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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E. P. BOUCHER . Managing Editor
Entered as second class matter October 14, 1943, at the postoffice
at Nome, Alaska, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
Nome, Alaska, Friday, April 11, 1952
EASTER .
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Easter! How did it come to us — this glorious
word, radiant with faith and hope and thoughts of
immortality? Out of the long past. There was an old,
Anglo-Saxon name for the Goddess of Spring. That
name was “Eastre,” to whom the month answering to
our April was dedicated.
No wonder that this word that stood for the joys
of Spring’s April days came at last to stand for the
joy of that day whose dawn brought to earth man’s
Easter day with this new and undying hope of im
mortality.
Man’s hope — and it is a hope. A hope man clasps
to his heart with the bands of faith—faith that is “the
assurance of things hoped for.”
Must we not hold with the words of him who has
said, “The thought of a conscious personality, yours or
mine, caught in a web of outrageous follies and in
justice, lured on to extinction through lying dreams
and expectations is too hideous to contemplate.”
Yes, at this Easter, once more we turn with a
faith and a hope for that without which this yet un
fathomed universe would be a cosmic mockery flung
into the face of a humanity for whose origin there is
no reason and for whose end there is only the grave.
—F.H.R.
Moderately Strong
Quake Hits Midwest
OKLAHOMA CITY, (JP) — A
survey of damage from Wednes
day’s earthquake, described by
seismologists as ‘‘moderately
strong,” has unearthed only one
casualty.
Mrs. Della Deshaw, 74, of Tulsa,
was cut and bruised by falling
plaster at her home. She was not
seriously injured.
Otherwise the damage seems
confined to cracked walls, falling
bricks, sagging boards, and men
tal strain.
The quake was felt from north
Texas to Omaha and Des Moines,
with the main force centered in
central Oklahoma. It was called
“one of the strongest ever record
ed from the midwestern United
States” by seismograph specialists
at St. Louis University.
GHIGLIONE, RESERVE NAVY
OFFICER, ON TOUR OF DUTY
AT POINT BARROW, ALASKA
Commissioner of Roads A. F.
Ghiglione, a reserve commander
in the U.S. Navy, is on a tour of
duty, which is to last until about
April 23. Commander Ghiglione is
stationed at Barrow.
Don Miller, ARC administration
chief, said the commissioner first
went to Anchorage, where he was
picked up by a military air trans
port ship.
Miller said the Barrow assign
ment is the “equivalent of a period
of active duty by o'ther reserv
ists.”
E. K. Johanson and Henry
Wurhman, Kougarok miners who
wintered in Anchorage with their
families, returned today and are
making plans to go to Quartz
Creek where they will finish the
airfield there which they started
last fall.
PAN AMERICAN AIRWAYS
Arriving today were: Jerry
Lomen, Walt Taylor, Mrs. Dan
Jones and two- children, Mr. and
Mrs. Axel Edman, Lloyd Holt,
Roy Hoyle, Mrs. Wilcox and in
fant, Robert Mayokok.
Also on board were 16 mech
anics to repair the damaged Pan
Am DC-4. They were headed by
superintendent Ted Hiatt. Mem
bers of the party were: Harry Da
vidson* K. Grandville, R. Hilbert,
L. Mazuccazlli, B. McKee, L.
Tague, T. Zinkel, H. Caldwell,
S. Fenton, G. Duster, R. Faucett,
Roy Pellascio, M. Scott.
Departing were Henry Stokes,
J. Gilmore, Roy Runnels, K. Ka
dow, R. Behai, Ed Dietsch, John
McCormick, and Col. Cutting.
Due this evening from Anchor
age are 16 school teachers from
Anchorage schools who are taking
a spring vacation. They plan to go
i to Kotzebue also.
Foster Olanno Passes Away
Foster Olanno, father of Ralph
Olanno passed away at his home
here on Wednesday afternoon. His
burial will be from the Commun
ity Methodist Church when fu
neral arrangements are made.
NOTE OF APPRECIATION
We wish to extend our appreci
ation to our friends for their kind
expressions of sympathy during
our recent bereavement.
Lucy Chasse
Buster Seelkoke
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NOTICE
Cara Dygert 814-29th Street
Seattle, Washington, died Febru
ary 2, 1952. Anyone knowing
whereabouts of step-niece, maid
en name, Skinner, and sole heir,
please notify Paul M. Anderson,
attorney, 708 American Building,
Seattle, Washington.
Luxury Living For
Army Overseas
To Get The Axe
WASHINGTON, </P) — Irate
senators aimed an axe Thursday
at plush living quarters, free ser
vants, special trains, and other
luxuries for U. S. military per
sonnel in overseas posts.
If the Pentagon fails to curtail
“luxury living” by U.S. occupa
tion forces in Germany, Sen.
O’Mahoney (D-Wyo) told a re
porter Congress will find a way
to do it.
