THE NOME NUGGET
Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday by the
NOME PUBLISHING CO.
NOME, ALASKA
Telephone 443 - 2381 $1.50 PER MONTH
P. O. Box 610 $16.00 A YEAR
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, 1379.
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Everybody Loses . . .
NEW YORKERS, after 40 days without a local newspaper, have
discovered some aspects of the power of the press beyond
those usually attributed to it, according to Truman Temple, staff
writer of the Washington Evening Star, after a survey of our
largest city.
The leading dealer in luxury cars told Mr. Temple: "Our
sales are off 75 per cent. If you can’t tell the people what you
have, you can’t sell.”
A few blocks away in the famed clothing district, he noted
the padlocked newsstand of a blind couple. Normally, he was told,
they averaged $30 to $40 a week, but had not worked since Dec. 7.
These two extremes in the merchandising scale, says Mr.
Temple, "illustrate the way the current newspaper strike has cut
across all walks of life here.
"It is creeping disaster. Nothing dramatic happens in any
one day or week. But it shows in a hundred ways how daily
journalism is woven into the fabric of a city’s spending and eating
and working and even dying.”
Business in downtown stores, he learned, has slipped from four
to 20 per cent, with the large department stores the hardest hit.
Florists are hurt by the lack of obituary columns, since people
cannot read of the demise of friends. "If you die in New York
nowadays, it’s likely to be a lonely trip to the grave.”
As of the 4lst day, says the Star’s man, the strike had "cost
the newspaper industry over $60 million in lost wages, advertising
and circulation. Some 20,000 employes at nine New York dailies
have lost their jobs. Many are unable to find temporary work.”
That the strikers will lose also, in the long run, should be
obvious. Thus, all are losing, there are no winners. And the grow
ing uneasiness of New Yorkers at being out of touch with the
world and their own community threatens not only morale but
the city government and public safety.
The newspaper is indispensable to order and progress—as
well as enlightenment.
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Huge Shortage of Cash
Found In Katanga Bank
ELISABETHVILLE, Katanga UP>
—United Nations financial experts
have discovered that the hard cur
rency assets of Katanga’s National
Bank amount to exactly $116.28,
informed sources reported today.
Reports have circulated for
weeks that there was a huge short
age in the bank—$10 million, $20
million, maybe even $30 million.
Some reports said Katangan and
Central Congo government notes
were missing, and some foreign
currency, too.
The bank has been in U. N.
hands since Dec. 28, when U.N.
troops took over this city.
The records available to them
indicated that 163 million Katan
gan francs ($2.07 million) had dis
appeared.
“We don’t know where the
money went or how it went,” said
an informant.
Stratospheric Balloonist,
Dr. Jean Piccard, Passes
MINNEAPOLIS UP> — Dr. Jean
Felix Piccard, famed for his strato
spheric balloon flights and cosmic
ray research, died today on his
79th birthday.
Piccard, professor emeritus of
aeronautical engineering at the
University of Minnesota, died at
his home early today. He had had
heart trouble for a number of
years.
Although he devoted most of his
lift to chemistry and chemical re
search, he gained his greatest fame
as a stratosphere balloonist.
He first went up in a balloon in
1913 with a twin brother, Auguste,
also a physicist. Twenty-one years
later, in 1934, Jean Piccard and
his wife ascended nearly 11 miles
in a flight that began in Detroit,
Mich.
Rev. Howard DeVore
To Take Part In
Evangelistic Program
Rev. Howard DeVore, of the
Community Methodist Church,
leaves this week to take part in
the evangelistic program of the
Alaska Methodist Churches. He
will be preaching at Homer, Sel
dovia and Anchor Point before
returning.
He stated that the exchange of
pastors in the state will include
a visitor here sometime in March,
who will be Rev. Benjamin Laird
of the new suburban Methodist
Church of Anchorage called the
Beloved Disciple Church.
Mrs. DeVore will accompany
her husband, and Dr. John Schad
ler will fill the pulpit here next
Sunday.
Red Ribbon Warning . . .
WATERTOWN, N.Y. UFl — With
snowbanks piled so high they
block the view at intersections,
motorists in this northern New
York city are tying red ribbons
to radio antennas to warn fellow
travelers of their approach.
ADVERTISEMENT FOR BID
SEALED BIDS in duplicate will be re
ceived by the Commissioner, Department
of Public Works, Juneau, Alaska, until
10:00 a.m., PST, February 28, 1963, at
which time and place they will be pub
licly opened, for furnishing all labor
and materials and performing all work
for the construction of an airport at
Savoonga, Alaska.
Construction includes a 4,000 foot
landing strip and entrance road. Ap
proximate embankment quantities in
clude 94,000 cubic yards of Class I,
115.000 cubic yards of Class II, and
13.000 cubic yards of Class III.
