THE NOME NUGGET
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Entered as second class matter October 14, 1943, at the postoffice
•t Nome, Alaska, under the Act of March 3. 1879.
Nome, Alaska, Friday, November 4, 1949
CHANCE FOR MINING INDUSTRY
(Ketchikan News)
Some day mining will come back in Southeastern
Alaska.
Properly financed, engineered and mined, the indus
try could easily surpass fishing in annual revenue.
Except in a very few instances, mining as a rule has
been of the gopher variety, seeking out the richer gold
veins.
There also has been too much promotion and watered i
stock.
In the whole of Southeast Alaska and around Ketchi- i
kan are mineralized sections carrying many kinds of
commercial ore.
It will require large capital to profitably mine large
bodies of low grade ores. Handy most any place are tim
ber, water power and harbors.
One drawback in some well recognized sections al
ready passed on favorably by engineers are claim hold
ers who cannot afford to do anything themselves and re
fuse to sell unless they get a big price.
But, with the increasing demands for all kinds of min
erals, some engineer may come along who might be able
to harmonize some of the differences and get hold of
enough ground for large operations.
We can only hope so!
WHAT WILL HAPPEN?
Evidently not over-impressed by the problems and
perplexities which confront the human race, forward
looking astronomers sometimes speculate on what will
eventually happen to the globe that we call the earth.
The experts generally agree that the most likely
fate is that the sun will explode, shriveling the earth
in a sudden, hot death. Other less likely fates include
the cooling of the sun so that the earth will be frozen
waste-land, the destruction of the earth because of a
smash-up between our sun and another star, the de
struction of the earth through a collision with a comet
and the possibility that the moon might come so close
to the earth as to create tidal waves and volcanoes to
wipe out the habitation of man.
While people seem to be interested in the effort to
understand the future, there is no occasion for anyone
to become excited. The experts do not think that the
sun will explode during the next billion years, or more.
YUGOSLAVIA QUITS
Yugoslavia, which for more than three years has sup
ported the Soviet Union’s policy of attacking all colon
ial powers, recently deserted the Soviet bloc by refus
ing to support a blanket condemnation of administering
authorities in United Nations trust areas.
The Yugoslavia delegate praised a Brazilian resolu
tion on education in these regions as “a step forward,”
and when it was subsequently approved, the Soviet bloc
shrunk to five. There were thirty-nine favorable votes.
ONE DEFENSE BUDGET
The budget of the United States has been termed a
“defense budget" and there is reason to believe that it
is.
Somthing like $14,000,000,000 is being allocated the
three armed services, another seven or eight billion
goes for aid and assistance abroad, and about five bil
lions are being spent annually for the benefit of veter
ans of past wars.
In addition, interest on the national debt, most of it
incurred in the prosecution of warfare, amounts to four
or five billion dollars a year.
Despite the large sums involved it is well to remem
ber that it is cheaped to win wars than to lose them.
! Walrus Club Notes
The Walrus Club met last eve
ning and discussed the possibility
of taking over the ANS school
building which was re-conditioned
and used as an. emergency hospi
tal last year and making it into a
civic center, so badly needed in
the community.
Johnny Hudert was lucky last
evening, being the recipient of
$35.50 from the Milk Fund.
Vets Insurance
Dividend Checks to
Start In January
WASHINGTON </P)—The order
of payment of the $2,800,000,000
special insurance dividends to
World War II veterans will be
based generally on the last thrre
digits of a veteran’s service serial1
number.
The veterans Administration ex
plained today for the first time
the system under which checks
will be mailed to veterans holding
national life insurance policies.
Payments are to begin in Jaunary.
Under the procedure, VA said,
a veteran whose serial number
ends in 000—35,496,000 for exam
ple—will be included in the first
mailing of checks.
On the other hand, a veteran
with a serial number such of 100,
990 will be among the last to re
ceive his check.
The VA said this method of
payment was decided upon after
careful consideration, and de
I NATIONAL CHURCH
STEWARDSHIP TO BE
OBSERVED SUNDAY
j This week communities all over
the nation are recognizing the im
■ portance of the church and
through their churches are pledg
i ing their interest to Gol’s on-going
1 work in their communities. In
1 some cities, laymen from the dif
ferent churches are meeting at
i large gatherings, and have made
plans to encourage everyone in
those areas to take a more definite
interest in the church of his
choice.
