THE NOME NUGGET
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NOME, ALASKA
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E. P. BOUCHER . Managing Editor
Entered as second class matter October 14, 1943, at the p<istoffice
at Nome, Alaska, under the Act of March 3, 1879. *
Nome, Alaska, Wednesday, February 13, 1952
LOVER’S DILEMMA
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SAINTS AND BIRDS GAVE US VALENTINE’S DAY
If you ever wondered how Valentine’s Day got
its name, you may be interested to know that it was
purely accidental.
The most celebrated of the Saints named Valentine
are two martyrs whose festivals happen to fall on Feb
ruary 14. The fact that February 14 was the day named
by the ancients preceding the Christian Era as the
day of the year when birds began to mate is undoubt
edly the reason the date is associated with lovers.
A long time ago, these coincidental facts were
mixed in the minds of the people, so two martyrs gave
their names to the lacy confections of love that are
exchanged anonymously in the middle of bleak Feb
ruary. People in the throes of love sometimes feel it
is fitting that the day is concerned with martyrs.
• Nobody seems to know exactly how many tons of
lace paper, gilded hearts, clasped hands, and doves
go into the making of modern valentines, but. it is a
sizable industry, and today, as of yore, young people,
breathing hard, put heaven on a postal card. A woman
is never too young or too old to want a valentine, and
the more sentimental the legend, the better.
Incidentally, Arizona is nicknamed the Valentine
State because it was admitted to the union on February
14, 1912.
AERIAL SAFETY
The Civil Aeronautics Administration reports that
1951 was a boom year for aerial transportation. A rec
ord of about 23,000,000 passengers was carried a total
of approximately 10,666,000,000 passenger - miles.
Domestic scheduled airlines recorded 1.4 fatalities per
1,000,000 passenger-miles, which was slightly higher
than the fatality rate in 1950.
International scheduled airlines recorded a fatal
ity rate of 1.2 per 100,000.000 passenger-miles, a sub
stantial reduction in the fatality rate of 1950. It is in
teresting to note that domestic air travel proved more
dangerous than international travel in 1951, but the
CAA offers no answers why this was true.
The most surprising factor found in the CAA re
port is the increase in air passengers in 1951. Domestic
lines recorded a 32 per cent gain while international
lines experienced a 22 per cent increase. Whichever
way you look at it, this is a rapid volume increase in
SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME
ATOMIC ATTACKS, if they come, are likely to bring some
strange equipment into use by ordinary people. The shape of
things to come is shown by inventions and by some of the
apparatus already in use at atomic plants where workmen are
in danger of exposure to radiation. They involve things to* help
ordinary people go on living after an attack and special clothing
to permit them to go into areas which are contaminated with
radiation and there detect the amount and character of the
danger. Cleaning up afterward is also an important element.
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LUMINOUS telephone dial was
invented by Harry Raven, a
stunt man in the movies.
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PLASTIC suit is worn by
those exposed to atom. Worker
carries air supply on back.
SIMPLE radiation testers like
these may become standard
equipment for everyone.
LAUNDRY work after an atomic attack might involve the man
from-Mars effects found in this washing unit for clothing worn
at the Los Alamos atomic plant*
Alaska’s Native
Population Shows
5% Gain in 11 Yrs.
A 1 a s k a’s native population
gained 1,636 or about 5 percent
between 1939 and 1950, the Alas
ka Development Board has been
advised from Washington. Total
native population as determined
by the census taken April 1, 1950,
was 33,884, the board was advised.
The breakdown of 1950 popu
lation by race, the Development
Board learned, was: White, 92,
783; Alaska Native (Eskimo, In
dian and Aleut) 33,884; Other
Races, 1,976.
This information, which has not
previously been revealed, came
out this week during the debate
on Alaska statehood, when the
figures were read into the record
by Senator Joseph O’Mahoney,
Chairman of the Senate Interior
and Insular Affairs Committee.
Senator O’Mahoney said he had
obtained them from Roy V. Peel,
director of the census.
In 1939, at the time of the pre
vious census, the Alaska popu
lation breakdown had been:
White, 39,170; Native, 32,458;
Other Races, 896.
The white population in Alaska
gained 53,613 or approximately
137 percent in the ,10V£-year per
iod between censuses. The terri
tory’s total population gain of 77
percent since 1940 was greater
than that of any state or other
Autopsies Reveal Deaths
Of Two Small Children
Not Due To Anti-Biotics
LOS ANGELES, (JP)— Asthnva
and bronchial pneumonia killed
two small children whose deaths
originally were blamed on anti
biotics, autopsies have disclosed*
Dr. Edward M. Butt, chief path
ologist at General Hospital, said
Monday there was no evidence
that any anti-biotic administered
to either of the children caused
death. He said that Carole Ann
Whitlock, 18 months, had been
administered Chloromycetin, but
succumbed Sunday to bronchial
pneumonia, and that Jackson Lee
Beakley, 2, given aureomyciri,
died of asthma.
REPUBLICAN MEETING
THURSDAY NIGHT—8 P.M.
CITY HALL
Irene Cornue will show her
slides of pictures of Eskimo vil
lages on Tuesday evening, Feb. 19
at 7:30 p.m. at the LWY Commun
ity Center. Everybody welcome.
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ALASKA AIRLINES
Passengers from Anchorage:
Capt. R. H. Dean, Coleen Curren,
James Larsen, Jack Peck, Ham
mond Ashley.
From Unalakleet: Lorraine
Eben.
To Anchorage: Fred Powell,
Joseph Sythoff, W. F. Brown, Mr.
Pack, Margaret Lee, and Donald
Smith.
To Kotzebue: Casper Schregar
dus, Johnny Owen, J. Erickson.
To Unalakleet: Lillian Ivunoff,
Rev. R. Amundsen.
A year is about 11 minutes less
than 365*4 days long.
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