THE NOME NUGGET
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Entered as second class matter October 14. 1943, at the postoffice
at Nome, Alaska, under the Act of March 3. 1879.
Nome, Alaska, Monday, May 30, 1949
TEN COMMANDMENTS FOR CLEAN-UP WEEK
Clean-up Week in Nome this year will be from June
12 to June 18. Below are listed suggestions for helping
to make Nome a clean and safe place to live:
1. Clear Out Debris: Get rid of rubbish or anything
combustible that you’re not going to use in attics, clo
sets, garages. Rubbish, such as old papers and rags, is
a fire hazard. It not only starts fires itself, but furnishes
fuel for fires starting from other causes. Clean these
hazards out of your house or store.
2. Watch Outside Fires: Clean up your yard. Never
burn papers on a windy day when there’s danger of
sparks setting fire to your house, clothing or outbuild
ings. Use an incinerator wherever possible.
3. Clear Out Paint and Oil Rags: Destroy rags or
keep in closed metal containers; hang up mops and
paint-soiled clothing so air can circulate around them.
Paint-or oil-soaked rags heat up from chemical action,
burst into flames. Clean up after painting jobs.
4. Check Your Fuses: Use 15 ampere fuses in regular
household circuits, and don’t put pennies behind blown
. fuses; keep wiring in good repair; have all work done
by an expert electrician. Fuses protect your appliances,
your house and your family from damage and possible
fire when wires are overloaded or a short circuit occurs.
5. Avoid Flammable Liquids: Remove them from
your house. Hundreds of persons are killed annually
trying to clean with gasoline, benzine of naphtha. A
tiny flame or spark—even from static electricity—will
ignite gasoline vapor. Play safe! Use an Underwriters’
Laboratories-approved fluid or take clothing to a dry
cleaner.
6. Check Stoves and Heaters: Clean and check all
heaters and have repair work done. Radiated heat from
hot stovepipes and stoves will char beams or partitions
too near them, causing a blaze that will damage or de
stroy the house.
7. Check Pipes and Chimneys: Clean soot out of
chimneys and smokestacks. Check for cracks and holes;
have chimneys repaired, and replace pipes if necessary.
Dirty, defective chimneys are a leading cause of fires.
8. Check Ash Receptacles: Always put hot ashes into
metal containers. Hot ashes in wood boxes set fire to
many houses.
9. General Repairs: Plan needed painting and reno
vating this spring. Remodel and modernize your home
for greater safety.
10. Smokers: Don’t smoke in bed. Smoking in bed
can can be fatal. Fumes from burning cloth may over
come or asphyxiate you before fire reaches you. Place
plenty of ash trays about your home. Keep matches in
safe containers and away from young children.
In case of fire, call the Fire Department.
Keep Fire Dept, number posted near your phone. Learn
location of nearest fire alarm box and how to turn in an
alarm.
TRUMAN FORGETS—
(Laurel, Miss., Leader-Call)
We find ourselves agreeing with the Republican who
inquires where Mr. Truman’s big majority in Congress
has evaporated. When he was elected last fall he rolled
back into Washington with a vast Democratic majority.
Now his every plan is stymied and will be put through
only by compromise, it seems.
What’s the matter?
Well, we’d say several things.
First, the difficulty of enacting into law the prom
ises a man makes in a campaign. His own sincerity and
that of his constituents are under constant scrutiny in
this connection, by the Leftist branch of the party. On
the contrary, his too-far leanings in the Leftist direction
are under criticism by those who don’t approve of his
campaign pledges, by and large, and are out to wreck
I A THOUGHT FOR TODAY...AND TOMORROWf
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them, if possible. There is such a segment—a big seg
ment—in the Democratic party.
The anti-Truman segment—the Dixie crowd—is
| sticking to their guns. Any softening up they might
1 have planned toward the President was made impossible
by him when he spurned them and their strength at the
opening of Congress, and started working on their
patronage. And then there is the undeniable fact that
i Mr. Truman is too much himself to appeal to all the
people, all the time. He forgets, now and then, at a gay
dinner party, that he is the leading figure in the most
powerful country in the world. He cuts loose with Mis
souri corner club jargon, and that doesn’t make a hit
with lots of folks. He forgets he’s the country’s leader.
Why shouldn’t others forget this, too, and vote as they
see fit?
