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Invitation for Bids

SEALED BIDS in single copy subject to the conditions contained herein will be received until July 6, 1854 and then pub- lic1y opened, for furnishing all labor and materials and performing all work for the stripping of area for airplane landing strip located near Selawik, AL aska.
 Plans, specifications and project docu- ments may be obtained from the Director of Aeronautics, Alaska Aeronautics and Communications Commission, Room POP, Glover Bldg, Anchorage, Alaska. Bids will be publicly opened in the office of the Director of Aeronautics, Glover Bldg, at 10:00 am. A.S.T. July 6, 1854
 Guarantee will be required with each bid follows: Five Percent (5 pct.) bid bond
 Performance bond will be required for an amount not less than 50 Percent of the contract.
 Payment bond will be required for an amount not less than 50 Percent of the contract.
 The right is reserved as the interest of the Territory of Alaska may require, to reject any and all bids, to waive any informality in bids received, and to ac- cept or reject any items of any bid, unless such bid is qualified by specific limitation.
 Territory of Alaska
 Department of Aviation
 by: Herman Porter,
 Director of Aeronautics Pub. Jun. IA. Is, 18, g, 25, 30, Jul. l, 1854
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Italy and France Must
 Support EDC In Order To Get US. Military Aid

WASHINGTON, R-The House Foreign Affairs Committee Thurs day adopted proposal which would deny arms aid to France and Italy unless they join in an international army.
 At the same time the commit tee approved plan apparently would spur the creation of a new type of European defense organ ization taking in those countries which have approved the Europ- can Defense Command pact.
 Those nations could continue to get American weapons but chair man Chipperfield R-IlD said they could do so only if they 'join in a new organization for collective defense or are jointly developing mutual defense programs in a manner satisfactory to the Presi- dent.
 The nations which have ratified EDC are West Germany, The Netherlands, Belgium and Lux embourg.
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Public Health Is Americas First Line of Defense

A child born in 1850 enjoys an average life expectancy of 68 years-as compared with only Al years in 1900. From TIP deaths per thousand population in 1900, the U. s. death rate dropped to 9.6 per thousand in 1850, and the rate continues to decrease, The Sanitary Engineering Commit tee reports.
 This remarkable record, says the Department of Health, "can be traced in large part to steady reductions in the death rate for infections and communicable dis eases"
 Many factors have contributed to cur improved public health,
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1850

but none has been more signifi- cant than our municipal sanita- tion programs. Thousands of miles of underground clay pipe mains carry wastes to disposal plants. Vitrifed clay pipe is recognized as the one material that provides all the qualities necessary to satisfy the exacting demands of sanitary structures. Clay pipe resists all the effects of acids and other caustic sub stances that are found in sewer systems.
 Modern sanitary systems con- structed of clay pipe play an everyday role as guardian of the health of the people. They are one of the city's lifelines, carry ing away deadly wastes.
The Nome nugget., 1954-06-18
Black Eagle" Will Renounce Citizenship

NEW YORK, R-Federal of ficials Thursday picked up the US. passport of Col. Hubert F. Julian, Negro flier known as the ''Black Eagle" of Harlem, and Julian announced he would seek decentralization.
 The action apparently resulted from the shipment of arms from Communist dominated Poland to Guatemala. Julian said last month that he was Guatemala's military purchasing agent.
 Immigration authorities, at the direction of the State Department picked up Julian's passport when he arrived at Idlewild airport on an Air France plane from Paris.
 After the incident, Julian said he would apply to the courts for cancellation of his citizenship. He is native of Trinidad, British West Indies, and a naturalized American.
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MT. and Mrs. Douglas Sheppard

MT. and Mrs. Douglas Sheppard of Mt. Village, announce the birth of a son, Norval Douglas, who was born in Seattle June 5th, weigh ing 8 pounds and ounces. He joins a sister who is three years old.
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IN THE PROBATE COURT FOR THE TERRITORY OF ALASKA, DIVISION NUMBER TWO. CAPE NOME PRE- CINCT.
 IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF ERIC T. NELSON, Deceased.
 Notice of Rendering
 Final Account and Petition
 For Decree of Distribution
No. 925


