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The Nome nugget., 1953-07-13
ALASKA AIRLINES

From Anchorage: H. Swanson, Donald Lyle, David Kiyutelluk, w. Sipprell, Sgt. Campbell, Lewis Walker, MT. and Mrs. A. Peterson, James Findley, It. Col. Johnson.
 To Anchorage: Herbert Kag- oona, MT. and Mrs. w. D. Couper, Fred Evern, Sam Schoonover, Jacob, Mary, Flora, Joseph, Alfred James and Ralph Lincoln, Mrs. c. Gould, H. M. Porter, Marie Young, Wm. Hamie, Rita Young, Ruth Reed, Major Beck, Major Bullard, Capt. England, Donald Wager.
 To Unalakleet: Mrs. Francis Eben, Donald Kouchalk.
The Nome nugget., 1953-07-13
Anchorage Cleans
 Up Dust in Wake of Volcano Eruptions

ANCHORAGE, R - Three or more suddenly active volcanoes 30 miles west of here subsided fit fully Friday after scattering a thick layer of ash over more than 15,0OO square miles of the most populous part of Alaska.
 Anchorage, the territory's larg- est city, started digging and wash ing it's way back to normal.
 Thursdays black, eye-stinging volcanic dust cloud which shut out the midnight sun was blown away during the night. In it's place was the customary glare spreading through the slight over cast.
 The blanket of ash was reported by the Weather Bureau to extend from the volcanoes at the north ern end of the Aleutian range over a roughly circular area bounded by Eklutna, Palmer, Valdez, Cop per Center, Whittier and Seward.
 Weight of the ash was estimated at five tons to the acre.
 So heavy was the fall of dust near 11,050-foot Mount Spur, the first to erupt early Thursday, that the small Chakachatana River was damned and waters backed up 10 to 12 miles.
 No lives were lost in the spec tacular upheaval, but wildlife was expected to suffer seriously.
 City crews at Anchorage washed down streets as heavy streams were needed to carry away the fine dust which turned into a slick mud when dampened only slightly.
The Nome nugget., 1953-07-13
Ben Mozee's Son
 Member of Candidate Staff at Texas OCS

Officer Candidate Elliot Mozee, son of MT. Benjamin Mozee of Nome, was named to head part of the school drum and bugle corps at Air Force Officer Can didate School recently, as his class entered the second phase of its training for commissions as sec ond lieutenants.
 Selection to this post also makes him member of the candidate group staff.
 The staff, under direction of the schools commissioned officers, directs the activities of it's own class and the newly arrived lower class, total of more than thous- and students.
 Announcemnt of the new stu dent officers climaxed the first half of the six-month-long course, which is given at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas. Selection of student officers is made by school authorities, who choose those with the most outstanding records in the first phase The new staff will hold it's posts until graduation in September.
 Officer Candidate Mozee, a grad uate of the University of New Mexico, enlisted in 1852. Prior to OCS he was stationed at Walker AFB in New Mexico.
 Air Force OCS, of which Brig. Gen. Wycliffe E. Steele, base com mander, is commandant, gradu- ates four classes a year into the commissioned ranks, mainly as administrative officers.
The Nome nugget., 1953-07-13
Draft Defernents For FatherhOOd Discontinued

WASHINGTON, R- President Eisenhower ordered the discon- tinuance, effective immediately, of draft deferments because of fath- erhood unless draftees can show extreme hardship and privation would result.
 Under an executive order which the White House said was de- signed to correct "a serious in equality" all registrants now de- ferred as fathers will continue to be deferred. But after Saturday, those between 1872 and 26 years of age not now so deferred can- not use fatherhood as basis for attaining exemption except in ex- treme hardship cases.
 Officials said the order was de- signed to end the practice of reg istrants getting double defer ments" by obtaining temporary deferment as students, agricultur- al workers, or workers in critical occupations, and meanwhile get ting married and becoming fath- CTS, thus getting continuing de- ferment.
 Under this practice, the White House said, the double deferments have resulted in the calling up for duty of many younger regis trants earlier than they normally would have been called in order to fill monthly military quotas.
The Nome nugget., 1953-07-13
Visitors to Nome
July g

