THE NOME NUGGET
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NOME PUBLISHING CO.
NOME. ALASKA
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Entered as second class matter October 14, 1943, at the postoffice
«t Nome, Alaska, under the Act of March 3. 1879.
Nome, Alaska, Monday. December 12, 1949 _
NATIONAL SAFETY AWARDS TO BE GIVEN
Two national awards, one for $10,000 and the other
a $5,000 school award, both aimed to stimulate greater
interest in public health and safety, were announced
by V. J. Skutt, president of Mutual Benefit Health &
Accident Association of Omaha, Nebr.
The school award includes a $4,000 college scholar
ship as first prize in a nation-wide oratorical contest
among juniors and seniors of high schools to be con
ducted each year. The subject will be “Live Safely;
Live Happily.”
The high school that produces the winning student
will receive a $1,000 award.
The other annual award is for $10,000 and a gold
medal to be given annually to the individual in the
United States, Canada, Alaska or Hawaii who makes
the greatest contribution each year to the health and
safety of people in this country.
The oratorical contest plans call for a national, six re
gional, state and local contests, starting with the school
year 1950-1951.
In explaining the $10,000 annual award, President
Skutt said that “in order to encourage and reward out
standing contributions to health and safety, Mutual of
Omaha has created the award consisting of $10,000 and
a gold medal to be presented to the individual who has
made the greatest contribution to public health and'or
safety during each year beginning with the year 1950.”
The award shall be known as “The Dr. C. C. Criss
Award,” in honor of the company’s founder, President
Skutt stated. Dr. Criss recently retired as president of
Mutual and is now chairman of its board.
The Dr. C. C. Criss award winner will be selected
each year by an award board of distinguished Ameri
cans, to be named at a later date.
Nominations for the Dr. Criss award may be sent to
the Criss Award Committee, care of Mutual Benefit
Health & Accident Association, Omaha, Nebraska.
FOR UNION OF FREE PEOPLE
A resolution will be introduced in Congress, at its
next session, calling upon the President to invite the de
mocracies to send delegates to a conference to explore
the possibilities of a Federal Union and to see how far
the peoples of the democracies might be willing to go in
the establishment of the proposed union of the free.
Will L. Clayton, former under-secretary of state, says
that “Democracy will work for the free peoples of the
world when their economy becomes one competitive
economy instead of being divided as it now is into as
many separate and distinct economies as there are na
tions.”
Mr. Clayton points out that a union of the free peo
ples of the world, if successfully accomplished, would
follow the pattern of the Federal Union formed by the
thirteen colonies of 1787 and suggests that the conse
quences of such a union would be as significant as the
growth, progress and development of the United States.
It is well known that the formation of such a union
would give the new government an overwhelming pro
portion of the world’s material and spiritual resources
and that such a union would be so strong that no nation,
on group of nations, could dare to attack it with expec
tation of victory.
The plan which Mr. Clayton has in mind is based
on Clarence Streit’s book, “Union Now,” which he
wrote before the outbreak of the second World War. Mr.
Streit’s idea is not an all-inclusive conglomeration of
nations, but a compact, homogeneous grouping of free
peoples, accustomed to and appreciative of the freedoms
that make up Western civilization. This common back
ground would supply the basis of a cooperative effort to
guarantee the security of the member states and open
.Mink Auction
Prices Go Up
VANCOUVER, B. C. (tf*)—'The
oldest business in the western
’ world was looking up today—auc
tion buyers paid 35 per cent more
for pelts of ranch-grown mink last
week than they did at the close of
the season several weeks ago.
An all-mink auction brought
sales estimated at $150,000 with
top grade male milk selling at $27
and females advancing to $15.75.
The upward trend was the first
good news for ranchers in a year.
Low prices forced an estimated
1,00 ranchers out of business last
year in Alberta and Saskatche
wan. British Columbia producers
held on solely because they could
get fish,major portion of the mink
diet, cheaper than the inland
growers.
Furriers interpreted the sales as
a trend toward richer tastes in
made-up furs.
NORTHWEST TO BASE ORIENT
FLIGHTS AT SEATTLE
SEATTLE, (/?-*) — Orient opera
tions of Northwest Airlines will
: be based in Seattle starting De
1 cember 15, officials announced
| Saturday.
The air line will have four
round-trip flights a week, three
between Seattle and Manila and
one between Seattle and Seoul,
Korea. All flights will be based on
Seattle-Tacoma airport.
