THE NOME NUGGET
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Entered as second class matter October 14, 1943. at he postoffice
at Nome, Alaska, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
Nome, Alaska, Friday, January 28, 1949
PEARL HARBOR 1941 — PEIPING 1949
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(New World News Service)
While 140 million Americans celebrated the inaugu- ;
ration of our 32nd President, 450 million Chinese pre
pared to accept peace at the price of enslavement. j
The fact that China bled herself white for nine years i
cf war against Japan to defend our freedom as well as!
her own has been forgotten by most Americans. Accord-j
to The New York Times, December 7, 1948, “Austria’s
most widely known Communist, Ernst Fischer, broadly
hinted that the Berlin affair was being, used as a feint to j
distract attention from the Communist conquest of
China.” v
We in America have been duped by a planned pro
gram of propaganda and doped by pre-occupation with
our own problems.
China is in another world just as Pearl Harbor seemed
before December 7, 1941.
Yet Polyzoides, political columnist for The Los An
geles Times, stated January 21. “Communism’s victory
in Peiping is the greatest since the capture of Moscow
by the Russian Bolsheviks. It is an event of world-wide
significance.”
What is the answer?
Eighteen months ago in an address read into the Con
gressional Record, Dr. Frank Buchman, initiator of
Moral Re-ARrmament, declared:
“Suddenly the statesmen of the democratic nations
have woken up. They rub their eyes as they see what is
happening. The world force of materialism has pene- j
trated every nation.
“Why,” they ask, “are we in this situation?
“The reason is simple. While many slept, and others (
busied themsleves with their own affairs, the material-!
ists have been working out their revolution with a phil
osophy. a passion and a plan.
“A generation ago the force of Moral Re-Armament j
began fighting too. On a world front it has been answer
ing plan with plan, idea with idea, a militant godless
materialism with a militant inspired ideology for de
mocracy.
“At a time when statesmen realize the lateness of the i
hour, it freely offers the fruit of twenty-five years of i
toil. A force in the war of ideas, with the training and j
experience which, under God, can equip the statesmenj
and the ordinary man with an ideology adequate to re
make the nations—now.”
HOOPER BAY MIS LABELED
(Alaska Native Service)
The Eskimo village of Hooper Bay has been greatly
mislabeled acording to Bob Druxman, Juneau public re
lations counsel, who recently made on inspection of:
Arctic conditions, for the Alaska Native Service.
Don C. Foster, ANS general superintendent, revealed
recently that Druxman found many inducation, during;
his visit there, that Hooper Bay is an advanced village
containing many modern improvements.
Druxman reported that most Hooper Bay inhabitants
speak and understand the English language more flu
ently than in some villages he visited on his tour. He
declared that many homes have electric lights and ra
dios. He stated that many people have moved out of the
sod igloo type of construction in favor of more modern
frame and log homes.
Druxman denied that Hooper Bay is primitive or the
so-called “Jumping off place” of Alaska. He said that
the people are friendly, ambitious, industrious and will
ing to advance toward further benefits of civilization.
The majority of Hooper Bay citizens, said Druxman,
are in a better than average financial condition due to
summer employment at Bristol Bay canneries.
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Druxman attributed the advancement of the Hooper
Bay village to the work and leadership given, over a!
period of years, by Alaska Native Service personnel and
Catholic priests who have also been stationed there.
The village is located on the bay of the same name
about 200 miles south of Nome on the Bering Sea coast
of Alaska.
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WASHINGTON NEWS LETTER !
(By Mary Lee Council)
Alaska Income Taxes
The commissioner of internal revenue has informed
Delegate Bartlett that individual and corporation in
come taxes from Alaska for 1948 reveal a total closely
approaching the war years and a jump of almost three
million dollars over receipts for 1947.
Individual taxes from Alaska amounted to $14,928,
833.62 in 1948 with corporations paying $1,183,018.75
for a total of $16,111,852.37. The receipts for 1947.
amounted to $13,471,362.06. The largest receipt year
was 1945 when $16,571,712.71 was paid into the Treas
ury by Alaska individuals and corporations. Ten years
ago that figure was $537,975.42.
