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Entered at second class matter October 14, 1943, at the
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Law Day USA, May 1, 1963
By President John F. Kennedy
THE STORY OF MAN’S advance from savagery to civilization
is the story of reason and morality displacing brutal force.
While law is reason systematized, it is more than reason alone. A
great justice of our Supreme Court said long ago, "The law is the
witness and external deposits of our moral life. Its history is the
history of the moral development of the race.”
In a time when ail men are properly concerned lest nation’s
forgetting law, reason, and moral existence, turn to mutual de
struction, we have all the more need to work for a day when law
may govern nations as it does men within nations; when sys
tematized reason may bring us a confident future; when the moral
development of the human race may assure us a peaceful and law
abiding world.
In 1961 the Congress by joint resolution wisely designated
as Law Day USA the first day of each May. Thus, Law Day USA
becomes the significant answer to Communism’s May Day de
monstrations, and calls on our people to rededicate themselves to
ideals of equality and justice in their relations with one another
and to the same ideals in relations with other nations.
“Lovely” Tax Report
PHOENIX, Ariz. UP! — The State
Income Tax Division reported Fri
day receipt of a love letter from
an Arizonan who apparently had
mailed his tax return to his sweet
heart.
The tax men had little interest
in the man’s vows of undying love,
but one paragraph of the letter
caught their eye. It said “just sent
in my state taxes. Boy, did I rook
them! Ha! Ha!
The Tax Division returned the
erroneously addressed letter, to
gether with a note advising that
an agent would be around to dis
cuss any other recent mistakes
the taxpayer might have made.
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BILL BROWN RETURNS
Bill Brown, U.S. Engineer for
the Nome Harbor, returned with
Mrs. Brown to prepare for the
summer harbor work.
Duing the winter they enjoyed
meeting with former Nome friends
in California among whom were
Mr. and Mrs. Bill Tuttle, Mr. and
Mrs. Cliff Allen, Mr. and Mrs. Joe
Wallace, and Mr. and Mrs. E. K.
Johanson. Also Pauline Gabrielson
is now enjoying a visit with friends
in Honolulu.
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Subs Skate and
Sea Dragon Had a
Brush with Disaster
WASHINGTON Itf — The nu
clear submarines Skate and Sea
Dragon had a brush with disaster
in their historic rendezvous at the
North Polo last summer, it was
disclosed Saturday.
The Skate surfaced first, and
only a last-minute warning over
an underwater phone prevented
the Sea Dragon from coming up
right under the Skate.
The executive officer of the
Sea Dragon at that time was Lt.
Cmdr. John Harvey of Philadel
phia.
Luck was with him then, but
deserted him a little more than
eight months later. For Harvey
became the skipper of the atomic
submarine Thresher. He and 128
other men aboard perished on
April 10 when the Thresher van
ished off Cape Cod.
The rendezvous of the 268-foot
Skate with her sister sub, the
Sea Dragon, under the polar ice
pack was announced by President
Kennedy last Aug. 22.
The Navy said at the time that
the Skate and Sea Dragon had
“surfaced together at the North
Pole” on Aug. 2. The Skate came
from the Atlantic, the Sea Dragon
from the Pacific.
Information which became avail
able Saturday said the Sea Dragon
reached the rendezvous position
on July 31 a little ahead of Skate.
The two submarines then
traveled side by side under water
I until they reached the North Pole.
At that point, the Skate surfaced.
Cmdr. Joseph Skoog Jr. of Seat
tle, skipper of the Skate, then
stood on his bridge watching for
smoke floats released by Sea Dra
gon from its bow and stern as a
signal that it was preparing to sur
face.
Suddenly a Skate lookout report
ed a smoke float on the starboard
beam of his sub. Almost immedi
ately after a Skate lookout sighted
a second smoke marker off the
Skate’s port beam.
This meant the Sea Dragon was
coming up underneath and at a
90 degree angle to the Skate. The
two subs were in the form of a
cross.
Skoog leaped to an underwater
phone and shouted a warning to
Cmdr. Charles Summitt, captain
of the Sea Dragon.
