THE NOME NUGGET
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Entered at second class matter October 14, 1943, at the
post office at Nome, Alaska, under Act of March 3, 1879.
Graduation Day
rpOMORROW IS GRADUATION DAY for the seniors of
-*■ Nome High School.
Starting tomorrow, this class will he too old for the irrespon
sibilities of carefee youth, and too young for the excuses of old age.
This class must take its place with other graduating classes
all over America in championing that which is right, to toughen
the moral fiber of our times and to hold for themselves and their
posterity that which is truly worthwhile in our way of life.
This is the ’'homework” that carries over from school to the
changing horizons and challenges of tomorrow. This is the home
work that is never finished.
We congratulate these students who have completed at least
12 years of study and encourage everyone to continue studying
whether it is college or vocational training.
JAMES BLANNING IS GUEST SPEAKER
James Blanning, local manager of the Alaska Communications
System here, will be the guest commencement speaker at the graduation
exercises for the Class of 1963 at Nome High School, Thursday evening
at 8:00 pjn., in the high school gym.
Twenty-five seniors will be on stage for the commencement and
a large audience of parents and friends is expected. Carole Doyle is
a member of the Class of 1963, but completed her work at the end
of the first semester and received her diploma at that time.
Ash Craft, president of the Board of Education, will present
diplomas to the graduates. The program and graduates are listed below.
COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES
Nome High School
Procession. ' .Grand March from Aida, Verdi
(Gloria Carlson)
Invocation . Rev. R. F. Wilson
Salutatory ... Linda Doyle
My Task, a vocal solo.E. L. Ashford
(Mrs. Richard Lyttle)
Valedictory.Jeanette Amundsen
Commencement Address . James W. Blanning
Now Is the Hour . Kaihen-Scott
(High School Chorus)
Presentation of Class .. Larry Bourger
(Principal, Nome High School)
Presentation of Diplomas . Ash Craft
(President, Nome School Board)
Presentation of Special Awards.Victor F. Charles
(Superintendent, Nome Public Schools)
Benediction . Rev. R. F. Wilson
Recessional.Grand March from Aida, Verdi
(Gloria Carlson)
GRADUATING CLASS
Jeanette Amundsen
Richard Arnold
Richard Atuk
Thomas L. Boucher
Charles Burnett
Michael Cannon
Jo Chambers
David Craft
Linda Doyle
Floyd Kugzruk
Ronald Locke
Nicholas Longley
Lurisse Lowe
Barbara Mclver
Carol Miller
Pamela Mulvihill
Charles Nershak
William Oman
Leslie Sackett
William Sagoonick
Marilyn Schmidt
Dwight Schnare
Janet Tocktoo
Sally Walker
Diane Wilke
EIGHTH GRADE GRADUATION
Eighth Grade promotion ceremonies will be held Friday, May 24,
at 10 a.m. in the High School Gym. The following program is
planned for the occasion:
Processional March . Debbie Schadler
Music . Jeanette Amundsen
Invocation . Rev. Bachelder
Welcoming Speech . Douglas Doyle
Valedictory Address . Dolores Johanson
Presentation of Perfect Attendance Certificates .... Mr. Bourger
Presentation of the Eighth Grade . Mr. Bourger
Presentation of Diplomas . Mr. Craft
Recessional March . Debbie Schadler
— 8 - A — Agnes Payenna Raymond Nuipok
Pat Adams Mina Picnalook Lucille Oksoktaruk
Julie Alowa Kathleen Schuelke Herman Oumauk
Rosie Ann Atuk Carrie Ann Ullrich Frank Outwater
Mary Alexander Margaret Walsh Richard Pauwok
Joe Dexter Phillip Titus Walter Peterson
Kelly Lee Dhabolt Annie Pederson Helen Seelkoke '
Douglas Doyle Elsa Iyatunguk Jacob Sheldon
Nancy Gray Frederick Ozenna Robert Thomas
Betty Ann Hoogendorn Donald Young
Dolores Johanson — 8 - B — Patrick Beaver
Bobby Koweluk Eugene Dalilak Donald Wall
Isaac Koyuk Fay Kiyutelluk Almira Mazonna
William Lee William Leight Ernest Wilkalkia
David Otton James Nershak Michael Thompson
At Chamber
Monday . . .
The Chamber of Commerce paid
tribute to a member of long stand
ing, Charles Jones, who passed
away at the Pioneer Home last
week, by a moment of silence,
and bowed heads.
Mayor Don Hoover announced
that anyone interested in purchas
ing revenue bonds for the Nome
Light and Power plant may con
tact his office. The bonds may
be purchased in lots of $5,000 or
more.
Sen. Pearse Walsh focused at
tention to the fact that Galena is
in a state of flooding and commu
nications could go out at any time.
He pointed out that this is another
reason why a base should be to
the westward, some place nearer
the coast, as protection in case of
this kind of trouble or any other
at Galena.
Sen. Walsh also stated that 40
men will be employed soon on the
Gambell runway project as the
MK Barge loaded with equipment
is now at Dutch Harbor.
Wiley Scott, of ECS, is confer
ring with the contractor to get as
many local men hired as possible
on this job as well as on the Sa
voonga Airport. Over $2,000,000 is
in the building of these two air
fields.
