Fairbanks Gels
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FAIRBANKS, (IP) — Fairbanks
residents will feast the next few
days on salad, fresh steaks, eggs
and airborne milk for the first
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time in almost two weeks.
A Pan American Airways plane
landed last night with several
thousand pounds of precious car
go, including bananas, cucumbers,
lettuce and other delectables
which have been absent from
Fairbanks’ tables since an ice-fog
blanketed the city Jan. 6.
The fog dissipated for the first
time late yesterday when the tem
perature rose to a “tropical” 22
below zero and residents blinked
in almost-forgotten sunlight. The
temperature had hovered around
50 below for almost two weeks.
Firemen got their first breather
in several days.
After six fires within 48 hours,
they scarcelly had had time to
thaw crusted ice from their cloth
ing between calls.
Fire equipment was almost use
less after the strenuous workout.
Hoses were frozen and battery
lamps burned out. Townspeople
were keeping their fingers crossed
until equipment is conditioned
again.
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Eccles Urges 44
Hour No-Overtime
Work-Week j
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WASHINGTON, (/P)—Marriner
S. Eccles yesterday urged a 44
hour work week, ‘'without over-:
time pay,” a general wage freeze
and limited price controls as anti
inflation measures.
* Eccles, a member of the federal
reserve board and chairman until
deposed by President Truman
three years ago, gave his ideas to
the Senate-House economic com
mittee at Capitol hearings.
His testimony came while the
economic stabilization agency was
reported working on general price
and wage freeze orders, expected i
to be issued immediately.
Adding pressure for swift gov
ernment action was a rise in its
cost of living index to a new peak.
Well-placed officials predicted
prices would be pegged at Jan. 2
levels and paychecks at current
wage rates—but with leeway for
some workers to do considerably
more bargaining. t
The bureau of labor statistics
reported that its cost of living in
dex hit a peak <m Dec. 15, when it
stood at 178.4 per cent of the
1935-39 average. The Dec. 15 in- j
dex was 1.6 per cent higher than
that of Nov. 15.
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U.S. Commissioner's Court
Elizabeth Olsen was sentenced
to 60 days in the Federal Jail for
being drunk in a public place.
Jacob Carter was given a sus
pended sentence of 30 days for
discharging n firearm within the
city limits.
Herman Smith was sentenced
30 days for petty larceny.
CORRECTION
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Hollie Kite was arrested for be
ing drunk and disorderly at the
fc Husky Bar instead of the New
Lincoln, as stated in the last issue/
of the Nugget.
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Tuesday Evening, January 30th ;
9:00 P. M. School Auditorium
POLIO ODYSSEY
Sidney Moody (center), 21, of Plainfield, N. J., was stricken with polio last August (lower left) aboard
U.S.-bound liner Parthia, three days out of New York. Radio message brought physician (left center, up),
portable respirator, and medicine via Coast Guard plane and cutter. Additional SOS brought parachuted
medicine (upper right), retrieved from storm-tossed seas by Parthia crew. At New York pier, Moody's
parents (right center) boarded ship to visit son before ambulance dash to hospital (lower right), brought
this message from sick bay: “If anything happens to me, leave everything to the March of Dimes." Ths
Moody polio odyssey was the most dramatic of hundreds engaged In by ths National Foundation for Infan*
tile Paralysis during last year's unprecedented polio epidemics. All—plus the Foundation's research and
professional education programs—were mads possible by ths March of Dimes. Now ths Miroh of Dimes
needs your help desperately. Give generously.
(This space donated by— Nome Motor Company, Nome Drug Store,
Northern Commercial Co., Nome Hardware Co., and Miners and
Merchants Bank).