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, 187t.
COURTING DISASTER!
FLY THAT FLAG
A FINE OLD CUSTOM seems to have pretty well vanished
from the land. It is that of showing the flag, not only from
business buildings but from the porches and windows of private
homes.
There was a sense of pride with the display of the flag, a
symbol of a free people, and with pride there was respect. By
standers at a parade automatically took off their hats and placed
their right hands over their heart when the flag went by.
This lack of courtesy to the flag displayed here recently
during the Lions Convention is probably due to the fact that the
flag is rarely seen on display and in the home.
Flag Week starts today and we urge citizens who treasure
their liberty and honor their country to make a special effort to
fly their flags as a reminder of what the stars and stripes stand
for. We worked hard to get that 49th star on that flag, remember?
Let the many visitors who will pass through the community
this week remember that Nome, situated on the shores of the
Bering Sea, facing Russia, is a patriotic community.
million Dollar
Suit Filed Against
Northwest Airlines
ANCHORAGE UP — A million
dollar wrongful death suit has been
filed in U.S. District Court here
against Northwest Orient Airlines
by the administrator of the estates
of two persons killed last Monday
in the crash of a Northwest DC-7
off British Columbia.
James Swauger, the administra
tor, said dependent relatives were
damaged to the extent of $500,000
each for the deaths of A. J. and
Edythe Messner.
Swauger, who rsides here, is
Messner’s brother-in-law. Messner
was an Air Force civilian employe.
The Northwest plane was under
charter to the Military Air Trans
port Service and was bound from
McChord Air Force Base, near Ta
coma, Wn., to Elmendorf AFB.
Swauger alleged in his suit the
Northwest plane was not in air
worthy condition and was not being
properly flown in that the pilot
“failed to transmit messages of
trouble aboard.”
Swauger alleged Northwest
“broke its contract with the U.S.
government to which the decedents
were beneficiaries by failing to
safely carry the decedents” from
McChord to Elmendorf.
Fine Job Printing at the Nugget
20 U.S. Tuna Boats
Leave Ecuadorian Waters
SAN DIEGO, Calif. — More
than 20 California tuna boats re
ported they are leaving Ecuador’s
port of Salinas today.
Two of them, the White Star and
Ranger of San Diego, were fined
$26,000 on a charge of fishing
in Ecuadorian waters without per
mits. The boats were seized May
25 and after a period of passive
resistance were taken to Salinas
by the Ecuadorian navy. The
other tuna boats went along in
a demonstration of protest.
United States Department re
presentatives are attempting to
reach an agreement with Ecuador,
which claims control of the sea
for 200 miles off its shore. The
tuna boat owners want a 12-mile
limit established.
After the American Revolution,
the portrait of George Washington
briefly replaced the king of hearts
in decks of playing cards. For a
short time, too, Thomas Jefferson
replaced the king of clubs, An
drew Jackson the king of spades
and John Quicy Adams the king
of diamonds.
Application Forms
Available for Prospector
Assistance Program
Public hearings were held May
20 and 21 in Fairbanks and An
chorage on proposed PAP regula- '
tions as authorized and directed
by the bill calling for a new pro
gram passed by the last state leg
islature. The regulations have been
redrafted to some extent as a re
sult of written and verbal testi
mony received, and are now in
final form. Application forms have
also been drafted and are now
available from the Juneau office (
of the division. ‘
Basically, the program is one of (
financial assistance by reimburse
ment for up to 75 per cent of ex
penses incurred for certain items
and transportation by qualified
prospectors on approved pros
pecting ventures. The reimburse- 1
ment will be made only after the
prospecting is finished and reports (
and maps are submitted. The pros- r
pector, his proposal, and his pro- J
posed expenditures must be ap- 1
proved before he starts out. He re
ceives his financial assistance after
the work is done.
The law and regulations require
that a screening board review a
person’s application and qualifi- 1
cations, and make recommenda
tions on same to the Dept, of
Natural Resources, which will then :
direct the Division of Mines and
Minerals as to action to be taken.
To be eligible for assistance under
this program, an applicant must
have the following qualifications:
1. Practical prospecting experi
ence or equivalent training.
2. Elementary knowledge of
geology, mineralogy, and ore de
posits.
3. Ability to recognize the more
common ores and minerals by sight
or identify them by simple tests
applied in the field.
4. Knowledge of mining law suf
ficient to know what is required ]
for proper claim staking, assess
ment work, recording, etc.
