ssi NOME NUGGET
OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
64th Year No. 127
NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1965
Per Copy 1
— AMONG OTHERS
Egan Envisions Nome-Fair hanks Road
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An integrated highway system
connecting all areas of Alaska with
a network of roads comparable to
other states was envisioned by
Gov. Wm. Egan in his remarks
to the first organizational meet
ing of the Citizen’s Advisory Com
mittee on overall highway needs
study.
Following statehood, a primary
and secondary road system was es
tablished within the financial
boundaries of the new state, he
said, but there is need for expan
sion of this system and the addi
tion of a third category of roads
to provide adequate surface trans
portation for all communities in
Alaska. Where these roads should
be, how to finance the construc
tion and maintenance of them, and
an estimate of the cost should be
included in the final report of
this study.
The Federal-aid Highway Act of
1962 authorized the Alaska High
way Study and provided an ap
propriation to the Bureau of Pub
lic Roads to finance it. The Bur
eau, earlier this month, selected
the consulting firms of Transpor
tation Consultants, Inc., Washing
ton, D.C., and Wilbur Smith and
Associates, San Francisco, Calif.,
to conduct the study. It will be di
rected by the Bureau’s Regional
Engineer, William J. Niemi, and
Alaska’s Highway Commissioner,
D. A. McKinnon.
Acting on a request from the
Federal Highway Administrator,
Gov. Egan has appointed a five
man citizen’s committee to act in
an advisory capacity to the direc
tors. The committee consists of
State Sen. Howard Bradshaw,
Sitka; State Rep. Harold Strand
U-A MINING COURSE
OFFERED IN TEN
ALASKA TOWNS
COLLEGE—University of Alas
ka mining extension courses will
be offered in 10 Alaskan commu
nities this year.
Dr. Arthur Buswell. Dean of the
Statewide Services, said that the
popular prospecting course will be
taught in Fort Yukon, Ketchikan,
Yakutat, Valdez, Dillingham, Nome,
Anchorage, Fort Richardson,
Kenai, and Palmer. This course is
designed to give basic training in
the general principles of mineral
exploration. It includes instruction
in mineral identification, prospec
ting techniques, economic geology,
placer and lode mining methods,
and mining law.
In addition, two-week geochem
ical prospecting courses will be
offered at Anchorage and on the
University of Alaska campus. The
course is designed to assist ex
perienced prospectors.
Interested persons should check
their local newspapers for regis
tration announcements.
berg, Anchorage; Frank Chapados,
Fairbanks; Jim O’Sullivan. Nome;
and William Mendenhall, College. I
The committee concluded a two- i
day meeting last week in Juneau
with highway officials and Curtis
J. Hooper, project director for the
consultants. Another meeting will
be held after a formal contract is
signed between the Bureau of Pub
lic Roads and the consultants.
Essentially, the study calls for:
an analysis of the adequacy of the
Federal-aid highway program in
Alaska; specific recommendations
as to the construction of roads ;
through undeveloped areas of Alas
ka and connection of such roads
with Canadian roads at the Inter
national boundary; and a feasible
program for implementing such spe
cific recommendations, including
cost estimates, recommendations as
to the sharing of cost responsibili
ties and other pertinent matters.
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BULLETIN
(By Wire — Special to The Nugget)
To: Nome Nugget
Am pleased to advise Bureau
of Indian Affairs is awarding con
tract to Caterpillar Tractor Com
pany, Peoria, Illinois, for one
450 kw. generator for Barrow,
Alaska. Price: $30,823 f.o.b. Cater
pillar factory, Mossville, Illinois.
