THE NOME NUGGET
Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday by the
NOME PUBLISHING CO.
NOME, ALASKA
Telephone 443 - 2331 $1.50 PER MONTH
P. O. Box 610 $16.00 A YEAR
E. P. BOUCHER . Managing Editor
CLINTON GRAY . Production Manager
Entered as second class matter October 14, 1943, at the
post office at Nome, Alaska, under Act of March 3. 1879.
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Food Prices
In Alaska Show
Slight Decrease
PALMER UPi — Food prices in
Alaska showed a very slight de
crease from September through
December of last year, the Uni
versity of Alaska Agricultural
Extension Service reports.
In its quarterly report on food
prices, the Extension Service said
the average price for a “market
basket” of 40 food items dropped
from $22.41 in September to
$22.37 in December. Market bas
ket at Seattle was $17.32. The na
tional average was $16.46.
By Alaskan city food baskets, the
cost was up 38 cents at Fairbanks,
28 cents at Ketchikan, 12 cents at
Nome, 6 cents at Kodiak and 4
cents at Sitka. Offsetting these
rises were lower prices at Anchor
age, 43 cents; Seward, 33 cents;
Palmer, 31 cents; Petersburg, 17
cents; and Juneau, 3 cents.
mgrier average prices were re
ported over Alaska for tomatoes,
lettuce, cabbage, lunchmeat, car
rots, salad dressing, baby food,
corn flakes, butter, frying chicken,
sugar, evaporated milk, eggs, can
ned peas, rolled oats, bread, fresh
milk and tomato soup.
Lower prices were reported for
shortening, frozen strawberries,
apples, ground beef, pork chops,
bananas, bacon, flour, onions, can
ned orange juice, oleo, chuck
roast, oranges, ice cream, potatoes,
canned peaches, fruit cocktail,
coffee, round steak, pork and
beans and jello.
The market basket by Alaskan
cities included Ketchikan, $19.90;
Petersburg, $20.67; Sitka, $20.86;
Juneau, $20.73; Kodiak, $22.76;
Seward, $22.34; Anchorage, $21,91;
Palmer, $21.52; Fairbanks, $24.55;
and Nome, $28.44.
Standardized Military Equipment
CANBERRA, Australia UP) —
Australia will participate in an
agreement between the United
States, Britain and Canada aimed
at standardizing military proced
ures and equipment.
The arrangement known as the
A. B. C. Agreement, has been in
operation since World War II.
There are at least 130 distinct
breeds of dogs.
NASA Advises
Nation’s Starry
Eyed Youth About
Future In Space
WASHINGTON UPi — A 13-year
old boy in New York wrote the
National Aeronautics and Space
Administration: “I would be will
ing to die for NASA, my country
and the seven astronauts.”
Another boy, a senior in a Mich
igan high school, wrote: “My main
goal in life is to step foot on an
alien planet.”
These are but two examples
found today in the letters that
keep coming to NASA from young
people starry-eyed about space.
The boys and girls ask serious
questions, such as what courses
they should be taking in high
school and what colleges would be
best for preparation for space
work.
The NASA answers are in gen
eral terms.
They advise the young people to
talk with their high school coun
selors and science teachers and read
scientific magazines and books.
Plan a solid general education,
NASA tells them, and master the
basic fundamentals of science and
mathematics.
To those wanting to be astro
nauts, NASA has written “other
factors are the excellence of your
academic record in high school and
college and the very important
qualities of physical fitness and
high moral character.”
NASA also sends packets of ma
terials to the space fledglings. To
some it wrote that would try to
get a spacemobile to stop by their
school.
NASA has 12 spacemobiles in
the field. They are paneled trucks
carrying equipment and materials
used in space science lecture
demonstrations.
“Men have as exaggerated an
idea of their rights as women have
of their wrongs.” — Ed Howe.
NOME SANITARY
SERVICE
Dial 2671
P.O. Box 460
Letter To
The Editor
We would like to make some
comments on the front page article,
“Nome Ministers Take Strong
Stand Against Liquor for 19-Year
Olds,” which appeared in the Feb.
