THE NOME. NUGGET
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Entered as second class matter October 14, 1943, at the postoffice
it Nome, Alaska, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
Nome, Alaska, Wednesday, November 8, 1950
LET S GET BEHIND ALASKA NATIONAL GUARD!
The local unit of the National Guard is at present
handicapped with a man shortage which is due mainly
to the lack of information which the people in the area
have received. It is an important group in the military
set-up in the Territory and the only group of its type
in which the civilian can take an active part in the de
fense of his homeland.
Leaders are needed in its various branches and they
do not need previous military training. However, they
are required to pass an educational examination to be
an officer. Other branches of the organization which
need help require little beyond a physical examination.
Special regulations for Alaskans have been received
whereby the Guard can drill twice a week in the win
ter time and omit drilling in the summer when every
one is busy working. This means drilling two evenings
a week in the winter for which regular pay is received
by those participating in the program.
Here is a chance for men from seventeen to forty
five years of age to serve their country, improve them
selves at the same time and get paid for it!
WHAT DO YOU THINK?
From time immemorial, health axioms have circu
lated in this country and elsewhere and there are those
who swear by them, just as they cherish magic formulas 1
to cure many diseases. j
Gradually, however, doctors, scientists and better ed-1
ucation are exploding some of these beliefs, although it
would not be safe to state that all of them are without
value. Just for fun, let’s check up on your own ideas.
Do you think:
That a persistent cough developed into tuberculosis;
that one gets warts from handling toadfrogs; that eating!
seed-containing fruit causes appendicitis; that you
should not go to sleep after eating a big meal; that light
hurts your eyes when you have a cold, or that removing
a splinter with a pin will cause blood-poisoning? j
Now, before reading any further, check up on yourj
opinions. How many of the things listed above fit in
with your own belief?
Well, the answer to all of them, according to health
authorities, is a vigorous negative!
NO GREATER HONOR
(Juneau Empire) :
The Nobel Peace Prize is perhaps the most coveted
honor in the world, for it represents outstanding
achievement toward a goal that all men approve. This
year the prize has been awarded to Dr. Ralph Bunche I
for his services as UN mediator in the Palestine war. |
His was unmistabably a great achievement. He need
ed tact, persistence, a clear grasp of the tangled prob
lems at issue, and a first-rate understanding of men and
how to deal with them. He needed those qualities, and
fortunately'he had them.
Dr. Bunche is the first Negro to win the Nobel Peace
Prize, and so he bring new honor to his race as well as
ta his nation and to himself. His achievements in vari
ous fields of efforts and especially in diplomacy are dra
matic proof of the opportunity for usefulness which a
free nation extends to all.
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A good political leader must keep ahead of several,
crowds, each going in a different direction. . . . The man!
who saved money years ago was considered a tightwad j
—today he is looked upon as a wonder. . . . Money does:
not necessarily bring happiness, but if you have plenty 1
of it you can always choose the misery you enjoy most.
. . . With the fall campaigning just past we heard and
saw a lot of men professing great love for the common
man. . . . Strong military forces are a necessity today, as
never before, but education will always be our nation’s
be=t defense. i
Democrats Still
Control Congress
(Continued from Page One)
gene Millikin of Colorado, chair
man of the conference of Repub
lican Senators, won re-election.
He defeated a strong “Fair Deal”
supporter in Democrat Rep. John
A. Carroll.
Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New
York, winning a third term by a
substantial majority, led a parade
of Republicans capturing govern
ors’ offices. GOP entries picked
up posts formerly filled by Demo
crats in Connecticut, Maryland,
Nevada and Colorado. GOP en
trants led in Arizona, Minnesota,
Michigan and New Mexico.
One of the Democratic victims
was Gov. Chester Bowles of Con
necticut, a “fair deal” supporter,
who lost to Republican Rep. John
Davis Lodge.
Some Democrats survived the
Republican onslaught, nota b 1 y
Senators Herbert H. Lehman of
New York, and Brien McMahon
and William Benton of Connecti
0
cut.
Rep. Fnnklin D. Roosevelt, Jr.,
won re-election to the House in
New York, but his brother, James
Roosevelt, was defeated by Re
publican Gov. Earl Warren of
California in the latter’s bid for
a third term.
Guy G. Gabrielson, the Repub
lican national chairman, hailed
the GOP victories as a sign that
the voters are “opposed to ap
peasement to socialism in free
America.”
William M. Boyle, Jr., the
D e mocratic national chairman,
confined his comments to predic
tions that his party would retain
a majority in the Senate and
“definitely” would control the
new House.
The results parallelled those of
every off-year election since 1934,
when Democrats riding the crest
of the early New Deal years bol
stned their strength in Congress.
In each ncm-Presidential year
since then, the Republicans have
made gains. Four years ago they
took over control of Congress. But
they have b-.-en unable to trans
late any of those gains into a
Presidential victory two years
later.
The results generally appeared
to add up to a setback for Mr.
Mr. Truman’s foreign and domes
tic policies.
The defeat of Lucas in Illinois
was regarded as a particular blow
to the Administrado vi handling
m international affa.'.s. Although
D* .nocratic defection • in a bitter
sheriff’s race in Chicago may
have cut Lucas’ strength in that
customary stronghold.
