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.
WHERE’S POCAHONTAS ?
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Gold? Oil? Fish?
• • •
46rT'HERE’S GOLD in them thar hilsis the echo
-I- of the past and will now be coupled with the
speculation on the recovery of gold from the bottom
of the sea.
The filing an over 50 miles of -tidelands in front
of Nome came as a complete surprise to the entire
state and resulted in speculation filings following the
initial filing by Shell Oil Co.
The public .is not sure whether it can hope to see
floating oil derricks tike those in the Gulf of Mexico or
floating suction gold dredges, but something is de
finitely about to change the beach mining of the past
half century.
Sen. Claire Engle’s Joint Resolution No. 44 on
subsidy for gold, just like the farming industry has
had for many years, mud which was substantially and
eloquently supported by Sen. Ernest Gruening on the
the Senate floor recently, should also receive more
interest in the face of this development. This subsidy
of $35 per ounce Should get the support of economists
who in the past ‘have opposed any change in the price
of gold because of the world market. It would mean
not only discovery of more gold wealth but the un
covering of many valuable metals and minerals so
needed in our electronic world today.
Fish canneries are heading into the Bering Sea
this summer for the first time to Unalalkleet, Shak
toolik and possibly Golovin.
I here is now more reason than ever to plan a
modern town with water supply and sewage so that
it can Ibe ready to welcome new industry as it turns
northward. More reason also to. have zoning and plan
ning lor future (growth in an orderly manner. More
reason to move ahead and plan for the future. More
reasons for a deeper river channel,
44TOOR NEARLY 30 years the U.S. government has
tried to reduce farm output to certain levels, and
has failed. For the more than 40 years the Russian
government has tried to raise farm output to certain
goals, and has flailed. Before long someone may con
diude that governments can’t farm.”
—Farm Journal
ANB Protests Stand of
BIA Toward Nome
Vocational School
We reprint herewith the text of
a letter addressed to Robert F.
Bennett, Area Director of the
Bureau of Indian Affairs, on the
matter of the Nome Vocational
School. The letter, written by
Jerome Trigg, of Nome, presi
dent of the Arctic Native Bro
therhood, was read in the House
of Representatives of the Alaska
Legislature on Feb. 16 at the re
quest of Rep. Bob Blodgett and
was spread upon the House
Journal.
Dear Mr. Bennett:
On behalf of the members of
the Arctic Native Brotherhood at
Nome, I would like to urge your
department to reconsider its stand
taken recently on the proposed
Vocational School for Northwest
ern Alaska. The comments of our
legislators at Juneau run parallel
to our feelings rather closely; I
will not reiterate here, but I would
like to say that inasmuch as it is
the proposed goal of your Educa
tion Department to aid and en
tourage the education of our
native people, then it seems ap
in the Vocational Education
School shows negligence within
your department. Education has
throughout the world been a
source of enlightenment to many
people and unless the Bureau of
[ndian Affairs helps Alaskans to
attain a varied education for its
people, the struggle will be most
iiffieult unless as it appears, it
is your desire to sustain the situa
tion as it is.
Education of our children is our
foremost ideal. We want to see
them enabled to carry their own
in our ever-changing economy
where opportunity to find em
ployment is becoming the right of
the technically trained, which our
people are not. Without the
proper training our children are
[left the sole inheritance of mini
mum paid employment which fails
to provide even the craftiest a
substantial living scale and in turn
leaves a provocative number de
pendent on other sources such as
welfare.
It was a democratic vote of
Alaska’^ citizenry that proved they
favored such a school, not the re
sult of “pork barrel legislation”.
And it was the choice of the
State’s Board of Education that
determined its location; certainly,
not “a slice of pie” type argu
mentation as someone has said
of the legislation.
So again 1 ask, please reconsider
your decision and resolve to en
courge, rather than discourage
this program. We need it. Let’s
#ve the Native People the op
portunity to complete the jobs in
their own locales that are present
ly taken by outsiders, trained
outside.
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tion, I will appreciate hearing
your comments on the situation.
Sincerely yours,
Jerome Trigg, Pres.,
Arctic Native Brotherhood
Polaris Sub Launched
NEWPORT NEWS, Va. —
The Navy’s newest Polaris missile
submarine, named the Thomas
Jefferson for the nation’s third
President and the author of the
Declaration of Independence, was
launched Saturday.
