THE NOME NUGGET
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Entered as second class matter October 14. 1943, at the
postoffice at Nome, Alaska, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
ALWAYS A P|CKY TRICK
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Gonoer —
FACT AND FISSION
(Christian Science Monitor)
The uranium rush of 1952 is on. This time the
prospectors are making for the wild Canadian North
rather than the wild California West.
The new ’forty-niners will use Geiger counters
instead of pans, and Uranium City, Saskatchewan, will
differ in some vital respects from the Poker Flats and
Roaring Camps of a century ago. Large mining corpor
ations will fly geologists into the bush in pontooned
planes. Government officials in nylon tents will record
the applications of claim stakers without benefit of
gunplay.
Despite the howling of wolves and the wailing of
loons in the violated wilderness, the new adventure in
the North seems less like material for Bret Harte than
for the Bureau ofi Statistics — as uranium itself is mat
erial less for fiction than for fission.
The atomic age can afford a glance over its shoul
der at the California of the Gold Rush (culminating in
Hollywood), but it must chiefly look ahead to the seri
ous business of keeping the peace from blowing to
pieces.
109 Alaska Schools
Open Next Month
(Anchorage Times)
A total of 109 schools will be
“open for business” next month
in Alaska under the Territorial
Department of Education.
These include 27 schools in in
corporated districts, 61 rural
schools, 13 operated under con
tract with the Alaska Native
Service and 8 “on base” schools,
military plants operated in coop
eration with the United States Of
fice of Education.
The largest number of schools
is located in the Third Division,
. according to Everett Erickson,
Alaska’s Commissioner of Educa
tion.
Because of incomplete reports
from the territory’s many school
districts and smaller systems, a
report on funds available for the
coming school year has not been
compiled.
Territorial funds are approp
riated for the biennium, Ericsson '
explained. The education monies
earmarked for schools during the
1951-53 biennium amounted to
$9,883,033.33.
Budgeted for the rural schools
during this current biennium is
$1,450,656. Incorporated systems
receive the greater portion of a
seven-million dollar allocation for
school operation, amounting to
$5,241,336.32.
Teachers’ salaries, raised by the
1951 legislative session, takes
$520,600 of the biennial budget.
Transportation for the two-year
period requires $600,000. A fund
of $10,000 is earmarked for the
care, support and education of
handicapped children.
Construction, rehabilitation and
repairs of buildings in incorpor
ated school systems were granted
$750,000. Rural school buildings
get $500,000 for the biennium.
Erickson reported to a total of
$740,440.71 of tobacco monies has
been distributed to schools from
June 1951 through June 1952, for
repairs and construction of facil
ities. :
L.A. Feels Shock
As Bakersfield Is
Heavily Damaged
BAKERSFIELD, Calif., (IP)—A
major earthquake jarred this city
Friday, killing two persons, in
juring 32 and shattering buildings.
Another sharp jolt rocked Los
Angeles early Saturday, but was
not even felt here.
Friday’s temblor was the sec
ond big one in 32 days to hit
Bakersfield.
On the other hand, Friday’s
shock in Los Angeles, 125 miles
south of here, apparently caused
no damage, although it was strong
enough to awaken hundreds of
residents.
While Bakersfield’s business
districts were heavily damaged
Friday, residential sections, for
the most part, escaped unscathed.
Police patrolled blocked - off
downtown sections through the
night to prevent looting of stores
damaged by the two major
qua*kes and dozens of aftershocks.
The dead are Mrs. Edna Led
better, 26, of nearby McFarland,
caught under the collapsing ro’of
of a store in which she was shop
ping and George Patman Cozby,
67, a Southern Pacific Railroad
engineman. He was trapped in the
wreckage of the Kern County
Equipment Company.
A hundred and six city blocks
in the business districts of Bak
ersfield and East Bakersfield,
hardest hit by the quake, were
roped off to everyone except
those with business there. Hardly
a busines block in the entire city
of 50,000 population escaped dam
age.
City Manager C. Leland Gunn
declared Bakersfield a disaster
area and proclaimed a state of
emergency.
