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VOL. LII. No. 138 NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2271950_Per Copy—15c
NEWS IN BRIEF
TOKYO (/P)—Population of this
Japanese capital has increased to
6,275,190, a gain of more than
850,000 since 1948, the news agen
cy Kyodo reported today.
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PASCO, Wash., (JP) — Demo
crat Jim Fanning will have an
other term as Franklin county
commissioner. Auditor Lo u i s e
Lewis said Monday night a tabu
r lating error had been discovered j
in the returns, giving Fanning a
30-vote edge over his Republican,
rival, Vincent Small. |
Earlier the two men had been j
reported deadlocked with 1759;
votes each, with the outcome to be
decided either by an absentee bal
lot supposedly on its way from j
Alaska or by drawing straws.
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ANCHORAGE, (/P) — Jet fight- ;
ers of the 57th Fighter Interceptor
group have another assignment—
bombing the dam out of a river.
It’s an ice dam that’s backing
the waters at the junction of the
Copper and Klutina Rivers into
the town of Copper Center.
Fog kept the planes on the
ground yesterday. Residents of
Copper Center have set up red
panels to direct the planes to their
targets when and if they can fly
to the flood-theratened town
northeast of here.
NANAIMO, B. C, (/P)—‘The bat- (
tered hull of the fishpacked Mag
nolia was raised by salvage crews j
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14 ‘Freshmen’ Will i
Be In Territorial
Legislature In 1951
(By Bob DeArmand)
There will be 14 “freshmen”
among the 4'0 legislators who con
vene at Juneau on January 22 for
the 20th session of the Alaska
Territorial Legislature.
Twelve members of the House
of Representatives and two mem
bers of the Senate will be serving,
in their first session at Juneau.
This is a smaller proportion of
green hands than in the last three
regular sessions. In 1947 and 1949
there were 15 “freshmen” in the
House and in 1945 there were 18.
In 1949 the Senate had two “fresh
men” legislators, the same num
ber as there will be in 1951. In
each 1945 and 1947 there were
three newcomers.
Politically, the Territorial Sen
ate will be divided 8-8, while the
House will be divided 14 Demo
crats to 10 Republicans.
The following are the people
who will sit in what many Alas
kans believe may be the last Alas
ka Territorial Legislature.
Senate
First Division—Dr. R. M. Mac
Kenzie, Democrat, holdover. This
will be his second legislative ses
sion. I
Miss Anita Garnick. Republi
can, holdover. Senator Garnick
served in the House in 1947 and
was elected to the Senate two
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NO CHRISTMAS THIS YEAR?
A dreadful thing has happened. Up at Santa Land, the Jin
dians (that little band of bad Indians) have stolen Santa's best
reindeer, Dasher. Without Dasher the other reindeer will not
ride. And without reindeer to take Santa around the world so
that he can distribute his gifts, how can there ever be a Christ
mas?
There's only one last, dim hope. Can Ceorge Harold Sanders,
7, save the day for Santa? He also, of course, is Kid Buckaroo,
the Terror of the West. And if he can bring the pressure of the
American Cowboy to bear on the Jindians, maybe . . .
But see for yourself if there'll be a Christmas this year.
Read
“SANTA AND THE COWBOY”
THE CHRISTMAS STORY BY LUCRECE HUDGINS
STARTING IN THE NUGGET
Friday, November 24
Thanksgiving Day
Services In Nome
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Proclaimed by Presiden t i a 1
proclamation as a day of national
Thanksgiving, people of Nome
will have many opportunities of
oberving thi Thurday in thanks to
Almighty God. We are close
enough to the frontier of spiritual
boundaries to realize how great a
privilege is ours of freely assem
bling and sharing in experiences
of gratitude. Millions long for the
security and faith we have taken
to be our right.
The Mission Covenant Church
has planned a service to be held
at 11 a.m., with a native pot latch
to follow at 5:00 p.m.
The Assembly of God has a
special service for their people
at 11:00 a.m., with special music
and testimonies of thanksgiving.
Morning Mass will be held at
St. Joseph’s Church (Catholic) at
9:00 a.m.
The Community Thanksgiving
Day service will be held at the
Federated Chu r c h (Methodist)
with the Nazarene and Seventh
Day Adventist churches partici
pating. Major Hoy C. Davis, Chap
lain of the 57th Fighter and In
terceptor Wing is coming to Nome
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Estimate Foreign
Aid Program To
Cost Eight Billions
WASHINGTON, (yP) — A blue
print for a vast new American
foreign aid program including
economic help to Western Europe
beyond the scheduled end of the
Marshall Plan, has been made
public by the administration.
It probably will form the basis j
for President Truman’s foreign
economic recommendations to the
new Congress next year.
The Chief Executive made pub
lic a global survey of economic
prospects and Aremican aid in the
light of the communist threat and
the Western rearmament program.