5. Ability to live in the bush
without any difficulty that would
unduly interfere with efficient
prospecting.
A copy of the regulations and
information may be obtained from
any of the division offices in
Nome, Fairbanks, Anchorage, or
Ketchikan. Applications forms may
be obtained immediately by mail
from the Division of Mines and
Minerals, Box 1391, Juneau.
All persons who wish to apply,
and have not yet received an ap
_ plication form, are urged to write
the Juneau office or have our local
office forward their name and
address.
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A shark, like a goat, will eat
almost anything. Found in the sto
machs of sharks have been such
assorted tidbits as tin cans, bricks,
a fur coat, a sack of coal, an alarm
clock and a full-grown dog.
In 1926 the total mileage of roads
in the Territory of Alaska was
1,533, sled roads 1,086 and trails
7,383.
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—AUTOMATIC SERVICE—
Mrs. Grace Wickersham
Passes Away in Juneau
JUNEAU — Mrs. Grace Broo
man Wickersham, the widow of
Alaska’s first full-time territorial
delegate to Congress, Judge James
Wickersham, died in a Juneau
hospital last night.
Mrs. Wickersham, 91, had been
ill for the past eight years and
had been hospitalized for most of
the past four years.
Surviving are two • nephews,
Ralph Coffin of Seattle and Daniel
Brooman, a General Electric Corp.
employe stationed in Germany,
and one niece, Mrs. Ruth Allman
of Juneau.
Funeral services will be held
in Juneau, on a date yet to be de
termined, with internment to fol
low in the Wickersham family
plot at the old Tacoma Cemetery
in Tacoma.
Mrs. Wickersham, the daughter
of a pioneer Seattle family, was
married to the late Judge Wicker
sham in Seattle in 1928. They had
no children.
Judge Wickersham, a former
Probate Judge in Pierce County,
Wn., and a member of the Wash
ington State House of Representa
tives, was appointed U.S. District
Judge in Alaska in 1900.
In 1908 he became the territory’s
first full-time delegate to Congress,
a post he held continuously until
1921. He also served as territorial
delegate from 1930 to 1932, when
he withdrew from public life.
He died in Juneau in 1939.
Mr. and Mrs. Donald Ferguson
of Kotzebue are the parents of a
son born this morning at the
hospital.
HOSPITAL NEWS
Admitted: James Iyapana, An
drew Black, Betty Alexander, Ru
ther Miller, Helen Fagerstrom.
Discharged: Robert Smith, Harry
Egelak, Jack Fagerstrom, Laura
Amaktoolik, Deborah and Dan
Amarok, Wilbur Nayaponak, John
Wheeler, Paul Katchatag, Paul
Garrison, Gwen and Gail Anagic,
Della Katchatag, Norma Reilly,
Mamie Dimmick, Alice Tate.
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Red North Koreans
Refuse to Divulge Fate
Of Two U.S. Copter Pilots
PANMUNJOM, Korea M — For
the fourth time, Communist North
Korea Saturday refused to divulge
the fate of two U.N. Command
helicopter pilots captured May 17.
“You can inform the relatives
and friends” of the two U.S. Army
captains “that they received a
proper blow from our defensive
forces for their hostile act,” North
Korean secretary Col. Han Jukyong
told the mixed Military Armistice
Commission.
The Communists in three pre
vious MAC meetings have refused
to give any hint of whether the
two pilots were still alive and have
ignored U.N. demands for their
return.
A helicopter carrying Capt. Ben
Stutts, 30, of Florence, Ala., and
Capt. Charleton Voltz, 26, of
Frankfort, Mich., was forced down
in North Korea. The U.N. Com
mand said the pilots made a navi
gational error.
The Communists have called the
flight aggression.
DC-6 CARRYING MILITARY
CHIEFS CATCHES FIRE
ALAMEDA, Calif. — A Navy
DC-6 carrying the commander in
chief of the Pacific Fleet, the de
puty commanding general of the
Fleet Marine Force, and President
Kennedy’s personal naval aide to
Hawaii was forced to return to
California Saturday when one of
the engines caught fire 700 miles
west of Los Angeles, the Navy
said.
The plane made a safe landing at
the Alameda Naval Air Station at
5:58 a.m.
Among the 28 passengers were
Fleet Adm. J. H. Sides; Marine
Maj. Gen. Donald Weller, and
the presidential aide, Tazewell
Shepard.
The plane took off again for
Hawaii at 11 a.m.
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