THE NOME NUGGET
Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday by the
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NOME, ALASKA
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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.
WOULD HE BE AS PROUD OF US?
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A Great Man Warned Us Of Dangers Ahead
Harold Blake Walker'
W7HEN WE CELEBRATE the birthdays of men like Abraham
** Lincoln, it is well to be reminded of what we owe to yes
terday. America the Beautiful, as we know it, was purchased by
the courage and dedication of men and women who assumed
responsibility in days of crisis. We may wisely profit by their
understanding of both the nature and the hazards of freedom.
"At what point shall we Americans expect the approach of
danger?” Mr. Lincoln wondered in an address to a young men’s
lyceum in Springfield, Illinois, on January 27, 1837. "By what
means,” he asked, ’’shall we fortify against it? Shall we expect
some trans-Atlantic military giant to step the ocean and crush
us at a blow?”
Thoughtfully, Lincoln answered his own question: "All the
armies of Europe, Asia, and Africa combined, with all the treasure
of the earth ... in their military chest . . . could not by force
take a drink from the Ohio or make a track on the Blue Ridge
in a trial of a thousand years.”
What, then, is the danger Lincoln foresaw in 1837? The
danger, "if it ever reach us . . . must spring from amongst us;
it cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must
ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men,
we must live through all time or die by suicide.”
Lincoln, of course, knew nothing of rockets or sputniks or jet
planes. He lived in a different age, and yet what he said in 1837
remains true today. The crisis in our day, as in Lincoln’s day, is
far more internal than external.
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we wui iiui live uiruugu an uinc wiui nurning to live tor
except full dinner pails, two cars in every garage, and color TV
in every room. The good life of free men involves something
more than a standard of living. If we want nothing more than
extravagant reward for minimum productivity, we are asking for
the danger Mr. Lincoln foresaw.
No nation can bear the burden of the self-indulgent revolt
of its people against personal responsibility. To be sure, we live
in a complex society, in a crowded world, but in it individuals
are no less significant than in the days of the pioneers. Persons
who think and serve and assume responsibility for society are the
clew to triumph or disaster.
Individuals, assuming responsibility in thousands of com
munities, will determine what happens to our schools and colleges.
Persons, getting under the load, will say whether we have honest
or dishonest government in villages and cities and in Washington.
The ultimate question is whether we care most for our com
forts or most for our convictions. Do we believe enough in the
truth that shall make us free to serve it? Do we care enough for
integrity to risk popular scorn for it? Do we cherish freedom
enough to turn from our self-indulgence to be altars of self
discipline?
Ours is a day demanding greatness in individual men and
women, greatness in thinking, greatness in sacrifice, and great
ness in disciplined service of the highest. As Lincoln noted, "If
destruction be our lot, we ourselves must be its author . .
JFK Promises to Study
Egan’s Proposal For
Cabinet-Level Dept, of
Fisheries, Oceanography
JUNEAU —Gov. Egan said to
day he has had another exchange
of letters with President Kennedy
on Egan’s recommendation for cre
ation of a cabinet-level department
of fisheries and oceanography.
Egan said he had suggested to
the President that possibilities for
development of ocean fisheries are
“comparable to the value of the
land-based agricultural program.’’
The governor said he believed
that the responsibilities of the De
partment of the Interior are now
too broad for it to do justice to
the complex problems of fisheries.
“While it is true that the respon
sibilities of the Dept, of the In
terior are very broad and encom
pass a number of important areas
of national concern,” Kennedy re
plied, “it must be recognized that
the primary responsibility of the
department is to foster conserva
tion of the natural resources of
this country, including agriculture.
“For this reason, there is con
siderable merit in handling the
conservation of lands, inland wat
ers and adjacent ocean waters
within one department so that
these resources can be studied and
their development adequately co
ordinated.”
Egan said he was aware that
several departments of federal gov
ernment have an interest in ocean
ographic research, but the gover
nor said he believed an integration
of the effort in one agency “is the
only way we will accomplish an
efficient, progressive oceanography
program.”
Kennedy said Egan’s latest ar
guments for creation of the new
agency, along with arguments ad
vanced earlier, would receive close
study.
Igor Cassini Indicted For
Failure to Register As
Publicity Man for Trujillo
WASHINGTON UPt — Debonair
Igor Cassini, who writes of the
smart set under the name “Cholly
Knickerbocker,” has been indicted
on charges of failing to register
as a publicity agent for the Dom
inican regime of fhe late Rafael
Trujillo. ?
The 47-year-old society colum
nist, younger brother of Mrs. John
F. Kennedy’s dress designer, Oleg
Cassini, labeled the charge untrue.
“I am confident I will be cleared
of this technical charge of non
registration,” he said.
The Justice Department said a
federal grand jury, investigating
Dominican lobbying in the United
States, returned a four-count in
dictment against Cassini Friday.
A department spokesman said
the jury accused Cassini of sharing
fees of almost $200,000 for spread
ing “political propaganda” to im
prove the tarnished image of the
Trujillo government.
The period covered in the in
dictment is from June 1959 to
November 1961. Dictator Trujillo
was assassinated in May 1961.
Cassini runs a Park Avenue pub
lic relations firm, Martial & Co.,
in New York City.
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Nikita Says Soviet Troops In Cuba
Are There Only to Instruct Cubans
On the Use of Advanced Weapons
By PRESTON GROVER
MOSCOW (i'P—Premier Khrush
chev told newspaper magnate Roy
Thomson Saturday that Soviet
troops in Cuba are there only to
instruct Cubans in advanced wea
pons.
Thomson said the Soviet premier
told him there need be no concern
by the United States about a So
viet arms buildup in Cuba.
Thomson met Khrushchev in the
Kremlin for 2^ hours, and told
newsmen afterward that their dis
cussions were most frank and
ranged over many subjects.
Thomson said he asked bow
many Soviet troops are in Cuba,
and the premier replied he did not
know the figure and would have
to look it up.
Thomson said he asked if the
Americans should be concerned
about reports of a new Soviet
arms buildup in Cuba. He said
Khrushchev replied:
“Absolutely not.”
Khrushchev indicated, Thomson
said, that the German problem was
the most crucial problem in the
cold war and that with its settle
ment the cold war would largely
end.
Thomson said Khrushchev told
him the Communist Chinese are
“our friends” and would always
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Revenooers “Declare War”
After Moonshiners Open
Fire On Agent’s Cars
NEW PORT, Tenn. — “The
revenue officer’s a cornin’ . . .
gonna tear vo’ still house down.”
This refrain from the mountain
ballad “Darlin’ Corey” might well
have been written about Cocke
County, which Alcohol Tax Unit
agents call the moonshine capital
of the world. And this time the
“revenooers” are coming with a
vengeance. The code of the hills
has been broken.
Sheriff Kin Holt says he ordin
arily is not interested in raiding
or “cutting” stills, as he calls it.
but when moonshiners shoot at
revenue men, that’s another mat
ter.
State and federal agents moved
into the county’s hill country—43
miles east of Knoxville—en masse
this week after moonshiners open
ed up on two state revenue de
partment agents with rifle fire.
Since then 75 state and federal
agents have broken up 40 stills and
poured 12,500 gallons of good corn
mash out on the ground.
The excitement stems from rifle
fire at the ATU agents’ car. Eight
bullet holes were found in the
vehicle.
Nobody was hurt, but this broke
the unwritten code of the hills,
which says revenuers and moon
shiners don’t shoot at each other.
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