Mrs. Robert McNamara, wife of
the Secretary of Defense, chris
tened the submarine. Her daugher,
Kathleen, served as maid of
honor.
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LETTER TO EDITOR
Are we caught like monkeys?
The other day a friend was de
scribing the methods to capture
wild monkeys. “We used large,
narrow-necked, glass jugs,” he
said. “The mouth of the jug is
large enough to permit the mon
key to put his hand inside when
his fist is open, but too small to
permit him to withdraw the fist
after it is closed. We put several
lumps of sugar in the bottom of
the jar. The monkeys, eager for
the treat, thrust their paws in
side, close their fists over the
sugar, and are trapped. They
won’t let go of the sugar and
they can’t withdraw their hands.
Our people walk right up and
capture them.”
The welfare staters are leading
us into captivity by a similar
method. They put sugar in the
bottom of a jar; we reach in for
it, refuse to let go, and are trap
ped, The bait is federal aid to
education—in order to get some
of the sugar you must give up
some of your freedom. . . Or the
bait is free medical care—you
must sacrifice the normal patient
doctor relationship.
The bait of socialism is some
thing for nothing. It is clothed in
noble phrases and lofty objec
tives, but its appeal is directed
to man’s greed. And because man
is sinful and selfish and frequent
ly lazy, he puts his hand into
the jar to reach for the sugar.
But the sugar used by the so
cialists to bait the trap for free
men is first taken from the labor
of free men by the force of gov
ernment tax compulsion. If we
surrender to this beguilding bait,
we are more stupid than the
monkeys, for the sugar in the
bottom of the jar belongs to us
in the first place.
■Do you think there is any of
this jar-sugar-monkey business in
Alaska. The tragedy is that sc
many people prefer to be cap
tured—instead of breaking the
jar and liberate themselves intc
honest living and life.
Sincerely,
Rev. L. E. Ost
Fbrtuna Ledge
Complete Curling Match
PERTH, Scotland UB — It tool
104 years, but the Kirriemuii
and Carnoustie .have finally com
pleted their curling match, start
ed in 1861 but abandoned wher
the ice melted..
Men of Caroustie recently reac
about the unplayed match.ih ole
ledgers of the curling club. Thej
challenged Kirriemuir to play i
off on Perth’s indoor rink.
, No one knew what the scor<
was when the game had to b<
stopped so it was assumed neither
team had scored. Carnoustie wot
by. 30 shots to 17.
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potential, its needs or its goals
by just reading standard texts or
tracing Grant south or drawing
datelines.
“They need to know what is
being proposed for us by poli
ticians, by statesmen, by phil
osophers, and by crackpots—they
need to be able to distinguish be
tween the four—they need to
know how to evaluate, they need
to be able to come up with their
own objective conclusions.”
Airman Falls Out of
B-52 31,000 Feet Up
WESTOVER Am FORCE BASE,
Mass. Uf) — The commander of an
Air Force B-52 Strato-Fortress
fell from his plane Friday night
while it was flying at an alti
tude of 31,000 feet over Thule,
Greenland.
An Air Force spokesman said
the commander was attempting to
correct a minor electrical diffi
culty when the escape hatch was
jettisoned accidently and he fell
out.
His identity was withheld.
The big plane left Westover Air
Force Base on a training mission
to Greenland. It was . assigned to
the 99th Bombardment Wing,
i The controls were taken over
by^Xt. Wm. Gilchrist, co-pilot, of
Buena Vista, Iowa. The plane
L landed safely at Thule.
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U.S. Education Needs
New and Higher Goals
ST. LOUIS, Mo. C/ft — American
education needs new and higher
goals, and a good start would be
to “stop fooling students and the
public about what an education
is.”
Warren G. Hill, State Commis
sioner of Education from Maine,
had that blunt message for a na
tional convention of High School
Principles Saturday.
“Education isn’t the three Rs,
or homework, or unlimited facts,
of a Phi Beta Kappa Key, or a
high school diploma, or a degree
from an Ivy League college,” Hill
said in a keynote speech to the
National Assn, of Secondary
School Principles.
“Education is a state of mind,
a sense of responsibility, a com
mitment, a never-ending progres
sion toward the realization of a
dream,” he said.
Hill said the schools must be
more realistic about what Ameri
ca was, and what it could be.
“Our students,” he said, “will not
understand their own country, its
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