THE NOME NUGGET
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Entered at second class matter October 14, 1943, at the
post office at Nome, Alaska, under Act of March 3, 187*.
RULES OF THE ROAD
HPHREE PEOPLE were hart last week while riding on two
wheeled conveyances and it made many people in the com
munity stop and think about accidents. As a result the Nugget has
had several calls to insert a word of caution to children and their
parents concerning the use of bicycles of which there are many
in use. No one wants to hurt a child, but there is much careless
ness here in the use of bikes.
Among the rules most commonly ignored, stated the state
highway officer, are the following: No bicycle shall be used to
carry more persons at one time than the number for which it is
designed and equipped; every person operating a bicycle upon a
roadway shall ride as near to the right side of the roadway as
practicable, exercising due care when passing a standing vehicle
or one proceeding in the same direction; every bicycle when in use
at night shall be equipped with a lamp that will give a light a
distance of 500 feet in front and red reflector on the rear which is
approved and it also must have a bell or device capable of giving
a signal audible for a distance of at least 100 feet and a good brake.
Children must be alert to traffic or stay off the highway. The
state highway officer also cautioned that a person operating a
motorcycle shall ride only upon the permanent and regular seat
attached thereto, and such operator shall not carry any other person
nor shall any other person ride on a motorcycle unless such a
motorcycle is designed to carry' more than one person in which
event a passenger may ride upon the permanent and regular seat.
Parents of all children using two-wheel vehicles should take
time to explain and caution their youngsters on these safety rules
(and this goes for the small fry on three wheels who like the
Airport Road). It is better to talk about it now than to wait until
some child is accidentally hurt and crippled for life.
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Committee Will
Seek Answer to
Dwindling Supply
Of Gold Reserves
By John Kamps
Associated Press Special Service
WASHINGTON W — A con
gressional committee seeks next
week an answer to this paradox:
Why has the United States both
dwindling supplies and abundant
reserves of gold?
A Senate Interior Mining sub
committee plans hearings July 15
17 on gold legislation which has
been introduced in the hope of
conserving and increasing domestic
production.
Announcing the hearing, chair
man Ernest Gruening said it will
be open to anyone with new ideas
on the subject.
“What we are interested in”
Gruening told the Senate, “is
finding a way out of the anomalous
situation in which we find our
selves — that of needing gold des
perately at a time when our once
highly productive gold mines have
been closed and are continuing to
close as a result of action and in
action by our government.
“Anyone who has any ideas
about increasing our gold supplies,
opening our gold mines and find
ing new deposits of this key metal
will be welcomed at this hearing,”
Gruening said.
Gruening said many U S. lead
ers have voiced alarm over the
gold supplies, but “because of
policies inherited from the Hoover
depression days we are unable to
produce it.”
Bills before the committee, spon
sored by western senators, would
authorize incentive payments of up
to $105 an ounce for newly mined
domestic gold. The present price
of $35 an ounce was fixed in 1934.
Sponsors are hopeful, but not
overly optimistic, over a possi
bility that the Kennedy adminis
tration will support the subsidy
legislation. This would be an
about-face, since administration
spokesmen vigorously opposed
similar bills last year on the
ground they would disrupt the
monetary system of the entire free
world.
Sens. Gordon Allott and Peter
Dominick, Colorado Republicans,
are sponsoring several gold bills.
One would impose strict controls on
commercial uses of gold.
Allott said the depressed state
of the domestic gold mining in
dustry is mute evidence that the
price of the metal is too low.
“Another aspect which must be
considered,” Allott said, “is the
potential danger in the event of
further depletion of our gold re
serves . . . and the possibility
that Russia might some day estab
lish a monetary system backed by
a substantial gold reserve.”
Allott expressed doubt senators
from gold-producing states could
muster enough strength to over
come opposition of the Treasury
Department, Bureau of the Bud
get, Federal Reserve Board and
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ANCHORAGE — Benjamin R.
Jolley, 49, also known as James
M. Kirby, was sentenced to serve
eight years in prison last week in
Superior Court for the issuance of
$2,075 worth of chacks without
funds before leaving Alaska in
January 1962.
Jolley pleaded guilty June 14
to issuing checks without funds.
The court, in imposing sentence,
ruled that Jolley could be consid
ered eligible for parole at any
time. Normally, a person is sent to
prison before he can be considered
eligible for parole.
Jolley, who had been known as
Kirby for 14 years, operated
Boondock’s Food and Service Co.
here. The company, now defunct,
provided food for workers at
building sites.
LEADERSHIP COURSE
FOR AFRICAN SOLDIERS
WASHINGTON UP — The De
fense Department is launching a
program to train military leaders
of emerging African states.
