DUTCH
AUCTION
ANNUAL SALE
this weens m rme
Nationally Advertised
! STAINLESS STEEL
2-Quart Copper-bottom Saucepan
$6.00 Value — $4.00
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NOME HARDWARE
“ Nome’s Complete Hardware Store ”
Alask- Cab
(Formerly Glue Pot Cab)
“See Us For Sightseeing”
Phone Main 20 - Red 41
FRESH SEAFOOD
OYSTERS — CRAB — PRAWNS
ALASKAN SHRIMP — CRAB MEAT
POLARIS COFFEE SHOP
Hours: 6:30 a.m. to 10 p.m.
New Schedules Effective Feb. 1
EACH MONDAY AND THURSDAY
ARRIVE NOME FROM FAIRBANKS 10:30 a. m.
LEAVE NOME FOR FAIRBANKS
Via Kotzebue 11:30 a. m.
EACH WEDNESDAY AND SATURDAY
ARRIVE NOME FROM FAIRBANKS 12:45 p. m.
Via Kotzebue
LEAVE NOME FOR FAIRBANKS 1;45 p. m.
EACH MONDAY AND THURSDAY
ARRIVE NOME FROM KOTZEBUE
Via Candle and Deering 9:40 a. 111.
LEAVE NOME FOR KOTZEBUE
Via Candle and Deering 10:40 a. 111.
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EACH FRIDAY
ARRIVE NOME FROM FAIRBANKS 12 Noon
LEAVE NOME FOR FAIRBANKS
Via Kotzebue 1:00 p.m.
FREIGHT ONLY. NO PASSENGER SERVICE ON FRIDAY
Salt—Without It You’d Die
Modern technology has brought us such an abundance of things that we take them for granted. We
forget that not so many years ago they were either non-existent or so scarce that blood was shed in
struggles for their control.
Halt is such a product Without it in your body, you would quickly die.
Yes, salt (sodium chloride or NaCl), has had a colorful history. References to it date all the way back
to 2700 B.C., indicating the vital role played by this now common compound. Marco Polo spoke of it So
did the Bible. So did Plato and Homer and Shakespeare in their famous works.
Salt deposits
In Old China, salt was second
only to gold in value. Salt cakes,
bearing the stamp of the Great
Kahn, were used as money in
Tibet during the 13th Century.
Slaves were once sold in exchange
for salt on the Gold Coast of
Africa. And in the days of the
Roman legionnaires, soldiers re
ceived part of their pay in salt or
were given a “salarium” (allow
ance to buy their ration of salt).
Hence our present word “salary”
and the expression, “He’s not
worth his salt.”
No article of food has been so
ruthlessly exploited by rulers to
keep down their people as salt.
The most famous example is the
salt tax in France in the 18th
Century. A small, favored group
‘Diet TCkmu?
. . • that iodized salt helps In
the prevention of goiter?
. . . that during excossively
hot weather, whenever you
indulge in strenuous work or
exercise, it is essential that
you take extra salt to replace
salt lost by perspiring?
... that Europeans consume
twice as much salt per cap*
ita as Americans? Americans
should not be afraid to be
fienerous in their use of salt
or salt heightens the zest for
eating.
. . . that if grapefruit is unu*
sually sour, adding salt will
make it taste sweet?
I. .. that cut flowers will keep
longer when a pinch of salt
is added to the water?
... that a little moistened
salt rubbed on the outside of
your car windshield will pre*
vent snow and ice from col*
lecting on it?
. . . that cracked eggs can be
boiled without the contents
oozing out if a teaspoon of
salt is added to the water?
... that cream will whip
much more rapidly with a
pinch of salt in it?
. . . that dentists claim there
is no better dentifrice than
i pure, fine salt?
was given the right to refine and sell salt at prices too high for the poor to pay. When
the poor tried to produce salt by evaporating sea water, they were imprisoned, and
tortured, or in the event of a second offense, sent to their deaths by hanging. This
abuse helped to stir up the French Revolution.
Salt has played an important part in wars, too. One of the reasons why Napoleon
was forced to retreat from Moscow was because he ran out of salt for his troops.
This deficiency (faused low resistance to infection. Many of his soldiers* wounds,
though not serious at first, proved fatal.
The early American pioneers, during their surge westward, fought the Indians over
valuable salt licks. And during the Civil War, the North successfully waged a cam
- aign to cut off the South*s salt supply at the Saltville, Virginia works.
Vital to Diet
Why is salt so important? Because if it were
* left out of your diet, you would soon die. And
that goes for animals as well as humans. Salt is
present in your blood and tissue. It governs the
exchange of water in your tissues and maintains
the proper osmotic pressure. Your body is con
tinually throwing off salt through your kidneys
and glands, so it must be replaced. Every adult
needs two-thirds of an ounce of salt every day.
At the last count, there were more than 14,000
ways in which salt can be used. In the United
States, world’s leading producer of salt, salt used
in the manufacture of chemicals is the chief use.
Dry salt fo~ livestock ranks second, and salt for
household use is in third place.
In our country, most salt comes
from deposits underground, yield
ing a much finer grade than is
usually produced commercially
from other sources.
Two methods are used to reach
these deposits. One is to dig a
mine shaft down to the deposit,
blast it out, lift the chunks of salt
to the surface in elevators, and
then crrsh the chunks and screen
the sale. The other method, yield
ing a far purer grade of salt, is to
drillfor it. This method is used by
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Girl Scouts Guests Of
Home Arts Club Sponsors
Girl Scouts were guests of their
sponsors, the Home Arts Club,
last evening at a special gather
ing held at the LWY Community
Center.
Under direction of their leaders,
Mrs. M. Coons and Mrs. H. Ash
ley, the Brownies put on a clever
skit with Kathleen O’Brien taking
the leading part.
The Junior Intermediates under
the direction of Catherine Fran
ces did a comedy skit with Ruth
Glavinovich as leader.
The Senior Intermediate group
with Irene Cornue as their leader
planned -an interesting dance pan
tomime with Helen Glavinovich as
reader.
Following the program, de
licious refreshments were served
by the Home Arts Club.
Awards were presented to the
following girls of the Senior In
termediate group:
Sadie Bell, Lucy Fagerstrom,
Madeline Mogg, Diane Boucher,
Mary Jean Boucher, Helen Gla
vinovich, Arlene Hawk, Arlene
Muller, and Cecilia Akpealuk.
Additional awards will be made
at the mother-daughter gathering
to be held soon.
NOTICE
Cara Dygerf# 814-291h Street#
Seattle# Washington# died Febru
ary 2# 1952. Anyone knowing
whereabouts of step-niece# maid
en name# Skinner# and sole heir#
please notify Paul' M. Anderson#
attorney# 708 American Building#
Seattle# Washington#
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GE Automatic Roaster - GE Mazda Lamps
GE Hot Plate - Thor Gladiron
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WE CARRY LARGE ASSORTMENT OF
FINE LIQUORS, BEER AND WINE
Out-of-Town Orders Carefully Handled
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Salt “catches birds too”
the Diamond Crystal-Colonial Salt
Division of General Foods Corpo
ration at St Clair, Michigan, in
America’s greatest salt producing
state. Diamond Crystal operates
many salt wells, similar to oil
wells, often drilling 2,500 feet
(half a mile) straight down to
reach a salt deposit
Persistent, untiring research has
resulted in a new “weather-pruf”
salt developed by this same firm.
This salt will flow even on the
dampest days. No more banging on
the dining room table._
Diamond Crystal Salt Plant