THE NOME NUGGET
Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday by the
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Nome, Alaska
Telephone 443-2381 Sl.50 Per Month
P.O. Box 66 S 16.00 a Year
James F. O’Sullivan, Publisher & Editor
En Jocius, Foreman
Entered at second class matter October 14. 1343, at the
post office at Nome, Alaska, under Act of March 3, 1879.
Another Surplus
WATCH YOUR LANGUAGE, Bub. Don’t say: "There ought
** to be a law.” Americans have been heedlessly saying that for
nigh onto 200 years — and look where it has got us! Were
snarled in a morass of laws up to here — laws that not even the
courts can understand — so many laws that it takes two-and-a-half
million Federal payrollers, and who knows how many state,
county, city and town employes to administer them!
This, in substance, is the timely warning of Bert C. Goss,
president of the public relations firm of Hill and Knowlton, Inc.,
who sees ahead "dozens of situations developing that threaten
more laws and more regulations,” and urges that we learn to
say: "There ought not to be a law.”
By way of example, he notes that while the Internal Revenue
Service requires a staff of 64,000 and a budget of $674 million,
the nation’s business firms keep even more people busy and spend
even more money on tax records and reports for the Government.
Now Congress is wrestling with what was intended to be a "tax
reform” law which, Mr. Goss predicts, "will result in the issuance
of several hundred more interpretive regulations, dozens upon
dozens of costly contests in the courts, and an unbearable addition
to the hidden costs of complying with our tax laws and regu
lations.”
"Disciples of "there ought not to be a law” have offered a
simple solution. They would scrap the present income tax mess,
the deductions, the allowances, the expense-account arguments
and start over with a simple, low-rate tax on gross income. No
complications, no altercations, no frustrations, and just as much
revenue to the Government at a fraction the collection cost.
But, Mr. Goss points out sadly, while Congress is conditioned
to the bureaucratic philosophy "there ought to be a law,” and
while the people retain the quaint habit of scoring each Congress
on how many laws it has produced, we can expect no genuine
reform in taxation, in labor, or in any other area of Government
concern.
Perhaps it’s time to offer Congress a bounty on every law
it repeals.
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Arctic Survival Is A-P Story of the Year
By WARD SIMS
Associated Press Writer
A wilderness plane crash, crip
pling injuries, seven long weeks of
numbing winter temperatures and
faith the primary nourishment.
Those are the ingredients of
which Alaska’s top news story of
1963 is comprised, the amazing,
almost incredible experience of a
slim model from Brooklyn and a
California pilot.
Helen Klaben and Ralph Flores
of San Bruno, Calif., were flying
from Fairbanks to the lower 48
when Flores’ aircraft piled into the
| side of a mountain near Watson
Lake, Yukon, last February 4.
Miss Klaben suffered a frac
tured foot and a broken arm.
Flores suffered broken ribs.
Their only food consisted of two
cans of fruit and two cans of sar
dines.
They made the four small tins
last seven days. From then on,
until they were spotted by a pass
ing plane on March 24 and res
cued on March 25, they had only
melted snow.
During their ordeal, their only
shelter was a tarpaulin, with tem
peratures dropping to as low as
40 degrees below zero.
Their survival in the harsh
Canadian northland was voted as
the top story of the year for Alas
ka today by the state’s newsmen in
the Associated Press’ eighth an
nual poll.
It w’as the second time in three
years that a survival story was
tabbed as the top story of the
year.
In 1961, the top story was that
of the survival of William C.
Waters, a Kentucky tourist who
lived to tell about it after being
lost for 69 days in the sub-arctic
wilderness northeast of Fairbanks.
Tabbed as the No. 2 story this
year was the disastrous fire which
swept through the heart of Cor
dova on May 2, destroying or dam
aging 31 buildings. No lives were
lost.
Shell Oil Co.’s strike of the first
proven oil discovery in Cook In
let waters, 60 miles southwest of
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Anchorage, was rated No. 3. Shell
made the announcement of the
strike on Sept. 19.
The tragic loss of 101 lives
when a Northwest Orient Airlines
DC7 under charter to the Military
Air Transport Service plunged
into the sea 175 miles southwest
of Ketchikan was designated the
No. 4 story of the year.
The remaining top ten stories,
as selected by the state’s news
men, were, in order:
The start of ferry service in
Southeast Alaska, giving the pan
handle its first surface transpor
tation system.
The disastrous red salmon fish
ing season on Bristol Bay, which
lefts many of the area’s residents
virtually penniless.
Unprovoked attacks on humans
by black bears in the Interior re
sulting in the death of one man.
A berry crop failure was blamed
for the sudden outbreak of attacks.
Russian destruction of American
king crab gear off Kodiak Island,
through indiscriminate trawling
operations.
The savage arctic storm which
battered the Eskimo village of
Barrow Oct. 3, causing damage
estimated at more than $500,000.
The wild shooting spree at
Fairbanks July 1 in which a sol
dier killed three person and
wounded seven others.
The United States has more than
50 natural bridges.
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LETTER TO THE EDITOR
To The Editor:
I would very much like a pen
friend in Nome. I am a boy 10
years old. I would like a pen-pal
as old as me.
NOEL JOHNSON
952 Waugh Rd.
Nth, Albury
New South Wales
Australia
THERE'S GIVE ALONG
WITH THE TAKE . . .
There are some stirring remin
ders in this holiday season that
the pocketbooks of Americans are
as large as their hearts in help
ing families tom by tragedy. Some
examples: The $386,200 contrib
uted so far to the family of J. D.
Tippit, the Dallas policeman
killed by the man accused as the
assassin of the President . . . the
$23,000 contributed for that man’s
widow, Mrs. Lee Oswald . . . the
$118,000 given for the benefit of
children of the 129 men who died
on the submarine Thresher.
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