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The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1960-12-02
CAPS 10Th Anniversary

WHEN THE NEED FOR civilian air support arose
w 10 years ago just before the 'day of infamy" at
Pearl Harbor, Civil Air Patrol formed almost
overnight to meet the emergency. Predictions were
that it would die just quickly, when hostties
ceased.
The exact opposite came true
There were too many ardent, aviation : minded
and women of considerable stature to allow such
a history-making heroicay proved organization like
CAP to drift into limbo
1t was Gen. H H. Hap Arnold, Army Air Forces
wartime commander, who spearheaded the move to
incorporate CAP, and this done by public law
on July l, 1916; it became benevolent, nonprofit
organization under Federal charter without financial
assistance from the Air Force.
December 1, 1860 = CAPS 10Th anniversary
finds this Air Force auxiliary substantial, dues
paying volunteer flying organization in over 1000
communities with 10000 adults and teen-agers in So
WINGS in each state, the District of Columbia and
Puerto Rico Daily somewhere in the vastness of the
continent and islands, search and rescue and emer-
gency missions in the air and the ground are IN
progress and each uniformed member is studying to
advance his aerospace knowledge.
AS this is being written, the CAP, with volun-
teer members from Galena, Moses Point Unalakleet
and Nome are searching for plane with three pas
sengers lost between Gaena and Moses Point, exem-
pifyng what CAP means to Northwestern Alaska
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1960-12-02
FAA StreamIines
Baggage Weighing
Procedures

WASHINGTON, R = The air
lines announced today a stream
lined procedure for figuring bag
gage weight on international
flights.
The Federal Aviation Agency
has authorized them to use aver
ages instead of individual
weight figures - based upon an
Air Transport Association analy-
sis of 1000 international flights
involving more than $4,000 pas
sengers.
The new ruling was announced
by Alta, speaking for domestic
airlines, but the FAA said it ap-
plies to foreign airlines serving
this country as well.
Under the new formula, each
suitcase checked by a passenger
on a transatlantic flights, or on
a transpacific flight between the
S. and Manila, Tokyo, Hong
Kong or Australia, is assumed TO
weigh 2615 pounds.
On flights between the main
land and Hawaii or Alaska, the
average for each checked suitcase
will be 2315 pounds.
This is the same weight aver
age that has been used, with FAA
permission on domestic flights
since July, 1859,
In addition, five pounds will be
added to the weight of each pas
senger as the average of the items
he carries with him on the plane.
The only luggage that will
have to be weighed at the ticket
counter individually, and record
ed precisely, is that which ex-
ceeds the free baggage allowance
of 40 pounds domestically and Sc
pounds on international trips.
For many years this average
weight system has been applied
to airline passengers, SO that they
would not have to be weighed
individually.
Under this practice, the aver
age weight assigned to dom
este passenger is 100 pounds in
summer and 165 pounds in win
ter. The average for an interna-
tional traveller is 1865 pounds in
summer, ITO in winter.
Under the new procedure, bag
gage would be placed on the
scales as it is checked in, merely
to determine whether it exceeds
the allowable free weight. For
airplane weight calculation pur-
poses, the average weight figure
= multiplied by the number of
suitcases-Would be used, rather
than listing the exact weight of
each case and adding up the total.
The new procedure would i'm
prove passengers service by elm
mating time consuming calcula-
tions at the ticket counter, and by
simplifying and speeding up the
pre-flight figuring of aircraft
weight and balance.
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The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1960-12-02
Charges Vote
Frauds Are
National Disgrace

WASHINGTON, tR = Republi-
can chairman Thruston B. Nor
ton, charging that vote frauds in
the Nov 8 election amounted to
national disgrace, announced
yesterday he will conduct wide
investigation.
He set up a national recount
and fair elections committee"
with these announced purposes:
a. To demand an honest count
of this election in every suspicious
state.
80. To investigate and track
down the Irregularities and
frauds wherever they exist"
Morton put Illinois and Texas
at the head of his list of sus-
picious states.
Asked whether he thought the
Democrats had stolen the cleo
ton, Morton said, "There is so
much smoke l must investigate
to see if there is any fire"
Sen. Henry M. jackson, the
Democratic National Committee
chairman, in advance of the Nor
ton news conference, declined
comment on COP statements but
suggested at might be well to
probe into the question of Whet-
Their dilatory tactics are being
employed" by the Republicans.
Morton said chances certainly
were that the inauguration would
be held in January as scheduled
and that most people certainly
think that the new president will
be John F. Kennedy.
81 can say unequivocably that
there have been shocking irregu-
larities and fraud in this election
which constitute a national dis
grace" Morton said.
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1960-12-02
Eisenhower Gives Nixon
Recognition AS Leader
OF Republican Party

