2 THE NOME NUGGET Friday. February 29, 1952
THE NOME NUGGET
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Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday by the
NOME PUBLISHING CO.
NOME, ALASKA
Telephone: Main 125 P. O. Brx 618
$1.50 PER MONTH $16.00 A YEAR
E. P. BOUCHER . Managing Editor
Entered as second class matter October 1^, 1943, at the postoffice
at Nome, Alaska, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
Nome, Alaska, Friday, February 29, 1952
ABOUT THOSE WATER SOFTENERS
There are so many things in our everyday life
that we take for granted that sometimes we do not
realize how lucky we are in this far northern com
munity.
Recently both our local water delivery services
added water softener equipment to aid the community
and its winter water problems.
It’s surprising the number of people who consider
a water softener as a luxury gadget to appeal to women
in the fancy home equipment game. But when engi
neering research finds that such homely things as the
familiar ring in the bathtub and crusts in pipes, water
heaters and cooking utensils are costing you hard
earned cash, just because of hard water, you begin to
wonder.
The University of Illinois Small Homes Council,
for instance, found that deposits formed by calcium
and magnesium sulphates and bicarbonates—the ele
ments that make water hard—can materially reduce
the efficiency of home hot water heaters.
But the consumption of soap is the big item. Ac
cording to the Culligan Soft Water Institute of North
brook, 111., the average family uses about $37 worth
of soap in a year in a soft water area. Where water is
very hard—Cherokee, Okla., for example, where it
tests 53 grains hard—the same family soap bill runs
around $110 per year.
Nome water, before softening, tested in the
neighborhood of between 22.5 and 26.5 grains hard.
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HARO WATER AREAS of the United States
Apparently water softeners can do much to pro
long the life of the plumbing system of a house. One
observer has estimated that as many as 12,000 dom
estic hot water tanks rust out prematurely every week
throughout this country and have to be replaced.
More than 700 cities are adding phosphates to their
water supplies to control rust in water mains.
So water softeners have become one of the slick
est of modern appliances for the home.
In many communities, in addition to the water
softener, a chemical is added to delay tooth decay. So,
when the waterman is late getting around or delayed
by snow drifts, a cheerful word may help to hasten
the hope of helping to save the teeth of the commun
ity, too.
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WISE AND OTHERWISE
In Washington, “economies” too often mean only
a decision to postpone expansion.
Love is a great thing. If you don’t think so, look
at some of the combinations that approach you on the
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Rotarians Honor Nome’s
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Basketball Team; Pause
For 30 Seconds Mourning
Rotarians at their noon lunch
eon Thursday bowed for 30 sec
onds of mourning for their towns
men of the recent tragic airplane
accident, Mr. and Mrs. Reggie
Joule and Bill Porter.
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Members and coach of the
Nome High School basketball
team were guests of the club for
the luncheon, and were enthusi
astically cheered for the honors
they brought back, as well as the
favorable comment they occa
sioned for Nome.
“They were the talk of the
town!” Coach Hahn said of his
team. “They were playing on a
court they had never seen before,
although all other teams had done
so at least two times. Also they
were using a fan-type backboard
new to them, but not to all the
other teams. Even so they led
the Anchorage team at the first
half and their passing all through ;
the game was better than that of
Anchorage.” Clarence Willoya
<Chug> who won a position on the
All-Star Class A team, said “It
looked mighty good from where I
was watching in the slot position.”
This makes Clarence the first
player to have won a position on
both the Class B team (last year)"
as well as the Class A team. Larry
Okpealuk, captain of the team,
said “Everyone seemed to be
cheering for Nome.”
Coach Kahn said that the An- j
chorage sports writer was most
enthusiastic about the Nome team.
All the team seemed to be a bit
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Cost of living In Ketchikan
22 Per Cent Higher
Than In Seattle
WASHINGTON, (/P) — It cost
22 per cent more to live in Ketchi
kan, Alaska, than in Seattle, in
December, 1951, the Labor De
partment reported Thursday.
Food and housing costs in Ket
chikan were reported 29 per cent
higher than in Seattle; clothing
11 per cent higher, and miscell
aneous items averaged 16 per cent
above Seattle levels.
Pacific NW Senators
Voted For Statehood
WASHINGTON, (/P) _ All four
Pacific Northwest Senators —
Gordon and Morse of Oregon and
Magnuson and Cain of Washing
ton — voted against sending the
Alaska statehood bill back to
committee. Magnuson is a Demo
crat, the other three Republicans.
embarrassed about losing to Pal
mer—“We just weren’t doing so
well that day.”
Team members who were at
Rotary were Isaac Larsen, Clar
ence Willoya, George Bell, Pete
Larsen, Alfred Sahlin, Gordon
Swanberg (who admitted he had
a peach of a time), Milton Wil
loya, John Sahlin, Larry Ok
pealuk, Gilbert Ozenna, and coach
Pete Hahn and Herb Williams.
Other guests of the club were
James J. Manning, Bureau of In
ternal Revenue, Nome; Gordon
Munger, Parke Davis Drug Co.;
and Alaska Airlines pilots John
D. Lindgren, Dick Carpenter, and
Art Johnson.
18 Men Parachute
Safely From C-47
In Blinding Storm
SYDNEY, Nova Scotia, (IF) —
Eighteen men—17 of them mak
ing their first leap from an air
plane—safely bailed out of a U.S.
Air Force transport, early Thurs
day, moments before it crashed
in a blinding blizzard. Only three
men were injured, none seriously.
The plane, a C-47 enroute from
Westover Field, Mass., to its base
at Torbay, Newfoundland, crashed
on the outskirts of this industrial
city of 30,000 not far from some
homes. It had carried 14 passen
gers and a crew of four. As the
pilotless craft roared over Alex
ander Street, residents were
aroused from sleep and rushed
from their homes. Two of them
found the wreckage in a wood
half a mile from their houses.
The pilot had made 20 attempts
to land through the storm at Syd
| ney airport, eight miles from the
i crash site, before he ordered
| everyone into parachutes.
Staff Sgt. R. Redinger, a Penn
; sylvanian, the only man aboard
i with previous jumping experience
fitted the ’chutes and gave each
man quick instructions for the
leap.
The jump was made at 3,000
feet. When the last fnan leaped
into the darkness, swirling snow
and a 50-mile-an-hour wind, the
plane had only three minutes gas
supply left.
All 18 men were found within
a half - mile radius by search
; teams of police and reserve army
i troops.
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(The Patient Mariner)...
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