THE NOME NUGGET
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James F. O’Sullivan, Publisher & Editor
Ed Jocius, Foreman
Entered at second class matter October 14. 1943, at the
post office at Nome. Alaska, under Act of March 3. 1879.
No Cure In Sight for Costliest Malady
^TWENTY MILLION AMERICANS are suffering from colds
on any one day of the winter months. On the average, 125,000
workers stay home because of colds every single day of the year,
and evenone — according to U.S. Public Health studies — suffers
from one to three colds a year. That’s 500 million runny noses
annually!
Thus, the common cold causes more lost work days in U.S.
industry than any other single disability and adds up to a stagger
ing total of $5 billion in lost production, lost wages and medical
expense. And the cold bill does not include the cost of more
serious diseases — laryngitis, bronchitis, sinusitis and pneumonia
— which may follow-.
For example, one nationwide concern with about 4,500 em
ployes reports that colds account for 52 per cent of the 18,741
man days lost by illness in a typical year. Applying the average,
a small businessman with ten employes loses 25 man days a year
due to colds, or the equivalent of a full working month.
So it’s bad business, any way you look at it, to catch a cold
*— and worse to neglect it.
How do you NOT catch a cold? Grandma’s advice: "Don't
get your feet wet,” is still the best. Dress for the weather, avoid
chilling, avoid overheating, avoid unnecessary exposure and don’t
let yourself get overtired. But if the germs still get you, don’t wait
for the cold to just go away. Treat it promptly with a dependable
anticold medication, such as Coricidin. And if it doesn’t respond
to treatment by all means see the doctor.
Although the Government and the pharmaceutical industry
have spent an estimated $10 million this year in their research on
the "cold” war, the cure for the common cold is not yet in sight.
But, with a little preventive caution, many colds can be avoided
and with proper medication, discomfort is minimzed, they’ll clear
up faster and complications can be avoided.
You shouldn’t have to lose two-and-a-half days (the minimum
average) out of your life every year.
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! Permafrost Conference
JUNEAU UP> — Thirteen Alas
kans are among scientists from 10
nations scheduled to attend an in
ternational conference on perma
frost at Purdue University Nov.
11-15.
Professor Kenneth B. Woods,
head of Purdue’s School of Engin
eering and conference chairman,
said the meeting is designed to
bring the resources of many scien
tific and technical disciplines to
. bear on the problems of perma
frost “and enable man to cease
living as an intruder in the Arctic."
Besides the United States, the
conference is expected to draw
representation from the Soviet
Union. Canada, West Germany.
Poland, Sweden. Norway, Great
Britain, Japan and Argentina.
Alaskans scheduled to attend in
clude Ambs J. Alter, chief engin
eer for the State Division of Pub
lic Health, Dean Earl Beistline.
College of Earth Science and Min
eral Industries, University of Alas
ka; Dr. Max C. Brewer, director
of the Arctic Research Laboratory,
Barrow; Warren George, chief of
the Engineeing Division, U S. Ar
my Engineer District. Alaska, An
chorage; G. La Mar Kubbs, chief
of the Environmental Sanitation
Section, Arctic Health Research
Center, Anchorage; Erwin L.
Long, Army Engineers. Anchorage;
Dr. Troy L. Pewe, head of the
Department of Geology, University
nf Alaska; Edgar S. Philleo, Phil
leo Engineering and Architectural
Service, Fairbanks; Dr. E. F. Rice,
: head of the Department of Civil
; Engineering, University of Alaska;
Dean Charles Sargent, College of
Mathematics, Physical Science and
Engineering, University of Alaska;
O. W. Simoni, civil engineer. Army
Field Station, Fairbanks;
Roger M. Waller, Ground Water
Branch, U.S. Geological Survey,
Anchorage, and John R. Williams,
Water Resource Division, Ground
Water Research, U.S. Geological
Survey, Anchorage.
In and Out
With Alaska Airlines
To Unalakleet — A. Odinzoff, M.
Oyoumick.
