THE NOME NUGGET
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E. P. BOUCHER . Managing Editor
CLINTON GRAY . Production Manager
Entered at second class matter October 14, 1943, at the
post office at Nome, Alaska, under Act of March 3, 1879.
CEMETERY IS CLEANED UP
¥TAVE YOU LOOKED AT the Belmont Point Cemetery lately?
If you haven’t you are in for a most unexpected and pleasant
surprise.
The inmates of the City Jail, under the supervision of Jailer
Herb Jenks, have been putting in many hours of work for a
period of several weeks, when weather has been favorable, clear
ing out rubbish and old flowers and burning off the overgrowth
of willows.
Markers are being repainted and straightened as well as
fences on individual family graves.
It is suggested that organizations having sectional plots in
the graveyard provide 6-foot markers where graves may be dug
next winter, so that the grave diggers do not find themselves
disturbing old graves, as has been happening when the cemetery
is under snow' in the winter.
This civic improvement is one long-needed and the inmates
of the jail are to be commended for their community pride and
interest.
We wish that some organization would request spruce seed
lings from the U.S. Forest Service to plant along the driveway
of the cemetery' as this is thawed ground and they would further
beautify this last resting place.
Announce Increase In
Price of Bottled Gas
Howard Green has announced
an increase in the price of bottled
propane. He explained that since
he has been handling this item,
which is over a period of eight
years, the actual increase in the
cost of the propane itself has been
only half a cent per pound. On
the other hand there have been
several freight increases so that
now the freight alone on a single
cylinder of gas for the round trip
between Seattle and Nome is
$11.90.
Previous freight increases were
absorbed by the dealer but he now
finds it necessary to pass on some
of the last freight rate increase to
his customers.
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American Services Is Low
Bidder On Work At
Airport at Kotzebue
JUNEAU UP — American Ser
vices, Inc., of Anchorage sub
mitted a low bid of $388,742 for
work on Ralph Wien Memorial
Airport at Kotzebue.
The job involves widening and
extending the landing strip and
construction of a parking apron
and taxiway. The state estimate on
the work was $1,052,435.
Other bidders and their offers
included Chris Berg, Inc., $722,550:
Nordin Construction Co. and E
and B., bidding jointly, $463,685:
Studnek Construction, $715,375;
Ghemm Co. and Rivers Construc
tion, bidding jointly, $509,762;
Green Construction Co., $728,165;
and Morrison-Knudsen, $914,840.
Miners & Merchants Bank of Alaska
"The Friendly Batik'’
FULL BANKING SERVICES
To Northwestern Alaska Since 1904
— BRANCHES IN KOTZEBUE and BARROW —
JFK Calls Test Ban
4*Hope For More
Peaceful World
WASHINGTON \JP> — President
Kennedy said Thursday the new
nuclear test ban offers protection
for U S. security and “some hope
for a more peaceful world.” He
predicted ultimate Senate ratifi
cation.
And, in reply to a news confer
ence question. Kennedy said this
country will continue under
ground nuclear tests.
The test ban treaty initialed in
Moscow last week is to be formal
ly signed on Monday, but will not
become binding upon the United
States until the Senate approves it.
When a reporter told the Pre
sident that the attitude of many
senators now seemed to be one of
waiting to see more about the
treaty. Kennedy replied that there
is nothing wrong with waiting and
seeing.
He said his judgment is that
when all the evidence is in, the
treaty wTill be ratified. It gives
some hope — which may not be
realized — he said, of moving to
ward a more peaceful world. He
said the matter should be consid
ered carefully, but that senators
will vote “yes” after hearing from
diplomatic and military leaders.
There was a question as to whe
ther the United States might give
nuclear weapons, or know-how, to
France.
Kennedy said the United States
and Britain have been in touch
with French authorities on the
protection of interests of all three
countries in connection with the
nuclear test ban.
He said the United States had
offered assistance to France on a
number of occasions for defense
purposes.
Pravda Compares Chinese
To ‘Bellicose Imperialists’
MOSCOW — Pravda yester
day compared the leaders of Red
I China to “bellicose imperialists.”
Attacking with a bitterness once
reserved for the West, the Com
munist party newspaper flayed
Peking for its opposition to the
Soviet - British-American nuclear
test ban treaty.
The Chinese Communist govern
ment earlier this week called it
a “dirty fraud.”
Pravda retorted: “Don’t the
Chinese comrades see that their
views are linked to the positions
of the most frenzied, most belli
cose imperialist circles which are
opposed to a restriction of the
nuclear weapons race?”
In Peking, the official People’s
Daily continued its intensive cam
paign against the treaty, saying
the Soviet Union had “capitulated
step by step since 1946 on the nuc
lear test issue.
