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.
Alaska’s People
Move About
The Most
ANCHORAGE —Alaska’s white
population moves in and out of the
state at the highest rate in the
nation. This is not news in it
self to .Alaskans, but the percent
ages are.
Of the 70.394 Alaskan - bom
white population still alive in 1960.
41,190, or 58.S'!-, had moved to
other states. This left just 29.204
to keep the home fires burning.
On the other hand, those remain
ing at home were joined by
131.679 born in other states. These
migrants totalled 81.8'T- of the
state’s white population in 1960.
Final and very detailed reports
on the 1960 Census are now being
published. The above statistics
were taken from the population
publication covering “State of 1
Birth.” The reports are available
for reference or purchase at the
U. S. Department of Commerce’s j
Anchorage Field Office, Room 60, ;
U.S. Court House and Post Office
Building. The information covers
not only the number of inhabitants ^
for state, election district and city
areas but also the general social *
and economic characteristics of '
the population. The data are es
sential for marketing research, in- 1
dustrial investment and expansion :
and community analysis.
Which state had the next high- {
est loss percentage of white pop- <
ulation born in its area? Hawaii (
did. having lost 51.7G to other -
states. Which states gained the
next highest percentages of peo- !
pie bom in other states? Florida,
with 65.7 G of the total white pop
ulation from other states, and Ari
zona with a 65.2 G ratio.
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Fine Job Printing at the Nugget
Bartlett Asserts Japanese
Fishing In Alaska Waters
JUNEAU tP — Sen. E. L. Bart
lett today answered charges of
Japanese fishery officials that his
bill to seize and penalize fishing
vessels caught in territorial wat
ers was an unfriendly act against
Japanese fishermen. i
“It is an unfriendly act for j
Japanese fishermen. Russian fish- 1
ermen, or any other fishermen, to 1
invade the sovereignty of our ter- 1
ritorial waters. But I do not see
how a n y nation could consider 1
this legislation an unfriendly act 1
unless it has designs upon the
territorial sea and continental :
shelf which the bill seeks to pro- 1
:ect,” the senator said in a wire
:o the Associated Press at Juneau, i
The senator emphasized again 1
:hat literally hundreds of foreign j
;ishing trawlers are immediately ;
>ff our Atlantic, Gulf, and Pacific
Joast states and that the present i
aw offers no basis for seizing or 1
penalizing in any way a foreign
ishing vessel caught within our :
erritorial waters. ;
In concluding Sen. Bartlett <
pointed out that he was aware of
he importance of maintaining a <
jood trade relationship with Japan 1
>ut emphasized that this must be 1
pased on a mutual respect for the i
ights of each nation and of the 1
tates concerned.
In Barre, Vt., an old law re- ]
luired everyone to take a bath on ]
iaturdav — whether he needed it -
>r not.
Heuslon & Betty Alexander
Is “Unfriendly” Act
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UTOMOTIVE
Miners & Merchants Bank of Alaska
'The Friendly Bank"
FULL BANKING SERVICES
To Nortlmestern Alaska Since 1904
— BRANCHES IN KOTZEBUE and BARROW —
Sen. Bartlett Defends
ARA and APVV Programs
Associated Press Special Service
WASHINGTON i.** — Sen. E. L.
Bartlett said Wednesday the Area
i Redevelopment and Accelerated
Public Works programs are play
ing vital roles in the ecenomy of
the nation — without being im
moral or vote buying.
Bartlett said in a statement that
recent criticism of the programs
by Edward P. Neilen, president of
the U.S. Chamber of Commerce,
“cannot be allowed to go unan
j swered.”
| “The burden of Mr. Neilen’s re
i marks.” Bartlett said, “seemed to
be that several of our government
programs are simple, but expen
sive, vote-buying mechanisms.”
Concerning ARA. Bartlett said
j that the program “has provided
Alaska businessmen with a kind
of capital — investment capital —
never before available.”
“It has brought people in com
munities together to work on their
common problems,” he added.
; “Throughout Alaska a good share
■ of the leadership has been pro
j vided bv members of the Cham
I bers of Commerce.”
Regarding APW, Bartlett cited
the greatly reduced salmon this
season in Bristol Bay in Alaska
and said salmon industry workers ;
face an unpleasant, if not tragic,
winter.
“Dillingham, the principal town
in the area, has tried for 10 years
to acquire a sewer and water
system,” Bartlett said. "It is now !
going to get that system, thanks
to an APW grant. Men will be put
to work on the project this fall,
which will permit them to earn a
little money to feed themselves!
and their families during the win
ter.”
Wavy unlisted IVlan Is
Sentenced to Life For
Giving Secrets to Russians !
NEW YORK OF — Nelson C.
Drummond, 34, a Navy enlisted
man with access to top U.S. and
Allied defense secrets, was sen
tenced to life imprisonment yes
terday as a Soviet spy. He could I
have been executed.
For five years, the 17-year Navy
veteran from Baltimore met with
Russian agents here and abroad.
The FBI trapped him with six
secret documents in company of
two Soviet officials.