CONFERENCE WITH A CURE
No sooner did the West begin to celebrate the lifting
| of the blackode than the Iron Curtain came slamming
down again as the party line took another twist. Since
May 23 the Big Four Conference has been in session in
Paris. Germany is the bone of contention. The East has
consolidated their zone and is playing the tune of a
united Germany while the West is banking on the At
lantic Pact and the Western German government.
Whether the West will be able to maintain its unity
in the face of Soviet strategy may depend on the Fran
co-German relationship. French hate and distrust of
Germany has been a nagging canker at past confer
ences. The healing of this canker and the evidence of
unity on the part of France and Germany would go far
to win the peoples of Europe to the democratic idea.
Millions place their hopes on the Paris Conference.
Cocktail parties, smiles, and handshakes gloss over
the surface, but underneath in every statesman’s heart
is buried fears, hates and the frustrating problem of
| how to stem the ideological riptide of the East.
Meanwhile high in the Swiss Alps at Caux another
i conference will be getting under way. Under the leader
i ship of Dr. Frank Buchman, initiator of Moral Re-Arm
! ament, the senior representatives of many nations will
gather on June 4th. In past summers the Caux Assem
j bly has been a beacon of hope in a sea of chaos.
Typical of the thousands of delegates who came from
! over 50 nations is Madame Irene Laure, past presi
dent of 3,000,000 Socialist women of France. Hot in her
heart was a hatred for the Reich that had trampled her
country and tortured her son before her eyes. She had
vowed never to speak to a German again. At Caux her
heart melted and she said, “A Bridge has been built
across the Rhine.” To back that up she has been travel
ling throughout the Western Zones of Germany telling
;her former enemies of her own change of heart. She
says that this change can become the common ideology
between France and Germany.
Whether or not the Paris Conference will succeed
there is hope coming from Caux. Could the ideology of
Caux bring peace tp the Paris Conference?
WASHINGTON
' NEWS LETTER
(By Mary Lee Council)
i (Secretary to Delegate Bartlett)
STATEHOOD
1 Prospects for an early House
vote on the Alaska statehood bill
were immeasurably increased last
week when the rules committee
heard proponents of Delegate
Bartlett’s bill urge that a rule be
granted setting up time for debate
; and vote.
ALASKA APPROPRIATIONS
Alaska’s portion of funds for
federal activities in the Territory
for the 1950 fiscal year so far al
lowed by Congress totals approx
imately S2,578,998.
This was determined when the
Senate this week took action on
the appropriation bills for the ag
riculture department and the fed
eral security agency. Although
these two measures will go to
conference between the House
and the Senate to work out differ
ences in general amounts allowed
by both Houses, the Alaska fig
ures are not affected inasmuch as
there was no dispute between tne
House and Senate on the particu
lar items for the Territory.
i In the Federal Security agency's
appropriation bill passed by the
I Senate is an allowance of $1,300.
000 for the emergency nubiic
health program for Alaska. There
had been some danger that *h s
figure would be curtailed. a?
would other appropriations in the
bill, through a motion made by
Senator Taft of Ohio to recommit
the bill to the appropriations com
mittee with instructions to cut the
overall appropriations for the
agency by live percent. This move
was defeated by two votes.
The agriculture department bill,
being considered by the Senate as
this is written, contains $675,000
for continuation of the agricultur
al research program in Alaska;
$23,950 for extension service and
approximately $66,048 for exper
iment station work; $315,000 for
national forest protection and
management; about $47,000 for
forest research and approximately
$152,000 for minor Alaska forest
development roads.
The first deficiency bill for 1949
sent to the President swells by
$500,000 the money approved by
Congress up to this time for A1 is
ka purposes. This sum is to be
used by the Alaska Native Serv ce
in converting and outfitting the
U. S. M. S. Coastal Rider as a
service supply ship to replace the
North Star.
ROADS ON LAND UNDER
INDIAN OFFICE
I The House has passed a bill
FIRE ALARM
BOXES
FIRE DEPT. PHONE—MAIN 97
13—East End.
* 14—First Ave. and Stedman.
* 25—King Place and Stedman.
* 23—Third Ave. and Linton Way
** 42—Second Ave West and
West "C" St.
•* 31—First Ave. West and West
"D" St.
** 32—Between 3rd and 4th Ave
nues West on West "D"
** 33—First Ave. West at Bridge
- St.
* One siren signal, east of station
** Two siren signals, west of sta
tion.
e
Learn the location of the alarm
box nearest your home. If you do
not know how to operate the box.
ask your Fire Chief, he will be
glad to show you.
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