THE NOME NUGGET
Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday by the
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Nome, Alaska
Telephone 443-2381 Si.50 Per Month
P.O. Box 66 Si6.00 a Year
James F. O'Sullivan, Publisher & Editor
En Jocius, Foreman
Entered at second class matter October 14. 1943, at the
post office at Nome. Alaska, under Act of March 3. 1879.
CHALLENGED!
Whose Gift?
DISHONEST SIGNBOARD, in our opinion, is no more ex
cusable than a crooked politician, a cheating businessman or
a lying newspaper.
Signs — like politicians, businessmen and newspapers —
should say what they mean and mean what thev say.
Therefore, we are in sympathy with a current movement to
change the wording on those thousands of signs throughout the
nation that try to tell us that the federal government is giving us
most of the money to build our new highways.
The plain truth is that the federal government is not giving
anybody anything. The United States Treasury does not contribute
one nickel toward the nation’s federal-state highway program.
Every' dollar placed in the Highway Trust Fund is collected through
special taxes levied directly on highway users and not on any
body else — chiefly through the 4-cent federal tax on gasoline.
Pinning the truth a little closer to the mat, it should be added
that not only are motor vehicle owners paying this bill — they
are overpaying it by more than 50 per cent. Of the approximately
$5 billion collected through federal highway user taxes each year,
only S3.3 billion go into the Highway Trust Fund. The remaining
$1.7 billion go into the Treasury Department’s General Trust
Fund and are spent for a variety of projects having no connec
tion with roads.
So instead of signs that talk about federal aid and the like,
why not give the motorist the credit he deserves as the source of
all that money?
Maybe the signs should read, "You motorists have paid — and
overpaid — for this highway system. Don’t let anybody try to
tell you something different!”
PITTSFIELD, ME., ADVERTISER: "The veteran head of a
high school science department recently advised his school board
that it should ask prospective science teachers, before they are
hired, if they are willing to undertake further study, and should
plan to help them attain it. In mid-twentieth century the first
necessity of life for a science teacher is the opportunity to keep
on learning.’
BISHOP, CALIF., INYO REGISTER: "About the only thing
that’s the matter with promoting good old-fashioned Americanism
is that it seems to offend those good old-fashioned Communists.”
‘We do not say a man who takes no interest in
politics minds his own business. We say he has no
business here at all.” — Pericles.
Letters to The Editor
To The Editor:
I have consulted the extensiv*
informational sources at the Neu
York Public Library and the Li
brary of Congress (by mail*, but sc
far have been unable to find the
answer to this question: by whom
when and where were crushed ice
sugar, bourbon and mint firsl
blended to create that symbol ol
gracious Southern living, the mini
julep?
Not one of the letters I received
in reply answered my question.
My grandfather, who took part
in your Gold Rush and later In
another near Porcupine, Canada,
once said that there is no place
where there is a greater concen
tration of fearlessness, ingenuity
and brains than in a newly devel
oping country. In the surety that
the ingenuity and brains have
been handed down to the present
generation of Alaskans, it is my
hope — even though you are lo
cated about as remote from mint
julep country as is possible, yet
remain in the United States — that
you or one of your readers can
tell me who first blended sugar,
mint, bourbon and ice to create
the true American mint julep?
(MISS) JANE W. LITTLE
100 W. 57th Street
New York, N. Y. 10019
To The Editor:
In response to the several writ
ten and verbal requests urging me
to once again be a candidate for
Mayor in the coming city election,
I would like to express my grati
tude for the trust these persons
place in me as their mayor. It is
with deep regret that I inform you
that for business and personal rea
sons I am unable to be a candidate
for city office in the coming elec
tion.
After more than two years of
concentrated effort on the part of
your city officials, the water and
sewer grant monies are now within
our grasp. However, much detail
work needs yet to be done before
we actually get the money and the
water-sewer system is installed.
The grant money could still be lost
by failure to act wisely and speed
ily. Although I am not able to act
officially for the city beyond Oct.
1, I do have a deep interest in see
ing that the water-sewer project
become an accomplished fact and
therefore I pledge all possible as
sistance to the new Mayor and
Council towards this end, if they
so desire.
In closing I would like to say
that it has been a pleasure serving
the people of Nome as Mayor, and
I appreciate the confidence they
placed in me for the past one and
one-half years.
DON HOOVER
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Admitted — Lena Ahnangnato
guk, Paul James, Patrick Adams.
Discharged — Gordon Ahnang
natoguk, Edna Ahwinona.