O’Mahoney is presiding at
closed-door Senate hearings on
the multi-billion dollar annual de
fense money bill. He said he pro
bably will offer an amendment
calling for an end to free servants
and special trains to recreation
centers for U.S. military forces
in Germany.
Two Republican members of
the purse-string committee, Fer
guson of Michigan and Ycamg of
North Dakota, said in separate in
terviews they will support Sen.
O’Mahoney.
“The American taxpayers are
paying the costs for all these civ
ilian employes of the military in
Germany and elsewhere either
directly or indirectly,” Young
said. |
Young said the Pentagon in
formed him that 17,200 German
servants “or quarters attendants”
were being used by the military
last Oct. 31 at an average pay
o*f $37.50 a month.
Truce Negotiators Meet
In 90-Second Session
MUNSAN, Korea, (/P) — Truce
negotiators set a new record for
brevity Friday, disposing of their
day’s work in 90 seconds.
It was the sixth successive day
like that, leading an Allied spokes
man to suggest Communists may
be waiting for instructions from
higher up. The spokesman, Lt.
Col. Howard S. Levie, added:
“It’s going to be a hot summer
and a cold winter if they’re going
to try to outwait us.”
Each day this week a negotia
ting committee has gone through
the formality of meeting, saying
a few words and adjourning. Six
sessions have taken a total of 32
minutes.
Friday’s ultra-streamlined meet
ing followed the usual pattern.
Chinese Maj. Gen. Hseih Fang de
livered a 60 word oration. Maj.
Gen. William K. Harrison replied
with two words and it was all
over.
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the above organization (which
takes in Kotzebue and other Sec
ond Division cities) it was voted
unanimously to print 10,000 copies
of a 36 - page booklet entitled
“Northwestern Alaska,” for distri
bution to prospective tourists
through travel and other agencies.
Five thousand copies of a sim
ilar booklet were printed last
year. The “copy” will be brought
up to date now, with new material
inserted in appropriate places.
Plans were laid for the one-day
stop-over the tourists will be mak
ing at Nome this summer — so
they can be entertained with
visits to the historic Nome beach
and through other appropriate
and memorable devices.
“Nome has a great advantage
in that every living American has
learned something about our city
in school. This lesson is never for
gotten and if we confirm and en
large that memory we shall not
only please a tourist but create a
one-man advertsing agency that
may bring three or four more
tourists this way in succeeding
seasons,” said Paul Spurlock,
Nome manager for Wien Alaska
Airlines.
It is significant that Nome has
been having a small but steady
trickle of bona fide tourists
throughout the winter. This writer
met Mrs. Victoria Tuthill, a full
blooded (and beautiful) Hawaiian
whose husband is chief dispatcher
for Hawaiian Airlines in Hono
lulu.
Mrs. Tuthill was just leaving
Nome on her way back to Hawaii
but she said this:
“I have had a perfectly won
derful time and I think Alaska
has a great opportunity for at
tracting travelers in the late fall
i
ana early spring which is not
now being realized.”
Tourism, however, is not the
only excitement up and down the
streets off Nome. Every one of
Nome’s approximately 2,000 in
habitants (about 1,500 of which
are Eskimos) is talking about the
tin mines.
“Gold is a second-rate mineral
around here now. Only four out
of a former two dozen gold
dredges will be working this sum
mer *and it is doubtful that they
will be making much money,”
said one Nome mining authority.
The hard-rock tin mine at Lost
River, toward the tip of Seward
Peninsula from Name, has been
keeping 30 miners busy all winter
and its work force soon will be
increased to 50. The placer tin
mine at Tin City is making ready
to open its operations, and so is
a third tin property at Buck
Creek, as soon as winter snows
disappear.
Scheelite (tungsten) deposits,
graphite, beryl, bismuth, stibnite
(antimony), platinum, chrome, as
bestos and other minerals are
found in production quantities in
various places on Seward Penin
sula.
“The difference between these
and gold is that gold used to be
a much better paying ore to mine,
and did not require the skill and
capital investment needed for
these strategic ores,” says Daniel
A. Jones, associate mining engi
neer of the Territorial Depart
ment of Mines.
With the increasing demand for
for most of these minerals by the
defense effort, however, it is ex
pected that both private capital
and v government matching funds
will before long appear in great
er quantity on the Seward Pen
sula.
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• ELBOW-LENGTH CORD JAC-SHIRTS.
• GABARDINE TOPPERS in Spring Shades.
• WASHABLE — WEARABLE FRENCH PRINTS.
• DENIM. RED & JET-BLACK JEANS.
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• SHOES FOR THE FAMILY.
• DENIM PLAID SHIRTS FOR BOYS.
• NEW SCREEN PRINT POLOS FOR MEN.
• RODEO HATS FOR CHILDREN
• MEN'S DRESS SHIRTS AND SWEATERS.
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