CHURCHES
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THE CATHOLIC CHURCH
Sunday Mass—8:00 and 10:00 a.m.;
Weekday Mass—8:00 a.m.
At Base—Sundays at 4:30 p.m.
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LAVINIA WALLACE YOUNG
MISSION
Pastor - H. R. Amundsen
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Sunday: I
11:00 a.m. Sunday School.
7:30 p.m. Evening Service.
8:45 p.m. Young People’s Sing.
Wednesday - 3:30 p.m. - Chil
dren’s Miracle Book Club.
Thursday - 7:30 p.m. - Prayer
Meeting.
FEDERATED CHURCH
Murlin W. Day. Minister
Sunday
10 a.m.—Church School.
11 a.m.—Morning Worship. Ser
mon theme: “God, The Father
Almighty.” Special Music.
7:00 p.m.—
Young Peoples’ League.
PEMTACOSTAL ASSEMBLY OF
GOD
Third Avenue West
Pastor A. E. Capener
Sunday—
Sunday School.10:30 a.m.
Evening service .7:45 p.m.
Wednesday—
Bible Study.7:45 p m
EVERYONE WELCOME
CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE
Corner of Third and Division
Rev. Lewis I. Hudgins. Pastor
“The man who does as he
pleases is seldom pleased with
what he does.”
10:00 a.m. Singspiration and Sun
day School Classas.
11:00 a.m. Morning Message.
7:30 p.m. Singspiration and spe
cial music.
8:00 p.m. Evening Message.
Wednesday: 7:30 p.m. Melody and
Prayer.
Come and bring your Bible.
You are ever welcrme to attend
Marshall Pleads
For Recovery Plan
WASHINGTON, (A*)—Secretary j
of State Marshall told Congress-1
men yesterday that Russia and the !
Communist party will “oppose and
sabotage” the European recovery
program at every turn, but that
he has “no doubt” the United
States can undertake it success
fully.
Marshall went before the Sen
ate foreign relations committee <
to plead for an adequate, prompt J
and effectively administered pro
gram.
The greying soldier-diplomat
told the members the “great pro
ject” would be difficult enough in
“a normal international political
climate” and would be neither
“sure nor easy” in view of the
natural difficulties and the Com
munist opposition.
Marshall read to the law-mak
ers a 5,500-word statement spell
ing out the administration’s plan
to help put western Europe back
on a foundation of economic sta
bility. Then at the end, he said:
“There is no doubt in my mind
that if we decide to do this thing
we can do it successfully.”
these services.
NOME GOSPEL MISSION •
of
Alaska Evangelisation Society
Geo. H. Loveless. Pastor
Meeting.
Sunday:
2:00 p.m. Sunday School.
7:30 p.m. Gospel Service.
Tuesday:
7:30 p.m. Prayer and Testimony
Thursday:
3:30 p.m. “Vit-Em-In Childrens’
Bible Class.”
Friday:
7:30 p.m. “Know Your Bible
Class.” Using large dispensa
tional wall chart. “God’s Plan
ot the Ages.”
You are invited—Everyone is
welcome.
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PASSENGERS
and Express
Outbound on Flight ft
Deadline 11:30 A.M.
Baltic Beneath
The Ground
(By Donald Stokes)
There is a map in London,
studded with flags that mark the
progress of a battle on which the
fate of Europe will greatly de
pend. Each of the flags mark one
of the colleries of Britain, and the
men who watch them are leaders
of the National Coal Board. A
green flag shows a pit has passed
its target figure, a red one means
that it is below the required pro
duction. Nearly all the flags on
the map today are green.
Britain’s 716,000 miners are
working harder than they have
for years, they are producing
more than they have since 1940, i
and voluntarily working longer
hours in order to step up produc
tion. For seven weeks running
they have dug over 4,000,000 tons
of coal and last week produced
4,356,200 tons, the highest individ
ual total since early August, 1940.!
iand higher than the weekly aver-1
age for 1938. Their target is 200,-!
000,000 tons of coal for 1947 and
they had three weeks in which to
dig 10,500,000 tons.
Coal production is soaring so
much that the minister of fuel,
Hugh Gaitskell has just announc
ed that Britain will be able to be
gin exports of coal to the Contin
ent under the Marshall Plan after
January 1.
It will be possible to increase
from 112,000 to 200,006 tons a
week, the amount of British coal
available for export and bunker
ing during 1948. He said, “Britain
hopes to export 10,000.000 tons of
coal, instead of the 6.000,00 Bri
tain promised at the Paris con
ference.”
