THE NOME NUGGET
Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday by The
NOME PUBLISHING CO.
Nome, Alaska
Telephone: Main 125 P. O. Box 018
W. A. and EMILY BOUCHER .Editors
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Entered as second class matter October 14. 1943, at the postoffice
at Nome, Alaska, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
Friday, May 28, 1948.
MEMORIAL
DAY
1948
I
MEMORIAL DAY 1948
MEMORIAL DAY comes with the spring to remind
us that we have a duty toward both the living
and the departed that we should pause in our
daily activities to pay our respects to the memory |
of those who staked the trail ahead of us and have
now crossed the Great Divide, that we may live and
prosper.
It is customary to decorate graves of our loved
ones and friends, and to fitting ceremonies to honor
their memory throughout the land.
In Nome, Memorial Day comes too early for much
graveside ceremony, so services are usually held
in organized groups of churches. It is unlortunate
that we pause for but a day to pay respects to our
departed, and throughout the rest of the year ig
nore the deplorable condition*of the graveyard in
which they are buried.
This year many services will be held for American
soldiers who gave their lives in the last war. Let us
not be neglectful of our duty to them. Let us not for
get them at this time.
The inscription of the tomb of the Unknown Sol
dier is:
"Here Rests in Honored Glory,
An American Soldier
Known But To God."
HIGHWAYS AND RAILROAD
IN ALASKA GET APPROPRIATIONS
'THIS WEEK. the House Appropriations committee
recommended $35,200X33 for Alaskan highways
and the Alaska Railroad for the year starting luly 1.
The sum is contained in the Interior Department
Appropriation Bill. It includes $15,000X33 cash to
carry on a $47,858,790 rehabilitation program of the
Alaska Railroad plus $6,700X33 in contract author
ization. The $13,500,000 for road construction and
improvement include $5,000,000 in contract author
ization.
The road allocation is $3,211,400 under budget
estimates and provides maintenance and improve- j
ment of existing roads $1,700,000; construction of
roads, $6,000,000 cash, and $5,000X33 contract auth-1
IN BOLD RELIEF
_ __ ____
orization; construction of repair shops and district
headquarters $300,000 and surveys $500,000.
The Army has urged the committee to be liberal
with its funds for the Alaska Railroad and for
roads.
The bill provides $4,518,962 for the Alaska Native
Service, $325,000 for investigation of mineral re
sources in Alaska by the Geological Survey and
funds for the Territorial government.
These latter include salaries and expenses $62,
785, legislative expenses $48,000 .public shools $50,
000; care of insane $400,000; and construction and re
pair of roads and trails $100,000.
In addition to the foregoing, sums for Alaska are
contained in funds for other bureaus for a number
of other agencies of the Interior Department, in
cluding Indian Service, Mining Bureau, Fish and
Wildlife Service, the National Park Service, and
others.
One Indian Bureau item is contract authorization
of $5,925,000 for a new hospital.
The committee recalled reports that Interior Dept,
officials planned removal of Alaskan headquarters
from luneau to Anchorage. It said it had not been
informed of such a plan and told the department
not to take such action until the committee has ap
proved it.
The committee disallowed $4,500 for painting the
governor's mansion and said it would be better to
remove the present stucco finish and replace it with
wood.
The committee announced that the road improve- i
ment program included the asphalt surfacing of i
portions of the Richardson Highway and Glenn
Highway; continuation of construction of the Kenai
Lake - Homer Road, the Eagle - Forty mile Road,
the Anchorage - Potter Road and several other
farm roads.
NO COMPETITION
RUSSIAN DELEGATE at Lake Success accused
the United States and Britain of blocking any effort
toward world wide reduction of armaments.
^Each day, as you read over what the Russians
said, you got to thinking there's positively nothing
left in the world of absurdity they could say the
next day.
Then, invariably, they topped themselves.
CHURCHES
CATHOLIC CHURCH
Saturday 1:30 p.m. Catechism
Class.
Sunday
Masses at 8:30 and 10:30 a.m.
LAVINIA WALLACE YOUNG
MISSION
Pastors - Rev. H. R. Amundsen
and Rev. Theran McGrew
Sunday:
11:00 a.m. Sunday School.
7:30 p.m. Evening Service.
Wednesday - 3:30 p.m. - Chil
dren’s Miracle Book Club.
Thursday - 7:30 p.m. - Prayer
Meeting.
FEDERATED CHURCH
Murlin W. Day, Minister
Sunday
No morning services at the Fed
erated Church, except the Sunday
School as usual at 10:00 a.m.
PENTACOSTAL ASSEMBLY OF
GOD
Third Avenue West
Pastor A. E. Capener
Sunday—
Sunday School.10:30 a.m.
Evening service .7:45 p.m.
Wednesday—
Bible Study .7:45 pm.
EVERYONE WELCOME
CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE
Corner of Third and Division
Rev. Lewis I. Hudgins. Pastor
A bud is not a flower, but it
is the promise of a flower. Such
is the Lord’s Day. —Plasford.
10:00 a.m. Singspiration and Sun
day School Classes.
11:00 a.m. Morning message.
7:30 p.m. Singspiration and spe
cial music.
8:00 p.m. Evening message.
Wednesday: 7:30 p.m. Melody and
Prayer.
Come and bring your Bible.
You are ever welccme to attend
these services.
,, NOME GOSPEL MISSION
of •
Alaska Evangelisation Society
Rev. Vern Rimling, Pastor
Sunday:
2:00 p.m. Sunday School.
7:30 p.m. Gospel Service.
Tuesday:
7:30 p.m. Prayer and Testimony
Thursday:
3:30 p.m. “Vit-Em-In Childrens*
Bible Class.”
Friday:
7:30 p.m. “Know Your Bible
Class.” Verse by verse study
in Hebrews.
You are invited—Everyone is
welcome.
SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST 1
CHURCH
Fred H. Wagner, Pasior
All services now held in pastor's
residence located on Fourth Ave.
and Division St.
Sabbath School 11 a.m. Saturday.
Evangelistic Service, 7:30 p.m.
Sunday.
The Public is cordially invited.
BLUE EYES AND BLACK
eyes contain exactly the same col
oring pigment, known as melanin,
according to the Encyclopaedia
Britannica. The difference in color
is the result of the way in which
light is reflected from the surfaces
I of the fibers which make up the
I iris. Black eyes also have more
melanin than blue eyes do.