Little League Tourney
Play Starts Tomorrow
The first elimination round of
the 1963 Little League Basketball
Tournament will get underway
promptly at 7 p.m. tomorrow night
in the Nome High School gym.
Elimination games will be play
ed tomorrow night (Saturday) and
Thursday afternoon, March 14,
after school. The Little League
championship game will be played
next Saturday evening, March 16,
as a preliminary to the Nome
Bethel game.
Tomorrow night’s action is
scheduled as follows:
Game 1: N.C. Co. vs Bronsons;
Game 2: Nome Nuggets vs Bering
Sea; Game 3: North Star vs Nome
Drug Store.
Next Thursday afternoon the
winners of games 1 and 2 will play
approximately at 4:15 p.m. The
winner of game 3 of tomorrow
night’s action will meet the winner
Thursday night for the champion
ship.
No admission will charged for
either tomorrow night’s or Thurs
day night’s games, according to
the Little League directors. All
interested persons are invited to
attend.
AA's CONSTELLATION
MAKES FIRST RUN TO NOME
The Alaska Airlines Constella
tion made its trial or proving run
yesterday during the snow storm
and is now scheduled to return on
March 17 under charter to the
Northern Commercial Co., who
are bringing in 40,000 pounds of
merchandise and materials for ex
panding their refrigeration fa
cilities.
Station manager George Lienard
leaves tomorrow for Anchorage to
attend a ground school in prepa
ration for the starting of the Con
vair planes which are being put
on this run from Anchorage to
Nome, later this month.
ADULT BOOKEEPING
CLASS COMPLETES COURSE
The 10-week course in Book
keeping, one of the Nome School’s
adult education classes was com
pleted recently. Of the ten ori
ginally starting, two dropped out,
and three will finish the course
later, due to illness or having
in ssed some sessions.
Those who will receive certifi
cates for full completion are
Gloria Bourger, Myrtle Johnson,
Ashby Craft, Roberta Snyder and
Mabel Walsh. The course is the
equivalent of one semester of
high school work in bookkeeping.
Adult Sewing Class
Group Make Wardrobe
An addition to “my lady’s” ward
robe has been made by each of
the women enrolled in the adult
dressmaking class at Nome High
School.
Sue Deems made a beige wool
fully lined sheath dress with 34
length sleeves and a jewelry neck
line.
Sue Stone was pleased with her
turf green lined skirt of abbey
flannel and overblouse of striped
green coordinate wool.
A black and white herringbone
wool tw'eed jumper was made by
Janet Muller, which can be worn
with or without blouse, and has a
self belt that ties and is completely
lined.
A brown basket weave wool
fabric was used in Mae Muller’s
dress with short kimono sleeves,
straight skirt and paneled bodice
with top stitched detail.
Donna Morgan used a top stitch
ing to create an interesting effect
on her bright red skirt and over
blouse which she lined completely.
A green novelty weave woolen
fabric was turned into a fully
lined dress and jacket ensemble by
Edith Arnold.
Joann Croell worked with pile
weave black wool which she used
in a blazer and skirt combination.
Classes were held each Monday
night for 12 weeks under the di
rection of Mrs. George Bell, High
School Homemaking instructor.
Special instruction was given in
pattern selection, alteration and
fitting, lining of garments, zipper
application, and belt making dur
ing the duration of the class
which was devoted to actual con
struction.
TWELVE ENROLLED IN
ADULT TYPING CLASS
Twelve adults have started the
adult typing course offered on
Monday evenings at 7:30 in Room
11 of the High School. More may
enroll next Monday evening.
Mrs. Muriel Crumrin, N H S
Commercial teacher, is the instruc
tor. Fee for the course is $7.50 per
person for the 10-week class.
COMIN' and GOIN'
From Fairbanks: Hugh Looman.
From Kotzebue: James Hemp
hill, Joe Arey, Clifton Jackson,
Lupita and Sandra Calvillo, Geo.
Taft.
To Kotzebue: James Hemphill.
To Fairbanks: A. Taks, Eugene
Rudolph, Lawrence Kayoukluk,
Little Sister Ann Cecile, Little
Sister Jacqueline.
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IN STOCK
One New Zeus
1250 Watt Light Plant (brushless) $269.00
Two Used Zeus
One at $150 and One at $175
Both overhauled in our shop—new valves, etc.
Slightly used—traded in on larger models
Two New Pioneer
1500 Watt Plants—Reg. $245 NOW $220 each
Three New Pioneer
2500 Watt Plants—Reg. $345 NOW $320 each
Two New Gas-Powered Lincoln
180 Amp. D.C. Welding Machines—Reg. $595 NOW $550
1W and 2" Jaeger
Gas-Powered Pumps—20% OFF
LOMEN COMMERCIAL CO.
A Division of Alaska Steamship Company
Sales Office: Dial 2234 « » Write Box 700
Quill and Scroll Initiation
Assembly Today for Eight
Eight Nome High School jour
nalists were initiated into the In
ternational Honorary Society of
“Quill and Scroll” at an 11 o’clock
assembly at the high school today.
Quill and Scroll is an honorary
high school journalism society.
Students who are members of the
staff of the Aurora, Nome High
School yearbook, and the North
Star school paper are eligible for
membership.
Qualifications for membership
are: (1) Be at least juniors or
seniors; (2) In upper two-thirds
of class in general scholastic stand
ing; (3) Must have done superior
work in some phase of journalism;
(4) Recommended by supervisor of
the publications; (5) Approved by
the secretary-treasurer of the so
ciety.
