THE NOME NUGGET
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Entered as second class matter October 14, 1943, at the
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THERE BUT FOR THE GRACE OF GOD
tt&PP/S- — *
Time to Count Our Blessings
(Courtesy Methodist Bulletin)
WHEN THE PILGRIMS held their first Thanksgiving feast
in 1621, the turkeys were supplied by four men sent out
to shoot wild birds. When Abraham Lincoln, urged the editor
of Godey's Lady Book, began a yearly national Thanksgiving Day
in 1863, most people, though who at turkey had raised it them
selves.
This week, though, most of us will drive to the supermarket
to pick up our turkeys—all neatly dressed and wrapped in trans
parent plastic. At he same time we will buy everything else for
our feast, each item in a nice package. Only bv hearsay will we
know' that they grew instead of being manufactured. After paving
at the check-out counter, we wonder whether we still owe any
thanks for them.
Thankfulness calls for imagination nowadays. We have to
remember that God works through persons as much as through
nature. We have to trace his handiwork in the cooperation of
thousands of human hands back of the loaf on our table.
Thanksgiving is a time to think about the whole process by
which God gives us food and other good gifts today. Gratitude
means more than just admitting we have received them; it means
using them as the Giver has intended. Our fathers could perhaps
see better what God has given us in this good land of ours, but
for our children’s sake we have more need to thank him for it
by seeking out and observing all his commandments. We must
heed his natural laws if we are to preserve the fertile soil on the
surface of our land and the mineral supplies underneath. We must
heed his moral and spiritual laws if our people are to work to
gether in harmony and spread its blessings to all.
Japan Leads World In
Bountiful Fish Catch
ROME MPl — Japanese fishermen
landed almost one half of all the
tuna, bonito and mackeral caught
in the world in 1961, the Food
Agricultural Organization (FAO>
reported Monday.
The total world catch in this
group of fishes was 2.1 million
metric tons, an increase of 50,000
tons over 1960, an FAO world
fisheries survey showed.
Of that total, the Japanese
caught 1,036,700 tons compared to
930,400 tons which they landed
the year before.
The United States, with 175,000
tons, had the world’s second high
est tuna-bonito-mackeral catch in
1961. This was an increase of
15,200 tons over 1960.
Peru had the third largest catch
in this group of fishes, with 146,
500 tons.
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Storm Brings 7.89 Inches
Of Rain in Washington
SEATTLE — A storm that
brought 7.89 inches of rain in 24
hours at one mountain pass snarl
ed transportation in parts of the
Pacific Northwest Tuesday.
! The 7.89-inch downpour was
: recorded at Stampede Pass, a little
used route 60 miles southeast of
Seattle. Olympia, the Washington
State capital, had 4.12 inches in
24 hours.
Rain, high winds, melting snow
and slides combined to close rail
and highway routes and cause
minor river flooding.
The Canadian National and Cana
dian Pacific Railroad lines were
blocked 100 miles east of Vancou
ver, B.C.
White and Stevens Passes across
the Cascade Mountains in Washing
ton State were closed temporarily
by slides. In White Pass wind
gusts to 80 miles an hour were
recorded Monday.
Alaska Businessmen Tell
Financiers of Investment
New York
Potential
i\r.w t ums. un — Alaska sent
leading members of its business
world and government to New
York Monday to tell the New York
financial community of the invest
ment potential of the nation's 49th
state.
Some 25 Alaskans, including
Gov. Wm. Egan, met with bankers,
newspapermen and financiers at
the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel to relate
the state’s present situation and
its hopes for the future.
"We are probably one of the
most underdeveloped lands on the
face of the earth,” said Walter
Hickel of Anchorage, in a speech to
the luncheon.
"While Alaska is long on re
sources and potential," he said, "it
is very, very short on long-term
risk capital. This is brought about
by the fact that there is relatively
little second generation money and
a ccumul a ted wea 11 h
The purpose of the delegation’s
visit, according to Charles West,
of Westours, Inc., Fairbanks, is
“to create a favorable impression
for our economic situation in the
financial capital of the United
States.
