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The Nome nugget., 1956-09-24
Alaska Airlines Asks Permission to Suspend Service to Ungalik

WASHINGTON, R-A a k a Airlines asked the Civil Aero nautics Board Friday for permis- sion to suspend scheduled service at Ungalik, Alaska, on it's Anchor age-Nome route.
 The airline said that if it is re- quired to continue its twice-a- month service at Ungalik 1t will be "just a matter of time before serious mishap occurs," because:
 l. Summer landing conditions are extremely difficult" The landing area-only 1000 feet long -is on top of a ridge between two knolls with each end higher than the center, and the prevailing winds are always cross-winds, the line said.
 2. Winter operations on the river below the ridge are prob ably even worse" because of overlows and tilted ice.
 Furthermore, the airline said the present scheduled service is entirely for the convenience of the two sole occupants of Ungal- ik."
The Nome nugget., 1956-09-24

Throughout the world many odd forms of money are still in use. In certain sections of the Malay Peninsula, for ex- ample, tree shaped tin castings are still used as currency. To make a purchase one breaks off the "limbs" of the tree. On the West Coast of Africa an open ring" of bronze is still used by some tribes as money. These rings" are made in Birmingham, England, especially for export to this region. On the Island of Tap in the mid-Pacific, 100-pound stone slabs are legitimate cur rency.
 But the American Express Travellers Cheque, invented in 1891, may be said to be the only true international form of cur rency. Millions of dollars worth are in circulation every day, and they are recognized and accepted everywhere. .....-.....4v>.-.-4--.1
The Nome nugget., 1956-09-24
K A DIO PROGRAM ARMED FORCES RADIO SERVICE = NOME FIELD

l0:05-Turn Back the Clock 10: 30-Spotlite on a Star 10:45-Rex Koury 11:00-Bob Crosby l1:15-Latin Americana ll:S0-Make Up Your Mind l1:45-Bobby Hammack 12:00-News 12:l5-Behind the Story 12: 2:30-Platter Parade
 1:o0-Hillbilly Jamboree
 2:00-Tennessee Ernie
 2:30-Music a la Carte
 4:00-News
 4:05-Baseball
 6:00-News
 6:l5-Sports Caravan
 6:30-Revenuers' Romp
 7:30-Could This Be You? 8:00-Portraits in Music 8:30-Our Miss Brooks
 9:00-News
 9:05-Gunsmoke
 9:30-FBI in Peace 6 War i0:o0-one Night Stand 10: 30-Martin Block 11:00-News 11:15-A Joy Forever
The Nome nugget., 1956-09-24

seemingly insuperable travel difficulties.
 To keep their travelling cus- toners happy, American Express sometimes goes to great lengths. Like the time sick man on one of their aroun2-the-world cruises asked if he could see Mt. Fuji- yama from his cabin window. The only way he could see it was if the ship was turned around-so the ship was turned around.
 American Express likes to re- peat two stories about the &C., ceptability of the cheques, which are often called the Worlds Number One Money"
 A traveller once tried to buy a blanket from an Arab, offering to pay for it with a gold coin. The Arab refused. However, when the man presented an A m erican Express travellers cheque the desert chieftain ac- cepted it without hesitation.
 One advantage of travellers cheques is that they are good indefinitely. Some have been cashed 25 or 30 years after they were issued. Only last month, for instance, a batch of American Express travellers cheques were uncovered in a buried cookie jar by an excavation crew tearing down a Knob Hill mansion in San Francisco. They had been buried there since 1920. The con- tractor mailed them to the home office of American Express at 65 Broadway i1 New York City. A erican Express promptly mailed a check for $250 to the original buyer, who couldn't even recall why or when he'd put the checks in the cookie jar and buried it.
The Nome nugget., 1956-09-24
French Will Take Part in Tanned Canal Users Association; Oct. l
 Set for Third London Conference

in mind.
 There was speculation in the Egyptian capital that Nasser's Arab neighbors, fearing shut down of the canal or it's dimin- ished importance would cut their own oil revenues from the west, were putting pressure on him to come to an agreement.
 India the Middleman
 Some informants in Cairo have been limiting that SCUA came close to meeting Nasser's ideas, and there was much curiosity about the forthcoming visit to London of India's rowing ambas- sador, " K. Krishna Menon.
 Menon, who embodies India's hopes of bridging the gulf be- tween Egypt and the West, Sat urday wound up an intensive week of soft-shoe diplomatic bar gaining with Nasser in Cairo.
The Nome nugget., 1956-09-24

