THE NOME NUGGET
Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday by Ifce
NOME PUBLISHING CO.
Nome, Alaska
Telephone 443-2381 SI.30 Per Month
P.O. Box 66 SI6.00 a Year
James F. O’Sullivan, Publisher & Editor
En Jocius, Foreman
Entered at second class matter October 14. 1943, at tfce
post office at Nome. Alaska, under Act of March 3, 1979.
S T AT E ME N T OF P OL I C Y
THE NOME NUGGET, originally the Nome News, was founded
on October 9, 1899. The first editorial by owner and editor
John F. Strong, read as follows:
"The Some Sens is here to assist in the development of
this portion of our common country and to obtain a share, if pos
sible. in the golden wealth that has brought the district into
prominence. The Sews will be a paper for the people and will
in every way endeavor to advocate such measures as well as bring
the greatest good to the greatest number. It proposes to be fair
to all: to be in every sense a good newspaper."
Today, after 64 years of publication and 105 issues, those
words continue to present a challenge to the editorial policy of
this paper.
These fine and basic principles will be adopted anew. How
ever . . . time passes. There is much to be done in Northwestern
Aaska. and while we did obtain "a share in the golden wealth,”
undoubtedly beyond editor Strong’s greatest expectations, we no
longer enjoy an equal share in this state’s growth.
Northwestern Alaska is only in its infancy despite its early
day history and the resultant fame of such places as Nome. Our
area is fortunate in that its leaders are young, aggressive and with
much imagination. We also have at hand a wealth of experience
in the population of "old timers” who unselfishly give of their time
and energies in order to help create a better place for all of us.
These will be assets of this newspaper — as well as of the people
—as we push on toward adulthood.
The Nome Nugget will press for equality of all peoples, and
for measures which will benefit white and native aike. This news
paper will do whatever must be done in order that Alaskans may
always hold their heads high.
Changes for the better generally come slowly — a product of
imagination, research and implementation. The Nugget will en
deavor to keep pace with the changing times and to at all times
foster the needs of Northwestern Alaska. This newspaper will
strive to promote and nurture progress of this area as if it were
its own.
THROUGH TWO DECADES
THE EDITOR and Publisher of the Nome Nugget for the past
twenty years, Mrs. Emily Boucher, takes this editorial space for
the last time, to express to the readers of Alaska’s oldest newspaper,
her appreciation for the wonderful support which they have given
her throughout the past two decades, and to the advertisers for
their co-operation in making it possible for Nome to have a news
paper. These years have been both challenging and rewarding.
Nome is on the threshold of new development. The State
Vocational School is now under construction, the water and sewage
project application to Accelerated Public Works Agency has been
approved, mining interests have expanded beyond just gold mining
to other minerals and metals, and, most important, more people
are interested in making Nome their permanent home, rather than a
place in which to make a stake and head south.
A growing community’ is just as good as its newspaper. The
hometown newspaper is an essential part of the American way of
life. It stresses the importance of the everyday citizen in the mod
ern world, telling the facts, the truth just as it is and not the way
we wish it to be. Will Rogers once said, ’’Take away my ham,
take away my eggs, even my chili, but leave my newspaper. . . .
I sincerely hope that you will show the new pubishers, James
and Jean O’Sullivan, the same loyal support and co-operation, for
by so doing the Nugget can continue to do its share in the devel
opment of this part of the greatest state in the union.
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| Kennedy Plea
Fails to Move
Vietnamese
By MALCOLM W. BROWNE
SAIGON. South Viet Nam t/P> —
The government of South Viet
Nam has turned a deaf ear to
President Kennedy's pleas for re
forms to rally public support for
President Ngo Dinh Diem and win
the war against Communist guer
rillas.
While a government spokesman
welcomed Kennedy’s pledge of
continued U.S. aid in the anti
communist war. he said Tuesday
the President’s criticism of Diem’s
domestic policies was “quite
wrong’’ and “based on inadequate
information.’’
U. S. officials in Washington
privately voiced disappointment
over the negative reaction to Ken
nedy’s plea for reforms The Sai
gon stand was considered a blow
to a solution of deteriorating U.S.
Vietnamese relations.
The American President ap
pealed to the Vietnamese govern
ment Monday to rally public sup
port by changes in policy “and i
perhaps in personnel’”
He apparently had in mind Di
em’s brother-adviser, Ngo Dinh
Nhu. Washington believes he was
responsible for the anti-Buddhist
crackdown Aug. 21 when martial
law was imposed in South Viet
Nam. A Roman Catholic, Diem has
denied Buddhist charges of reli
gious discrimination.
The Vietnamese government
spokesman noted “Kennedy said
the United States should not with
draw its support of Viet Nam, and
that is heartening.’ U. S. military
and other aid to Viet Nam is run
| ning $500 million a year
Washington reacted sharply to a
story published in Saigon that the
U S. Central Intelligence Agency
had plotted to overthrow the
Diem government with the help
of dissidents in South Viet Nam.
State Department Press Officer
Richard I. Phillips denied the
charges which appeared in a gov
ernment-backed Vietnamese news
paper, the Times of Viet Nam. He
likened the story to a fiction
thriller.
SEARCH ON FOR LAD IN
WATERS OFF YAKUTAT
JUNEAU UP) — The Coast Guard
is assisting in a search near Yak
utat for James Shotwell, 14, miss
ing from a capsized boat. His fath
er Joseph reached shore about six
hours after the boat overturned,
but reported that he was unable
to find the boy.
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Last Rites Held for
Mrs. Christie Stewart
Funeral services for Mrs. Chris
tie Stewart, longtime resident of
Fairbanks and pioneer Alaskan,
who passed away in Seattle Aug
ust 20 after a long illness, were
held in Bonnev Watson Funeral
Home in Seattle. Cremation fol
lowed the service.
Coming to Alaska in the early
1900s, Mrs. Stewart landed at
Nome. Later she went to Daw
son. where she worked in a res
taurant. About 1905 she came to
Fairbanks and met her husband,
James Stewart, pioneer Dawson
and Fairbanks miner. They were
married at Cordova by the late
Dr. S. Hall Young, first Presby
terian Missionary. The couple
made the trip from Fairbanks es
pecially to be married by
Dr. Young.
Surviving are two daughters,
Mrs. Alaska Linck, who is with
the reservations department of
Pan American World Airways in
Fairbanks, and Mrs. Margaret
Pitts, with the accounting office
of Pacific Northern Airlines in
Seattle; two sons, Capt. James
Stewart, a veteran of 30 years
with Pan American World Air
ways of San Francisco, and Wil
liam Stewart, flight engineer with
Trans-World Airlines, who re
sides in Los Angeles; and a sister,
Mrs. Carrie Dunn of Pennbrook.
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U-W Fullback
Sidelined With
Injured Foot
SEATTLE (i'P — Junior Coffey,
University of Washington fullback
and leading rusher in the Big Six
Conference last year, suffered a
broken bone in his right foot Mon
day on the second day of practice.
The foot was placed in a cast
after he was kicked in defensive
drill and X-rays were planned
Tuesday. A small fracture in the
same foot kept him out of spring
workouts.
Coffey, from Dimmitt, Tex., is
expected to miss at least the first
game of the season against the
Air Force Academy at Colorado
Springs Sept. 21.
As a sophomore last year he
was an all-Big Six and All-Coast
selection. He led the league in
rushing with 581 yards, averaging
5.9 yards a carry
Coffey had just been moved up
from the fourth string to the sec
ond string, under Coach Jim
Owens’ policy that players who
miss spring drill must “work their
way back”
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