THE NOME NUGGET
Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday by the
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E. P. BOUCHER . Managing Editor
CLINTON GRAY . Production Manager
Entered at second class matter October 14. 1943, at tke
post office at Nome, Alaska, under Act of March 3, 1879.
SIDEWALKS OF NOME
OIDEWALK REPAIRS have been discussed for several years by
^ the City Council, but somehow the financial condition of the
city has not made it possible to include this much needed improve
ment and so each year the pedestrian cautiously picks his way over
the holes, teeters on the insecure boards and trusts his luck, or takes
to the dusty street. Visitors wonder at our casual acceptance of
the conditions of our sidewalks!
Many of these sidewalks in need of repair have been damaged
by cars and trucks serving the business houses or home owner or
home owner himself. Civic pride should make that person repair
the sidewalk himself.
The old Community Methodist Church is being torn down
and the pastor has offered free wood to whoever is willing
to pry off the wood himself. If some of the property owners would
take just one evening to get a few pieces of this wood, and make
the repairs in front of their own property', the appearance of our
streets would certainly be improved in a hurry and maybe it could
be come contagious and the sidewalks would be repaired, at no
great cost to anyone.
just a little time and a little pride about the place we call
home, is all that’s needed.
New Bed Acquired
For MMM Hospital
A new “Vari-Hite” Simmons
hospital bed with side rails has
been given to the Nome Hospital
by the Central Methodist Church
in Philadelphia in honor of Miss
Barbara Wilson. The Central
"Methodist Church is Miss Wilson’s
home church and they have taken
this way of expressing their con
tinued support of her in the dea
coness work she is doing here.
Miss Wilson has been on the
nursing staff for two years. Later
this year she will leave for fur
ther training in anaesthesia.
The bed will be used in a room
being prepared for patients requir
ing convalescent and nursing home
type care. The MMM Hospital is
now licensed to give such care
and represents the only facility
offering this type of service in
Northwest Alaska. Every effort is
being made to make the prolonged
stay of such guests as pleasant and
enjoyable as possible. The acqui
sition of this bed will help in just
this way.
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Prime Minister MacMillan
Won’t Quit His Post
LONDON W — Harold Mac
Millan Saturday served notice he
intends to stay on as Prime Min
ister despite widespread demands
for his resignation over the Pro
fumo scandal.
Addressing a Conservative party
rally made turbulent by demon
strators and hecklers. MacMillan
heard cheers from his Tory follow
ers mingled with the jeers of his
political foes where he declared:
“In 40 years of political life
I have tried to do my best. . .
“I will not make my whole life
worthless or meaningless by being
untrue to those convictions either
through panic or obstinacy.”
It was MacMillan’s first public
comment on his own future plans.
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Republicans Select
San Francisco for
National Convention Site
DENVER UP) — The Republican
National Committee voted by ac
clamation Saturday to hold the
party’s 1964 national convention at
the Cow Palace in San Francisco
the week beginning July 13.
The national ccommittee follow
ed a recommendation made by a
special site selection committee in
accepting an offer of $650,000 in
cash, free hotel rooms and pro
grams and other benefits.
The Cow Palace was the scene
of the GOP national convention in
1956 when Dwight Eisenhower was
nominated for a second term as
President.
James Kemper, Illinois Nation
al Committeeman, asked how much
of the guarantee offered by San
Francisco would come from tax
payers’ money and was told by
Harry, Scribner, counsel for the
national committee, that it would
be $400,000. Scribner said this
came from a special tax.
He also said San Francisco has
made a commitment for 11,244
hotel and motel rooms, including
those within the city itself, down
the peninsula and in the East Bay
area.
No other city tried to contest
the selection when the issue came
to the floor near the end of a two
day committee session.
President Brezhnev
Seen as Possible
Successor to Khrushchev
MOSCOW — Leonid Brezh
nev, 57-year-old figurehead presi
dent of the Soviet Union, moved
into the limelight Saturday as a
possible heir apparent to Premier
Khrushchev.
Brezhnev and Ukranian party
boss Nikolai Podgorny were elect
ed Friday to the party secretariat,
making the bushy-browed presi
dent the only Soviet leader besides
Khrushchev to hold key party and
government posts. Khrushchev is
both party chief and Premier.
Brezhnev’s elevation to the high
er brackets of the party leadership,
where the real power lies, had been
forecast since First Deputy Pre
mier Frol Kozlov was hospitalized
two months ago with a blood clot
on the brain.
