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, 1879.
WITH HONOR--AND HOPE.
WELCOME LIONS and LIONESSES
TVTOME WELCOMES representatives of Alaska, Yukon Territory
and Northwest Territories who are assembling here today,
around 300 in number.
The Lions which were founded in 1917 and rank first in
membership among leading service organizations now have over
650,000 members in 118 countries, an enviable record of growth
made possible only through activity and vigor among its mem
berships in over 16,000 clubs.
To make the convention possible, the local Lions Club, which
is only two years old, has had the support of many other clubs
in the community, including the women’s groups as well, so that
all visitors will be housed, fed and given a hearty' welcome, with
true frontier and pioneer spirit.
The Bering Sea Lions Club is to be commended for its under
taking. The management of the Polaris Coffee Shop, who is en
gineering the preparation of the banquets throughout the con
vention at the Armory where no cooking facilities were available,
deserve special mention for their ingenuity and enterprise.
Nomeites hope that before the convention is over, it will
have recruited representatives from all communities represented
to support its cause and help promote roads to this area and we
know before the three days are over they will all be boosters
toward Nome’s No. 1 project—plumbing.
Welcome Lions and Lionesses to a pioneer town in a pioneer
way.
Ike Taylor, Former
Chief of Alaska Road
Commission, Passes at 72
SEATTLE Ub — Ike P. Taylor,
72, long-time Alaskan and former
chief engineer of the old Alaska
Road Commission, died at a hos
pital Monday. The Taylor High
way, between Tetlin Junction,
Alaska, and Dawson, Y.T., was
named for him.
Born in Missouri, he graduated
from William Jewell College,
Liberty, Mo., and went to Alaska
in 1916 as an engineer on the
Alaska Railroad.
He was with the railroad until
its completion and then moved to
Fairbanks as an engineer for the
Alaska Road Commission. He went
to JuneAu when he became the
CQosmission’s chief engineer, and
^^me here in 1950, at retirement.
^***8 widow, Laura A., a son,
D., Anchorage, and a daugh
Victor Lien, Seattle, sur
\\ services will be at
ly (Washington Mem
Home) followed by
member of the Elks
Juneau, the Rainier
_ Club here and
^mternity.
NOTICE
According to the Dept, of Reve
nue here in Nome, only 50% of
the automobile owners have pur
chased their 1963 license plates. It
is to be noted that the 1962 license
plates expire on midnight of May
31 and the Stale Police will be
issuing arrest citations to anyone
driving a vehicle on the morning
of June 1 if the new 1963 plates
are not actually displayed on the
vehicle.
Just having the plates within the
glove compartment, etc., is no ex
cuse. The law also requires^ thal
the registration (not the title) be
exhibited on demand, so therefore
should be carried within the vehicle
or on the drivers' person, this is
to have proof of ownership.
Remember that all scooters,
motor bikes, motorcycles, and the
like require license plates and this
law will be enforced.
The Dept, of Revenue will nol
be open for the purchase of 1963
license plates on June 1, so it is
advised that if you intend to ob
tain your plates, do so now.
Have your driver's license ex
pired? Check now—too late after
an accident.
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Cost of Living Remains
Unchanged During April
WASHINGTON W) — The cost]
of living remained unchanged dur
ing April at its record March
level, the Labor Department said
today.
The Consumer Price Index re
mained at 106.2 per cent of the
overage for 1957-59. This was one
per cent above the level of April,
1962.
The figure means it costs $10.62
now to buy what $10 would buy a
year ago in the average family’s
budget.
Ewan Clague, Director of the
Bureau of Labor Statistics, said that
a reduction of prices for food and
gasoline during April was offset
by price increases for housing,
used cars, newspapers and cloth
ing.
Prices for meat, poultry and
fish dropped 2.4 per cent during
April to the lowest level since 1957.
NOME UNEMPLOYMENT RATE
LAST WEEK WAS 48.2 PCT.
JUNEAU (J*> — Increasing con
struction activity and preparations
for the coming commercial fishing
season forced a drop in Alaska’s
insured unemployment rate last
week, Labor Commissioner Gil
Johnson said yesterday.
