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.
. THIS TOO, COULD BE TRAGIC!
SOMETHING IS LOST
jVTOME’S PIONEER PROTESTANT CHURCH, originally the
Congregational, later called the Federated Church and more
recently the Community Church is no more. With the aid of a
large bulldozer the dismantling razed the high-peaked roof under
the direction of the energetic pastor Howard DeVore.
Although something is lost from the landscape with the
old belfrey destroyed, a new and beautiful modern church takes
its place across the street with a simple cross as a symbol and its
congregation can point with pride to the newest church in town
complete with modern heating and many classrooms for the young
people, w hich w as lacking in the old church. The Methodist Church
has had the foresight to look to the future of the community.
Nordin Construction Co. and their associates are also to be
commended on the improvements made on their hotel at the cor
ner of Bering and 1st Ave. West, especially the new sidewalks.
It is hoped that the sidewalk venture is contagious and everybody
along the block, going west and north follows suit and adds a
few feet of concrete until the whole block is paved.
In the same block heading north on Bering Street, Herb
Jenks is also completing the exterior of his new home which is
also something the community can be proud of on its paved
thoroughfare.
Gen. Gent’s Head Wound
Said Self-Inflicted
OKLAHOMA CITY UP — Air
Force officials said here today
that Maj. Gen. Thomas Gent Jr.
evidently shot himself in the head,
but they did not say whether the
shooting was accidental or inten
tional.
Gent suffered a wound in the
right temple early June 24. His
conditions remains serious.
An Air Force spokesman said
Gent held a .25 caliber automatic
pistol against his head. There were
no powder burns on the skin, but
the spokesman said laboratory
tests found traces of powder be
neath the skin.
The spokesman said nothing in
dicates Mrs. Gent was in any way
involved in the shooting.
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DIDN'T HURT HERSELF
KENILWORTH, England OR —
Queen Elizabeth II caught the toe
of her shoe on the running board
of her car Thursday and sprawled
forward on the floor of the vehicle.
She was not hurt.
The incident occurred at the an
nual Royal Agricultural Show as
the Queen was entering her car.
Her husband, Prince Philip,
quickly helped her to he feet and
asked if she was injured.
“No, no, I’m all right,” her
majesty replied, a little flushed.
The director of the show, Fran
cis Pemberton, said later the
Queen “slipped like anyone can
slip. She did not hurt herself in
the slightest.”
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Canadian Union
Official Hustled
Out of Alaska
KETCHIKAN <*> — A repre
sentative of the Seafarers Inter
national Union was hustled off a
plane bv immigration cfficals yes
terday and was ordered to leave the
country.
The man was John H. Rovee, re
presentative of the SIU from
Vancouver, who earlier had picket
ed tiie Canadian Prince, a tourist
vessel and prevented it from tieing
up here.
Agent Ralph Taylor of the Im
migration and Naturalization Serv
ice. said the picketing prevented
the vessel’s 53 tourist passengers
from coming ashore.
Taylor said the Alaska Coastal
Ellis Airlines plane on which
Royce was a passenger was al
ready taxiing for takeoff when he
had her ordered back to the float.
The agent said the man was
“very cooperative.”
Royce, said Taylor, was ordered
to leave the country because the
Immigration Service felt he had
violated provisions of his visitor’s
permit. With Royce will go another
SIU man from Vancouver, John
Humphry, who was not aboaxd
the plane but was at the dock
at the time the longshoremen
failed to tie up the Canadian
Prince.
Both were ordered to leave
aboard a Pacific Northern jet for
Seattle. The men were to be met
at Sea-Tac and escorted to a
Vancouver-bound aircraft.
Taylor emphasized that the men
were not being deported.
“Grassroots” Rally Turns
Into Landslide for
Senator Goldwater
By JOHN CHADWICK
WASHINGTON </pl — It was
Barry Goldwater by a landslide at
an Independence Day rally to beat
the drums for the Republican Ari
zona senator as the next President.
Despite rival holiday attractions
a crowd variously estimated at
7,000 to 9,000 turned out Thurs
day night for a the affair in Wash
ington’s National Guard Armory.
That was better than the ad
vance estimates of spokesmen for
the National Draft Goldwater
Committee that put on the rally
as a demonstration of grass roots
support. They had expressed hope
for a crowd of some 5,000.
Goldwater, the leading conser
vative spokesman for Republicans,
sat out the festivities on a palo- !
mino horse in Prescott, Ariz.,
where, dressed in levis, an old blue
shirt and a grey cowboy hat, he
led the town’s annual frontier days
program.
But speakers at the rally here,
marked by much of the hoopla and
fanfare of a national nominating
convention, were confident the
message would get through to him.
So far Goldwater hasn’t com
mitted himself to running for any
thing but another term in the Sen
ate.
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Lee Adamses Back For Visit
Mr. and Mrs. Lee Adams, for
merly stationed here with the
FAA and now at Farewell, are
back for a visit with their many
friends and to spend some time
at their camp on Aggie Creek.
MMM Hospital. Admitted: Stan
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