LONDON R-The French Cab inet decided Saturday to partici- pate in the blunted Suez Canal Users Assn. CSCUA) but with the reservation that it must not weak en insistence on the principle of international administration of the waterway
 At the same time British For eign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd is sued formal invitations fixing October 1 as the date for a third London Suez conference to settle the mechanical details of putting SCUA into action.
 On Ambassadorial Level
 The conference will be on the ambassadorial level and invita- tions went to the IT other nations which attended the just-aban- doned meeting that founded the association. Counting France, at least 12 of the Is attending na- tions have lined up to join the new international agency.
 Adherence to the agency by France, which had insisted on strong action against Egyptian President Nasser, was placed in question Friday when the French charged most of the associations teeth had been pulled before it was born.
 Toll Plan Dropped
 The French were particularly annoyed because plan for SCUA to collect tolls paid by all mem bers was dropped. The French press in general voiced disap- pointment.
 The British too had wanted to keep as much revenue out of Mas ser's hands as possible. But For eign Secretary Lloyd officially went along with the tempered version. There still was much dis satisfaction among staunch gov ernment supporters.
 French Liberty of Action
 Despite French agreement to join, a Paris communique after a two-hour cabinet meeting de- clared France would continue to conserve her liberty of action"
 There was no indication of what specific actions the French had
The Nome nugget., 1956-09-24
Statehood Only Remedy

Statehood for all Alaska, Gov. Gruening pointed out repeatedly, is the only remedy. He said that statehood would benefit every man, woman and child in Alaska. It would bring development and prosperity which Alaska, and Nome and the Second Division es- pecially, have not had.
 Gruening said statehood should not be made a partisan issue, that the great majority of Democrats and Republicans favored it, and that he planned to campaign for the Senate on a non-partisan ba- sis. However, it was great shock to Alaskans of both parties, he said, to note that President Eisen- hover, who had pledged his sup port of statehood before his cleo tion four years ago, had now re- versed himself and had also shown his complete lack of knoWl- edge of Alaska by saying in a re- cent press conference that nearly all of Alaska's population was concentrated in the southeast corner" of Alaska and that that part only should be made a state, leaving the rest under the control of the military. Gruening read from an editorial in the Fairbanks News Miner, a Republican paper, the statement that the President had displayed shocking ignor- ance" of Alaska.
 Presidents View 'Unjustitied'
 Gov. Gruening then pointed out how completely unjustified" was the Presidents view that Alaska could be better defended as ter ritory than as a state. He pointed out that the Defense Department could at any time withdraw what ever areas of Alaska it needed for defense. But that not only had it not done so, but had actually abandoned it's defenses along the coast, such as at Nome, on the ground that they were too near Russia to defend He pledged himself, if elected on Oct. g, to fight for statehood for all of Alas ka and to oppose depriving the northern and western parts of Alaska from statehood's benefits which the President had indicated should be done.
The Nome nugget., 1956-09-24
Nome Stands Still

Continued from Page One) government is giving away bil- lions of dollars to foreign coun- tries"
The Nome nugget., 1956-09-24
Worlds Number One Money

typical week. the than 5000 Express scattered in 339 offices in 36 countries likely be involved in wide variety of assignments.
 As guardian trouble American Express and its employees daily called
The Nome nugget., 1956-09-24
Friday

Friday 6:58-Sign On 7:00-News
 7:15-Weather Roundup 7:18-Rise & Shine 8:15-Morning Devotions 8: 8:3o-Breakfast Club 9:00--Coffee Concert 10:00-News 10:05-Turn Back the Clock 10: 30-Spotlite on a Star 10:45-Rex Koury 11:00-Bob Crosby 11:15-Swinging thru Dixie 11:30-Make Up Your Mind l1:45-Musical Express 12:0o-News 12:15-Behind the Story F: 30-Platter Parade l:e0-Hillbilly Jamboree 2:00-Tennessee Ernie 2:30-Music a Ia Carte 4:o0-News
 4:05--Baseball
The Nome nugget., 1956-09-24

Letter-Size File Folders For Sale Ali The Nome Nugget Office.
The Nome nugget., 1956-09-24

Il. 30-Land of Dreams 12: 0O-Sign Off
The Nome nugget., 1956-09-24
Wednesday

4:05-Baseball
 6:00-News
 6:15-Sports Caravan 6:30-Revenuers' Romp 7:30-Greatest Story Told 8:oo-E. Power Riggs 8;30-Best of Hope 9:00-News
 9:05-S64, 900 Question 9:30-John. Steele, Adven. 10:00-One Night Stand 10: 30--Maltin Block 11:0o-News 11:15-Masters of Melody 11:30-Land of Dreams i2:o0-Sign Off
Evening star., 1956-08-27
The Threat of Initiation

