THE NOME NUGGET
Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday by the
NOME PUBLISHING CO.
NOME. ALASKA
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W. A. Boucher .. ..Owner-Publisher
Entered as second class matter October 14. 1943, at the postoffice
•t Nome, Alaska, under the Act of March 3. 1879.
Nome, Alaska, Monday, November 27, 1950.
CIVILIAN DEFENSE PLANS SHAPING UP
Nome has been slow in getting started on its plans
for Civilian Defense due mainly to the fact that most
plans laid out for other cities almost anywhere are not
applicable to our unique and isolated location. Informa
tion and prepared outlines for civilian defense, especial
ly along the lines of ground transportation cannot be
used as for the next several months there will be no
roads open and no place to go in case of evacuation.
A well picked committee of business men and pro
fessional leaders of the community have been chosen
to help lay out the plans which will be announced soon,
and which should be a help to the smaller communities
around us, as well as the people in Nome.
SAYS CHINESE OPPOSE COMMUNISM
An American dentist, whose writings had a profound
effect on Dr. Sun Yatsen, a Chinese leader, and who is
better known to the Chinese than to Americans, has re
cently returned after a ten weeks visit to the Far East.
Dr. Maurice Williams was the guest of President
Rhee, of Korea, at the time of the Inchon landing and
spent six weeks in Formosa where he made a number
of speeches and discussed world conditions with Gener
alissimo Chiang Kai-Shek.
Dr. Williams expresses the opinion that 99.9 per cent
of the Chinese are anti-Communist” and reject Com
munism “because it doesn’t fit in with Confucianism.”
This sounds all right and is pleasant reading for the
people of this country who wonder what the Chinese
population may eventually attempt to do. Nevertheless,
it is a bit disconcerting to believe that one-tenth of one
per cent of the Chinese are able to expel the govern
ment of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Chek and give their
nation into the control of the communists. This is hard
to understand if the views of the dentist are correct.
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WAR OR NOT, WE ARE GOING TO: (1) Live in a
war economy for the next 10 to 20 years. (2) Have three i
million men under arms by next June. (3) Five million j
men by another year. (4) Spent 25' < of our national
product for federal government—mostly military. (5)
Call manv more men to the colors in the next nine i
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months. ... so says the latest issue of U. S. Chamber’s
“Nation’s Business.”
$11,500,000,000 TO BE SPENT BY NAVY AND USAF
DURING FISCAL 51. Before June 30, 1951, contracts
will be let for this vast sum needed to maintain and in
crease our air strength. $7.6 billion of this amount will
be spent for new planes of which more than $4 billion
will be subcontracted. The full impact of this program i
will not be felt until next spring. Furthermore, it is ex-!
pected that before next spring many more millions will
be made available in this nation’s desperate drive to re- j
gain lost ground. The impact of this greatest peacetime j
aviation construction program will be felt throughout
our eonomy, particularly in cities which are aviation 1
centers, such as Seattle.—“Seattle Business.” ;
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TO SETTLE AMERICAN PROBLEMS
Because the American people are “troubled with
vague uncertainties and worries,” General Dwight D.
Eisenhower, President of Columbia University, has an
nounced what he considers “the most important step”
that he has taken as the head of that institution of learn
ing.
It is a plan to hold eight conferences a year, bringing
together representatives of business, labor, the profes
sions, political parties and government, with the pur
pose of throwing impartial light on the major problems!
that confront the nation. \
Attending the conferences will be members of the;
NEWS IN BRIEF
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duck soup yesterday had even the
wild ducks befogged.
A partloman in Islington found
a wild duck in a shop doorway,
waiting for better flying condi
tions.
A cop on the Bayswater beat
came across another duck running
around in frustrated circles,afraid
to take off.
SEATTLE, (>P)—Mrs. Genevieve
Benson, 56, of Suquamish, across
Puget Sound, died Thursday in a
Bremerton hospital after a short
illness.
She was born in Alaska, and
had lived in Seattle about 15 years
before moving to Suquamish in
1935.
She is survived by her husband,
Capt. George E. Benson, retired
Puget Sound ferry captain; a son,
George E. Benson, Jr., Anchorage,
Alaska; a daughter Maureen Su
quamish, and a sister, Sister Ur
sula Maureen. Fairbanks, Alaska.
CINCINNATI, (/P) — Chairman
Paul D. <Chip> Cain announced
today that the city boxing com
mission will order the Ezzard
Charles-Nick Barone heavyweight
championship fight postpon e d .
The contest is scheduled for to
morrow night.
BOSTON, (/P)—The Boston Red
Sox announced today that Lou
Bourdreau, manager of the 1948
world champion Cleveland Indi
ans, has -accepted terms and will
join the team as a player.
Bourdreau was replaced recent
ly as manager of the Indians by
A1 Lopez.
The Sox’ announcement gave
no details. (
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FAIRBANKS, (£>)—An F-94 jet
fighter on maneuvers crashed 250
miles west of here yesterday, kill-'
ing the pilot and radar observer.
Names of the two victims were
withheld.
The plane, with others of the
449th A!l Weather Fighter Squad
ron, was on exercises in connec
tion with civilian and military
maneuvers being conducted
throughout the Territory.