13 issue of the Nome Nugget.
Firstly, a young man becomes
an adult in the eyes of the law at
18 years of age and therefore liable
to an adult record which may tell
against him in his future life. The
records of the juvenile offender,
however, may not be held against
him. Does it not seem illogical
then, that the young man of 18
becomes an adult offender whose
record reads, “drinking while a
minor” when this same young man
is also considered to be mature
enough to die for his country, to
drive an automobile on the public
highway and to vote?
Secondly, it is the responsibility
of the parents, not the law, to see
that either their children learn to
consume liquor in a sensible and
mature manner or else that they
stay away from it, according to
their own beliefs.
We might also add that it is
the responsbility of the parents,
and not the law, to control, at all
times, the activities of their off
spring, even after 10 p.m.
The drinking laws and the local
curfew ordinance are incitements
to rebellion for young people
rather than the means of prevent
ing delinquency. It is time that
the parents felt their responsibility
instead of “passing the buck” onto
the law, and incidentally, their own
children.
As a vehicle for the expression
of the varied opinions of the people
of Nome, we hope that you will
have the courage to print an opin
ion disquieting to the often un
realistic and destructive views of
the majority.
Sincerely yours,
B. E. W.
Troop 63 Will Embark
For Overnight Camp-out
Scouts of Troop 63 will embark
Friday afternoon for an overnight
campout, with emphasis on winter
survival. The site selected is about
a mile from Moonlight Springs.
Scouts will be excused from school
at 2 pun. Friday, Feb. 22, to muster
at the Scout Hall. The trip is plan
ned to leave Scout Hall about 2:30
with Scoutmaster Don Bruckner in
charge.
Although the Scouts will hike
to the camping spot, a truck will
transport tents and heavier gear
from Scout Hall. The boys and ac
companying adults will sleep over
night and return to Nome Satur
day afternoon, leaving camp about
2 p.m.
John Hackeil, well known old
timer of this area, left yesterday
to make his home in Sitka at the
Pioneer Home.
Otto Schulz, local businessman,
is on a business trip to Anchorage
and taking in part of the Rendez
vous.
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“I don’t think the problem is so
much that the teenagers want to
drink, they just like live music
and want some place to go.”
“As the law now stands, I think
it’s curbing teen-aged drinking. If
we lower the age, it would make
it too easy for them.”
He added that the liquor dealers
in Ketchikan also were against the
bill.
Edward Hurn of Fairbanks, who
said he was chairman of the Pub
lic Affairs Committee of the Fair
banks Ministerial Assn., also op
posed the measure.
He said the records of the Fair
banks Police Department show
that arrests for drunkeness rose
from 604 in 1961 to 739 in 1962,
and that 68 per cent of all arrests
in 1962 were hinged to some kind
of liquor violation.
Rep. Taylor said he believed
lowering the legal age would bring
a decrease in drinking.
“The young people can get
liquor now anyway,” Taylor said,
“but they get a bottle of whiskey
or a case of beer and take it out
in their car. Then they drink it
all because they don’t want to get
caught with it.
“The legal age of majority was
set at 19 by the Constitutional
Convention. I believe the age of
judgment is younger in Alaska
than elsewhere. At 19 they can
vote, they can enter into all civil
business, and they can serve in the
armed forces.
“But many of these 19-year-olds
have their names on the police
blotters which will be on their
records forever just because they
were caught with a few cans of
beer in their cars.”
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Six Men Indicted On
Mail Fraud Charges
WASHINGTON — Six men,
including the present Speaker and
a former member of the Maryland
House of Delegates were indicted
Tuesday on mail fraud charges in
volving savings and loan associa
tion activities.
The Justice Department an
nounced the indictment was return
ed by a federal grand jury in Balti
more.
The six were charged with fraud
ulently misrepresenting the pro
tection provided by Security Fi
nancial Insurance Corp. as an in
surer of savings and loan associa
tion accounts, the department said.
The department said many of
the savings and loan associations
insured by Security Financial later
went into receivership or conser
vatorship and Security Financial
itself is now in receivership.
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