THE NOME NUGGET
Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday by the
NOME PUBLISHING CO. ‘
NOME, ALASKA
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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.
THE SILVER-CURTAIN SEEMS A BIT POROUS
NOME1TES DIDN'T HEAR WHAT THEY HEARD !
fTMlE NOME NUGGET sent out an Associated Press release
concerning the overflight of Nome last Monday and Tuesday
and on Saturday received the following message by phone from the
Alaska Air Command given by Maj. Joseph Wisnac, assistant
information officer of the Alaska Air Command which stated,
"that during the alleged overflights radar was operating and has
the capability of picking up any aircraft in this area. No aircraft
were seen by our radar and this headquarters has no evidence of
penetration of air space.”
Since that time Bob Curtis of Teller has been contacted and
he reports sighting Russian aircraft which he described fully.
To date the Alaska Air Command has not made a denial
that the aircraft seen, were there.
A PAT ON THE BACK FOR TOM
¥F SOME CIVIC group were nominating the Man of the Week,
* we would recommend Tommy Martin.
Dog racing was accomplished for the past two years through
his "dogged” and persistent efforts, and this year it paid off with
15 teams entering into the sport, representing several villages
and some very fast and very fine teams.
It is true that many people finally cooperated in the effort
to make it successful, but Martin’s desire to bring racing back
to Nome, where the sport originated during the gold rush days,
started it going. He is to be commended. This feature of winter
sport, combined with other winter novelties which can only be
enjoyed here could develop a winter tourist industry and create
annual festivities this time of the year.
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California for Rockefeller
Committee Fades Away
LOS ANGELES W — The Cali
fornians for Rockefeller Commit
tee has faded away.
Former California Gov. Good
win Knight, who opened the com
mittee headquarters last Wednes
day, announced Friday he was
closing shop at the request of New
York Gov. Nelson Rokefeller —
who didn’t want the headquarters
opened in the first place.
Said Knight: “After conferences
with Gov. Rokcefeller, and at his
expressed wish, we are proceed
ing no further . . . and are clos
ing our headquarters. Gov. Rocke
feller appreciates there is strong
support for him in our state. If
he becomes a candidate for Presi
dent ... we pledge our full co
operation and will work with
others for a Republican delega
tion to the 1964 convention which
is full representative of all the Re
publicans in California.”
B.C. Marketing Firm Will
Buy Harbor Seal Skins
The Department of Fish and
Game has been advised that prop
erly prepared raw skins of harbor
seals may be sold for as much as
$20 each. Mr. H. G. Hanson, P.O.
Box 7, New Westminster, B.C.,
Canada, is buying the skins for
the European market and is de
sirous of establishing contact with
Alaskan seal hunters. Interested
persons may contact Mr. Hanson
by mail at the above address for
specific information on prices and
preparation and shipping of skins.
Jim Brooks, Director of the Di
vision of Game, reports that har
bor seal skins are widely being
recognized as a fashionable ma
terial for sports type clothing.
Single skins of unusually fine
quality recently brought as much
as $53 apiece in Canadian sales.
Brooks stated further that several
thousand seals are taken each year
for bounty in Alaska, and he sug
gests many hunters may profit
greatly by this new commercial
interest in harbor seal skins.
ROSCOE WILKE FOR MAYOR
Dial 2831 For
Arctic Sanitary
Service
CERTIFICATION
OF CANDIDATES
I hereby certify that the follow
ing candidates have been regularly
nominated for the following offices
for the Annual Municipal and
School Board Election to be held
Tuesday, April 2, 1963 in accord
ance with Chapter 7 of the Code
of Ordinances of the City of Nome,
to-wit:
For Mayor
(Term Ending October, 1963)
HENRY, SR., EINAR ANTHONY
HOOVER, DONALD M.
WILKE, ROSCOE J.
For City Council
(Term Ending October, 1963)
READER, D.J.
For City Council
(Term Ending October, 1964)
FRAZIER, CHARLES (CHUCK)
HEDREEN, KEITH E.
KARMUN, DANIEL K.
For City Clerk
(Term Ending October, 1963)
SCOTT. ROBERT F.
For Member School Board
(Term Ending October, 1967)
WILKE, DORIS S.
