Avoid Christmas
Tree Fire Hazards
Christmas trees placed indoors
present a fire hazard if carelessly
used, according to forest officers
connected with the Alaska Region
of the U. S. forest service. The for
est products laboratory at Madi
son, Wise., has experimented in
the use of various chemicals to
fireproof Christmas trees, but is
not enthusiastic over the results
obtained. For the average house
holder, they recommend the fol
lowing simple precautions as the
most practical and satisfactory
methods for holding down the fire
hazards:
<1) Cut off the butt of the trunk
diagonally al least one inch above
the original cut end. Stand the
tree at once in a container of wa
ter and do not let the water level
drop below the cut surface. If the
tree is not. to be set up for several
days, stand it in water meanwhile
in a cool place. Placing the tree in
water keeps the needles fresh and
green, thus delaying the drying
out process and the increase of in
flammability. Each of the thou
sands of needles on an evergreen
tree draws water from the tree
trunk and breathes it off into the
air, even for days after the tree is
cut. Keep up this water supply.
Forest officers point out that
spruce trees especially lose needles
very easily, but placing the tree in
water will delay this.
<2)Avpid the use of candles or.
other open-flame decorations. Use
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Nome Directory
. R0TARY~ CLUB
OF NOME
Thursday Luncheon
Christian Roust, Pres.
Murlin W. Day, Sec'y.
ANVIL LODGE
NO. 140
Meets First and
Third Thursday
each month
KARL DEWEY. W. M.
NORVIN W. LEWIS. Secy.
NOME LODGE
A-5
Meets Second Friday
JOHN R. RAPP, N.G.
ROBERT BALDWIN. Secy.
AMERICAN LEGION
POST No. 19
Meets First and Third MONDAY
Each Month
Walter J. Dowd, Sr., Post Cmdr.
Paul Dryden, Adjutant
HAGEN
JEWELER AND OPTICIAN
Court House Is Opposite Us
Phone Main 40
O. D. COCHRAN
Attorney At Law
Phone Main 121
Nome, Alaska
IRA D. ORTON
Attorney At Law
Room 1—Nevada Building
Nome, Alaska
Seattle Office:
901 Lowman Building
Telephone EL. 6399
U. S. Moves Troops
To Germany
MOSCOW, (j*P) — Russian press
dispatches intimated yesterday
that the United States was trans
ferring troops from Italy to duty
in the American zones of Austria
and Germany.
(It is no secret that some offi
cers and men in the Mediterrane
an theater of operations transfer
red to other European assignments
before the occupation of Italy end
*ed Dec. 14. Various dispatches
from Italy during the fall told of
the movement.
(The first train carrying U. S.
army personnel from the theater
to Germany left Leghorn Oct. 8
with 55 officers and 100 depend
ents. Five other such trains fol
lowed. The movement wa scom
pleted Nov. 1.
electric lights where possible, but
be sure to eliminate defective
electrical connections.
(3> Avoid an accumulation of
combustible decorations on or be
•neath the tree. The use of cotton
I to simulate snow is especially dan
! gerous.
j (4) In placing the tree, keep it
away from window curtains or
other combustible furnishings.
Foreign Aid Will
Cost Eight Billion
In One Year
(By Jack Ball)
WASHINGTON, (A3}—American
aid to Europe may exceed eight
billion dollars in one year if Presi
dent Truman’s long-range recov
ery proposal is not trimmed by
Congress, Senator Taft <R.-Ohio) j
declared yesterday.
Taft told reporters that if the
President’s request for $6,800,000,
000 for the first 15 months of the
so-called Marshall plan is granted
additional outlays of Ameridan
money in Europe may total $1,200,
| 000,000 in the .year beginning July
I 1
Commenting that he expects lit
tle of the original recovery funds
to be spent before that date, the
I Ohio Senator said Congress must
keep in mind the necessity of pro
; viding $850,000,000 for German
food.
1
He said European countries at
the same time will be able to draw
I roughly $350,000,000 in American
! money from the international
I bank.
j Taft noted that wholly apart
from this calculation, the western
HARRY PHILLIPS
DIES IN SEATTLE
Gus Johnson writes from Seat
tle that Harry Phillips, formerly
owner of the Board of Trade, died
in Seattle on December 18 and
was to be buried yesterday, Dec.
23.
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MR. AND MRS. ROBERT SCOTT
IN HOLLYWOOD
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Scott, who
left Nome a few weeks ago, are in
Hollywood where Robert is at
tending a dramatic school.
MR. AND MRS. HAROLD
EDWARDS AT MILE 26
Mr. and Mrs. Harold Edwards
and child, who left here . last
month, are now at Mile 26, where
Mr. Edwards is in the electrical
department under Duke Mitro-1
vitch .
European nations could be* ex
pected to obtain about $500,006,000
from the international stabilization
fund.
Taft also pointed to govern
ment reports which accompanied
the President’s Marshall plan mes
sage indicating that exports of
goods from this country for the
next year will continue to exceed
imports by about $10,000,000,000.
Communication
4519 39th S.W.
Seattle, Wash.
December 15, 194?
With friendly thoughts and all
best wishes for Christmas and
the New Year to our friends
in Nome:
We have got us a ranch about 60
miles from Seattle toward Mt.
Ranier. 20 acres are cleared and
we have 27 fruit trees of various
kinds. We have a 4-room house in
good shape. 2 bunk houses, one
barn, also have 2 jersey cows and
plenty of hay for the winter. We
have a 300 pound hog and some 50
chickens. We have a new tractor,
plough, harrow, disc, cultivator,
hay rake, wagon and a buss saw.
We have 20 acres of virgin timber.
We have just purchased a Buick
sedan and a nearly new trailer and
will move out to the ranch the last
of this month.
Yours truly,
Edward S. Horen
and family.
To start research on the atomic
bomb a fund of $6,000 was made
available in February, 1940. This
was the beginning of the $2,000,
1000,000 expenditure necessary to
1 complete the bomb.
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