THE NOME NUGGET
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NOME. ALASKA
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W. A. Boucher ...Owner-Publisher
Entered as second class matter October 14, 1943, at the postoffice
at Nome, Alaska, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
Nome, Alaska, Monday, October 30, 1950
A. N. S. SHIPS REINDEER MEAT SOUTH
The North Star, the supply ship for the Alaska Na
tive Service has gone south from this area with a big
shipment of reindeer meat from Nunivak Island.
According to press releases 81,000 pounds w.ere taken
to the Mt. Edgecumbe School and 16,000 were to be de
livered to the Wrangell school.
Not one pound to our knowledge was shipped to the
closest port of call from Nunivak Island—Nome, where
the people, both white and native cannot get enough to
supply their needs. The economy of the far north is
sorely in need of some source of natural food supply to
offset the high cost of transportation from the States.
The Alaska Native Service is supposed to understand
the needs of the people they serve, yet the people of
Northwestern Alaska must see the deer from Nunivak
shippd away to southern ports while many people liv
ing in the land of the reindeer do not even know how it
tastes!
One of the hopes of Statehood is the co-ordination of
various government agencies to benefit all the people
of the Territory.
WHAT ARE VVE FIGHTING FOR?
(By Dr. Morris Martin)
The think that strikes me tremendously about these
days is that the armed forces have been demonstrating
that they can be a united force to remake the world, and
that, I think, is a revolutionary concept of an army and
an armed force. I am immensely grateful for that be
cause it marks a new step forward in the thinking of
nations.
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There is a war on, not only in Korea but in Britain, in
America, in France, in Germany; In Europe, Asia, Af
rica, Australia, South America, everywhere. There is a
war going on which will decide the future of mankind
for hundreds of years.
In Korea it is a shooting war. In the rest of the world
it is still a war of ideas. We are slowly waking up to
what this means. Now we must wake up quickly and get
into action.
An idea set Hitler marching. An idea set Mussolini
marching. An idea put a new Russia on the map. An
idea built democracy.
Hitler and Mussolini are dead, but their ideas go
marching on. Russia’s idea has reached around the
world. It influenced your last elections. It was in your
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Korean Situation
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Vietminh forces were reported of
ficially to be closing in on the iso
lated French bastion of Laokay,
which guards northwest Indo
china’s frontier. A military
spokesman said the forces of rebel
chief Ho Chi Minh were in con
tact with a fortified position two
miles from Laokay’s eastern ram
parts. Additional American aid,
including 40 navy Hellcat fighter
planes, arrived to bolster the
French.
Secretary of defense George C.
Marshall appealed to the defense
ministers of the North Atlantic
Treaty Organization to be “real
istic in the appreciation of the
present critical situation” as they
shaped the combined force for de
fense against communism.
Marshall’s appeal was made in
an address prepared for the open
ing of the NATO defense commit
tee session, a meeting at which
the French refusal to accept a
proposal foT the formation of
West German army units as part
of the integrated force is due for
thorough examination.
Monday, October 30, 1950
Communist forces are on the
march today on three war fronts
in Asia.
In North Korea, the communists
have rallied desperately and have
lunged out in a fierce counter-at
tack from the Manuchurian fron
tier. The South Korean Sixth Di
vision was badly mauled. It last
30 per cent of its men. The others
retreated in disorder.
It was an all-out push by the
communists, who sent 10,000 men
into the fight. It was the first ma
jor defeat in seven weeks for the
powerful U. N. juggernaut that
has been moving toward the Man
churian border.
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American troops ana artillery
have been rushed to the spot.
Separate Americap drives tow
ard Manchuria continue simul
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taneously along both west and
east coasts of North Korea. The
Americans on the west now are
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closest—within 35 miles of the
frontier. On the east they’re 75
miles this side of the border.
There’s new evidence this morn
ing this a Chinese invasion force
has actually crossed the border
into the mountai nwildemess of
Tibet. The small Tibetan army of
not more than 18,000 men is said
to have retreated before the Chi
nese Reds to a point within 200
miles of the capital, Lhasa.
This remote little country, high
in the Himalayan Mountains, is
familiar to western minds as the
setting of Shangri-La. Politically
Tibet is a theocracy, a nation
whoee religious concepts are also.
of the Univers
Fohn-Hansen Uy o( Alaska>s
Extension Service, and “angel” of
many isolated homesteaders and
homemarkers who find living in
Alaska somewhat tougher than
Outside.
Mrs. Fohn-Hansen has traveled
roughly 150,000 miles in Alaska
by dog team, river steamer, rail
road, automobile, airplane, gas
boat—and on foot—during her 25
years in the Territory. In the early
days, travel was really rugged,
she says. “In my work I had to
cross the Gulf of Alaska 27 times
—and I am a poor sailor,” she re
marked. “Today the airplane
makes it easier.”
