AIRLINES
ALASKA AIRLINES
Incoming passengers Monday
on the Alaska Airlines were: Ar
thur Coffin, Mary Castel, Henry
Moon, Robert Johnke, Susan
Heeren, Albert Mode.
WIEN ALASKA AIRLINES
A flight from Fairbanks last
evening brought in a load of
freight and two passengers. It de
parted with Lucille Knill, Vera
Elim, and Edith Bullock, all _ for
Kotzebue.
Yesterday May Vestal and S. B.
Hillman of the weather bureau
were passengers for Kotzebue.
Monday Molly Mendenhall and
Mr. Friedland were taken to Kot
zebue.
PAN AMERICAN AIRWAYS
Mr. and Mrs. Don Bishop, Mr.
and Mrs. Harry Gottchalk and
Mrs. L. Knill arrived yesterday
with the Pan American. Depart
ing were Mrs. H. Bernier, H. C.
Larsan, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Wal
lace and John Paden. *
AT THE WALLACE HOTEL
Albert Mode, Anchorage. Mr.
and Mrs. Harry Gottchalk, Fair
banks. Jerry L. Chwechy, Fair
banks. W. McDonald, Fairbanks.
Mr. and Mrs. Don Bishop, New
York.
HOME ARTS CLUB MET WITH
MRS. BEN HYNDMAN
The Home Arts Club met at the
home of Mrs. Ben Hyndman last
evening with Mrs. Frank Love
Truman Seeks
Cut In Personal
Income Taxes
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ing program, including public
housing for low-income people and
development of new ways to lower
building costs.
Military Training—
Congress should provide for
universal training at “an early
date” as the foundation for entire
defense program. The action is “of
world importance” and “vital” to
the nation’s security and leader-!
ship.
Health and Security—
Unemployment, old age bene
fits and survivors benefits should
be increased and extended to
“millions who are not now pro
tected.” A national health pro
gram, keyed to a system of pre
paid medical care, is also neces
sary.
Civil Rights—
“Effective federal action” is
necessary to combat discrimina
tion based on race, creed, color, or
land of birth. He will send Con
gress special recommendations on
this subject. In the meantime, as
part of a civil rights program,
statehood should be granted to
Alaska and Hawaii.
presenting a very interesting pa
per on different kinds of fine
linen. The paper was prepared
by Mrs. Kenneth Rank who was
unable to attend due to illness.
$10,000,000 Needed
To Rebuild Wroclaw
WROCLAW, Poland, ^—Re
construction of . war-devastated
Wroclaw, former German city of
Breslau, is expected to run well
over $10,000,000.
City authorities, appealing to
Poles to contribute to a recon
struction fund, said the 100,000,
000 zlotys earmarked for rebuild
ing by the municipality would not
cover 10 per cent of what was
needed.
Wroclaw’s mayor said “the
problem is not only one of re*
building the city but also that Of
redeveloping agriculture of the
surrounding countryside. Agri
culture in the environs of this
Lower Silesian capital is destroy
ed to such an extent that it cannot
feed the city which must fetch its
food from distant districts.”
How Light Is Spread
Behind Iron Curtain
BERLIN, (JP) — Some factories
in the Russian zone, plagued by
the theft of electric light bulbs,
now require workers who wish
light at their work benches to
bring their own bulbs.
MRS. JACK BULLOCK NAMED
WIEN KOTZEBUE AGENT
Mrs. Jack Bullock has been ap
pointed Kotzebue agent for the
Wien Airlines at Kotzebue during
the absence of Mrs. Gladys Wha
ley, who is staying in Nome for a
few weeks.
Legal Blanks at The Nugget office
THERE’S A CHANGE IN THE WEATHER
AND
A CHANCE IN OCR FARES
%
KOTZEBUE FARE NOW $35.00 plus tax
/ %
MANY OTHER CHANGES
IN FARES AND FREIGHT RATES
FOR SEWARD PENINSULA AND
ARCTIC COAST
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SEASON’S SPECIALS
ROUND trip TO FAIRBANKS
saw plus t»
ROUND trip to KOTZEBUE
$50.00 plus tax
A Year Packed
With Famous
Anniversaries
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For those who like to get their
historic perspective measured in
round figures, 1948 offers many
diverse anniversaries.
One hundred years ago. the fol-1
lowing events were just around
the New Year’s corner:
Gold was discovered in Califor
nia, Jan. 24, touching off the fa-;
mous rush westward by prairie j
schooner and around Cape Horni
by clipper ship. The “Communist1
Manifesto” was published the1
same month in Europe by Karli
Marx and Frederic Engels, spark- j
! ing a chain of events still rever-1
, berating around the world.
Mexico ceded Texas, Arizona
and California to the U. S. for
$15,000,000 on Feb. 2. The great
revolution of 1848 began in Eu-1
rope with Louis Philippe forced
to abdicate. Feb. 24. when the
second French republic was pro
%
claimed.
Another throne tottered when
Prince Metternich was overthrown
in Austria, Mar. 13, and four days!
later ftalian patriots revolted in
Milan. Within five days rebellion
flared in Berlin.