Sen. Lester Bronson gave a re
port of his trip to California and
stated that one piece of legislation
which he regretted did not ma
terialize w7as the forming of an
Alaskan Trade Commission so
that in this area a market for
reindeer can be created just like
a market for lumber has been cre
ated out of Sitka. This would aid
the Japanese and certainly improve
our economy he stated.
Sen. Bronson stated his unhap
piness at having to work six days
without pay, stating that the sen
ators are paid only $35 a day plus
their year around salary of $200
per month and they were entitled
to six additional days.
Bronson spoke briefly on the
pinball machine bill, stating that
it “didn’t actually change any
thing” and “you just can’t stop
people from gambling.”
He was pleased with the results
of the feasability study he had re
quested between villages, as the
BIA is going ahead with the pro
posal and sending a specialist into
the field this summer here.
Bob Harwood reported on the
Midnight Sun Festival, stating
that the Little Ice Pool, which
proved so popular, would be start
ed again this year and much
interest was being shown in the
sale of tickets for the big polar
bear rug being given away by the
Festival.
Among the guests present were
Mary Monahan, from the Seattle
office of ACS, on her first visit
to Nome; Pat Wilson, dietician at
the MMM Hospital; Lawrence
-Kiyoukluk, sanitation aide here
for conference on spring clean-up
for the villages below here; Win
ston Osborne, nutritionist for the
Alaska Native Health and Marian
Bryan, nutritionist of the Alaska
Native Health, to be stationed at
Kotzebue. Local visitor was Harriet
Brown of the Assembly of God
Church.
Mike Kelly, well known retired
pioneer, is back in town for a visit
with his many friends in the area.
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REPORT ON
RED CHINA
Red China REPORT I: First Look
Editor’s Note — Richard P.
Lister is a 48-year-old British
writer who has just come out
of Red China following a three
week British travel agency tour.
Here’s his inside report on his
first impressions of a country
long barred to U.S. reporters,
first of a series.
By RICHARD P. LISTER
PEKING UP) — It’s 7,000 miles
from London to Red China. In
24 hours you are here if you have
$1,540 to spend for a three weeks’
tour—and the Chinese accept you.
It works out at about 14 cents
a mile.
Breakfast in London, lunch in
Moscow, where most of the four
hour stop is spent filling out in
numerable green forms demanded
by rampant bureaucracy. One
wonders if they are really friends,
the Russians and the Chinese.
Who makes this journey? Dele
gations of workers and trade
unionists from the Communist
world, politicians and technical ex
perts, and now the first tiny trickle
of tourists. We are tourists and
more important, organized tourists.
The agency in London saw to that.
Individual tourists can make it,
with a struggle, but the Chinese
prefer even their tourists to look
like a delegation.
This group includes a lawyer,
ex-member of the House of Com
mons who has written books on
famous trials; a drama critic of a
London Sunday newspaper; a
farmer-baronet from the north of
England; a retired industrialist and
his wife, and several energetic old
ladies in search of something of
more interest than a beach.
On landing tea was served. Tea
is served everywhere in China, at
all hours.
Now, our “delegation” gets
taken over by officialdom.
With our guide and an inter
preter we strike out the next mor
ning for the imperial palace—the
forbidden city of imperial times—
and then to the great hall of the
people which is the Red Chinese
Parliament.
We’re under surveillance, not
because we’re cloak and dagger
types at all but because the Chi
nese want to be sure we don’t
become “incidents.”
Through all this the Chinese
show us what they choose to show
and it’s their best foot forward.
Yet they cannot conceal many
crowded, dilapidated dwellings
and the primitive agricultural
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city police quieted a noisy party
last night. The department re
ceived a call from the Gilmore
Hotel complaining of noise from a
gathering at nearby Pioneer Hall.
A police officer was immediately
dispatched.
The noisy party?
It was a gathering of police of
ficers, members of the Southeast
Alaska Peace Officers Assn. The
officers, it was reported, hadn't
realized that they were making
noise. They promptly quieted.
Police Chief Henry Miller, who
hadn’t attended the meeting, said
today “After all, like anyone else,
they are entitled to a first warn
ing.”
The complainant? Former Po
lice Sgt. Carl Webb, who retired
from the force last year.
ing human labor for lack of a
machine.
By the time we were swinging
back toward Peking, it was impos
sible though to avoid concluding
that the people all seemed to be
the same: purposeful, contented,
reasonable, calm. Nobody begged:
nobody stole. No one looked hun
gry and if here and there a citi
zen was wearing little better than
rags, the rags were carefully
stitched and darned and patched.
Certainly there is government
and party discipline. Yet the dis
cipline among the people seemed
deeper than all that—older, more
dignified and above all cooly sure.
None of us in our “delegation”
felt we possessed this Chinese
quality.
The three-week tour ended back
in Peking timed exactly for the
May Day celebrations.
Presiding over the festivities
were five portraits exhibited ev
erywhere in huge dimension . . .
Mao Tze Tung, in solitary splen
dor, and facing him Marx, Engels,
Lenin and Stalin.
In all the China we saw, there
was not one single portrait of
Nikita Khrushchev.
Next: Red China contrast.
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