THE NOME NUGGET
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*t Nome, Alaska, under the Act of March 3. 1879.
Nome, Alaska, Friday, April 28, 1950
CONFERENCE ON CHILDREN AND YOUTH
The President of the United States, Harry Truman
has called a mid-century White House Conference on
Children and Youth to be held during 1950. He has ap
pointed a National Committee made up of more than
50 educators, labor leaders, physicians, clergymen,
economists, and civic leaders.
The conference has seven objectives; to focus atten
tion on our concorn for children and youth; to assemble
in usable form our knowledge about the status of chil
dren; to define the needs of parents; to study the physi
cal social and moral environment for them; to size up
present services now provided; to examine into the
ways people are now working together for children;
and to initiate steps for further achievement.
All citizens in the community are urged to attend the
meeting tonight called by our Mayor for this purpose so
that Alaska will be able to take its proper place in the
National Conference along with all other States and
Territories.
MR. PRESIDENT—IN 1789!
A century and a half is not long in the history of na
tions and it i§ hard for Americans to realize, at times,
that the United States is comparatively youthful,
scarcely yet touching anywhere near maturity.
Just one hundred sixty-one years ago, on April 30,
1789. George Washington took the oath of office in New
York and became the first President of the United
States. The life of the young republic was a matter of
misgivings abroad and there was considerable concern
in the late colonies lest the people refuse to support the
newly established union.
The vast natural resources available, together with
the industry and application of our early settlers, com
bined to make possible the greatest economic develop
ment that the world has seen. Some part of our growth
can be attributed, no doubt, to the wise decision of the
young nation to have free trade between the several
states.
THE CASE OF THE VANISHING $500
(By Fred G. Clark and Richard Stanton Rimanoczy)
Aside from the fact that the Federal Government
takes so much from our standard of living, there is an
other way taxes should be reduced.
Here is the reason: these billions of dollars ($42 bil
lion in 1950) can be used to destroy the two-party sys
tem on which our political fredeom is founded.
Here is why this is true: these billions are paid out to
voters by the Government—to all sorts of voters for all
sorts of reasons—and the voters who get this money are
naturally likely to vote for the administration which
pays it to them.
This applies to everyone who gets money from the
Government, but particularly to those on the Federal
payroll.
The “balance of power” in any two party system in
. which the two parties are about equal in strength can
be controlled by the votes of a minority group, and it
doesn’t have to be a large minority group.
In the last Presidential election the winner received
24 million votes and the loser received 22 million.^
The difference between 24 million and 22 millions is
2 million.
The present administration has about 2 million voters
on its payroll.
According to experts, every one of these 2 million is
good for at least 3 votes (wives, daughters, sons, fath
ers, etc.) which would be 6 million votes.
If taxes keep up and the public payroll keeps grow
ing, the administration’s “vest pocket” minority will
continue to grow with it. /
We would not want you to get the idea that we be
CHURCH SERVICES
LAVINIA WALLACE YOUNG
MISSION (METHODIST)
Rev. Paul B. F Carlson, Pastor
Esther McCoy, Director
Rev. Robt. Treat, Methodist pastor
Sunday—
10:00 a.m. Eskimo Speakinp
Service.
11:00 a.m. Sunday School.
7:30 p.m. Evening Service.
Wednesday—
2:00 p.m. Children’s Mirach
Book Club.
Thursday—
7:30 p.m. Mid-week Service.
CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE
Third and Division
Pastor—Lewis I. Hudgins
“It is impossible to mentally
or socially enslave a Bible reading
people.”—Horace Greeley.
10:00 a.m. Singspiration and Sun
day School classes.
11:00 a.m. Morning Message.
7:00 p.m. Young People’s Meeting
7:30 p.m. Singspiration and special
! music.
8:00 p.m. Evening Message.
Wednesday: 7:30 p.m. Melody and
Prayer.
: Come and bring your Bible.
You are ever welcome to attend
these services.
ASSEMBLY OF GOD
Third Avenue West
Pastor A. E. Capener
Sunday Morning—
10:00 to 11:40: This service is
designed to meet your need
with Bible class studies for ev- !
ery age group, followed by a
message from the Pastor to the
Assembly.
Wednesday—
7:30 p.m.: Bible study and pray
er; bring your Bible.
FRIDAY—
7:30 p.m.: This meeting is con
ducted by Senior Young People j
presenting spiritual truths,
songs, special music, games, and
fellowship.
Everyone welcome.
OUR MESSAGE:—“Jesus Christ
the same Yesterday and Today
and Forever,” Hebrews 13:8.
“Seek ye the Lord while He may
be found,” Isaiah 55.6.
THE METHODIST CHURCH
(FEDERATED)
Rev. Robert S. Treat, Minister
9:45—Sunday School.