WASHINGTON, R- President
Eisenhower has given Vice Presi-
dent Richard NJ Nixon public re-
cognition as the new leader of
the Republican party, in sharp
disagreement with the stand of
New York's Gov. Nelson Rookie
Teller.
The White House said that
Eisenhower, in a toast at a White
House dinner Wednesday night,
remarked that Nixon will be re-
cognized as head of the party for
the next four years, and will have
EisenhoWer's support and the
support of all those present.
Whether so intended or not, the
Presidents comments amounted
to rejoinder to Rockefeller, who
spoke at an Albany news con-
ference only the day before.
Rockefeller, once a competitor
against Nixon for this years Re-
publican nomination for the pre-
sidency, said a party without a
president in office is without an
actual head except perhaps for
the national chairman.
The governor did say Nixon has
a tremendous important part to
play in uniting and strengthening
the party"
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1960-12-02
Professionals Spend Sl70 Million
On Overseas Missions In 1859

NEW YORK, Up = American
Protestants gave about $170 mil
lion to support their overseas
missions in 146 countries and
territories in 1859, the National
Council of Churches reports.
The Nome nugget., 1960-07-29
Russians Briefly Detain American Students
 For Distributing State Department Magazine

} MOSCOW, R- Soviet author ities detained three Americans, a Briton and a West German yes terday in an incident involving distribution of the US. State De- partment's magazine Amerika.
 The five were questioned about four hours, released, and told to leave the country immediately.
 Informed sources said the three Americans were students who took copies of the magazine from the American Embassy and tried to distribute them among passers- by near a downtown hotel.
 The informants said the Bri- ton, the West German and an American described as Chicago schoolteacher took pictures of the crowd of Russians which gathered about the three Americans.
 Amerika is a handsomely illus trated slick-paper magazine pub lished by the United States in the Russian language and intended to explain the United States to Rus sians. It is distributed in the USSR on a strictly limited quota basis in return for permission to the Soviet Union to distribute sim liar magazine on a limited basis in the United States.
 About 50,000 copies are printed monthly but an Embassy spokes- man said from 200 to 400 copies are returned monthly by Soviet officials as undistributable. These are stacked in the reception room of the Embassy and tourists may take as many as they want. This is where the students got them.
The Nome nugget., 1960-07-29
Pravda Has Bitter Words For Nixon Nomination

MOSCOW, Richard Nixon drew bitter words today from Moscow Pravda, the newspaper of the city Communist party. In story and cartoon, it called the Republican presidential nominee "a weather cock and chameleon"
 It charged Nixon was linked with Wall Street bankers and with McCarthyism. It said he is an advocate of craftsmanship who supported the cause of lib eration of Eastern Europe" which it interpreted as creating conspir- acies in Communist bloc coun- tries.
 Soviet newspapers have not paid half as much attention to the Republican National Convention as to the Democratic. Most have ignored the Chicago proceedings.
 The Soviet official preference is for a Democratic victory, al though Sen. Kennedy is by no means fair-haired boy in Soviet eyes.
The Nome nugget., 1960-07-29
Friday. July 2s. 1860
ALASKA'S FISH PACK WEARS 2 MILLION CASES

JUNEAU, lR - Alaska's 1860 salmon pack hurdled the million and half case mark last week and is climing steadily toward the two million case point, the Fish and Game Department said.
 The total state salmon pack through last Sunday, according to figures compiled Wednesday, was 1,794,373 cases, far above the 1,068,474 cases packed during the same period last year.
 The Bristol Bay run, apparent ly, dropped off sharply last week.
The Nome nugget., 1960-07-29
Nixon Background Differs From That Of Sen. Kennedy

