THE NOME NUGGET
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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.
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Nome, Alaska, Wednesday, June 21, 1950
LONGEST TIME; SHORTEST LIFE
The longest time interval ever measured is 1,500,000,
000,000,000,000,000 years. Don’t ask us how it was done
but the scientists tell us that the substance tellurium,
once considered stable, is radioactive, shedding half its
atoms in that many years.
Not content with this accomplishment, the scientists
also advise that the life-span of a neutral meson lasts
just one-ten-trilllionth of a second. Once again, we say,
don’t ask us how it was done.
Readers should not get the idea, however, that these |
things were not done. Just because some of us do not
understand the processes involved does not mean that
hard-working and intelligent men of science do not
know what they are doing.
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HEMISPHERE CENSUS UNDERWAY
Census enumerators, trained in the United States,
have been busy in the twenty-two American republics,
to complete the first hemisphere census in history, ac
cording to the U. S. Census Bureau.
Seven of the nations, including this country, have
practically completed their count of people. Dr. Calvert
. Dedrick estimates that the human inventory will reveal
325,000,000 persons in North, South, and Central Am
rrica.
About half of the population is located in the United
: States but Latin-America is growing at the rate of ap
• proximately three million persons a year. The United
States has an increase of about two million annually.
The coordinated census is expected to provide gov
ernment and business with information heretofore un
. obtainable about population, housing, agriculture, in
dustry, business, resources and needs.
; A JOB FOR BUSINESS TO DO
Suggesting a fresh appraisal of American competition
as the basis for a “realistic clarification” of the anti
trust laws, Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer
points out that “vast economic and business changes”
• have taken place in the sixty years since the Sherman
Anti-tTust Act was passed.
Mr. Sawyer admits that “the rulings, the judicial de
cisions and the thinking” upon the subject are conflict
ing and confusing. He would have a study made to see
CLEAN-UP JOB
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FBI BID FOR AGENTS
TABBED FOR VICTORY
WASHINGTON. (A*)—J. Edgar
Hoover’s campaign for 300 ad
ditional FBI agents to hunt down
communist spies appeared today
to be tabbed for victory.
The House Appropriations com
mittee and a Senate Appropria
tions subcommittte were reported
to have agreed to approve the FBI
director’s request.
Hoover told the senators two
months ago in a secret session
that there are 54,000 known com
munists and some 500,000 Red
sympathizers in the United States
who form a potential fifth column
if traitors.
RADIO BUOYS IN BERING
SHOW UNIMAK CURRENTS
The U. S. Coast and Geodetic
Survey announced today radio
current buoys are being used to
determine velocity and direction
Unimak Pass.
of the current in the Bering Sea’s
During progress of the survey,
the buoys will be anchored at
various locations in Unimak Pass
and at night will show two red
lights at five and eight feet above
the water.
A11 vessels are requested to
give the buoys a 500-yard berth
to avoid possible damage to the
equipment.
WESTERN NATIONS CONFER
ON COAL AND STEEL POOL
PARIS, <yP)—Six western Euro
pean nations opened a historic
conference today aimed at pool
ing their coal and steel produc
tion.
French foreign minister Rob
ert Schuman, father of the plan,
told the delegates the ultimate
aim was to abolish war from the
continent of Europe.
Britain remained on the side
lines, although she will be kept
informed of what goes on in the
Elaborate Salon de L’Horloge
eign ministry. There was some
(Clock Room) of the French for
talk that the British were coming
around to the view that the ad
vantages of joining the plan might
outweigh the disadvantages. Schu
man said he hoped Britain even
tually would join.
A1 Reuter,, buyer for the gro
cery department of the N C Co.,
is here for a few days looking
over the needs of the Nome Store
and finding out what Nomeites
like to eat.
Temptaion is born of circum
stances: Few umbrellas are stolen
Bing Crosby’s Singing Has Women
Everywhere Baking Sunshine Cake
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BING CROSBY not only sings about sunshine cake but he enjoys eating
it. He’s shown ready to slice himself a piece of Swans Down Sunshine Cake.