To Nome — A. Long, G. Alsberg,
J. Norris, G. Heicht, S. Cornelius,
W. Rowland, I. Deickmiller. T.
Balone, D. Harrison, L. Lundbor,
J. Beattie, D. Butler, H. Stocking,
J. Hemphill, C. Springberg, W.
Wilsvvorth. G. Scott, H. Medvedeff,
L. Bronson, E. Bruckner, W. Ba
ker, D. Wolfe, M. Hanaver.
To Anchorage — H. Melton, B.
Hancock, A. Topkok, A. Norris, S.
Cornelius, G. Alsberg, E. Ahwi
nona. E. Bruckner, K. McGuire,
W. Brown, B. Chambers, S. Gey
man, C. Robert, I. Garcia, L.
Moore, K. Puryear, F. Pagenkopf,
R. Sackett, J. Toronto, R. Davey,
M. Davey. R. Hippert, M. Washing
ton.
To Kotzebue — R Rausch, D.
Strode. H. Boyman, W. Davis, J.
Beattie, D. Butler.
CLUE POT
Soda Fountain
Cigars — Cigarettes
Tobacco
Candy
Fresh Ice Cream
Every Day
ALL KINDS OF
SODA POP
29 Years Ago Today
Green Lantern Card Room and
Beer Parlor now open for busi
ness at corner of 1st Ave. and
B Street.
•
Emerson Bassett, local agent for
PAA states that the U.S. mail con
tract for hauling by air this win
ter will result in 1,000 pounds per
trip. If there is not sufficient first
class to make 1,000 pounds addi
tional mail of other classes will be
added to bring up total.
•
Postmaster General Jim Farley
said he had nothing to say when
, asked about a published letter en
dorsing Sinclair.
•
At Greenwood, Alabama, a little
colored man stood on the porch
of his farmhouse and told a mob
that “you done me wrong because
you killed the Negro” after he was
told he would be granted the first
shot at him. The dead Negro,
Claude Neal, had attacked and
later killed Lola Cannidy, aged 23.
His shot and mutilated body was
strung to the limb of a tree in the
court house square at Marianna
after being dragged several miles
behind an automobile, shot a doz
en or more times and mutilated
with knives. Several thousand ga
thered, some drunk, to witness the
lynching.
Work-Stoppage At
San Quentin Prison
SAN QUENTIN, Calif. UP) — San
Quentin Prison’s 4,000 convicts
staged a brief stop-work strike to
day in sympathy for last week’s
strike of convicts at Folsom Prison
for more pay and shorter terms.
More than 30 booing convict
pickets halted the normal morning
trek to schools, vocational shops,
maintenance shops and industries.
But by mid-morning San Quen
tin — one of the nation’s biggest
state penitentiaries and site of
California’s gas execution cham
ber — began returning to normal.
A prison official said:
“When the men wouldn’t go to
work, we locked them all back in
their cells.”
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By the end of the year, for ex
ample, the FAA will have all air
craft operating above 24,000 feet
within the continental United
States under positive radar control.
This will greatly reduce the chances
of mid-air collisions along the jet
routes.
The Agency also has initiated a
major program in the design and
development of a commercial su
personic transport which should
be flying by 1968 when FAA cele
brates its 10th anniversary. Other
FAA research and development
projects include an arresting gear
system to keep aircraft from over
shooting runways on takeoffs and
landings and all weather landing
systems to permit aircraft to op
erate safely in conditions of zero
ceiling and zero visibility.
FAA presently employs about
45,000 people, making it the sev
enth largest Federal agency.
Approximately 18,000 Agency
employes — or 40 per cent of the
total strength — are engaged in air
traffic control services. They staff
some 32 air route traffic control
centers, 272 airport control tow
ers. 325 flight service stations, and
38 military radar approach control
facilities.
Another 10,000 employes are in
volved with the maintenance of
the thousands of air navigation
aids and radars that mark the air
ways in this country.
The Agency also maintains a
corps of about 1,000 operations and
maintenance inspectors to keep a
continuing check on pilot profi
ciency and aircraft airworthiness.
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