THE NOME NUGGET
Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday by the
NOME PUBLISHING CO.
Nome, Alaska
Telephone 443-2381 Si.50 Per Month
P.O. Box 66 S 16.00 a Year
James F. O'Sullivan, Publisher & Editor
Ed Jocius, Foreman
Entered at second class matter October 14, 1943, at the
post office at Nome. Alaska, under Act of March 3, 1879.
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Nome Numbness
rpHE APATHETIC ATTITUDE of Nomeites, toward any cause
which entails a little self-sacrifice, is beautifully displayed in the
number of candidates for citv offices. This is an old theme —
harped on and played to death by newspapers. Nevertheless it
always seems that this old social disease becomes recurrent at a
rime when activity should be at a peak. It is, of course, the duty
of the newspaper to advise the public of what is going on beyond
their own eyes and ears. The editor of a newspaper may go a step
further and attempt to analyze various occurrences.
In an attempt to pin down the reason for a social disorder such
as apathy, this writer is led to diagnose the Nome sickness as
"Nome Numbness.” Too many of us are living in the past. Too
many are living for the day when they will buy that plane ticket.
The really sick ones however — the ones that have no excuse —
are the persons that just don't give a hoot what goes on. These
unfortunates have a form of sleeping sickness that not only seems
to grip them every time a spirit of community progress threatens,
but spreads to others. Despite this community disorder, there are
a few' that have not contracted the malady, or at least can shake
it off long enough to write their name on an application, and part
with ten bucks. We salute these hardy individuals. Without the
handful that repeatedly exert all of the community effort in Nome
this would be one big isolation ward.
Practically even person in Nome belongs to at least one or
ganization. These groups, instead of tongue clucking about the
candidates who did have the gumption to file for office, could well
band together and ' pow er” in a person of their ow n choice . . . and
after this is done, send regular representatives to Council meetings
to see that their interests are being served.
SENATE OKAYS
BAN AGREEMENT
WASHINGTON — The Sen
ate ratified the history-making
limited nuclear test ban treaty yes
terday.
Approval of the pact banning
nuclear weapons testing in the at
mosphere, in outer space and un
derwater, came after more than
two weeks of committee hearings
and an equal time of Senate de
bate.
With a two-thirds vote of the
Senate required for approval, the
resolution went through on a 80-19
roll call.
For ratification were 55 Demo
crats and 25 Republicans. Opposed
were 11 Democrats and 8 Repub
licans.
18-Year-Old Anchorageite
On Seattle Hit-Run Spree
SEATTLE UP — George Kay, 18,
who gave his address both as Se
attle and Anchorage. Alaska, was
jailed Wednesday after a stolen
car left a trail of wreckage in
dow’ntown Seattle.
Police Patrolman Bill Danbom
said the car struck two traffic
signs on busy Fourth Avenue, hit
a parking meter, sideswiped a
small foreign car and finally went
out of control, plunging through
the window of an office. The of
fice was unoccupied at the time.
Danbom said the car had been
stolen from a parking lot mo
ments before the incident. The of
ficer estimated damage at $1,500
to the car and $3,000 to the office.
City Council Notes
The City Council Monday night
voted to send Jim Carter to a State
sponsored police officer training
school at Anchorage. He will be
given round trip fare and his sal
ary will continue while in train- ;
ing. but personal expenses will be i
out-of-pocket. The course will
commence October 14 and be of
approximately one month duration. ;
Jim McLain. Police and Jails
committeeman, reported that three
typewriters, purchased for the jail
and police departments, were
bought at a price of $495.95 from
Larry Galvin. A later billing in
amount of $787.58 was rejected by I
the Council, and it was voted that
the machines will be returned to
the seller if the original agree
ment is not adhered to.
Councilman Hedreen, speaking
on Fire and Water, stated that the
City is seeking to gain possession
of abandoned buildings on which
the State has a lien due to the
death of former owners. He wants
the buildings to be burned or razed
and the land to become the prop
rty of the city, in cases where
no heirs exist.