Two developments of recent days
have underscored the threat of substan-
tial infiationary preSsures working on the
national economy
One was the action of the Federal
Reserve Board in approving for the sixth
time in the past 16 months another in
crease in the discount rate to be charged
on loans to member banks. Raised in this
case to per cent, the new rate is the
highest for the reserve system since 1884.
The effect, in a money market where
demand has been exceeding supply-an
infationary situation, is expected to be
discouraging to marginal borrowers seek
ing funds for unneeded expansion, for
long-term accumulation of top-heavy in
ventories and for overly generous grant
ing of credits. In several areas, private
banking institutions already had rec
ognized the money shortage and antici-
pated the Federal Reserve action by
raising their rates to prime borrowers to
per cent The joint action is an orthodox
one in the field of money management.
1t is not of course, an assured solution in
situation where many other inf1ationary
the barrier of tightened credit
Indeed the second development, an
other recorded increase in the cost of
living, illustrates this very point For the
fifth consecutive month, the Consumer
Price Index pushed upward as of mid-July
to>a new high figure of lit. AS through
most OF this period, food prices accounted
for the greatest push on the averages-a
reflection in itself of seasonal factors as
well as of improving farm income In this
connection, a hopeful prediction was
made by the Commissioner of Labor Sta
tiStics that despite further efforts to
increase farm income, the peak of sea-
Sonal price rises has been passed and the
next months figures should not show as
much gain in the consumer index.
Still in the picture, too, is the impact
OF wage increaSeS-Some resulting from
new labor contracts and others stemming
based upon the overall cost of living
indiceS
1t has been valid claim of the Eisen-
hover administration that the progress
OF imitation which set in with the Korean
war has been checked in the past three
and one-half years. At the same time,
the trend Of the past several months has
been clear. This is a creeping imitation
a net effect arising out of restrictive
money policies on one hand and mea-
sures to stimulate the economy on the
other. 1t calls for closest attention and
perhaps even stronger restrictions in the
months to come. 1t is not an easy prob
lem, particularly in an election year, but
a surrender to it would be disastrous in
the long run.
Evening star., 1956-08-27
Inflated Parkway Costs

Fairfax County is not alone in facing
the problem of meeting the extra costs
OF extending the George Washington
Memorial Parkway to the proposed Gen.
trail Intelligence Agency building near
Langley, Virginia. Inflated land and con-
Struction prices have also hit the other
parties to the three-way bargain, namely,
the State of Virginia and the Federal
Government. The estimated cost of the
project has doubled since the three
parties agreed several years ago to raise
their respective shares of the parkway
fund.
Having extended the welcome mat to
CIA, the Fairfax Board of Supervisors
has an obligation to cooperate in the
plans for immediate construction of the
parkway. Congress, in effect, made the
parkway part of the CIA project, appro-
priating funds for the Federal share of
the parkway undertaking. The Virginia
Highway Commission had allocated
$125,000 for the road, but now finds that
an additional $125,000 will be necessary.
The commission. recognizing the urgency
OF the parkway extension, will ask Gov
ernor Stanley for permission to incur
deficit in order to put up the States
increased share, totaling $250,00O The
commission also has asked Fairfax
County to double its contribution at once.
Perhaps the county will be able to
make use of an unforeseen surplus of tax
revenues, just reported The money must
be found, in any event, if the county is
to live up to its agreement with the State
and the Federal Government.
Evening star., 1956-08-27
No Nest of Spies

The United Nations has moved with
commendable speed in firing and sending
home another Soviet employe caught in
the act Of attempting espionage against
our country. The employe-Victor Petrov,
translator-is the third Russian to have
been dealt with in this manner since the
founding Of the U. NJ, and he probably
will not be the last.
Last or not, however, 1t is gratifying
that Mr.. Petrov (who tried unsuccessfully
to lure an American aviation worker into
giving him secret information on our
military aircraft) has been booted out
of the U. N. without any haggling or
delay. Secretary General Dag HAM
marskjold deserves a good measure Of
credit for this. Having received convinc-
ing espionage evidence from the United
States Government, he has lost no time
in having the Soviet agent dismissed and
returned to Russia.
This is reasSuring thing. What It
confirms is that the United Nations, al
though always likely to have periodic
trouble of this sort from one country or
another, is determined not to let itself
become-as some Of its more lurid critics
have charged-"a nest of spies" The
Petrov action is proof enough Of that. 1t
Is action that may yet convince the
Russians that they are wasting their time
when they try to make the U. N. handy
instrument for espionage.
Evening star., 1956-08-27
Test of Power

