THE NOME NUGGET
Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday by the
NOME PUBLISHING CO.
NOME. ALASKA
Telephone: Main 125 P. O. Box 618
*1.50 PER MONTH *16.00 A YEAR
W. A. Boucher..Owner-Publisher
Entered as second class matter October 14, 1943, at the postoffice
•t Nome, Alaska, under the Act of March 3. 1879. *
Nome, Alaska, Friday, December 8, 1950
T.B. VACCINATION IN NOME NEXT WEEK
It behooves every adult in Nome to take advantage of
the BCG Clinic being held next week at the Public
Health Center as a means of protection against tubercu
losis which is the outstanding health problem in our
community.
It costs nothing but a little time and is not painful
and gives a certain degree of protection for at least
three years and oftentimes up to ten years. The immun
ity it confers should be considered only as increased re
sistance to disease, which may be overcome by inten
sive exposure.
This T.B. vaccine gets its name from the two sci
entists who developed the vaccine: a bacteriologist,
Albert Calmette, and a veterinarian Camille Guierin,
the vaccine being called Bacillus Calmette Guerin or
BCG. j
All children of school age will receive their vaccin
ation at school and parents of pre-school children are
urged to bring even the smallest infants during the af
ternoon clinic hours, as stated in this issue of the Nug- j
get. |
The vaccine is not available to private physicians, as
the quantity is still limited and only handled through j
the public health department so this will be our only
opportunity to receive it.
NOME BADLY NEEDS FIRE CODE
Nome has suffered another severe disaster by fire,
losing buildings which are costly to replace. The sym- j
pathy of the community goes to all those who lost not |
only their business but their personal property as well.
The fire could have been a greater disaster had the
winds been stronger or from a different direction.
Each time we have a severe fire we raise the ques
tion as to when Nome’s Council will take time to have
a building fire code that includes the important fire
breaks between all buildings in the business district,
as other cities in Alaska already have done. We have
enough problems in this frontier community without
wishing more on ourselves by lack of proper fire pro
tection.
This fire also brought out the well-known fact that
one siren does not arouse the townspeople when there
is a little north wind and that a second siren should be!
installed someplace on Third Avenue. ;
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months ago if he wouldn’t like to
go “Outside” to see what it is
like. j
“No,” he replied; “there can’t
be much out there, as everybody
is coming up here.”
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WASHINGTON, (/P)—Governor
Ingram M. Stainback of Hawaii
gave President Truman yesterday
a copy of the proposed Hawaiian
Constitution ratified by Island
voters in November.
The Constitution will be the
new basic law if Hawaii is given
Statehood.
Secretary of the Interior Oscar
Chapman accompanied Stainback
to the * White House. He told
newsmen he has not given up
hope of getting a Statehood bill
through this session of Congress.
SAN FRANCISCO, (/P)—Imme
diate construction of a heavy
duty highway from the Pacific
Northwest to Alaska in the inter
•
ests of national defense was urged
here yesterday by the executive
committee of the Western High
way Institute.
O. R. Craven of Pocatello, Ida
ho, committee chairman, termed
the present Alaska Highway “the
weakest link in our defense high- j
way. chain” . . . “totally inade- ;
quate in case of an all-out war.” j
He noted that at one point
Alaska “ is only a row boat jour
ney from Siberia.”
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MOSCOW (>P)—Izvestia report- j
ed today that a giant volcano j
erupted from the depths of the i
Caspian Sea Dec. 4 and spewed |
up an estimated 6,000,000 tons of :
mud, forming an island 60 miles!
off the coast of Baku.
The Soviet government news
paper said flames belched forth i
by . the volcano shot high above j
sea level and could plainly be
seen from Baku. It said the island
is more than half a mile long, 300
feet wide and lies 18 feet above
the surface of the water.
RIVERSIDE, Calif. (£>)—Ralph i
Moran is looking for another tur
key to fatten up for Christmas.
The one he was bringing home
in a crate yesterday poked its
head through the rungs, packed
Moran a paralyzing blow in the
neck and caused him to lose com-!
trol of his car. i
t
Moran crawled out of the
wreckage with a broken arm. The
gobbler escaped unhurt.
LOS ANGELES, (/P) — Eyes of
blue and 22, Shirley Temple is
eligible for matrimony again.
