Anchorage Teachers
Will Overnight Here
The annual Easter weekend
■charter of Anchorage school teach
ers is scheduled to arrive today
and remain overnight until Sat
urday afternoon when the group
will depart to spend Saturday
night in Kotzebue.
During the stay here dog sled
rides are being arranged and trips
on the Bering Sea as well as a tea,
sponsored by the teachers of the
Nome School.
In the party are Hazel Mason
holder, Mr. and Mrs. Jim McKone,
Mr. and Mrs. Don Baxter, Fred
Oetzman, Mr. and Mrs. Robert
Green, Frances Ray, Linda Van
Gundy, Mary Lawrie, Mr. and Mrs.
Paul Bailey. Beverly Dodge, Su
san Johnson, Edwina Copeland,
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Carlson, Mrs.
Rosemarie Billy, Gladys Mobley,
Alice Thompson, Barbara Ash
croft, Mini Lo Pinto, Larue Boyd,
and Margaret McRoberts.
Bill Parks Passes
Bill Parks, born January 1892,
died recently in Pennsylvania. He
served as a teacher in Alaska for
many years, teaching in Council
in the late 1940’s for several years.
From Council he went to Mary’s
Igloo, opening the school there
for the first time in many years.
Leaving this area about 1951, he
went down to Lake Clark and
homesteaded and later went to
Pennsylvania.
Mrs. Arnold Feener Passes
Away Suddenly Today
Mrs. Arnold Feener, wife of the
officer in charge of the Army Ad
visory Group attached to the First
Scout Battalion, passed away sud
denly this morning.
Mrs. Feener, who was 28 years
old, was bom in New York City
and leaves her husband and two
small sons to mourn her sudden
passing.
She will be buried in the Mis
sion Memorial Cemetery in Mon
terey, Calif., which is near the
Feener home in San Leandro.
Mrs. Feener had been in Nome
three months.
Peter Ustanov, Who Won
Award For “Spartacus”
Is Multiple Threat Man
Peter Ustinov, winner of an
Academy Award for the best sup
porting actor for his performance
in the film “Spartacus,” is the
kind of man who is becoming rare
in modem times — the all-around,
or multiple - threat kind of man.
He acts in movies, on the stage, in
television. He directs and produces
plays and motion pictures. He
writes novels, short stories, plays.
On the side he clowns, wears funny
hats, sires children, confers with
publishers, writes songs, mimics
musical instruments, makes pic
torial sketches.
In “Spartacus,” the Technicolor
epic which blends a tender, inti
mate love story with scenes of eye
filling spectacle, Ustinov is starred
along with topliners Kirk Douglas,
Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons,
Tony Curtis, Charles Laughton and
John Gavin. The film depicts the
titanic struggle of a rebel slave
army against Roman might, will be
shown at the Nomerama Theater
for three nights, Sunday, Monday
and Tuesday with two showings
each evening, the first starting at
6:45 and the second at 10:30.
IN MAGISTRATE'S COURT
John Kakarak Sr., and John Es
enituk were each fined $20 on
drunk charges.
Vernon Kugzruk is being held
on a charge of issuing a check
without funds. Arraignment is
scheduled for later today.
NOTICE
Members of the Junior Classes
of the Methodist Sunday School
are reminded that the Junior
Choir will have its practice on
Saturday at 12:30 p.m. Refresh
ments will be served.
Every
FRIDAY
NIGHT
at the
POLARIS
Dining Room
LOMEN COMMERCIAL COMPANY
A Division of Alaska Steamship Company
Sales Office: Dial 2234 Write Box 700
DEALERS IN
Lumber <5. Plywood Building Materials Wallboard Insulation
Oxygen & Acetylene Welding Machines Electrodes
Supplies and Accessories
Jaeger Pumps Zeus & Pioneer Light Plants
MacWyte Wire Rope—Standard Oil Products
(Our Sale as Advertised Ends This Week)
ALASKA STEAMSHIP COMPANY
MMM Hospital Offers
Loan Fund Usage for
Nome School Students
The Maynard-McDougall Mem
orial Hospital Advisory Board has
announced that a student loan fund
is being made available to students
of Nome High School planning to
take advance study in medicine
and related subjects.
This fund has been accumu
lating by gifts from several people
for a period of years and is known
as the MMM Hospital Student Loan
Fund. The money is available not
only to students entering college in
medicine and related fields but for
students in advanced courses.
The fund was started several
years ago by a doctor who has
never been in Nome and has been
added too from time to time by
other individuals. In it is a con
tribution from a winner of the
Nenana Ice Classic a couple of
years ago.
Further information on the loan
fund is available at the Nome
School.
Mrs. Wm. E. Murphy of Seat
tle is the guest of Mr. and Mrs.
John Bradley, having accompanied
Mrs. Bradley’s mother, Mrs. Rich
ard Abram, to Nome for the visit.
Julian Boulanger, who was in
Nome from 1930 to 1934 with his
wife, passed away in Seattle on
March 25 at the age of 65. Mr.
Boulanger has been in poor health
for some time.
