THE NOME NUGGET
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James F. O'Sullivan, Publisher & Editor
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Entered at second class matter October 14. 1943, at the
post office at Nome, Alaska, under Act of March 3, 1879.
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Your Blood is Needed
ttTT’S AN ILL WIND that blows nobody good," says an old
1 English proverb that dates back at least to the 16th Century.
We are reminded of this by a line in an announcement of the
recent meeting of the American Association of Blood Banks.
This valuable organization of hospital and community blood
banks is an out-growth, remarkably enough, of the terrible Texas
City disaster in 1947. The blood banks which cooperated to save
lives after the ship explosion there felt the need for continual co
operation and formed an organization. It now has 3,800 members
in every state and 25 foreign countries.
It has established standards for blood banks, a national clearing
house system, regional reference laboratories, and a central file of
rare donors. The workings of the last two often save lives dra
matically by turning up rare blood types in emergencies.
The life of a woman in Wichita Falls, Texas, for example,
was recently saved by blood flown to her from Boston, Milwaukee,
and California donors. Blood from Memphis, Tenn., similarly
saved a woman in Jersey City.
Since 1961, the Association and the American Red Cross have
co-operated to permit local donation of blood for credit to friends
or relatives anywhere in the country. But it all still depends on
the human blood donor. So far, there is no other source. If you
are between 21 and 60 and in good health you should give blood
regularly to your local blood bank or collection center.
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THE RED BEAR
A Story front Andreivsky on the Lower Yukon
(From the 18th Annual BAE Report)
On the tundra, south of the Yu
kon mouth, there once lived an
orphan boy with his aunt. They
were Quite alone, and one summer
day the boy took his kayak and
traveled away to see where people
lived on the Yukon, of whom he
had heard. When he came to the
river, he traveled up its course un
til he reached a large village.
There he landed and the people
ran down to the shore, seized him,
broke his kayak to pieces, tore
his clothing from him, and beat
him badly.
The boy was kept there until the
end of summer, the subject of con
tinual beating and ill treatment
from the villagers. In the fall one
of the men took pity on him, made
him a kayak, and started him
homeward, where he arrived after
a long absence. When he reached
home he saw that a large village
had grown up by his aunt’s house.
As soon as he landed, he went to
his aunt’s house and entered,
frightening her very much, for he
had been starved and beaten so
long that he looked almost like a
skeleton.
When his aunt recognized him,
she received his story with words
of pity, then words of anger at the
cruel villagers. When he had fin
ished telling her of his sufferings,
she told him to bring a piece of
wood, which he did; this they
worked into a small image of an
animal with long teeth and long,
sharp claws, painting it red upon
the sides and white on the throat.
Then they took the image to the
edge of the creek and placed it in
the water, the aunt telling it to go
and destroy every one it could find
at the village where her boy had
been.
The image did not move, and
the old woman took it out of the
water and cried over it, letting her
tears fall upon it, and then put it
back in the water, saying, “Now
go and kill the bad people who
beat my boy.” At this the image
floated across the creek and
crawled up the other bank,
where it began to grow, soon
reaching a large size, when it be
came a red bear. It turned and
looked at the old woman until she
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called out to it to go and spare
no one.
The bear then went away until
he came to the village on the
great river. It met a man just
going for water and it quickly tore
him to pieces; then the bear stayed
near the village until he had killed
more than half of the people, and
the others were preparing to leave
it in order to escape destruction.
He then swam across the Yukon
and went over the tundra to the
farther side of Kuskokwim river,
killing every one he saw, for the
least sign of life seemed to fill
him with fury until it was de
stroyed. From the Kuskokwim the
bear turned back, and one day it
stood on the creek bank where it
had become filled with fury, tear
ing the ground with his claws,
and growling, and began to cross
the creek. When the villagers saw
this they were much frightened
and ran about, saying “Here is the
old woman’s dog. We shall all be
killed. Tell the old woman to stop
her dog.” And they sent her to
meet the bear. The bear did not
try to hurt her, but was passing
by to get at the other people when
she caught it by the hair on its
neck, saying. “Do not hurt these
people who have been kind to me
and have given me food when I
was hungry.”
After this she led the bear into
her house and, sitting down, told
him that he had done her bidding
well and had pleased her, but that
he must not injure people any
more unless they tried to hurt
him or abuse him. When she had
finished telling him this she led
him to the door and sent him away
over the tundra. Since this time
there have always been red bears.
Russia claims it has almost 17,
000 women 100 years of age or old
er. .. . It still remains an open
question whether people live long
er under Communism — or it just
seems longer.
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.JUNEAU (.V — Specialized train
ing offered by various western
public colleges and universities
soon will be available to Alaskan
students without payment of non
resident tuition. Gov. William A.
Egan said yesterday.
Egan said the opportunity will
be made available, starting with
the fall term next year, under a
plan now being developed by the
Western Interstate Commission for
Higher Education (.WICHE).
Under the plan, participating
schools would permit out-of-state
students to enroll at resident tui
tions in selected courses and pro
grams which may have vacancies.
The plan would be applicable to
both graduate and undergraduate
levels.
Purpose of the program, Egan
said, is to offer increased educa
tional opportunities to young
■people of the 13 western states as
well as reduce overall educational
costs by sharing unique and often
expensive facilities among the
states.
Additional details of the pro
gram and courses to be offered
will be distributed by WICHE to
colleges, universities and high
school advisors throughout Alaska
and other western states shortly
after the first of the year, Egan
said.
A scientist has determined that
a single oyster produces 10 million
eggs in a season. Nothing was said
about what a married oyster
produces.
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