THE NOME NUGGET
Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday by the
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, Friday, December 15, 1950
COMMUNITY CHRISTMAS PROGRAM
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Just what year Nome started having a Community
Christmas Program is hard to determine but residents
accept it as a traditional part of the annual Christmas
celebration when young and old gather together to en
joy the festivity together as friends and neighbors.
Nome is known the world over for its spontaneous
generosity and the celebration has always been success
ful because everyone donated generously to the occs
sion. Right now there is one group of workers filling
stockings for the children, another group is decorating
the school and tree, another group is working on the
Christmas program. It remains for the rest of us to con
tribute with the necessary funds when the finance
committee comes along.
If they do not contact you and you have a voluntary
contribution, it may be left at the Fire Station or the
Nome Nugget, and you will be given credit.
Let’s make this the biggest and best Community
Christmas celebration Nome has ever had !
WEAKNESS OF E. R. P. NATIONS
The weakness of the Western world, according to As
sistant-Secretary of the Army Karl R. Bendetsen. is its
inferiority in armed forces in being and in current arm
ament production. Western strength, according to the
official, is in its moral position and possession of the
largest concentration of industrial potential the world
has ever known.
Citing the urgency of immediately erecting an effec
tive defense for the Atlantic Pact area, Mr. Bendetsen
said that only the Soviet desire to annex the industrial
resources of Western Europe intact and undamaged
deterred the Kremlin from taking them by military
action.
There is no limit to the amount of good the people of
Nome could do if they, would just do it. . . . Why read
the newspapers or any books? After all, you can learn
everything by listening to the rumors, reports and gos
sip* that fill the air. . . . The democratic nations of the
earth, it appears will have to decide whether the Japs
and the Germans are worst than the Chinese and the
Russians.. .. First thing you know our system of educa
tion will be so good that children will have to educate
their relatively ignorant parents.
SINCE THERE IS A CHOICE
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Korean Situation .
At A Glance —
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threat to U. N. forces.
Earlier, Allied forces were re
ported to have pulled back to
within 2Vfe miles of Hungnam port.
A security blackout covered Al
lied troop movements.
General MacArthur’s war sum
mary said: “The bottomless well
of Chinese communist manpower
in 'Manchuria continues to flow
into Korea.”
The 10th Corps defenders were
fighting with their backs to the
sea in efforts to hold the beach
head.
On the West Coast, above Seoul,
Lt. Gen. Walton H. Walker’s 8th
Army braced itself for another
blow. Field dispatches continued
to report a massing of Chinese
and North K<?rean communists in
the center of the peninsula. It was
a brakthrough in the center, on
the 8th Army’s fight flank, that
precipitated the general retreat
earlier this month.
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The enemy showed signs it may
i be ready for an all-out air war.
Fifty-seven sorties in Soviet-built
Red jets have been counted in
northwest Korea in the* last 10
days. Up until now U. N. forces
1 have held the mastery of the skies.
I Against this gloomy background,
a three-man United Nations cease
fire committee began a search for
a means to end the bloody war.
Soviet Russia and her satellites
opposed the appointment of the
commission. It is composed of
general assembly president Nas
rollah Entezam of Iran, India’s
Sir Bengal N. Rau, and Canada’s
Lester B. Pearson.
In this emergency, President
Truman speaks to the nation to
night by radio to call on Ameri
cans to unite in greater sacrifices
behind the effort to hasten the
build-up of the free world’s mili
tary might for a stand against
communism. \
Washington observers said the
actualities of war in Asia are only
slightly more grim than the pros
pects of conflict with communism
in Europe.
They said the outnumbered land
forces of the United Nations in
Korea might soon be faced not
only with an enemy armada in the
sky but that a hitherto non-exist
ent enemy navy might appear in
the same abrupt manner and from
the same “neutral” origin.
The first big assault from the
communist Chinese ringing the
IJamhung-Hungnam perimeter be
gan in darkness and continued
through the daylight hour Friday.
Beating drums and blowing bu
gles, the Reds dented the Allied
lines at Oro, a town six miles
northwest of Hamhung, aban
doned by the Allies yesterday.
One U. S. Third Division platoon
was cut off in the Oro fighting.
MRS. BILLY LEHMAN. 81.