CHICAGO, R- Vice President Nixon met with an open caucus Of Georgia and Texas delegates to appeal for unity Thursday nor ming Then he launched into ac- counts of his own upbringing and that of his wife Pat, with broad implications of a contrast with the upper crust wealthy back ground of his Democratic oppon- ent.
 The Republican party's new top man related that Mrs. Nixon was the daughter of an itinerant min CT, that her mother died of can cer when Mrs. Nixon was 12, that she was orphaned at Is and work ed her way through college to become a schoolteacher
 When you have got that kind of background, you must have what it takes" Nixon asserted.
 He then told about his own father, a onetime streetcar motor man and carpenter who, Nixon said, worked as "roughneck" on rigs to supplement the family's income from a six acre lemon grove.
 Nixon said his father used to joke, "This land must have oil in it because it ain't good for grow ing lemons"
 The candidate said oil was found on the land after it had passed out of the family's hands, and that's the only reason l didn't become a Rockefeller
 As he sat at session with other southern delegations, Nixon sug- gested that while they may not be enthusiastic about some sec tions of the party platform, they should take a look at the Demo- cratic platform.
The Nome nugget., 1960-07-29
Gold Gambling Casino Sign Must Be Melted Down Says Government

CARSON CITY, Nev., R - A nine inch high gold rooster on display in the Nugget Casino at Sparks violates the Gold Reserve Act and should be melted down, the federal government says in a suit in US. District Court
 The government contends the rooster contains 2O6 ounces of gold, 156 more than an individual can keep for more than month without permission unless the gold is used for artistic purposes.
 Casino owner Dick Graves ad- mits the bird contains $12,500 in gold but contends it is an object of art and worth $40,000.
The Nome nugget., 1960-07-29
DAMN THE TORPEDOES"

HAVANA, R-The Cuban navy yesterday sent patrol boat to investigate US. destroyer sight ed well outside Cuban territorial waters. The US. craft steamed off before the patrol launch reached it. While it was in sight from about midmorning until noon, a Soviet tanker pulled past and entered Havana harbor.
The Nome nugget., 1960-07-29
MODEL OF BREVITY

CHICAGO, R-Oregon's Gov. ernor Mark Hatfield's nominating speech for Richard M. Nixon was model of convention brevity- just 290 words.
 But it can't compare with the nominating speech for another Re publican, Abraham Lincoln, 100 years ago. That took only 26 words.
The Nome nugget., 1960-07-29
WEATHER FORECAST

Continued cloudy with rain showers. Low expected tonight 50, the high tomorrow 60
 In the past 24 hours: highest temp. 59, lowest 50. Sunrise 2:58 am, sunset 9:19 pm.
 A year ago today, highest temp. 58, lowest Al. Extremes on this date since 1907: highest 69 in 1928, lowest 32 in 1929.
 The high-loW range in Seattle was 89-61 and in San Francisco 59-53.
The Nome nugget., 1960-07-29
Russians Buy All The Water

BERWICK, Shetland Islands, R-The Russians are making it difficult to get a drink of water around here. New rates lower than the Farce Islands have en- ticed Soviet fishing fleets here to replenish their water tanks. When the 50-ship trawler fleet is tank ing up, the mains can't supply enough for the local citizens.
The Nome nugget., 1960-07-29
MMM HOSPITAL

Admitted: Stan Sobocienski, Ben Dahl, Judy Ullrich, Scott Boehler.
 Discharged: Irene Kavairlook, Ellen Slwooko, Walter Maakestad.
The Nome nugget., 1960-07-29
MT. Stanley D. Vasquez of the

