Bering Sea Recrea
tion Grand Opening
Saturday Night
The Bering Sea Club is having
a Grand Opening Saturday, Sept.
3rd in their new Recreation Room.
The room is 35 by 60 feet, and the
walls are finished in Philippine
mahogany, the ceilings are acous
tic tile to deaden the noise of the
pool tables.
The room ha_. two fine live late
model Brunswick Pool Tables, and
a Brunswick Snooker Table; also
two Shufi'leboards. The loom is
softly lighted by five large fluor
escent fixtures—one over each
table.
Mr. Wallace hopes to make a
recreation center there and hopes
the people of Nome will take ad
vantage of the facilities and enjoy
the various games.
The four apartments on the
ground floor above the Recreation
Room are modern in every respect.
They have flush toilets, showers,
steam heat and Flamo ranges.
Tha work was all done by local
men—Bill Gillis had the contract
for the building; Pete Olsen did
the painting; Mr. Cavota furnished
the plumbing supplies; Henry
Muller did the plumbing; and
Howard Green furnished the rugs
and linoleum and the flamo stoves
Former Nome
Pilot Saved Off
Ireland Coast
A former Alaska “bush pilot,”
well known here arid in Anchor
age, was co-pilot on the ill-fated
Transocean plane which crashed
off Shannon, Ireland, on August
14th.
Johnny Moore, with more than
twenty years of flying to his credit
and most of them in Alaska, joined
the Transocean group over a year
ago and has been flying to Home I
by way of Venezuela. His plane
overshot the Shannon airport and
before it could make another
landing the Skymaster was out of
gas and had to go down 15 miles
out at sea, where 49 of the crew
and passengers were rescued and
nine perished.
The plane was based at Bradley
Field, Conn., where Mrs. John
Moore 'Madeline Mirow of Nome*
and four children waited anxious
ly until the passengers and crew
were safe and accounted for.
During the war Johnnie Moore
flew the supply run to Australia
for the Air Transport Command.
and laid all the linoleum.
Dancing during the opening
night will be from 9 to 2. Music
, will be furnished by Phyllis Pugh.
Catholic Information
How free is free will?
'Tis said by some that there’s
on free will. Like the sunflower,
man must turn to his god in the
West. Like the moth, he must flut
ter into the flame. Like the wolf,
he must slay the sheep.
What merit then in being good—
what fault in being bad? What jus
tice in rewarding the benefactor—
in punishing the malefactor? What
use at all in the Commandments
of God or the teachings and warn
ings of Christ to a race with no
power to choose between God and
Satan?
Free will! Is it the right to do
good or bad? Or isn’t it the power
to choose between right and wrong,
between the wise and the foolish,
between the difficult and the easy,
between Heaven and Hell?
Because I must stop my car at a
traffic light, have I no free will?
Isn’t it rather that I freely choose
to stop because I approve the law
or fear its fangs?
Because I must labor hard each J
day, is that proof that free will is j
a myth? No, I freely choose be- S
tween the toil and the deprivation?
the lack of my wages would bring.
That I must not steal, or kill,
or covet, deprives me not at all of
my freedom of will, but shows
that I choose to obey my God be
cause I love or fear Him.
That I. a Catholic, must assist
at Mass each Sunday, makes me
not a mental slave but proves my
agreement with the laws which my
Church has enacted for my spirit
ual welfare.
Freedom of will! A tremendous
gift! An awful gift! It lifts us
high above the beasts or drops us
down below the worms. Stupid
men who misuse it jam our jails
and asylums. Clever men who use
it ill, wallow in wealth but dread
to die. But wise men freely choose
to reject the magnified trinkets of
the worldly world in order to pay
the price that God has put on
Heaven.
Sponsored by
St. Joseph’^ Church
(PAID ADVERTISEMENT)
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Phone MAIN 66
FARES SLASHED
ADDITIONAL SERVICE BY
ALASKA AIRLINES
Or Connecting Services
NOME to SEATTLE $H5*
NOME to PORTLAND $123*
'Plus Federal Tax
Other Reduced Fares to
GREAT FALLS - MINNEAPOLIS - CHICAGO
NEW YORK - SAN FRANCISCO
EXPRESS PASSENGERS
This service will be operated under the recent Cease and
Desist Orders, Serial Number E-3134.