FETED BY REBEKAHS
The Midnight Sun Rebekah
j Lodge had a surprise birthday
party for one df the oldest mem
bers of the order last Wednesday
evening, when they went to the
home of Mrs. Billy Lehman with a
big birthday cake to honor her
eighty-first birthday.
Mrs. Lehman was unable to
leave her home as Mr. Lehman
has been invalided for some time,
although he is reported as getting
along nicely. The members en
joyed a short but enjoyable visit
with the Lehmans before return
ing to the Odd Fellow Hall for
their regular business meeting.
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COWBIY
By LUCRECE HUDGINS
AP Ntwifwtufs
CHAPTER 14
THE WOZZLE IS CAPTURED
Kid Buckaroo, seeing Lonesome
Boy in such danger from Herman
the Wozzle, suddenly forgot his
own terror. His heart beat cool and
steady and unafraid as he left his
hiding place in the shadows of the
tunnel.
He could not use his bow and
arrow for fear he might strike the
Jindian. His two six-shooters were
of no use and neither wa$ his
lasso. What good would they be
against such a monstrous crea
ture? But he hud to get the Woz
zle off Lonesome Boy and he had
to do it quickly.
He did the only thing he could
! think of. He threw back his head
! and shouted at the top of his
| voice: “Yippi ai ki-ay!”
Herman the Wozzle turned. He
: was so surprised he propped Lone
| some Boy from his snake tail.
“Nother one!” screamed the
| Wozzle. Before Bucky could move
Herman leaped toward him. He
tumbled the cowboy over in a
heap and knocked the bow from
i his hands.
“What’s this thing?” blurted
Herman, picking up the bow. “You
strange creatures come my cave,
expect conquer me with silly
sticks? Takes more than branch
of tree to get Herman the Wozzle.”
“L-let me show you,” stammer
ed Bucky, getting to his feet.
,“Bah!” exclaimed Herman.
“You show me nothing.” He hurl
ed the bow across the cave. “I
show you something!”
Again the Wozzle leaped. This
time Bucky was faster. He threw
j himself over backwards and rolled
j like a hoop until he felt his bow
1 beneath him. He snatched up the
| bow, fitted his silver tipped arrow
| in the string and shot as the Woz
; zIq pounced again.
Meanwhile, back in Santa Land,
; Santa Claus was having trouble.
The Jindians built large piles of
siraw and brush around the work-:
shops.
“When Lonesome Boy come
back with the Wozzle’s tail we
light the piles,” jeered the sav
ages, “and burn all Santa Land
and Santa folk, too.”
The little workers were too
frightened to work. There were
only three days left until Christ
mas but great stacks of unstuffed
animals stood on work tables:
Dolls with no eyes. Wagons with
no wheels. Footballs with no air.
Toy telephones with no bells.
Worst of all, Santa found that
he could not run his reindeer team
without Dasher, his lead deer.
He asked Chief Hurricane to re
turn the deer but the Jindian chief
said he did not even know where
the deer was. Santa knew the Jin
dian was not telling the truth but
there was nothing he could do.
He took the seven deer that
were left and hitched them to his
sleigh. But though he commanded
them in all the ways he could
think of, the deer would not fly
without Dasher to lead them.
At last, Santa went to 'his cot
| tage and sat down before the fire.
Mrs. Claus pulled her rocking
chair up close beside him.
“It is hard to remember worse
times,” said Santa sorrowfully.
“For to tell you the truth, I do
not see how I can take Christmas
to the world this year.”
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It made Mrs. Claus want to cry
to see Santa so sad. She said, “It’s
the little cowboy you’re really
worried about, isn’*t it?”
Santa nodded. “Yes,” he said.
“It’s Bucky. Kid Buckaroo. I
never Should have let him fight
for us.”
But Santa need never have wor
ried. At this moment Bucky came
pounding across the Santa Land
plains, yelling yippi ai ki-ay as he
came and carrying across his sad
dle the great long tail 6f Herman
the Wozzle.
(Next: The Trap)
GOOD ROADS GROUP
ORGANIZED HERE
A special meeting of the Cham
ber of Commerce for the purpose
of organizing a Chapter of the
Territorial Good Roads Assn, was
still in progress at the time of go
ing to press.
It is reported that a local group
was organized and officers had
been elected. A full report will be
made in Monday’s publication.
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The litHe workers were too frightened to work.