THE NOME NUGGET
Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday by the
NOME PUBLISHING CO.
NOME. ALASKA
Telephone: Main 125 P. O. Box 618
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W. A. Boucher ..Owner-Publisher
Entered as second class matter October 14. 1943, at the postoffice
•t Nome, Alaska, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
Nome, Alaska, Friday, May 12, 1950
POVERTY AMONG PLENTY
(By Clarke Beach)
America is getting richer and richer. But still it isn’t
getting rich fast enough. If it doesn’t get rich faster, se
rious trouble lies ahead somewhere. That’s the sub
stance of the conclusions experts draw from the latest
monthly report to Congress by the President’s Council
of Economic Advisers. Nearly all business indices have
been rising in recent months, and business prospects
look good. So said the President, and so say his econo
mists.
Yet the nation is affected with creeping unemploy
ment. If unemployment keeps on rising indefinitely,
any economist will agree that a day of reckoning must
come. About the only healthy way to avoid unemploy
ment is to provide more and more jobs. And that’s what
industry is doing. But it isn’t providing new jobs fast
enough.
Leon Keyserling, acting chairman of the Council, told
a reporter: “We are not getting the expansion in indus
try and investment that we need to absorb the steady
increase in the labor force. That is a serious problem.”
The total number of employed persons has been ris
ing for the past three months. But the monthly average
is still lower than the monthly average for either 1947,
1948 or 1949. In March civilian employment stood at
57,551,000—slightly under the total for March of 1949,
which was 57,647,000.
What can be done to expand production and bring
about this ever-expanding economy? One measure, ac
cording to a highly placed economist, might be to in
crease somehow the volume of small business. For big
business is getting bigger all the time and small busi
ness proportionately smaller. Another answer might
be, he said, to reduct prices (chiefly by reducing the
percentages of profits) in order to create greater con
sumer demand and stimulate greater production.
Frequent medical examinations are the best safe
guard against fatal cancer. Early cancer can be cured
says the American Cancer Society.... The cold war gets
warmer as the Russians shoot down an unarmed Amer
ican plane; wars have begun on less. . . . The solution to
most problems will be overheard if you listen to the
next three men that you observe in conversation. . . . Al
most any man in Nome can explain why he has failed to
make a million dollars and the explanation will include
no fault of his own.
SH-H-H-H < _
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CHURCH SERVICES I
CATHOLIC CHURCH
Sunday Masses:
8:00 a.m.
11:15 a.m.
10:00 a.m.—M. A. F. B. Chapel
DAILY MASS SCHEDULE
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday,
Thursday .7:30 a.m.
Friday . 7:00 a.m. j
Saturday . 8:00 a.m. j
Thursday evening Holy Hour
7:30 p.m. j
THE METHODIST CHURCH
(FEDERATED)
Rev. Robert S. Treat, Minister
9:45—Sunday School.
11:00—Morning Worship. Anthem
by the Junior Choir. Baptism of
children. Message, ‘^Her Chil
dren Call Her Blessed.”
3:00—Hospital Service
8:00 — Baccalaureate Service at
the High School.
Tuesday—Junior Choir after
school.
Wednesday noon — Preparatory
Class.
7:00 p.m.—Senior Choir.
NOME GOSPEL MISSION
of
Alaska Evangelisation Society
Rev. Vern Rimling, Pastor
Sunday—
2:00 p.m. Sunday School foi
boys and girls.
Preaching service in the Eskimo
language by James Savok.
7:30 p.m. Gospel Service.
Tuesday—
7:30 p.m. Bible Study—trans
lated into the Eskimo language
Thursday—
2:00 to 4:00 p.m. K.Y.B Club for
boys and girls.
Friday—
7:30 p.m. Prayer, Praise and
Testimony.
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THE EVANGELICAL MISSION
COVENANT CHURCH
Located at Fourth and Division
Paul Carlson, Pastor
I
Sunday—
10:00 a.m.—Service in native lan
guage.
11:00 a.m.—Sunday School, all
ages. Observing Mother’s Day.
7:00 p.m.—Evening Service <so
those who wish to go to Bacca
laureate Services at the school
may do so).
Tuesday 7:30 p.m.
Cottage Prayer Meeting.
Thursday 7:30 p.m.
Midweek Prayer Service.