Economic Potential
"We think we have tremendous
economic potential but need capi
tal. Alaskans don’t have enough
locally.”
Many of the New York bankers
and financiers showed their in
terest in Alaska’s present and fu
ture by peppering a panel of Alas
kan businessmen with questions
after the luncheon.
In reply to one question, Egan
predicted that in five years ‘‘Alas
ka will be in better shape finan
cially than most other states of
the union.”
He also told the financial leaders
that “we are in the process of
organizing an Alaska Development
Bank which will have an $18 mil
lion development program in two
or three years to attract new in
dustry.”
Before the meeting, Albert J.
Lubin, Asst. Administrator of the
Small Business Administration,
told a newsman of a trip he made
to Alaska with the SBA Adminis
trator and Sen. E. L. Bartlett.
“We made the swing from Ket
Sen. E. L. Bartlett
Will Visit Far East
WASHINGTON UP) — Sen. E. L.
Bartlett leaves today for the Far
East to investigate defense and
military matters for the Senate
Armed Services Committee.
Bartlett said he also will look
into reports of increasing Red
Chinese fishing activities in the
Pacific and talk to businessmen
about promotion and development
of trade between Alaska and Japan
and Okinawa.
After a one-day briefing stop in
Honolulu, Bartlett said he will
visit Viet Nam, Hong Kong, For
mosa, Okinawa and Tokyo before
going to Alaska in mid-December.
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chikan to Sitka to .Juneau to Fair
banks and to Anchorage, meeting
with members of the business com
munity.
"We are tremendously impressed
with the economic potential of
Alaska. One of its greatest needs
is capital investment.”
Draws Picture of Alaska
In his speech to the luncheon,
Hickel drew this picture of Alaska
of the future:
“In my lifetime, I see a million
people in Alaska, with primary
manufacturing, supplying resources
to the needs of the whole Pacific
basin.
“I see freight-carrying atomic
submarines going through the
Bering Straits . . . jet air freighters
operating across the Pole to supply
the underdeveloped millions upon
millions that live along the rim
of the Pacific basin . . . we see
twice as many pulp mills with the
total utilization of some of our
other species of softwoods and
hardwoods in the interior, along
with a more intensified develop
ment of the coastal area.
“We see the tremendous food !
supplies that can be generated !
from the sea to feed a hungry i
world . . . we see hundreds of
thousands of tourists roaming our !
vast state, housed in accommoda- j
tions that they not only are ac- :
customed to, but that they will :
demand.” |
Tjre visit to New York comes l
before Alaska’s offering of $18
million in Alaska development:
corporation bonds. Members of the
delegation will make individual
calls on firms indicating an in- j
terest in the state.
Alaskans Told
l o i*l:m I Isos of
Wilier Resources
FAIRBANKS I/P) — Alaska
should not wait too long in work
in;: out a comprehensive' plan to
use its water resources, Col. Chris
tian Hanburger. U.S. Army Dist.
Engineer for the state, said Tues
day.
Col. Hanburger warned, in an
address prepared for a Fairbanks
C hamber of Commerce luncheon,
of the hazards of not planning and
said water shortages are already
developing in other parts of the
world because of growing popu
lation and industry.
“I have heard people say, ‘water
is not a problem in Alaska’,” Col.
Hanburger said. ‘‘I say water is
already a problem, and time is
not going to solve it.”
He listed several examples of
water shortages, water polution
and flood problems in Alaska. He
urged Fairbanks residents to ex
pedite plans to avert flood dam
age by the Chena River.
The Army Engineers have com
pleted an inventory of Alaska's
water resources, Col. Hanburger
said. But the primary responsi
bility for development, he added,
lies with the residents.
112,000 TURKEYS . . .
WASHINGTON (£’) — Military
cooks are preparing 112,000 turkeys
to serve to American fighting men
around the world on Thanksgiving.
The Defense Department an
nounced Tuesday that the tradition
of roast turkey dinner will be ob
served both on Thanksgiving and
on Christmas. A master menu calls
for everything from a shrimp cock
tail appetizer to nuts and candy.
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