The survey calls for far-reaching*
developments in American policy
to provide help running into bil
lions of dollars over the next few
years—perhaps eight billion dol-1
lars or more.
Mr. Truman released the report,
prepared by former secretary^of
the army Gordon Gray, as a docu
ment deserving “the attention and
study” the the American people. |
But administration officials said
there is no doubt that its main j
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ANS Hospital
Burns At Bethel;
None Injured
JUNEAU, (JP) — Scores of pa
tients were evacuated safely when
fire destroyed the Alaska Native
Service hospital at Bethel, in the
Yukon valley, in zero weather
Monday.
None of the patients was injur
ed but one hospital employee was
hurt during the removal of the in
valids.
\ Hugh Wade, area director for
tye Alaska Native Service, said a
report received here from Dr.
Duncan Chalmers, head of the
hospital, said the $300,000 build
ing was a total loss.
Dr. Chalmers asked for immedi
ate aid in providing suitable quar
ters for 27 patients deemed in
need of immediate hospitalization.
Wade said he had no idea how
many patients had been in the
structure but knew that everyone
of the institution’s 70 beds were
filled as it was “the busiest hos
pital in the interior.”
Bethel is approximately 1,000
airline miles northwest of Juneau
and 600 miles southwest of Fair
banks. It is the center of a largely
native area which recently has
been the scene of a severe typhoid
fever epidemic.
Wade said that so far as he
knew none of the patients in seri
| ous need of care was a typhoid
victim as the epidemic had been
brought under control several
weeks ago. Earlier reports had
said the hospital was filled to
overflowing with 300 typhoid vic
tims.
The injured employee was
flown to Anchorage by the 10th
Rescue Squadron for treatment.
The patients were evacuated to
a nearby quonset hut which can
serve as strictly temporary quar
ters only, Wade said. He said the
patients probably would be flown
to other A. N. S. hospitals in Alas
ka.
Canadian Trains
In Head-On
Collision, 18 Dead
EDMONTON, Alta, (£>)—Rescue
teams dug today for missing vic
tims in the splintered wreckage
of two trains which crashed head
on yesterday 312 miles west of
Edmonton. Eighteen persons—in
cluding 14 Korea-bound Canadian
soldiers—were believed dead, and i
53 others were injured.
The bodies of 12 soldiers have
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THE FIRST
THANKSGIVING PROCLAMATION
1621
“And Therefore, I, William Bradford
(by the grace of God today, and
the franchise of this good people)
governor of Plymouth, say—
Through virtue of vested power—ye
shall gather with one accord,
And hold in the month of November,
Thanksgiving unto the Lord.
Korean Situation
At A Glance - - -
Tuesday, November 21, 1950
(By The Associated Press)
Tank-led spearhead of the U. S.
Seventh Division captures Hye
sanjin on the borderline of the
Yalu River. It is the first Ameri
can unit to reach the Manchurian
border. South Korean Capital Di
vision pushes 10 miles up the east
coast, capturing Shuchonhujang.
The communists are reported
building strong mountain defenses
in the northwest. U. N. intelli
gence officers predict the Korean
War will continue well into spring.
Wednesday* November 22* 1950
United Nations forces made a
cautious advance along most
North Korean fronts today while
American superforts pou n d e d
communist bases and troop con
centrations in the northeast.
Allied intelligence showed that
the communists are massing troops
and equipment on both sides of
the border in the areas of Musan
and Tumen. These are in the far
northeast panhandle of the Ko
rean peninsula.
Should the Reds break out from
this area they could cut off the
U. S. Seventh Division’s armored
spearhead which yesterday plant
ed the United Nations flag on the
| south ban kof the Yalu River -at
Hyesanjin.
In the United Nations General
Assembly, Nationalist China won
i support from the United States in
its plea that a U. N. commission
study charges that the Soviet
Union engineered the Chinese
civil war and now has 45,000
agents in China controlling all po
litical, economic and cultural life.
Russia demanded the entire
question be thrown out. Britain
took the view that an inquiry
would be futile.
Nine Dead; Untold
Damage In
California Floods
Torrents of mountain-fed flood
waters ripped through northern
and central California and west
ern Nevada yesterday morning,
driving thousands of persons from
their homes and doing untold
amounts of property damage.
At least nine persons were dead
from the floods, which started on
its third day of rampage with
added force from mountain rains
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and melting snow.
Here is how the situation stack
ed up:
Nevada—The main section of
Reno was a tumbled mass of mud,
debris and torn paving after the
swirling Truckee River—normally
three to four feet deep at this
time of year—roared 20 feet deep
and three blocks wide through the
center of ‘-the biggest little city
in the world.”
California—Govemar Earl War
ren declared a state of emergency
over the raging floods in the cen
tral valley. The Yuba County sher
iff’s office ordered the evacuation
of an estiamted 3,500 residents
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