11:00—Morning Worship. Anthem
by the Senior Choir. Message:
“Life Beyond the Grave.”
3:00—Hospital Service
7:30—Evening Service at the
Mission Church. An apprecia
tion for the ministry of Rev.
and Mrs. Paul Carlson at the
Mission will be expressed.
Tuesday—Junior Choir after
school.
Wednesday 7:00— Senior Choir.
Thursday 7:00—Mission Choir.
CATHOLIC CHURCH
Sunday Masses:
8:00 a.m.
11:15 a.m.
10:00 a.m.—M. A. F. B. Chapel
DAILY MASS SCHEDULE
Monday and Tuesday—7:30 a.m.
Wednesday, Thursday
and Friday.7:00 a.m.
Saturday .8:00 a.m.
NOME GOSPEL MISSION
of
Alaska Evangelization Society
Rev. Vern Rimling. Pastor
Sunday—
2:00 p.m. Sunday School foi
boys and girls.
Pleaching service in the Eskinn
language by James Savok.
7:30 p.m. Gospel Service.
Tuesday—
7:30 p.m. Bible Study—trans
lated into the Eskimo language
Thursday—
2:00 to 4:00 p.m. K.Y.B Club for
boys and girls.
Friday—
7:30 p.m. Prayer, Praise and
Testimony.
SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST
SERVICES
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Pastor's Residence, second house
from corner of B St., between 3rd
and 4th Ave.
Saturday—
Junior Sabbath School—10:00 a.m.
Senior Sabbath School—11:00 a.m.
Picture Hour—7:30-8:30 p.m.
Visitors welcomed
Marvin W. Troutman, Pastor
lieve that any group of politicians will act much differ
ently than any other group of politicians, but to protect
our form of government, we simply must not allow any
party to get so much power that it can never be thrown
out of office.
And any party with a bottomless purse is in a posi
tion to become that strong.
POSTMAN RINGS ONCE-A PAY I
Statehood Advo
cates “Perpetrating
Great Hoax’
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title.”
4. The bill would retain federal
control over the Tongass National
Forest, Arnold said. He said that
area embraces most of Southeast
ern Alaska.
“Under the terms of the bill,”
he said, “the new State receives
no lands in this vast area until the
lands are no longer useful for for
est purposes.”
“Since the forest service has a
perpetual cropping plan for the
Tongass Forest,” he said. “The
State will never receive any of
the lands.”
Elaborate pamphlets containing
Arnold’s statement, photostats
and statistics about 100 pages
long were prepared for each Sen
ator.
“The plain, ungarnished truth,”
his statement said, “is that if
Alaska, with its non-contiguity,
lack of developed resources and
hterogeneous population is quali
fied for admission, so is Puerto
Rico. If Alaska is admitted and
Puerto Rico barred, the distinc
tion will be purely on racial
grounds.”
Meanwhile, the committee Wed
nesday heard som two-dozen wit
nesses plead for Alaskan State
hood. Many of them are Alaskan
residents who were here for the
hearing.
W. O. Smith told the committee
the Alaska fishing industry is
worth $125,000,000 a year and is
“self-perpetuating.”
“But there is no free enterprise
in the industry,” Smith said, an
Alaskan fisherman himself.
“The fisheries are controlled by
the fish industry and the federal
Fish and Wildlife Service,” he
said. “This large industry should
be under the control of the State
of Alaska.”
He said the “Industry” controls
one-half of the salmon-trap sup
ply and thus controls one-half of
all the fish coming from Alaskan
waters.
He said outlawing of fish traps
would expand the canning indus
try’s life from three weeks to
three months a year.
“British Columbia and the State
of Washington has outlawed fish
traps,” he said. “The canning' sea
son in British Columbia is three
months long. In Alaska it is all
over in three weeks.”
He said fishermen who don’t
have traps, “can’t compete” with
those who do. Eight canning com
panies, he said, own one-half of
the allowable 400 fish traps. He
said that fish trap areas are
bought and cold “contrary to the
regulations of the Fish and Wild
Life Service.”
Statehood, he said, would give
control of the fisheries to Alas
kans.
Robert Atwood, publisher of the
Anchorage Times, said the House
passed bill “would not change the
question concerning the rights of
aboriginals in Alaska.”
He said he favored the bill.
John Hellenthal, who called
himself a “Native Alaskan law
yer,” said he is “passionately” in
favor of statehood. City attorney
for Anchorage, he said his city
would have $230,000 budget sur
plus this year.
“The people who made this sur
plus possible are the people who
will be helping to run the State of
Alaska,” he said. “They’ve had
plenty of training.”
Mayor J. A. Talbot of Ketchi
kan, a Republican with 36 years’