Senator Byrds denunciation of the
ubiquitous" Eisenhower civil rights pro-
gram did not quite add up to a pledge to
support the Stevenson-Kefauver ticket in
November. But it looks as though the
Virginia Senator may be paving the way
Tor such declaration, and if so an in
teresting test of political power lies
ahead.
In 1852, Senator Byrd refused to in
dorse the Stevenson -Sparkman ticket,
largely on the ground that it was an echo
OF "TrumaniSm." This stand by the
States political leader was responsible in
considerable degree for the fact that Mr..
Eisenhower carried Virginia by margin
of more than 10000 votes out of total
OF some $4,000. The question now, if
Senator Byrd reverses himself, is whether
he will be able to lead the State back
into the Democratic column.
In ordinary circumstances there
would be little doubt of his ability to do
this. But there are some strange political
pressureS at work in Virginia this year.
For one thing, the Republican op-
ponents of incumbent Governor Tom
Stanley polled As per cent of the guber-
material vote in 1953-an unprecedented
showing of Republican strength in State
election. Another factor which may have
significant political consequences is the
current fight over deSegregation in the
public schools
1t is interesting that Senator Byrd
based his Saturday statement on the ad-
ministration'S civil rights program. That
same program was cited earlier in the
week by Senator Garland Gray in expla-
nation of his abandonment of the Gray
Commissions assignment plan and tuition
recommendations. Although the civil
rights program did not pass at the last
Congress, and may never pass, Senator
Gray said he was abandoning the assign
ment plan because the program, if it
should be enacted in the future, would
endanger the appeal procedures proposed
In the plan.
No one can say what will be the end
result II the assignment plan is dropped
In favor of Governor Stanley'S proposal
to cut off State funds from any school
which integrates. But if bitter fight
develops over the prospect that an ap-
preciable number of counties will be
forced to close their public schools or will
be deprived of State aid it is reasonable
to expect repercussions that will weaken
the Byrd organization. And if Senator
Byrd is identified-as he will be-as a
backer of the Stanley program, his per-
sonal political influence may be somewhat
impaired. So, while the chances are that
he can swing the State to the Democratic
ticket if he wants to do so, he may we'll be
facing severe test of his own political
power.
Evening star., 1956-08-27
The Circus Has Gone

Something has gone from the
life OF a child
Something erciting and gay.
Nothing can eper replace all
its thrills.
The circus has gone from his
day.
Elephants. horses ana rhyth-
nicdl bands:
Clouns uith their gay parasols
Marched through the toicn on
a bright sunny day
They 0Gue OF their best fol-
deTols.
Poor is the child uho'S TOO
young to recall
Popcorn and peanuts un-
shelled.
Wealthy is he Nth a mem m
OF all
The tairy-tale i1oEders beheld.
MoHbelIs n. Wilder
Evening star., 1956-08-27
Righting a Wrong

Further evidence OF Army Secretary
Brucker'S determination to avert and
correct injustices in the military security
program is provided in the three-year-
old case of William B. Foster, former Dis
tr1ct resident. Secretary Brucker has
restored Mr.. Foster, a carpenter, to his
lob at Fort Lawton, Washington, after the
nonSensitive employees clearance by
special review panel. He will receive back
pay for the 39-month period covering his
suspension and subsequent dismissal as
security risk
Mr.. Foster had been accused Of Com
munist Associations, although he had
been cleared previously of similar charges
by both the Army and the Navy. In view
OF. this prior clearance he employed no
attorney to represent him at the new
Army hearing. The hearing board split,
two to two, on the question Of his guilt or
innocence of the charges, but, under the
regulations. the divided verdict was re-
solved in favor of the Government. He
was fired from his job as maintenance
carpenter at the fort, eleven months after
the charges first we're filed. But Mr..
Foster, proclaiming his innocence Of COM
muniStic Affiliations or tendencies, re-
fused to give up the fight to clear his
name. His hopes rose when his wife was
cleared Of almost identical charges and
was restored to her job at the Seattle Port
of Embarkation. He enlisted the aid of
the Seattle Urban League and last NO
vember presented his case to the Senate
Committee on Constitutional Rights. But
fosi
told the committee it could find no reason
to reinstate Mr.. Foster.
However, after The Star had disclosed
details Of new directive by Secretary
Brucker banning guilt by association, kin
ship and character reference in military
security cases, the Urban League renewed
its fight for review of the Foster case.
The Army agreed that review was justi-
ned and the special panel was named. It's
findings caused Mr.. Brucker to order the
Evening star., 1956-08-27
Satellite in EcIipse?