Lydia Fohn-Hansen came to
Alaska in 1925 to be head of the
Home-Economics Department of
the Alaska Agricultural College
and School of Mines, then still an
infant institution. She came from
Iowa State College with a B.S. de
gree, three years of teaching ex
perience and a lot of excellent
common sense.
In 1930 she transferred to the
Extension Service, and became
Alaska’s first Home Demonstra
tion Agent. At first people didn’t
know what to make of her; they
had never heard of a Home Dem
its form of government. It’s ruled
by a 16-year-old boy called the
Dalai Lama. He holds sway over a
priesthood of monks dedicated to
the worship of Buddha. This is the
country Chinese Red troops now
claim they are preparing to “lib
erate.”
Counter-attacking French forces
in Indo-China have reopened an
airfield from which they can bej
evacuated from Laokay. The air
field was sut off for two days by
communist-led rebels who closed
in on the isolated French fortress.
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evening paper yesterday. It will affect your job tomor
row. How about democracy’s idea?
A hundred years ago wars were fought by the soldiers
and endured by the civilians.
The First World War was fought by the soldiers, sup
ported by the workers and endured by the women and
children. The Second World War was fought by the sol- j
diers, the workers, the women and the children. It was i
a total war. |
One of the lessons we have learned is that to win aj
total war a nation needs two arms: the military arm and
the ideological arm.
Now we have to learn another lesson. The ideology,
that keeps on the offensive wins the war and wins the I
peace. The nation that neglects its ideological arm loses
even the peace it has won with its military arm. Has
democracy demobilized its ideology as well as its armed
forces?
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KNOW YOUR
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Hundreds erf persons through
out the Territory receive an edu
cation from the University of
Alaska every year—even though
they never attend classes and do
not receive degrees. Their educa
tion is not formal; but it is none
theless import
ant; it concerns
the art of liv
ing on the
frontier.
These per
sons are the
“students” o*f
Mrs. Lydia
Fohn - Hansen,
Home Demon
stration Leader
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onstration Agent, and couldn’t
imagine why she would be help
ing them “for nothing.”
Her friendly personality stood
her in good stead, however, and
when Alaskans found out she
“really could teach them how to
make life easier,” they clamored
for her services. She started with
one small Homemakers Club in
Fairbanks, now there are 40
throughout the Territory with a
membership of 600. She and her
assistants have also organized 50
4-H clubs for boys and girls with
projects in cooking, sewing, can
ning and stock and poultry rais
ing.
Mrs. Fohn-Hansen doesn’t try
to teach anything she can’t do
herself. She is an outstanding
cook, a seamstress, craftsman, and
even a carpenter when the need
arises. With the help of her staff,
she has organized craft workships,
where over 400 women have
learned furniture repairing, mak
ing slip covers, lamp shades and
braided rugs. She has taught tail- ^
oring classes, with mothers learn
ing to make trousers for junior
out of father’s cast-off coat, and
young ladies making their own
party dresses. Her craft classes,
established in 15 communities,
have resulted in paying hobbies
for metal work, leather, weaving,
knitting, fur sewing and ceramics.
From a staff of one—Mrs. Fohn
Hansen—the Extension Service
now employs twelve persons in
five offices — Fairbanks, Anchor
age, Palmer, Juneau and Ketchi
kan. Much of their time is spent
in answering question of home
makers. One of the most frequent
is: “We're so tired of moose meat;
aren’t there some new ways to
prepare it?” Then, too, women
'Want to know how to can garden
prodtice, how to preserve fish,
and how to keep the youngsters
well-dressed for the cold weather.
Although Lydia Fohn-Hansen’s r
contribution to life in the Terri
tory has been great—outstanding
ly so in the eyes of the women she
has met and helped—she would
be the last to claim credit due her.
“The progress which has been
made in the Territory since I first
began Home Extension work is
startling,” she says, and gives
credit to “the airplane, the radio*
and the pressure cooker.” From
the number of grateful letters re
ceived by the University, much of
the credit should go to Mrs. Fohn
Hansen. 9
GIRL SCOUTS MASQUERADE
PARTY GREAT SUCCESS
The Girl Scouts had a Hallow
e’en masquerade party last Satur
day evening at the Nome School
Gym and from all reports had a
wonderful time and a wide vari
ety of costumes. Prize winners
were Patricia Herman, with the 1
hardest to guess costume. She
was dressed as an old prospector
with a radium nose; prettiest cos
tume, Dorothea Hudert; funniest,
Sandy Dernberg; and most orig
inal Lucy Ann Fagerstorm (Mum
my).
The Senior Girl Scouts made
cookies for the event and the girls
also had plenty of pop.
The Girl Scouts are celebrating *
scout week which they started off
yesterday with attendance at
church in a group. •