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.
ONE OF THOSE THINGS NOT EASY TO EXPLAIN
AN UNSUNG HERO
¥¥E DIDN’T DRIVE the big red fire truck, he didn’t hold the
nozzle of the fire hose, he didn’t rescue people from burning
houses or perform spectacular acts of heorism, but year in and
year out since the Nome Volunteer Fire Department was formed
in 1937 under Chief W. W. Laws, Norvin Lewis has answered
every fire call by taking his station at the fire station pumps so
that water was available to fight fires.
Norvin Lewis was the only charter member of the Nome
Volunteer Fire Department still active in Nome at the time of
his death. Few people have served the community in a single
capacity for so long a time with such faithfulness.
Norvin Lewis served with the same faithfulness as secretary
of Anvil Lodge F & A M, No. 140, for almost 20 years and was
the only member of the local lodge to be given the 33 degree
in Scottish Rite Masonry which is honorary.
His sendee to the community will be a lasting memorial.
HOW HIGH THE MOON. A stack of 100 billion silver
dollars, each about a tenth of an inch thick, would extend 157,828
miles into outer space, considerably farther than half-way to the
moon. That is the awesome amount of foreign aid that the
United States will have contributed by the end of the year
since 1945. . . There is no question but that U.S. aid has
bolstered and perhaps saved the world economy. But it also is
evident that much of it has been dispensed to some nations
whose leaders have squandered it selfishly and to countries
whose ties with the Communist world are closer than with the
West. U.S. foreign aid is here to stay for years to come. That
makes it imperative that there be a more thorough screening
of recipients. There is no point in helping nations which refuse
to help themselves or which continue to lean toward atheistic
communism rather than democracy.” —San Diego Union.
EXPLORER POST 63
Port Secretary Peter Dexter
Explorer Post 63 has received
its charter and held its first meet
ing on the 19th of April.
The following officers were elect
ed at the first meeting: John
Amundson, president; Terry Sam
uels, vice president; Peter Dexter,
secretary; John Towner, treasurer.
Our post adviser is Mr. Don
Bruckner.
9 Drown in Boat Tragedy
SCOTTSBORO, Ala. UR — An
anticipated weekend of fun turn
ed into tragedy when nine mem
bers of a rural Alabama family
drowned in the Tennessee River
Friday night.
The victims were crowded into
a 12-foot boat which swamped
about 100 feet from the bank.
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Anchorage Youth Receives i
10-Year Prison Term
ANCHORAGE 18) — Jerome
Roger Clarke, 19-year-old Anchor
age youth convicted of armed
robbery, grand larceny and pass
ing a forged check, has been sen
tenced to a 10-year prison term.
Clarke pleaded guilty to the
charges in Superior Court April
15. He admitted breaking into the
Anchorage Hardware Co. in Janu
ary and stealing three revolvers,
and also admitted a later breakin
at the Mountain View Sports Cen
ter. He also admited two armed
holdups in January, and the forg
ing of a bogus $187 check last
March.
You can now buy an electric
carving knife for only $27.98 —
which only goes to prove that life
is getting easier all the time.
Traders Investment Corp.
Formed to Help Eskimo
Remote Area Enterprises
SEATTLE oe — Federal char
tering of Traders Investment Corp.
small business investment com
pany formed in Seattle for financ
ing enterprises related to econ
omic uplift of Eskimos in remote
areas of Alaska, has been an
nounced here.
Robert F. Caldwell and John
Mawson, principals in Traders Inc.,
Seattle supply firm serving the
Eskimos, said the Small Business
Administration has notified them
of the charter grant. Their firm al
ready had state charters in Wash
ington and Alaska.
Thirty investors, including some
Eskimo-village storekeepers, put
up $150,000 for the S.B.I.C. form
ed by Caldwell and Mawson. The
funds will be matched by S.B.A.
money for loans or participation
advances to enterprises needing
financial backing for development
of Eskimo-serving operations.