There seems to be a quality
OF humility lacking in the
manner in which we evaluate
what makes today's headline
news. While front-page news
carries in bold, black type the
emotional aspects of that DO
litical sparring which charac-
terizes our American pre-
election days. somewhere on
an obscure page we find a
brief item concerning news of
the greatest magnitude. I re-
fer to the awe-inspiring news
release pertaining to the
United States unveiling. on
August IA. Of the prototype of
the first satellite made at the
Naval Research Laboratories.
The full-scale model is a
replica of the "man-made
moon" which, it is proposed,
VIII De Snot into space, within
the next two years, to travel
around the earth on its own
orbit, about once every 80 min
utes. 1t is hoped that through
this medium scientists will
learn more about space and
about our own planet. cannot
help but think that, we're we
to pause and reflect upon the
profound implications Of this
cosmic venture (Which reads
like something out of science
fiction), our perspective would
alter and our present-day
rantings as earthlings creating
a political furor tall parties in
cludedD would cease as we
focus our headline news in its
proper place in time-space.
Jessie b. Solomon.
Evening star., 1956-08-27

Everybody else is so busy
getting across the hazardous
street that Jones is let alone.
Only once, he says, has any,
one cast a suspicious eye on
his maneuvers.
This was an old lady who
probably thought he had de-
signs. as they used to say, on
her person or maybe her pock-
etbook.
This was the only time
Jones ever beat a retreat.
He fed precipitately to the
safety of marble steps, and
waited there until the suspi-
cious lady went across the
Avenue.
You can never be quite sure
about suspicious ladies.
He recalled, with a shudder,
that time he alighted from a
bus at Thirteenth and F
streets, and just as he stepped
out, a lady came rushing past
almost brushing the bus.
In a split second our modest
hero had thought Of two
courses:
l. To keep on stepping out.
which would have knocked the
lady for a loop.
2. Or touch her lightly on
the shoulder, in order to steer
himself to one side.
He selected the second step.
and that was where he made
his big mistake.
The lady folded her arms,
and glared at him.
When Jones got to the other
corner, he looked back.
There she still was, arms
akimbo this time.
If there had been a police
officer there, as in the olden
times. Jones fate would have
been sealed.
''The town is full Of them"
Jones sighed. and went on his
suntanning way.
4 -
On his favorite corner, Jones
watches the increase in people
day by day.
1t is an amazing thing, per-
haps unbelievable. that pass
ersby at this corner have
picked up at least 100 per cent
since last summer.
Ask Jones.
He knows.
Any one SO full Of sunshine Is
bound to know a lot.
Evening star., 1956-08-27

lower, in fact more often out
OF sight than not. Then Il
waits there. churring loudly
until the follower again nears
it. when the action is repeated.
This goes on until the vicinity
OF the bees nest is reached.
Here the bird suddenly ceases
calling and perches quietly in
a tree nearby. It waits there
for the follower to open the
hive and usually until the per-
son has departed with his loot
OF honeycomb, when it comes
down to the plundered bees
nest and begins to feed on the
bits of comb left strewn about.
The time during which the
bird may wait quietly may vary
from a few minutes to we'll
over an hour and a half"
Natives Say It's InfalIibIe
African natives regard the
bird as an almost infallible
guide to honey. They try to
attract it by grunting like a
ratel or chopping on trees to
initiate the sound of opening
a nest.
The habit is instructive, DR..
friedman holds, and cannot
be a deliberately associative
act. 1t presumably originated
before human beings appeared,
perhaps starting with the ratel
or some of its honey-eating
ancestors.
Curiously enough, DR.. Fried
mann points out, the honey
bird does not seem interested
in the honey, per Sc, or in the
grubs of bees found in the
nests. 1t has an Unsuitable
appetite for the wax, which it
will take wherever it can be
found. The first account Of
the bird was of an individual
which fed on the wax candles
Of a church. 1t appears to
have a peculiar ability to
digest wax, presumably to ex-
tract the nutritive elements
contained.
DR.. Friedman, with various
collaborators, now is carrying
out an intensive study of the
mechanism Of the wax diges-
ton, which may prove of con-
siderable medical interest.