THE NOME NUGGET
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E. P. BOUCHER . Managing Editor
Entered as second class matter October 14, 1943, at the postoffice
3t Nome, Alaska, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
Nome, Alaska, Monday, August 27, 1951
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WHY DO WE ALWAYS GET SUCH DRIVERS ?
TERRITORY IN PRINTING BUSINESS?
The Employment Security Commission has asked
for bids on offset printing equipment to take care of
their printing needs. Acting Executive Director John
McLaughlin desires to purchase equipment which is
estimated will cost about $20,000, excluding freight,
paper and other supplies, which is more than their!
total printing purchases in the Territory for the past
four years.
In other words the territory would be going into
business against forty established Alaskan printers
who can do the same printing considerably cheaper,
as has been proved in other places where the govern
ment has tried to economize the same way.
Any territorial agency should weigh carefully the
expenditure of the taxpayers’ money before making'
such an investment to the detriment of the tax-paying
commercial printer.
Territorial agencies should also plan their print
ing needs far enough ahead of time so that all print
ers in the Territory can have the same opportunity
to bid on territorial printing needs. t
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LINE LOGIC
The old-fashioned stenographer is the individual
who put the “gum” in argument. j
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.Americans are great denouncers of the wrongs
done by others and great proclaimers of their own
virtues. . |
The population of the nation shows a marked in
crease but what we need is higher average intelligence.
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People acquire wealth when they restrain their
urge to buy what they can’t afford.
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Even if the dollar is worth only fifty cents, its
value will never be as low as some people will stoop
to get it . I
Grandma, who in her day stepped out occasionally,
fit as a fiddle, now has a granddaughter who comes
home tight as a drum.
A writer says that if women ever do get equal
rights it will be quite a comedown for some of them. I
Administrators Deny
Marion Davies Voting
Control Hearst Enterprises
LOS ANGELES, (/P)—A paper,
supposedly giving former actress
Marion Davies voting control of
publisher William Randolph
Hearst’s enterprises “has no more
effect than if it never existed,”
special administrators o'f his es
tate contend.
Reports have been published
here that Miss Davies and Hearst
signed an agreement Nov. 5, 1950,
under which they were to be the
only two trustees in a voting trust
for the stock of the Hearst Corp.,
holding company for the publish
er’s vast interprises.
Under the agreement, Hearst
and Miss Davies supposedly
pooled their stock for voting pur
poses and in the event of the
death of either, the other should
vote the entire stock for his or
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her lifetime.
The administrators said that al
though published reports have the
paper making Miss Davies sole
voting trustee in control of all
the Hearst property, “this so
called agreement was never exe
cuted and for this and many other
reasons has no more effect than
if it never existed.”
Acting Director of Nursing
For Alaska “Wanted To
Come up For a Long Time”
JUNEAU—Stating that she was
“fulfilling a longtime desire to
come to Alaska,” Miss Anna Heis
ler arrived in Juneau recently to
assume the position of acting di
rector of nursing for the Alaska
Health department during the ab
sence of Miss Dorothy Whitney.
Miss Whitney, nursing director
since 1945, leaves in mid-Septem
ber for John Hopkins School of
Public Health and Hygiene to ob
tain the degree of Master of Pub
lic Health before returning next
fall.
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Miss Heisler has been assist
ant director of the Division of
Public Health Nursing in the U.S.
Public Health Service in Wash
ington, D.C., for the past 15 years.
Previous to taking that position,
she said, she was “fairly near
Alaska” when she was regional
public health nursing consultant
for the PHS for west coast states,
Hawaii and Alaska, but she did
not have the opportunity to visit
this territory.
India Will Sign
Separate Peace
Treaty with Japan j
NEW DELHI, India, (P)—Prime
Minister Jawaharlal Nehru told
parliament today India will sign j
a separate peace treay with Japan
rather than attend the Japanese'
peace conference at San Francisco \
next month.
He said the Indian-Japanese
treaty would be signed as soon
as Japan has achieved independ
ent status. The prime minister did
not explain whether he thought
“independent status” would have
been gained after the signing of
a treaty in San Francisco between
Japan and most of the countries
she fought in World War II or
whether such a status could not
be, in his opinion, achieved until
after the withdrawal of American
troops.
Parliament broke into cheers
when Nehru, wearing a bright red
rose on his tunic, said one rea
son Indin would not attend the
conference was because the U.S.
sponsored treaty does not propose
return to Formosa to Communist
China.
Bemarr MacFadden, 83,
Feels “Fine” After 2,000
Foot Parachute Jump
NEW YORK, (/P)—Physical cul
turalist Bernarr MacFadden, who
celebrated his 83rd birthday with
a 2,000-foat parachute jump into
the Hudson river, yesterday, says
he is “good for things like this
for 10 more years.”
“I recommend this for every
body,” he adds. “It’s a damn good
thing to do. I could do it every
day in the week.”
When MacFadden was fished
out of the Hudson after his jump
yesterday, he said:
“I feel like a million. I feel 25.
Next year, I’m going to jump over
Niagara Falls.”
MacFadden’s parachute leap
yesterday was for the dual pur
pose, he said, of demonstrating
that “old age is just a habit” and
that U. S. paratroopers need have
no fear of landing in water.
BRIDGE SHADOW
MENACES CROPS
KHARTOUM. (/P) — There is
something new under the sun —
and in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan
it’s the shadow of a bridge. Cul
tivators on an island under the
white Nile bridge at Omdurman
are claiming compensation for
i loss of crops caused by the struc
ture’s shadow.
Authorities are studying the
I plea. Thus far they’ve failed to
find any precedent in law.
WIEN AIRLINES
To Fairbanks: Mr. and Mrs. Roy
Earling, Dick Fancher, Mr. Rich
man, Joe King, Emmett Hanley,
Barbara Ward, Nancy Mathes,
Tommy Lee.
From Fairbanks: Phyllis Dur
han Rogers, Mr. and Mrs. Art D.
Johnson, Blanche Fern, Fred
Ruetten, Jack Heclol,
To Kotzebue: Mr. McKifer, Mar
tin Fanelli, John Iyapana, Mary
Walker and child.
From Kotzebue: Irene Gray,
Frank Sheldon, Jr., Tommy Lee,
James Iyapana, Gilbert Ozenna.
To Deering: Pete Davis, Clif
ford Mills, Miss Earling.
WEATHER FORECAST
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Compiled by U.S. Dept, of Comineue.
Weather Bureau
Forecast Nome: Continued
cloudy with occasional light rain
tonight and Tuesday. Moderate to
fresh south wind tonight becom
ing northerly Tuesday. Low tem
perature tonight 45, high tomor
row 50.
Precipitation last 24 hrs., at 7
a.m. today: 28 in. Total this month
7.37 inches.
Sunrise at 4:28 a.m., sunset at
7:36 p.m.
Data for other selected stations
as of 7 a.m. today:
Station Temp. Weather
Barrow 36 Cloudy
Point Hope 43 Cloudy
Kotzebue 48 Rain
Shishmaref 45 Rain
Wales 45 Rain
Gambell 41 Rain
Nome 51 Rain
Unalakieet 56 Cloudy
Bethel 53 Rain
McGrath 63 Rain
Anchorage 55 Fair
Fairbanks 56 Fair
Whitehorse 50 Part cloudy
Edmonton 50 Showers
Juneau 58 Cloudy
Ketchikan 64 Cloudy
Seattle 70 Cloudy
San Francisco 71 Cloudy
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