 Notice is hereby given that Lester Bronson, administrator of the estate of Eric Nelson, deceased, has presented for settlement and filed in this court his final account of said administration, to- gether with petition for the distribu- tion of the estate, and that the afternoon of Wednesday, the 11th day of August, 1854, at the office of the United States Commissioner, Federal Building in Nome, Alaska, at the hour of 2 pm. on said date has been appointed the time and place to hold hearing on said account and petition, and all persons interested in the said estate are hereby notified to appear at said hearing, and show cause, if any there be, why the said account should not be approved and the estate distributed to the persons entitled thereto, without further notice of proceedings.
 Reference is hereby made to the said account and petition, on file in the office of the US. Commissioner, at Nome, Alaska, for further notice of proceedings.
 Dated at Nome, Alaska, this 9th day of June, 1854
 LESTER D. BRONSON,
 Administrator of the estate
 of Eric T. Nelson Mildred R. Hermann,
 Attorney for administrator Publish June II, 18, 25, July 2, 1854
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CANCER TOPS WAR DEATHS

Cancer last year killed 227,000 Americans, nine times as many as were slain during the three years of fighting in the Korean war. Fight this cruel enemy by giving to the American Cancer Society's 1854 Crusade.
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The British bushel is slightly larger than the American bushel.
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IN THE PROBATE COURT FOR THE CAPE NOME PRECINCT, SECOND DIVISION, TERRITORY OF ALASKA. IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF HERMAN HENRY HOOP, deceased.
 No. 963.
 Notice of Hearing on Final Report and Account and Determination of Inheritance NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Karl F. Dewey Executor of the above-entitled estate, has filed his Final Report and Account and that the 18th day of August, 1854, at the hour of ten o'clock AM. of said day, at the office of the above named Court at Nome, Alaska, has by Court Order been fixed as the time and place for hearing on the said Report and Account that also at such time and place the Court will determine and ad- judicate the beneficiary of this estate under the Will of the decedent.
 Objections, if any there be, to said report and account and proof of heirship will be heard at this time.
 DATED this 11th day of June, 1854
 KARL F. DEWEY,
 Executor
 Publ. June Is, 23, 30, July 2, 1854.
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IF YOU OWN A MACHINE LIKE THIS ONE,
 You Can StiH Get Parts and Service For It!
NTi1'A->.

Farfetched? Not your le We frequently supply parts and service for machines built 2O 30 years agoeven ode So this 1908 old tmer-or like it-may still be around somewhere working tribute to the 5Oyear Caterpillar No Orphans parts policy Now here's what this to you It any Cato product you buy today will be orphaned for of part It buyers will pay for your machine trade-in time because they know there will always be service behind Caterpillar machines That's why yearn year-out Caterpillar products worth the job worth the tradein block Let's figure the size of Cat Diesel Tractor you need from 35 to 15O drawbar HP Let show you the behind 50 years of preference Let prove why they work so long-and so well!
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-01-12
LAST MlNUTE XMAS SOCKS

LAST MINUTE XMAS bOONS
Some gift books have to be
bought quickly on Christmas eve
flor mothers friend or teen-age
Susie's girl griend, without the
buyer having any detailed know
ledge about the personal tastes of
the recipients.
One very good inexpensive stig-
gestion for this eleventh hour stab
lin-the-dark selection is An Aniho-
losy ef Fsmcus American Stories,
edited by Angus Burrell and Ben
nett Cert Modern Library Giant
published by Random House 457
Madison, New York City, 1910
lpages.) Many Of the seventy-five
stories are t'oid chestnuts" in an
thologies Of American short stories,
but most Of them may be included
among the best short fiction writ
ten by American authors. There
fore, their quality far outweighs the
probability that some of them
might be included in other antho-
liosies belonging to the intended
recipient Of the gift.
Ichabod Crane courts Katrina
van Tassel again in the Legend of
Sleepy Hollow, and the Celebrated
Frog wins again in Calaveras
county. Billy Budd and the Great
Stone Face illustrate the Puritan
pattern of good and evil, and the
murders 60 on in the famed Rue
Morgue of Edgar Allan Poe. Sher-
wood Anderson's young boy again
asks, II Want to Know Why" and
Frank Stockton inquiries If it is
1.-THE Lady Or the Tiger" Mary e.
wilkins describes "a New England
Num-" Katherine Ann Porter, ma
lria Conception and Dorothy Park
Ter, q big Blonde" William Faulk.
Iner offers Rose for Emily" and
Joel Chandler Harris, "Brer Rab-
Ihit, Brer Fox and the Tar Baby. "
But some Of the stories are not
$50 wen known, and yet promise
10 become equally as famous in
the annals Of the American short
story. "Pfetty Mouth and Green
my Eyes" by J. D. Salinger which
concludes the volume Il as fine d
Ibit OF prose giving an original
treatment Of the love triangle. as
has been written In any language.
J Key Vests Ernest Hemingway
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-01-12
TOLL ROADS NOT THE ANSWER

