THE NOME NUGGET
Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday by the
NOME PUBLISHING CO.
Nome, Alaska
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James F. O’Sullivan, Publisher & Editor
En Jocius, Foreman
Entered at second class matter October 14. 1*43. at the
post office at Nome, Alaska, under Act of March 3, 1878.
Executive Put and Fake
JT*HE FURTHER WE LOOK, the more dragons' teeth we find
in the surprise package that is labeled " The Civil Rights Act of
1963,” and tabbed with the numbers S. 1731 and H.R.^152.
Peering beyond its widely publicized Title II — the explosive j
*'Public Accommodations” section which confuses property rights
and withdraws the Constitutional right of trial bv jury from those
charged bv Federal gum-shoers with \iolation of this chapter —
there are some further shockers:
Title VII, for instance, is a blueprint for the destruction of
the union seniority system — if not of the whole temple of organ
ized labor. Stanza Seven authorizes a "Commission on Equal Em
ployment Opportunitv” with unlimited powers "as may be con
ferred upon it by the President.' It would prevent racial or reli
gious discrimination in hiring by all employers "participating in ,
programs or activities in which direct or indirect financial assistance
by the l nited States Government is provided bv way of grant, 1
contract, loan, insurance, guaranty or otherwise.' (Which means
practically every business and professional institution.)
Where the Commission’s inspectors found racial or religious
"imbalance, an employer could be required to fire sufficient work
ers of the preponderant race or religion and hire enough Negroes ,
or whites or Indians or Chinese or Eskimos, or Protestants or •
Catholics or Jews to achieve whatever the inspector considered
"balance. Obviously, the employer needing such replacements
could no longer hire out-of-hand the workers sent him bv the
unions with which he had contracts.
Auu suae me umumbMun cornu require removal or imDai- i
ance at all levels — from the laborers through the supervisors, i
executives, officers and directors — it seems obvious that its army
of Federal busybodies would swiftly become the real masters of
labor and management both — throughout the whole economy.
Their power becomes apparent when we realize that offenders
might well have Federal loans called, contracts, guarantees or in- j
surance cancelled, FDIC protection withdrawn, participation in anv 1
program denied — and after that, blacklisting for one, two or three 1
years and revocation of Federally granted licenses — all by Execu- :
rive Order.
The Executive Department is telling our Senators and our !
Congressmen that this is the kind of America you want. If you j
don’t, write these men TODAY and tell them to kill The Civil ■
Rights Act of 1963. •
Grassroots Opinion
Burlington, Wise., Standard-Press: "Advertising is as vital
to the preservation of freedom as free exercise of publishing a
newspaper or the free exercise of building a church or the free
exercise of the right of trial by jury. Advertising is not only the
practical source of advocating to the people of this country the
economic choices they have before them. It is practically the sole
support of the only communication system that is not under the
control of the state.’’
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\ Japan Asks U.S.,
‘Will Both Nations
Be Equal on Seas?'
TOKYO l.f' — Negotiators from
the United States. Canada and
Japan met briefly behind closed
doors yesterday to discuss a U.S.
proposal for modification of their
10-year-old Fisheries Convention
governing fishing in the North
Eastern Pacific.
A major portion of Thursday’s
discussion was made by Japanese
and U.S. delegates mainly con
cerning a U.S, proposed substitute
for the so-called abstention prin
ciple.
Japanese conference sources
said the Japanese delegate asked
the U.S. whether the new proposal
will result in a total shutout of
Japanese fishermen from the area
concerned.
The United States Wednesday
dropped its insistence on retain
ing voluntary abstention on Japan
under a new proposed treaty and
proposed that fishing precedents
in the area be observed in the fu
ture.
ine area involved concerns wa
ters east of 175 west longitude
where Japan voluntarily abstained
from fishing salmon, halibut and
some other fish under provisions
of the tripartite convention signed
10 years ago.
