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cond class matter October 14, 1943, at the
Nome, Alaska, under Act of March 3, 1879.
sentee Ballot
SOME PEOPLE in our community were deprived of their voting
privileges in Tuesday’s election.
In State elections those incapacitated may exercise this pri
vilege by the use of an absentee ballot. In the municipal election
no such provision has been made so that persons who are hospital
ized or convalescing in their homes, or for other good reasons,
cannot get to the polls and vote.
While the matter is still fresh, it might be a good rime to
correct the omission in our city law and be ready for the next
election. Our senior citizens are keenly interested in the future
of the community and of those who cannot get to the polls have
been residents since Nome became a first class city.
While this is being worked out, it might be a good time to
change the rime of election to the fail as most other dries in
Alaska have already done.
IRA JEFFORD PASSES
Ira Edward Jefford, 84, passed
away last week and was buried
irk Anchorage on Thursday,
Mr. Jefford is the father of Mrs
Betty Alexander of Nome and Jaci
and Bill Jefford of Anchorage anc
Knik. He was a retired FAA em
ploye and spent some time here ir
the 40’s. He was living in Knik ai
the time of his death.
Pallbearers included f o r m e 1
friends Al Hulen, George Karabel
nikoff, Richard Pastro, David Dis
haw, Clyde Johnson and W. Han
son.
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TOP GOP LEADERS
HAS ITS TROUBLES WITH
BUCKING MEMBERS
WASHINGTON UP) — The “Ev
and Charlie” leadership team is
having its troubles with Republi
cans in Congress threatening to ride
i off in different directions on some
; major issues.
Senate minority leader Everett
Dirksen and House minority leader
Charles Halleck face some chal
lenges from bucking members who
. ordinarily would be satisfied with
their conservative course.
Dirksen’s difficulties center
* around a compromise proposal to
authorize President Kennedy to
provide up to $100 million in fi
nancing for the Umled Nations.
The challenge to Halleck came
from an unusual source ■■— his own
party’s National Chairman, Rep.
Wm. E. Miller of New York.
Without consulting Halleck, Mil
ler has tried to drum up support
for a GOP substitute for the ad
Ininistration’s plan to link medical
care for the elderly to the Social
Security system. Halleck thus far
has given no sign hie is willing to
buy the substitute.
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Sen. Karl Mundt Says
Gold Mining
Industry Needs
A Helping Hand
WASHINGTON i3 — The na
tion’s sagging gold mining industry
deserves a helping hand from Uncle
Sam, Sen. Karl Mundt, (R-S.D.)
said.
“We steadily move toward dis
aster in our gold mining industry,”
he said. “Gold mining deserves
consideration as a depressed in
dustry toward which the govern
ment has certain responsibilities.”
Actions of the government,
Mundt said, have resulted in the
industry’s currently depressed econ
omic status.
He called for the Senate Interior
Committee to move quickly on a
proposal designed to encourage the
discovery, development and pro
duction of domestic gold through
incentive payments.
The price of gold now is fixed
at $35 an ounce. The pending re
solution, co-sponsored by Sens.
Claire Engle, (D-Calif.), Thomas
Kuchel, (R-Calif.), and Francis
2ase, (R-S.D.), would permit in
wcut-iv^ pajiUMiio w wv/uitkjwv pu
iucers of any sales to the govern
ment not to exceed an additional
$35 an ounce.
The amount of such payments
would be set by the Secretary of
Interior but they could not be made
when the government’s gold re
serves, now about $16 billion, ex
ceed $23 billion.
Mundt said the Homestead Gold
Mine at Lead, S.D., once the world’s
largest, is struggling to maintair
a solvent economic operation. He
added:
“In fact, it would very likely no'
be able to continue in business i:
it were not for the fact that thej
mine other winoraic and metal!
for which there is a profitabh
market.”
Mundt, in a statement submittec
to the Interior Committee, said sta
tistics show that the nation’s do
mestic gold production has beet
declining while world output move
steadily forward.
