THE NOME NUGGET
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NOME, ALASKA
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E. P. BOUCHER ... Managing Editor
Entered as second class matter October 14, 1943, at the postoffice
at Nome, Alaska, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
Nome, Alaska, Friday, June 13, 1952
WHAT IS SO RARE AS A DAY IN JUNE?
FATHER’S DAY, 1952
Forty-two years ago Mrs. John Bruce Dodd was
the driving force in starting Americans to celebrate
Father’s Day. Since 1910 the third Sunday in June has
been observed as Father’s Day, although it is not de
clared a legal holiday. This year Father’s Day comes
on the 15th of June.
Each year on Father’s Day, emphasis is placed
on a closer father-child relation as a means of building
a better world. In the average family in Nome or any
other community in America, the father is away from
the home during the major portion of the day. Children
do not have an opportunity to become as well acquain
ted with their father as they do with their mother.
All of us realize how important it is to the proper
development of a child to have the sympathetic guid
ance of “Dad.” Too often fathers, weighted down with
the responsibility of making a living, fail to devote
enough of those precious moments to the youngsters.
NOME WILL MISS REV. TREAT
Rev. Robert Treat of the Community Methodist
Church leaves our community and the territory this
week to assume his duties as minister in his home
state of Indiana.
Nome will miss him not only in matters pertaining
to the church but in many other fields as he has been
not only a zealous religious worker but a civic leader
as well. Since accepting his Nome post, he has worked
to assist in every way possible the improvement of
this northern city.
Through his efforts Cub Scouting got its start and
now has three dens. Scout Troop 666 and the Explorer
Troop owe much of their development and activity to
his enthusiasm and interest.
As chairman of the local Red Cross chapter Rev.
Treat has personally helped service men of all colors
and creeds when they needed financial or other assist
ance.
As a Rotarian, he has been responsible for interest
ing weekly reports and news items in this newspaper.
It would be impossible to mention all the civic
projects in which Rev. Treat has assisted. His cheer
ful buoyant friendliness and wholehearted cooperation
have won him many friends who will miss him and
who know that this community’s loss is Indiana s gain
Our best wishes go with him and with his family
as they “make a new beginning” in Indiana.
Nome Citizens Appeal to
SUP to Send Boat
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plies for the hospital, and vitally
needed machinery parts and min
ing equipment was brought out.
The following wire was sent to
Harry Lundeberg in San Fran
cisco: »o
“The citizens of Nome present
the following and request your
earnest consideration:
We have been without a boat
for eight months.
No other steamship line oper
ates to Nome.
All our supplies come by boat.
The stock of medical supplies
in the local hospital and drug
store are depleted.
Milk, flour, sugar, and other
staples are depleted.
Unless you come to our aid and
effect an immediate release for
a boat to Nome the whole com
munity will suffer considerable
hardships and innocent people
will be made to suffer.
We request your cooperation
without jeopardizing your posi
tion in working for a boat for
Nome and will greatly appreciate
such effort upon your part.
Early reply requested.
Committee: t
Chas. D. Jones, Mayor
Mrs. Helen Fagerstrom
W. C. Mclvor
Fred M. Langsam, M.D.
Driver Killed When Light
Truck Plunges Off Bridge
At Knik Near Anchorage
ANCHORAGE, (/P) — David
Allen Davis, 22, was killed Wed
nesday when the pickup he was
driving enroute to a reunion with
his brother went out of control
and crashed through a guard
rail on the Anchorage - Palmer
highway.
Davis was rushing to meet his
brother at Anchorage. The bro
ther, Wayne, had flown here to
work with David during the sum
mer. Their father, Franklin Davis,
is a Bureau of Public Roads em
ployee at Juneau.
The light truck tore out 90 feet
of a wooden guard rail on the
Knik River bridge, dropped 16
feet and landed on its top in the
river bed.
U.S. Troops Search For
399 Anti-Communists
Who Flee Withdrawal
KOJE ISLAND, Korea, {#•) —
U.S. troops hunted Thursday for
missing comrades of 399 fright
ened anti-Communist prisoners of
war who broke away from 4,800
marching Reds.
