THE NOME DAILY NUGGET
GE0 s MAYNARD. Editat
RUSSEIX D MAYNARD. Managnt
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MEMBER OF associated PRESS
(CITY OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER)
PROSPECTORS’ AID
While everyone is agreed on the principle of giving
aid to prospecting, in the light of past events any plan
such as has been proposed—that of financing a school
for prospecting at public expense—is fraught with dan
ger.
Alaska is not so much in need- of training for pros
pectors as it is in grubstakes and backing for men who
are willing to prospect and know how.
This is more a private than a public matter. No
plan may be adopted whereby the taxpayer shares in
the gencfits of prospecting unless the entire matter be
comes involved in a socialistic muddle which further
involves us in reservations and conservation theories.
With respect to training prospectors, the machinery
for this very sound educational procedure is already
organized in the extension course of the Alaska Univer
sity. If needs be, it is possible to add this course to the
high school year in public schools.
What mining needs is a broader sympathy on the
part of those who are not engaged in it. Save in isolat
ed eases the miner and prospector is compelled to go
on his own without even moral support.
He must have finances for an entire year because
there is little work in winter for him and he is com
pelled to use most of the summer earning a grubstake.
Even though he finds pay, he cannot go farther than
the longtom or sluice box because of the lack of the
small amount necessary to put hisp roperty on a pay
ing basis.
A movement to organize prospecting syndicates, &
the selection of reliable men to search the hills and
creeks would go far toward solving the entire problem.
In case of success, every one benefits. Failure would
not hurt any one much.—Seward Gateway.
The Coast Guard Cutters are now majestically rid
ing the billows of Alaskan waters like great, friendly
birs looking after their chicks. The mail must go thru.
AN OUT FOR THE DIGEST
The Literary Digest, which recently made an awful
error in judgment, or what have you, in its presidential
poll forecast, and which is now alibiing its way out,
might add to its masthead this thought:
“Hereafter our policy, politically, shall be indepen
dent. On all other questions we shall endeavor to print
the truth.”
The whistle swallowed by that Massachusetts boy
will probably be a handicap unless he decides to be a
traffic cop.
The Nugget—Best Advertising Medium
In Nome and Seward Peninsula
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NOME, ALASKA.
New City Hall
Anchorage Is
Now Completed
On behalf of the Public Works
Administration, Ross A. Gridley,
who is engineer inspecto r for
that federal agency in Alaska,
has accepted the new city hall in
Anchorage.
Cost $75,000
The Anchorage city hall was
built at a cost of about $75,000.
Heat has been turned on and the
structure is all ready for occu
pancy though city offices have
| not moved as yet from their old
| location. Furniture for the new
|building has not been delivered
because of the marine strike.
School Building Planned
Within the near future Anchor
age will submit an application to
the Public Works Administration
for a loan and grant in a total
amount not yet determined for
the purpose of putting up a
school building, said Mr. Gridley.
At present the grade and high
schools are housed in separate
buildings and the grade school is
in bad shape. A decision will be
reached in a few days as to whe
ther the present high school
building shall be converted into
a grade school and the new build
ing used for upper classes or
whether the grades shall occupy
the new structure. Until that'
decision is made it will not be
known how much money will be
required.
Former Valdez
Man Received
Carnegie Award |
Gets $25.00 Per Month With A
A Hero’s Medal For Risking
His Life—Is one of Thirty
Three Awards Made.
Roy J. (Slick) Tipton, Alaskan
sourdough and former Valdez
resident, was among 33 persons
awarded Carnegie medals and
cash benefits for heroism by the
Carnegie Hero Funds Commis
sion at Pittsburgh recently. Tip
ton received a medal and $25.00
monthly disability benefits.
In January of 1935. Tipton,
lost ina raging blizzard on the
Valdez glacier, gave his parka
and mittens to a weakened com
panion, spent his strength in try
ing to get the dying man to safe
ty and then struggled five miles
to Valdez to summon aid for his
friend. The companion, George
E. Martin of Seattle, died from
exposure soon after a rescue par
ty reached him by plane.
Parts of Tipton’s frozen feet
had to be amputated. Two other
men with Tipton and Martin
reached safety. The four were
enroute from a mine to Valdez
when the blizzard struck. Tip
ton was a mine watchman when
the incident occurred. He has
spent the past summer at Pal
mer, Alaska.
A shower party, complete sur
prise from all angles, was tender
ed Mrs. Marit Anderson by the
Rebekahs recently in Seward.
| Mrs. Anderson became the
bride of John Hamilton Graff the
evening of November 27.
HOW TO STAKE CLAIMS.
How Mining Claims can be
Staked in Alaska, length, Bread
th, how many, and the Associa
tion Claim, described in detail, in
pamphlet form, for sale at The
Nugget Office, for 10 cents.
Svea Lindstrom
Told Plane trip
Nome Fairbanks
Miss Svea Leone Lindstrom,
who arrived in Fairbanks recent
ly from Nome, spent six months
there. She reports a marvelous
trip by plane from Nome. It was
her first airplane ride. “The trip
was thrilling, and one never to
be forgotten. I enjoyed every
moment of it,” says Miss Lind
strom, “and hope it will not be
my last. The vision of the many
winding rivers, beautiful rolling
white hills, and vast stretches of
the many great valleys, were all
wonderful.” according to a recent
issue of the Fairbanks News
Miner.
Miss Lindstrom, a daughter of
old Sweden, has been five years
in America, much of which she
spent in Juneau. She writes for
the Swedish American Tribune
of Chicago and for papers of
Stockholm,Sweden, and promises
to give them a number of inter
esting accounts of this part of
Alaska. During the last sum
mer she was particularly inter
ested in the study of Eskimo life
and history, and wrote several
articles for her publications on
those subjects and other phases
of Alaskan life and conditions.
Miss Lindstrom plans to remain
in Fairbanks indefinitely.
The Nugget Office has received
a supply of Xmas mats and cuts
for use in advertisements appear
ing in the paper, to assist busi
ness houses in drawing holiday
trade to their stores. If you can
not call at the office, use the tele
phone and a representative will
calL on you.
Newspaper advertising
jvill develop new business
for you.
YENNEY’S
Water Delivery
Phone Black 7
Good Service
Complies With Sanitary
Regulations of The City
Of Nome.
Cavey’s Bakery
GOOD CUP OF COFFEE
BEST PASTRT IN NOME
Good Meals
OPEN FROM • A.M. TO 1 AJL
4
POLSON’S
Water Delivery
“Sanitary Service”
For Years Your Old Stand
By. Always at Your
Service.
Ed Bergstrom—Eric Nelson
Phone Black 44
CITY CAFE
OPENING DECEMBER 7
CHOP SUEY—NOODLES
All kinds of American or Oriental
Dishes
Special Parties Anytime
(Next to the City Laundry)
FRANK MIYAUCHI, Chef
LINGERIE MAKES A DELIGHFUL
GIFT FOR THE “MRS.”. FEMININE
RELATIVES. OR “GIRL FRIENDS”
FEATURED AT
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But the Emporium Bazaar has the right price, For your
Holiday Gifts
Don’t forget, not the best, but as good as the rest.
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Boots and Pacs.
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