For Member Utility Board
(Term Ending October, 1963)
MORGAN, BARROW J.
For Member Utility Board
(Term Ending October, 1967)
ANSETH, LEONARD
LEWIS, BOB
/%/ Robert F. Scott,
City Clerk
Barrow’s New State
Airport will be Most
Northern on Continent
The bid opening for the con
struction of Barrow’s new airport
is scheduled for April 25, it has
been announced by the Division
of Aviation.
Barrow is the second airport fin
anced under the trunk airport bond
issue to be advertised for bids. The
bond issue was authorized by vot
ers in last November’s general el
ection. In addition to Barrow, air
port projects are also authorized
for Savoonga, Sitka, Sand Point
and the Lower Yukon Airport at
Andreafski.
The facility will be the northern
most civil airport on the North
American continent. It will be lo
cated adjacent to the community
of Barrow and about 10 miles
south of Point Barrow. Division of
Aviation engineers stated that the
airport will become a major point
in the northernmost segment of
the Alaskan airport system.
It has been noted that Alaska’s
airport system is the most com
plete of any of the transportation
systems within the State. Over 300
communities are knit together by
State-operated and maintained air
ports. Virtually every school child
in the state can tell one type of
aircraft from another and most are
experienced air travelers, although
many have never ridden in a car
or a train or large boat.
A NEW WRINKLE . . .
NASHVILLE, Tenn. W — The
latest wrinkle in moonshining is
plastic returnable jugs.
The reason is a clampdown by
federal alcohol tax agents on the
sale of supplies and containers for
illicit whisky, glass jars in par
ticular.
Herman Bomar, chief tax agent
for Tennessee, says moonshiners
are collecting plastic containers
used for laundry bleaches. Some
operators are requiring customers
to return the empties with each
new purchase.
Marine Sergeant
Receives Strict Sentence
For Mistreating Recruits
SAN DIEGO, Calif. (jP — Marine
Corps ,Sgt. Carlton Slay, convicted
of 14 counts of mistreating re
cruits, shuddered and ground his
knuckles against the table before
him when he heard his punish
ment pronounced:
Confinement at hard labor for
three years, demotion to the rank
of private, forefeitures of all pay
and allowances and a bad-conduct
discharge.
The 33-year-old Leatherneck
slammed his gloves on the table
and wept. He had wanted to stay
in the Corps.
After his conviction, but prior
to his sentencing, he told a general
court martial Friday, “I consider
myself a career man and a pro
fessional Marine. I am ready, pre
pared and trained to go into com
bat whenever the button is push
ed. I’ll be proud to go back and
serve as a Marine wherever they
send me.”
Slay has never been in combat.
Convicted of striking and chok
ing recruits, Sgt. Slay got an even
stiffer sentence that Marine S/Sgt.
Matthew McKeon, who in 1956 led
a night march on which six re
cruits drowned at Parris Island,
N.C.
Slay’s sentence is subject to re
view, first by the Commander of
the Marine Corps Recruit Depot
here and later by higher authori
ties. It is not uncommon for such
sentences to be reduced.
Fifteen young Marines who had
been drilled by Slay testified for
the prosecution earlier in the trial.
But they returned to testify for
the defense and all but one said
they would be willing to follow
Slay into battle.
Fancy Saddle for Caroline
WASHINGTON UR — Caroline
Kennedy was given a fancy gold
and blue saddle and bridle yester
day for her pony, Macaroni. It was
a gift fit for a princess. In fact,
it came from a king.
The elegant saddle, tailored to
size of a 5-year-old, was presented
President Kennedy for Caroline by
King Hassan II of Morocco.
The seat of the saddle is cover
ed with royal blue cloth. It has
brass stirrups. An accompanying
blanket is of delicate gold bro
cade trimmed in blue. The match
ing bridle has gold spangles.
Sal For Cleaning Safaris
When the house looks spotty you know it’s time
To stalk the dirt, the dust and grime. j .
So arm yourself for a cleaning safari *.}
But limit yourself to what you can carry;
A vacuum, mop, broom, sponge and pail
And sal soda concentrated which you’ll hail
As the greatest discovery since man found water,
For it cleans the house as a cleaner aught-er. •
It makes it easy to give grime the axe
For a swipe with sal makes it drop in its tracks.