—U.S. Senator E. L. Bartlett
A PROCLAMATION
Whereas, the Federal Aviation
Agency and its facilities at Nome,
Alaska, are empowered and di
rected to encourage and foster the
development of civil aeronautics
and air commerce; and
Whereas, the Federal Aviation
Agency is giving full consideration
to the requirements of national de
fense, of commercial and general
aviation, and to the public right of
freedom of travel through the air;
and
Whereas, in the past five years,
the Federal Aviation Agency, to
gether with aviation industries
and interests, has successfully ush
ered commercial and general avia
tion into the jet-age. and is now
on the threshold of the develop
ment of the supersonic transport,
and
Whereas, the Federal Aviation
Agency has now been established
for five years;
Now, therefore, I, Roscoe J.
Wilke, Mayor of Nome, Alaska, do
hereby proclaim October 27 th
through November 2, 1963, as Fed
eral Aviation Week in the City of
Nome, Alaska, and do urge all our
citizens to give thought to the im
portance of aviation in our daily
lives and in our local economy,
and to participate in such activi
ties being arranged in connection
therewith.
(SEAL OF THE CITY OF NOME)
By: ROSCOE J. WILKE
Mayor.
AAA Backs
Hi way Paving
JUNEAU (iP — The American
Automobile Assn., in its recent 1963
convention at Toronto, urged early
paving of the Alaska Highway, the
State Chamber of Commerce said
tcday.
Don Dickey, general manager of
the State Chamber, said the asso
ciation instructed its president to
request of the U.S. and Canadian
governments that they open nego
tiations aimed at paving the high
way.
“The effect of this resolution is
that the representations which will
be made by the American Auto
mobile Assn, to Washington is
backed by an eight million mem
bership, and in the case of the
Canadian Automobile Assn., rep
resentations are backed with some
700,000 membership,” Dickey said.
Convicted Fairbanks Bar
Owner Yells ‘Shakedown*
JUNEAU </P> — Charges and
countercharges involving bribery
and attempted shakedown by a
state liquor enforcement agent in
Fairbanks are under investiga
tion by State Police, Chairman Bill
Ray of the Alcoholic Beverage
Control Board said today.
Morris Shkolnik, a Fairbanks
bar owner convicted Tuesday of
serving liquor to a minor, charged
during his trial that Chris Katse
I kures, the liquor enforcement
I agent who filed the complaint
against Shkolnik, attempted to
shake him down.
Katsekures denied the charge
and told the jury which convicted
Shkolnik that Shkolnik attempted
to bribe him.
Ray said the liquor agent re
ported an attempted bribe to State
Police in Fairbanks and that the
ABC discussed the report at a
meeting Oct. 9.
An investigation is continuing,
Ray said.
P-TA TO SHOW FAA FILM
A special film will be shown to
the P-TA on Tuesday, 'Oct. 29.
The 24-minute film entitled
“Flight,” is a story of the Federal
Aviation Agency which is cele
brating its 5th anniversary this
coming week. The P-TA meeting
is from 7:30 to 8:30 for members
only. Membership fees are $1 per
year. Coffee and cookies will be
served.
WEATHER BUREAU REPORT
Mostly cloudy today; partly
cloudy this afternoon and tomor
row.
Low tonight 17. High tomorrow
27.
Nome data last 21 hours as of 7
ajn. today — Precipitation, trace;
| month total .79 inches. Tempera
tures — highest 26, lowest 21. Max
imum wind 23 miles an hour from
the Northeast. Sunrise at 7:27 a.m.,
sunset at 4:06 p.m.
Nome Hi Play wii!
Have Large Cast
The cast has been selected and ;
rehearsals already begun for the
annual high school play, which is
scheduled to be presented to the
public on November 21.
“Once and For All,” is a three
act comedy which has a little more
to it than the average high school
play. The setting is unusual, and
there is a good balance of humor
and seriousness in the plot. The
story centers around an Italian
family and their neighbors who
live in an apartment court-yard in
a large city’s crowded third-rate
apartment section.
As the cast is unusually large,
many students will have their
first experience on the stage.
Those students who are members
of the cast are: Dick Sackett. Alice
Arnold, Ricky Young, Joel Craft,
Lloyd Hardy, Laura Walker, Mary
Lou Couch. Cathy Scheulke, Mi
chael Blanning, Wendell Smith,
Carrie Ann Ullrich, John Towner,
Cathy Walsh, Gloria Carlson, Kay
Mclver, June Oman, Stanley Wal
ker, and Donald Young.
