SCHOOL NOTES
HIGH SCHOOL
A sign of relief comes from the
students who studied hard for .he
semester examinations. The exam
inations terminated Friday after
noon at 4 o’clock. The first semes
ter or one-half of the school year
is over and the second semester
begins Monday morning, Jan. 24.
Some very interesting reading
charts~have been posted on the
rear wall of the assembly room.
The progress charts promotes out
side reading in the English classes.
David Bowen, Ralph Bingham
and June Dunbar are leading in
English I. while Margaret Biorn
stad, Gary Longley and Irene
Gray have done the most reading
in English IV.
A drive to advance the interests
of the American Junior Red Cross
has been carried on during the
past week. The purpose of the or
ganization is to promqte service
for others, our country, our com
munity, and our school. It believes
in developing health of mind and
body so that greater service can
be rendered and for better human
relations throughout the world.
Last Saturday evening, the
High School played a game with
the A.I.S. The scores were very
close during the entire game end
ing in a victory for Nome High.
Yesterday evening, Thursday,
Jan. 20, the Nome High school
added another victory to its list
by defeating the A.A..S. team by
a score of 39 to 21. The Nome High
maintained a lead during the en
tire game.
The earth is now in the perihel
ion region of its orbit around the
sun. Because of the stronger at
traction of the sun. ‘he earth is
traveling faster in its orbit. The
rapid movement of the earth is no
Property Tax
Will Not Injure
Pulp Industry
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ty tax of 20 mills.
The Chronicle said no such bill
has been introduced. Perry prob
ably assumed, the article said, that
a proposed mill at Ketchikan
would be assessed at the 20 mill
rate as proposed in a property tax
bill drawn up by the special ses
sion of the Territorial legislature.
“The actual fact,” the article
continued, “is that the property
tax reported out of the ways and
means commtitee Wednesday pro
vides a 10-mill tax and will be
amended to give a moratorium on
other concessions to all new indus
ries for a five-to- ten-year peri
)d.”
Perry’s letter quo'ed John P.
Van Orsdel of the Ketchikan
Pulp & Timber Co., as saying the
company probably would cancel
its plans for development of the1
industry in Southeastern Alaska if
the tax program was enacted.
The Chronicle said the Alaska
Development Board has assured
company officials the new tax
program is no threat to its plans.
ticed by the sunrise and sunset.
The sunrise has increased 33 min
utes since the shortest date while
the sunset has lengthened one hour
and three minutes. This is caused
by the advancing position of the
earth in its orbit. The earth has
to rotate on its axis further
around each evening to enter into
! the shadow of darkness, while
here is an opposite effect in the
morning.
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Truman Blasts At
Communism In
Inaugural Speech
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ed at wiping out misery, hunger
and despair in backward areas all
over the world.
Mr. Truman listed that as one
of “four major courses of action”
to be stressed in coming years.
He also called for a security
pact with western Europe, which
he hopes to send to the Senate
“soon,” and he promised to
strengthen non-communist coun
tries cooperating with American |
security plans by providing them 1
U. S. military advice and equip-1
ment.
His proposed new program for i
improving conditions in the areas
which might offer a breeding
place for communism amounted to
a call for a new front in the cold
war. In this endeavor the cooper
ation of allied nations would be
“warmly welcomed,” the Presi
dent said.
More than hair the people of
the world are living in conditions
approaching misery,” Mr. Truman
declared.
“Their food is inadequate. They
are victims of disease. Their eco
nomic life and their poverty is a
handicap and a threat both to
them and to more prosperous
areas.
To combat those conditions he
proposed enlisting Amreican cap
ital inves'ments and industrial
skills—plus any assistance which
might come from #other sources.
“Our aim,” he said, should be
to help the free peoples of the
world, through their own efforts,
to produce more food, more cloth
ing, more materials for housing,
and more mechanical power to
lighten their burdens. We invite
other coun'ries to pool their tech
nological resources.