Lucas has charged his victori
ous Republican opponent, former
R( p. Everett Dirksen, with hold
ing “isolationist” views.
Similarly, Rep Helen Gahagnn
D.uglas, praised recent y by Pres
ident Truman for her support of
ais torrjgn y. iicies, was trail.ng
her Republican opponent, Rep.
Richard M. Nixon, in the Califor
nia Senate race.
Nixon is a member of the House
Committee on Un-American Ac
tivities and a critic of alleged
communist infiltration into gov
ernment.
Senator Homer E. Capehart, In
; diana Republican, who had criti
cized severely the administration’s
, handling of international issues
1 and the President’s “fair deal”
f
program won in Indiana.
Senator Henry C. Dworshak,
another Republican critic of the
i administration foreign questions,
; also won his race for election in
| Idaho. Senator Elbert D. Thomas,
' a Democratic supporter of Mr.
Truman’s foreign policies, lost in
I Utah to Republican Wallace F.
i Bennett, a former president of the
j National Association of Manufac
turers.
On the other hand, Senators
; Brien McMahon and William
I Benton, Connecticut Democratc
i who have gone down the line with
Mr. Truman’s policies in interna
tional affairs, won re-election in
Connecticut as did Senator Her
i bert Lehman, also a Truman back
er, in New York.
The re-election of Taft in Ohio
and of Millikin in Colorado, as
well as the defeat of Democratic
Governor Bowles in Conecticut,
| gave signs that voters in widely
separated areas were cold to Pres
ident Truman’s “fair deal” pro
gram.
Taft attacked the program just
as vigorously as Bowles defended
j it. Lehman’s victory was one of
; the few giving comfort to backers
of Administration domestic poli
cies.
Taft’s victory loomed as a set
back for organized labor’s ef
forts to repeal the Taft-Hartley
Act. It demonstrated that a com
bination of labor forces was not
sufficient in Ohio, to bring down
the union's chief target in public
life.
Republican Harold E. Stassen,
a 1952 GOP Presidential possibil
HOW DID HE EVER DO IT
THE.
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ity. said of Taft’s re-election:
“The results indicate that the
laboring men make up their own
minds and don’t let the bosses tell
them how to vote. That’s a very
-wholesome thing.’’
Taft’s re-election puts him into
the Republican Presidential calcu
lations for 1952. His margin of
victory over his Democratic op
ponent, state auditor Joseph Fer
guson, was decisive enough to tab
the Ohio Republican as a vote get
ter.
/
Dewey’s substantial victory in
his third term race in New York
kept him in position to control
that state’s delegation to the 1952
GOP nominating convention.
Gov. Earl Warren’s big lead
over James Roosevelt for the Cal
ifornia Governorship also put
Warren high up on the Republican
Presidential possibility lists.
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Alaska Science
'Conference Meets
In Washington, DC.
“Permafrost” — permane n 11 y
i frozen ground which underlies
! four-fifths of Alasak—will be the
; subject o*f a symposium meeting
! under the chairmanship of Lt. Col.
Arthur H. Lahlum, Corps of En
! gineers, during the three-day con
ference of leading scientists and
| administrators considering Alas
; kan research, being held Novem
I ber 9 through 11 at the National
Academy of Sciences. The “Per
mafrost” symposium is being at
tended by approximately 300 par
ticipants in the Alaskan Science
Conference on Friday morning,
November 10th. Col. Lahlum is
Chief of the Arctic and Sub-Arctic
; Investigations Staff of the Engin
i eers Snow, Ice and Permafrost
Research Establishment in St.
Paul.
Dr. Louis L_ Ray, Senior Geolo
gist of the U. S. Geological Sur
vey, will present the leading pa
per at this symposium. Dr. Amos
J. Alter, Chief Sanitary Engineer
of the U. S. Public Health Service
in Juneau, Alaska, will speak cm
“Relationships of Permafrost to
Environmental Sanitation,” fol
lowed by a discussion of “Interac
tion of Vegetation and Soil Frost
Phenomena” bv Dr. William S.
Beninghoff of the U. S. Depart
ment o’f the Interior.
Three additional symposia will
convene during the Alaskan Sci
ence conference. Dr. Jack C. Hal
deman, medical officer in charge
of the U. S. Public Health Service
in Anchorage, Alaska, will chair
a session on “Health Problems of
Alaskan Eskimos, Aleuts, and In
dians” being considered by con
ference sections on physiology, an
thropology, and public health and
medicine. Dr. Francis W. Reichel
derfer, chief of the U. S. Weather
Bureau will preside over the sym
posoum on “Sea Ice” which will
include conference sections on
oceanography, meteorology, and
geophysics. The subject of “Rela
tionship of Vegetation to the
Physical Environment” will be
discussed by conference sections
on botany, and agriculture and
forestry, under the chairmanship
of Dr. Robert W. Trullinger, chief,
Office of Agricutural Experiment
Stations.
Jack Jefford, pilot for C.A.A.
brought news from Anchorage
this morning that Dean Alexander
who was taken there for addi
tional medical treatment on her
shoulder which was broken at the
plavfield, was getting along nice
ly and would probably be home
with her mother next week.