Mosquitoes and Flies
Don’t be chewed to bits by these blood
thirsty pests. Just burn a little BUHACH
wherever you want peace and comfort.
SUMACH
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Lt. Gen. George Mundy
Relinquished Alaskan
Command and Retires
ANCHORAGE UP — Lt. Gen.
George W. Mundy turned over the
Alaskan Command to Lt. Gen.
Raymon J. Reeves Wednesday,
then stepped aboard a plane for
Arlington, Va., and retirement
after 35 years of active military
service.
Top Air Force officers and civ
ilian leaders were on hand for
the retirement, including Gen.
Curtis LeMay, Air Force Chief of
Staff; Gen. John K. Gerhart, com
mander of the North American Air
Defense Command, and Gen. Tho
mas S. Power, who heads the Stra
tegic Air Force.
Mundy had been commander of
the combined military forces in
Alaska since Aug. 1, 1961.
Gov. and Mrs. William A. Egan
were among the civilian digni
taries witnessing the ceremony.
Gen. LeMay presented Mundy
with the Distinguished Service
Medal for outstanding service to
his country. His active duty be
gan in 1928 when he graduated
from West Point and became a
pilot in the Army Air Corps.
— PEOPLE IN THE NEWS —
GOLDENDALE, Wash. UP>—Mrs.
Mercedes H. Douglas, 46, won an
uncontested divorce Wednesday
from Justice William O. Douglas
of the U.S. Supreme Court on the
ground of cruelty. The couple was
married in 1954.
The marriage was the second
for both Mrs. Douglas and the 64
vear-old jurist.
HOLLYWOOD tP — Seven act
ors and a director announced they
will march in Washington Aug. 28
“to express our support for the
civil rights legislation now before
Congress.”
They are Charlton Heston, Mar
lon Brando, Tony Curtis, Mel Fer
rer, Tony Franciosa, Peter Brown,
Burt Lancaster and director Billy
Wilder.
KINGSTON, Jamaica UF> — The
late Errol Flyn left a personal es
tate valued at $118,913 and real
estate valued at $180,266. The act
or’s widow is actress Patrice Wy
more.
New Teachers at Deering
Mr. and Mrs. Adrian Robinson,
who have been teaching on Dio
mede Island for the Bureau of
Indian Affairs, passed thru Nome
enroute to their new station at
Deering where they will be teach
ers for the next season.
Fine Job Printing at the Nugget
Arctic Sanitary
Service
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ANYTIME FOR PICKUP
Office Open Daily 4-6 pan.
Alaska Trophy Fish
Award Program
Alaska is noted far and wide
for its enormous sport fishery re
source. But ... do you know
that not one record sport fish from
Alaska appears in the national
record book!
Recently. Alex McR;ie, director,
Sports Fish Division, announced
that the Alaska Department of
Fish and Game has initiated a
trophy fish award program in an
effort to stimulate the recording
of all trophy size Alaska sport
fish being caught but not reported.
Mr. McRae said that many Fish
and Game licensing agents in stra
tegic locations and also Depart
ment of Fish and Game personnel
have been appointed as certifying
officials to witness the recording
of any trophy fish meeting the re
quirements of the established mini
mum size. Other Fish and Game
license agents in the more isolated
areas of the state are being en
couraged to apply for certification
as officials.
Any of the fish listed below are
eligible for entering if they meet
or exceed the minimum weights:
Rainbow/steelhead trout, 15 lbs.
Cuthroat trout, 6 lbs., Dolly Var
den/Arctic char, 10 lbs., King
salmon, 50 lbs., silver salmon
(Coho> 18 lbs., red salmon (sock
eye* 12 lbs., chum salmon (dog)
15 lbs., pink salmon (humpy), 8
lbs., grayling, 3 lbs., pike, 20 lbs.,
sheefish, 30 lbs., halibut, 110 lbs.
The necessary instructions and
affidavit forms for recording a
trophy may be received from the
Alaska Department of Fish and
Game office.
Entries submitted for the Alaska
Awards are not restricted and the
contestant may submit an entry to
other groups for other awards, if
he so desires.
Who knows . . . that fish you
have just caught may be a new
state record!
One That Didn't Get Away
COCOA BEACH, Fla. UR —Mike
Douglas, the 15-year-old fisher
man who lost a 33-hour battle
with a huge jewfish last week,
landed a 70-pound tarpon Tuesday
from the same pier.
The tarpon proved no problem
after Mike’s struggle with the jew
fish, which weighed an estimated
300 pounds. The fish got away
when the line snapped.
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