Sea Dragon swung about and
surfaced close to her sister sub.
The Sea Dragon had one mis
hap on its way north from Pearl
Harbor. A water leak developed
in a drain valve and one of her
propellers was stopped while the
leak was being repaired.
Thus, Sea Dragon passed through
the Adak Strait into the Bering
Sea on one propeller.
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Two Unalakleet Eskimos
Show How to Lure Tourist
To the Golden North
SEATTLE Iff)—The natives were
restless at Alaska Airlines’ head
quarters here Friday. Two Eskimos
from Unalakleet, dancing like
they shared a hotfoot, showed how
they lure tourists to the golden
north.
Clad in parkas and mukluks, Mr.
and Mrs. Oliver Amouak presented
authentic Eskimo songs and dances
to the rythmic thumping of a
walrus stomach drum.
Bob Giersdorf, assistant vice
president and general sales man
ager, announced the couple has
just completed a nation-wide tour
giving performances in 80 cities.
Alaska Airlines already has book
ed 1,500 persons for large tour
groups flying north this year, he
said.
Most of the headquarters em
ployes were called into the office
of president Charles Willis Jr.
for the impromptu show, which
included color movies of Alaska’s
many tourist attractions.
Amouak and his wife, Olga,
wore bi-focal glasses. And Amouak
had a metal zipper built into his
fur parka.
Report on Electrical
Power Developments In
U.S.S.R. are Available
Mr. Daniel Jones, manager of
the Fairbanks Land Office states
that a copy of the report “Recent
Electric Power Developments in
U.S.S.R.” has been received by
the Fairbanks Land Office and is
available for study by the public.
Although the report deals chief
ly with technical developments in
the electric power field, it contains
background information on other
aspects of the Soviet economy. The
body of the report was prepared
by the U.S. delegation which re
cently made a tour of Soviet Russia
under the U.S.-U.S.S.R. exchange
agreement. The final section of the
report is an important summary
by the Secretary of Interior, Stew
art L. Udall.
Marc Beauchamp, who has been
elementary principle here at Nome
School for several years, has an
nounced his resignation and will
be leaving late in the summer to
take up the duties of elementary
principle at Kenai where Con Pot
ter has been superintendent this
past year.
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Coast Guard Ready to
Patrol Alaskan Waters
SEATTLE im — The 255-foot
Coast Guard cutter Wachusett
leaves Seattle today for a 50-day
fisheries patrol in Alaskan waters.
The patrol, lasting to mid-Sep
tember, is to enforce international
and United States fisheries regu
lations.
In addition to the Wachusett,
the cutters Klamath, based at
Seattle, and the Winona, from Port •
Angeles, will alternate on the
patrol. The cutters will range over
the eastern half of the Bering Sea,
Bristol Bay, south of the Aleu
tians and the Gulf of Alaska.
The Alaskan fisheries patrol is
an addition to the annual Bering
Sea patrol which the Coast Guard
has conducted since 1867. This
year’s Bering Sea patrol will be
conducted by the icebreakers
Northwind, Seattle-based, and the
Storis, out of Kodiak.
Mrs. Wm. Beliz Will Receive
Homestead In Unalakleei
WASHINGTON (#> — Mrs. Wm.
Beltz, widow of the first Presi
dent of the Alaska Senate, will
receive a homestead near Unalak
leet under a bill signed by Presi
dent Kennedy Friday.
Beltz died in November of 1960
before he could complete home
stead ownership requirements.
Kennedy also signed a bill that
would allow Lewis Cass, of Ninil
chik, to gain title to a homestead
on land he was later told was not
available for homesteading.
TAKU BACK AT SHIPYARD
SEATTLE W—The Taku, second
of three Alaska ferries being built
by the Puget Sound Bridge & Dry
Dock Co., is back at the shipyard
today.
The Taku came to Seattlie for
repairs after scraping bottom last
week while docking at Petersburg.
She went to the company’s plant 2
across West Waterway from where
the Matanuska, third of the three
sister ships, is under construction.
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