THE NOME NUGGET
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Entered at second class matter October 14, 1943, at the
post office at Nome. Alaska, under Act of March 3, 1379.
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If Only Nome Were a Foreigner ;
Anchorage Daily News
A NEWS REPORT last week told how Nome w>as having diffi
culty getting $800,000 in federal funds for a badly needed
sewer and water project. These health-providing facilities, which
are just taken for granted in most other places, require special
engineering and construction treatment in far-off Nome because
of perpetually frozen sub-surfaces. t
If any community anwy here in the USA needs federal help i
in providing sewers and water, Nome does. Despite her antiquity
as an Alaskan town, despite statehood, despite modern engineer- £
ing techniques, she is still in the dark ages so far as underground [
facilities are concerned. r
The news story said some disappointment was experienced 1:
bv the good people of Nome because an $800,000 request to (
Uncle Sam had been pared down to $300,000, far below a plaus
ible minimum. The mayor and Sen. Pearse Walsh, in a never-say- 1
die determination, are now exploring some other means of getting t
the help they need. £
There is cruel irony in the Nome story. At the present time *
a congressional committee in Washington is holding hearings on 1
the annual foreign aid bills through which some 96 foreign )
nations, a great many of them unfriendly to us, will be allocated ]
their annual billions in funds, all of it from taxpayers’ contri- z
butions, some of which the people of Nome have share in. <
In 1962 this foreign aid pie cost the United States more than J
five billion dollars. Since its inception foreign aid has cost U.S. .
taxpayers in the neighborhood of $100 billion. i
Many and many a waterworks has been built in far-off lands
with these ever-ready U.S. dollars. Yet a town in one of the
newest states of this generous union, struggling to provide
itself with one of the basic needs, finds that it is asking too •
much when it requests S800,000 to help provide it.
No wonder so many congressmen are becoming disgusted
with our foreign aid policies. Senator Greuning is one who has
always decried the waste to foreign lands while areas in our own
nation go begging. Senator Morse of Oregon plans to introduce
a bill in this Congress calling for a cut-off date for the whole
business. Others cry out in Congress periodically. The story of
Nome is one more case history to put into the sorry record.
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Chamber Hears
Report From
Hoover and Walsli
At the Chamber of Commerce
meeting at non on Monday, Mayor
Don Hoover and Sen. Pete Walsh
gave a complete and full account
of their short stay in Washington.
D.C., where they were sent by the
people of Nome to plead for re
cognition of the urgent need for
some kind of modern plumbing
for the community.
They expressed appreciation to
Sen. E. L. Bartlett and his staff
who made appointments and “op
ened doors” to the necessary peo
ple who had to be contacted on
the venture and were surprised to
find how much the various agency
heads knew about Nome and that
they had a real interest in our
need but because of our limited
number of unemployed “could not
measure our need by their yard
stick.”
However, this special delegation
did succeed in having Nome placed
in a special category for consid
eration with 24 other communities
in the 50 states whose situations
were unique and who will be
?iven special consideration at a
policy meeting prior to today.
The Chamber gave the delega
tion a vote of thanks for their ef
forts and President Frank Couch
'eported that voluntary contribu
ions totaled $1,132 for the trip
vith the City of Nome underwrit
ng the mayor’s expenses.
‘ We've just begun to fight,” he
dated and now that we’ve started,
ve’ll keep right on working until
^ome can have the needed facil
ties.”
Commissioner of Health, Welfare
Dr. R. Fenstermacher reported
i visit at the hospital from Alas
ta’s Commissioner of Health and
Welfare, Levi Browning, on his
first visit here in the interest of
nental health, on Sunday. He was
iccompanied by representatives
rom the Washington, D.C. office
is well as Dr. Roger, who heads
he Alaska Mental Health Dept,
lev. and Mrs. Wilson Return
Rev. and Mrs. R.F. Wilson, who
re regular attendants at Chamber
neetings, were welcomed back,
Iso Mrs. Gordon Osborne, a for
ner member of Chamber who has
>een active with the Pt. Barrow
'hamber of Commerce since leav
ng Nome.
iear From Prof. Senungetuk
Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Senunge
auk, from the University of Al
iska, were welcomed and Profes
or Senungetuk told a little of the
neaning of the art workshop now
mderway here under the sponsor
hip of the BIA but open to the
jublic. Mr. Senungetuk, son of Mr.
tnd Mrs. Willie Senungetuk of this
:ity, has an outstanding profes
ional rating in the field of silver
•raft and those taking his course
ire very interested in the work he
s doing.