It announced Friday that Afri
can soldiers from Tunisia, Liberia,
Nigeria and other nations selected
by their governments, will start
a six-month leadership course at
Ft. Knox, Ky., beginning this
month.
This phase of the program is de
signed to meet present needs for
trained junior officers.
As part of a long-range program,
selected Africans will take five
year courses, including four years
at an American civilian university
and a fifth at a U.S. military
school.
President Kennedy.
“It is no mean task,” Allott said
“to overcome the pre-disposed,
l'lat-footed, unyielding position of
the rest of the country and the
federal agencies as well.”
Dominick is hopeful the sub
committee will approve his bill
calling for a study of the domestic
gold mining industry.
“Such a study is of paramount
importance if the Congress is to
have necessary information upon
which to base sound gold legisla
tion,” Dominick said. “It may well
be the beginning of removing the
federal government from its com
petitive role with the industry in
the sale of gold. . .’
Sen. Alan Bible, (D-Nev.), said
that in the past 20 years Congress
has been unable to come up with
gold legislation acceptable to either
Republican or Democratic occu
pants of the White House.
“With continuing decreases in
gold stocks of this country,” Bible
said, “the problem is of grave
concern to the entire country, not
just limited to those of us who
represent the producing areas.”
Bible voiced hope witnesses
heard by Gruening’s subcommittee
“will approach the problems with
new and different ideas with the
purpose in mind of producing legis
lation that can secure the support
of the administration as well as the
support of the industry.’
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NOMINATED. BARTLETT SAYS
FAIRBANKS M — Sen. E. L.
Bartlett described Nelson Rocke
feller’s divorce and re-marriage as
a “political catastrophe” to Re
publicans at a Friday luncheon
here.
Bartlett said he gave the New
York governor little chance of win
ning the GOP nomination for Pres
ident in 1964.
‘‘Rockefeller is obviously out.”
Bartlett added.
The man who will be nominated
wil be Sen. Barry Goldwater of
Arizona, Bartlett predicted.
Bartlett, stopping in Fairbanks
enroute to Washington, DC., ap
peared unexpectedly at the Repub
lican luncheon.
WEATHER OUTLOOK
Continued fair today and to
night. Partly cloudy with fog Tues
day with little change in tem
perature. Low tonight 44, high to
morrow 58.
In the last 24 hours: High of 55,
low of 44. Max. wind 25 mph from
SW. Sunrise at 1:47 a.m., sunset
at 10:24 p.m.
Temps, a year ago today: High
of 55, low of 48. Extremes on this
date since 1907: High of 74 in
1925, low of 35 in 1936.
SCOFFS AT PRAYERS
MOSCOW —Valentina Teresh
kova, the Soviet Union's girl cos
monaut, said Saturday she cannot
understand how U.S. female jet
pilot Jerri Cobb “can combine the
piloting of super-sonic planes and
prayers.”
The 26-year-old Communist
party member made the comment
to the Soviet government news
paper Izvestia while leafing through
Miss Cobb’s book, “Woman Into
Space.”
An Izvestia correspondent who
showed Miss Tereshkova the book
said at one point the cosmonaut
grinned at a photograph of Miss
Cobb kneeling in prayer before
a home altar.
EXPRESSION OF CONFIDENCE
WASHINGTON — Reporting
on his recent *rip to Europe, Pres
ident Kennedy says he heard ex
pressions of confidence in the
United States from leaders of Bri
tain, West Germany, Italy and Ire
land and felt “the admiration and
affection that their people had for
the people of the United States.
“Above all,” Kennedy said in
a report taped for television and
radio use Friday night, “I found
in every country a deep conviction
in our common goals, the unity of
the West, the freedom of man,
the necessity for peace.”
In his brief report, the Presi
dent said “every American has
reason to be proud of this nation's
reputation and standing in Europe.”
Golf Course Hazard . . .
SANTA CLARA, Calif. UP) — The
11th hole at the Fairway Glen Golf
Course had an unexpected hazard
Friday — a 500-pound sea lion.
The seven-foot beast slithered
up the 11th green, apparently to
get its bearings.
Workers and golfers harassed
the beast for an hour. A German
shepherd dog attacked it and was
flipped flying.
Then the sea lion went back
down to the nearby Guadalupe
River, but went upstream. Finally
it headed for San Francisco Bay,
two miles away.
Naughty Prince Charles
ABERDEEN, Scotland OP— The
Stornoway prosecutor has drop
ped charges against a hotel owner
and barmaid for serving cherry
brandy to Prince Charles, 14, heir
to the British throne. The mini
mum legal drinking age in Scot
land is 18.
Charles gave his detective body
guard the slip June 17 and ducked
into the hotel bar for a drink.
Until 1822, when separate right
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the same and could be worn on
either foot.