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, Monday, December 31, 1951
LOOK WHO WE’LL BE RIDING WITH
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EXIT THE PENNY POSTCARD
On January 1st, you can buy up to f(jrt\^ i^in^i
postcards for two cents each. If you purchase more
than forty-nine postcards, they will cost two cents
each, plus ten per cent. That is, it will cost you an
extra twenty cents per hundred cards after the first
forty-nine.
The Postoffice says this little wrinkle is causing
untold headaches. It was written into the new postal
law by Representative Hagen, Republican of Minne
sota, to permit private business to enter the postcard
printing field. Mr. Hagen figures that a one-fifth of
a cent margin will be enough to enable postcard print
ers to sell commercial quantities profitably. Postal of
ficials are not convinced that private industry will
enter the postcard field.
Since the Postoffice has been printing and selling
three and a half billion postcards annually, which vol
ume will represent a $150,000,000 business, Mr.
Hagen’s point is a good one. Only time—after January
1st—will show whether he or postal officials are cor
rect. Meanwhile, there will be a great deal of explain
ing to be done to the man who buys forty-nine cards
at two cents each, and is charged 2.2 cents each for
postcards in excess of that number.
CANNON-LIKE PROJECTOR
A new way to advertise is with the Astralux. The
Astralux is a giant projector that looks like a cannon
and beams advertising matter onto cloud banks in the
sky. The men who operate this projector are dressed
in protective clothing and masks.
Wilhelm Hartmann of Northern Germany devel
oped the Astralux. It weighs two and a half tons, is
36 feet long, and beams its message more than three
miles into the sky. It can be seen more than eight
miles away.
While the Astralux is not available toythe adver
tisers of this community, an effective medium is avail
able to Nome advertisers, the Nome Nugget.
Charles I. Carpenter, Major-General, Chief of Air
Force Chaplains: “America is not exempt from the
wrath of a God who is displeased with the weakness
of our moral fiber.”
2nd Division
Democrats Adopt
13-PIank Platform
A well-attended and harmon
ious 2nd Division Democratic
Convention was held in the City
Hall on Dec. 28. In addition to
delegates present from Barrow-,
Shungnak and Unalakleet, most
of the 2nd Division’s outlying
voting precincts were represented
by proxies, mailed or wired in by
delegates elected at their respec
ive precinct caucuses. Nome’s
voting precinct was represented
by 13 delegates elected several
weeks ago at the Nome Precinct
Caucus.
Paul Dryden, outgoing chair
man of the 2nd Division Demo- |
cratic Committee was chosen con
vention chairman, and Mrs. Car
rie McLain, convention secretary.
Folowdng seating of delegates
and proxy holders, a new 2nd Di
vision Democratic Committee was
chosen, including Ted Duffield as
chairman. This committee serves j
for the next two years. A group
of four, two men and two women,
w re selected to represent the 2nd
Division on Democratic Central
Committee which consists of 16 ]
members, four from each divi-1
sion. It is comprised of eight men
! and eight women, and its chair
man will be elected at the Anch
orage Territorial Convention in
January.
The 2nd Division Central Com
mittee is: Mrs. Carrie McLain, |
Mrs. Ethel Marx (Teller), Charles
Fagerstrom, and Joesph Dexter
(Golovin).
The names of the Divisional
Committee are: Theodore C. Duf
tield, Don Hurlbert, Mrs. Tolbert
Scott, Mrs. Ccirrie McLain, Mrs.
Adaline Ullrich, Mrs. Helen Fag
erstrom, Paul Dryden, Peter E.
Larson, Mrs. Frances Longley,
Tom Beltz, William E. Beltz,
Frank Degnan (Unalakleet), Olaf
Lundberg (Candle), Alfred Hob
son (Barrow), and Hugo Eckhardt
(Kotzebue).
A 2nd Division Democratic
platform, consisting of 13 planks
was adopted, and one delegate
and alternate were chosen to rep
resent the 2nd Division Demo
crats at the national convention
to be held at Chicago next July,
at which time the Democratic
presidential and vice-presidential
candidates are to be named. Al
aska has 6 votes at the national
convention.
A representative group of 20
active Democrats were selected to
represent the 2nd Division at
January’s Anchorage convention,
and a canvassing committee was
instructed to interview candidates
who may wish to file in January
for Territorial office on the Dem
ocratic ticket.
Delegate to the National Con
vention is Howard Lyng and al
ternate is M. J. Walsh.
Korean Foreign Minister
Wants U.N. To Fight On
Rather Than Make Truce
PUSAN, Korea, (jP) — Foreign
minister Pyun Yhng Tai said to
day the Republic of Korea wants
the United Nations to “stand firm
and fight on” rather than make a
truce with the Reds.
In an interview, the foreign
minister said the armistice nego
tiations at Panmunjom were “a
mystery” to him.
Pyun said he was convinced the
communists would attack South
Korea again “at an opportune
time.” He predicted that other
small nations might decide then
it was better to surrender to the
communists than to resist.
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Both Political Parties Now Becoming Active
In Preparation for the Approaching Elections
Republican Reeve
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lowed the statehood bill to get
out of committee and to all in
tents and purposes threw it in
the wastebasket?”
He accused the Democratic
leaders of preventing passage of
the bill, to maintain Alaskons as
third-rate citizens, and further
their own ends.
“The tourist industry is Alas
ka’s 4ace in the hole’,” he said,
and urged all Alaskans to support
the Alaska Development Board
•:ind thereby encourage their own
financial interests.
“I am one of you—an Alaskan
airman, first, now and last—not
just a mealy-mouthed politician,”
he stated, “I’ve lived here for 20
years -and I see the same people
on. the street every day. I have
learned that you have to get
along with the people you see if
you intend to stay.”
He also recommended a dras
tic reduction in government res
ervation of lands, as government
land now held in the Territory
is nearly as large as the State of
California.
Reeve blames the Democrats
for the military withdrawal from
Alaskan coasts and said Korea
started in Alaska, when the with
drawals were made of military
outposts, especially in the Aleu
tians.
Motorist Electrocuted
PASADENA, Calif., (JP) — A
high tension wire lying in a rain
puddle electrocuted a grandson of
Nobel Prize winning physicist
Robert A. Millikan Sunday.
Robert S. Millikan, 20, was
driving home from a party. His
car hit a power pole and a wire
fell to the ground. Young Milli
kan stepped from the car into
the puddle and was killed in
stantly by the current from the
fallen power line.
Nugget Ads Bring Quick Results
Democrat McCutcheon
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Patrol be divorced from the High
way Engineer’s office and that the
police organization be set up un
der a separate authority;
A proposal that the legislature
enact a new law providing that
the tax realized from the sale of
gasoline and oil for maintenance
purposes be taken from road and
landing field projects and placed
in a fund to create, improve and
maintain small boat harbors.
We likely call them “crooks”
only because they have followed
their natural bent.
Nugget Ads Bring Quick Results
Season’s
Cheer
>»*■ May
the year be
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