THE NOME NUGGET
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E. P. BOUCHER . Managing Editor
Entered at second class matter October 14. 1943, at tfce
poet office at Nome, Alaska, under Act of March 3, 1879.
"THE BEST FOR YOU THIS YEAR"
NOME MOVES AHEAD . . .
THE LONG SOUGHT water and sewer system is no long a
dream, no longer just wishful thinking. With special action
of the Accelerated Public Works Administration, yesterday
Noemites can plan to have modern plumbing next year, and a
healthy school for its children.
With a modern water and sewage system, Nome is on the
threshold of normal healthy growth, because the benefits of this
improvement are far reaching—far beyond just the convenience
of the facilities and the elimination of health hazards which now
exist.
When the system is installed Nome becomes eligible for fi
nancial help from many sources for the small home owner, small
businessman, new industry, low cost housing projects for the under
privileged, slum clearance and many other phrases of economic
development which has been denied this community heretofore.
Many years of work by many committees of members of the
Nome Chamber of Commerce have gone into achieving this goal;
many of the people who gave generously of their time and talents
have passed on, but the civic leaders of this community carried
on, passing the challenge over the years and never giving up hope.
Those who stand out in the final achievement in obtaining the
needed financial aid are the members of the Board of Directors
of the Northwest Chamber of Commerce and the team they sent
to Washington early this month, Pearse Walsh and Don Hoover
and last but not least the Alaska delegation in Congress, whose
interest, experience and ability "opened the right doors’’ and
found the sympathetic ear that finally brought the plight of
Nome to the front and resulted in the application being approved.
Women's Club Meets Tuesday
The Women’s Club, which has
been inactive during the summer
will hold its first meeting on Tues
day evening at the summer camp
of Mrs. Pete Hahn at Cape Nome.
Transportation arrangements are
being made through Mrs. Robert
Fenstermacher as well as the ar
rangements for the pot luck sup
per to be served prior to the meet
ing.
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Christine Keeler Story
COPENHAGEN, Denmark <*» —
British actress Yvonne Bucking
ham arrived in Copenhagen Wed
nesday to co-star with John Bar
rymore Jr., in “The Christine
Keeler Story” film.
Barrymore is cast as the late Dr.
Stephen Ward. Miss Keeler could
not play herself, as originally plan
ned, because British equity re
fused to admit her to membership,
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Civil Rights March
Dramatizes the
Wants of Negroes
WASHINGTON uP — The his
toric civil rights march on Wash
ington — massive and orderly and
moving — has dramatized the
wants of Negroes in America, but
leaders still faced the task of try
ing to turn drama into action.
Speaker after speaker told the
200,000 Negro and white sympa
thizers massed in front of the Lin
coln Memorial Wednesday that
their demonstration was no more
than a beginning.
“Those who hope that the Negro
needed to blow off steam and will
now be content,” said the Rev.
Martin Luther King Jr., “will have
a rude awakening if the nation
returns to business as usual.”
The estimate of the size of the
audience came from Police Chief
Robert Murray. He described it
as “the largest crowd of partici
pants in any Washington event”
in his memory, and possibly the
greatest number taking active part
in an event in the capital’s his
tory.
i>emonsiraiors ana tneir leaaers
made it clear that one sign of pro
gress, in their view, would be con
gressional approval of President
Kennedy's civil rights bill.
Kennedy, like the civil rights
leaders, also talked in terms of a
beginning. He met with King and
other civil rights leaders after the
demonstration and said, “we have
a long way yet to travel.”
But the President also said “the
cause of 20 million Negroes has
been advanced by the program so
appropriately before the nation’s
shrine to the great emancipator.”
Kennedy, in his statement,
spoke of the demonstration’s
“quiet dignity,” and this was the
element of the day that probably
most impressed the City of Wash
ington.
Police had three minor arrests—
none of a demonstrator. Red Cros<
workers reported what they ex
pected for a crowd so large: A
share of headaches, faintings
broken bones and insect bites. De
monstrators, tired and quiet, head
ed home in their special buses and
trains.
By 9 p.m., Washington police re
ported the city normal, and re
lieved almost all special police de
tails from duty.
Federal Civilian Payroll
Reaches All Time High
WASHINGTON — Federal
civilian payroll costs reached an
all time high of $15,346,000,000 in
fiscal 1963, a Senate-House com
mittee reported today.