It was Thomas Carlyle who ad
rised, “Make yourself an honest
nan and then you may be sure
here is one rascal less in the
vorld.”
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Second Man In a Week
Badly Mauled by a Bear
In The Fairbanks Area
FAIRBANKS —A hunter was
undergoing surgery Monday for
serious bites received Sunday from
a large black bear.
The hunter, George P. Roberts,
31, an RCA employe at Clear, was
the second man within a week to
be attacked and mauled by a black
bear in the Fairbanks area.
Roberts was camped near the
Tatanika River on a weekend
hunting trip with Robert Bundtzen
and Bundtzen’s two teen-age sons.
They were asleep in a tent when
Roberts heard a noise outside.
“I woke up and hollered at the
others,” he said. “Then he (the
bear) ripped the tent open with
his claws and stuck his head in.”
Roberts ran from the tent and
the bear gave chase.
“We wrestled around on the
ground,” said Roberts. “I tried to
get out from under him. I really
thought it was the end of the line.
“ ‘Get the gun!’ I yelled. The
bear tried for my throat and then
my head. I stuck my right arm in
his mouth to keep him from my
throat.”
Bundtzen shot and killed the
bear as it wrestled with Roberts.
A passing airplane spotted sig
nal fires the hunters set up.
A helicopter from Eielson Air
Force Base was dispatched and
landed at the camp Sunday after
noon, about seven hours after the
attack. Roberts and one of the
boys was flown to Fairbanks.
Roberts was badly bitten on his
left side.
“My wife doesn't want me to go
camping any more.” the injured
man said from his hospital bed.”
Civil Rights Pickets
Protest Discrimination
In Hiring at N.Y. Fair
NEW YORK (#> — Seventy civil
rights demonstrators picketed the
United Nations Monday, calling on
countries to halt construction of
exhibits at the 1964-65 New York
World’s Fair until more negroes
and Puerto Ricans were hired for
the work.
James Farmer, national director
of the Congress of Racial Equality,
said picketing might be extended
to sites at the fair in Flushing
Meadow Park, Queens.
The demonstration by whites
and negroes in the U.N. Plaza was
aimed primarily at African and
Latin - American nations. Pickets
carried such signs as, “African
Pavilian built with lily white
labor.”
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The day may come when the
New Orleans Picayune will taste
like chrimp creole and the Boston
Globe like baked beans.
Well, anyway that’s not too far
fetched according to statements by
NAEA president, Melvin Tharpe.
“We now have the materials
necessary,” he said, “to produce
a highly nutritious, sanitary and
edible newspaper. An invention
turns soybeans into high-protein
fibre. Experiments are being con
ducted to produce paper - thin
sheets of this material, and health
ful, edible products that look, taste
and feel like meat, but really
aren't.” Newspapers would print
on the “products” with inks made
of food coloring. Tharpe revealed
that General Foods, Colgate-Palm
olive and Ralston Purina are re
searching the “glamour foods of
the future.”
State Completes New
Airfield at St. Michael
The State Division of Aviation
has announced the completion of
an airport at St. Michael. The con
struction was carried out under a
contract with Yutan Construction
Co. of Fairbanks at an approxi
mate cost of $42,000. A 75 foot by
2,000 foot landing strip was com
pleted, with a lOO’xlOO’ parking
apron.
The State’s resident engineer
who supervised the construction
was Robert Kuckelman. The con
tractor and Kuckelman have
moved to Stebbins Village, where
they are presently constructiong
an airport for that village.
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sler Corp., whose sales comeback
was one of the highlights of the
auto industry’s record breaking
1963 year, is betting $125 million
it can do even better next year.
That is the amount the firm has
spent in preparation for its 1964
line.
That was disclosed by Chrysler
president Lynn A. Townsend who
outlined to 300 newsmen from the
United States and Canada the com
pany’s plans for getting an even
bigger share of the auto market.
Chrysler became the first auto
maker to preview its 1964 models
for newsmen.
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