TO THE VOTERS
OF NOME
Determining factors which can
not be met to advantage by present
tax structure and revenue of the
City are contained in the following
Resolution passed by the Nome
Common Council in preparing the
way for a Sales Tax for the City
of Nome:
RESOLUTION No. 334
A Resolution of the Common
Council of the City of Nome. Ter
ritory of Alaska in Reference to a
Consumer's Sales Tax
WHEREAS, the City of Nome is
in need of more efficient fire and
police protection and garbage dis
posal; is in need of street and
sidewalk improvements; is in need
of more and better control over
health and sanitation; and is in
need of school facilities expansion,
and
WHEREAS, operating costs of
the City of Nome at present stand
ards have reached such an all-time
high that the revenue of the City is j
not sufficient to meet the expenses ]
incident to improved standards,
and
WHEREAS, the City has obli
gated itself to the U. S. Govern
ment to maintain after comple
tion a proposed sea breakwater to
be built by the U: S. Government,
and
WHEREAS, the Common Coun
I cil of the City considers that it is
| necessary and advisable that a
I consumer’s sales tax be enacted
I into law, as provided by the Laws
1 of the Territory of Alaska, in or
der that the City be adequately fi
nanced.
NOW. THEREFORE. BE IT RE
SOLVED that there shall be sub
mitted to the qualified voters of
the City of Nome at a special elec
tion called for the purpose or the
next general election of said City,
whichever to come first, the ques
! tion as to whether or not the Nome
City Council shall be authorized to
enact and collect a consumer’s
sales tax not exceeding two per
centum of the sales price on all re
tail sales and services made within
the City, for the purposes, first, of
establishing and maintaining a re
; volving fund of $25,000.00 for sea
wall maintenance, and secondly,
for general revenue purposes.
PASSED by the Common Coun
1 cil in special session assembled
and approved by its Mayor the
I 26th day of August, 1949.
STEVE ANDERSON,
Mayor.
Attest: CARRIE M. McLAIN,
Clerk.
Some facts and figures for your
! consideration, are:
That,
Nome population is on a pre-war
level of 1550. Real and Personal
Property Tax are the largest
source of revenue for the City with
some 600 residences and business
establishments taking the brunt of
this burden.
City expenditures of major items
! show the following:
1939 1949
Schools .$ 5,603.82 $21,400.00
Fire Dept. 11,932.00 18,516.00
Police Dept. 479.00 9.387.00
Street . 4,539.00 13.860.00
A total of disbursements in ten
years’ time show an increase from
34,570.00 to $74,013.00.
School expenditures for the City
for 1949-50 call for $25,826.00
which is an increase of $4400.00
over last year which was an in
crease of $4100.00 over the preced
ing year. The Health Budget for
1949 includes the regular yearly
City pledge of $1600.00 plus the
maintenance of the Nome Health
Center and a Jeep for the nurse’s
field duties.
That,
To maintain standards for the
protection and betterment of the
City, members of the Nome City
Council anticipate:
Installation of more fire mains
and replacements and a new fire
alarm system.
Compulsory garbage and scav
enger system.
Greater expenditure on streets,
drains and side-walks.
Snow removal equipment.
NOME COMMON COUNCIL.
By CARRIE M. McLAIN,
City Clerk.
Twelve fans, each blowing air
at the rate of 35,000 cubic feet a
minute, soive the carbon monox
ide problem in LST’s when tanks
are warming up before hitting a |
beach. I
ACS COMMANDING OFFICER'S
QUARTERS COMPLETED
The Shaw Goodman Construc
tion Co., have completed the new
quarters for the commanding offi
cer of the ACS at the transmitter
station and they are ready for oc
cupancy with the arrival of furni
ture on the last boat. The new
quarters are reported very modern
in many ways, with several inno
vations which are being used for
the first time here. The residence
will be occupied by Capt. and Mrs.
Stanley Morgan.
Ray Stannard, Baker biogra
pher and essayist, writes under
his own name and also under the
name of David Grayson.
TITLE MIXED
WITH ROMANCE
PERTH, Australia. </P» — Jea
Emily Stone, a 26-year-old cour
try girl, had a shock when sh
heard her fiancee was a barone
I Jean is engaged to marry Pete
van Notten-Pole. He has just b<
come the fifth baronet of the va
Notten-Pole line on the death c
i Sir Cecil van Notten-Pole in Glou
cestershire, England. Peter, 2'.
works in an accountants office a
Gnawangerup, 276 miles fror
Perth, under the name of Pete
Pole.
—
Wives don’t need an adding ma
I chine to put two and two together
N. C. CO. N. C. CO. N. C. CO. N. C. CO
Store Will Be Closed
All Day Monday
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I
Fresh Fruits
and Vegetables
A Large Boat Shipment Just Re
ceived ... In Excellent Condition.
Stock up at Money-Saving Prices.
The Cream of the Crops from the
Sunshine State of W ashington
APPLES BANANAS CARROTS
CABBAGE GRAPEFRUIT
GRAPES PEACHES CARROTS
RUTABAGAS TURNIPS
| LETTUCE TOMATOES SQUASH
ORANGES SWEET POTATOES
CELERY AND OTHER ITEMS
Fresh Meats
A Large Shipment Just Taken Off
the Boat. FRESH BEEF. VEAL, '
LAMB and PORK and a Lot of
VARIETY MEATS.
-A
Your Frlondly Community flora
Wholesale and Retail
Phone MAin 133 FREE DELIVERY
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