THE NOME NUGGET
Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday by The
NOME PUBLISHING CO.
Nome, Alaska
Telephone: Main 125 P. O. Box 613
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W. A. and EMILY BOUCHER.Editors
Entered as second class matter October 14, 1943, at the postoffice at
Nome, Alaska, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
Friday, May 24, 1946. 1
VETERANREINSTATEM ENT LIBERALIZED
Veterans who have let their N.S.L.I. policies lapse
may reinstate them without physical examination if
they submit a signed statement that they are in as
good health as they were at the time of lapse, A. E. j
Karnes, Regional Manager of the Veterans’ Adminis-!
tration, announced. T ms liberalization of reinstate- ,
ment provision will remain in effect until January
1, 1947, and will also apply to any N.S.L.I. policies
that lapse between now and then.
The liberalization of course does not effect require
ments of payment of premiums. In the case of N.S.
L. I. which has not been converted to a permanent form
only two monthly premiums must accompany the ap
plication for reinstatement. In the case of N.S.L.I.
which have been converted, payments which have
been missed must be repaid with interest.
In the future, all premiums on N.S.L.I. should be
paid to Collections Division, Veterans’ Administration,
346 Broadway, New York 13, New York.
NAZI AIR CONDITIONING
THE GERMAN AIR CONDITIONING and refrig-j
eration industry is five to ten years behind that
of American standards in the field, a three-month sur
vey of German industrial plants reveals. Methods;
and materials utilized by the Germans are generally in
ferior to those used in America and in addition, the
scope of the German refrigeration and air conditioning
activities is limited in comparison to services offered
by manufacturers in the United States. The report
was prepared for the United States Army’s Technical
Industrial Intelligence Committee, an advisory body to
the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gunnar Berg, air condition
ing and refrigeration engineer for the Westinghouse
Electric International Company, New York City.
The Germans had not progressed past the experi
mental stage in air conditioning of railway cars, and
seldom utilized air conditioning in their factories, not'
even in the underground plants to which they resorted
after heavy bombing raids had despoiled surface in-!
stallations. No attempt was made to venture into;
the “packaged” air conditioning field, and the Ger
mans had not developed individual room air condi
tioning units. Electric water coolers were not
manufactured either.
In household refrigeration, the market is very much
smaller than that in the United States and people
seem to be content with the present type of construc
tion and design which could be found in the United
States some ten years ago. Household cabinets lacked
style and because of inferior materials were not satis
factory. The Germans substituted “Iporka”, a syn
thetic insulation, for cork, nails for screws, steel hard
ware in place of brass, and inferior synthetic paints
and lacquers.
In the industrial field, the market is practically the
same as in the United States but on a smaller scale.
Commercial refrigeration has not advanced to the ex
tent it has in the United States, although one company
offered a fairly complete line.
Air conditioning and refrigeration laboratory re
search was limited in Germany by three factors. The
smaller sized German industry could not invest as
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much money in research, the five-year conflict drained
engineering personnel from the laboratories and sub
stitute materials limited activities.
Three years before the war copper was on the “ver
botten” list of materials and steel was used as a sub
stitute. Freon, the most recent development in re-i
frigerants, was not utilized in Germany until 1939, and
then could not be used fully since no changes in design
were made in the equipment during the war.
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PRESIDENT TRUMAN ON WORLD TRADE
A REFERENCE to world trade conditions was made
by President Harry S. Truman in his address at
the Jackson Day dinner, on March 23, in Washington.
In his speech, which was carried by radio to the whole
nation, he said:
“We need a world in which all countries can do
business with each other, and with us. That means
giving other countries a chance to reconstruct their
war - shattered lands. It also means maintaining!
orderly exchange arrangements through the coopera
tion of the United Nations.
“Already we have made substantian progress. Only
a few days ago, at Savannah, Georgia, the Internat
ional Bank and the International Monetary Fund, cre
ated at Bretton Woods, became organized institutions.
“The financial policies we are following are adap
ted to the needs of our time. I feel confident that
they will help make this a strong and sound country in
a free and progressive world.”
... Some plants, such as cabbages, etc., grow faster and
bigger in parts of the Arctic than they do in the temp
erate zone or tropics.Possible explanation is that
the daylight is continuous during the Arctic summer,
providing more growing time; on a day that varies
from 65* F. to 95* F. there would be as much growing
time as in two ordinary days in the tropics.
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Basketball is the only major sport of entirely Amer
ican origin. It was invented in 1891 to keep ath
letes physically fit and entertained between the foot
ball season and the baseball season.
The first woman doctor was Elizabeth Blackwell,
who won her MD. degree in 1849 in New York State!
according to Encyclopaedia Britannica.
House rats cause two hundred million dollars worth
of damage in the United States each year.
Apprentice Train'g
For Veterans 1
Under the G. I. Bill or Rights
J a monthly subsistence allowance
' is provided for the veteran who
j is employed as an apprentice.
He received this allowance in
addition to his wages, but the
j total amount exclusive of over
1 time payments must not exceed
j the journeyman’s wages in the
trade for which he is beu^g
trained. The maximum Govern
ment allowance is $65 a month
i for a veteran without dependents
and $90 a month for a veterarp
j with dependents.
i Many veterans and employers
, have not taken advantage of these
1 provisions. The benefits to the
| veteran, employer and the Ter
I ritory of Alaska are as follows:
To Veteran:
1. Increased earnings while
learning a trade or vo
cation.
2. Increased skill.
3. Increased earning power.
To Employer:
1. It includes not only ap~
prenticeship training but
other on-the-job training
which includes all types
of training given on the ^
job for the purpose of
increasing the worker's
ability and earning pow
er. ^
2. The training program is
the only logical solution
to overcome the situation
on April 1 in the Territory
of Alaska where 1246 job
openings requiring skilled
workers went unfilled be
cause the 1040 unemployed
lacked the skill to take
the jobs.
3. After a hurried survey it
was readily seen that sev
eral hundred vetera ns
would be able to take
advantage of the training,
in Alaska. If this group
were as many as 300, the
veterans in the Territory
would receive approxim
ately $270,0*00 yearly, thus
increasing the payrolls
in the Territory by this
amount. ^
In order to give assistance to
the veterans, the employers, and
the Territorial Approving Agent
who is the Commissioner of Edu
cation, I have appointed the foi
lowing members to. the Alaska
Apprenticeship Council:
Management Representatives:
Ernest G. Whitehead, Northern
Commercial Company.; Brendell
G. Canoles, General Building Con
tractor; George B. Schmidt, Jun
eau Lumber Mills.
Labor representatives: Thomas
J. Moore, A.T.F.L.; Chris Henn
ings, Alaska Director, CIO; Dave
Burnett, Secretary, Juneau Buil<£
lng Trades.
Ex-officio members <to ,have
voice but no vote): Dr. James
Ryan, Commissioner of Education;
Arthur Hedges, Alaska Director,
U.S.E.S.; Walter Sharpe, Commis
sioner of Labor; Anthony Karnes,
Director, Veterans Administration;
They will serve in an advisocr
capacity to give advice and guid
ance to apprentice and employer
in on-the-job training programs
within the Territory of Alaska
and will render assistance to the