THE NOME NUGGET
Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday by the
NOME PUBLISHING CO.
NOME, ALASKA
Telephone: Main 125 P- O. Box 618
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W. A. Boucher .Owner-Publisher
Entered as second class matter October 14, 1943, at the postoffice
at Nome, Alaska, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
Nome, Alaska, Wednesday, January 18, 1950
OUR DIMES FOR THE MARCH OF MERCY
By S-Sgt Robert E. Rogge
There are ten of them in a dollar, each one is just
ll-16ths of an inch in diameter. On one side is engraved
the head of Mercury, god of speed; on the other is the
likeness of a, fasces and an olive branch, symbolizing
justice and peace. Two mottos are engraved on its faces:
“In God We Trust” and “E Pluribus Unum”. It’s com
position is silver, copper and nickel; it is the coin of the
realm. It is a dime.
One thin dime, yet it means so much! Ten cents worth
of precious and semi-precious metal, moulded and en-.
graved into a coin; a coin that will buy two candy bars,
a spool or thread, a child’s toy—or a stake in a human
life.
Take one from your pocket and look at it. It hardly
covers your thumb nail, but it, and millions like it, have
become the symbol of one of the greatest humanitarian
drives we have ever known—The March of Dimes.
Miles of them, laid end to end in our cities, towns and
villages have been poured into the seemingly empty
crater that polio has gouged in the ranks of crippled and
lamed. Last year that crater yawned more menacingly
than before—the flood of silver dimes was swallowed.
Gone. Used up. Spent. Still the fight goes on, and you,
one of the whole and unmaimed, are desperately needed
to fill that gaping maw to overflowing, to choke out the
scourge that wracks young and old alike.
Soon there will be small replicas of the iron lungs,
used so mercifully in this bitter campaign, placed in
the stores and shops of your community. Fill them to
the top with your dimes. This is an expensive fight with
its multitude of machines and the costly training of its
experts, the doctors and nurses who specialize in the
study and defeat of this insidious disease. We’ve all
heard about iron lungs; the experts must, for the most
part, remain unsung heros. Their legions are great and
there is no greater way we can show our appreciation
of their wrk than by helping them carry on—with our
dimes.
A dime isn’t much in itself but the gleaming heaps of
silver that the dimes from the pockets of all of us will
make are what really count.
Give your share of dimes in this crusade of health.
Take the braces from the withered bodies of the chil
dren, make the iron lung an obsolete instrument. Back
the March of Dimes with your dimes.
PAINFUL AND DIFFICULT
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The United States, whether its people recognize the
fact or not, is in the midst of what might be termed
“boom times.” In such an era, the business of govern
ment is to balance its budget because if this cannot be
done when there is relative prosperity in the country,
how can it be done when there is a depression?
The budget balancing act requires one of two things:
an increase in taxes to meet costs or a decrease in costs
to meet existing revenue. Either taxes must be raised or \
expenses reduced. Neither process is easy in a democ
racy where the people have been led to expect increas
ing largesses. The process is especially diffiicult in an
election year.
JACK LENCER
Watchmaker
Box 625 Nome, Alaska
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News of the World
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a labor government and a conser
vative one. He said labor would
never agree to a coalition with
Winston Churchill’s conserva
tives.
Nationalist Chinese in their
capital at Taipei, Formosa, repor
ted Hainan island defenses have
been strengthened. They said the
communists are massing for the
Hainan invasion on Liuchow pen
insula but are being hampered by
around-the-clock bombing by na-'
tionalist planes.
Wednesday, January 18, 1950
By the Associated Press
A nationalist Chinese comman
der claimed today the nationalist
navy and air force have made im
possible an early communist inva
sion of Hainan island.
The ground commander on Hai
nan said his forces are mopping
up the remnants of 17,000 com
munists who landed on the big
south China island.
He said nationalist air and na
val forces have sunk 2,000 com
munist craft (mostly junks) mass
ed on Liuchow. the invasion pen
insula opposite Hainan.
Hainan and Formosa are the
last two important strongholds 1
left to Chaing Kai-Shek’s nation- i
alists.