Students initiated into the or
ganization today were: Pamela
Mulvihill, J eanette Amundsen,
Dwight Schnare, Marilyn Schmidt,
Barbie Mclver, Alice Arnold Linda
Doyle, and JoAnn Croell.
North Star sponsors Rich Lyttle
and Victor Charles and Aurora
sponsor Pete Hahn carried out the
initiation, which is the first for
Nome High School. New members
were presented with gold keys,
certificates, and a year’s subscrip
tion to the “Quill and Scroll” mag
azine. The ceremony was a candle
light service before the student
body.
Engineers Here Making
Survey of Power Needs
Carl Sceebe, mechanical engi
neer, and Charles Willard, elec
trical engineer, from the Ruther
ford Engineering firm in Anchor
age, arrived Wednesday to make a
preliminary survey of the power
needs of the community. They
studied three possible solutions
which included rehabilitation of
the present plant, construction of
a new plant, or purchase of the
U.S. Smelting Co. plant. An ex
haustive study will be made from
all angles of financing, long range
planning, and other phases of the
needed change. When completed
Robert Rutherford will return to
Nome and present their findings
to the Utilities Board and to the
Nome City Council for their re
commendations.
ICE WORM LEAGUE
High team game: Nome Tele
phone 582, Starlites 541, Bering
Sea Belles 499.
High team series: Nome Tele
phone 1679, Starlites 1523, Bering
sea Bellies 1425.
Tigh individual game: Borgny
Reader 176, Ilene Schick 165, Mary
Lou Harmon 154.
High individual series: Borgny
Reader 456, Ilene Schick 452,
Mary Lou Harmon 428.
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Nome Telephone 19 9
Starlites 15 13
Billikins 14 14
Bering Sea Belles 8 20
Pioneer Women of Alaska,
Auxiliary No. 1
Meet Tonight at 8
Pioneer Igloo
Alcoholics Anonymous meeting
Saturday evening, 7:30, Conference
Room, MMM Hospital.
WANT ADS
WANTED AT ONCE: Rawleigh
Dealer in Nome. Write Rawleigh,
306 Adeline, Oakland, Calif.
29c
SELL — Those surplus items that
you don’t use. Just let a
Nugget Classified Ad convert
them into cash for you.
SELT, Those Surplus Items. Let
a Nugget Want Ad convert them
into cash for you!
NOMERAMA THEATER
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FRIDAY and SATURDAY
“GHOST CHASERS”
the bowery boys
SUNDAY and MONDAY
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BERING SEA HOTEL
IS BEING REMODELED
The Bering Sea Hotel is in the
process of complete rehabilitation
in preparation for a busy season.
All hotel rooms, stated owner Paul
Mandeville, have been remodeled
and lined with hardwood finished
plywood and new floors have been
laid. Bathrooms have been re
novated and tiled and all new
furniture will be used in the hotel.
The hotel is expanding its fa
cilities by adding a building just
east of the hotel which will have
two one bedroom apartments as
well as office space for lease.
These also will be ready for the
spring rush.
TROOP 66 NEWS
Boy Scout Troop 66 was called
to order by Scoutmaster Robert
Johnson at 7:30. The troop discuss
ed what they would do with the
money earned from . the coat
check at the Lions Club Charter
dance. The troop discussed other
business.
The patrols were dismissed to
patrol corners. Asst. Scoutmaster
Mike Saclamanna introduced a new
game called high kick which the
Scouts played. After the game the
patrols were dismissed to take care
of their own business. The Scouts
were again called to order and
were dismissed after the closing
ceremony.
Mr. and Mrs. Jackson Mokiyuk,
of Savoonga are the parents of a
son bom this morning at the
hospital.
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POLARIS
COCKTAIL
LOUNGE
5 to 7 p.m.
EVERY DAY
Starting Today
BEER
and
JVHXED DRINKS
60c
Nome Unemployment Rate 47.6
JUNEAU UPi — Labor Commis
sioner Gil Johnson said today the
state’s insured unemployment rate
for the week ending March 2 was
17.0 per cent, down from the 17.6
of the previous week.
The figure compared with 20.2
per cent for the same week a
year ago.
The rate by area included An
chorage 18.1, Fairbanks 15.5, Ju
neau 11.2, Ketchikan 15.1, Nome
47.6, Petersburg 33.1, and Sitka
8.6.
Admitted to the MMM Hospital:
Lucy Trigg, Clifford Oquilluk, and
Mathias Pederson.
Discharged: Catherine Andrews,
Vincent Pikangona. Florence Na
gozruk was transferred to the An
chorage Hospital.
25 Years Ago Topkok Won
Speed Race to Cape Nome
Twenty - five years ago, on
March 5, 1938, the Nome Nugget
records that the Nome Kennel
Club Speed Race was won by
three out-of-town teams.
The race course was on the
Bering Sea ice to Cape Nome
and return and their were eight
entries.
Fred Topkok of Igloo posted a
time of 2 hours 13 minues and 15
seconds, winning $150.
Albert Johnson of White Moun
collected $75 for his second place
effort of 2:14:46.
Francis Walker, also of White
Mountain, was third, winning $25
in 2:28:45.
TURKEY "SHOOT”
"B - FIFTEEN”
FISH POND
CAKE WALK
ENGRAVING
HOT
Reindeer Sandwhiches
ARE JUST
A FEW OF THE
ATTRACTIONS
TO BE
ENJOYED
AT THE
Arctic Club
CARNIVAL
ON
Saturday, March 30
AT THE
Nome School Gym
This Space Donated By
NOME LIQUOR STORE