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Nome Toastmasters Club
Thursdays—6:30 pjn.
B O T—Firelite Room
Dinner Meeting
(Reservations for other than members
must be made before Wednesday noon.)
ANVIL LODGE
No. 140
Meets First and
Third Thursday
each month
WILL M. GILLIS, W. M.
NORVIN W. LEWIS, Secy.
Northwestern Alaska
Chamber of Commerce
Meets
EVERY TUESDAY NOON
Larry Galvin, President
ALASKA CHAPTER NO. 1
Order of Eastern Star
Dorothy Young#
Worthy Matron
Rosa B. Hagan#
Secretary
Meetings 1st & 3rd Mondays
NOME
CIVIL AIR PATROL
Meetings — 1st and 3rd
Wednesdays — 7:30 p.m.
Phone Black 191 Federal Bldg.
ROTARY CLUB
OF NOME
Thursday Luncheon
W. H. Cameron, Pres.
Dewey Goodrich, Secy.
HAGEN
JEWELER AND OPTICIAN
Court House Is Opposite Us
Phone Main 40
Equipment From Army
Units In This Country
To Be Sent To NATO
WASHINGTON, </P) — Army
units in this -country — including
the National Guard and the re
serves—must turn in thousands of
tanks and other vehicles to meet
U. S. priority shipments to the
Allied buildup overseas.
The Army disclosed the equip
ment levy after Gen. Alfred M.
Gruenther told the Senate For
eign Relations Committee Monday
that priorities drawn up at Gen.
Eisenhower’s headquarters al
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ready are guiding allocation of
equipment by the UJS. military
services.
The Army is carrying the bur
den imposed by the North Atlan
tic Treaty Organization decision
to equip 50 combat-ready divi
sions in Western Europe by the
end of this year.
The Marine Corps, which used
much the same heavy equipment
as the Army, also will contribute
military vehicles.
Neither the Navy nor the Air
Force is expected to take any
equipment from their active or
reserve units to meet the stepped
up priority shipments.
Membership In U.S,
Communist Party Drops
Off One*fourth Last Year
WASHINGTON, (/P) — FBI. di
rector J. Edgar Hoover says mem
bership in the U.S. Communist
party has dropped off by one
fourth in the past year and the
remaining 3*1,608 have begun
going underground.
A year ago there were 43,217
Communists in this country, he
told • the House Appropriations
Committee in testimony made
public Monday night.
Hoover attributed the decline to
“public awareness of what Com
munism is” and fear of prosecu
tion as result of congressional in
vestigations and trials and arrests
of Reds.
He said Communists no longer
issue membership cards and meet
in secret.
Senate Approves Canadian Ship*
Servicing SE Alaskan Ports
WASHINGTON, (JP) — The
Senate approved a bill Monday
renewing for another year the
authority of Canadian vessels to
serve Haines, Skagway and Hyder
Alaska.
The present authority expires
June 30. The bill still must pass
the House.
“ THE MAN WHO FORGOT GOD ”
A 30-minute 16mm. sound motion picture.
Due to the numbers who have been at
tending, picture will be shown on two nights.
Saturday and Sunday, March 29 and 30, 7:30 p.m.
YOU are invited — ALL are welcome
Nome Gospel Mission
Front and Steadman
Naknek Public Utility
District Ruled Invalid
By Third District Court
ANCHORAGE, (JP) — A ruling
handed down by Judge George
W. Folta in Third District Court
Monday marked the end of the
Naknek Public Utility District.
Judge Folta ruled the P.U.D.
had been invalidly created be
cause a majority of the voters did
not favor creation of the district.
Folta pointed out that five ballots
which were marked * against in
corporation of the district, but for
certain candidates to the board,
had been thrown out by election
officers.
“The record fails to disclose
( why the five votes were rejected,
but it may be. surmised the elec
tion officers concluded that those
who voted against incorporation
had no right to express a choice
of candidates for the board of
directors and that, therefore,
these ballots should not -be
counted," Judge Folta’s opinion
stated.
The ruling came on a summary
judgment brought by four Bristol
Bay packers in an action seeking
to prevent the P.U.D.’s directors
from levying a tax on their pro
perties.
Judge Folta pointed out that
had the five votes against incor
poration of the district been
counted as they should have been,
it would have resulted in a tie
vote and the district could not
have been formed.
More than 12,500,000 persons
have completed American Red
Cross First Aid training since
1910.
JOHN E. PROUTY
Public Accountant
Public Stenographer
Management Consultant
Box 336 Nome, Alaska
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ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES
GE Vacuum Sweeper - GE Washing Machine
GE Automatic Roaster - GE Mazda Lamps
GE Hot Plate - Thor Gladiron
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Northern Light & Power Co.
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FRESH SEAFOOD
OYSTERS — CRAB — PRAWNS
ALASKAN SHRIMP — CRAB MEAT
POLARIS COFFEE SHOP
Hours: 6:30 a.m. to 10 p.m.
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Report From Nenana
Ice Pool Headquarters
By BURMA ANDERSON
NENANA — The Nenana ice
classic tripod is sporting its 'black
and white stripped coat and the
colored flags on the wire to the
shore wave a warning to low-fly
ing planes.
Manager Don Clark gives the
latest measurement of the massive
sheet of ice as 40 inches just
above the tripod.
Mechanical .technician Fred
Mueller is sharpening up the lever
and installing the mechanism
which will stop the clock on that
all-important minute.
Do you have an authority in
your town to consult when the
ice will break up in Nenana?
Jack Coghill became an author
ity last year here in Nenana and
Jack said the ice will move on
April 29th. We have heard that
Fairbanksans would do well to
consult Frank Lang, retired rail
road employee of that city.
A word of warning is issued to
everyone that the ice will not
go out on April 31st. Despite
yearly warnings, there are still
those who try to add a day to
.the month of April. If you don't
have a calendar handy just re
member: “Thirty days hath Sep
tember, April, June and Novem
ber.
All living things are slightly
radioactive because cosmic rays
act on some of the nitrogen of the
air they use. When they die, the
radioactivity dies out in about
30,000 years, permitting scientists
•to estimate the age of ancient ob
jects which once were living.
Ice Pool Dates
Since 1917, when the Pool
was started, the ice has gone
out at Nenana as follows:
1917— April 30.11:30 aon.
1918— May 11. 9:33 a.m.
1919— May 3. 2:33 pan.
1920— May 11.10:45 aon.
1921— May 11. 6:42 aon.
1922— May 12. 1:20 pan.
1923— May 9. 2:00 pan.
1924— May 11. 3:10 pan.
1925— May 7. 6:32 p.m.
1926— April 26. 4:03 p.m.
1927— May 13. 5:42 a.m.
1928— May 6. 4:25 pan.
1929— May 5. 3:41 pan.
1930— May 8. 7:03 pan.
1931— May 10. 9:23 aon.
1932— May 1.10:15 aon.
1933— May 8. 7:30 pan.
1934— April 30. 2:07 pan.
1935— May 15. 1:32 pan.
1936— April 30.12:58 pan.
1937— May 12. 8:04 pan.
1938— May 6. 8:14 pan.
1939— April 29. 1:26 pan.
1940— April 20. 3:27 pan.
1941— May 3. 1:50 a.m.
1942— April 30. 1:28 pan.
1943— April 28. 7:22 pan.
1944— May 4. 2:08 pan.
1945— May 16. 9:41 a.m.
1946— May 5. 4:40 pan.
1947— May 3. 5:53 p.m.
1948— May 13.11:13 pan.
1949— May 14.12:39 pan.
1950— May 6. 4:14 pan.
1951— April 30. 5:54 pan.
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