Bricks and metal cornices top
Matanuska Co-op
Has Best Year
On Record
(Anchorage Times)
PALMER, Aug. 20— Members of
Matanuska Valley Cooperating
Association learned with pride at
their annual meeting recently that
their association had had its best
year ever in the fiscal year end
ing May 31, 1952.
Gross sales on all MVFCA op
erations, including rentals and
services amounted to a tidy $3,
035,081.99. This total for the sin
gle fiscal year recently ended, Co
Op Accountant Clayton Esslinger
pointed out, equals the total gross
sales for the four previous yqars,
1948-1951. ;
The Co-Op’s Army contract to
provide recombined milk was an
important factor in the yearly
sales picture, especially since it
served to decrease the percentage
of overhead. But the healthiest
part of the over-all total had
been produced by the farmer
members themselves and through
the facilities they operate.
For them their Co-Op had han
dled 1,784 tons of potatoes worth
$175,849.69 in gross sales; 134.5
tons of green vegetables — mostly
cabbage, lettuce, celery, and car
rots—bringing $38,943.30 in gross
sales; 3,412,545 pounds of Grade
pled from many business build
ings, and the walls of* others
crashed down into' the streets or
onto nearby structures.
Many of the buildings hardest
hit in the latest quake had been
damaged in the previous temblor
or its aftershocks.
California Institute of Techno
logy. seismologists said the mag
nitude of the latest shock was 6,
compared with 7.5 for the July
temblor.
NOTICE
TO PROPERTY OWNERS
IN THE SECOND DIVISION
Pursuant to the provisions as
set forth in Sec. 42 of the Alaska
, Property Tax Act, the Second
I Division Board of Assessment and
Equalization will meet on Sep
tember 23, 24 and 25, 1952, in the
Territorial Tax Office, Nome,
Alaska, for equalization purposes,
at which time protests on assess
ments and such other business as
may come before the Board will
be considered.
Copies of this Notice will be
posted in all the Postoffices in
the Second Division.
Board of Assessment
and Equalization
By George R. Goshaw,
Chairman
Publish Aug. 22, 25, 27, 1952.
A milk grossing $514,334.19; and
45,201 dozens of eggs at $43,397.76.
The creamery produced 281,228
gallons of ice cream for people
living in Alaska, the Land of Ice
and Snow.”
Reports on the several Co-Op
departments revealed that all had
operated in the black during the
fiscal year. On the basis of the
successful year’s operations, the
Board of Directors declared a div
idend on patronage at the garage/*
trading post and warehouse which
will be in excess of 10 percent.
A total of $185,000 will be dis
tributed to the past year’s patrons
in 10-year certificates. Dividends
in previous years have been for
five percent, also distributed in
10-year certificates.
This announcement served no
tice to Co-Op customers that it
was indeed worthwhile to keep
their purchase coupons and turn
them in at the end of each fiscal
year.
The banana is a herb, the larg
est-growing in the world.
AN ALASKAN REPUBLICAN
says ...
To The ESKIMO VOTERS —
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Twenty years ago, you owned hundreds of thousands
of reindeer. During these 20 years your reindeer, under
bureaucratic rule as forced upon you by a Democratic
Administration in Washington and Juheau, YOUR OWN
REINDEER HAVE VANISHED! Think this fact over.
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To ALL VOTERS —
Especially to Eskimo Voters living in isolated voting
precincts and other villages, that the Territorial Property
Tax Act was placed - upon you by DEMOCRATS — all
Democrats, wh6m you elected, VOTED to place this Per
sonal and Real Property Tax upon you. You have to pay
it every year, while large mining companies and salmon
canneries have not been paying this annual tax. Because
of this non-payment of taxes by many other citizens and
companies, this Tax is unfair to those who do pay it every
year. VOTE FOR REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES WHO
PLEDGE TO HAVE THIS UNFAIR TAX REPEALED.
Who pay TOBACCO TAXES, that it was a Demo
cratic controlled Legislature that raised your Cigarette
Tax from three cents, a fair tax, to FIVE CENTS, an
Unfair Tax. Democratic members of the Legislature, some
of whom you elected, VOTED FOR THIS INCREASED
TAX. HOW DO YOU LIKE IT ?
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VOTE REPUBLICAN! —WIN WITH IKE!