crossing the Arctic Circle over the waters of the Arctic Ocean, ther westward down the north shore: of Seward Pen. to Boring Straits dotted midway to Siberia by the Diomede Islands and Fairway Rock.
 It was most beautiful day thi: Thursday and the Siberian coast. line could be viewed southwest. ward along Boring Sea and north. westward along the Arctic Ocean A magnificent view, only seer from high over Cape Prince ot Wales.
 Nome visitors could also see King Island-later in the after noon they visited the King Island Eskimos at the east end of Nome and made several purchases of ivory carvings and footwear.
 Our visitors were from Wiscon- sin, Utah and California. Four ladies drove their car from Sew ard via Anchorage, placed it and themselves aboard an Alaska Steamship passenger ship for Se- attle. Arriving there, they again hit the highways for home.
 These happy ladies were Mrs. Jack Kroenke, Miss Eunice M Bergland of Shawano; Miss Ann Thurman, Peshtigo; Loretta M. Zastrow. Miss Bergland, on arriv- ing, said that she knew MT. Hal verson, wanted to know if she could meet him-she did, out on the Bessie Road. Her MT. Halver- son proved to be our very capable and popular school instructor. These two once taught in the same Minnesota school.
 pr. Reed s. Clegg, Salt Lake City medico, said that he came to Alaska to ''see" and was highly pleased with his trip; that seeing Boring Straits and crossing the Arctic Circle were high points; that he would be happy if his pictures would show the interest ing Eskimos and their activities, the gold dredges, Nome's Front Street, so, come wintertime, he could relive with his family and friends his trip to the land of the Arctic Circle.
 The lone married couple in this group was most interesting and attractive. From San Francisco came the Italian Consul, Million ello Cozzi and his charming wife They came from Genoa, Italy, l three years ago. The consul says he would be very happy if more Italians were permitted to become citizens of our country and if they were, many would perhaps settle in Alaska, as Alaska has a great future and will have a large popu- lation.
 Much of MT. Cozzi's time was devoted to picture taking. Mrs Cozzi was interested in taking pictures of Eskimo children al play and at work. Both enjoyed meeting Nomeites who could speak their native language.
 Crew members were Capt. Will Johnson, Co-pilots Bavaria, Bohms and Stewardess Beconovich on this efficient Wien's plane.
The Nome nugget., 1953-07-13

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Arkansas State press., 1953-12-11
A Good Investment Opportunity

be used to answer their prayer for educational
opportunity which is constantly on the lips
of those who want the opportunity Plney
Woods School offers.
Many, many individuals, organizations
could bless themselves by adopting an auster-
ity program to make an annual contribution
to the work being done for the least among
lis at this school And look upon same as
precious privilege.
For a lot of industrious ambitious and
INDECENT youngsters this school is the last
chance. And the greatest thing any American
can do for any American in need is to help
him help himself give the guy chance
Even every sinner deserves one more chance
because every saint was once sinner.
AT Pney Woods school many boys and
girls through the forty years of its existence
have been saved from crime and liabilities to
society to good and loyal Americans who are
constant and faithful in their efforts to make
the fullest possible contribution to all that
makes America strong and therefore free.
One can not make a better investment in
the future of America than by investing in ed
vocational opportunity for children such as
those at Piney Woods school, Piney Woods,
Mississippi. Write them for details
Arkansas State press., 1953-12-11

look more presentable, and exhibit it as some
thing representative of their remembrance
of their departed ones If no one else is In
terested in making the place look better IL
would seem that they would
1t would also seem that any Negro pass
ing by the place or living near II and re-
alizing its purpose, would want to do some
thing to make ii look better. The present
condition of the place makes 1t most uh-
savory and unsightly representation OF What
Negroes stand for. Every colored person III
North Little Rock has a slightly lower stand
ing in the estimation of those who notice the
place because of its reflection on the aspi-
rations and standards of those who use IT.
We cannot afford such an adverse aoVeftise-
ment. If someone connected with the place
will organize an effort to clean 1t up ana
make il look representative of Its purpose
the writer will be willing to be one OF those
nuttinp in a few hours of labor or paying
some one to put them in for him. The writer
&c an ex-service man. and is eligible to burial
in the military grounds He has no personal
interest in the 9th street cemetery othef
than his interest as a Negro. There are
number of other service men around the area
who probably would be willing to cooperate
with more directly interested citizens. SOME
thing should be done to make our hehofeu
dead look honored instead OF dishohoreo'
Arkansas State press., 1953-12-11
NCNW-
continued from page onel

