as many college graduates.
“So great has been our agricultural and industrial
advance that our productive capacities . . . are pro
ducing one-third of the world’s goods.
“. . . We have the natural resources needed for a
bigger job. We have surplus industrial capacities. We
have trained manpower. We will do this bigger job if,
in work and sacrifice, we . . . meet every challenge
with faith in America. As for anyone who finds him
self faltering in that faith, let him look ... at the
record.”
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Bill Would Ban
Handling of Red
Propaganda Mail
By J. M. Roberts
Associated Press News Analyst
The postal bill now before Con
gress includes an amendment ban
ning the handling in the mails
of propaganda originating behind
the Iron Curtain.
However, mail from behind the
Iron Curtain is not the real prob
lem. It is mail originating in the
United States.
Since the Communist party it
self has largely gone underground
many pseudo-independent pub
lishing houses have vastly stepped
up their production of books,
pamphlets and news letters calcu
lated to affect the minds of the
American people and carry com
fort to the enemy.
A congressional investigation of
where the money comes from for
all these activities might be of far
more importance than a discussion
of television programs which may
be cheap and in bad taste, but are
hardly subversive.
Americans are addicted to edu
cation through reading, and are
familiar with a free press which
also, over the years, has develop
ed a great degree of responsibility.
An attack through this medium
finds them singularly unprepared
for assessment of the variety of
books and pamphlets, which have
been the traditional vehicle of ap
proach by constructive dissenters.
Reaction against subversive
publications need not result in
ill-considered action affecting the
operations and public faith in the
normal publishing field. What the
public needs is evidence as to mo
tives.
A case in point is a new paper
back of magazine size, published
in Chicago under the disguise of
a warning against revival of the
goose-step not only in Bonn, but
also in Washington, according to
its introduction. It purports to re
produce the "captured Nazi docu
ments” upon which the Soviet
Union recently based her attack
on Gen. Adolf Heusinger, chief
of the West German armed forces
in the North Atlantic Treaty Or
ganization.
The documents apparently are
the same upon which Allied au
thorities years ago based a “no
true bill” return on war crimes
charges against Heusinger. The
authenticity of some of them have
been questioned.
The United States today is as
sociating with a good many gov
ernments which give many of us
pause, but which we don’t know
how to improve on without open
ing the door to Communist take
over.
The major test of all such dis
sent is whether it stems from care
for the national morality, or
whether it is purposefully calcu
lated to promote such takeovers,
and who instigates and pays for
it in the first place.
Alaska has only one person to
every 2Vi square miles, compared
with the U.S. national average of
40.4 per square mile.
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Ashes of Anchorage
esident to Be Scattered
Atop Mt. McKinley
ANCHORAGE M — Ashes of a
long-time Anchorage resident are
destined to be scattered aero?
the snows of the continent’s
highest mountain.
The often expressed wish of
George L. Jenkins, who died Jan.
16 in the Veterans Hospital in
Portland, Ore., was that Mt. Mc
Kinley be his final resting place.
His son-in-law, Fred Oates of An
chorage, is handling the arrange
ments.
Jenkins was a resident of An
chorage from 1915 to 1944, ex
cepting for a three-year period
he spent overseas in World War
I. He worked on the construction
of the Alaska railroad from its
beginning, landing on the mud
flats of Ship Creek when An
chorage was only a group of tents
in the area where the railroad
yards are now located.
He was the first conductor and
first trainmaster for the railroad,
as the train made its regular run,
“Jenks” would often look up at
the mountain which he called “so
high and clean,” according to
Oates.
Jenkins was married to the for
mer Mae Cunningham in 1925. She
was a school teacher in the An
chorage school system. Mrs. Jen
kins died two years ago.
In 1944, Jenkins retired from
the railroad and moved to Eu
gene, Ore.
He was a charter member of
the Anchorage Elks and a member
of the Veterans of Foreign Wars,
the Anchorage Masonic Lodge,
life member of the Spanish Ameri
can War Veterans, Veterans of
World War I, Barracks No. 33 of
Oregon, the 31st Railway Engi
neers American Expeditionary
Forces and the Eugene Consistory.
Jenkins ashes are enroute to
Anchorage and final arrangements j
for the rite will be made upon j
their arrival.
Retired Farmer Wills
New Elementary School
LAFAYETTE, Ind. Uf) — A re
tired farmer considered a miser by
his neighbors has provided for a
new elementary school in Lafay
ette, according to his will.
The will of Thomas Miller, 85,
who died Thursday, calls for a
grade school to be named after
him.
Attorneys said Miller’s estate
amounts to more than $500,000.
School officials said a new school
would cost between $450,000 and
$500,000.
Miller had no close relatives.
He retired from farming in 1947,
moving to Lafayette.
Neighbors said he never owned
a car, ate com flakes to save
money when his hank account
dipped below a certain amount,
and gave apples to children, then
charged their parents 10 cents
apiece for them.
Dr. Theo Norby
Resigns Top
Education Post
JUNEAU (IPi — The resigning
of Dr. Theo J. Norby as State
Commissioner of Education was
announced Saturday by Gov. Wm.
Egan.
The Governor said that he had
accepted Norby’s resignation ef
fective on June 30, the end of
the current school year.
In his letter of resignation,
Norby asked release from his
five-year contract to serve as
Commissioner of the Department
of Education. He was appointed
to the post on Oct. 3, 1959.
iviy personal and professional
plans are such that it would
serve my best interests to indicate
to you at this time that it is my
desire to resign from the position
of Commissioner of Education for
the State of Alaska effective June
30, 1962,” the letter said.
“It is certainly appropriate that
I should point out to you, the
Governor, the State of Alaska
has many loyal and conscientious
people working in education.
Special recognition is due the
many loyal and effective workers
in the State Department of Edu
cation, both in the Juneau and
Anchorage offices.
“I feel it would not have been
possible,” Norby continued, “to
accomplish so many good things
for education in such a short time
without the assistance of these
people. I shall respectfully re
quest that all members of my
staff extend every courtesy and
loyalty to my successor so that
all energies may be channeled in
the paths of progress for educa
tion.
“I should also like to recog
nize the many fine citizens
throughout the State of Alaska
who are devoted to the cause of
education.”
All for a $150 Bet . , .
CLARE, Mich. Uft — Tony
Wedal, the indoorsman who bet
$150 he could survive eight days
in mid-fMichigan’s frigid wood
lands, emerged Saturday — a win
ner, according, to Clare police re
ports.
He emerged from his ice-cover
ed, snow-filled campsite shortly
after il p.m., tramping out three
quarters of a mile to a highway
where a welcoming committee,
including his wife, Sandra, wait
ed.
Police said a telephone call
from the exit scene advised of
Wedal’s return.
Wedal had bet his wife and 14
friends $150 he could make it
alone in the woods eight days and
nights.
Mrs. Wedal had joined in the
bet just for fun. She figured he
would back out of his boast that
an indoors man like himself could
conquer the wilderness.
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