Japanese sources said they wel
comed the U.S. proposal which
broke an impasse in the 10-dav
old negotiations under way here.
Sources added they consider the
proposal a virtual concession but
take a cautious view since Japan
has no fishing precedents in the
area under the convention.
Japanese newspapers said the
U.S. proposal was designed to take
a substance by making a conces
sion in name.
The Canadian delegate made
some general comments on the
U.S. proposal and then proposed
that more discussions be made at
the conference.
Meanwhile the influential news
paper Asahi called on the United
States to repeal the “abstention
prinicple not only in name but
also in substance.
Asahi said “It is welcomed if
the U.S.’s new’ proposal was based
on three principles — freedom of
the high seas, equality of use of
resources and mutual conservation
on resources. If so, the United
States should move one more step
toward Japan.
For the first time in history,
fewer than 10 out of 100 Amer
icans are now farm dwellers.
GLUE POT
Soda Fountain
Cigars—Cigarettes
Tobacco
Candy
Fresh Ice Cream
Every Day
ALL KINDS OF
SODA POP
Kotzebue In The Chips
With Likker Sales
KOTZEBUE IP — Bootlegging
has been eliminated from Kotze
bue and the city is making money.
The city began operating a li
quor store 16 months ago. Its pro
fit to date is nearly $65,000.
Profits go to community pro
jects and youth activities.
In the past 16 months a skating
rink and warmup shack have been
built, playground equipment pur
chased, a n archery program
started, fire and street mainten
ance vehicles added, and garbage
pickup instituted.
A city policeman has also been
financed from liquor receipts.
In November residents of Kot
zebue will go to the polls to de
cide whether the present system
shall continue or if the old days
were better.
Gold Price Sags On
British Bullion Market
LONDON (P — The price of gold
on the Free British Bullion Ex
change dropped more than half a
cent an ounce today in the wake
of reports that the Soviet Union is
selling off supplies of the metal
to raise hard cash for badly needed
imports of wheat.
Normally, gold price movements
on the free exchange are meas
ured in eighths or quarters of a
cent.
But the price this morning was
marked down from $35.0725 an
ounce to $35.0658, a fall of .67 of
a cent. The price fell 1.5 cents
Thursday over-all. The price on
the British exchange has now de
clined 4 cents an ounce since the
end of August.
The world official price of gold
— that is, what the United States
is prepared to pay for it — is $35
an ounce.
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Discharged: Mabel Kunuluk,
Edith Iyatunguk.
Mr. and Mrs. Steve Tocktoo are
parents of a baby girl born on the
25th.
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Letter To
The Editor
To The Editor:
The Sept. 9 issue of the Nugget
carried a story concerning the
openion rendered by Judge Gilbert
in the case of the Evangelical Co
venant Church of America vs. the
City of Nome. Certain figures
quoted by Judge Gilbert in his
opinion were in substantial error,
and your article left the impression
that the Evangelical Covenant
Church had presented false figures
in its claims that only two-sevenths
of the actual operating expenses of
KICY are derived from commer
cial sales.
Judge Gilbert stated that over
half, or $16,000 income as against
$27,000 operating expenses, was
received in commercial revenue in
1962. In his findings, he gave no
consideration to staff expenses,
which are above and beyond the
$27,000 figure, and raise the total
operating cost of KICY in 1962 to
roughly $54,300. Simple arithmetic
will show that commercial income
was indeed only about two-sev
enths of operating expenses for
the station.
These figures are given simply
for clarification, and in the interest
of a factual and accurate picture.
Since its beginning in 1960, KICY
has sought to serve a great com
munity of some 30,000 fine people,
scattered from Point Hope to the
tip of the Aleutian Chain, and it is
our hope to continue offering the
finest service possible for many
years to come.
ERNIE HANSEN
Manager, KICY
Several smaller nations have out
stripped the United States in the
matter of literacy. Iceland, for ex
ample, has no illiteracy among its
normal adults, all can read or
write.
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