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! To The Editor:
> j It is now getting close to elec
■ tion time and with the crucial is
■ sue of the completion of the sew
i age and water systems; I am ex
■ tremely perturbed about the candt
, dates for office. The voters had
better be on their toes this year, as
never before.
Our present Council and Citv
Clerk have done a superb job on
the all-important job of getting
the project so far along that it is
almost now a fact. I’m extremely
worried that the outgoing mem
bers of the Council won’t file for
re-election and see this thing
j through.
| I have also heard persistent ru
! mors that Don Hoover, our hard
; working Mayor, isn’t going to file
j This is bad, for I firmly believe
j that we must have continuity in
| this matter so that all paper work
and arrangements continue in a'
smooth and rapid manner. The
monies from the Federal govern
men are not assured yet, and it
is not impossible that we could
lose our sewer and water project
through the lack of experience of
a new’ City Council and City
Clerk. To think that the work and
expense already entailed should go
for naught gives me the jitters. An
other facet of the sewage and
water system is the co-operation of
the State Highway and City offi
cials in resurfacing the street to
the airport at the time of the in
stallation of the pipes for the new
system.
it seems to me, Mr. Editor, that
through your news media, the vot
ers should be apprised of this crit
ical situation and start some ser
ious thinking on the subject.
PAUL A. MANDEVILLE
State Reports Border
Traffic Increase
JUNEAU (jP> — The State De
partment of Economic Develop
ment and Planning reported yes
terday highway entries to Alaska
at Haines through Aug. 31 of this
year showed a 55.7 increase over
figures for the same period in
1962.
Highway entries at Tok Junc
tion were up 20.5 per cent during
the first eight months of this year,
the department said in attributing
much of the increase to traffic
generated by the Southeast Ma
rine Highway System.
At Haines, there were 13,985 en
tering travelers through Aug. 31
of this year as compared with
8,983 through Aug. 31 of 1962.
At Tok Junction, the figure for
this year was 46,661, compared with
38,692 last year, ommissioner Hen
ry Roloff said.
Nome Jr.-Sr. High School
Class Officers Elected
Class officers were elected last
week for the 1963-64 school year
in regular class meetings. Heading
class organizations for the year
are:
SENIORS—President Stan As
derson. Vice-Pres. Devon Alexan
der, Sec’y.-Treas. Gladys Cannon,
Student Council Oscar Swanson,
Clinton Gray Jr.; Alternate John
Bahnke, Intramural Rep.: John
Bahnke, Alice Arnold.
JUNIORS — President Robert
Hyde, Vice-Pres. Dorothy Ball,
Secretary Jim Gillis, Treasurer
Dennis Wehling, Student Council
Stan Walker, George Johnson, In
tramural Rep.: Kay Mclver, Andy
Miller.
SOPHOMORES — President
Mike Blanning, Vice-Pres. Robbie
Fagerstrom, Sec’y.-Treas. Jean
Foster, St. Council Judy Kelly, Pe
ter Dexter, Intramural Rep.: Rob
bie Fagerstrom, Andy Kelly.
FRESHMEN—President Delores
Johnson, Vice -Pres. Betty Ann
Hoogendorn. Secretary Sandra Os
borne, Treasurer Jim Vance, St.
Council Jacob Sheldon, Douglas
Doyle, Alternate Carie Ann Ull
rich, Intramural: Jacob Sheldon,
Teresa Walsh.
JR. HIGH SCHOOL: 8A—Pres
ident James Kelliher, Vice-Pres.
Mary Sackett, Secretary Allen
Payne, Treasurer Jean Blanning,
St. Council Debbie Schadler, Alter
nate Mike Chase, Intramural Rep.
Erwin Tucker. Mike O’Connor.
8B—President Lawrence O’Con
nor, Vice-Pres, Helen Piscaya,
Secretary Hannah Teayoumeak,
Treasure Leara Kenick, St. Coun
cil Hel«n Piscaya, Leara Kenick,
Intramural Rep. Roy Tobuk, Stan
ley Seganna.
7 A—President Joel DeVore,
Vice-Pres. Robert Walsh, Secre
tary Starr Dhabolt, Treasurer Pat
ty Reichel, Student Council Jim
Wilke, Mark Fenstermacher, Al
ternate Alice Wheeler, Intramural
Rep. Wally Sanders. Larry Keller.
7B—President Racheal Komak
huk, Vice-Pres. Mary Ann Brant
ley, Seety. & Treas. Ruth Bern
hardt, St. Council Esther Tobuk,
Intramural Rep. Steve Buffas, Al
lan Scott.
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