This was an increase of more
than $1 billion over the $14,296,
000,000 in fiscal 1962. Postal work
ers got an 8.6 per cent pay raise
last fall and classified civil serv
ice employes a 5.5 per cent boost
Total civilian employment by the
government averaged 2,493,374 ir
the fiscal year ended June 30 com
pared with 2,443,808 in the pre
ceding year.
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LABOR DAY
¥ ABOR DAY FULFILLS one of the aims of the Declaration of
Independence in that it is a day dedicated to the "pursuit of
happiness.”
Next Monday business houses will be closed and even the
Nugget will not be published. Many will take to the hills for
berries and birds, taking advantage of the three-day holiday
and the last fling before school starts.
Labor Day was made possible by agitation among laboring
men as early as 1880. In 1894 Congress passed a bill making
Labor Day a legal holiday through the nation. By state action,
all states and territories had by 1928 put the bill into operation
except Wyoming and the Philippines. In the Philippines, Labor
Day is on May 1.
This Labor Day organized labor finds itself in a situation
full of paradoxes. Its membership total is at a high point in
history, but its rate of growth has slackened. Unions are good,
but certain abuses must be corrected and less compulsion be
practiced, as well as more awareness of their responsibilities to
the total economy of our nation.
Senate Foreign Affairs
Committee Favors Limited
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
WASHINGTON UP — The Sen
ate Foreign Relations Committee
voted 16 to 1 Thursday to approve
the limited nuclear test ban treaty
without any reservation.
It now goes to the Senate for
what proponents predict will be
overwhelmingly ratification.
Sen. Russell Long, cast the lone
vote against the treaty.
The vote came after the com
mittee beat down two motions to
delay action, and another to de
mand access to all correspandence
between Washington and Moscow
leading up to and during the nego
tiation of the pact.
Chairman J. W. Fulbright said
the committee agreed to take the
treaty up on the floor of the Sen
ate Monday.
A formal report will be submit
ted to the Senate Tuesday or Wed
nesday, embracing U.S. “under
standings” and “interpretations” o»
its meaning, fulbright said.
This would be designed to eli
minate any need for any formal
reservation which might require
a re-negotiation of the pact ban
ning tests in the atmosphere, un
derwater and in outer space, but
not underground.
Sam Godfrey, well known Kou
garok mining man, will not be
coming north this summer due tc
his health which will be the first
season in 63 years that he has not
been in this area. His Kougarok
interests are being looked after
by his nephew, Cub Bear, from
Steilieom, Wn., where Godfrey is
now located.
Pioneers Will Mark Birthdays
William O'Connor of Kwigik will
be the oldest resident in the Pio
neer Home in Sitka to celebrate
his birthday during the month of
September. Mr. O’Connor will be
93 years old on Sept. 24.
Also celebrating birthdays at the
home in September from Nome are
Mrs. Fred Rohn, on Sept. 23. and
John Hackett on Sept. 20.
Mrs. Rohn is one of six women
in the home having birthdays this
month.
UNITED STATES
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT
Fairbanks Land Office
P.O. Box 1150
Fairbanks, Alaska
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION
Notice is hereby given that George A.
Sheppard of Mountain Village, Alaska,
together with his witnesses Elizabeth
Lawrence and Wilson Gonongnan, both
of Mountain Village, Alaska, has filed
application to purchase for his Trade
and Manufacturing Settlement Claim,
Fairbanks Serial Number 09136, for lands
described as:
U.S. Survey No. 4010. Alaska, located
at Mountain Village, Alaska, containing
8.52 acres.
During the period of publication or
within 30 days thereafter any persons,
corporation, or association having or
asserting any adverse interest in or
claim to the tract of land or any part
thereof may file in the Fairbanks Land
Office, under oath an adverse claim
setting forth the nature and extent
thereof: and such adverse claimant shall,
within 60 days after the filing of such
adverse claim, begin action to quiet
title in a court of competent jurisdiction
in Alaska, and thereafter patent shall
be issued in conformity with the final
decree of the court.
Robert F. Hilton,
Chief, Lands Section
Pub: July 12. 19, 26, Aug. 2, 9, 16, 23.
30, Sept. 6, 1963.
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