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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.
THREE MAKES ACROWD
NATIONAL LIBRARY WEEK
TW'EVER IN GODDE’S WOURLD will there be bookes enuf.
Thus wrote the forgotten Scots poet, Jamie Fulerton, in 1643.
Untold millions of books have been published since Jamie
Fulerton died and was laid to rest in Edinburgh cemetery. Many
have disappeared into limbo. But innumerable others remain, and
have their honored, useful place in the libraries of the world.
During the April 21-27 period we will observe National
Library Week. No institution can be more deserving of such an
honor. For a library is, in the full sense of the word, a monument
to civilization—to its tragedies and triumphs, its disasters and
its victories, and, above all, what men have felt and managed
to put down in words of prose and poetry.
A world without books would be the emptiest of worlds.
And the man or woman who does not read—and read seriously—
is missing, tragically and unnecessarily, one of the greatest of
human needs and pleasures.
Nome is fortunate in having one of the oldest libraries in
the state, which is financed by the State Library Fund, housed by
the City of Nome, and operated without cost by librarians who
give their time, year in and year out, to keep the Kegoayah Kozga
Library functioning in the community. The librarians are members
of the KK Library Club, who have sponsored the present library
since 1934, taking over a previous organization of the same name
which started here in 1902.
Alaska Tour Trends
For 1963 are Mixed
Early indications of Alaska tour
trends for the 1963 season are
mixed, according to an Alaska
Travel Promotion Assn, survey of
carriers. Some report that book
ings are down from this same time
last year but up 15 to 30 per cent
over 1961; others says advance
bookings have increased from 16
to 50 per cent over a year ago.
More than 100 different initiner
aries in Alaska are available this
year.
Great interest has been express
ed in the Southeastern Alaska
ferry system and highway travel.
Intensive educational campaigns,
advertising and promotion are
being conducted by many members
of ATPA—individually and in co
operation with other members.
This cumulative effort is expected
to reflect in April and later book
ings.
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Big Backlog of Projects as
House 'Votes Public Works Funds
A spirited debate and close vote
in the House of Representatives
last week put back into the sup
plemnetal appropriations bill $450
million to carry on the accelerated
public works program.
Meanwhile a report by the Area
Redevelopment A d m i n i s tration
showed that to March 1 there had
been a total of 28 accelerated pub
lic works projects totaling $4,074,
000 approved for Alaska.
The report showed that 21 states
had received smaller amounts than
Alaska under this program. Man
months of on-site employment fur
nished in Alaska by projects ap
proved thus far total 2,950.
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PROJECT CHARIOT
Cape Thompson
Station Turned
Over to Navy
WASHINGTON — The At
omic Energy Commission said it
is turning its Cape Thompson re
search station over to the Navy
but that the proposal for a nuclear
excavation experiment is not dead
yet.
The AEC, which spent $4,132,000
since 1958 on research into effects
of nuclear fallout in the Arctic,
announced its Cape Thompson fa
cilities would be transferred to the
Office of Naval Research.
The announcement said the
Navy’s Arctic Research Labora
tory at Point Barrow will use the
Cape Thompson camp “as a small
satellite field station.”
“No final decision has been
made by the AEC,” the statement
added, “as to conducting the pro
posed nuclear experiment which is
known as Project Chariot.”
The AEC said a detailed report
of its four-year Cape Thompson
study “is now being prepared for
issuance probably early next
year.”
The proposal to excavate a har
bor on the Arctic coast with a
nuclear blast brought protests
from some Alaskans.
Last August the AEC announced
it had shelved the project, at least
for the time being. It said some
of the information which had
been hoped for from the Alaska
project now is available or may
be obtained through other experi
ments.
The AEC said Project Chariot
may still take place but there is
no indication when a final de
cision will be made. Presidential
approval would be needed before
a nuclear blast could be set off.
Sen. E. L. Bartlett said recent
ly it is possible Eskimos and In
dians of Arctic areas are being
exposed to greater amounts of
radioactivity than are residents of
more temperate areas.
He pointed out that Arctic
I dwellers are highly dependent on
caribou and reindeer meat and
that these animals live on lichens,
a plant that gets its nourishment
from the air rather than soil.
There is not enough information
available, he said, on the propor
tion of radioactivity picked up by
lichens and, in turn, by the ani
mals on which the natives live.
In a letter to Alaska Gov. Egan,
E. C. Shute, manager of the AEC’s
San Francisco operations office,
said the camp would be used as a
base for long-range studies on the
effect of world - wide radioactive
fallout on plants and animals in
the Arctic.