A stockily built negro, Drum
mond appeared shocked as he
heard the sentence. He tightly
gripped the edge of the table
against which he stood.
“You have been convicted of a
most awful crime,” Judge Thomas
Murphy told him.
“You have sold the security and
safety of your country for $24,000,
and you did this while a member
of the United States Navy.
The first negro convicted as a
cold war spy, Drummond stood
trial twice on counts of conspiracy
to commit espionage and attempt
ing to pass information to the
Russians.
The Soviet personnel named in
the indictment returned to their
homeland under the cloak of dip
lomatic immunity.
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Production in 1%2 W as Up 56 Percent
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Mineral production of Alaska in
1962 was valued at $54.3 million
i an increase of 56 per cent ovei
j the 1961 value, according to final
annual figures compiled bv the
Bureau of Mines. US. Department
! of Mines, U.S. Department of the
Interior. A rise of 77 per cent in
value of crude oil <to $31.2 million
accounted in large part for the in
crease. Petroleum, far and away
the leading mineral commodity,
was followed by coal, gold, and
sand and gravel. These four pro
ducts made up 90 per cent of the
value of mineral output.
As has been the case for a num
ber of years developments in oil
and gas in the Kenai-Cook Inlet
area dominated the news of the
mineral industry. At year-end,
Swanson River was producing at
a rate of 29.000 barrels per day
from 50 producing wells.
Tonnage and value of coal in
creased materially, but value per
ton continued the downward trend
in effect since 1953. The 1962 fig
ure of $7.35 per ton was back to
the price level of 1950. Late in the
year. Usbelli Coal Mine. Inc., op
erator of strip mines and Sun
trana underground mine in the
Healy River field shut down the
Suntrana. With the Suntrana clos
ing, the trend to all strip coal in
evidence over the past 5 or 6 years
was completed.
Value of gold production, re
versing a 12-year trend, increased
to $5.8 million from $4.0 million in
1961. The increase appeared to
have little future significance,
however. Major dredging opera
tions on the Seward Peninsula
were stopped at the close of the
1962 season; stoppage of a major
operation in the Yukon River re
gion was announced for the close
of the 1963 season. With these re
ductions in dredging, gold produc
tion in Alaska was expected to
continue the downward trend of
the post-war years.
In mercury, both physical vol
ume and value decreased. Value
per flask was $191.21, down from
$197.61 in 1961, and continuing the
down trend from the 1955 high of
$290.35.
Beryllium. Two new beryllium
discoveries on the Seward Penin
sula were announced by the fed
eral Geological Survey. Beryllium
occurring as chrysoberyl in vein
lets in argillaceous limestone was
reported on the east side of Rapid
River, a tributary of Lost River.
The area is 100 miles northwest of
Nome. A second discovery, with
occurrences along a 6-mile zone on
both sides of Lost River near the
Lost River tin mine, was also re
ported.
Geld. The sharp increase in val
ue of gold, from $4.0 million in
1961 to $5.8 million, was a result
of higher grade gravel washed at
some of the placer operations in
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different parts of the state. No
change in the long-term trend in
gold production, downward since
the post-war peak of 1950, was in
dicated. Changes in state mining
regulations, enacted in 1961, stim
ulated a sudden surge of interest
in offshore placer deposits. Sub
merged placers off Nome and the
coast of Norton Sound as far east
and south as Shaktoolik received
the most interest. At Nome, Shell
Oil Co. made seismic and other
tests on bottom deposits reportedly
IV2 or more miles offshore. Also
near Nome, Nome Gold Coast, Inc.
made drilling tests on claims
stretching 36 miles along Norton
Bay and from shore to 1 Vz miles
offshore. No results of the Shell
work were made public.
The drilling by Nome Gold
Coast was said to have shown
encouraging values; additional
drill tests were planned for the
1963 season.
Other areas where filings on
submerged placers were made in
cluded Stephens Passage, Kodiak
Island, Good news Bay, and Turn
again Arm. No estimate of the fu
ture significance of an offshore
dredging industry — should such
develop—was possible; it was not
thought likely that such an in
dustry could restore gold mining
to its former importance without
the aid of major changes in the
economic factors affecting the gold
industry.
rormer Venezuela
! Dictator Goes Home
To Face Charges
MIAMI, Fla. (if) — A chartered
airliner took off from Miami to
day, carrying Venezuela’s former
dictator, Perez Jimenez, back to
his homeland to face embezzle
ment charges.
Telling one of his attorneys that
he would see him again, ‘‘if I live
long enough,” the man known to
his friends as “The General”
climbed into the four-engine DC6B
that was scheduled to take six
hours for the flight.
Jimenez is charged with embez
zling $13 million in public funds
while he ruled Venezuela. He had
battled in the courts for four years
to escape return.
Jimenez contended during his
long court fight that sending him
back would be tantamount to sen
tencing him to death at the hands
of political enemies.
But Venezuela promised him a
fair trial and all his rights under
that country’s law’s and said there
is no death sentence there.
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