THE NOME NUGGET
Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday by The
NOME PUBLISHING CO.
Nome. Alaska
Telephone: Main 125 p. o. Box 618
$1.50 PER MONTH _$16.00 A YEAR
W- A, and EMILY BOUCHER.Editors
Entered as second class matter October 14, 1843, at
wie postoffice at Nome, Alaska, under the Act of
March 3, 1879.
_Monday, August 6, 1945
NASEVIK
The annual publication of the White
Mountain Vocational School has just
come to the Editor’s desk, and we de
cided that we just could not pass up the
opportunity to comment on the quality
of the edition. The staff is to be compli
mented highly.
The “NASEVIK” is dedicated “To
you, the former students of White Moun
tain Vocational School in the armed
forces of the United States of America,
we, the Class of 1945, dedicate this an
nual because of the memory of your tri
umphs and sorrows will be forever in
our hearts.”
In the “foreword”, Mr. John E. Paden,
expresses his desire, that, “We shall
judge that this publication has served
its purpose if it causes some of the par
ents to visit the school.”
The edition contains more than 50
mimeographed pages of intricate de
signs, lettering, and typing, and several
pages of tediously-pasted photographs of
the student classes.
. On the whole, the report of the year’s
activities is covered thoroughly and
completely and shows the harmony, un
derstanding and close cooperation of
students and teaching staff.
FOOTNOTE TO HISTORY
(New York Times)
History often has a way of repeating
its patterns closely. Forty-seven years
ago on May 1 Commodore George Dewey
destroyed the Spanish squadron of Ad
miral Montojo in the Battle of Manila
Bay and thereby made certain the course
of the war in the Far East against Spain.
But he had no landing force with him
and was forced to wait until August 13
(East Longitude Time)—the day peace
was signed, but before it was known
there—before opening the campaign
against the Spaniards ashore.
For many months now in the western
Pacific our fleet and air force have been
able to go wherever they pleased, and
when, so complete a control of the sea
have they won. But now as in 1898 that
alone is not enough. The fleet must wait
for the foot soldier to come to win the
final victory.
THE GADGETEER’S AGE
These war days many a handyman has
found himself coming into new social
recognition. The relative or neighbor
who can fix the automobile ignition or
the radio finds himself enjoying smiles
and favor.
Maybe it’s progress, or maybe it’s just
change, but “book learning” has certain
ly taken a back seat to handiness with
tools. It isn’t wholly the influence of the
war that has wrought this change. Even
in peacetime, the world has become so
complicated with mechanical and scien
tific gadgets that the educated man has
perforce become the one fitted to cope
with this modern material environment.
WFIzeSHINS i
FROZEN HOPES
Saying what a man earns ex
pressing it in cants per hour or
dollars per year does not tell
much about the measure of pros
perity he enjoys. Good living de
pends on so many things that
change from time to time and dif
fer from place to place. Prosper
ity depends,in very large part, on
what people must pay for the
things they need and want.
Putting the conveniences and
luxuries of life in reach of a large
number of people helps to build
a nation’s prosperity. Franklin’s
discovery of electricity became a
great discovery when electric
lights began costing less than oil
lamps. The automobile became a
great invention when cars were
priced down where only rich peo
ple could afford to own horses.
Paying Fox Service
Plain people pay richly for fa
vors; plain people are so many.
Names like Edison, McCormick
and Ford stand for huge estates
because these men did a real serv
ice for a lot of plain people. It is
because they hoisted a wholesome
standard of living in a free coun
try. Thousands of men have done
the same thing on a smaller scale
and profited handsomely.
Actually, the thing that inspires
mechanical inventors to invent,
Ahe thing that fires scientific ex
plorers to explore, is the chance
to earn from a free people the
rich reward for a valuable serv
ice. Once upon a time in the
United States of America men
who had ideas could afford to de
velop them. They can’t do it now.
How I hope those days soon re
turn.
Big Ideas On Sale
Edison, McCormick and Ford
didn’t need to hawk their ideas,
neither did Bissell, Denton, Par
ker and O’Sullivan, but Foster
Gunnison had to sell him. Gunni
son’s inventions came later. Do
you ask, “Who is this Gunnison
man?” Well, he is a great inven
tor, not yet famous. But, unless I
miss my guess, he is America’s
post-war Henry Ford.
Gunison invented a prefabri
cated house and worked out a
plan to build it in mass produc
tion. His units were scientifically
constructed, insulation built in,
thoroughly modern in every de
tail. Individually, his house mod
els are so different that a tourist
might drive past 100 of them in a
row and never guess that they
were drawn by the same architect.
Alike And Different
I could talk for hours about
Gunnison houses. They come in
eight sizes with great variety in
looks. They are far better than
any house possible to build of old
line materials in any community
for the same money. They have
everything from bathtub to gar
bage grinder, economy and con
venience; a poor man’s palace,
amortized to $1 a day. But the in
ventor sold to the U. S. Steel Cor
poral ion.—Why?
1 He lacked capital and, under
OPA UPS CEILINGS ON
WOMEN’S AND
CHILDREN’S CLOTHING
The Alaska OPA announces
uniform retail markup on wom
en’s and children’s outerwear, be
ginning August 15. Order A-l un
der RMPR 194 replaces the pric
ing provisions in effect up to this
time and also ties in with the Na
tional WPB-OPA joint clothing
program.
For the nresent, this price order
applies only to relrileis located
:n the 2nd and 4th Jud.t al Divi
sions, in the coastal towns Df
Bristol Bay (including the north
shore of the Aleutians), and in
the City of Anchorage. Its cover
age will be extended to include
the entire territory as soon as sur
veys are completed, OPA stated.
The markup fixed by this order
was derived from studies of
markups existing in these towns
during pre-Pearl Harbor base pe
riod and also gives full considera
tion to customary business prac
itces, operating costs, and mer
chandising methods. This basic
da a was obtained through con
sultations with clothing retailers
upon whom little, if any, addi
tional burden has been placed by
the marking, invoice and record
keeping requirements of this new
price order.
\ trade bulletin has been pre
pared and distributed to those re
tailers affected by the order with
full particulars on its require
ments which are intended to
bring about no undue changes in
their regular business practices,
OPA said.
today’s tax laws, never could
make much profit. The giant cor
poration can run the project in
the red and deduct early losses
from war profits, most of which
the government will take anyway.
Unless our war-time tax laws are
changed, every fertile idea in this
inventive nation will have to
hatch under the wing of some
huge corporation that exists al
ready.
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Name, Alaska
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