Plans, specifications, and project docu
ments may be reviewed at the Depart
ment of Public Works, Juneau, Alaska;
Division of Aviation, Anchorage, Alaska;
Gray , Rogers & Osborne, Fairbanks,
Alaska; and Associated General Con
tractors, Anchorage, Alaska; Fairbanks,
Alaska; and Seattle, Washington.
Plans, specifications and project docu
ments may be obtained from the Di
vision of Aviation, 523 Eighth Avenue,
Anchorage, Alaska.
Guarantee will be required in an
amount not less than ten per cent of
the total bid. Bids must be submitted
in accordance with the Invitation for
Bids and the Instruction to Bidders.
Department of Public Works,
Richard A. Downing, Commissioner
By Eugene G. Roguszka, Director,
Division of Aviation
Pub: Jan. 18, 21. 28, Feb. 4, 11, 1963.
Gov. Egan Tells Alaskans to Set
Their Sights On “Attainable Goals”
JUNEAU LF — Gov. Wm. Egan
urged Alaska Saturday to set their
sights on “attainable goals, shaping
our decisions and bending our ef
forts toward reaching them.”
Egan, in remarks delivered at
formal inauguration ceremonies in
the Juneau-Douglas High School
gymnasium, said it was his firm
belief that Alaskans want no
handouts, but opportunity.
The Governor, who missed open
ing inaugural celebration cere
monies Friday because of a high
fever, said there are “some among
us . . . who say that we should
preserve our Alaska as it is to
day. . .
“But, I do not believe that this
is what the majority of Alaskans
want,” Egan said.
“The homesteader wants a road,
and he wants a school bus to travel
that road which will take his child
to school. Not just a fascimile of
a school, but one where his child
can gain an adequate education.
“The villager wants this, too.
And, he wants an airstrip that will
provide him with access to the
world beyond his village.
“The fisherman wants fish in
his net, and he wants help in re
storing his once-profitable liveli
hood. Further, he wants an ade
quate and safe place to dock his
boat.
“The farmer wants greater op
portunities to market his produce
and lower costs that will enable
him to compete with other pro
ducers in other states.
“The teacher wants a salary that
will enable him to pursue his pro
fession while maintaining an ade
quate standard of living.
“The tradesman and the laborer
want more opportunities for year
round employment so that they
will not have to sit idle for half
the year while their skills become
blunted.
“This not the wistful yearn
ing of primitive or Spartan people
for a chance to lose themselves in
wilderness isolation. This is the
unmistakable expression of reason
able people striving for better
lives within the framework of a
civilized, interdependent society.”
Egan said the new state ferry
Malaspina, one of the four ships
to be operated in southeastern
Alaska and on a Kodiak-Kenai
Peninsula run, will provide “some
thing basic to Alaska; and before
long this will be universally recog
nized.
“On this occasion we are look
ing toward the future. While it
is true that events in Alaska will
be influenced by many forces be
yond our control, the future of
our state is largely up to us.
“We are fixing our sights on at
tainable goals, shaping our de
cisions and bending our efforts
toward reaching them . . .”
Egan, still apparently suffering
from a touch of the flu which had
stricken him earlier last week, was
forced to remain in bed Friday
afternoon and evening with a tem
perature of 102 degrees as inaug
ural ceremonies got under way.
Some 1,300-1,500 persons filed
through the executive mansion dur
ing an open house, the first event
in the long inaugural weekend.
Egan was noticeably absent in
a reception line consisting of Mrs.
Egan and Secretary of State and
Mrs. Hugh Wade.
COMIN' and GOIN'
From Fairbanks: Mr. Phelts, D.
McGill, George Alowa, Alice Van
over, Flora Oumauk, Ed Benick,
Mr. Hollingsworth, Mr. Johnson,
Mr. Hauschild, H. Proctar, Mr.
Parr, L. Allen, Mr. Vickers
To Kotzebue: Capt. Feener.
To Fairbanks: Mr. and Mrs. Roy
Snyder, R. Hollingsworth, Sven
Larson, Joe Britt, W. Bell, James
Oksoktaruk, Duane Hall, Evelyn
Tweet, Richard Boswell.
Announce Engagemeni
PETERSBURG — The en
gagement of Miss Oline Sather to
Huntington S. Gruening, son U.S.
Sen. and Mrs. Ernest Gruening
was announced Saturday.
Miss Sather is the daughter of
Per K. Sather, Petersburg, and is
employed in Juneau with the Na
tional Bank of Alaska. Gruening is
vice president of operations for the
Alaska Coastal-Ellis Airlines.
The wedding will be in Juneau
at a date to be announced later.
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