THE NOME NUGGET
Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday by the
NOME PUBLISHING CO.
NOME, ALASKA
Telephone 443 - 2381 $1.50 PER MONTH
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E. P. BOUCHER . Managing Editor
CLINTON GRAY . Production Manager
Entered ns second class matter October 14. 1943. at the
post office at Nome, Alaska, under Act of March 3, 1879.
Comes the Dawn
WHAT IS SO RARE nowadays as the real thing?
At breakfast we moderns drink instant coffee — to wash
down a drv ’cereal." that mav hue remote involvment with a
corn patch or a wheat field but is non-caloric, non-fattening and
contains only the nutrients required to make us look like fashion
models. 1 his may. when we have time, he preceded bv orange
juice — frozen, of course.
[hen into the drip-dry shirt and the miracle-fiber sun and
off to a day of working with ladies with green eyelids and fear
ful!) contrived h tv-stack hair-dos and gentlemen with toupees and
chemical tans. (Even the sunlamp comes too close to the genuine
article.) Surrounded as we are on all sides bu substitutes, the
ersatz, as-good-as and the synthetic, each long day of manifold
But all, perhaps is not lost. I:ven though the famous Christmas
Tree in New York's Rockefeller Plaza achieved its impressiveness
by having extra branches stuck into the trunk — still, the branches
were real and came from other trees growing in a genuine forest.
In Nome the Christmas Spirit is real too with fresh snow
on the ground, and the streets gavlv lighted.
In even- store there is an abundance of gifts to earn out the
tradition of Christmas Citing . . . and there are only eight shop
ping days left until Christmas.
FAREWELL TEA TO BE HELD
FOR THREE WSCS MEMBERS
A farewell tea has been an
nounced for three members of the
Women's Society of the Methodist
Church.
On Sunday afternoon friends of
Betty Shambhn, nurse at the MMM
Hospital, who is leaving for Sitka;
friends of Mrs. Howard Huffer,
who leaves after Christmas for her
home in Washington; and Melba
Borger, laboratory technologist of
the hospital, who is returning to j
the outside, will gather at 3 p.m.
at the Fellowship Hall of the
church in their honor.
The informal get-together for
these active church workers is
open to anyone in the community. I
5-Ceni Stamp to Commemorate
Emancipation Proclamation
WASHINGTON lrP> — A 5-ccn1
postage stamp commemorating Ab
raham Lincoln’s Emancipatior
Proclamation will be issued nex
year, the Post Office Departmen
announced Thursday.
The department said the stam]
will be isued in mid-February a
part of the centennial observanc
of the proclamation.
The proclamation was issuec
Jan. 1, 1863, bringing freedom tc
three million negro slaves.
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HEALTH HINTS FOR THE FAMILY
COLDS MAKE THEM CROSS
by Margaret Little*
Six year old Jack sat at the
dinner table toying with his
food. He was cross and irritable—
he had already picked a silly
fight with Ellen before dinner.
Mother took a more careful
look at him; Jack was usually
so cheerful, she felt sure some
thing was amiss. Sure enough,
there was the tell-tale drip on
his upper lip, and, now that she
was paying attention, she ob
served that he did have a hacky
cough. She heaved a sigh —
another cold to cope with.
"Jack,” she said, "How would
you like a big glass of orange
juice instead of that dinner?”
"Can I have ginger ale in it?”
"All right, I’ll fix it for you,
then you can go lie on the couch
until we are through dinner.
You can pick out a story and
I’ll read it to you after a bit.”
Jack drank his orange fizz and
went to bed early, with relatively
little fuss. Mother read to him,
eased the tickle in his throat
with cough syrup, tucked him in,
and told him not to get out of
bed in the morning but to call
her. Jack's mother used a simple
syrup; she knew' better than to
*Nofed Pediatrician, Consular
use any medicine that had either
narcotic or antihistamine in it.
Jack was, for a couple of days,
kept in bed. He knew the rou
tine, this wasn't his first cold.
Jack didn’t really mind, he got
a lot of attention — it wasn’t so
bad staying in bed. He loved
orange fizz and the cough medi
cine mother gave him tasted
good; it was fun to play with his
special sick-a-bed toys.
By keeping him in bed Mother
not only helped Jack recover
quickly from his cold, but by iso
lating him in his room, she kept
his germs away from Ellen. One
cold at a time in a family it
enough.
it to Pertussin Laboratories
A STOCKING WITH SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE!
Clearing Conditions
Bring Colder Temperatures
Clearing conditions brought cold
er temperatures to wide areas of
the Alaska mainland today al
though cloudy skies were still the
rule east of Bethel, Galena and
Barrow.
Fog blanketed various points in
the interior and occasional snow
was reported at Barter Island,
Tanana, McGrath, King Salmon
and Cold Bay.
The Aleutians had cloudy skies,
with a few reports of snow over
the eastern third of the chain.
Steady rain fell over much of the
southeast Panhandle, while a few
5 breaks in the cloud cover were
5 reported along the central Gulf
- Coast in the Cordova area.
Overnight temperatures ranged
I from 10 below at Nome to 49 at
, Annette Island. The high yester
day was 52 at Annette.
