Early Day Train to
Go on Display Here
Through the cooperation of sev
eral agencies and individuals there
will soon be a historical display
of an early gas engine from the
famous Kougrok Railroad.
In the fenced in area at State
Police headquarters and through
the cooperation of the owners of
the land, Alaska Steamship Co., a
small cast-iron engine of very
early Nome, which was rescued
by Tom Martin, when many of
the engines were being destroyed,
will be moved under the direction
of Roy Snyder and FAA equip
ment.
Through the courtesy of Obert
Hyde of the State Highway Dept,
rails and ties have been furnish
ed.
Maurice Kelliher, who heads the
Civic Affairs Committee of the
Chamber of Commerce, states that
he hopes it will be possible through
the cooperation of agencies with
heavy equipment to bring one of
the larger engines (fom Solomon to
town for display and preservation,
also. Fenced in ground east of the
bank has been offered, stated Kel
liher, as long as maintenance and
upkeep of the train is assured.
Gravel, was furnished by Lester
Bronson and Axel Edman.
BABY SHOW FRIDAY
The Mother’s Club is sponsor
ing the Baby Show for the Festi
val and have announced that there
will be four classifications for the
show which is being held on Fri
day afternoon at the small audi
torium of the school.
Children who have not reached
their fourth birthday will be
judged for:
Curliest hair, fattest, most ori
ginal costume and best dressed.
Mrs. Mina Bachelder, who is
chairman for the event states that
the show will be from 2-4 p.m
and judges from out of town or
new to the community will be
selected.
Boyd Harwood, chairman of the
Board of Directors of the M & M
Bank and Don Hoover, bank man
. er left for Anchorage on bank
ing business. They will be gone
few days.
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BARROW CHAMBER WILL
VISIT NOME IN JULY
The Point Barrow Chamber of
Commerce have scheduled a char
ter flight to Nome on July 27, it
has been announced. This will be
the second successive year that
the people of the top of the world
are making a visit to a business
center of Northwestern Alaska.
Their visit last year was the
first opportunity for the peoples
of these two areas to get acquaint
| ed and discuss their mutual prob
lems as well as problems distinctly
different in which they could as
sist each other.
Rotary Club Sponsors Games
The Rotary Club has announced
that they will be raising funds for
their annual scholarship fund at
games which will be played in
the Multipurpose Room on Friday
night following the big Variety
Show in the main auditorium. The
games will be in progress until
midnight and are open only to
persons over the age of 19 years.
The Rotary Club is also selling
cotton candy all three days of the
Festival.
VISITS HERE
John Larsen, vice president of
the Northern Commercial Co.,
made his annual official trip to the
local store yesterday accompan
ied by Dudley Beck.
It was reported that the concrete
had been poured for their new
Unalakleet store being done by
contractors, Northern Specialty
Co. of Fairbanks.
Interesting Tourist Here
Doreen Gillett, is Nome’s most
interesting tourist today, as she
comes from Southern Rhodesia by
way of Australia and is seeing all
of Alaska from Barrow to Ketchi
kan. She has also seen all but
eight states by Greyhound bus
tour (99 days for $99) and will
return to Los Angeles from Alaska
where she will fly to London be
fore returning to Australia.
Return from CAP Encampment
The CAP Cadets, accompanied
by Senior officers Lt. Vic Charles
and finance officer Richard Lyttle,
returned from the CAP encamp
ment at Elmendorf Air Force Base.
June Pederson, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Steve Pederson, made
the CAP girls drill team which is
scheduled to compete against drill
teams of other states at McChord
Air Force Base and Colorado
Springs for the finals at the Air
Force Academy in late July and
early August, if certain financial
i arrangements can be worked out.
LOMEN COMMERCIAL COMPANY
A Division of Alaska Steamship Company
Sales Office: Dial 2234 Write Box 700
DEALERS IN
Lumber & 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
ALASKA STEAMSHIP COMPANY
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KIDDIES' KOUNTRY KITCHEN
Plans for a Kiddies’ Kountrj
Kitchen were completed by the
Carrie McLain Circle of the
WSCS at the Methodist Church al
their monthly meeting Tuesday
evening. The meeting was held at
the home of Mrs. Velma Sackett.
The Kiddies’ Kountry Kitchen
will be held each afternoon 1:30
4:30 in conjunction with the Omie
McCarthy Circle’s “Roadhouse” at
the home of Mrs. Howard Crink
law during the Midnight Sun Festi
val.
