PATRICIA GEERDTS AND
j^,LAN HAFERBECKER
MARRIED IN NOME
Patricia Geerdts of Milwaukee,
Wise., and Allan Haferbecker of
the Aircraft Communications of
the CAA, who is stationed here,
were married yesterday after
noon in the Methodist parsonage
by Rev. Robert Treat.
** Attending the young couple
were Mr. and Mrs. Robert Leise
of thfe CAA.
Mrs. Treat served a tea follow
ing the ceremony for the guests.
The bride, who was scheduled
to arrive here last Wednesday,
missed connections with P.A.A. in
Seattle due to the bad weather
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which delayed her train from
•Wisconsin. She was again de
layed in Fairbanks on Sunday
when that flight cancelled out due
to bad weather here. However,
all’s well that ends well, and the
couple are at home in their resi
dence on King’s Way.
ALMER PETERSON
FILES FOR DELEGATE
Aimer Peterson, well known
Anchorage man, has filed on the
congress, according to informa
Republican ticket for delegate to
• tion received here yesterday.
The sun is believed to rotate on
it6 axis in about 27 days.
SCHOOL NEWS |
High School Notes
The great westward migration
to the state of California began
with the discovery of gold at Sut
ter’s Mill in the Sacramento Val
ley on January 24, 1848. Fremont
had explored an overland route
some years earlier from Santa Fe.
A race began with the discovery
of gold. Some took the overland
trail across the dry, desert regions.:
Many sailed by boat to the Isth
mus of Panama and crossed that
narrow strip and then continued
in boats on the Pacific side. A
third route was around Cape
Horn.
A temperature graph is on dis
play in the assembly room. It is
for the month of January and
covers a period of four years. The
graph reveals that the Nome cli
mate is warmer than we usually
imagine. More than one half of
the readings taken at 7 a.m. are
above zero over a four-year per
iod. The coldest January was 1947 !
but since then each January has
! become a little milder. The first
of the month in 1947 started out
mild but dropped about January
12 and remained very low below
zero the rest of the month. The
January of 1948 started cold but
jumped up to a mild spell around
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PLANES SPOT POACHERS
WASHINGTON, (£>) — Federal
| game officials are using aerial
j photographs as evidence against
commercial fishermen operating
j illegally in certain waters.
The idea is showing special
promise in Alaska, where rough
waters sometimes make it impos
sible for a patrol plane to land.
Albert M Day, director of the
, U S Fish and Wildlife Service,
| says the plane has replaced the
i dog sled in Alaskan patrols to the
i extent that only 13 miles were
covered by sled last year, against
134,329 by plane, 300 by helicop
i te rand about 100,000 by other
the 15th and remained there to
the close of the month. January
in 1949 had a cold beginning but
warmed up on the eighth day and
retained a higher level. Our pres
ent January, perhaps the mildest
in Nome’s history, started out
mild and has remained mild, ex
cept for one day on January 5th.
I Saturday, January 28th, the
Nome High School will play the
Stateside Commandos. These
players are G I’s who have been
former all-state players from their
respective high schools. A large
crowd is expected by 7:30 o’clock.
It is believed that Mars was the
first planet discovered by obser
vers of the heavens because of
its decidedly red color, and at
times its great brilliancy. It is one
of the conspicuous objects in the
sky. Mars has moved two degrees
in the last eight days, being now
in line with the fixed star towards
which it has been moving. It can
be seen south at seven in the
morning. Now it is on its way to
wards the star Spica.
Sixth Grade
We’ve had two members of
our class leave Nome for other
schools. Edward Oumauk has en
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tered school at Mt. Edgecombe
and Jacqueline Rigg has gone to
some school in the States. We
have 30 members not in our class.
For the last six weeks’ period,
these had perfect attendance: An
na Ailak, Lucy Ann Fagerstrom,
John Wesley Fults, Helen Glav
inovich, Sigrid Olsen, Jerome
Trigg, Margaret Willoya.
For our Christmas Party, the
last afternoon of school before
vacation, we had a gift exchange
and drew names for the honor of
being Santa Claus. Suzanne Gal
loway acted as Santa Claus with
several helpers: Vivian Jenkins,
Tonnie Fults, Jerome Trigg, and
Corinne Jacobson. We had many
treats, first, playing a game. Sev
eral rooms came in during the
afternoon to see our colored chalk
drawings on the board of outdoor
scenes and Santa with his rein
deer.
In art we are working on ori
ginal free-hand drawings of vari
ous outdoor seenes.
We are studying electricity in
science and find it interesting.
Now that our Roman history
part of world history is complete,
we are studying the “Dark Ages”.
Second Grade News
There are forty-one children
enrolled in second grade.
David Moss entered the week
before Christmas and Lincoln
Trigg is a more recent addition.
The second graders having per
fect attendance for the past six
weeks are Mary Anderson, Mar
jorie Blatchford, Mary Kay John
son, Fred Kungesuk, Henry Mill
er, Franglin Okleasik, Mildred
Pauwok, Don Pierce, Philip Cal
son, Judith Leise, Bonnie Rice,
and Monte O’Connor.
Angelo Buffas is in the States
with his parents.
Catholic Information
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Just what is a priest?
Catholic priests — you’ve seen
them, no doubt many of them.
Perhaps you’ve talked with some
and even known one or more
intimately. If so, you have found j
them rather regular human be- j
ings, haven’t you? Well, so they
are—and so they are not. Let us
tell you briefly.
The Catholic phiest was once a
new-born baby—a boy baby. As
a youth he chose his own career.
He applied at his diocesan semi
nary and was admitted after pass
ing rigid tests for strength of;
mind, body, and character.
In the seminary he lived and
studied and prayed for about
twelve years—studied for the first
six years Latin, Greek, modern
languages, English, history and
mathematics; then came two
years of logic, psychology, ethics,
advanced physical science, He
brew, and other subjects. At the
end of the eighth year the aca
demic degree of Bachelor of Arts
(recognized by the State) was con
ferred on him. Then he continued
for four years of post-graduate
work in Sacred Scripture, dog
matic, moral, and pastoral theo
logy, canon law, and liturgy. And
finally, by the laying on of the
hands of the Bishop, he was or
dained a priest of God.
And so, dear neighbor, when
you next see a Catholic priest,
i you will be looking at a member
' of what is undoubtedly the most
i highly educated class of men in
the world; but, more than that,
a man who (as St. Paul himself
puts it), “taken from among men,
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is ordained for men in thing?; that
appertain to God.”
For the priest is first of all
Christ’s ambassador on earth. He
teaches Christ’s truths as Christ
taught them. He administers
Christ’s sacraments as Christ ad
ministered them. At his daily of
fering of the Holy Sacrifice of the
Mass, he continues till the end of
time Christ’s own sacrifice of the
Last Supper and of Calvary. This
is Catholic belief.
Without the Catholic priests of
the early centuries, God’s revela
tions to man would be now tin
known — His soul-saving graces
beyond our reach; and all Chris
tianity would ba considered today
as a myth of 1900 years ago. From
the first Pentecost Sunday till this
day, the enemies of God, of Christ,
of His Church, have realized this
and so have attempted to discred
it, to calumniate, to extinguish
His holy priesthood—so vainly,
so foolishly—for Christ had prom
ised Peter, the Pope of His infant
Church: “the gates of hell shall
not prevail against it.”
Catholic priests — more than
300,000 of them—ambassadors of
Christ in every land! Strong, cour
ageous men — God-loving, God
fearing, humble men, who in the
last breath of their mortal life
cry out to the saints and sinners
of their flocks: “Pray, dear
friends, for my soul; because of
him who has received much, much
is expected.”
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