THE NOME NUGGET
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EDITORIAL
WHEN IT’S BAD—
>IT’S DAMN BAD
Today is one of those days
when there isn’t a cloud in the
Sky, not only at Nome but all
over the Territory. It’s one of
those days you read about where
the weather is perfect at all
points.
Nome had the warmest temper
ature of any northern Alaska
City this morning at nine o’clock
8 degrees above zero, While at
Fairbanks it was reported at 42
below and other paints well be
low the zero mark.
Cloudless skies make for much
airplane activity along the far
flung airlines of Alaska, and to
day was no exception. Return
ing daylight, moderate tempera
tures at Nome and northwestern
Alaska make for increased activ
ity.
However, .the opposite is often
true, When the weather is bad,
it's damn bad, as the expression
goes. All of the latest and most
up todate means are used today
to forecast and broadcast wea
ther conditions. Airplanes main
tain contact with ground stations
by means of radio, and are kept
constantly in touch wih all chang
es in weather conditions—a far
cry from the day when the pilot
at Nome would look at the hills
and if the conditions didn’t look
just right, said: “Too tough to
day,” and went back to bed
again.
Progress, that symbolic achiev
ment of mankind can’t be held
back indefinitely. But the wea
; ther still has to be right to make
it.
XMAS SEAL SALE FUNDS
DO GOOD WORK
An example of the fine work
being accomplished by the Tuber
culin Testing and Early Case
Finding Clinics conducted by the
Territorial Department of Health
and made possible by the annual
Christmas Seal Sale conducted
by the Alaska Tuberculosis As
sociation was recently disclosed
by Dr. Palmer Congdon, Tuber
culosis Clinician,
i One of the aims of these trav
eling clinics is to examine people
1 who have been contacts of a
known case of tuberculosis and
l to find the disease while it is in
an early and easily durable form.
Recently, in one of the larger
'Alaska cities, a young woman,
the mother of five children be
tween the ages of 2 and 8, be
came ill, was examined, x-rayed
! and found to have an advanced
jcase of tuberculosis. Her sputum
was found to contain many of
the germs of tuberculosis. Ar
rangements were made for her
care in an outside sanatorium
where she is receiving the best
of aid in her fight to regain her
health.
Later when the Tuberculin
Testing Clinics were held in this
city, the father and the five child
ren were asked to come in for
tuberculin tests and x-rays. The
tuberculin tests on the five child
ren were all positive showing
| that they had taken the tuber
I culosis germs into their systems
I and x-rays were taken of the
| entire family. The baby showed
a large shadow in the right lung
and the next oldest a smaller
| shadow in the left lung. These
; two had a very early form of the
disease and will undoubtedly get
well if given plenty of good food
fresh air, cod liver oil, and rest.
The middle child, however, show
led a more serious type of the
disease and sanatorium care must
be provided if she is to have the
best chance to recover and lead
a normal life.
The father is apparently well
but the reports on the two old
est children, who are attending
school, are not yet complete.
Each member of this family will
of course need a periodic check
up and as long as they remain
in Alaska and as long as the Tu
berculin Testing and Early Case
Finding Clinics are held, this ser
vice will be available to them.
This case history is an example
of what the Traveling Tubercul
osis Clinics are trying to accom
plish and demonstrates another
of '.he many services for which
the Christmas Seal Sale funds
are e:.pended.
POLES STILL FICHT NAZI S—Now operating: with British fleet, two Polish destroyers,
Grom and Blyskawica, carry torpedo tubes like these, pictured aboard one vessel.
DO YOU RECOGNIZE ANYTHING ?—"To err is human” might well be a motto for
desk of Bertram G. Cowles (above), who’s chief of that clearing-house for postal mistakes, the "dead
letter” office in Washington, P. C. But letters aren't the only things mis-sent, says Mr. Cowles, in
dicating assortment that on tikis day included even eggs and owl book-ends.
n I IT’S A LAUGH
it -
r Dry weather can’t kill dust
bowl humor.
In Kansas the farmers will tell
n you it's been so dry the water in
sj Smoky Hill river is wet on just
^ one side—the bottom.
r In Texas they tell about the
e ducks that carry their individual
^canteens, flying south.
^ And in staunch Democratic
"! counties they contend the Re
s publicans were wrong when, in
e i the presidential election, they
* said grass would grow in the
® streets if Roosevelt was elected.
r! “It’s so dry,” say the Demo
? | crats, "the grass won’t grow any
~ I place!"
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. New Sanitary Regulation of
' Terri. Commission Health
| On and after January 1, 1940,'
j the following supplement to Sec!
tion 12, Rules and Regulations of
the Territorial Department of
1 Health, "Sanitation,” in accord
- ance with Chapter 7 of the ses
? sion Laws for the Extraordinary
. Session of .the Legislature of
1 1937, which were approved by
- the Territorial Board of Adminis
i tration, May 18, 1937, shall be in
- force:
- 1. (a) It shall be unlawful for
r any person, firm, corporation or
. organization conducting or oper
a ating a food products establish
’ ment, barber shop, cosmetolog
ical establishment or dairy in the
^ Territory of Alaska to employ
anyone before such person has
s undergone a physical examina
' tion and received a health certifi
cate, or to continue to employ
jsaid person after the expiration
date of said certificate and after
' such examination promptly dis
j charge from their emloyment in
or about said place any person
found to be infected with, or af
fected by, any infectious or con
| tagious disease. Said medical ex
| amination shall be made by any!
' ! licensed physician in the Terri- j
tory of Alaska, and said phys- j
ician shall issue the person ex- j
, amined a certificate showing the
; result of said medical examina-,
J tion. Provided further, that any i
qualified physician making any1
examination required under the)
provisions of these regulations
may issue a temporary certificate
authorizing the person examined
to accept employment pending re
ceipt of a formal certificate from
i the Territorial Department of
Health.
(Paragraph 4, Subsection c.)i
There is hereby established a'
; standard fee of $2.50 to be paid I
to the examining physician of {
such applicant by the employer, |
which said fee thus charged shall I
not be at the time of the examin •!
ation, or subsequent thereto,
charged back to, or collected by
the employer from wages due his
said employee on account of such
I fees paid by him.
Approved:
Frank A Boyle,
For Board of Administration
W. W. Counci, M.D.,
Terri. Commissioner of Health
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W INNER —Her victory over
* Harvard's ban against co-ed
drum majors on the football
! field at Cambridge, Mass., was a
hollow triumph for Beatrice
Fishman of New Hampshire.
Beatrice drum-majored but New
Hampshire lost to Harvard, 46-0.
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WILLING AND WELDINC —Because she thinks the
demand for skilled airplane welders is bound to increase, Mrs.
Mozelle Sitton (above) studies welding at night in St. Louis.
She’s a 29-year-old widow with two children and Is determined
to continue until she ean pass stiff government tests. With her
family, a WPA job by days and study by nights, she keeps busy.
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