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MINERS & MERCHANTS
BANK OF ALASKA
NOME ALASKA
SERVICE CLEANERS
4th and B Streets—Opposite School House
QUALITY DRY CLEANING A SPECIALTY
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Mickleson, Props.
Prompt and Courteous Service
Phone RED 96
NORTHERN LIGHT & POWER CO.
ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES
G-E Dial-the-fabric Iron - G-E Steam Iron
G-E Automatic Roaster - G-E Hotplate
G-E Washing Machine - G-E Sun Lamp
G-E Electric Clock - G-E Mazda Lamps
Wiring Materials
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(20 Years in Cab Business)
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From Lomcn’s river area east to Moore Way
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New Hospital Now |
Being Occupied !
• Contined from Page One)
a group of Nome’s businessmen I
held a meeting for the purpose of
getting something started for an
emergency hospital. Committees
were named and funds began
coming in, to the extent of nearly
$10,000. The emergency hospital,
in the Alaska Native Service
building, was completed in a mat
ter of days and the hospital staff
moved in.
In the meantime, progress was
pushed to the utmost, to obtain the
necessary funds to guarantee the
big new hospital for Nome. Mrs.
Stewart informed the City of
Nome, the Nome Rotary Club and
Dr. Tucker that plans were ready
for contractor’s bids and that it
was necessary to have the com
plete amount of available funds
ready. The City of Nome turned
over to Mrs. Stewart a check in
the amount of $70,500, which was
given over to the hospital fund
through efforts of O. D. Cochrane.
• since deceased*, and H. G. Ga
brielson, the executors of the es
tate of the late, Joseph Glen Mc
Dougall.
In addition to the funds obtain
ed, the Nome Rotary Club donated
the site for the hospital, one com
plete city block.
Thus, it will be noted. Nome
took more than a passing interest
in the building of a modern up-to
the-minute hospital.
In explanation further of the
McDougall Memorial Fund. It was
set aside from the estate of Joseph
Glen “Cappv” McDougall, former
drug store owner of Nome. He
died December 24, 1942, in the
Maynard Columbus Hospital in
Nome.
McDougall was born in Aspen,
Colorado, July 4, 1892, and was
brought to Nome as a young boy
by his mother. He had his early
schooling in the Nome Public
School and worked evenings and
Saturdays for Dr. E. E. Hill, who
owned and operated a drug store.
Young McDougall learned the
drug business, and when death
claimed Dr. Hill, in 1912, the drug
store was willed to him. The drug
business flourished until 1916.
McDougall sold out to the Lomen
Brothers when he was drafted for
World War I.
After returning to the United
States he worked for several years
in drug stores in Seattle and other
coast cities, until 1934 when he
again came to Nome. He entered
the drug business on the main
floor of the Odd Fellow Hall
building.
The great fire of September 17,
1934, which burned the entire
business section of Nome, took his
little drug business with it. He
immediately set up a temporary
store to take care of the necessary
prescriptions until something per
manent could be built. This he did
in 1935.
He continued in business until
his death that Christmas Eve in
1942. At that time he had amassed
nearly $80,000 from his little
business, which he had stipulated
in his will was to bq used for the
health and# welfare of the City of
Nome.
Tge woman’s society agreed
with the acceptance of the Mc
Dougall Memorial Fund that the
name of the hospital would be
come Maynard-McDougall Memo
rial Hospital of Nome; and that
any licensed physician might have
use of the facilities of the hospital,
and that, should the society sell or
cease to operate the hospital for a
period of five years, the McDoug
all Memorial Fund would be re
Earthquake
Side-Lights
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announced, referring to a measure
under consideration in the Senate,
“is an earth-shaking bill.” Two
minutes later the earth began to
shake.
A former bP) correspondent in
Tokyo, R. D. Hennessy, said in
Portland, the quake “gave me a
much heavier shaking than most
of the 50 or more tremors I went
through during my three and a
half years in Japan.”
An indirect casualty of the
quake was Mrs. Florence Saun
ders, 60, of Tacoma.
During the earthquake, dogs be
came excited and howled and
barked. One of them bit Mrs.
Saunders on both ankles.
TACOMA. Wash. </P>—A huge
section of a 300-foot cliff, appar
ently loosened by Wednesday's
earthquake, plunged into Puget
Sound a few miles north <>! here
early Saturday. A resulting eigh*
foot wave hit the little c immunity
of Salmon Beach.
The wave ripped out a privrd *
dock and ramp, smashed a num
ber of small boats and threw the
community into panic. The water
smacked against beach-side homes.
No injuries were reported.
The slide, about half a mile
long, was just north of ’he Salmon
Beach community and about a
mile and a half south of the tip of
Point Defiance.
Mrs. John Bourgaize, boat house
owner who was awakened by the
roar, said the falling cliff shoved
out into the Sound about 600 feet.
The slide drove water about 25
feet away from the beach vicinity.
The wave slammed back in a mat
ter of seconds, Mrs. Bourgaize
said.
Besides the damaged dock and
boats, a number of water pipes
along the dock area were torn out.
Helen Snool, native woman of
Wales, and very old although her
exact age is not known, died at
her home last Saturday.
She has been a resident of
Nome for many years and a famil
iar figure about town.
turned to the City of Nome.
Nome is more than thankful to
all agencies making it possible for
them to have this fine, new. mod
ern hospital.
ern hospital, opened this week to
the public.
, Communication
Nome. Alaska
April 14, 19#9
Editor Nome Nugget,
Dear Sir:
Supplementing my summary of
the accomplishments of the 19tn
Legislature appearing in your Iasi
issue, many have asked me for a
further clarification of seve. aJ
matters not fully explained.
Teachers Salaries—$300.00 ran *
This amount added to the $1000.00
per teacher raise already made bj
the 1946 and 1947 Legislature ,
makes a total raise in three yeais
of $1300.00 per year for all teac:
ers in the Territory.
Equal Pay — This enactment,
calls for equal pay for all employ
ed women doing similar or con -
parable work with men. Men here
tofore have been receiving higher
hourly pay. This change is applic
able mostly among cannery work
ers, in restaurants, hotels, min in,
camps, etc.
Municipalities—Municipal mag
istrates may appoint temporary
magistrates for periods up to t>0
days. Municipal elections are set
for the first Tuesday in October
unless otherwise specified by the
City Councils.
Mayors may be elected for one,
two. or three year terms, and
conn oilmen for three years.
Municipalities may levy a sales
tax up to two per cent, provided
that 55 per cent of *he voters
within the city give approval in
a referendum vote.
City Councils can now grant ex
clusive franchises, and„cities can
now participate in the Federal
Airport Program, also the pay of
election clerks and judges was
raised to $15.00 per day.
School Boards can issue teach
ers’ contracts anytime after .Jan
uary first for the ensuing school
year, and the Board must notify
teachers who are not to be re
tained. by March 15th.
In addition to the $2,500,000.00
for new school construction, $5.
236.953.30 was appropriated for
the support of schools for the two
year period ending .Tune 30, 1951.
The territory pays approximate
ly seventy-five per cent of the
cost of operation of schools within
incorporated towns 'municipali
ties*, and one hundred! per cent o'*
all other schools <rural* through
out the Territory.
HOWARD LYNG,
Territorial Senator.
Second Division.
Cochabanma, Bolivia’s second
largest city, is an aviation center.
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