Shute said studies conducted by
the AEC at Ogotoruk Creek near
the Cape in connection with Proj
ect Chariot “will continue to pro
vide an excellent base reference
for many years in determining the
effects of fallout on plant and ani
mal life.”
Shute said the camp equipment
at Cape Thompson, which housed
as many as 75 persons during the
investigations, includes Jamesway
huts, camp and field laboratory
equipment and furnishings.
Some equipment, including cer
tain vehicles, communications and
meteorology equipment, will be
returned to agencies which parti
cipated in the Project Chariot stu
dies, Shute said.
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RUSSIAN PEOPLE, UNDER KHRUSHCHEV,
MUCH BETTER OFF THAN UNDER STALIN
By JAMES MARLOW
Associated Press News Analyst
WASHINGTON <*> — Premier
Khrushchev was 69 Tuesday. He
doesn’t exactly mellow with age.
But if he died tomorrow the
West would have to say—but for
the opposite reason — what Sir
Winston Churchill said of Stalin’s
death in 1953: That it was a “mile
stone in Russian history.”
Khrushchev is no Santa Claus.
But he’s a vast improvement over
Stalin, a homicidal maniac. In
short, there could be worse than
Khrushchev as the West will real
ize with regret if his successor
tries to turn the clock back.
Stalin, with his bad judgment,
risked world wars with the Korean
conflict and the Berlin blockade.
Khrushchev took chances, but not
like Stalin, with the Berlin wall
and slipping missiles into Cuba.
Khrushchev has done 4 things
above all since Stalin’s death 10
years ago:
1. He has given the Russian
people a far better life than they
have had since the Bolshevik re
volution in 1917. They have more
freedom although far from full
freedom. The terroristic secret po
Ketchikan Girl Selected
Miss Malaspina Ferry
SEATTLE (i*P>— Mary E. Kinerk,
18, a Seattle University freshman
from Ketchikan, has been named
Miss Malaspina Ferry, queen of
one of the new Alaska ferries.
Late this month Miss Kinerk
will compete at Juneau for the
title of Miss Southeastern Alaska.
The winner will be entered in the
Miss Alaska Contest next summer.
Miss Kinerk lives here with the
family of an uncle, Harry Kinerk,
who is an assistant professor of
physics at Seattle University.
Mrs. Horiense Lewis
Plans Extended Trip Abroad
Mrs. Hortense Lewis, widow of
the late Charles Lewis, will leave
Seattle on April 23 for an extend
ed trip to visit her brother in
East Germany whom she has not
seen for 40 years.
Enroute east, Mr. Lewis will
visit the old Lewis home in W.
Virginia, Washington, D.C., and
leave New York on May 10. She
has a visa to visit in East Ger
many and will return via Belgium,
Holland and London.
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lice system has been subordinated.
2. He has destroyed the Stalin
myth by his 1956 denunciation of
the old dictator. This not only had
a liberating effect on Russian
thinking but on Communism in
the satellites and around the
world.
3. By showing more reasonable
ness than Stalin he has eased East
West tensions and made war less
likely, not necessarily because he
wouldn’t try it if he thought he
could win but because he realizes
he might not.
4. By trying to avoid war, thru
a policy less riskily aggressive than
Stalin’s, Khrushchev has precipi
tated a split with his Red Chinese
allies. Such a split seemed inevi
table eventually. He hastened it.
While the freedom of the Rus
sian people is not complete — a
good recent example is Khrush
chev’s quarrels with writers and
artists—they are becoming better
educated every day. With the edu
cation comes thinking.
With that comes critical exam
ination of the Russian Communist
party’s leadership policies at home
and abroad. Because in time this
will affect the policies, it will
make the leadership more respon
sible to the people’s will.
This could be reversed for a
while—another Stalin would set it
back—but the higher the intellec
tual level of the Russian people
the more inevitable it seems the
dictatorship in time must melt
away.
This doesn’t mean a sudden bur
geoning of the free enterprise sys
tem in Russia. But it does mean
that in time the Russian people
will have some form of democratic
socialism.
As for destroying the Stalin
myth Khrushchev must have felt
he had to do it for some obvious
reasons.
Continuation of the myth would
have strangled the initiative of
Stalin’s successors if they sought
to meet new situations in new
ways.
A continuation of the Stalinist
system of fear and repression
would have had an equally stifl
ing effect on the development of
the Russian people, depriving the
government of their full energies
and talents.
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