THE NOME NUGGET
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E. P. BOUCHER . Managing Editor
CLINTON GRAY . Production Manager
Entered as second class matter October 14, 1943, at the
post office at Nome, Alaska, under Act of March 3, 1879.
Today Is Seward’s Day
^LASKA IS 95 years old today as it was on March the 30th,
1867, at 4 o’clock in the morning that William Seward
signed the treaty for the purchase of Alaska from Russia.
The treaty was ratified by the U.S. Senate and the proclama
tion was given by President Johnson on June 20, 1867. The formal
transfer took place at Sitka the following October on the 18th
day. Alaska was purchased for $7,200,000.
Baron Edouard de Stoceski, who was Russian Minister to
America, had the job of selling Alaska to the United States and
according to historical documents he was instructed to sell for not
less than $5,000,000.
Thus was consummated an act which Russia has had almost a
century to regret and which caused William Seward many un
happy days as many of his associates thought him crazy to
want this "great land.”
The real value of his "ice-box” continues to be realized. As
we near the century mark there is more and more cause to honor
the man who had the vision of what Alaska really was — not an
’’ice-box” but a store house of treasure yet to be found.
Governor of Hawaii Appeals to '
Kennedy to End Shipping Strike j
SAN FRANCISCO M — Ha
waiia’s Gov. William F. Quinn ur
gently telegraphed President Ken
nedy today to step in and end the
two-week-old West Coast shipping
strike before it spreads unemploy
ment and business shutdowns in
his island state.
Earlier the governor said he had
made tentative arrangements for a
private east coast line, not involved
in the strike, to get emergency
supplies to Hawaii but this can
not be done before May.
“This will not assist our many
small businesses who must shut
down when cut off from supplies,”
the Republican governor said in
bis telegram to the President.
Fine Job Printing At The Nugget
— TO KICY LISTENERS —
during the campaign announce
ments at 12:30 noon Friday:
Although my speech was re
corded with three other candi
dates, my appearance on the
same tape DOES NOT indicate
an endorsement of them or
other candidates.
DON PERKINS
A Common Man
with Common Sense
for the
Nome Common Council
STICKS AND STONES . . .
NEW DELHI, India <#> — India
does not attach any importance to
what odd senators in the United
States say or do not say, Prime
Minister Nehru told Parliament to
day.
He was answering questions
about criticism of him by Sen.
Richard Russell. The Georgia
Democrat said the prime minister
was “a demagogue and a hypo
crite.”
GAGARIN SAYS WORLD
IN FOR A SURPRISE
LONDON UPl — Soviet space
man Yuri Gagarin said today that'
the next Soviet space flight will
surprise the world.
Moscow radio said Gagarin told
a conference of Komsomol, the
Young Communist League, Soviet
cosmic flights for the future will
be strictly scientific and “the whole
world will be surprised and will
again warmly applaud the achieve
ments of the Soviet people.”
Marchell Jones Sharpe Passes
Carrie McLain received word
from relatives that former Nomeite
Marchell Jones Sharpe passed away ,
recently in California and is buried
at the side of her husband. Her
mother also passed away a few
months ago. She also received in
formation on another oldtimer
who might be remembered by older
residents, who is George Kilroy,
that he is in a mental hospital
for the aged.
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ROSCOE J. WILKE
MAYOR
iz Encouraged modern street lighting program.
Encouraged reassessment of entire city to conform with
earning State law*.
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195#, thereby making it ready for adoption by the City.
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Kennedy Not Telling Who He
Will Name to Supreme Court
WASHINGTON UP) — President
Kennedy was believed today to
have practically made up his mind
on a Supreme Court appointee to
succeed retiring Justice Whittaker.
But he kept his own counsel amid
a swirl of speculation.
The many names figuring in the
guesswork included two cabinet
members — Secretary of Welfare
Abraham Ribicoff, 51, former gov
ernor of Connecticut, and Secre
tary of Labor Arthur Goldberg, 53,
if Chicago.
However, Ribicoff said today he
would rather be a senator from
Connecticut that a Supreme Court
justice.
Ribicoff cnee served as a police
court judge in Hartford. Goldberg
has had no judicial experience, al
though he has practiced law ex
tensively, especially in the labor
field.
In announcing Whittaker’s re
tirement because of physical ex
haustion, Kennedy said yesterday
he would name a successor shortly.
This was taken to mean he had
someone in mind, because it takes
times to winnow possibilities.
Some lawyers speculated that
since Kennedy has an eye to his
tory, he might name a Negro to
the Supreme Court for the first
time, but others felt he would wait
until later before taking this his
toric step.
Superase Bond Typinff Paper
For Sale at the Nugget
BIBLE BAPTIST
CHURCH
• SUNDAY
Sunday School—10:00 a.m.
Morning Service—11:00 a.m.
Evening Service—7:00 p.m.
• WEDNESDAY
Bible Study and Prayer
Meeting—7:00 p.m.
• FRIDAY
Boys and Girls Good News
Club 10 a,m. & 3:00 pjn.
Youth Fellowship—7:00 p.m.
Rev. Bob Lelght
MUaionary Paator
Freedom Bond Drive
¥ TNI TED STATES SAVINGS BONDS have two purposes; one
to provide financing for the government, the other to help
people save money. The first purpose brought the bond program
into being in the first place. But as a practical matter, it is the
latter function that sells bonds.
_ It becomes an extremely personal thing, when the bond buyer
realizes he is putting a solid financial foundation under his home,
his family and especially the prospects of his children. That is
what savings bond buying does for millions.
This leads into something currently important. For two
months, next May and June, the impact on savings bond buying
will be felt in the lives of most of our people. That will be the
period of the 1962 Freedom Bond Drive. The 1962 goal will be
the sale of $4.75 billion in E and H Savings Bonds.
If past experience means anything, the public will respond.
There have been no exceptions to this record since the first World
War, when all the Liberty Loans and the wind-up Victory Loan
were over-subscribed. In the present sequence, there have been
three periods, the Defense Bonds of pre-World War II, die War
Bonds during the war, and since then the Savings Bonds. All have
accomplished the basic purpose, to give the government working
capital. But the greater profit has been in the millions of people
made conscious for the first time in their lives of the road to per
sonal solvency and security to be found in systematic saving.
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