THE NOME NUGGET
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James F. O'Sullivan, Publisher & Editor
Ed Jocius, Foreman
Entered at second class matter October 14, 1943, at tfee
post office at Nome, Alaska, under Act of March 3, 1879.
SOMETHING IS HAPPENING TO US!
To Bury Our Souls First
17HRUSHCHEV’S FAMOUS PROMISE: "We will bun you,”
has been variously interpreted. And even though you may
want to think of it as a figure of speech, it is still no mere
pleasantry7.
On the West Coast, however, activities of the Bay Area
Funeral Societv in San Francisco and the Los Angeles Funeral
Society — both of them directed and sponsored by Communist
fronters, fellow-travelers and assorted pinkos — strongly suggest
a more literal acceptance of the Kremlin threat.
Both organizations bill themselves as co-operative non-profit
societies, and while fronting for simpler and cheaper obsequies,
seek to undermine the "bourgeois” institution of ceremonial and
worshipful regard for the departed and thus destroy a fundamental
expression of the Judeo-Christian ethic.
Doth are dedicated to agitation against traditional tunerai
services as lavish, costly, more or less superfluous and an extrava
gance promoted by "monopolies” and big business.” As early as
1961, the Bay Area Funeral Society sought to relax California
laws on the disposal of remains. VHiile the original bill was re
ferred to an interim committee for study, its sponsor, who had
previously supported such Communist efforts as a curb on loyalty
oaths and opposition to the disbarment of lawyers refusing to
answer questions about their Communist affiliations, has said he
will introduce another similar bill.
This macabre picture of Godless supporters of the Communist
ideology (or lack of any) busily planning the MANNER of the
burial Khrush has promised us should remind us of the earnest
plea of the late Whittaker Chambers who wrote: "I beg you, do
not underrate the energv of the Communist will or the sweep of
its strategic vision, simply because it seems improbable to you.”
Tomorrow We Vote
^TOMORROW — between 8 a.m. and 6 p.m. — the polls will be
open to the eligible voter. We are constantly reminded that
we are fortunate in that we are allowed to vote according to our
free wishes — in fact, that it is our duty to vote in order to main
tain the rights that we have. These are becoming fewer and fewer,
as most business people in particular, can attest. Many people
sav newspapers and flag wavers dwell on this too much and that
the people's intelligence is insulted by having to be reminded that
it is important to go to the polls.
At the risk of being typed by those more sensitive persons —
we remind vou that you cannot depend on the other fellow to
vote in the candidate of your own choice.
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•No Violence,
Cautions Egan
JUNEAU — Gov. William A.
Egan said today he has been as
sured by the White House that
immediate inquiries will be made
into the latest charges of Russian
destruction of U.S. king crab fish
ing gear in waters off Kodiak Is
land.
Egan said such assurances were
made in a telegram he received
from Lee C. White, assistant spe
cial counsel to President Kennedy.
White’s telegram was in re
sponse to a wire from Egan to
Kennedy asking for positive fed
eral action to protect the rights of
American king crab fishermen on
historic American fishing grounds
off Kodiak Island.
American fishermen have
charged that indiscriminate fish
ing operations bv Soviet trawlers
have resulted in a heavy loss of
American gear, particularly val
uable crab pots.
Egan, who met with Kodiak
fishermen Friday night after a
hastily decided upon flight to the
island, said he believes that for
the first time the federal govern
ment has an understanding of the
critical situation faced by Amer
ican fishermen.
Egan said he was very con
cerned lest Kodiak fishermen re
sort to violence to protect their
fishing gear in areas where both
American and Russian boats are
operating.
“It would be extremely unfor
tunate if anything happened to
upset any negotiations which
might be underway,” Egan said.
“The federal government is con
cerned at the highest level with
the problems facing our fisher
men.”
Egan said those fishermen with
whom he talked at the Friday
night meeting and afterward ap
parently were convinced that vio
lence would not help their posi
tion, that it would have just the
opposite effect.
“Yet,” Egan said, “when they
view Russian destruction of their
gear as violence, it is hard to con
vince them that the real hope in
changing the situation is not vio
lence on their part but diplomatic
discussion and diplomatic under
standing.”
MMM HOSPITAL
Transferred to ANS Hospital in
Anchorage — Lena Ahnangnato
guk.
Admitted — Margaret Farmer
Irene Foster, Janet Caldwell.
Discharged — Edna Ahwinona
Allen Johnson, Elsie Sanders.
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Continue Search for
Lost Plane to Juneau
JUNEAU W) — Search planes
took to the skies again today in
the continuing hunt for a twin
engined aircraft missing since last
Wednesday evening with two Phil
adelphia men aboard.
Wayne Campbell, the pilot, and
Milton Dillard, an aerial photog
rapher. vanished after they took
off from Cordova in a twin-en
gined Beechcraft on a 433-mile
flight to Juneau.
Sunday, two Civil Air Patrol
planes from Cordova searched all
day without finding a trace of the
missing craft, owned by the Aero
Services Corp. of Philadelphia.
Today. Civil Air Patrol craft
were to be joined, weather per
mitting. by a Coast Guard aircraft
from Kodiak Island and an Air
Force plane from Elmendorf Air
Force Base, Anchorage.
30 Dead in Chinese
Fireworks Plant Explosion
TAIPEI, Formosa CP — A fire
cracker plant exploded like a
huge bomb Friday at Chungli near
Taipei killing 30 workers, Chinese
Nationalist police said.
The death toll is expected to rise
because several of 50 persons still
| hospitalized are in critical condi
tion.
COOL BRASS
WASHINGTON <P — There’ll
be a coolness around the Pentagon
Tuesday for all the generals and
admirals and 27,000 other persons
who work there.
The steam plant isn’t working.
It broke down with a mechan
ical failure sometime Saturday
night, an officer said. That means
no heat, no hot water and no hot
food, just cold rations.
They're hoping the steam plant
trouble will be over by Tuesday.
REMEMBER — When You Write
in ROBERT SCOTT for City
Clerk. Make an
by his name.
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WRONG YEARS—
NEWPORT, R.I. Ufi — City offi
cials plan to correct a mistake in
the inscription on a marker un
veiled Friday by former President
Dwight D. Eisenhower in a park
named in his honor.
“Dedicated in honor of Dwight
D. Eisenhower, President of the
United States, 1952-1960,” says the
inscription.
Harry S. Truman was President
in 1952. and Eisenhower’s term
did not end until Jan. 20, 1961.
No one was willing to admit
where the mistake was made. The
stone was designed with the dates
of Eisenhower's election and the
election which preceded his re
tirement.
DEFINITION — Ridgerunner: A
short sheet with cold feet.
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UNALAKLEET. ALASKA
V ELECT
Roscoe J. Wilke
MAYOR
QUALIFIED
EXPERIENCED
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As Your MAYOR and COUNCILMAN:
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Patitig Main Street
V ocational School
Lowering Light Rates
New Fire Truck
New Sidewalks and Streets
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