Continued from page one,
man of the organization.
Mrs Harris is a graduate Of
the Hans Schneider School of
Piano in Providence, Rho d g
Island and of the New England
conservatory of Music in Boston.
she Is an active member of the
American Federation of Radio
Artists and has conducted her
own radio program over the N B
c airwaves.
Mrs. Harris has been especially
interested in composition for
children and has several of her
works listed under preferred
works for grades III and w
which are circulated periodically
to music teachers. She antici-
pates the compilation of an al
bum Of children's songs.
In private life she is the wife
of DR. Chester A. Harris, out
standing physician and surgeon
who was recently accepted as a fell
low in the American College Of
Allergists, and is the mother Of
two daughters.
Arkansas State press., 1953-12-11
How About The Cemetery?
BY S.. S. Taylor

The casual passer-by Sunday morning saw
flames and smoke pouring from the area be-
tween 9th and 2sth streets on Main in North
Little Rock That is an area which contains
few houses on the west side of the street 1t
was not an accidental fire. The fire depart
ment was burning the unsightly mass of
weeds, shrubs and trash which made that
section look like an abandoned picnic ground
in jungle The firenen were carefully and
closely supervising the situation, playing
streams of water on adjoining hedges to pre-
vent the fire from spreading to valuable prop
erty. After they had come and gone, the
space had beauty that had not been evident
before.
BY contrast the area behind the Main
street area looked even more ragged and dis
reputable than it had before the clearing out
of the forward area. This is the portion of
the; area which is reserved for burial
ground for colored people We do not know
who owns it or has the responsibility Tor IL,
but from its appearance one would judge IL
TO be the final resting place of those who
are unloved and aforementioned Here and
there a stone spire rises above the tangled
masses of weeds, shrubs, and wild grasses
but mostly the entire area of the cemetery Is
an unsightly expanse of wild uncultiVated
growths.
II would seem that relatives and friends
of those who lie in this spot would be an
xious to do something to clean 1t up, make IL
Arkansas State press., 1953-12-11
70 Defer At Times Is Progress

thing is true in varying degrees in our every
day life and in every field of endeavor
Since we see evidences of the wisdom
of deferring at times in so many other IN
stances, it is difficult to understand why so
much criticism should be hurled against JACK
lie Robinson when he deferred to Alabama S
racial segregation laws No one complained
when he took insults and abuse when he 1lrst
came into the major leagues If ne mad not
compromised and deferred on many issues al
that time, he could not have paved the way
for other Negroes in major league baseball
Your reporter is bitterly against all forms
of segregation and discrimination based on
race and color However, | am conscious OF
the fact that all life demands compromises
at times Progress demands that we defer as
well as dominate and in order to get IN po-
sition to dominate we must often defer.
Everything in life and nature teaches US
that
Arkansas State press., 1953-12-11
By Robert Durr

just received copy of the Fortieth An
niversary souvenir celebration publication OF
Piney Woods school located at Pmey Woods
Mississippi in an area which has been referred
to as way down behind where the sun goes
down"
This school meets a need which Is unmet
by any other school for money-less Negro
boys and girls who want an education Tor use
full living The last information | had on its
enrolment figues were 500 IS percent OF
whom were working their way through The
school had another 500 applications of h e
same kind on file.
Millions and millions of the most under
privileged and therefore handicapped youths
just do not have the opportunity to earn the
money to pay their way through school
Millions and millions of fathers and moth
ers face tremendous problem in getting
their children through and getting an educa-
ton for them. We certainly ought to keep in
mind the problems these parents and children
face and if we have an opportunity to sug-
gest to someone the possibility Of investing in
the future of these the most underprivl-
legged boys and girls who are working their
way through at Piney Woods school,
This school needs everything which may
Arkansas State press., 1953-12-11
Urges
CONTINUED from page one