To crooner Bing Crosby the song
"Sunshine Cake" is a delightful
and tuneful ditty.
But it’s far more than that to
millions of women. It’s proving a
compelling suggestion to actually
bake a sunshine cake!
In fact Bing’s rendition of the
hit number of Paramount Pictures’
new Film, "Riding High", has lift
ed sunshine cake close to the top
rung in the weekly cake-baking
popularity parade.
They’re even holding sunshine
cake-baking contests throughout
the nation. Women who never tried
their hand at baking a sunshine
cake are competing with those who
have beeh turning them out since
’way back. And soi le of the first at
tempts are winning — so easy is it
j to bake such a cake.
In a recent state-wide .contest
I at Front Roval, Va.. first prize
! went to Mrs. Ann Coulter, of Gore,
Va., a 40-home community. It was
the first time she’d baked a sun
shine cake.
Bing Crosby has his own favor
ite sunshine cake recipe. Women
ask Bing for it every where he goes.
It’s an easy recipe to follow. Here
it is:
1 cup and 2 tablespoons sifted
Swans Down Cake Flour
f» egg voiks (at loom Leinj cma
ture)
2 tablespoons water
1 cup sifted sugar
1 lrst teaspoons lemon juice
1V4 teaspooas grated lemon rind
5 egg w’hites (at room temper
ature)
lA teaspoon salt
lA teaspoon cream of tartar
Sift flour once, measure, and sift
four times. Place egg yolks and
water in deep 1-quart bowl and
beat with rotary egg beater until
very thick and light (about 4 min
utes). Then add gradually l/» cup
of the sugar, beating constantly
(about 1 minute). Add lemon juice
and rind and beat 1 minute longer.
Add flour all at once and fold in
until just blended (about 50 fold
over strokes).
Beat egg whites and salt with
flat wire whisk or rotajy egg beat
er until foamy. Sprinkle in creani
of tartar and continue beating un
til egg whites are stiff enough to
hold up in peaks, but are still moist
and glossy. Sprinkle remaining 'a
cup sugar over egg whites, about
2 tablespoons at a time, and beat
after each addition to blend (25
strokes or turns). Fold in egy yolk
mixture (25 fold-over st okes).
Turn into ungreased 9-ireh tube
pan. Bake in mode a».e oven
(375°F.) 30 to 35 miriVi.es. Remove
from oven, invert *-an, and let
stand 1 hour, or u...;! cake it cool.
outstanding and public-spirited business men of the
nation to get together, surve v the business situation
and formulate a policy, adjusted to the needs of modern
mass-production and existing social needs.
We do not mean tha# the business men should be al
lowed to write a code in their own interest. Certainly,
we cannot subscribe to the opinion that there are not
intelligent, patriotic and public-spirited business men,
ready and willing to assume the job in the spirit of the
general welfare rather than the representation of spec
ial interests.
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The battle on the highways is almost as deadly as the i
combat of warfare. The dead and dying are on our high- j
ways every hour of the day and night.
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Advertising is the bait that business fishermen use. |
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A Liberal is always that way with the taxpayers’
money.
The average argument is three-fourths heat and
restrain appetites will not need old age pensions in later '
life. I
WASH. DRIVERS USE ALASKA
LICENSE TO AVOID TAX
SEATTLE, 4/P)— Alaska licens
ing as a new wrinkle in motorists*
attempts to escape the Washing
ton State sales tax on new cars
was reported today by the State
Patrol—with an admonishing note.
The state does not require the
payment of the 3% tax due on a
$2,000 car on cars that are to be
removed from the state. The pat
rol said some motorists have writ
ten to Alaska to get car licenses
and then displayed them as sup
porting evidence for stories that
they bought their cars to take
them north.
The patrol cited the case of a
Seattle motorist who was caught
at such a plan. He paid an $80
fine, then added $82.75 in sales
tax, surrendered his Alaska plates
and coughed up about $30 for his
state vehicle fees.
License plates sell for from $6
to $9 in Alaska—far under the
Washington level, which includes
an excise tax along with the li
cense fee.