THE NOME NUGGET
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post office at Nome, Alaska, under Act of March 3, 1879.
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Time to Polyunsaturate
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¥ TOW ARF YOUR LIPIDS? . . . The general idea is if they
are doing well — you ain’t! Physicians, bio-chemists and
medical researchers explain that these lipids — from the Greek
"lipos," meaning fat — are a class of greasy things, including
cholesterol ind sundry other items that get into vour blood if
you don’t watch out and contribute to atherosclerosis (hardening
of-the-arteries to you).
If you want lipids, say the medicos, just go ahead and con
sume all the saturated fats you please. But if you want to avoid
high blood pressure, you should go for fats that are "polyun
saturated.”
How do you do that. We don't suppose the butcher could
give vou polyunsaturated pork chops, or your favorite restaurant
provide you with a polyunsaturated menu. But you can buy a
can of Maine sardines most anywhere — which, it turns out are
about as polyunsaturated as any nourishing, high protein food you
can find, and also get after the lipids already lurking among
your corpuscles.
This is the substance of a scholarly report in the Journal of
the American Geriatrics Society on highly scientific studies recently
completed in Cambridge, Mass. In this investgation, 62 volunteer
subjects — 24 men and 38 women from 26 to 90 years of age and
all with elevated serum cholesterol levels — substituted a full can
of Maine sardines including the soybean packing oil ever)- day
for a part of the butter, cream, proteins and cereals in their normal
diet for as long as 26 weeks. Within four weeks, according to the
medical researchers, the lipids were on the lam- and following
the sardine diet, cholesterol levels — high in all the jv.tients tested
— also were lower.
As for those people who are fond of their lipids — and Maine
sardines, too; they will just have to choose which to give up.
When mice gnawed into the or
gan bellows of a little church in
Bavaria, organist Franz Xavier
Gruber composed “Silent Night,
Holy Night,” to fit the words of
a poem written by Father Joseph
Mohr. It was easy for the villagers
to sing without the accompani
ment of an organ.
Roses have bloomed in North
America for 32 million years.
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Italian Seaport Town Is Determined to
Immortalize tlie Courage of Seamen
ATTENTION BARGE RIDERS
1 AND SKIN BOAT HEROES:
SAN REMO, Italy (Special) —
The Town Council of Snnrcmo,
Italy, with the collaboration of
the President of the Italian Naval
League, has founded an Inter
national Prize, called the "Figure
head of Courage” to be awarded
every year to a sailor, belonging
to any nationality, rank or func
tions, to the military Navy, or
merchant fleet, or fishing fleet or
private yachts, who has accom
plished an action deserving to be
remembered for it’s seaman's
spirit and pluck.
There are innumerable kinds of
prizes, but a prize such as this one
does not exist, has never existed.
For thousands of years man has
been achieving great things at
sea, but if there is no drama, no
sensational event, his courage as
a seaman remains a fact known
only to those who follow the same
profession.
The Town Council of Sanremo
has decided that the seaman’s
courage shall be an object of uni
versal admiration, and for this
purpose has instituted a prize.
The prize wil’ be awarded to
a seaman of any nationality, rank
or appointment belonging to the
navy, merchant fleet, fishing fleet
or to a pleasure craft who has
performed an action at sea worthy
of being recalled for the seafaring
spirit in which it was achieved.
Given the significance which it
must assume among seafaring men
throughout the world, it may even
be decided not to award the prize
if the jury should feel that no ac
tion truly worthy of award has
been achieved during the year.
The period to be considered for
the award of the prize runs from
the 10th of June of one year to
the 1st of June of the next year.
The prize is not awarded for a
simple act of courage, however
great, but to the seaman whose
technical and human skill pro
vides to the very highest degree
a measure of that imponderable
and not easily definable quality of
the seaman which is his seafaring
spirit.
The flag under which that deed
is performed is of no importance.
Seamen of all nationalities are
equally entitled to compete for
the prize, which is a prize to the
seaman as such, irrespective of
his nationaity.
The prize is known as the Fig
urehead of Courage.
The figurehead was the effigy
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the family store
which adorned the bows of the
ships of the days gone by.
In the ancient galleys, the fig
urehead emerged from the end of
the ram in the shape of an iron
or bronze point, with the head of
a wild boar, snake, dragon and
the like. In ltss remote times the
figurehead expressed the name of
the ship, was a sacred or profane,
historical or mythological statue
of considerable size in order to
resist the impact of the water
being cut by the bows.
The ancient symbol of naviga
tion has been adopted by Sanremo
to reward the most courageous
seamen of all the navies. The an
cient figurehead has become a
symbol of shining honour.
The solemn prize-giving cere
mony will take place at Sanremo,
Italy, on June 10, 1964.
The Jury awarding the Figure
head of Courage is composed of
Admiral Ernesto Giuriati, Chief of
the Italian Naval Staff, president;
Commander Luigi Durand de la
Penne, holder of the gold medal
for military valour, and Vittorio
G. Rossi, the writer of sea stories.
Deeds considered worthy of
competing for the prize may be
re; zted to the Italian Naval At
taches in the various countries, or
to the foreign Naval Attaches in
Italy.
The Secretary’s Office has been
established in Rome, c/o Lega
Navale Italiana, Via Giustiniani 5.
Cheat . . .
In Chicago, a man got 120 days
in jail for making false statements
to conceal assets in his petition for
bankruptcy. Among the things he
tried to conceal were a 15-room
house which cost him $18,000 —
and a $250,000 estate to which he
j is the only heir.
Some steel balls will bounce
higher than those made of rubber.
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Letters
To Tlie Editor
To The Editor:
I wish to take this opportunity
to thank the following list of don
ors to the Cheerleader Travel
Fund:
Alaska Cab. Bering Sea Lions,
Billikin Gift Shop, Board of Trade,
Pearse Walsh. Nome Sanitary Ser
vice, North Star Hotel, Munz
Northern Airlines, Polar Bar &
Curio, Straubs Service Center,
Wien Airlines, Moonshine Water,
Jerry Koontz, Cavotas Shop, Frank
Couch, Northern Commercial Co.,
Nomerama Theater, Father Nevue,
Nome Nugget.
The total amount collected was
$153.50.
—JIM STONE
To The Editor:
The Nome Public School and
the basketball players and
coaches in particular, wish to
thank all the people who helped
feed, house and transport the La
throp High School players while
they were in Nome.
The comments the coaches heard
were very well received, and it is
hoped that this will be the first
of many yearly encounters be
tween these fine schools.
It is people like the ones who
housed these boys who make trips
of this nature so worthwhile. I
am sure the Lathrop boys were
well pleased with their stay here.
Again, thank you all for your ef
forts and wonderful co-operation.
It is really appreciated.
VIC CHARLES
Superintendent of Schools
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