In the past year number Of proposals have been
made for toll roads and turnpikes as the to
crowded highway conditions confronting the nation
Several new toll roads have been opened and are APP
parenty highly successful.
The consensus Of members at the National Chamber
of Commerce's National Conference on Highway Fl
nancing, however was that toll roads the solution
only about 5000 miles of the most heavily raveed
roads In the country For other roads, another solution
will have to be found to current over-crcwding.
One Of the most interesting ideas discussed at the
National Conference the proposal of the Conference
Of State Governors that the Federal Government get out
Of the gasoline taxation field The idea would be that
this source of revenue would be left to the states which
would gain increased revenue to finance highway linz
provements Under this proposal Federal highway aid
would also be Withdrawn.
Objections were voiced to the proposal on the
theory that the end Of Federal taxation might not al
ways be followed by increased state taxes gasoline,
in which case there would actually be less revenue for
highways in some areas than before.
The proper solution to the nations over-crowded
highways u going to be painful and probably lies
in increased state and Federal expenditures The pro-
posAl made by Ccnnecticutg highway commissioner
that metropolitan areas look into the possibility of new
taxes like payroll sales taxes to finance highway i'm
provements-may be close to the solution, although
such new taxes would constitute highly irritating
method of obtaining funds Probably the best sou-
ton to be found in increase in both state and Fed
eral expenditures, painful as that solution may be-
The number Of automobiles and trucks using the
highwaysis increasing far rapidly than improve
mens to highways and experts predict that unless
the statess aided by the Federal Government, act
provide for expected heavy increases In traffic in the
next tenears the current situation will become acute
Increased Federal aid be provided through
economies effected in the next few years. although the
state may have to raise taxes for their new
Since the to this situation requires big
money, relatively soon the voter might as well face the
facts and be prepared to shell out.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-01-12
Lana And Kirk Are Stars OF Powerful Film

A fascinating and compelling
story Of Hollywood and Of q man,
driven by an overwhelming pride
and ambition, who rides rUthlessly
over friend and foe alike in his de.
Termination to become the out.
standing figure in the world Of
Iinovie-making will untold Friday
and Saturday on the Monroe screen
lin M.G-M's 1.-THE Bad and the Bea.
|titiful."
Lana Turner, Kirk Douglas, Wal.
ter Pidgeon, Dick Powell, Barry
Sullivan, Gloria Grahame and
Gilbert Roland form the formida-
bic array Of stars who were gath
erred together for this dranla-punci-
ling story Of Jonathan Shields, VINO
started on a shoestring, built up
his studio TO be the greatest In
Hollywood and who In the process
nodded and twisted the lives OF the
woman who loved him, his best
friend and a complete stranger.
Lana Turner plays Georgia Lor.
lrison, daughter Of a onee-famOus
movie star and girl who through
lself.pity has become a tramp and
an alcoholic. Barry Sullivan is seen
as Fred Amiel, the aspiring young
director who throws in his lot with
Jonathan Shields (Kirk Douglas),
Dick Powell has the role d
James Barlow, the college pro,
Ifessor who has written q hit novel
waiter Pidgeon Is Harry Pebbel
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the businessmen whose sole cri-
teriUn Of Shields productions Is
whether they come out In the red
|or the black. they all worship Jo-
nathan Shields in the beginning
and they ell late him In the end.
Georgia Lorrison becomes a fam
Gus motion picture actress at the
cost Of the heaRtbreaking discovery
that she is only a puppet to the
man she loves. Fred Amiei beconn-
les an Academy Award winning d.
rector but only because of dou-
ble-crOss On the part Of the man
whom be thought was his best
friend. James Barlow becomes a
Pulitzer Prize winner, but IN gain
ing bis success through Shields he
loses the young wife whom he
adored. And Harry Pebbel, the
astute businessman, loses his pri.
vate fortune IN the crash which
wipes out Shieldg studio. But just
when il appears that Jonathan
Shields has played his last card,
with no one to aid him, the formi-
dable genius which enabled eim tc
rise to the top again asserts itseli
and he comes up with arother win
ming hand.
The glittering array Of stellar
personalities chosen by Director
Vincente Mirmeili and Producer
John Houseman for the pivotal
characters in 1.-THE Bad and the
Beautiful acqnit themselves with
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-01-12