VNonIhueo from page one)
has an unprecedented opportunity
to take soul size step in es-
tablishing and maintaining one
more vital life Link, welding to-
gether the people of America for
mutual progress and protection.
Education for democracy and for
living cannot possibly be achieved
in a segregated school system.
The nations schools are our first
line Of defense. Children and
adults, too, learn by precept and
example One without the other
is meaningless. I believe that tho
vast majority Of American people
are willing and desire to see our
school system reflect the theory
and practice Of American demo.
cracy. The fateful decision Of the
Supreme Court will hasten or de-
lay the realization Of the dream
and hope that millions Of people
long for ... and have struggled
for decades past to secure
The National Council Of Negro
Women has also issued strong en-
Arkansas State press., 1953-12-11
BAN
Continued from page one

AhSAh RAbI SAs
d. Eisenhower"
The Commissioners order to
which the President was referr-
ing, reads thusly: Every official
shall base all personnel
actions solely on merit or fitness
of the individual without regard
to race, religion, color, ancestry
or national origin Every en-
ployee shall act without regard
to race, religion color, ancestry
or national origin in the use and
enjoyment of any public facility
accommodation service or treat
ment."
This order affected % District
department and agencies. It did
not touch the controversial Fire
Department or h industrial
home schools for white and color
ed children nor even the prisons
for they were all given time to
end segregation in their eating
and sleeping quarters
Arkansas State press., 1953-12-11
By Lauren White

Jackie Robinson is being severly erlticiz-
cd for deferring to Birmingham, Alabama
racial segregation laws recently. lie allowed
his three white players to be benchea Whei1
his team played there not long ago lhose
uho criticized him are saying that he shouia
have cancelled the game in protest against
those laws. Without expressing agreement Oh
onnosition to Jackies action. l would ike 10
call the readers attention to same ooserVa-
tions on deferring:
Deferring is as much part OF lie as
dominating and many times favorable results
can be obtained by deferring while DISASTROUS
results can be obtained by attempting to DOM
mate This is true in all life. Even grain OF
corn knows this. When grain strives 10
reach the topsoil and sunlight, 1t may meet
on its Journey a pebble or some other Cd
struction. Instead of wasting its energy ON
something it cannot move, ii will defer
go around. And by so doing that grain OF
corn can fulfill useful mission. This same
Arkansas State press., 1953-12-11
Trustees

Continued from page one
ed at President T. w. Coggs, and
stated that there was no dis
honesty found in the audit of the
accounts of the president and
bursar of the college, and there
should be no charges made of
dishonesty on either side, because
up to this point such charges
could not be sustained by compe-
tent evidence
At the proper time. the direc-
tive from the Consolidated Bap-
fist convention of the board of
trustees of the college, will be
considered, not in passion, nor
with prejudice, but with open
minds and hearts accompanied by
full determination to N o t
slaughter any individual, but t.
guarantee the existence of the in.
stItution, and to expand its faci
lities.
Arkansas State press., 1953-12-11

and he was given the same treat
ment as adult Convicts.
Eighteen months after being on
the chain gang he had his thigh
crushed when a truck transport
ing prisoners overturned. AS
result Of tine accident he nov
wears a metal plate in his right
leg.
Dukes made his first escape to
New Jersey in January 1913.
Three years later. 1851 ne was
located and returned TO Georgia
by demand Of the Governor
He was sent to Cobb County
Camp There he was beaten uu-
Incredibly put in q sweat box
with a half inch Of water ou the
floor for Il days.
IN January. 1852. he Csc p.H
again and fled 60 New Jersey
The Georgia officials located him
six months later and demanded
Arkansas State press., 1953-12-11

his return.
The Paterson Branch of the
NAACP interviewed An attorney
was engaged to fight extradition
on the grounds that his constitu.
tional rights had been violated
On December 10. 1852 h e
case was taken to the New Jer-
scy Superior Court Law Divi-
sion to show that Dukes con-
stitutional rights would continue
TO be violated if he should be
returned 20 Georgia
This court refused to hear tes-
tomony showing that the boy not
only had been denied his con-
stiutional rights but cannot eN-
poet justice In the Georgia courts.
The case was then taken to the
Appellate Division Of the New
Jersey Superior Court ON June
15 which also refused TO hear the
testimony
Arkansas State press., 1953-12-11