MT. Stanley D. Vasquez of the Alaska Office Supply Co. of Fair banks, has been in Nome setting up 25 new typewriters for the Nome School and trading in those which have been in use for sev- eral years.
The Petal paper. [volume] (Petal, Miss.) 1953-19??, 1960-01-21

you are more likley to give
matching slices Of paper-thin
bologna, framed for mounting on
the wall of den or recreation
room, these books are just what
you need.
The great American public that
clusters around the hot catholics
Of .TV every night knows Steve
Allen very well. Also it may be
remembered that, he starred in
the movie onythe. life of Benny
Goodman, wrote ."Bob Fables"
and s'The Funny Man." and pub
lished a volume of poetry called
.s'Wry on the Bocks.H
One of these stories is ABOUT
religious fanatieaencountered on
board an airliner. AT first the
man recited Uncomfortable pas
sages from the 3Sefiptures, and
tried to give away religious
tracts. Nobody. paid him much
attention, ;, just. amused under
standing as if he had been a
naughty, exasperating child Then
he shouted that Ire had time
bomb in This. suitcase, set to go
off in the baggage compartment
of the plane. III He got plenty OF
attention but fast, The pilot
couldn't wait to get down out of
the sky before the thing went
off, and it was asterrifying ex-
perience for everybody.
- If you have friend who trav-
els lot by air. by all means see
that he reads "The Blood of the
Lamb" Then brace yourself
against him - In case he decides
The Petal paper. [volume] (Petal, Miss.) 1953-19??, 1960-01-21
Book Review

matters. They are all = the good
and the bad - in the same sad
piece of time" We may be sure
that "snow will douse the en-
bers, hush the holocost."
Now does anybody want to in
quire what the title has to do
with rye whiskey poured over
ice cubes? We hope not. m
Finally does anybody want to
know what this short drink for
sober drinkers has to do with a
lnog range of merciful drinks
with bitter flavor = beginning
with tea, coffee and beer, and
including toward the end worm
wood, the hemlock Socrates &C
cepted, and the mixture of gall
and vinegar the Man on the
Cross did not?
Perhaps. 1t could be. We hope
so. {es
w. w. Stout
X 4 X
BOLOGNA UNDER GLASS:
Twenty mine short stories. in two
volumes. by Steve Allen. The
Girls on the 10th Floor" Holt.
1873 PIP. $500 and fourteen for
Tonight" (Holt. 1872 PIP. $3.00)
If you can imagine yourself
giving a dear friend companion
pictures of George and Martha
Washington, in black walnut
frames, these stories by Steve
Allen will leave you cold if not
helpless. On the other hand, Il
The Petal paper. [volume] (Petal, Miss.) 1953-19??, 1960-01-21
Allen Leftertsi mel, I

difficult for me toe resist 1.-THE
temptation to do good ASH see
it, as it is to resist the ctempta-
ton to do evil. ang oaesN 9df n
I think it might be profitable
now to return to the letters re-
ceived at our office and to at
tempt brief outline of their
general arguments for, whatever
their faults, they have displayed
an admirable frankness. Atti-
tudes have been brought out into
the open in way that ordinarily
is not encountered and / think
that it might be enlightening if
our southern friends, are per-
mitted to examine each others
PHILOSOPHERS as they are express
ed in certain sentences and
phrases l propose to quote (using
no names of course). Three of the
letters received revealed an
alarming and undisguised hostil-
ity to the Negro per Sc. One
frequently reads relatively mod
crate statements such as "While
we don't want indignation and
insist on white and colored peo-
pie keeping their separate place
we still have nothing but affec-
tionate regard for the Negro un-
less he personally offends. u.s." 1t
is apparent, however, that there
is a minority Zone hopes it is
small but one cannot determine
its precise dimensions) who feel
frank hatred and contempt for
the Negro. 1t is. apparent that no
Northerner or. outsider. n
hope to melt this attitude; clearly
the moderate Southerner has the
obligation to attempt the educa-
ton of his fanatic and danger
Gus fellows before the poison Of
their passion infects larger seq
ment of the population. 49,
The majority of Southerners,
of course, feel nothing like this
sort of savage disdain. for the,
Negro. Six of the letters received
revealed, however, an. attitude
that is probably in its ultimate
effects more harmful because one
feels that those who harbor the
sentiment do not recognize it as
an evil. There are many forms in
which the philosophy is express.
ed. quote three of them here
with: -. $50 80.
L. 1.-THE average Southerner. has.
no objections to good: Negro
performer on TV. 1t is that in.
many cases he is placed next to !.
Continued no Page Three -.
The Petal paper. [volume] (Petal, Miss.) 1953-19??, 1960-01-21