7 Africans Shot to Death
PRETORIA, South Africa UFi —
Seven Africans were shot dead in
a battle with police outside Queens
town Station in eastern Cape Pro
vince yesterday afternoon, a po
lice commissioner reported.
The commissioner, Lt. Gen. J.
Keevy, said the shooting took place
after a white police officer was
hacked to death and three of his
colleagues were wounded by a bus
load of Africans.
Red Cross Joins Efforts
To Help Free Cuban Prisoners
NEW YORK Uf) — Atty. James
Donovan said Thursday that the
American Red Cross is joining his
efforts to free Cuban invasion pri
soners and he hopes to have them
released by Christmas.
Donovan said President Ken
nedy’s statement Wednesday, that
efforts to free the men taken at
the Bay of Pigs did not conflict
with the national interest, paved
the way for efforts to proceed.
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Oil
Stove
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2nd Ketchikan Building
Teetering on the Brink
KETCHIKAN \ff> — The move
ment of the tides and winds Wed
j nesday night failed to dislodge an
I already ruined furniture store and
dump it into Ketchikan Creek along
with a neighboring building which
went that way Monday night.
Meanwhile, the street in front oi
the building remained closed tc
traffic and engineers said it would
be sometime before it could be
reopened because the dirt fill un
der the approaches had been
heavily damaged by the high
waters of the creek.
City Manager Fred Daigle said
the cost will be considerable tc
get the roadway replaced. He said
it would be well over $25,000.
Wreckage of the Arctic Bai
building, including the bar and
other fixtures has been swept on
the beach in the Tongass Narrows
as much as eight miles north of
the city.
As for the furniture building,
it has been condemned and will be
torn down unless the tides and
the winds decree other means of
destruction.
A BRIGHT GIFT . . .
CLERMONT, Fla. i/P — Dorothy
Hoskinson lives on a dark street.
She asked her brother - in - law
Jim Hoskinson, to do something
about it if he won election to the
City Council.
Jim was elected this week and
he remembered Dorothy's request.
He sent her a flashlight.
Count Your Chirps . .
PHOENIX, Ariz. CP) — A com
mittee which just completed a
year’s study says you can tell the
temperature by counting the num
ber of times a cricket chirps in
15 seconds and adding 37.
This and other tidbits are con
tained in a science guide prepared
bv the committee for elementary
school teachers in Arizona. The
purpose is to pep up the study of
science.
The king of hearts is the king in
a 52-card deck who doesn’t wear
a mustache as well as a beard.
BRING YOUR
WATCH
to the
Nome Drug Store
for
EXPERT REPAIRS
'A rsl M il! Wislch
Mosrow-I Vking
Political Split
By J. M. Roberts
Associated Press News Analyst
Thr Western world will be
watching closely during the next
few months to see whether the So
viet Union, having confirmed her
i political split with Red China and
made at least a partial peace with
Yugoslavia, will resume her push
ing tactics in an easterly or west
erly direction.
The appearance of Yugoslav
! Marshal Tito before the Supreme
| Soviet represents an outward
| achievement, though it may not
| be fundamental or complete, of a
goal Soviet Premier Khrushchev
j set for himself in the first days
| of his accession to power.
It is important not only as a
re-weaving of badly tangled Com
munist threads in Europe, but also
among the new nations which haw
sometimes revolver 1 between and
sometimes within the policies of
India and those of the Relgrade
Cairo semi-axis.
It divides Red China from what
we once called Titoism, which set
the example for national Com
munist independence from Mos
cow centralism.
Nobody knows what blandish
ments were offered Tito. Probably
they are primarily a promise of
resumption of a more natural rela
tionship between Yugoslavia’s not
too-viable economy and that of
Eastern Europe, down the Danube.
Tito probably is paying only
with small lip service in the Mos
cow-Peking split, and not giving
up any real independence.
Yugoslavia, well remembering
old wounds, always has been on
the side of the Soviet divisionist
policy toward Germany.
Andrei Gromyko, the Soviet
Foreign Minister, was chosen to
carry on the discussion of this
matter where Khrushchev left off.
Aside from the major effort to
make it appear the Soviet Union
acted in Cuba only against a threat
to peace and intended no offense—
which is correct only as to the
latter part, the action really having
been an effort to apply political
pressure — Germany is so far the
chief East-West issue mentioned.
And it remains, in the heart of
Europe, the fundamental issue of
the entire conflict.
Communism itself is endangered
j in a China which has been much
I deflated by the facts of economic
j life.
i International Communism al
i ways has been inclined to perform
| uu 1W5 V/VVII UUKiy II
parts got out of control, hoping for
new growth, and this is especially
true either in times of great in
ternal stress or when it must de
lay further pushing against the
outside world.
Will the Soviet leaders now con
sider the possibilities of undercut
ting the Peking regime with the
idea of replacing it with more
amenable forces?
Or will they consider China so
weak that they can safely center
their attention on the West, from
which direction they are them
selves being dangerously pres
sured?
END OF AN ERA . .
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. UP —
Romanoff’s, for more than two
decades a sartorial showplace for
movie stars dinmg out, is closing
its doors for good Dee. 31.
Proprietor Mike Rjrnanoff ad
mits it’s no co’ncideoce that the
famed restaurant is going out of
business on the eve of the Inter
nal Revenue Service crackdown on
expense account living.
“It’s an end of an era,” he said.
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