Her divorce from John Aga be- j
came final yesterday and the Hol
lywood speculation continued to
link her name with Charles
Black, 31, a television executive
and member of a wealthy San
Francisco family.
“We have no plans,” is all the
actress has said so far. But Black
has been her No. 1 escort since
they met last winter.
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LAKE SUCCESS, (/P) — The,
seven-member United Natio n s
Korean commission sent the Gen
eral Assembly a special report to
day formally challenging Soviet
claims that the Chinese commun
j
ist troops in Korea are volunteers.
The report said the commission
had made an on-the-spot inquiry
and found that all prisoners taken
by Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s
forces were members of regular
army units and “were not volun
teers in any meaning of the term.”
Santa s?
By LUCRECE HUDGINS
AP Newsftatures
CHAPTER 11
END OF THE RACE
Bucky untied the ropes of col
ored light that bound the Jindian
boy and his black horse. When he
was free Lonesome Boy rubbed
his arms where the ropes had hurt
him. Lonesome Boy watched
carefully tout said not a word to
the little cowboy who had set him
free.
The two boys got back on their
horses.
“It can’t be far now,” said
Bucky. “Soon we’ll be out of the
lights and then it will be a clear
race back to Santa Land. Ready”
Before Lonesome Boy could re
ply there was a terrible roar be
hind them. Turning, he saw the
giant of many colors running to
ward them. Furious that- Bucky
had dared to turn the Jindian
loose, the giant roared through
the great Aurora Borealis.
Bucky and Lonesome Boy dug
their heels into their horses and
sped away. It was hard to tell
whether they ran so fast to escape
the giant or to win the race for
Santa Land.
The giant gathered ribbons of
color in his huge .fists and shook
them after the fleeing boys. The
ribbon ends snapped like riding
whips and sent waves of color zig
zagging around the frightened
horses4 legs.
The cowboy and Jindian bent
over their horses and raced as
man or boy has never raced be
fore. At last they passed through
a flaming sheet and were out of
the Northern Lights and beyond
the reach of the angry giant.
Now in a clear race Lonesome
Boy and Bucky rode side by side
across the snowy plains. On and
on they raced and no one could
have said who would win.
In Santa Land the Jindian tribe
and Santa’s workers waited and
watched across the plains.
“We should be working,” grum
bled Patrick Tweedleknees. “A
whole day wasted and no toys
made at all.”
“But if the cowboy loses,” said
the brownies, “the Jindians will
kill us all and there would be no
use for the toys we made.”
“Until he loses we should stay ^
on the job,” growled Tweedle
knees.
But he himself peered across
the plains more anxiously than
the rest. Not even Santa could
have driven him (back to the
shops.
At last there was a wild whoop
from the Jindians. “He come! He
come!” *
Santa and all his workers star
ed and saw a boy on horseback
racing alone across the plain. The
Jindians beat their drums and
sang a terrible Jindian chant.
For, said they, Lonesome Boy is
coming home and he has won the
race.
Suddenly Santa broke into a
cheer. “It’s not the Jindian,” he
cried. “It’s Kid Buckaroo!”
The rider was now close. Sure *
enough, it was Bucky. He rode
proudly into Santa Land, the win
ner of the race. Far away one
could see Lonesome Boy coming
second in the race.
“Hurray for Bucky!” shouted
the brownies. “He outrode the
JindiaM and we’ll never have Jin
dians here again”
Oh, but they were wrong! For
the Jindians were very angry.
They grumbled among them
selves. They pointed at the work k
shops. They looked at Santa and
shook their fists.
Finally Chief Hurricane said,
“We no go away. We burn Santa
Land anyway.”
“But you agreed!” cried Santa
angrily. “You said if our boy
could outride your boy you would
go away.”
Chief Hurricane said, “My peo
ple no like. Bay said he could out
ride and outshoot any Jindian. He
outride my boy. He can’t out
shoot.”
Santa argued, but it was no use.
Chief Hurricane said unless
Bucky could shoot better than
Lonesome Boy, he would destroy
Santa Land and all the folk there.
So finally Santa turned to
Bucky and said, “Can you shoot?”
Bucky fingered his two six
shooters. “I can shoot,” he said
softly. He nodded at Lonesome
Boy. “I can shoot better than he
can, I know.”
“Ha!” cried Chief Hurricane.
“Then let us see who can kill
Herman the Wozzle!”
(Next: Tracking the Wozzle)