JAP GIRLS GO FROM BRAZIL
TO TOKYO FOR MATRIMONY
TOKYO, (/P)— Nine Japanese
girls from 17 to 27 years old- ar
rived Tuesday from Santos, Bra
zil, with matrimony in mind.
“We have come to Japan to find
husbands,” they told reporters for
Yomiuri. The Japanese boys in
Brazil are “unintelligent, rude
and lack Japanese spirit,”’ they
said.
Each girl spent about the equal
of $555 on passage from Brazil—
almost twice the yearly wage of
an average Japanese working
man.
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(Back of Alaska Airlines)
Haircut . 1.25
Shave . 75
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EXCEPT SUNDAY
AND MONDAY
6:15 to 8:00 p.m.
Truman Budget
Brings Demands
For Drastic Cuts
By William F. Arbogasl
WASHINGTON, (/P)—'The usual
wave of economy demands rolled
out of congress Tuesday in the
wake of President Truman’s rec
o r d $85,444,000,000 peacetime
spending budget for the fiscal year
starting July 1.
Cuts of up to 14 billion dollars
— enough to prevent a federal
deficit next year — were deman
ded.
But there seemed little likeli
hood that such a goal—or even
anything resembling it—would be
attained.
Actually, congress is limited in
trimming the President’s spend
ing program, since much of the
contemplated outlay will come
from money already allocated but
not yet spent.
Congress works only on appro
priations, although it can recap
I ture unspent money appropriated
in preceding years.
With national security pro
Fish With Worms Can Be
OK To Eat, Say Scientists
JUNEAU, Jan. 18—“A fish can
have worms and still be good to
eat,” according to two scientists
discussing the succulence of na
tive fish in companion articles in
the February issue of “Alaska’s
Health”, published bi-monthly by
the Alaska Department of Health.
Fishermen should not cast aside
their favorite trout or salt water
catches because they find the fish
have worms, it is pointed out,
“because both groups of fish are
subject to infestation by a great
diversity of parasitic worms of
which there are tens of thousands.
Of these, few except the fish
tapeworms will live in man,”
writes Ralph B. Williams, direc
tor of public health laboratories
for the Alaska Department of
Health.
grams taking 76 cents o*ut of ev
ery dollar planned for 1953 spend
ing, congress may concentrate its
economy drive on the old-line
civilian agencies. Cuts of up to
10 percent in civilian employment
have been demanded by leading
Republicans, who claim such o
slash would save a billion dollars
in the new year.
WEATHER FORECAST
Compiled by U.S. Dept, of Commerce,
Weather Bureau
Forecast Nome: Clear tonight
and Thursday. North winds 15-20
mph. Low temperature expected
tonight -5, high Thursday 10.
Temperatures last 24 hours as
of 7 a.m. today: high 6, low -3.
Maximum wind 34 mph from E.
Sunrise 9:12 a.m., sunset 3:16 p.m.
A year ago today: high temp
erature 5, low -8.
Extremes this date since 1907:
high 36 in 1929, low -29 in 1934.
Data for other selected stations
as of 7 a.m. today:
Station Temp. Weather
Barrow -10 Clear
Pt. Hope -4 Clear
Kotzebue -6 Clear
Gambell 10 Part cloudy
Nome 6 Clear
Unalakleet -17 Clear
Bethel -2 Cloudy
McGrath -47 Clear
Anchorage -13 Clear
Fairbanks -37 Clear
Whitehorse -50 Clear
Edmonton -21 Snow
Ketchikan 20 Cloudy
Seattle 33 Cloudy
San Francisco 54 Cloudy
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While Mt. News
Special to the Nome Nugget
“Happy New Year to you all!
On Jan. 5, we had an interest
ing day although the thermometer
registered 15 degrees below.
Both children and adults had
foot-raced on the ice-frozen river.
The winners were Pearl Johnson,
Melvin Brown, Gladys Walker,
Earnest Paneok, Cornelius Larsen,
Loretta Johnson. Winner of the
adult ski race was Frederick
Kowchee. Winners of ladies snow
shoe race were Mrs. Albert John
son and Mrs. Emily Brown. Win
ners of the dog team races were
Robert Apok, Jr., and Albert
Johnson. These games were spon
sored by the Nuchervik Mothers
Club. Bake sale proceeds were
given out as cash prizes in the
evening before the Dorcus So
ciety had their sale.
* * *
In the afternoon there was a
birthday party for Grandad Rus
sell, the father of Edgar F. Rus
sell, our new principal. The living
room was packed with people.
Henry Algoin sang an Eskimo
translated hymn, and the native
group sang a quartet number for
him.
Mrs. Russell, June and Mrs.
Johnson of ANS served buffet
style with almost every home
baked pastry. We enjoyed help
ing ourselves to them. Some of
the gifts received by Grandad
Russell were a Yukon fur cap,
gold nuggets, and a Wainwright
Eskimo game. Everybody tried
to play the Wainwright game. It
consisted of making two balls tied
on a string twirl around in oppo
site directions, but very few suc
ceeded.
* * *
The Dorcus Society then had a
food sale in church in the evening.
Prizes were then given out to the
winners of the foot races. Mayor
A. Johnson opened the program
then handed it over to the Dorcus.
We all like to eat so you know
the rest of it: ice cream, cake,
pies and coffee were sold.
n*
New Year’s Eve there were two
basketball games. The girls’ game
was coached by Steve Algoin,
and Leon Paneok and Mary Walk
er were the captains. Lena’s team
was dormitory girls and some of
the staff against Village. The dor
mitory won.
The boys’ game, coached by
Mr. Russell, was the Dormitory
against Village. The Village won.
Britain To Sell
Much, Buy Little,
To Stay Solvent
LONDON, C/P)—Britain and her
commonwealth partners an
nounced Monday night a drastic
emergency program to sell every
thing they can to the rest of the
world and buy as little as possible
to turn aside their headlong rush
toward bankruptcy.
After a week of conferences,
the financial experts from nine
countries said this course must
make income match out-go by
the second half of this year and
acknowledged it was only a be
ginning of a years-long search
for solvency.
Their goal, they said, is to make
the industrial, financial and econ
omic structure of the British-led
nations so strong that sterling
currency again will be freely ex
changeable for any money or any
goods in the world “and keep it
so.”
Such a permanent state of ec
onomic health has not prevailed
in Britain since the first world
war.