Flights will follow the Great
Circle route to the Far East from
Seattle via Anchorage. Pacific
Northwest passengers now fly to
Anchorage to board Orient flights
which originate in Minneapolic-St.
Paul.
With the Orient base transferred
to Seattle, pursers, stewardesses
and mechanics will be based here,
the company said. Four-engine
DC-4’s will be used for the pres
ent but early in 1950 the company
expects to start using its Boeing
stratocruisers on the Orient run.
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to their peoples a greater opportunity for improved liv
ing standards.
ONLY A FEW WERE DISLOYAL
Out of all the Federal employees affected by the two
and-one-half year old loyalty program, only 6,083 per
sons have been involved in cases before the Civil Serv
ice Commission.
Of these, 123 employees have been dismissed and
848 have resigned during investigation. Those who re
signed are not included in the total of cases handled.
It is interesting to note that 85 employees appealed
to the Review Board and were cleared. Twelve are re
ceiving further consideration and 170 cases are in the
process of review.
The results obtained indicate that there was no great
number of disloyal employees but, if we assume that
those resigned were, at least, questionable, less than
1,000 employees have lost their jobs as a result of the
investigations undertaken. This is bad enough but not
as alarming as one would judge from the wild charges
and insinuations that were bandied around the country.
TAX BOOKLET
A “new and improved edition” of the best-selling
booklet in which the Government tries to explain its ad
mittedly complicated income-tax laws to taxpayers is
now on the market. The 138-page pamphlet “Your Fed
eral Income Tax” went on sale at the Government
Printing Office on December 1st. The price is still 25
cents. Over 345,000 copies of the 1948 edition were dis
tributed last year.
THESE WOMEN! eyd-A.es*.
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“My favorite book, a mug of ale and roaring fire! All right,
where are we tupoted to go tonight?"
Seek Persons
Responsible For
Atomic Shipments
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tacks on this country in event of
war probably would be aimed at
“the caves in the southwest where
our bombs are stored.”
Defense department officials de
clined comment. William Frye, di
rector of public information, said:
“I have no knowledge of the
basis of Mr. Mitchell’s remarks,
but I can say that at no time dur
ing his service in the department
did he have access to atomic en
ergy information.”
As for the shipment to Russia,
Lt. Gen. Leslie Groves, who head
ed the wartime a-bomb project
and who testified before the House
committee last week, said Friday
night that the House group should
press its probe because “we must
know why and who was responsi
ble” for any leakage of secret data.
The retired gpneral told the na
tional association of manufactur
ers in New York that Americans
should assume Russia has the
atomic bomb—and should con
sider the possible consequences:
That for the first time in history,
we may be threatened with “com
plete annihilation.”
The House committee started
looking into atomic shipments to
Russia more than a year ago. Its
information indicates that:
The first shipment was 420
pounds of compounds the Rus
sians got from an American com
pany, under official U. S. govern
ment permission.
The second was the 1,000 lbs.
about which the committee wants
to ask Boris Pregel, head of the
supplying company, the Canadian
Radium and Uranium corporation
of New York City.
ine tnirci was some uvo pounas
of impure uranium metal.
All these were in 1943.
Evidence of a shipment of
heavy water turned up in old
lend-lease records supplied the
committee by the state depart
ment. They contain a “report on
program licenses covering ship
ment to the U.S.S.R., Oct. 1-Dec.
31, 1943.”
Tucked in between listing of
stop watches and drugs is this:
Program license No. 339. Mate
rial, heavy water. Units. 1000
grams. (Shipping) weight, 41
pounds. Value, $3,250.
The records don’t indicate from
whom the Reds bought the heavy
water or how it went out of the
country. The state department had
nothing to do with the shipment.
It merely took over the files and
tag ends of the lend-lease admin
istration.
Locomotive Easily
Loaded On
Terminal Knot
SEATTLE, (A*) — Seventy-five
tons of steel in the form of a huge
diesel locomotive was plucked
from the pier by the mighty "shear
leg” at Ames terminal—and the
giant engine was deposited gently
on deck of the freighter Terminal
Knot.
The locomotive, destined for the
Alaska Railroad, will go to Whit
tier aboard the Alaska Steamship
company vessel. The ship is sched
uled to sail from Seattle.
The big diesel is one of the rail
units rebuilt at Puget Sound
Bridge and Dredging company for
the Alaska railroad.