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Entered as second class matter October 14, 1943, at the postoffice
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THE NOME VOLUNTEER FIREMEN
Some organized groups go about their work so
efficiently that they become taken for granted by
those who know how they operate and lose their iden
tity through lack of publicity and praise which they
justly deserve.
We have such a group here—the Nome Volun
teer Firemen—whose ready response any time the fire
whistle blows, is responsible for fewer bad fires and
fatalities. Their cooperation with the Nome Fire De
partment not only in time of fire, but during disasters
such as the drowning of the eight Navy men ten days
ago is deserving of recognition.
We take this opportunity to list the Nome Volun
teer Firemen, organized in 1935 by Fire Chief W. W.
Laws, some of whom are charter members of the
organization: Norvin Lewis and his sons Charles and
Robert; Don Lyle, James and Pearse Walsh, H.* F.
Harper, Paul Mandeville, Clyde Kammerer, Gordon
Osborne, Pete Reader, Clem Boucher, Grant Nelson,
Housten Alexander, Floyd Wheeler, Nels Swanberg,
Jr., Tom Martin, Louis, Ohasse, Bill Shepherd, John
McNees, Ernie Bohrer.
BUREAUCRATIC SHADOW
(Christian Science Monitor)
Congress passed the McCarran immigration bill
over the President’s Veto—and over the protest of most
of the nation’s press.
This, newspaper cannot go so far as those critics
who denounce it unreservedly as an “anti-immigra
tion” law and insist that it takes 10 steps backward for
every step forward. But we agree that some of its pro
visions—such as that by which Orientals alone are to
be admitted on the basis of racial origin rather than
country of emigration — are far from satisfactory,
while its provisions relating to deportation and denat
uralization are positively tyrannical.
Nothing could be more un-American (in the most
literal sense) than to deprive naturalized citizens of
rights enjoyed by native-born citizens or to put ar
bitrary power in the hands of government officials to
deport individuals almost at will. Taken in conjunction
with the McCarran Act of 1950 which has lowered an
iron curtain—or at least its bureaucratic shadow—over
travel to and from the United States, it represents a
retreat from traditional American freedoms.
It should be changed.
Kotzebue Girl, Graduate
Of Penna. School Nursing,
Visits Sister Here
Here visiting her sister, Mrs.
LfOrena Gray, is younger sister
Grace Lincoln, a native daughter
of Kotzebue and a graduate of
its eighth grade school. Grace
comes here from Philadelphia,
Pennyslvania, where she has re
sided for the past five and a half
years.
After a three-year course at the
ANS White Mountain School, fol
lowed by a year’s study at Wran
gell Institute in Southeastern
Alaska, this ambitious young lady
at the age of 16 traveled from her
Arctic home to Philadelphia on
the eastern seaboard of the
United States. Her object — she
wanted to become a nurse. As the
admittance age for student
nurses was 18 years, Grace spent
the intervening year and a half
with Dr. Ernest Dewees and his
family, engaged in further school
ing and learning the customs of
the U.S.A.
Came the great day and Grace
enrolled as a student nurse at
Philadelphia’s Pennsylvania Hos
pital, America’s oldest hospital,
founded by Benjamin Franklin
over 200 years ago.
After a three year’s course of
study and passing the Pennsyl
vania State Board examinations
she acheived her ambition and
was graduated as a registered
nurse.
From here Grace goes north for
a month’s visit with her parents
Mr. and Mrs. Abraham Lincoln of
Kotzebue, after which she will
join the staff of the Alaska Na
tive Service Mt. Edgecumbe Hos
pital at Sitka where she will use
her acquired knowlege and skills
in the service of her people, and
where she will be known as Miss
Grace Lincoln, R.N.
Economic Chieftains
Disagree Over Issue
Of Special Session
WASHINGTON, </P) — Two of
President Truman’s top economic
chieftains were at odds Monday
over whether Congress should be
called into special session to
tighten price controls.
In the latest repercussion to
Price boss Ellis Arnall’s recom
mendation for such a session, Ec
onomic Stabilizer Roger Putnam
said last night he saw no need
for it unless prices keep climbing
at a rapid rate.