ASSEMBLY OF GOD
Third Avenue West
Pastor A. E. Capener
Sunday Morning—
10:00 to 11:40: This service is
designed to meet your neeo
with Bible class studies for ev
ery age group, followed by a
message from the Pastor to the
Assembly.
Wednesday—
7:30 p.m.: Bible study and pray
er; bring your Bible.
FRIDAY—
7:30 p.m.: This meeting is con
ducted by Senior Young People
presenting spiritual truths,
songs, special music, games, and
fellowship.
Everyone welcome.
OUR MESSAGE:—“Jesus Christ
ihe same Yesterday and Today
and Forever,” Hebrews 13:8.
“Seek ye the Lord while He may
be found,” Isaiah 55.6.
Cancer deaths numbered only
41,000 in 1900 but this year, the
American Cancer Society points
out 200,000 will die of cancer.
SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST
SERVICES
at
Pastor's Residence, second house i
from corner of B St., between 3rd
and 4th Ave.
Saturday—
Junior Sabbath School—10:00 a.m.
Senior Sabbath School—11:00 a.m.
Picture Hour—7:30-8:30 p.m.
Visitors welcomed
Marvin W. Troutman, Pastor
CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE
Third and Division
Pastor—Lewis I. Hudgins
“All that I am, my mother made
me.”—John Quincy Adams.
10:00 a.m. Sunday School.
10:45—Mother’s Day Program in
song and recitation, followed by
short Mother’s Day message.
7:00 Mother’s Day Service.
8:00 p.m. Baccalaureate Service at
the High School.
Wednesday: 7730 p.m. Melody and
Prayer.
Come and bring your Bible.
You are ever welcome to attend
these services.
LAVINIA WALLACE YOUNG
MISSION (METHODIST)
Esther McCoy. Director
Rev. Robert Treat, Pastor
Sunday—
10:00—Rev. Treat’s message trans
lated.
11:00 a.m.—Sunday School
3:00 p.m.—Hospital Service.
4:00 p.m.—Mother’s Day Serv
ice, Message, “Honour Thy
Mother.” Anthem by the choir.
8:00 p.m.—Baccalaureate Serv
ice at the High School.
Thursday—
7:30 p.m.—Prayer Service, and
choir practice following.
TlircalciuMl Strike
May (lilt Fairbanks
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Electrical Power
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Ore., to aid in obtaining an early
settlement.
In a public statement, Johnson
said the city was not taking sides,
but would do all possible to help
the disputants reach an early
agreement and remove the danger
of a power shutdown, which he
said would affect nearly 90 per
cent of the homes in the metropol
itan area. The mayor also noted
the possible health hazards in
shutting down of water pumps,
cooking facilities and refrigera
tors.
Here are the emergency period
offers made today:
«
My Roy B. Earling, vice presi
dent and general manager of the
company’s Alaska operations:
Keep power plant in operation*
supply power to city on condition
plant be operated by reduced
crew comprised of present em
ployees, under same terms provid
ed in contract which expired May
j 1. Mhke retroactive for these em
! ployees terms of any new contract.
The union offer:
| Maintain operation of the plant
' on condition that power gener
i ated be used only by the Northern
| Commercial Co., and Golden Val
ley Electric Association which
I
j supplies power to outlying areas
] and city, but lines to the F. E.
' company are not to be energized.
It also was demanded that on re
duced operation, all present em
ployees in the plant be kept on the
payroll and the company agree to
a closed shop during the life of
the agreement. A five-day, 40
hour week was stipulated, with
double time for all overtime.
Radio Bestows Another Honor on
"The Greatest Story Ever Told”
Another honor was added to the most honored radio program,
“The Greatest Story Ever Told,” when the readers of Radio and
Television Mirror Magazine voted this program as their favorite re
ligious program.
Above, R. S. Wilson, vice president of Goodyear, receives award
from Miss Doris McFerran, editor of Radio Mirror, while J. K.
Hough, advertising manager (center) looks on.
Heard over the local radio station, A. F. R. S., Sundays at 6:30
p.m., ‘The Greatest Story Ever Told” is now in its fourth year. It
broke all radio precedent in having no commercial, though it is
sponsored by The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, and in keep
ing actors, directors, musicians, and all concerned completely anony
mous so that the true spirit of the dramatizations would not be af
fected. As a result, it has received just about every award and com
mendation that radio offers and many other special awards.