Meanwhile the official commu
nist voice, Peiping Radion, heard
in Tokyo, gave its first account of
the communist seizure of Ameri
can, French and Dutch govern
ment properties in China.
The seizures pushed the United
States into recalling all state de
partment officials from commu
nist China.
The Peiping radio accused the
western powers’ consuls of “pro
crastinating and refusing” to hand
over their government’s proper
ties in response to the Peiping
regime’s “justifiable demand.”
It said “military necessity”
prompted the seizures. It called
the government properties “mili
tary establishments” protecting i
“special interests based on unfair
treaties.”
A chief spokesman for Ameri
can foreign policy in the far east
talked turkey to communist Chi-!
na, reminding her she has a long,'
hard economic road to travel.
, Roving ambassador Philip C.
Jessup, using Hong Kong as his
2 Airmen Killed
At Fairbanks
FAIRBANKS, Alaska, (/P)~Two
Ladd air force base airmen were
killed Monday afternoon in the |
crash of their F-82 fighter plane !
ten miles south of here.
Names were withheld pending
notification of next of kin.
A helicopter and snowmobile
were dispatched by the tenth res
cue squadron, and crews found
the bodies a half hour later.
Wreckage was strewn over an 80
yard area.
Two other airmen flying in the
vicinity saw the explosion as the
plane hit the ground. They noti- |
fied Ladd authorities.
Memorial services will be held
tomorrow at the Ladd air base
chapel.
rostrum, said:
“China will continue to require
the technological and cultural aid
of many countries—not merely
one to two— if her development
is not to be retarded.”
Again, .with obvious references
to Russia, Jessup said:
“We further believe that no
single outside nation can supply
all requirements or make all the
contributions that country needs
for its fullest development in the
family of nations.”
Jessup reaffirmed American
support of a policy of equality, in
dependence and integrity for
China.
A nationalist Chinese air attack
on communist Canton yesterday
was the biggest yet. The national
ists also reported they stepped up
their aerial pounding of Shang
hai.
Chamber Of
Commerce Has Big
!\oon Meeting
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taken.
Chairman Lyle of the road com
mittee reported that he had called
on district engineer John Hudert
and brought the matter of the con
dition of Bessie road to his atten
tion. Mr. Hudert unhesitantly con
sented to assist in keeping the
Bessie road and field in condition
but affirmed that the users of the
road and field should co-operate
in every way.
Chairman Ted Duffield of the
housing committee reported that
during the week answers had
been received to his letters on
housing but it seems that he is
receiving some of that famous
mixture of passing the buck.
He reported that thanks to the
gracious co-operation of a number
of ladies from the Nome base he
received five large boxes of used
clothing which are being altered
for the Arthur Trigg children
who have been reported destitute
of clothing at their home near
Cape Nome.
President Harper reported on
the reported retail store which
had been announced as offering
sale of merchandise at the base,
but when the matter was ex
plained it was reported that there
is no intention to deviate from
the existing rules and that what
was offered as this time was only
salvage materials.
Wednesday evening was set for
the next dinner meeting at 7:30
p.m. in the Behring Sea club.
A nominating committee com
posed of directors Duffield, Man
deville and Osborne was appoin
ted to report at this meeting,
when the election of officers will
take place.
NEWS IN BRIEF
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tigated a fight in the new quar
ters yesterday and found a wine
bottle. It developed the trusties
acquired the bottle of wine while
cleaning the street, and brought
it back “for a housewarming par
ty.”
Then the fight started.
SEATTLE, </P)—1The little mat
ter of an omitted word made
quite a difference yesterday in a
report on the interior depart
ment’s public land policy in Al
aska.
Secretary Chapman told the
senate interior, committee there
will be no withdrawals of public
lands until after public hearings
have been held.
In wire transmission across the
country from Washington, D.C.,
the “until” was dropped out.
PLUMBING and STEAM-FITTING
Call Vern Miller - Phone Main 79
ATTENTION REPUBLICANS
THE REPUBLICAN CLUB OF NOME
Will hold a General Meeting Wednesday, Jan. 18
at 8:00 o’clock in the City Hall.
EVERYBODY WELCOME