Grant Nelson has returned from
Honolulu, Hawaii, where he has
wintered with his family, coming
via Juneau where he spent a few
weeks listening to the legislature
in action. He states he enjoyed a
visit, while there, with Judge and
Mrs. Jim von der Heydt. His wife
and daughter will join him here
after school is out next month.
COMIN' and GOIN'
From Fairbanks: Jude Henzler,
Lloyd Tarpening, Betty Rud, Mr.
DeWeerd, Maurice Leseman, L.
Taupier, Ray Rider, Pete Rushup.
From Kotzebue: Harry Buxton,
Gerald Snyder, John Swanson, A.
Falkner.
To Kotzebue: Alice Sheldon, B.
Sparks, Orella Brown.
To Fairbanks: Peter Rushup, R.
Horn, Mr. and Mrs. J. Taylor, D.
Ramstad, Alice Hudson.
NOME UNEMPLOYMENT
RATE 43.7 PER CENT
JUNEAU (J5) — Labor Commis
sioner Gil Johnson said today
Alaska’s insured unemployment
rate for the week ending April 6
was 16.6 per cent, compared with
15.2 the previous week.
Johnson said that among the
reasons for the upsurge were tem
porary layoffs in construction,
trades and logging caused by a
very heavy snowfall in the Pan
handle.
The insured unemployment rate
by area included Anchorage, 17.4
per cent; Fairbanks, 17.1; Juneau,
10.1; Ketchikan, 10.9; Nome. 43.7;
Petersburg, 31.5; and Sitka, 6.0.
O-G-N-I-B at A.N.B
8 o’clock Tonight
ADMISSION FREE - JACKPOT
REFRESHMENTS
NOTICE
Pioneer Women Aux. No. 1
Will Meet Friday — 8 p.m.
Alcoholics Anonymous mooting
Saturday orating, 7:30, Conloronco
Room, MMM Hospital.
WANT ADS
FOUND: Man’s leather gloves. Call
at Nugget and pay for ad.
FOUND: Pair of child’s glasses.
Call at Nugget.
SELL Those Surplus Items. Let
a Nugget Want Ad convert them
into cash for you!
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FRIDAY and SATURDAY
THE LIGHT TOUCH
MIDNIGHT SHOW TONIGHT
“BLACK SUNDAY”
Sunday Monday Tuesday
First Show 6:45 — Second Show 10:30
“SPARTACUS”
KIRK DOUGLAS JEAN SIMMONS PETER USTANOV
CHARLES LAUGHTON LAURENCE OLIVIER
FIRE CALL AT N.C. STORE
Fire broke out late Wdnesday
afternoon in the meat freezer
compartment at the N.C. Store
cuased by the burlap wrapping
around meat igniting from a weld
ing tool which was being used in
modernization of the plant which
has just started.
Although the store was envel
oped in clouds of smoke, outside
of a few sides of meat in the
freezer, there was no damage. The
store was aired throughout the
night by forced air and the store
was open for business Thursday
morning with no damage being
done to the merchandise.
Utilily Board Elects Officers
The Nome Light & Power Utility
Board elected officers Tuesday with
Tommy Johnson, continuing as
president; Leonard Anseth as vice
president; Barrow Morgan, secre
tary. Other members of the board
are Charles Reader and Albert
Johnson.
New Granddaughter
Mrs. Helen Fagerstrom, received
word late last night that she has
a new granddaughter born to Mr.
and Mrs. Howard Huffer, who has
been named Heidi Wynn. The
Huffers, who left here about
Christmas time, have two sons.
New Telephone Directories
New telephone directories are
being distributed this week by
the Nome Telephone Co. and in
clude Fairbanks, Kotzebue, Glenn
allen, Nome, North Pole and
Nenana.
INTERNATIONAL
PARTS
PICKUPS TRUCKS
BEN YOUNG
from the
NORTH ☆ STAR
Seaview Dining Room
Open 8 a.m. Easter Sunday
Treat Your Family to Breakfast or Dinner
FEATURING
Fried Chicken Dinner
Family Style — $3.25
Plus Other Delicious Entrees
REMEMBER
Prawn Night Tonight
HOT CROSS BUNS AT OUR BAKERY COUNTER
Young GOP* Will Meet
In Anchorage April 20
The Alaska Young Republican
Federation are holding a conven
tion in Anchorage on April 20 with
Ted Stevens giving the keynote
address.
Among the officers are two
from Nome, Gail Mclver who is
National Committeewoman and
Barbara Mclver, Northwest Dis
trict Chairman.
Gail Mclver plans to attend the
convention which is being held
in the Elks ballroom.
Final Practice for Easter Choir
The United Easter Choir, which
has been tneeting under the di
rection of Mrs. Sheldon Ivers, will
hold its final practice at the
school auditorium at 4 o’clock Sat
urday afternoon. They will be sing
ing at the Sunrise Service Easter
morning.
Hospital News
Admitted: George Washington,
Louise Bockman.
Discharged: Edward Kunguk,
Wm. Harris, Mary Wongetillen,
Frieda Johnson and infant.
Mr. and Mrs. John Alurac are
the parents of a son born on April
11 at the hospital. Mr. Alurac is
with Wien Airlines.
OMAN’S
Bargain Counter
Dry Goods — Wolf Ruffs
Open 3 to 9 Weekdays
All Day Saturday