Only children will be permitted
in the kitchen room to buy the
“goodies” available. No adults al
lowed.
VISITS FAMILY HERE
Mrs. Beatrice Leight, mother of
Rev. Robert Leight, left St. Peters
burg, Fla., on Sunday afternoon,
spent the night in Anchorage and
arrived here Monday morning to
visit with the Leight family.
All the way from Florida to
Nome, a distance of 5,000 miles,
she wore one of Florida’s beauti
ful purple orchids, measuring
seven inches across, which many
' people enjoyed when it was left
on the desk of the editor of the
Nugget on Monday.
FOR SALE OR RENT — 50-ft.
house trailer, furnished in ex
cellent condition. Call 2255 after
6 p.m. tf
MAN WANTED to supply Rawleigh
Products to consumers in Nome,
full or part time. Good time to
start; no capital needed. Write
Rawleigh, 306 Adeline, Oakland,
Calif. 83
FOR SALE: 1957 Plymouth. Phone
2633. 75c
FOR IMMEDIATE SALE: Fur
nished home with garage, back
of school, also nine - passenger
International Travel-All with
four-wheel drive. Call 2474 or
see Earl Towner. 78p
LOST: On street or road. Valu
able medicine in plastic bottle.
Green and black capsules. Nome
Drug Store prescription label.
Finder call Nugget or city police.
Reward. 75c
FOR SALE: 1958 Chevy sedan. It
runs, $325. Jeep strip-down,
$350. 4x4 Dodge chassis with
wheels, transfer case and eight
tires, $200. See Chunn or phone
2585 after 6 p.m. tf
FOR SALE: 1959 Chevy 4-door
sedan. $850. Phone 2671. 75c
FOR SALE: 1954 Ford Ranch
Wagon. Call 2323 after 5:30. 75p
FOR SALE: Write to us for our
list of 45 R.P.M. records. 3,000
to choose from. Price $50 each.
R.R. “Bob” Blodgett, Teller
Commercial Co., Teller, Alaska
74c
FOR RENT OR SALE: Niceiy
furnished two - bedroom house.
Call 2480. 74c
FOR SALE: To highest bidder,
1953 Ford station wagon. Box
532 or call Nugget. 74c
FOR SALE: Zenith Trans-Oceanic
radio, .$50. See at Charlie’s
Barber Shop. 74c
FOR RENT: Midnight Sun Festival
costumes at Nomerama Theater.
Call 2853 before 6 p.m. 73c
FOR SALE: Permanent wave solu
tion. $1.00 per set. See Charlie
Mills. c
WEDNESDAY
EXPERIMENT IN TERROR
THURSDAY
THE VIKINGS
STREET DANCE
THURSDAY EVENING
The Midnight Sun Festival Street
Dance will be held on the concrete
ramp west of the Federal Bldg,
through the cooperation of Jess
Hutton, new Federal Bldg, super
intendent.
The dance will be held Thurs
day evening from 9 to midnight
with prizes being given for the
best twist and limbo dancers.
Other special features will be
the snowball dance and spot
dances, announced Festival man
ager Martha Reardon. There is no
charge and good music is being
arranged by chairman Steve Wil
son.
J. R. Caudle, new station man
ager for the FAA here, has ar
rived with his wife and daughter
and is being oreiented for the
next week by his predecessor,
James Hart, who will be retiring
and leaving next week for Para
dise, Calif.
Harry Cook, son of the late
Nellie Cook of Ungalik, returned
from California yesterday and
will be working on the mining
claim formerly owned by his
mother for almost half a century.
Judge von der Heydt to
Exhibit at Art Show Here
Last year the Kegoayah Kozga
Library sponsored the first Art
Show in connection with the Mid
night Sun Festival. It proved to
be a very popular and interesting
event and the club is sponsoring
it again this year from noon until
4:00 p.m. daily.
In addition to contributors from
last year who have prepared new
paintings for this year’s showing,
several former Nomeites from out
of town have heard about the show
and have sent some of their work,
including Jim von der Hedyt, for
merly district attorney here and
now a Superior Court Judge in
Juneau.
Several Eskimo artists will be
represented and many of the pic
tures will marked for sale.
Anyone wishing to display art
work may contact Mrs. Don Hoover
or Mrs. Stan Sobocienski.
Mrs. Lucille (Cindy) Hussey, who
came for a day as a tourist and
stayed for a week, is extending
her visit for the summer, having
taken a job with the Polar Curio
where she invites all her friends
to drop in and visit her.
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