It should be noted, of course, that there figures do not
represent a full coverage of all income originating in
Alaska inasmuch as many individuals and corporations
deriving their income from the Territory pay their
taxes in the States where they maintain their residences
and places of business.
Statehood Matter of Course
President Truman expects the Alaska statehood bill
to be passed by the 81st Congress as part of the admin
istration’s program, he told E. L. Bartlett when the Del
egate called on him at the White House. “I should say
the President takes it pretty much as a matter of course
that the statehood enabling bill will become law,” the
Delegate reported. “He told me he had already discuss^
ed the matter with his Congressional leaders. The Pres
ident’s enthusiasm for developing Alaska is as great as
ever. During our conversation he said he expected to
send Governor Ernest Gruening’s name to the Senate
soon. There it is expected confirmation will follow
speedily.
Territorial Primary
Delegate Bartlett this week expressed the hope that
the Territorial Legislature, during the regular 1949 ses
sion, would consider amending Territorial law to change
the date for filing declarations of candidacy for public
office and the primary election date.
The proposal suggests that the filing date be changed
from February to June and the primary election date be
advanced from April to the second Tuesday in August.
“The present time schedule/* Delegate Bartlett stated
“is geared to dog sled days. Then it was absolutely es
sential there be sufficient intervals between the date of
filing and the primary election and between the pri
mary and the general elections so candidates could trav
el about their districts by means of the limited and slow
transportation facilities theft available.
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CHURCHES
CATHOLIC CHURCH
Sunday—
Masses at 8 a.m. and 10 a.m.
At the Base Chapel at 4:30 p.m.
LAVINIA WALLACE YOUNG
, MISSION
Pastors - Rev. H. R. Amundsen
and Rev. Theran McGrew
Sunday:
11:00 a.m. Sunday School.
7:30 p.m. Evening Service.
Wednesday - 3:30 pjn. - Chil
dren’s Miracle Book Club.
Thursday - 7:30 p.m. - Prayer
Meeting.
FEDERATED CHURCH
Sunday
10:00 a.m. Sunday School.
PENTACOSTAL ASSEMBLY OF
GOD
Third Avenue West
Pastor A. E. Capener
Sunday—
Sunday School.10:30 a.m.
Evening service .7:45 p.m.
Wednesday—
Bible Study.7:45 pm.
EVERYONE WELCOME
CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE
Third and Division
Pastor—Lewis I. Hudgins
“God calls men when they are
busy; Satan when they are idle.”
10:00 a.m. Singspiration and Sun
day School classes.
11:00 a.m. Morning message.
7:00 p.m. Young Peopled Meeting.
7:30 p.m. Singspiration and special
music.
8:00 p.m. Evening message.
Wednesday: 7:30 p.m. Melody and
Prayer.
You are ever welcome to attend
these services.
Come and bring your Bible.
NOME GOSPEL MISSION
of
Alaska Evangelisation Society
Rev. Vern Rimling, Pastor
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Sunday:
2:00 p.m. Sunday School for 1
boys and girls.
Preaching service in the Eskimo
language by James Savok.
7:30 p.m. Gospel Service.
Tuesday:
7:30 p.m. Prayer and Testimony
Thursday:
2:00 to 4:00 p.m. Bible Club for
Boys and Girls.
Friday:
7:30 p.m. Bible Study.
CRIPPLED CHILDREN'S
ASSN. MAKES REPORT
The Nome chapter of the Alas
ka Crippled Children’s Assn, re
ports that during Decmeber the
Marks Air Force Base, Nome, col
lected $78.86 from their jars dur
ing the Christmas Season, which
was sent in to the Association.
The Nome Chapter has just re
mitted for their Christmas cards,
together -with a donation from
one of our very regular support
ers, the Nevada Bar, and also a
donation from “Butch Scott,” who
is only three years old. He was
very proud of his little jar of
money and made our Nome Presi
ren»t, Mrs. Donald Lyle, under
stand very plainly that it was for
the Crippled Children.
Panama hats, though produced
in Ecuador, take their name from
the fact that Panama was original
ly the chief center of their distri
bution.