High Winds, Heavy
Snow, Bitter Cold
Strike States
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to evacuate their homes.
Pittsburgh braced itself for
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more of a heavy snow storm—al
ready the greatest continuous
snowfall in the city’s history
By morning, 16 inches of snow
blanketed Pittsburgh and there
was every prospect that another
10 to 15 inches would fall.
Transportation came to a virtu
al halt and essential services were
badly hit by the heavy storm. The
storm also took an early toll,
claiming the lives of five men
who were stricken as they fought
the mounting drifts.
The snow piled up in other
western Pennsylvania sectio* n s
with 18 inches reported at Mead
ville and 15 at Erie. Two other
deaths were attributed to the
storm, the result of accidents.
At Cleveland, one of the worst
blizzards of November recorl al
most halted street transportation.
Traffic was whittled down to a
few public vehicles and there was
little likelihood that these would
continue in operation if the storm
continued. Forecasts indicated at
least a foot of snow would fall.
Snow was reported as far south
as Alabama and Georgia, and in
several southern cities clear to the
Gulf, temperatures skidded to
freezing. Nashville, Tenn., report
ed rezo. It was 7 above at Atlanta,
10 at Roanoke, Va.; 17 at Mont
gomery, Ala.; 20 at Meridian,
Miss.; —3 at Bowling Green, Ky.;
Muskegon, Michigan, reported one
of the lowest early morning read
ings —13.
(The weather bureau reported
it was 19 above zero in Nome,
Alaska, at 7 a.m., Saturday morn
ing.
The storm which mauled the
whole northeastern section of the
nation with record fury over the
weekend had vanished today but
grief, human misery and industri
al paralysis lingered on.
At least 226 deaths were blamed
on the devastating winds along
the Atlantic Seaboard and the
heavy snow which fell as far
University’s scholastic staff. They will provide histori
cal and philosophical background to current problems.
The combination, says General Eisenhower, should
bring together theory and experience.
THE MAN AND HIS WIFE WHO CAME TO DINNER
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INFLATION
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TAXES
L. C. Ferguson, manager of the
Traeger Trading Post at Unala
kleet is in town for a few days on
business for the estate which he is
managing and reports Unalakleet
is an active place this winter with
daily mail stops by the Alaska
Airlines.
south as Mississippi and Alabama.
Damage in New England alone
was estimated at $100,000,000,
with threatened floods expected
to add to the cost. Most of western
Pennsylvania and northern Ohio
still were digging out of snow
which brought business to a virtu
al halt in such cities as Pittsburgh,
C 1 e v e land, Columbus, Akron,
Youngstown and Dayton.
The wind which hammered
parts of the Atlantic Coast with a
force of as much as 108 miles an
hour at times was described by
the weather bureau as the worst
ever to hit that region. It left
many areas still without power
service today and thousands still
shivering without heat or lighting.
Losses to boat owners were the
heaviest since the 1938 hurricane.
The blow was accompanied by
torrential rains which had sent
some New England streams out
of their banks. Some others were
threatening to overflow. New
York City, however, harvested a
25-day water supply. The city
reservoir trapped 25-billion gal
lons, building up a needed reserve *
supply.
Resumption of normal business
in the snow-bound sections of
Pennsylvania and Ohio still was
not in sight today.
Transportation facilities were
too crippled to carry sufficient
workers to their jobs. Many
schools, including Penn State Col
lege, Bucknell, Juniata, Pitts
burgh University, Duquesne Uni
versity and Carnegie Tech in
Pennsylvania, all were closed for
the day at least.
All public and parochial schools
remained closed in Pittsburgh
where the snowfall measured a
record 28 inches. Mayor David
Lawrence declared a state of
emergency in the city and appeal
ed to all but essential workers to
stay off their jobs and help clear
the city’s side streets.
With more snow forecast for to
day. Gov. James Duff declared an
emergency in 17 western counties
and declared today and tomorrow
legal holidays there so that the
banks could remain closed.
The shutdown in Ohio was
more widespread. There, too,
banks and schools remained clos
ed and transportation stalled as
crews bored through snow drifts
as deep as 23 feet in some places
in clearing the highways.
Gov. Frank J. Lausche also
urged motorists to stay off the
streets and decalred today a per
missive legal holiday so that
banks and other financial institu
tions could remain closed.
The cost of industrial shutdown
in Cleveland alone was estimated
at $10,000,000 a day. The snowfall
there was more than 20 inches.
The death toll by states as a re
sult of the storm which lashed the
Atlantic seaboard and dumped
business-stalling falls of snow on
Ohio and Pennsylvania over the
weekend causes: ranged from
heart attacks to exposure.
New Jersey 28, New York 31,
Connecticut 6, Maryland 3, South
Carolina 2, North Carolina 2. New
Hampshire 1, Massachusetts 2, In
diana 6, Illinois 5, Ohio 51, Penn
sylvania 23, Michigan 17, Ken
tucky 11, Alabama 1’. West Vir
ginia 11, Georgia 2, Tennessee 4,
Delaware 2, Maine 2, Vermont 1, .
Virginia 1.