that one good turn deserves an
other. :.
Oh, yes, here is something. else
if you have a friend who. has
been slipping off to :motels with
some other mans wife-and you
want to let him know you know.
It is called Dialogue" and it is
just the conversation. that took.
place, from the time they rode
off together until the time they
started back together, There is
not much philosophN in the story,
but one philosophical view point
is expressed: IS 1er r-s
cts a hypocritical world, my
chesty wench;. and. the trouble
isn't so much that eyerybody's
wrong as it is that. everybody's
right" s i..t.. ~,fre
In general the characters in the
stories include mugs, movie stars,
missionaries, business men, pub
licity agents, lunatics,a musicians,
etc. Steve Allen is, "a skilled ra-
contour. He is at his best with
sophisticated wit and irony There
is some depth, variety and sensi-
tivity. a9s soec g.1f
Laughter of this kind ordinari
ly follows the collapse of some
discipline or social : restraint.
There was plenty, of itI in Eng
land after 1860, following the
demise of the Puritan, Common
wealth, and the returnof Charles
II from France where he had
been indulging in the arts of lev
ity. The comedy of the Restora-
ton stage establishes some kind
of high water mark And Steve
Allen illustrates the kind of writ,
ing that was considered witty
and clever in the mid both CEN
fury in America 10 asanes
Readers of the i.2lsta century
may inquire what narrow escape
from some malevolennes made the
laughter of Steve ALLEN SO ner-
vous. sit 9Iidw isdj - =
Yrs sM ~ eYSE34IT
The Petal paper. [volume] (Petal, Miss.) 1953-19??, 1960-01-21

that truly good books good sermons would expose fnem 10
precisely the sort Of ideas that are most needed in the present
difficulty.
An autobiography This Is Ny Story by Steve Allen ran in
three nstaImens in LOOK, beginning on March ~ 1852 I'm
cidenta he plans expand the autobiography into book length
during the SUmme There were few statements IN me articles
which found most impressive:
"interviewers ask if I'm worried about Mavericks rating I'm
not am worried about mankind's rating.
n am frequently referred to intellectual but do not
consider myself v column once sought to insult me by
referring to me wouIdbe intellectual, phrase that re-
gard highly complimentary. think everyone ought to be
woudbe intellectual at the very least" .ort.a 81
snce was not brave enough become conscientious OBJ
iector became soldier" sosas 2a
q" know few people who religious and also good
uous and also sanity religious and also generous but have
never known one who pracced he complete Christian phloso
ply" 51.l ra'.sft.tn9 rs
From purely personal point Of view the part of Stoves
LOOK series which most impressed was his comment on
prayer He wrote: IS So $50
keps are fond Of pointing out that there has been
scientific made Of the efficacy Of prayer the same sort Of
that there experiments made to determine the power OF
medicines. a3 9sso N
"A fair testing method for example, would be to check two
groups of people, group praying for certain types OF things
over certain specified period the other not praying for these
same particular things might very well turn out that the group
that did not pray subsequently found just many lost articles
got Just as many desired Jobs Just many football games
and had Just much fall its farms All OF which would be
by way Of proving what many already suppose that e most
eanngu form Of prayer the prayer OF thanksgiving the pray
for grace the prayer that might be given strength to i'm
prove spiritual selves Christ to preach spiritual values
and to deemphasize involvement with the tangible why should
we constantly pray for material thngs Cod has been sad
helps those who help themselves We usually wills are
strong enough secure material needs for ourselves We should
pray then for wisdom, for love Of peace for increase in
charity This the sort Of prayer that is answered in the very
moment Of its uerance the sort Of prayer indeed that would
be answered there Cod This the sort OF prayer
that is unseis because il makes better able to love
other"
fea I've added nothing by way of an insight into and an IN
dersandnq Of this Allen But thing promised in the
BEGINNING Of this column this THE STEVE ALLEN ISSUE
Again. as stated previously its The Steve Allen Issue tor
what consider an excellent like the guy and for more
than his having saved me teeent subway fare and
having paid for my dinner. ssI sass
Of course, that did help Fl a9a5sish1
are
Evening star., 1960-02-10

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