The rate was 13.3 per cent, down
from 23.5 per cent during the pre
vious week. Continuing unemploy
ment was listed at 4,377, while
new unemployment amounted to
370.
The insured unemployment rate
by area included Anchorage, 14.8
per cent; Fairbanks, 13.7; Juneau,
7.5; Ketchikan, 7.9; Nome, 48.2;
Petersburg, 7.5; and Sitka, 3.9.
RED CHINESE PHOTOGRAPH
MILITARY INSTALLATIONS
NEW DELHI, India UP) — An
Indian newspaper said Saturday
a high-flying Red Chinese recon
naissance plane penetrated to with
in 120 miles of New Delhi May 6,
apparently to photograph military
installations.
An Indian government spokes
man declined to comment on the
report by the Times of India,
which said New Delhi lodged a
strong protest with Peking.
The Times said the plane, de
scribed as a Soviet-built Badger
type jet, was spotted at 50,000 feet
toward Ambala in the eastern
Punjab region. The Indian Air
Force has bases in the area.
Some groups are now donating
ambulances to hospitals by saving
trading stamps.
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GREENS
Sale of Unshelled Frozen
Crabmeat In California
Has Been Shelved
JUNEAU UP) — A bill which
would ban the sale of unshelled
frozen crabmeat in California at
certain times of the year has been
shelved, at least temporarily, Gov.
Wm. Egan was advised Tuesday.
In a telegram to Egan, chairman
Ronald Cameron of the California
State Senate's Fish and Game Com
mittee said:
Crab bill will be removed to
inactive file pending further evalu
ation.”
The bill, authored by Sen. J.
Eugene McAteer, was approved by
Cameron’s committee last week.
It would ban the sale of unshelled
frozen crab meat during the closed
season on crabs in California.
McAteer, the owner of a large
seafood restaurant on San Fran
cisco’s Fisherman’s Wharf, said
freezing in the shell makes the
crabs watery and meat stringy.
The sale of such frozen crab
meat, Mcateer said, was damaging
San Francisco’s reputation for
fine crabmeat.
McAteer’s bill would not affect
the sale of shelled, frozen crab
meat.
Upon learning of the Cameron’s
committee’s approval of the bill
last week, Egan wired Cameron,
California Gov. Edmund Brown
and the President of the California
State Senate asking that they use
“their good offices” to bring about
reconsideration and rejection of
the McAteer bill.
In his telegram, Egan said:
“Enactment could only be inter
preted as discrimination against a
widely accepted product of a sister
state to whose economy the in
dustry makes significant contri
bution.
“Strongly suggest that growing
acceptance of frozen Alaska crab
by nation’s housewives disproves
any assertion as to inferior taste
and quality.
“If the problem is, as reported,
lack of identification as to origin,
Alaskans’ pride in their product
is such that would urge alternative
approach of requiring such identi
fication rather than arbitrary pro
hibition against sale.”
Teddy Roosevelt was the first
U.S. President to ride in an auto
mobile. He was the first to ride
in an airplane too.
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CAB Suspends Alaska
Airlines’ Proposed New
Low Group Fares
WASHINGTON W — The Civil
Aeronautics Board suspended yes
terday pending an investigation of
new low group fares which Alaska
Airlines has introduced between
Anchorage and Fairbanks.
The board said the revenues
from the proposed fares could de
crease as the size of the group in
creased so that the airline might
receive $9 to $99 less revenue from
a group of 20 to 26 passengers than
it would from a group of 19.
Since last August, Alaska has
been offering an Anchorage-Fair
banks fare of $22.50 a passenger
for groups of 10 or more. This is
75 per cent of the normal standard
fare.
The airline proposed to make the
fare available only to groups of
10 to 14 persons and to reduce the
fare still more for larger groups
between the two cities.
In addition, the airline planned
to establish reduced group fares
between Anchorage and Kotzebue,
McGrath, Nome and Unalakleet,
with a descending rate for larger
groups, ranging down to 50 per
cent of the regular fare for group?
of 25 or more.
The CAB said the proposed fares
were objectionable also because
they included no round trip re
quirement, no limitation as to
days of travel and no limit as to
when the travel must be com
pleted.
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