THE NOME NUGGET
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Entered as second class matter October 14, 1943, at the postoffice
at Nome, Alaska, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
Nome, Alaska, Wednesday, May 30, 1951
WE DIP OUR WINGS
MEMORIAL DAY
Our American day of memories, which we call
Memorial Day is indeed a peaceful observance, giving
■us an opportunity to honor the beloved companions
of our yesterdays.
Many will visit our cemetery today and put flow
ers on the graves of departed friends and relatives and
possibly whisper a prayer. We observe the day too by
remembering the precious memories of those who have
departed.
We honor, too, the soldiers who gave their lives
in the wars of our country to keep it a free nation. “God
grants liberty only to those who love it and are ready
to guard and defend it,” said Daniel Webster. When we
pay tribute to our heroes it becomes a pledge to con
tinue to protect the cause for which they died.
RED CROSS CHAPTER
TO MEET JUNE 6
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The Nome Red Cross Chapter |
meets Wednesday evening, June j
6 at the High School with a pro-!
gram based on first aid training
and home nursing. Miss Ulrick,
Red Cross instructor from the Pa
cific Area headquarters of Na-!
tional Red Cross will have im-1
portant announcements to make
about courses to be offered to
those in the vicinity of Nome, for
those wishing to take instruction
in home nursing, and particularly I
for those wishing to give instruc
tion in home nursing.
A first aid team, consisting of
Nome’s qualified first aid instruc
tors will give a demonstration.
Mr. M. J. Walsh, the chapter
chairman of the first aid commit
tee, will present the pins and cre
dentials to the instructors.
A film entitled “Danger Is Your
Companion” has been purchased
by the Chapter, and will be pre
sented at the close of the meeting.
Everyone is welcome to attend the
meeting, and all who contributed
in the recent drive and have cards,
are voting members of the Nome
chapter.
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VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL
OFF TO A GOOD START
AT COMMUNITY CHURCH
With a first day enrollment of
81, the Vacation Church School
at the Community Methodist
Church got off to a good start
yesterday. Intermediates with
Mrs. Earl Clark and Rev. Treat
got started on the play, taken
from Matthew 22, and plan to
call it “Wedding Feast.” The
Juniors with Miss McCoy as
teacher began on map making and
similar projects to teach familiar
ity with the Bible lands. Mrs.
Betty Bucio, Mrs. Karen Baldwin,
and Mrs. Dorothy Gallagher are
leading three classes of primaries
in the kind of school Jesus at
tended, called Synagogue school,
and are learning some of the
stories Jesus taught. Mrs. Mary
Treat, Mrs. Gus Henson, and Mrs.
J Blanche Weyenna are teaching a
| big class of beginners.
Mrs. Lennie Mae Nerland led
1 the opening service this morning,
| with a different leader planned
; for each morning. Mrs. McCarthy
■ is planning the closing picnic, and
| the closing program is planned
j for a week from next Sunday
| evening.
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Capt. Blair On
Polar Flight
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that would make his watch read
an hour earlier on landing than
it does on the Bardu takeoff.
Blair plans 10 cross the North
Pole at an altitude of 25,000 feet.
Just before leaving Oslo, he said
he had a revolver and some food
in case he had to make an emer
gency landing in the polar region.
He will be out of radio contact
with the world for about 7 hours.
Blair, tall, dark and married,
has been flying for nearly a quar
ter of a century since he learned
the art of jockeying a fighter
plane in the U. S. Navy in 1928.
He has 17,500 hours to his credit
and has flown more than 3,000,000
miles.
His fire engine-red fighter has
been dubbed the “flying gas tank.”
He bought it gfter the war and
had extra tanks installed in the
wings and body so it holds 865
gallons of high octane fuel. Blair
said he spent $25,000 buying and
modifying the plane.
In his solo flight over the At
lantic last January Blair, pushed
by strong tail winds, averaged
about 470 miles an hour over the
3,000 mile run.
