School News
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FIRST GRADE
The first grade has been study-1
ing posture. The school nurse gave
them a little talk on the correct
way to sit and stand. They learned
that it makes their bones grow
straight; it gives their lungs room
to expand; it makes them look bet
■ ter than when they group up look
ing like' a question mark. Stand
straight.
SECOND GRADE
The second grade has an arith
metic work book now. They spend
one class period tach week work
ing in it.
Everyone is working hard for
stars on the spelling chart. Only
perfect papers for the week’s work
are rewarded.
Another reading class has com
pleted its book, “Down Our
Street." Their next book will be
the Elson-Gray Basic Reader.
We had some very good stories
about the four seasons written in
language class last week.
THIRD AND FOURTH GRADE
In health class we have been
studying the importance of milk
and its by-products. For our les
son last Friday we made butter.
Everyone has been taking a keen
interest in spelling and working
hard to earn a star. Last week
eleven persons had perfect scores.
FOURTH AND FIFTH GRADE
The fourth and fifth grade chil
dren have been very busy this
week answering the letters they
received from Strathroy, Ontario.
Maureen Hudert received some
Canadian coins in her letter. Most
of the children received snapshots
of their penpals in Strathroy.
The children are very excited j
about Valentine’s Day. They have
made a Valentine box for the room
and they plan to open it on Fri
day afternopn.
The fourth and fifth grade had
a contest to see who could have
the neatest arithmetic drill books.
The winners were Sarah Cox, KayJ
Coulthard, Marion Herbert, and
Emma Outwater.
The high school students have |
been busy decorating the gym for j
the Valentine dance that will be;
given next Saturday evening at j
nine.
The students are selling raffle
tickets to raise funds for the High!
School Basketball team to help
them go to Anchorage.
SIXTH GRADE
Last week Mrs. Margaret Peter
son gave our class a real water
color lesson for art class. The best
ten were selected and tacked on the
walls. We appreciate Mrs. Peter
son’s instruction.
Friday we had Valentine boxes
and listened to a puppet show at
3:30 p.m.
PATRICIA COLLINS WEDS
CORNELIUS ISMERT
Miss Patricia M. Collins, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Nordlind,
pioneer Candle and Nome family,
and Mr. Cornelius Martin Ismert,
of Kansas City, Missouri, son of
Mr. and Mrs. M. E. Ismert, of that
city, were married this morning at
10 o’clock at St. Joseph’s Church,
Nome, Alaska.
White and blue stock decorated
the altar for the marriage cere
mony ari nuptial ma s, at which
the >'zv. !!. A. Amble, S.J off el
ated.
The bride, wearing a colonial
S' wn of ivory brocade and a fi }
ger tip veil of illusion held in place
by a Dutch cap of seed pearls and
carrying an old-fashioned bouquet
of pink gladioli and tuberoses
on white net and tied with white
satin streamers, was given in mar
riage by her step-father.
Attending the bride, as matron
of-honor, was Mrs. Maurice Kelli
her in a gown of old ivory nylon
taffeta with long matching mitts
and a gold sequin Juliet cap and
carrying an old-fashioned bouque*
of blue irises on blue net.
Best man was Mr. Maurice Ke'
liher; Mr. William Ullrich, Mr. J.
Yakubowsky and Mr. Walt Wied
man ushered.
The Ave Maria was beautifully
sung by Mrs. Wilson Russell, ac
companied by Rita Tavis at the
end of the wedding ceremony.
A wedding breakfast for the
bridal party was held at the
Pioneer Hall following the cere
mony.
The reception took place later
this afternoon with Mrs. Michael
Walsh, Mrs. William McDonald,
and Mrs. Kirk Jackson pour ng
and assisting.
Mrs. Ismert was graduated from
the University of Washington
school of nursing, * Harborview
division, and is a member of Alpha
Tau Delta National Nursing Hon
orary. Her husband attended the
Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas
City, Mo.
The young couple will make
their home in Kansas City, enplan
ing this evening by Pan American
Airways. The bride’s going away
suit was of light grey wool gaba~
dine with black accesories.
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SON BORN TO MR. AND MRS.
EARL COULTHARD
Mr. and Mrs. Earl Coulthard
are happy parents of a new son
born Thursday morning at the M
C. Hospital. The baby weighed 7
pounds and 1 ounce.
HOBO JOE
Accordionist
MAY’S TAVERN
WALLACE TAXI
NOME, ALASKA Phone RED "5
SERVICE CLEANERS
4th and B Streets—Opposite School House
QUALITY DRY CLEANING A SPECIALTY
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Micklcson, Props.
Prompt and Courteous Service
RED 19
Fined For
Contempt Of
House Committee
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WASHINGTON, (/P)—Benjamin
F. Fields, Washington public rela
tions man, today was sentenced by
federal district judge Alexander
Holtzoff to 90 days in jail and
f:ned $250 for contempt of a House
committee.