The breakaway came during an
otherwise orderly evacuation of
the fourth trouble-ridden POW
enclosure at this United Nations
prison camp.
The anti-Red POWs said the
missing prisoners had been haled
before Communist “kangaroo
courts” before the transfer. They
didn’t report the number.
Death at the hands of their
diehard leaders was the fate of
16 POWs missing from an enclos
ure emptied Wednesday.
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Escaped Cohvict Kills
9-Year-Old Girl Hostage
CARMEL, N.Y., yP)— An es
caped convict, making a desperate
effort to seize a getaway car,
stabbed a 9-year-old girl hostage
to death Wednesday as police
closed in on him.
Hit by three police bullets, the
convict surrendered and was
taken to a hospital.
His little victim, stabbed with
a butcher knife as her mother
looked cm helpless, died an hour
later.
The slayer, Donald Snyder, 25,
of Canastota, N.Y., gave warning
of his desperation and cried:
“If you come near me, 1*11 stab
the child.”
Alex Williams, 45, school bus
driver and a special policeman,
tried to persuade Snyder to re
lease the child, Betty Lem Arnold.
As he talked, he sidled up closer
and fired, hitting Snyder. The ex
con then plunged the knife into
the little girl's abdomen.
Snyder, who was serving a
25-year term in Green Haven
State Prison for auto theft, had
escaped Tuesday. Putnam County
District Attorney Fred A. Dickin
son said a murder charge against
Snyder would be presented to a
grand jury.
In the Middle Ages many lead
ing poets and thinkers of ancient
times were widely supposed to
have been magicians.
NOME OFFICE OF AUSXA
STEAMSHIP CO. OPENS
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Dillon ar
rived yesterday and are opening
up the Alaska Steamship Co. of
fice which has been closed all
winter.
Mr. Dillon stated the Alaska
Lifeline Committee organized by
the Seattle Chamber of Commerce
is made up of outstanding busi
nessmen of Seattle who are going
all out to solve the shipping strike
for the good of all concerned and
to relieve Alaska of the handicap
placed upon it at least once a year
by problems of ship owners and
the many unions which serve
shipping.
The Dillons arrived via Anchor
age and Fairbanks.
HOUSE CONSIDERS
TWO CONTROL BILLS
WASHINGTON, (jP) — The
House had two bills to continue
expiring wage-price-rent controls,
one passed by the Senate and the
other approved by its own House
Banking Committee.
The government's present au
thority for all anti-inflation curbs
expires midnight June 30.
The Senate measure generally
would continue control authority
about as is, but for eight months
instead of the two years the Presi
dent had asked. The House ver
sion is for one year but it would
end all curbs on consumer and
real estate credit. *
NOME
Now Nome is a town of great renown,
Far off on the Bering Sea,
And the things I’ve heard and stories I’ve read
Have always intrigued me.
But now that I’m here in an atmosphere
Of icy wind and spray,
The very first thought that comes to me
Is “Brother, let us pray.”
Yes, let us pray we return some day
To the people and land we know,
And just as soon as the air is quiet
My boy, I’m ready to go.
But while on the ground we’ll look around,
Take in all there is to see,
Until my stomach from Fairbanks
Finally catches me.
For the ride in the plane brought me pain—
I’m not a good sailor, you know—
So I’d better wait ’til things settle down
Before I’m ready to go.
,.x .
The sea rolls in with an awful din,
And the wind is always there,
But I’m incased in a parka like
An Arctic Polar Bear.
Well, let it blow, because I know,
Despite their chilly stare,
That the natives’ warmth lies deep vwithin
And the love of life is theirs.
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You ask me now with furrowed brow
What there is to see.
Why a pretty girl, in passing,
Just turned and smiled at me.
i
Though worlds apart from the very start,
By custom, habit and style,
The language of friendship is always such,
In anybody’s smile.
So the winds may blow wherever I go,
But so long as people are there
Who smile at me, I think that I
Better change my original prayer.
And this I’ll say ’til my dying day,
Though lonely and homesick I be,
That all those things are forgotten when
A pretty girl smiles at me.
So I look at this town of great renown
Far off on the Bering Sea
Through different eyes, like it’s my home,
Just because she smiled at me.
Submitted by William W. Ellis