'Iface by saying that statistics prove
1.-THE average American has a FINE
sense of humor. Steadfastiy re
lfusing to burden the brain witt
lesuteric intellectual subleties, hi
prefers to laugh at all types o.
'|buffoonery. To this group the auth
Tor dedicates his book. to the
great American audience who en-
Joys honest nonsense.
i And speaking OF nonsense there
lis still a third volume which Is a
good bet for an eleventh hour elf,
selection, "Ncnssnss, Y. 8. A."
a collection Of nonsensical Ameri.
cana by Dick Hyman, with comic
drawings by Otto Soglow publish.
led by E. P. Dutton Publishing Co.,
l2e8 Fourth Ave-, New York City,
I113 pages.)
/ Arthur s'Bugs" Baer preludes the
slim volume with a note to those
whom il may disconeert. He sug.
gests the book might be tagged
"Aesop's Foihles," and iustifiably
recommends II for. direct enter.
Itainment, over-the- shoulder perusal
or in capsule form.
The book is divided into fifteen
chapters with titles such as cpl.
ltaphs and superstitions, oddities
lin the news and causes for di.
lvoree. And IL the person who re.
lceives this gift doesn't smile at the
Isign in the window of the cafe in
Ogden, Iowa which advertises 1--WE
dust Our Pies Every Day." he viii
lenjoy the sign in the Florida nut
shop saying, ''If Our Peanuts Were
Any Fresher. They'd Be Insulting. =
And if he isn't surprised that q
.Igirl in Chicago, III. saves ehewed
chewing gum, he win be impressed
with the fact that a fellow in Balti.
more collects spiders.
| Some of the joke themes are Joe's
Joke Book busted off, and the sec
ton on slang can be had in much
larger and better doses from .
standard dictionary of slang. but
ION the whole the person who re,
lceives this book viii get a lot Of
enjoyment out of it.
/ A fourth book which should ap
Ipeal to almost anybody over fiji
teen is a new volume on how t.
make casseroles. In these modern
days Of quickly dished up dinners
and midnight suppers, everybod,
.Iwith an accessible kitchen or kitch
|enette likes to know how to make
up q quick casserole out Of what,
left in the frigidaire or what the5
.lthey just bought at the cornel
grocery store. Lonsene Rousseau
Brunners "cssssrols Manie' (pub-
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By Florence Stuart

I wonder II Carl would mind
terribly il I did let him have .
room. Jane thought She could
an up that big room al the back,
on the second hoor. which had
been closed UP the previous win
ter. Or. for that matter. she might
change that room into Carts
study. That way the boy would
be completely away from their
sleeping quarters. II he came in
late AZ night, they wouldn't even
hear him. And he did seem such
4 sweet. likeahle kid. Il might
even be fun having him around.
lame smiled. This Is my third
u wedding anniversary
Today No fcolingg Well. GOOD
Lord. Why didn't you say some
thing soonerf I'd have rushed out
and bought you q gift l can still
buy you one. What would you
like?"
Don't yoa dare buy M sny.
thing"
~why shoslsdnt I send yOa
| onef"
"f'd think you were tryinR 10
bride me into letting you have
Q room"
Look" ne said. sForEes about
the room. II isn't so terribly Inn
portant II I don't find q room.
then don't find room. What
the heck7" he shrugged. aI'll stay
| on al Paulineis until her husband
makes me get out"
sAnd what thenf"
well, then TIL either ind 4
room. somewhere else, or won't
find one" There was something
about The way he said ii, the tone
of his voice, perhaps q look In his
eyes. II was as IL he had said.
Either the world viii have q place
| for me, or Il won't have q place,
And won't be surprised either
way.
"Of course you'll And q room,
Jane said brightly. "I'il tell yor
what: I'm going TO talk this over
with my husband. I don't know II
he'd want an outsider to live with
u.s.
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KEY BOOKS
By A. Do 7. cINcRAs