Defense attorneys announced
‘bey will appeal to the U. S. court
of appeals, and Fields was releas
ed on $500 bond.
Fields was convicted February 5
by a district court jury of failing
to give the House surplus property
committee last year all his finan-1
I cial records in connection with the
<ale of surplus bronze screen wire
to C. B. Warr, an Oklahoma City
: builder.
The government conten d e d
F:elds failed to sumbit documents
j in response to a committee sub
; poena, showing division of a
c4,400 commission received for
; sale of the screen. The govern
i ment said Fields made 59 per cent
profit on the transaction.
Fields had given the House com
1 mittee last August a memorandum
' showing one third of the commis
sion was to be paid to Glenn A.
Dies, an associate; one third to
‘‘John Doe” and $400 to another
“John Doe” with the remainder to
himself.
In 1931 Fields was sentenced to
15 years by a federal court in Ok
lahoma for using the mails to de
' fraud in the sale of oil stock. He
was paroled in 1938 and the sen
! tence commuted in 1940.
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Truman To Be
11948 Presidential
Candidate i
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j WASHINGTON, (/P)—Pres.dent
j Truma.i by the s mple act of not
taking himself out of the race ap
peared today to have closed the
door against a build-up for any
possible lival for the 1943 . emo I
cratic Presidential nominate ..
Political Washington mar ed of.
as more or less expected the 'res
ident’s indirect refusal ve. terdaj
to commit himself on Demo- at
chairman Robert E. Hanncgan’s
act on in placing Mr. Truman’s i
hat in the 1948 ring.
Saying he had expected >m
such query, Mr. Truman rea l to
his news conference a stateme it in
which he said that “in view of cer
tain comment regarding the Prm ,
d -ncy. I wish to jfay that th.*r ha' 1
aeen no change in my attitude
since the statement I read to you j
on Nov. 11, 1946.”
Politicians generally reacte 1 to
this with the observation th~t'
while Mr. Truman was p-oceed- 1
ing without regard to his ow- r>- j
litical fortunes, he wasn’t le' v'n1
much room for any Demor ’ to
get a foot in the White House oor
Hannegan’s assertion in New
York last week that the party wHl
e-11 on Mr. Truman to run fo on
other term already had erer* I -n
early barrier to other possible as
Tv~a~ts. Hence Mr. Truman’’ con
tinued silence on his avaliav!i‘y
would make that barrier really
formidable.
Republicans, too, had their al
most-but-not-quite condidaf- in
Senator Robert A. Taft of Ohio.
Taft told a news conference a*
rolumbus yesterday he is no1 de
nying that he may be a candidate
for the 1948 GOP President! il
nomination.
“But, again, I might not be” he
SOUTH SIDERS MET
WITH COUNCIL COMMITTEE
Business men and women of th
south side of Front Stret met last
night in the City Hall with a com
mittee from the City Council to
discuss ways and means to protect
themselves from future storms.
The meeting began on the,
“breakwater” idea, as a nv
protecting the entire be ;c - ■ !. t
was conceded that the **!•
ter” would be the solution
problem “eventually,” but
present circumstances made i‘
perative that something be ’
within the next six month . It
pointed out that nearly all o ’ : -
buildings on the south s ' •
Front Street are unprotected fr m
the seas and the owners feel tse
expense of temporary protect r
would be too great to warrant
staying in the present location.
Several of the merchants have
purchased or have options on pro
perties in the northwest section of
town and it was tentatively agreed
by these few, to make every ef-!
I fort possible to make the new sec
j tion a unified bus ness district.
; Some others of the group in the
[ meeting decided they could not af
ford the move and would rebuild
or repair bulkheads in their pres
ent location. Still others were non
committal or undecided.
added. Taft said it is too soon to
discuss that kind of politics with
the party’s convention 16 months
away.
Sit-Down Strike*
800 Feet Under
LANSFORD, Pa. (A*)—Six thou
sand miners today quit work in
.sympathy with 13 hard coal dig
gers on a sit-down strike 800 feet
oelow the surface of the earth.
The Panther Valley committee
M the AFL UMVV voted to halt
work beginning with today’s first
■ U in a sympathy move for the
a* diggers who are protesting
.. Cjv.ng of pay.
Meanwhile mines went to work
applying the sitdown strikers
wu.) food, blankets newspapers
-oKi other comorts.
‘It's going to be a fight to the
f.ai. h," declared a committee
spokesman.
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ROTARY CLUB PLANS
LADIES NIGHT PARTY
The Rotary Club of Nome, yes
terday, at the regular Thursday
noon lunch, announced plans for a
ladies’ night party. The event will
‘a’-:c place in the Bering Sea Club
on Wednesday evening and will in
clude light lunch or such and reg
ular business, games and dancing.
The committee seems to think the
party should be a complete suc
cess.
The Rotary Club meets regular
v on Thursday, but the party is
scheduled for Wednesday so as not
to confl'ct with other planned
events. The exact time of the
party will be announced later.
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