Coupled with these facts, Mund
said, has been the trebling of U*3
gold imports between 1955-60.
Noting that gold is still the in
ternatkmal medium of exehang<
and experts report that Russia?
production is steadily climbing
Mundt said:
■ "TUo WiKted States must mwi
back to its former status as th<
leading producer of gold ihstead o:
producing only 3 per cent of th<
world’s supply as it does today
The prestige argument alone make
it imperative that we pass legisla
tion to revive the gold mining in
dustry.”
The proposed resolution, Mund
said, is a sound approach to th<
problem and is Consistent witl
other programs Congresshas ap
proved in similar circumstances.
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LETTER TO EDITOR
Now the elections are over, and
when the last vote was counted I’m
sure that everyone recognized that
a remarkable change in attitude
was reflected at the polls April 3rd.
For myself as a candidate, I am
deeply grateful for the support I
received and appreciate the op
portunity to work with the able
group that makes up the Nome
School Board. It is my desire to
do the best for Nome and its
school and, with continuing help
of the people in the form of ideas,
suggestions and criticism, coupled
with advice and counsel from ex
perienced and competent people
that now make up the School Board,
I look forward to a useful and re
warding term.
Speaking as a citizen and home
owner I want to express the grave
concern I have had over our inept
and stumbling city administration
and to tell you how pleased I am
that the voters indicated that they
too recognized that the time is
here to do away with the foolish
ness we’ve had to bear by electing
the experienced and dedicated men
we now have to administer the
wants and needs of our city.
We’re now headed in the right
direction and I feel secure in the
belief that with just the minimum
effort and interest on all our parts
these men will show us that all
those things that have been im
possible in the past will be accom
plished as a routine matter of
business. All we needed was integ
rity. Now that we have it, let’s
make the most of it.
Sincerely yours,
Dick Galleher
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BAFT 1ST CHURCH PRESENTS
"JOURNEY INTO GREECE'
“Journey Into Greece,” will be
the topic of the illustrated mis
sionary message to be presented at
the Bible Baptist Church, this Sun
day evening. Rev. Bob Leight ex
tends a welcome invitation to
everyone to come and see as well
as hear this outstanding missionary
challenge, illustrated with beautiful
colored slides, and narrated by Rev.
Arthur Houk by tape recording.
The colored slides were taken by
Rev. Houk, who is the pastor of
the Maranatha Baptist Chhrch of
Springfield, Ohio. The slides give a
true, vivid, picture of Greece to
day, showing many of the Biblical
landmarks mentioned in the Book
of Acts, slides of the early Corin
thian Church, Mars Hill, the City
of Corinth, are just a few of the
interesting scenes that will be\
shown. These slides bring to life
again the many places visited by
the Apostle Paul in his missionary
journeys recorded in the Bible,
centered around Greece.
The tape recorded narration, by
Rev. Houk, is equally as descrip
tive, and interesting as the slides
themselves. Everyone is welcome,
to see “Journey Into Greece,” this
Sunday night at the Bible Baptist
Church. The service will begin at
7 pjm. The illustrated message will
be presented as a part of the regu
lar service.
EX-MAJ. GEN. WALKER
TAKES SWING AT REPORTER
WASHINGTON UP) — Edwin A.
Walker, retired major general, took
a swing at a newspaper reporter
yesterday just after he completed
two days of stormy testimony be
fore Senate investigators.
The general had stepped outside
the huge Senate committee room
into a swarm of television cameras,
photographers and newsmen when
Tom Kelly, a reporter from the
Washington Daily News, asked a
question.
In reply, the former general took
a swing at the surprised newsman
and brushed him aside.
4T was not hurt,” Kelly a short
man, said with a smile, adding that
he did not try to retaliate.
Kelly said he had asked Walker,
a tall, muscular Texan, about com
ments by George Lincoln Rock
well, head of the self-styled Amer
ican Nazi party, lauding Walker.
Walker contended that Kelly had
stried to push him around. Kelly
denied this.
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