Japanese Politicians
Use Their Fists to
Influence Legislation
TOKYO — Politicians used
their fists in the Diet (parliament)
Saturday for the third time this
week in an attempt to influence
legislation.
A member of Prime Minister
Hayato Ikeda’s ruling Liberal De
mocratic party punched an oppo
sition Scialist during a vote count
on a Socialist motion to dismiss
Daisuke Akita, chairman of the
Socialist Labor Committee of the
lower house.
Socialists rushed to the speak
er’s stand, touching off a melee
of pushing and shoving. The
speaker declared the session re
cessed.
The Socialist motion was intend
ed to block passage of a bill to
cope with unemployment.
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Kremlin Hails
“Hot-Line”’ Hookup
MOSCOW UP> — The govern
ment newspaper Izvestia has
hailed agreement for a “Hot-Line”
between Washington and Moscow
as “a definite chance to prevent
a military conflict due to accident
or miscalculation.”
It was the first Soviet comment
on the accord signed Thursday in
Geneva.
Izvestia Friday asserted, how
ever, that the line was not a “cure
all against the dangers of the
nuclear-missile arms race.” It
charged the Western press was thus
picturing the agreement to cover
up what it called Western re
sponsibility for disarmament talk
failures.
“A constantly operating teletype
line between the Kremlin and the
White House has been conceived
as a means to establish reliable
contact between the chairman of
the U.S.S.R. Council of Ministers
and the President of the United
States in case of an emergency,
threatening peace, which can be
prevented or liquidated as a result
of direct and prompt negotiations
between Moscow and Washington,”
Izvestia said.
Pillow Fighi Ends in Death
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. (If) — A
rollicking.pillow fight among three
brothers ended in tragedy Friday
when the oldest struck his neck
on a bedstead and died.
Joseph Brian Johnson, 6, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Leighton Johnson
Jr., of suburban Minnetonka, ap
parently suffered a ruptured wind
pipe, the Hennepin County Cor
oner’s Office said.
The boy had been playing with
his younger brothers, Peter and
Tony.
HOSPITAL NEWS
Admitted: Pauline Seegoonick,
Vera Napayonak, Army Tarpen
ning.
Discharged: Esther Carter and
infant, Don Nashalook, Donna
Outchak, Sharon and Lillian Subi
tlik.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Napayonak
of Koyuk are the parents of a son
bom on June 22.
Mr. and Mrs. Donald Tarpen
ning of Nome are the parents of
a daughter born on June 23.
This year is the 80th anniver
sary of man’s first air voyage. On
Nov. 21, 1783, two Frenchmen
flew a balloon for two hours and
10 minutes over the rooftops of
Paris. They traveled six miles and
reached an altitude of more than
3,000 feet.
The 1943 construction costs of a
mile of interior Alaska road had
increased 100 per cent in three
years, due to the high wages and
cost of materials.
Touch of Romance for
Russia’s Space Heroine
MOSCOW W — Valentina
Tereshkova, the Soviet Union’s
first lady of space, got a kiss from
Premier Khrushchev Saturday as
both stood atop Lenin’s Tomb in
Moscow’s Red Square. Thousands
of delighted Russians roared their
approval.
Valentina, 26, already had got a
big bear hug from Khrushchev
when she arrived with Lt. Col.
Valery Bykovsky, her male space
partner, at Ynukova Airport.
She was escorted to the top of
the tomb by Khrushchev, who was
clearly showing his pride in the
feat of the dimple-chinned, blue
eyed blonde cosmonaut.
Thousands were massed in Red
Square in tribute to the cosmo
nauts for their record-shattering
space flights which ended last
Wednesday.
There was even a touch of ro
mance in the air.
Andrian Nikolayev, whose rec
ord of 64 orbits last August was
broken by Bykovsky with more
than 81, made a point of getting
to the side of Valentina on the
stand.
His friends laughed — for there
are reports he and Valentina are
engaged.
In an interview with the gov
ernment newspaper Izvestia Fri
day the two cosmonauts said they
felt as healthy as they did be
fore the tandem flight.
Both cosmonauts said they slept
without dreams in their separate
space capsules. Valentina jokingly
added that one or twice she had
to be awakened by radio.
Their space diet, Valetina said,
included four kinds of meats,
fruits, juices, and even real Mos
cow tap water. The cosmonauts
had four meals a day.
In his spare time, Bykovsky said,
he sang songs together with
Valentina.
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