In loving memory Of Hubert
l.. Harris, who departed this Life
December 2, 1852:
This second day Of December,
one year ago.
You wandered to that peaceful
shore. lFKT
You are missed by the ones
that you adored;
We loved you, but God loved
you most.
Sadly missed by: y
Mrs. Ruby Harris, wife
and the Harris family,
Arkansas State press., 1953-12-11
Farmers
Continued rom page one

1854: Child development a n d
family life; home management;
food and nutrition; health and
home sanitation; dairy cattle and
disease control; swine production
and sanitation; Year-round pas
lures and poultry raising, The
Farm Improvement clubs planned
a membership drive for 100 mem
bers in 1854. 1t plans to set up
u active improvement clubs and
get four news stories Of outstand-
ing demonstrations in local pa
pers, work up one good extension
Arkansas State press., 1953-12-11

A petition for eertification was
made to the New Jersey ST.
preme Court by the NAACP and
was denied on September 81.
In asking the U, S. Supreme
Court to review the case, the at
torneys for the National Associa-
ton for the Advancement of
Colored People claimed that the
New Jersey Supreme Court err
ed in upholding the lower courts
refusal to hear the evidence show
ing that Dukes conviction was in
violation of the Federal law and
that by sending MIN back to
Georgia his rights would con-
tinue to be violated.
ITO return him now would
be to place him in a position
where his constitutional rights
will be unenforceable in the To-
cal courts because access to them
has been effectively prevented"
NAACP lawyers contend in their
petition.
The New Jersey courts, have
decided a matter not previously
decided by this Court and in
the manner probably not in ac-
cord with the applicable state
ment Of the law by this Court,
they argue.
NAACP lawyers for Dukes are
Thurgood Marshall, NAACP spe-
cial counsel and director coun-
sci of the NAACP Legal Defense
and Educational Fund Inc, Men
don Morrill, of Patterson, New
Jersey, Jack Greenberg and Ell
wood H. Chisolm, both NAACP
associate counsel of New York.
Arkansas State press., 1953-12-11

In memory of our mother "i'
D. l.. Dedmon, Gurdon,
Just one year ago, the Sro u
December. .A1
God plucked the most pe'
rose well ever remember
Oh. yes it was full bloomed'
maybe faded a wee bit - ,.,o
Yet its beauty was there aN
saw il will admit
Such a loveable rose, We
cherished it so, :. ,ss
Though this claim oil oes'A
caused our hearts to srieVe'
We pray for added strength
more hope to receive 80,
Lord, please give us COURAGE
we will not fall
Because the rose still grows
beyond the garden wal i.,,o
Mrs. Geo. Hughes, Cac zoe
Mrs Mr. T. L. ellington, Fordy's
Arkansas State press., 1953-12-11
Georgia
tContinleo ron page onel

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OF not guilty. the jailor spoke up:
Guilty, he pleads guiltyr'
The boy never had a chance to
say whether he was guilty or not
The judge Immediately sentene-
ed him to three to five years at
hard labor for each Of the cars
supposedly stolen, a total OF Is tp
rs years. The supposed trial
was held without the boy having
counsel relatives or anyone to
advise him that his constitutional
rights were being violated,
Jesse had never been to school,
did not know now TO drive a car
and still can't
He was sent to the Burke
County chain gang where ToE
picks were clamped on his legs,
Arkansas State press., 1953-12-11
kAACP-
Continued from page onei

A~~hshntu hto" pdhr ohcI
tional Association for the Ad-
vancement of Colored People
here on December /.
Mrs. Roosevelt a member Of
the Associations national board
Of directors, reported that in her
travels abroad she found that
the treatment Of our own mi
nority groups here at home re-
ceived widespread attention" She
called for support Of the NAACP
which has made "a magnificent
contribution" to the strengthening
Of democracy.
After an appeal by Herbert
Hill NAACP Labor Relations
Assistant, contributions amounting
to $3.50 were raised for the
NAACP Fighting Fund for
Freedom"