THE N (> M E N U G G E 1
Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday by the
NOME PUBLISHING CO.
Nome, Alaska
Telephone 443-2381 $1.50 Per Month
P.O. Box 66 $16.00 a Year
James F. O'Sullivan, Publisher & Editor
Ed Jocius, Eoreniiiti
Entered a! second class matter October 14. 1943, at the
post office at Nome. Alaska, under Act of March 3, 1879.
THE SEASON FOR IT!
DOCTORS are accomplishing wonderful things with blood,
according to papers at the annual meeting of the American
Association of Blood Banks in Detroit. By fractioning blood, for
example, it is sometimes possible to treat two and even three
patients with one unit. Electronic machines are coming along
that may take over the tedious task of typing.
Busier than ever is the national clearing house system in which
hospital and community banks and the Red Cross cooperate to credit
blood given locally to distant relatives or friends. A boy with
hemophilia, the dread bleeding disease, in Hawaii recently was
credited with 49 pints given to the Central Florida Blood Bank
in Orlando, where he formerly lived.
But it all emphasizes the continuing need for blood. Human
blood comes only from humans. If you are between 21 and 60
and in good health, you can save lives by donating blood regu
larly at the nearest blood bank or collection center.
JOIN NOME'S WALKING BLOOD BANK!
/"\N JUST ABOUT EVERYTHING you dare to write in a news
paper, there’s a good chance someone will jump down your
throat. Make a real boo-boo and the roof will fall in.
You can be extremely careful in writing up an editorial that
is meant to motivate people into improving conditions for man
kind and likely as not someone will interpret it as personal effron
tery and howl like a coyote.
Take the case of one editor. It seemed that everything he
wrote brought brickbats instead of bouquets. Whatever he edi
torialized about, some person would buttonhole him on it to
object.
In desperation one week, he printed the Ten Commandments
as his editorial content of the paper. He was congratulating him
self for putting out one complaint-free editorial when he received
a letter from a subscriber. It read: "Cancel my subscription.
You are getting too personal.”
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ALGIERS M — A precarious
j calm settled on the Moroccan-Al
gerian border area today as the
two sides belatedly observed their
cease-fire agreement and a Mali
officer made the first contacts
across the front line.
Sporadic shots could still be
heard during the night in the
area of the border oasis of Figuig,
but the origin and objective of the
shooting was not clear.
Both sides reported that fight- j
ing has stopped along the entire i
front for the first time since the
undeclared Sahara war broke out
on October eighth.
Each side blamed the other for 1
the truce violation up to now in
the Figuig area and demanded that
the matter be investigated bv the
neutral truce commission of Ma
lian and Ethiopian officers set up
under the cease-fire agreement.
Two Mali officers of tire com
mision began functioning in the
i front lines yesterday, but the
| Ethiopian members have not yet
| reached Algeria.
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29 Years Ago Today . . .
Sixty-five thousand Japanese
fans crowded the Meiji Stadium in
Tokyo and watched Babe Ruth and
his teammates rout the Tokyo
Club by 17 to 1.
Kingsford Smith and Capt. P. G.
Taylor landed at Oakland, Calif.,
completing a 2.408 mile hop from
Honolulu. Flight took 14 hours and
59 minutes.
Doughnuts — 40 cents per dozen,
delivered for 50 cents; Raisin
Bread at 35 cents. See Mrs. Bald
win at Corner Wireless Walk.
Most momenteous off-year elec
tion in eight years rushing to cli
max, with signs pointing to victory
for Demos as the New Dealers,
Anti’s and Middle Grounders com
posed their final plea to 30 mil
lion voters.
It was Arthur Brisbane who ob
served. “It’s a good thing to know
how to satisfy your own conscience
and make the cash register ring
also.”
Alaska Gets Proposals for
N.Y. Fair Exhibits
JUNEAU Ufi — The state has
received and is evaluating three
proposals for the operation of con
cessions at its New York World’s
Fair exhibit. Commissioner of Ad
ministration Floyd Guertin said
today.
The building being constructed
by Alaska at the fair site contains
two concession areas totaling 362
square feet.
In addition, there is space be
hind the building for concessions.
Morris Ford, director of the
Alaska Travel Division, said it was
hoped that a decision could be
made on which of the three pro- i
posals will be accepted within 10 j
days or two weeks.
Minnesota Attorney In
Court Fight for Life
MINNEAPOLIS tfl’l — Attorney
Eugene Thompson was accused in
a Minneapolis court today of ar
ranging ti e slaying of his wife so I
he could collect more than $1-,
million in insurance on her and ■
marry another woman.
Prosecutor William Randall said :
in his opening statement at Thomp- !
son’s first degree murder trial that
“we will show the man married j
to Carol Thompson advised an
other woman back in early 1962, j
| ‘Just give me eleven months’ to ar
range affairs so he could marry \
her.
Randall did not name the wom
an, but told the jury she was the
mother of three children.
The prosecutor named Norman
Mastrian, 39-vear-old former box
er, as the man who received $2,500
in $100 bills. He charged Mastrian
hired the killer after three others
had turned down the job.
Mastrian and Dick Anderson of
Minneapolis, named earlier by
police as the actual killer, are
both held in $100,000 bail on first
degree murder charges.
MEET THE TEACHER . . .
We greet Mrs. Ronald Regnart.
She is teaching Nome’s first grade
and comes to us with four years
experience in Anchorage. Mrs.
Regnart attended the University of
Puget Sound and calls Spokane
her home.
Her hobbies are sewing, travel
ing, cooking, skiing, skating and
knitting. She has seen some of
Europe, having traveled there in
the summer of 1962.
Letter To
The Editor
Oct. 31, 19(53
To The Editor:
Sometime ago a boy of 8 years
i old was shot in the eye with a
BB gun. Very luckily Wiens have
a Cessna 180 stationed out here
at Gambell. Pilot Thor Tjontveit
of Wiens Airlines took the injured
boy over to North East Cape in
very unfavorable weather. Then
from there another Wiens plane
took him to Nome for treatment.
From Nome, he was transferred to
Anchorage Hospital by Dick Gal
lehcr of Munz Northern Airlines.
These people gave all the help
they can give to save the boy’s
eye, whom they don't even know.
This shows how much Wiens and
Munz think of the people whom
they serve for long time, and yet
all they get is criticism.
I don’t think this is the first time
this kind of mercy flight is made.
I am pretty sure this was done in
the past. I can say freely they
have served the villages they
serve.
I. as member of the village coun
cil, give my Thank You to Wiens
Airlines and Munz Northern for
the job well done. I especially give
my thanks to the pilots of these
planes. I am pretty sure that the
parents of this boy t ank you, too.
Keep up the good work.
CLIFFORD IKNOKINOK
Gambell
Over 4,000 major operations
have been performed aboard the
white hospital ship SS. HOPE
during its two voyages and nearly
half a million people have been
examined and immunized.
SEE US — FOR YOUR
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