And Senator John Sparkman of
Alabama, the Democratic vice
presidential nominee, said he felt
this it not the proper time for
a special session.
In the meantime, new stand
ards being set up by Arnall’s
agency, the Office of Price Sta
bilization, apparently assured
higher retail prices as a result of
the steel, aluminum and copper
price boosts recently granted.
Arnall called on Truman last
Wednesday. He handed in his re
signation and urged the President
to order a special session of Con
gress. Truman took no action on
the resignation but said he was
considering a special session.
Some authorities contend that
the most stable difference be
tween the so-called races of man
kind is not skin color but hair
form.
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“One - Day Drive” For
Scout Fund Tomorrow
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provided by the Alaska Council’s
rteld Executive for the Interior,
Duane Force. At their own ex
pense, he brought two young men
from his Fairbanks Area Camp
staff to assist in the operation of
the Pilgrim Springs venture.
Scouting in the Midnight Sun
District has grown from 14 units
in 1950 to 36 in 1952. With this
increase in service responsibility
the entire area has seen a gen
eral increase in cost of operation.
For this reason it is necessary to
raise even more money for the
Boy Scout program than was
raised last year.- The number of
boys in troops and packs today in
the interior has nearly doubled
in two years and still other boys
in other communities need and |
want the Scouting program.
“You as businessmen and in- J
dividuals in Nome, can help this
program in its operation and ex
pansion by contributing generous
ly when the team workers ap
proach,” Arnett concluded.
Bulgaria Charges Greece
With Shelling Gamma Is.
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y.,(/Pi
Communist Bulgaria charged
Greece Friday night with “pro
vocative” and “aggressive” action
in shelling the disputed island of
Gamma on the Greek-Bulgarian
border. The accusation was made
in a formal Bulgarian protest to
the United Nations.
Bulgarian foreign minister
Mintcho Neytchev cabled the U.N.
that shells and mines fell on Bul
garian territory during the Greek
army’s attack Thursday on the
tiny spot of land in the Evros
River.
It was not clear whether he
was charging that shells overshot
their target and landed on the
Bulgarian side of the river or
whether he was referring to the
island as Bulgarian territory.
Both countries have claimed it.
SEARCH FOR NOAH'S ARK
HALTED BY TOO MUCH RAIN
ISTANBUL, Turkey, (JF) —
Frenchmen in an expedition
searching for remains of Noah’s
Ark on Mt. Ararat have had to
halt the quest temporarily and re
turn to their base camp, the
Turkish Anatolia News Agency
reported Monday. Too much rain.
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Scientists Record
Heart Beats Of
Beluga Whale
SEATTLE, (/P)—The heartbeats
of a small but maddened, thrash
ing whale with two harpoons
stinging its flanks, has been re
corded on an electrocardiogram.
The recording made from the
giant fish — a beluga (white)
whale — was similar to those of
elephants and human but more
nearly resembled an elephant.
This first known successful
tracing of a whale’s heartbeat on
a chart was reported by the men
who conducted the tests in small
motor boats on Alaska’s Bristol
Bay.
They were Dr. Robert L. King
of Seattle and Dr. Paul Dudley
White of Boston. Both men are
heart experts. They believe a
study of the recording may give
information which will help de
termine what the normal heart
tracing of a large human being
should be.
Late Thursday afternoon two
harpoons thudded into the fat
sides of a 15 - foot long, 2,000
pound mammal. The whale
plunged downward, came to the
surface, thrashed about and
plunged beneath the surface re
peatedly. It pulled the small boats
wildly around the surface of the
bay. The occupants hung onto the
gunwales for dear life—all except
James M. Jenks, president of the
Sanborn Co., of Cambridge. Mass.,
makers of the electrocardiographs.
He huddled over the machine,
working desperately at its con
trols.
The galvanometer had picked
up the whale’s heart action and
the movement of the galvano
meter wss photographed by a
camera built into the machine.
The recording lasted two min
ates, fulfilling the hopes and as
pirations of 12 years of research.
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