THE NOME NUGGET
Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday by the
NOME PUBLISHING CO.
NOME, ALASKA
Telephone: Main 125 P. O. Brx 618
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E. P. BOUCHER . Managing Editor
Entered as second class matter October 14, 1943, at the postoffice
at Nome, Alaska, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
Nome, Alaska, Wednesday, Sept. 5, 1951.
THE RESPONSIBILITY IS GREATER THAN EVER
f
HOUSE COMMITTEE TO VISIT NOME,
OUTSIDE OF THE PERIMETER OF DEFENSE
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Another Congressional committee is scheduled to
arrive in Nome today to study the needs of defense in
this area.
It is always considered an honor to greet the lead
ers of our nation Who take time out of a busy schedule to
visit and see for themselves the great territory whose
destiny is in their hands. Their visit is important and a
good understanding between them and Alaskans means
much for the future of the entire nation. Seeing the
picture through the eyes of those whp live here shows
the wisdom of this committee.
The Senate committee who visited last year in
dicated in their report, as recorded in the Congres
sional Record, how much valuable information they
had gleaned from their conference here, and through
their influence much progress has been made in the
tin industry.
We are glad that the House committee will be
able to see for themselves the need of that last link in
the international highway from Fairbanks to Nome,
unifying all parts of this great country. • -
We hope their military escort will see fit to point
out the need of an improved defense plan for the 12,000
Americans now outside the perimeter of defense and
put their approval on having planes based at MFAB
as frontier defense. Russia has her bases on the Si
berian coast and American bases should be just as
close to Russia. Likened unto a game of checkers, all
our players can’t be behind the mountains in the king
row at Fairbanks and Anchorage.
More recent parties of military leaders, and even
a cabinet member came here just for the ride, paus
ing barely long enough to eat and declining to lend an
ear to our civic leaders, or accept an hour of Alaskan
hospitality, From the taxpayer’s point of view it seems
like'a tremendous waste of money at a critical time.
. • We congratulate this committee which takes time
to hear first hand how expendable Americans feel.
LINE LOGIC
Everything in a modem home is controlled by a
switch except the children.
One thing a student of mathematics never leams
is that curves can make a triangle.
White Mt. News
! August 30
ANS staff and Eskimo Mothers
Club gave a farewell party for
the students who are leaving for
Mt. Edgecumbe School this week
end. The new students were wel
comed and there was a getting
acquainted line up introduction of
new staff members to the village
people.
The following program wus en
joyed by all:
Introduction by*Emily Brown.
Welcome by Mr. Edgar Russell.
Song by the Eskimo Mothers
Club. '
Farewell Speech by Miss Feld
kerchner.
Group Song, “Praise Ye The
Lord.”
Advice to Students by Mayor R.
Apok.
The games were especially en
joyed by the hard-working men.
Ladies made them play an Eskimo
game, Onuck-chee-tock—pick up
stick with fingers. Mr. Dykes, the
ANS construction man, was one
of the winners, getting -a candy
bar forr a prize.
The suit case racers brought the
house down with laughter, when
the outgoing students competed
with the new students. Mrs. Hall,
the new Home Ec teacher, and
Mrs. Irwin were praised for the
fine cake they served for 60 peo
ple.
Mr. Apok, our mayor, gave a
fine talk to the departing students.
He gave them an ex-ample of him
self as an uneducated man, that
now-a-days a man has to have an
education to earn a living. He -also
said the students should appreci
ate what the ANS is doing for
them, giving them free education;
: of how the government is spending
many thousands of dollars for the
education of our people. He says
that they should train or think of
becoming nurses, doctors and
teachers so they can educate their
own people up here.
The departing students are: Wal
lace and Allen Johnson, Lillian
Walker, Mildred Paneok, and Carl
Ashenfelter. Mary Ann Walker
will leave from Nome.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Rogers
arrived tod-ay. Mr. Rogers will be
the boys’ advisor and Mrs. Rogers
I is our nurse.
Quake Felt In New York
; NEW YORK, UP) — An earth;
| quake shook and frightened thou
sands of residents Monday in a
three-state region near New York,
but there were no injuries and
damage apparently was limited
chiefly to cracked windows •and
broken chinaware.
Manhattan with its skyscraper
buildings did not feel the quake.
The tremor shook a long but
fairly narrow region of several
hundred miles from southern Con
necticut, through southern New
York States, and into northern
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New Jersey.
Nicoli Frederickson, well-known
oldtimer of Candle who went to
the Pioneer Home last October,
passed away of heart disease on
August 29.
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HERMAN HOOP HIGH BIDDER
SOLOMON ESTATE PROPERTY
The Jack Solomon estate, with
property next to the Breakers Bar
and on First Ave., was sold to the
highest bidder yesterday in the
U. S. Commissioner’s Court. The
high bidder for both pieces of pro
perty w’as Herman Hoop, for
$2,000. There were several other
interested bidders.
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CHERRYS ON VACATION
AT PILGRIM SPRINGS
Mr. and Mrs. H. D. Cherry
of Cherry’s Barber Shop and
Helen’s Beauty Shop are on a two
weeks vacation at the Pilgrim Hot
•
| Springs. During their absence, Joe !
Hunt is managing their business.
Joe, says, however, he does not
give fingerwaves.
MONDAY BASEBALL
American League
Cleveland 5-6—Chicago 3-1
New York 3-2—Philadelphia 1-3
Boston 3-8—Washington 2-4
Detroit 6-2—St. Louis 5-3
National League
Brooklyn 7-7—Boston 2-2
Philadelphia 6-1—New York 3-3
St. Louis 4-7—Cincinnati ‘1-1
Chicago 11-3—Pittsburgh 10-4
Pacific Coast League
Hollywood 7-3—Sacramento 5-5
Seattle 5-11—Oakland 2-7
San Diego 5-2—San Francisco
3-1
Los Angeles 13-5—Portland 8-5
The U.S. Secret Service, Treas
ury Department, warns that there
is more counterfeiting today than
at any time in the past 10 years.
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