Here in Nome the Church of the
Nazarene, the Lavinia Wallace
Young Mission, and the Feder
ated Church-Methodist are observ
ing the Sunday, and cordially in
vite the people of the community
to attend these, or other churches,
and join with other Christians
around the nation in accepting the
promises that belong to a steward
of God’s blessings.
The Church board of the Feder
ated Church planned last week to j
have a layman speak briefly ex- |
plaining the observance, and it is
intended that all who participate
will sense the privilege of helping
to carry on the work of the church.
scribed it as the most non-discri
minatory that could be devised.
The full serial number has
nothing to do with the order of
payment—merely the last three
digits.
About 16.000,000 veterans are
eligible to receive the payments.
Moreover, retention of freedom and liberty is worth
whatever number of billions of dollars the job requires.
GREEK REBELS QUIT OFFICIALLY
“Greece is now in ruins and hunger reigns every
where,” declares the Greek guerrilla army, in announc
ing the cessation of operations, “in order to avoid thei
total destruction of Greece.”
The proclamation of the Communist Army does not
mean that the effort to overthrow the Greek Govern
ment has been abandoned. It simply means that the
Greek Army, which has been tremendously aided by
American assistance, has been able to drive the guerril
las out of the country and that, against these odds, the
rebels are unable to continue warfare.
Rumors in international capitals suggest that the
Greek revolutionists, now reorganizing in Albania, may
be transferred to the borders of Yugoslavia. They will
follow the same tactics adopted in Greece, try to take a
border town and then set up a “people’s government.”
The invasion will not represent an uprising of the peo-|
pie of Yugoslavia but an attempt, on the part of foreign
ers, to overthrow the government of Marshal Tito.
MOUSE! iAPH
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< URCHES
CATHOLIC CHURCH
Masses:
8:00 a.m.
1 11:15 a.m.
10:00 a.m.—M. A. F. B. Chapel
LAVINIA WALLACE YOUNG
MISSION
Pastors—Rev. Theron McGrow
Rev. Paul B. F. Carlson
Rev. Robi. Treat. Methodist pastor
Sunday—
10:00 a.m. Eskimo Speaking
Service.
11:00 a.m. Sunday School.
7:30 p.m. Evening Service.
Wednesday—
2:00 p.m. Children’s Miracle
Book Club.
Thursday—
7:30 p.m. Mid-week Service.
THE METHODIST CHURCH
(FEDERATED)
Rev. Robert Treat. Minister
REFORMATION DAY
Sunday—
9:45—Sunday School.
Missionary Sunday.
11:00—Morning Worship: Nation
al Stewardship Sunday. An
them by the Senior Choir, and
Message, “Given In His Name.’*
7:30—Evensong, and Message.
“Seekers Alter God."
Tuesday—
Junior Choir, after school
Wednesday 7:00—Senior Choir re
hearsal.
8:30—Teachers training class.
ASSEMBLY OF GOD
PENTECOSTAL
Third Avenue West
Miss H. E. Brown
Missionary in Charge
Sunday—
Sunday School . 10:00 am.
Adult Bible Class.11:00 a.m.
Evening Service .7:30 p.m.
Tuesday—
Young Peoples Meeting 4:00 p.m.
Wednesday—
Bible Study . 7:30 p.m.
Friday—
Bible Study and
Prayer Meeting .7:00 p.m.
EVERYONE WELCOME
CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE
Third and Division
Pastor—Lewis I. Hudgins
“People who do a lot o7 kneel
ing (to God> don’t do much lying.”
10:00 a.m. Singspiration and Sun
day School classes.
11:00 a.m. Morning Message.
7:00 p.m. Young People’s Meeting,
i :30 p.m. Singspiration and special
music.
3:00 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.
NOME GOSPEL MISSION
of
Alaska Evangelisation Society
Rev. Vern Rimling. Pastor
Sunday—
2:00 p.m. Sunday School for
boys and girls.
Preaching service in-the Eskimo
language by James Savok.
< :30 p.m. Gospel Service.
Tuesday— ^
(.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.