The Traders Investment Corp.
has several applications in process,
Caldwell said, and will proceed
promptly to put the funds to work
in a long-planned development
program for the remote areas.
Investment is planned in Eski
mo-operated enterprises and in
firms supplying the remote areas
directly or indirectly. Village in
dustries, in many of the areas in
the bush country will be consid
ered for financial backing. Sites
are on the Yukon, Kuskokwim and
Koyukuk rivers.
Building of the Eskimo economy
through development of home-in
dustry utilities and services is ex
pected to give Seattle and other
areas more prosperous customers
to deal with.
Glenn Proposes Creation
Of Space Age National
Information Center
NEW YORK —Astronaut John
Glenn Jr. has proposed creation of
a national information center into
which would be channeled the vast
new quantities of space age in
formation.
The Marine lieutenant colonel,
first American to orbit the earth,
made the proposal in a speech pre
pared for delivery to editors and
publishers at the annual Associated
Press meeting.
Glenn said that while a national
information center “can be initial
ly organized to cope with the in
undation of space information, it
can pave the way in many fields
toward ‘use systems’ of our knowl
edge, not just ‘file systems’.”
By this, he explained, he meant
that highly technical information
would be more easily understood
and thus would be better applied
in everyday living.
“The effect on business and in
dustry alone would probably far
surpass the initial outlay for such
a system, since an American busi
nessman with a new idea needs
little prodding,” Glenn said.
Some investigators say man’s
slow poisoning of the atmosphere
by pollutants has resulted in an
increase of cancer among animals
as well as human beings.
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Alaska Rates 3rd in Per
Capita Personal Income
SEATTLE Cfl — Alaska and
Washington were third and fourth
highest among western states in
per capita personal income last
year, the Commerce Department
reported Tuesday.
Alaska’s figure was $2,610 and
Washington’s $2,469. Nevada was
first in per capita income among
the Rocky Mountain and Far West
states at $3,176 and California sec
ond at $2,871.
Alaska’s per capita figure for
1962 was down slightly from 1961’s
$2,692 but total personal income
in the northern state increased to
$642 million compared with $630
million in 1961.
Washington’s per capita income,
up from $2,263 in 1961, was an
all-time high for the state. Total
personal income in Washington
was $7,422,000,000, compared with
$6,911,000,000 in 1961.
The report said per capita in
come for Idaho was $1,932 in 1962
and $1,807 the previous year, and
in Oregon $2,319 and $2,273.
The national average was $2,357
last year and $2,263 in 1961.
RED CROSS SPENT $18,758
IN ALASKA DURING 1962
JUNEAU (JV—A total of $18,758
was spent by the American Red
Cross on disaster relief in Alaska
during 1962, the organization said
in a report to Gov. Egan.
Robert S. Wilson, regional man
ager for the Red Cross at San
Francisco, said 1,524 pints of blood
were sent to Alaska patients, in
addition to gamma globulin and
serim albumin, a blood derivative
used in the treatment of shock.
The Red Cross also gave safety
training to 3,410 Alaskans during
the year, Wilson said.
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Defense Department Will
Set Up World-Wide
Voice Communications
WASHINGTON _ The De
fense Department announced plans
yesterday to set up world-wide
voice and other communications
networks to link U.S. military in
stallations and tighten command
control.
Deputy Secretary of Defense
Rosewell Gilpatric ordered the De
fense Communications Agency to
modernize and expand the present
system.
Two specialized networks are
planned to provide automatic
switching systems for voice tele
type and data communications
among overseas bases and between
the United States and overseas
points.
They are:
1. A global voice communica
tions network with direct distance
dialing features similar to com
mercial service in the United
States. This will be called autovan
for automatic voice network.
2. A world-wide network in
cluding automatic switches to re
lay and deliver teletype and data
information between various types
and combinations of transmitting
and receiving equipment. This will
be called autodin for automatic
digital network.
Present plans call for contracts to
be let by this fall, and for the
systems to be operational some
time during 1965.
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