Blair’s flying experience dates
back ter the early airline era. He
flew for the old Boeing Transport
Company which later became
United Airlines. He also served
with American Overseas Airlines.
He has logged 412 Atlantic cross
ings and Pan American lists him i
as a veteran of 17,000 hours.
Lack of Food For Hatchery
Fish Threatens Columbia
River Salmon Fishery i
WASHINGTON, (/P)—’The U. S.
Fish and Wildlife Service says
lack of new foods for hatchery
fish threatens the “entire program
of saving the Columbia River sal
mon fishery.”
“Competitive markets for the
existing limited supply o*f hatch
ery food has increased the cost, of
the feed beyond practical use,” the
agency complains in a report filed |
with the Senate committee on ex-:
penditures in executive depart
ments.
The report, covering the agency’s ;
activities during 1950, said new
hatcheries being constructed to*
conserve the Columbia River fish- 1
ery will add to a problem de
scribed by the service as already
difficult.
The service added that selected
portions of salmon waste were
used successfully in recent feed
ing tests and a large scale test
will be made at federal hatcheries
with about 1,000,000 pounds of
salmon waste (viscera and eggs)
which will be collected at Peters
burg, Alaska.
The forthcoming test, the service
asserted, also will determine whe
ther material for hatchery feed
may be obtained in Alaska if it
is not available in quantity in the
Puget Sound and Columbia River
areas.
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ATA Offers Carry
1000 lbs. Mail Daily
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of the $6,000,000 being spent each
year for mail to and within the
territory, he said.
The ATA offer includes flying
I both airmail and first class mail.
As a result, Heacock predicted
its acceptance would bring a huge
increase in mail to Alaska.
For this reason, he said, the
offer is limited to the first 1,000
pounds a day in each direction,
with the surplus to be compen
sated for at ATA’s filed cargo
| rates plus 5 cents a ton-mile.
The airline president referred
to CAB’s current action to revoke
his line’s operating permit for al
leged “frequency and regularity”
of flights.
The 'timing of that action with
t last week’s approval of the two
new certificated lines, he said, “by
strange coincidence would enable
the -two* new authorized carriers to
pick up the traffic that must be
relinquished by Air Transport
Associates should its operating
authority by revoked.”
Heacock said ATA would oppose
the filing of cargo and aircoach
'tariffs by the newly certificated
lines. These tariffs, he charged,
“Are predicated upon the receipt
of mail pay to reimburse losses
incurred in attempts to drive non
subsidized carriers out of busi
ness.”
He said ATA would appeal to
Circuit Court next week, a recent
CAB order denying the airline
permission to intervene in a tem
porary mail rate award of $14,
869,000 to Northwest Airlines.
Lead is one of the oldest of
metals. Egyptians used it 5,000
years ago, and there ahe numer
ous references to it in the Old
Testament.
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SNACK BAR
OPEN
24 HOURS A DAY
Mr. and Mrs. Hudert And
Family Leave For Juneau
Mr. and Mrs. John Hudert and
their six children leave today with
Pan American to make thedr home
in Juneau.
Mr. Hudert, who has been dis
trict engineer in Second Division
for the Alaska Road Commission
since 1945, has also 'taken an active
part in civic affairs having served
on the School Board for the past
two years, during which time
many improvements were made
in the school, as well as in other
capacities.
Mrs. Hudert has also been very
active in the community, serving
on the Girl Scout Committee, the
playfield committee of the Home
Arts Club, and whenever called
upon for other looal projects, and
will be missed in the community.
It is reported that their home
has been sold to the Catholic
Church.
FOUR BOATLOADS HUNTERS
RETURN WITH GOOD CATCHES
Four boatloads of Eskimo 'hunt
ers who have been out with their
oomiaks on Bering Sea, have re
turned with good catches.
Sammy Mogg and his party
brought back two walrus yester
day and about 20 seals. The Ama
suk‘ group are reported to have
caught oogruk also.
They will continue to hunt as
long as there is ice which makes
the hunting good, and keep the
seal in the area.
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