lis represented by his popular, ''The
Killers" and hts less familiar "The
Gambler, the Nun and the Radio. 2
Another good last minute gift
selection which should please al.
most any teen-ager or adult ii
Best Cartoons Of The Year 1851
(edited by Lawrence Lariar, pub.
lished by Crown Publishers, AIS
Fourth Ave-, New York City, LIS
|pages.)
Most of the pages have two car.
toons, some have one, and others
a series Of small pictures which
tell story about anything from
a night in a motel to the lure Of
the Bikini bathing suit.
More than IS per cent Of the
pictures are reproduced from the
Saturday Evening Post and Col.
Tiers. Another substantial 10 per
cent are from American Magazine,
and there are occasional cartoons
from Saturday Review of Litera.
ture, the New York Times Book
Review, This Week, Nations Bus.
Iiness, Argosy and other publiea.
lions. The cartoon subjects are
lpredominately urban, and most Of
them are funny. Well known art
lists such as Fox, Solo, Shrvaniari,
CavaIli, Markow, Wolfe, Tobin,
Keate and Roir are represented Ii
the series.
Lawrence Lariar, the editor, pre-
faces the book with a foreword In
which he divides the world of hu,
man beings into the prune, the
sophisticate or stomach rumbler,
and the normal laugher. The
Iprune. the author indicates, has q
sourpuss, beady eyes, thin lips an6
Inc funny bone. He viii not laugh
at any cartoon, and makes soft
gurgling noises in his throat wher
Iplucking the wings off trapped
lflies, or watching the Tv broad
cast of a congressional investiga
ton.
The second he describes as al
intellectual gurgler who can usual
Ily be found in . quiet corner pick
ling his proboscis while perusins
the latest issues Of any magazine
edited for ''smart people only.
his loudest guffaw closely resem
bles the sound of an internal
|belch. or stomach rumble.
Mr.. Lariar concludes the pre-.
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distinction. Lana Turner, in what
Is probably the most, dramatically
demanding role Of her career, IA
superb as the girl who rises above
degradation and disillusionment Ia
become a top-ranking motion pic.
ture actress. Barry Sullivan offer,
a moving sincerity to the part Of
the struggling young director who
lis forced to stand on his own feel
when the man whom he has be
|friended deserts him. Dick Powell
does handsomely by the role OF the
writer who Is persuaded by his
vivacious young wife to lend hii
talents to Hollywood and who loses
her as the result with the wife
played in a winning performance
by Gloria. Grahame. Walter Pid
geon is excellent as Harry Pebbel
who measures art by the dollar
sign. Gilbert Roland makes the
most of his role as a handsome
movie idol. And as Jonathan
Shields, the man who has made
pawns of them all in his tinrelent
ing rise toward fame, Kirk Doug
las gives a performance that j!
Theoretically convincing and pow
Ierful.
.'T'he Bad and the Beautiful" j!
probably the most unusual story o
| Hollywood and Its fabulous person
laiities ever to be brought to tn,
|screel. II spells entertainment
through every fascinating reel.
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NEW YORK R-Col. Frank C..
Gothier is a mlnk-made man.
Il never inherited penny in
my life," said the colonel, who is
perhaps the only man in America
who wears a mink coat and alsb
owns 5000 live mink, 400 hogs,
I,400 acres of Iowa bottomland and
a Colorado gold mine.
"Of course, it's just an old gold
mine," he explained modestly. Il
bought 1t for the taxes on it.
81 suppose there are any number
of people who own gold mines. But
the only other fellow ! ever heard
of who had his own mink coat was
that Russian they called Rasputin.
After he got himself killed the Rus.
sian government sent his coat over
here, and II sold for $1,000, although
Lit was rs. years DID,"
To the colonel this Is sound proof
that a mink coat wears better than
a Russian political figure.
Gothier, a stalwart 6-foot-3 man
of IS, is the dean Of us. mink
ranchers and a pioneer In the
breeding Of new fur types.
mink have fascinated me all
my life," said the colonel, who
came here TO sell 1000 pelts. II
trapped 'em as boy near my
home at Anthony, la.
81 had a good home, but I left
1t at IL because the farm was too
small an operation for a family Of
seven.
81 wanted to be independent and
make my own way. So went out
to South Dakota and rode the
range before they even had a rail-
road. When / married, figured
that was no life for a married
man, so / came back to my old
home town, took small piece Of
land and settled down."
In 1915 Gothier, whose life Is a
fur.lined romance, began breeding
mink, but didn't make q dollar out
Of them for II years. He made the
farm pay his living and the cost oi
his breeding experiments.
He became one of the nations
best known fur judges and a top
auctioneer. His title Of colonel, con-