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.
WORRY ISN’T GOING TO HELP!
A Tribute to Mike Walsh
By SEN. E. L. BARTLETT
WHEN I CAME TO ALASKA in 1905, Mike Walsh was
" already a pioneer resident of Nome. It was years later before
I first met him. But from that first meeting until now—and
always—Mike Walsh w'as to me, as to so many others, a source
of inspiration, of stability, of wisdom, of strength.
He was one of the very principal men, not only of Nome,
not only of northwestern Alaska, but of all of Alaska.
It will be 10 years ago next month since Tony Dimond died.
Of him, I said on the occasion of his departure, that he was
truly a Christian gentleman. That description, with its very deep
meaning, can be applied equally to Michael J. Walsh. He had
all the virtues of a great man, none of the pretensions of a
small man. He knew no fear. He feared no man, nor did he fear
the future. Had he lived but a few days longer, he would have
been 81 years old. His vision, however, was that of a young man;
he was always inquisitive, never set in a mold, never opposed to
change simply because it represented something new.
Although he outlived the Biblical span by more than 10
years, Mike Walsh did not live long enough, by far, to become
an old man. He was never old in body or in mind or in spirit.
We who went to him whenever we could for guidance and
counsel will miss him sorely. And we shall miss his friendship,
not lightly given but once having been awarded, never withdrawn.
It is not my purpose here, nor should it be, to give a
biographical accounting of a man whose accomplishments are so
interwoven with our Alaska since the turn of the century.
In a great setting, Mike Walsh was a great man. His like
will not be found again.
Dr. Albert Schweitzer on Katanga
rpHE DISTINGUISHED physician and missionary, Dr. Albert
Schweitzer, says that the Congo is made up of two parts,
neither of which has any claim upon, or obligation to, the other.
Juridically, according to Dr. Schweitzer, they are absolutely inde
pendent one from the other. "No war, undertaken by one against
the other,” Schweitzer wrote, "has any juridicial foundation. No
foreign country can assume to have the right to force one of them
to independence or submit itself to the other. It is incomprehensible
that in our day a foreign state is in war with Katanga to force it to
pay its dues to the other Congolese state. One wonders how a civil
ized state can undertake such a thing.”
Dr. Schweitzer added, "Reason and justice demand that both
this foreign state (the Central Government) and the United Na
tions immediately withdraw their troops from Katangese territory
and recognize and respect that country’s independence.”
Paul Dudley White, M.D., noted heart specialist: "We seem
to delight in the absurd belief that we must avoid strains . . .
that we must pamper ourselves and not walk upstairs or work
physically hard, or mentally, either — whereas on occasion mid
night oil should be burned.”
Find Mutilated
Body of Former
Olympic Skier
RENO, Nev. UF) — The muti
lated body of a blonde former
Olympic skier from Great Britain,
Sonja McCaskie, 24, was found
strewn about her Reno apartment
Friday night.
Reno police chief Elmer Bris
coe made the identification. He
said Miss McCaskie had been de
capitated.
Briscoe said the victim’s heart
was on the floor two feet from
the unlocked front door. Officers
found a rolled blanket in the cen
ter of the room. When they un
rolled it, her severed feet fell out,
Briscoe reported.
A cedar chest in the bedroom
yielded her nude body. Three kit
chen knives were stuck in her
torso. Beneath the body was her
head, wrapped in white undergar
ments and a lace tablecloth.
“This is the very worst murder
case we have ever had,” Briscoe
said. She apparently had been
tortured before she was killed.”
The actual cause of death was
not immediately determined. Au
thorities were investigating to de
termine whether she might have
been beaten or choked to death
before being mutilated.
Officers found blood-stained
razor blades and knives in the kit
chen. Briscoe said there were no
signs of a violent struggle and
neighbors heard no screams or un
usual noises.
The body was found after a
baby sitter caring for Miss Mc
Caskie’s one-year-old son became
worried when the attractive blue
eyed skier failed to come for her
child.
Miss McCaskie had been mar
ried to Jeff Schmidt and later di
vorced, Briscoe said. Officers did
not know Schmidt’s whereabouts.
They said they had no leads to a
motive or suspects
Miss McCaskie was born in
Elgin, Scotland. She was still a
British subject, officers said.
Made-to-Order Weather
For Ski Championships
MT. ALYESKA Ufi — In the
third straight day of made-to
order weather, America’s top
notch men and women skiers
wound up the 1963 National Alpine
Ski Championships Saturday in
slalom competition on Max’s Moun
tain, neighbor to Mt. Alyeska.
To non-Alaskans attending the
meet the spring weather has been
an amazing repudiation of all they
had heard about the icebox na
ture of the 49th State.
The 45-mile highway from An
chorage, whence come the crowds,
has been bare and dry.
Except for the magnificent gla
cial scenery, this could be April in
Yakima or Keokuk or German
town. The sun has been bright,
skies cloudless and by mid-morn
I ing spectators were seeking a place
to store heavy jackets.
Yet on the mountain the skiers
have had powder snow and times
have been fast in all events.
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28 Whooping Cranes
Begin Migration North
WASHINGTON UP> — This is
the migration season for the rare
wild whooping crane and the big
question is: How many will be
flying north?
The Interior Department said
Saturday that as far as can be de
termined, 28 of the big birds will
start from Texas for the nesting
area in Wood Buffalo Park near
Great Slave Lake in Canada, some
2,500 miles away. They usually
leave in small groups over a period
of six of seven weeks.
A total of 28 would be four
less than the number counted to
have made the successful southern
migration last fall and 10 fewer
than the record 38 which were
counted as having started the
northward migration last year.
Fish and Wildlife Service offi
cials said 38 aerial surveys of the
crane were made in the area of
the Arkansas National Wildlife Re
fuge on the Gulf Coast between
Oct. 19, when the first returning
whoopers were sighted, and March
25.
The build-up was gradual, until
a peak number of cranes was
noted on Dec. 7 and again on Dec.
20.
But none of the counts since
mid-February has shown more
than 29 cranes and most recent
checks accounted for only 28.
The officials said they still hope
that some or all of the 10 birds
apparently missing from last year’s
record flock have survived and
will rejoin.
Harvard psychologists have
found that women can argue bet
ter than men and have an edge
over them in getting their own
way.
Adm. Anderson Says
Superiors Were Wrong
In Awarding TFX Contract
WASHINGTON UP> — Adm.
George Anderson, chief of naval
operations, says he still believes
his civilian superiors were wrong
in awarding the TFX warplane
contract to the General Dynamics
Corp of Ft. Worth, Tex.
A rival design by the Boeing
Co. of Seattle, had the edge over
General Dynamics, Anderson told
the Senate investigations subcom
mittee Friday in secret session,
and wars are won by nations with
“the edge,” he said.
Anderson said he wishes now
that he had been more conscien
tious in pressing the Boeing case
last fall. But he said he had no
idea then that there was any pros
pect of military evaluations being
over-ridden by Secretary of De
fense Robert McNamara and the
other civilian secretaries at the
Pentagon.
The admiral, a member of the
Joint Chiefs of Staff, assured the
senators he intends to obey orders
and said he hopes the Air Force
and Navy will come out with the
best possible TFX plane.
TFX stands for Tactical Fighter,
Experimental, but the plane is in
tended to be much more than that
—a versatile bomber and recon
naissance plane as well as fighter,
and better than any warplane the
armed forces ever had.
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