THE NOME NUGGET
QEO. S. MAYNARD, Editor
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Alaska Youth Registers For
Old Age Insurance
More than one-half of the old
age insurance accounts set up in
1938 for workers in Alaska were
for men and women under 30.
according to a statement issued
today by Mr. Wade, Territorial
Director of the Social Security
Board at Juneau. More of these
accounts, he stated, were assign
to young people betw-een 15 and
25 than to persons in any other
age group.
In making public the analysis
of applications during 1938, on
which those figures are based,
Mr. Wade pointed out that the
social security account numbers
assigned to workers in Alaska re
present .0006 percent of the
5,786,481 issued in all States dur
ing the year.
Anaysts of the Board’s Bureau
Of Old-Age Insurance, which
made the study, regard the large
proportion of applications for
account numbers from young peo
pie as evidence that the system i
is reaching stabilization. Work
ers who already had jobs in em |
ployment covered by this Feder- !
eil insurance plan got their num
ber at the start of the program
early in 1937; they knew it was
important to have their accounts
set up promptly so that their j
wages would be credited toward I
the retirement annuities to
which they will eventcally be en
titled. As a result, the buil'k of
the new applicants are naturally
ycxung men and women who are
taking, or are about to take,
their first jobs.
The preponderance of young
applicants is particularly notice
able among women, those from
15 to 24 making up 48 percent of
aid the women applying for ac
counts in 1938, while among men
applicants these age groups rep
resented only 41 percent. Mr. I
Wade pointed out that, even so, |
young men under 25 outnumber I
cd young women of the same
age \jy nearly half a million— |
1,507,789 against 1,012,927.
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ALASKANS LIKE
LIFE INSURANCE
Alaskans are life-insurance
minded, Dudley Dowell, agency
director of the New York Life
Insurance Company, with head
quarters in Seattle declared. He
was in Fairbanks recently, in the
course ot a tour of the Territory
for the inspection of agencies.
“The New York Life wrote pol
cies aggregating $1,500,000 in A1
aska last year.” Mr. Dowell said.
“The company’s production of
business last year in this terri
tory was $26.12 per capita, the
highest per capita recorded by
the company in any district in
the States or American posses
sions. The next highest was $18
in Northern California.
“The New York Life pioneer
ed the life-insurance business in
Alaska. We give special atten
tion to Alaska business because
of the distance of Alaska agents
from the company’s head offices.
Airmail and telegraph services
are used for virtually all busi
ness in the North.
“The company has agents in
Fairbanks, Anchorage, Nome Ju
neau. and Ketchikan, and a part
time agent at Petersburg.
This is my first trip to the
Territory. My purpose of course
is to familiarize myself with oon
ditions in the Northland.
"Needless to say I am greatly
impressed with Alaska prosper
ity.” .
SUPER-CHORUS TO SING
NEW YORK—'The largest num
ber of trained male voices ever
assembled into a chorus in this
country, consisting of between
4,500 and 5,000 men will be heard
in two free concerts in the Court
of Peace at the New York
World’s Fair 1939. The Associat
ed Glee Clubs of America will
present the program.
Every day’s news is a sum
mary of hjstory.
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CAR SALES GAIN
NEW YORK — Retail sales of
passenger cars and trucks in the
United States in the first quar
ter of this year amounted to
748,935 units, a gain of nearly
40 per cent over the 536.663 units
sold in the corresponding 1938
period, the Automobile Manufac
turers Association reported.
March sales were 329.467 units,
an increase of around 65 per cent
over February, and of approxi
mately 45 per cent oveT March.
1938.
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Effective Debt Collector
WILMINGTON, Del.— “I want
I my money, and if you don't pay
j me I'm going to drop this skunk
j right in your lap,” threatened
| John Norem, a gasoline station
I proprietor, as a motorist was
about to drive away. The motor
ist paid in a hurry. (Note: The
Skunk—deodorized—is a pet).
FATHER AND SON both got the best wishes of Torch
Singer Libby'Holman when "Day in the Sun” opened on Broad
way with Miss Holman’s new husband, Ralph Holmes (left), and
his father, Taylor Holmes, in the cast. Critics were none too en
thusiastic about the show’. Miss Holman w’as the widow of Smith
Reynolds tobacco heir, who died of a bullet wound in 1932.
4 th JULY
CELEBRATION
Tuesday July 4th, 1939
LITERARY PROGRAM
OPPOSITE CITY HALL—11:00 A.M.
BAND CONCERT 10:30 A.M.
Invocation . C. W. Thornton I
Patriotic Selections .. Nome Brass Band j
Introduction . Mayor Fred Kubon ;
Declaration of Independence, Reading Edith Hoop i
Speaker of the Day..Senator O. D. Cochran |
‘ Star Spangled Banner” . Nome Brass Band
Benediction . C. W. Thornton I
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FOURTH OF JULY DANCE
SCHOOL AUDITORIUM 10:30 P.M.
Dance Orchestras Adm. Adults 50^ each
SPORTS PROGRAM
IN FRONT OF CITY HALL, 1:00 P.M.
Blanket Tossing—3 $3 prizes 1 $5
Nome, King Island, and Diomede Island, For Men
Nome, King Island, and Diomede Island, For Women. .... $3
Bicycle Race, 5 mile, Men, Free for all.. $4 42 $1
Bicycle Race, 2 mile, Ladies...$4 ..$2 $1
Bicycle Race, 2 mile, Boys, under 16.$3 .$2...41
Bicycle Race, 2 mile, Girls, under 16.. $3 42. $1
Bicycle Race, Boys under 10 ...$2....$1....50*
Bicycle Race, Girls, under 10.„.v..42.41—50*
Slow Race, Bicycles, Boys under 10...42—41
Slow Race, Bioydles, Girls under 10..._42 .. $1
No Handle-Bar Bicycle Race, 000 yd, Men, Free for all_43—42
No Handle-Bar Bicyole Race, 200 yd, Ladies, Free for ail .43.42
High-Kicking—3 $3 prizes 1 $5.
Nome, King Island, Diomede IsiLand
1.00 yard Dash, Men, Free for all.....45.-42-41
50 yard Dash, Married Ladies, Free for all... 42 42 41
50 yard Dash, Single Girls, Free for all..43 42 -41
50 yard Dash, Boys, 8 years and under.---$2—41
50 yard Dash, Boys, 12 years end under--$2.-41
50 yard Dash, Boys, 16 years and under.--—.—.$3—42
50 yard Dash, Girls, 8 years and under....— .42—$1
50 yard Dash, Girds, 12 years and under..— ..$2,411
50 yard Dash, Girls, 16 years and under.—..$3-48
TWO BALL GAMES
Alaskans vs. Nome — Alaskan Women vs. Nome Women
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