FAA Official Here
The FAA announces that Mr.
Don S. Wolfe, Alaskan Region Air
Traffic Division Chief, will visit
Nome on Sunday through Tuesday
of next week. He is here both to
| visit with old friends and to ac
quaint himself with the air needs
of this vicinity. While here, Mr.
Wolfe will address the Chamber of
Commerce on Monday relative to
the 5th anniversary of the FAA.
and will be a guest speaker at the
C.A.P. program on Monday night.
BARGES BEING HAULED
OUT FOR WINTER
Lomens have pulled the BOZO
and LUCILE out and today are
moving ahead with the annual fall
task of hauling the barges up onto
ways at the East End. The Harbor
Engineers have taken their barges
out and today are putting the
CARPENTER on the beach at the
sand spit. BOZO skipper Clint At
wood and his wife Ruby, left for
their winter home at Sequim,
Wash., on Wednesday.
Egan Requests ABC
Chief's Resignation
JUNEAU cf* — C. J. (Jack) Da- j
vis, director of the Alcoholic Bev
erage Control Board, said yester
day he had submitted his resig
nation, effective Oct. 31, at the re
quest of Gov. Wm. A. Egan.
Davis, who has been director of
the ABC since May 25, 1959, said
Egan did not specify why the resig
nation was requested, other than
to say the Alcoholic Beverage Con
trol Board was “unhappy with me.” j
Davis added: “I do not plan to |
contest the request that I resign, j
but I am going to find out what ;
the basis of the request was be- ,
fore I’m through.”
I5IA Reports on
Feasibility of NW
Alaska Industry
The Bureau of Indian Affairs
provided Senator E. L. Bartlett
with a copy of the report, “Evalua
tion of the Feasibility of Native
Industry in Northwestern Alaska,”
recently completed under contract
by Arthur D. Little, Inc.
The report discusses the econo
mic feasibility of establishing a
commercial reindeer industry, the
feasibility of Arctic mink ranch
ing, tanning and processing of
hides and pelts, and commercial
processing of sheefish.
Of the four possible industries,
the establishment of commercial
reindeer operations was the only
one which the report favored. Its
qualified recommendation was
based on a proposed program of
intensive technical, financial, so
cial and research assistance.
Based on an estimated potential
market of 1,220,000 pounds of rein
deer meat, the report suggested a
three-phase program of gradual
development, taking into account
the present lack of processing facil
ities, marketing skills and know
ledge of range and herd manage
ment techniques.
Pam Is A Top Student
j At Gonzaga University
Miss Pamela Mulvihill, grad
uate of Nome High School, was one
of the top students honored for
scholastic achievement at Gonzaga
University, Spokane, Wash., at a
! special academic convocation, re
ceiving an award for high scholastic
achievement plus excellent scores
on the college entrance examina
tions.
Gold medals were presented to
those students maintaining the
top scholastic averages in their
1 respective class last year, while
special honors certificates were also
awarded to entering freshmen on
the basis of their high schol schol
astic achievement plus scholastic
achievement on the college en
trance examination.
Mother of the student is Mrs.
Ellen Mulvihill.
ALASKA STEAM AUDITORS
IN NOME FOR WEEK
A team of two Alaska Steamship
Company auditors arrived in Nome
Thursday. Mr. Earl Peterson and
Hiram Walker will spend about a
week in Nome, during which time
they will work in the Lomen
offices.
» The Harpoon «
Only 5 years old. and al
ready the FAA has their
own week!!!
Annual Banquet
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26
EVERYBODY INVITED
NORTHWESTERN ALASKA
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
NORTH STAR SEAVIEW ROOM — SOCIAL HOUR 6:30 TO 7:30 P.M. — $4 PER PERSON — PHONE FOR RESERVATIONS