2 THE NOME NUGGET Wednesday, November 21, 1951
THE NOME NUGGET
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Nome, Alaska, Wednesday, November 21, 1951
WE CAN STILL 3E MIGHTY THANKFUL
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THANKSGIVING DAY, 1951
Today we have a great deal more to be thankful
for than the New England colonists had in 1621. We
have more for which to be thankful now than we had
when the first national Thanksgiving proclamation
was issued in 1863, when this country was engaged
in the most devastating war in its history.
It seems quite proper that the people of America
should reverently and gratefully acknowledge as with
one heart the blessings of happiness, strength and
wealth that we, as a nation, have enjoyed. Certainly,
we should commend to the loving care of the Almighty,
those who have become widows, orphans and sufferers
as a result of Communist aggression in Korea. As
stated by President Truman in his Thanksgiving Day
proclamation:
“More than three centuries ago the Pilgrim fathers
deemed it fitting to pause in their autumn labors and
give thanks to Almighty God for the abundant yield
of the soil of their new homeland. In keeping with that
custom, hallowed by generations of observance, our
hearts impel us, once again in this autumnal season,
to turn in humble gratitude to the Giver of our
bounties.
“We are profoundly grateful for the blessings be
stowed upon us: the preservation of our freedom, so
dearly bought and so highly prized; our opportunities
for human welfare and happiness, so limitless in their
scope; our material prosperity, so far surpassing that
of earlier years; and our private spiritual blessings,
so deeply cherished by all. For these we offer fervent
thanks to God.”
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GAMES — 7:30 and 8:30 p.m.
ADULTS — 60? CHILDREN — 30?
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2 Chinese Officers
Asked Accounting
Of §24 Million
WASHINGTON, (/P) — Two
Chinese air force officials Tues
1 day carried out their promise to
boycott a federal court hearing
asked by the Nationalist govern
ment, which has fired them.
The two, Lt. Gen. P. T. Mow,
•and Col. V. S. Hsiang, have been
charged by their government with
failing to account for more than
$24,000,000 sent from Formosa to
buy planes and air force supplies.
Judge James R. Kirkland, told
by a Nationalist attorney that the
two officers could not be found,
extended for 10 days a temporary
order forbidding them to spend
any remaining funds, estimated
by Nationalist government at
more than $7,000,000.
The hearings had been ordered
on a motion for a permanent in
junction requiring an accounting
for transactions during the last
six years.
The two men contend that Am
X
erican courts lack jurisdiction.
Sears Stores To
_ . Cars
DETROIT, (/P) — A Kaiser
Frazer-built automobile soon will
go on sale in Sears Roebuck
stores.
Initially the new car, to be
called the “Allstate,” will be sold
in 17 cities in the south and
southwest, probably before
Christmas.
Announcement of the project
was made jointly Monday night
by Sears and Kaiser-Frazer. Spe
cifications of the new car have
not been disclosed, but it is re
ported to be similar in many de
tails to the K-F Henry J model,
although with distinguishing char
acteristics.
No major retooling is involved
in production of the new car.
Information concerning the
price tag that will go on the new
car wai withheld. The Henry J
currently has a factory retail
price of $1,362.72 for the four
cylinder model.
Old Newspapers For Sale
At The Nugget Office
I TURKEY SITS IN THE MIDDLE
By GLADYS M. WRIGLEY
American Geographical Society
Is Turkey a European state?
This question, voiced when it
was proposed to include Turkey
in the North Atlantic Treaty Or
ganization, highlights the coun
try’s strategic significance. For
centuries tne Ottoman Empire
with Turkey its core was a sym- i
bol of Oriental despotism and j
backwardness. Today Turkey is a ,
bulwark of southeastern Europe—
•‘Eisenhower’s right flank.”
The land is a solid block, 900
miles long and 300 broad — an
i area larger than Texas — thrust
between the Black Sea with Rus
I sia beyond and the eastern Med
! iterranean and the adjacent oil
rich lands of the Middle East.
; Throughout history this block,
Anatolia, the eastward land of the
Greeks, has been a bridge be
! tween cast and west. A high, dry
plateau, it is in fact an outpost
of the central Asiatic steppes
whence came the invaders who
gave the land their name, lan
guage, and religion. Conversely it
can be considered an outpost of
uninterrupted settlement border
ing the great dry belt of the Old
World as as such a part of Eu
rope.
Turkey supports the largest
standing army in Europe next to
the U.S.S.R. and about half the
national budget is devoted to de
fense expenditure. She promptly
subscribed to the European Re
covery Program, and r eceived
help therefrom.
Turkey is well endowed in
other things beside strategic lo
cation. Mineral wealth, still in- \
completely explored includes coal,
iron, chromium (one of the
world’s largest producers and an
important source for the U.S.) and
oil.
F & W L To Stock
Alaska’s Streams
With Game Fish
By FRANK W. VAILLE
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WASHINGTON, (/P)—Approval
i of a long-range program designed
' to keep game fish in Alaska’s
streams, was announced today by
the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Ser
vice.
John S. Gottschalk, assistant
chief of the service’s federal aid
branch, said it is needed because
of heavy sport fishing by increas
ing numbers of servicemen and
civilians.
It is aimed at increasing the
number of lake, brook, rainbow
and cutthroat trout and grayling.
As projected, the program in
volves a three-year study to lay
the groundwork for future devel
opment. It will seek to deter
mine areas of fishing concentra
tion, types of fish caught and
means of spreading the fishing
pressure into areas not now util
ized.
Ways will be sought also to
j overcome the limited natural pro
duction of Alaska waters by in
creasing the available food sup
ply. Although the three-year pro
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Bertha Fiscus and Jack
Wichels Are Married
Here Monday Night
Bertha Fiscus, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Gus Bjornstad, and Jack «
Wichels of the CAA staff, were
united in matrimony Monday eve
ning by Rev. Robert Treat at the
Community Methodist Church,
with a group of close friends
present.
Attending the bride, who wore
an aqua jersey going-away suit
and small navy-blue hat, was
Ellen Waldheim in a Havana
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brown suit. A lovely corsage of
home-grown flowers was a gift ter
the bride by Mrs. T. Scott.
Phillip Wilcox attended the
groom in the double ring cere
mony.
Following the wedding the bri
dal party enjoyed a specially pre
pared wedding supper at the
Bering Sea Club.
The popular young couple left
Tuesday afternoon for the States
where the groom will take some
special studies in Oklahoma be
fore returning to Nome.
gram will cover most of Alaska,
attention will be given first to
southeast Alaska and to the An
chorage and Fairbanks areas
where population is heaviest.