Councilman Frazier reported
that Bo Cannon, of Q Cab,
has written him, the City At
torney, and the Council, in an
attempt to seek an ordinance reg
ulating taxicabs. Frazier reported
that this has been brought before
the Council before and that noth
ing had been done since that time.
Councilman Frazier moved that
the City Attorney draw up an or
dinance regulating taxicabs in
Nome. The motion died for lack
of a second.
Ordinance No’s. 423 and 424,
requiring that candidates for city
offices, be able to both read and
write, were passed.
Ordinance No. 425, allowing the
Superintendent of Jails to sus
pend an employe, pending final
action of the City Council, was
passed. The Council approved an
expenditure of $400 annually to
assist the State in defraying auto
mobile expenses of the health
nurse.
The Council passed on a mo
tion to change the City fiscal year
so that it commences on October
1 — in order to coincide with the
seating of new city officials from
time to time. In this same regard,
the books will be audited for ben
efit of incoming newlv-electeds
next month. Final action of the
Council was to select judges for
the forthcoming election. Named
to serve are W. W. Laws, Judge
and Inspector; Lois Mclver and
Jean O’Sullivan. Judges, and
Joyce Tucker and Carol Farley,
Clerks. The voting will be con
ducted in City Hall.
Woman’s work is getting easier
all the time. . . . Someone has
figured out that only 30 per cent
of the soup consumed in the Uni
ted States is home-made
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PHS Will Start
Measles Shots
WASHINGTON GF — A mass
measles immunization program for
children on Indian reservations
and in Alaska villages will begin
Oct. 1, the Public Health Service
announced today.
The new live-virus measles vac
cine will be used in combination
with gamma gobulin to reduce the
side-effects of mild rash and fever
which sometimes occur.
Public Health teams will endeav
or to reach all Indian and Alaska
native children from 9 months to
6 years of age who have not had
measles.
Clinics will be held in Indian
hospitals and health centers, and
special clinics will be set up in
schools, churches, council build
ings and homes, said Dr. Carruth J.
Wagner, chief of the division of
Indian health.
The division is responsible for
the health care of about 380.000
Indians on reservations, many of
them isolated and most of them
in the West, and Alaska natives,
including Aleuts, Indians and Es
kimos.
Indian and Alaskan native chil
dren contract measles each year at
a slightly higher rate than do non
Indian children. Wagner said. He
said an estimated 90,000 children
are in the age group to be immu
nized, with about 5 per cent of
these contracting measles each
year.
Measles is the chief contagious
disease among children and is
sometimes followed by extremely
serious complications such as pneu
monia. middle ear infections and
encephalitis. The Indian and Alas
kan native children suffer more
severely from these complications
than other children because they
have less natural immunity, Wag
ner said.
Following the initial innocula
tions, measle vaccination will be
added in the divisions’ regular im
munzation program for children.
The program now includes vacci
nation against polio, smallpox, in
f 1 u e n z a, diptheria, whooping
cough, and tetanus.
DIOMEDE TEACHER ARRIVES
Dale Hollingsworth, BIA Field
Representative, reports that a
teacher has finally arrived to take
over the Diomede School. The
teacher is Mr. Richard Mudd. and
he is in from Fairbanks today.
He plans to leave immediately for
his new post, where 15 students
await his arrival.
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Pan-Am. Clippers Are
Steady Globetrotters
NEW YORK UP — Pan Amer
ican Airways offers this profile of
a one-month odyssey by one jet
airliner of its 60-plane turbofan
clipper international fleet. Per
haps beginning the month in Hon
olulu. the plane may proceed via
Seattle to Fairbanks, Alaska, and
back to Honolulu, then go to San
Francisco, Los Angeles and over
the Polar Route to London, flying
back to New York for the first of
two 10-hour monthly service
periods.
Returning to globe-roaming, it
may then return to the West Coast
via London and the Polar Route,
make 10 more round trips between
there and Honolulu, two more
round trips to Alaska, a round
trip to Sydney, Australia, then go
completely around the world again
for its second service stop in New
York. It might then go back to the
West Coast via Europe and make
one more round trip to Australia,
ending the month in Los Angeles.
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