The Associated Press was form
ed by six New York newspapers
in May and the Mexican War was
ended with the treaty of Guada
lupe, May 19. Wisconsin was ad
mitted as 30th state. May 20. The
cornerstone of the Washington
Monument was laid July 4. The
first American woman's rights
convention met in Seneca Falls,
N. Y.. July 19.
Oregon was organized as a ter
ritory Aug. 14. Lt. Ulysses S.
Grant, 26, married Julia T. Dent
of St. Louis, Aug. 22. James A.
Garfield 15, began driving mules
. along Pennsylvania and Ohio
Canal. Old “rough and ready”
Gen. Zachary Taylor, hero of the
, Mexican War and “no-platform”
I nominee of the Whigs, was elect
ed President of the U. S., Nov. 7.
Louis Napoleon was proclaimed
president of France for four years,
i on Dec. 20.
Among its many golden anni
versaries, 1948 will make the pas
sage of exactly 50 years since:
! New York became a corporate
city of five boroughs on Jan. 1;
the Curies discovered radium and
polonium in Paris; Lewis Carroll
‘Charles L. Dodgson), author of
Alice 1" Wonderland, died, Jan.
1 14: the battleship Maine, just af
; ter taps, exploded and sank in Ha
jvana harbor, Feb. 15; Emile Zola
.was condemned to jail Feb. 23 by
the French for reviving the Drey
fus case with "J’Accuse.”
U. S. armed forces mobilized
against Spain, March 12; U. S.
navy's first submarine made its
first dive. Mar. 17; the first re
corded sale of an automobile was
made on April 1 for $1,000. An
drew .S. Rowan landed on the Cu
ban coast April 25 to carry the
"message to Garcia." U. S. de
clared war an Spain April 25;
Adrn. Dewey destroyed the Span
ish fleet in Manila Bay, May. 1.
, U. S. won the battles of San
Juan Hill and El Caney, July 1.
Capt Joshua Slocum completed a
round the world trip, alone in a
31-foot boat, July 3. Peace was
formally proclaimed between U.
S. and Spain, Aug. 12. Hawaii was
annexed by the U. S. the same
day. Queen Wilhemina was en
throned at the Hague, Sept. 6. The
treaty with Spain was signed Dec.
j 10, U. S. taking Puerto Rico, the
Philippines and Guam.
| Among cities to which this year
Forecast And
Weather Report
Nome and Vicinity
Compiled by the U. S. Dept, of
'ommerce. Weather Bureau.
Wednesday, January 7. 1948
Forecast Nome: Partly cloudy
and continued cold tonight and
Thursday. Lowest temperature to
night —30, highest temperature
Thursday —20.
Nome data as of 7:30 a.m. today:
Precipitation last 24 hours,
trace. Total precipitation this
month trace.
Temperatures last 24 hours:
highest —19, lowest —30,
Maximum wind last 24 hours 12
miles per hour from the N.N.W.
Sunrise at 9:47 a.m., sunset at
2:27 p.m.
Comparative data: Tempera
tures one year ago today: highest
5, lowest —6.
Extreme temperatures on this
day since 1907: Lowest —37 in
1932, highest 46 in 1942.
Data for other selected staions
as of 7:30 a.m. today:
Station Temp. Weather
Barrow —23 Snow
Point Hope —26 Clear
Kotzebue —32 Clear
Shishmaref —26 Clear
Wales —33 Clear
Gam bell —10 Snow
Nome —29 Clear
Unalakleet —26 Clear
Bethel —24 Clear
McGrath —26 Cloudy
Ancrorage 10 Snow
Fairbanks —19 Snow
Juneau 29 Cloudy
Whitehorse 11 Cloudy
Ketchikan 43 Cloudy
Edmonton 16 Cloudy
Seattle 46 Rain
San Francisco 61 Rain
True friendship is a plant of
slow growth, and must undergo
and withstand the shocks of ad
versity before it is entitled to the
appellation.
will be important as an anniver
sary, are Detroit, which was first
visited by LaSalle in 1648; Nash
ville, which was incorporated in
1848, and Worcester, Mass., which
received its charter in the same
year.
For a broader view of 1948 in
relation to history, consider that
300 years before English Royal
ists rose in arms to try to free
Charles I and were defeated by
Cromwell; 450 years before. Vasco
da Gama found an all-water route'
to India; 700 years before, Louis
IX led the Sixth Crusade against
the Turks; 2,000 years before Cae
sar put down a revolt of the Gauls
and Cleopatra, then an enticing
17, inherited a half share in the ^
Egyptian throne.
The year will be the 200th anni
versary of Ben Franklin’s experi
ments with electricity; the 100th
anniversary of the College of the
City of New York, university of
Mississippi and university of Wis
consin; the 50th anniversary of
the Rational Institute of Arts and
Lett ers, National Society of
Daughters of Founders and Patri
ots of America, Order of Eagles
and DePaul university; the 10th
anniversary of the CIO, National
Foundation for Infantile Paralysis
and U. S. Trotting Association.
And according to Vre->land's
anniversary almanac, 1948 will
mark the 50th birthday of Kather
ine Cornell, George Jessel, Paul
Robeson, Gene Tunney, Beatrice
Lillie, Albert B. "Happy" Chand
ler, Ernest Hemingway, Walter
Pidgeon and Grade Fields.
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