THE NOME NUGGET
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MEL HARRIS
ANY PEOPLE IN NOME have known Mel Harris for a long
time and his face is familiar in connection with his work
'with Pan American Airways, but he is a modest man and this 1
community was not fully aware of his leadership ability until the
Lions Convention here started to take shape, then the long months
of planning began to emerge into a well organized, well planned
adventure in Alaska’s famous mining camp known the world 1
over as Alaska’s first city.
We learn that throughout the year as governor of the 49th
District, Mel Harris has devoted all his weekends, not only to
promote the work of this organization, but has used his skills
in leadership in promoting the Boy Scouts of America, taking an
active part in the Fairbanks Chamber of Commerce and doing his
share in church work.
Every community needs this kind of leader and the Lions
are lucky to have someone of this caliber in this responsible
position.
"Mel Harris has always put himself second to his job and
second to the Lion’s Club, always encouraging others by the
spirit of—this job is done—now let’s start on the next one.”
Lions Club projects are still in their infancy here, but the
convention is showing the community just what Lionism means.
This will help the local club, now established to grow and pro
mote more civic improvements, which will in turn make it a
stronger club.
Mel Harris share in making this possible will long be
remembered and appreciated.
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* HISTORICAL MARKERS
QF SPECIAL NOTE during Highway Week in the Nome area
are attractive historical signs which have been erected by the
State Highway Department in three places. Whoever is respon
sible is to be complimented.
One on the Anvil Road at Discovery Creek marks the dis
covering of gold; one at Fort Davis tells the story of that loca
tion and its historical past; and the third is at Peeluk Creek on the
Cape Nome Road.
These signs are well made and permanent and parents of all
children who have access to pistols or guns of any kind should be
given instruction to take pride in these signs so that they will
not be used for targets as have so many road signs been used in
die past.
Whether you’re a genius or a
dolt, your brain makes up only
about 2 per cent of your body
weight.
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' Red China Report:
CHILDREN
Editor’s Note: Schools in Red
China are designed to guide
pupils carefully down the
Marxist-Leninist road to the
"great leap forward.” Here is a
report on the younger generation
in Red China by a British au
thor who has just completed a
British travel agency tour of
the country. Fourth in a series
of articles.
By Richard Lister
PEKING UP — A nation under
goes a great change; suddenly
everything is new. But within a
very few years there appears a
generation to whom the new and
revolutionary is the old and
familiar.
We tourists visited the Middle
School at Ming Hung, a new in
dustrial and residential area —
a satellite town — outside Shang
hai. The children now entering
school, at 12 or 13, were born since
the Red Revolution. None of the
pupils can have any real recollec
tion of the old order.
It is an old-established school,
the principal, Mr. Yeh, was more
determined then most Chinese we
met to impress us with the correct
ness of his ideology. Before the
"liberation” he told us, all the
students were from the landlord
"lass or the bourgeoisie. Now 86
per cent are from worker or pea
sant families.
There are 1,900 of them, and
nost of them live here during
;erm. They live nine to a room
—small rooms, with double bunks
in each side and a single bed al
nost filling up the remaining space.
The aims of the school? To form
he children morally, intellectually
md physically, we are told. Cul
:ural and scientific knowledge
nust be taught, but education must
ilso develop the desired working
:lass outlook, and some time must
>e devoted to productive labor.
Every student spends 3 to 4 hours
i week either cultivating the
school fields, working in the shops,
Dr on domestic duties—cleaning or
in the kitchen. We visited the
workshops. A line of 14 trucks
were drawn up in the yard, engines
and chassis only. Girls and boys
were cutting up steel angles and
sheet for building the bodies. Pro
ductive labor is sternly practical.
Down the road from the work
shops we found the school pig
geries, and enclosures for ducks
and chickens.
The children must learn to
serve the Communist reconstruc
tion of the country, so there are
two hours a week of classroom
instruction in Marxism-Leninism,
and two further hours are spent
indiscussion or in studying poli
tical subjects. Three to five days
of the vacation are spent in
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militia training.
And how do the pupils — 50 to
a class — fare in their studies?
There are still shortcomings, Mr.
Yeh told us seriously. In one class
there are one or two students who
will fail their examinations. Still,
if a student fails or has a bad
record, everybody in the class is
to help him. It’s the old appeal to
“public opinion” however narrow
which is supposed to influence the
blackslider, Yeh said.
It does not seem as if the school
children of Ming Hung have a very
gay life. Yet they look happy —
the charm of the children is per
haps the happiest impression that
the visitor to China carries away
with him.
When they leave school, what
freedom have they in choosing a
career?
Like many of our questions, this
one seemed to lose much of its
meaning in the Chinese context.
The child’s aptitudes and attain
ments are known, and he will find
employment for them in some
field where the state has signi
fied its need for him. They say he
will have the happiness of know
ing that he is serving the cause
of Socialist reconstruction, and this
is more important than what the
West calls freedom. Against what
seemed to be the utter faith of
the Chinese in this assumption,
argument was pointless.
Next: Living standards.
Community Church
METHODIST
Sunday, June 20
Church School 10 a.m.
Divine Worship 11 a-m.
"Flaming Tongues of Fire"
Evening Meeting 7:30
"Talking Hands" Him from
Breaklhru TV Series for
children and parents
Vacation Church School
9*11 am. Monday-Friday -
Home Finance Agency
To Built 29 Experimental
Houses In Alaska
WASHINGTON (*> — A $179,
082 grant to finance a housing
demonstration in Alaska was an
nounced Tuesday by administrator
Robert C. Weaver of the Housing
and Home Finance Agency.
Twenty - nine houses will be
built in three different areas
where there are vast differences
in climate and availability of mat
erials.
Under the project, sponsored by
the Alaska Housing Authority, 27
houses will be built in a new vil
lage on the lower Yukon known as
Grayling. They will be built by
work teams of Indian families.
Another house will be built in
the Southeastern coastal area,
where the climate is more moder
ate than at Grayling and a less
cold-resistant type of construction
can be used.
The third part of the project
will involve erection of one house
in a remote Arctic region where
trees do not grow and no other
type of usual building material is
available. This house will be pre
fabricated and will be heavily in
sulated.
Cooperating in the project are
the Bureau of Indian Affairs and
Public Housing Administration.
All of the dwellings will be sold
after construction, with the pro
ceeds returnable to the Housing
and Home Finance Agency.
SINGLE 2-CENT HAWAIIAN
STAMP SELLS FOR $41,000
NEW YORK (JP> — A two-cent
Hawaiian stamp was sold Monday
night for $41,000 — said to be a
record for a single stamp sold at
auction.
The stamp, issued in 1851 for use
mainly by missionaries, is the only
known copy of this particular
stamp which had not gone through
the mails.
The Hawaiian stamp was from
the collection of the late Maurice
Burrus of Lausanne. It was bought
by Raymond Weill, a professional
philatelist from New Orleans.
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