The Truman plan for world bet
terment constituted the only new
point in the President’s four main
courses of foreign policy action.
Under the other three this nation
would:
1. Continue “unfaltering sup
port ot the United Nations” and
search for ways to strengthen it.
2. Continue programs for world
economic recovery first, through
the European recovery program,
second by increasing world trade.
3. S'rengthen “freedom-loving
nations against the dangers of ag
gression.
4. Mr. Truman flatly promised:
“We will provide military advice
and equipment to free nations
which will cooperate with us in
the maintenance of peace and se
curity.”
While the President nowhere
named Russia outright in his
scathing attack on communism,
his words apparently ended any
possibility of quick and easy com
promise between the Soviet Union
and the west.
But “in due time,” he said, lie
believes “those countries which
now oppose us will abandon their
delusions and join with the free
nations of the world in a just set
tlement of international differ
ences.”
That he does not consider such
a settlement possible now he made
clear at the very outset. The
United Sta'es and other non-com
munist nations, he declared, have
•been balked in their work for “a
just and lasting peace” by “a re
gime with contrary aims and a to
tally different concept of life.”
* That regime adhers to a false
philosophy which purports to of
fer freedom, security and grea er
opportunity to mankind,” he as
Storks Deluge
Hospital
Mr. und Mrs. Carl Newman are
the parents of a new son born on
Wednesday afternoon. According
to big brother Gene Newman, lit
tle brother will be named Stephen
Carl. %
Mr. and Mrs. William Major are
the parents of a little daughter
born January 20.
Mr. and Mrs. Bert Bell are the
parents of a baby daughter born
on January 20.
—
Mrs. Allen Orton is a patient i
in the hospital.
Dr. Milo Frits, eye specialist
with offices in Anchorage arrived
with the Alaska Airlines late
Wednesday enroute to GambeU j
for the Department of Health and
the Alaska Native Service.
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serted. “Misled by this philosophy
many peoples have sacrificed their
liberty only to learn to their sor
row that deceit and mockery, pov
erty and tyranny,' are their re
ward.
“That false philosophy is com
munism.”
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CATHOLIC MISSION EX
TENDED TO SUNDAY NIGHT
The Catholic Mission, which js
being held at St. Joseph s Catholic
church, and which was scheduled
to end tonight, has been extended
to end Sunday night. Saturday
evening Father Toner’s topic will
be the mass. Each act, and all the
vestments used in this beautiful
ceremony will be explained. A
special closing service will be held
Sunday evening.
Soft Coal Contract
No^ Legal
WASHINGTON, </P)—A nation
al labor relations board examiner
ruled that the union shop provi
sion of the contract between soft
coal operators and John L. Lewis’
united mine workers is illegal.
The legality of the one-year
agreement, made last July 1, was
challenged by U. S. Steel corpora
tion and other steel interests who
operate “captive” mines supplying
coal to steel mills.
A brief strike over the union
shop provision shut down the steel
company mines last July.
The walkout ended after federal
judge T. Alan Goldsborough ar
ranged for a continuance of work
until the courts had an opportun
ity to pass on the issue.
Bronson Water Delivery
Phone Main 19
Alaska Airlines
4 Scheduled trips a week: Monday, Wed
nesday, Friday, Saturday. Nom^, (Moses
Point Flag Stop), Unalakleet, McGrath.
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(Farewell Flag Stop), Anchorage. Alaska
Airlines IS STEADILY INCREASING
THEIR SERVICE to the people of Nome
and the surrounding districts. We are
proud of our dependable service, and in
tend to maintain the BETTER SERVICE
to Nome. Low freight rates and even
lower rates on produce shipments will
help everyone—Merchants. Businessmen,
and Housewives.
Mail service four times a week speeds
your correspondence.
Alaska Airlines maintains a Shopping
Service too, for your convenience:
TRAVEL, SHIP, THE DEPENDABLE —
THE STARLINER ROUTE.
One carrier service from Anchorage to
Candle, Deering and Kotzebue.
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