Coal is the life blood needed for
European industry, and if British
production can be maintained, a
great step will have been taken
towards the restoration of Europe.
The miners’ battle is not going
to be easily won, however. A fall
in production must be expected
soon, for in a few weeks, when
winter takes its full grip on the
people, who are living on a ra
tioned diet which is below the
minimum considered necessary
for the maintenance of normal
health, there will inevitably be
the usual sickness. Also, much of
the British mine machinery be
came dilapidated under the war
strain, and strenuous efforts are
being made to replace it, and in
stall new machinery.
Britain is seriously short of
freight cars to haul the increasing
flow of coal from the mines and
goods from the factories. The peo
ple have responded to this by
speeding the turn-around of cars
in their spare time. Volunteers
are pouring in every evening and
weekend, and for several weeks
there have ben very few idle
freight cars in th railway sidings.
Girls and teen-agers roll up their
sleeves to help keep the freight
cars moving. The worst of the
weather is still to come and the
strain on the cars is becoming in-!
creasingly severe. It will be touch
and-go whether the miners and
the volunteer unloaders will be
able to get Britain through this
crucial winter without a bottle
neck.
The mine leaders in London
watch the flagged map with all
the intentness of a battle com
mander. They have to deploy
their forces tactically like any
general.
The seams'in a pit in southwest
Scotland approach exhaustion, so
orders are flashed to close the pit
and move the labor force to a new
mine nearby. A winding-shaft in
Durham becomes jammed and the
whole mine is paralyzed, so spare
parts are rushed by air from the
manufacturers.
The men who direct the battle I
are seeing old dreams come true.
The chairman, Lord Hyndley, for-1
merly director of one of the larg
est and most efficient pits in the
country, is seeing his advanced;
methods extended to every colli-;
ery. Leading mining technicians,!
in report after report betwen the i
two world wars, urged that na-!
tionalization was the only way in j
which Britain could make her
mines productive (till they were
nationalized, on January 1, 1947
the area of each mine was gener
ally governed by whatever person
happened to own the ground
above it). The mines have pro
duced over 8,000,000 more tons
than last year, and there is a team
spirit in the mines for the first
time in 100 years. Most important
of all, the miners who, before the
war, received an average "wage of
two pounds five shillings a week
($9.00), had slum housing condi
tions and often suffe^d years of
unemployment, now receive good
wages and have first priority on
the food and housing available.
Rivalry is keen between the
miners to outdo each other’s pro
duction records. The latest feat is
by 37-year-old Edward Maybank,
of Glamorgan, Wales. In four and
a half shifts of seven-and-a-half
hours each, Maybank cut and
loaded 117 tons by hand, an aver
age of 26 tons per shift. The
Welsh mines are steeply inclined
and mechanization is very diffi
cult to achieve.
The British mines are setting
the pace for the drive for still
higher production. The nation is
working harder, producing more,
eating and wearing less than ever,
in order to try and make good her
tremendous war losses of $30,000,
000.
Even if all her targets for 1948
are reached, Britain will still be
in the red by $1,000,000,000 at the
end of 1948.
SCHOOL NOTES
FIRST GRADE
The first grade is reading the
fourth book about Dick and Jane.
They have also started studying
the phonics. After morning inspec
tion the class is studying a little
book called “Manners can be
Fun,” and we are trying to apply
same everyday.
THIRD GRADE
We thoroughly enjoyed our va
cation. Now we are ready to set
tle down and work diligently for
the rest of the school term.
In health class we made butter
and everyone sampled it on crack
ers.
HIGH SCHOOL
After a pleasant and restful
Christmas vacation, the students
are back in school studying dili
gently for the semester examina
tions. The midyear examinations
will be given on Thursday and
Friday of next week, January 15
and 16 respectively.
Mr. Angell read an interesting
letter to the students from a
school boy in Germany. He de
scribed condtions in Germany
and expressed his desire to cor
respond with students at Nome.
A very interesting and scien
tifically built aquarium has been
installed in Beberman’s room. We
are now looking forward to the
aquatic creatures that will inhabit
the limited region.
Since our last report, a new
planet has arrived for observa
tion. A few days before Christmas
the planet Venus became sudden
ly conspicuous in the western sky
; shortly after sunset. It can easily
be seen from three to six o’clock
in the afternoon. It sets with a
reddish glow in the direction of
the setting sun.
NEW YORK'S WALL STREET
received its name from a boundary
wall built across Manhattan island
by the Dutch settlers in 1653 to
protect them from possible attack
by the English, according to the .
i Encyclopaedia Britannica.
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