WOMAN HAS
6 NUGGETS
IN WASHTUB
ANCHORAGE — Gold has
been discovered again in Alaska
• —through the courtesy of the
Anchorage Chamber of Com
merce.
Four hundred mining students
learning to use the gold pan un
der tutelage of old-time Alaska
«miners, sloshed sand in wash
tubs of water to find gold nug
gets planted by the Anchorage
Chamber of Commerce.
It was an indoor event—Alas
ka streams are frozen.
It was the largest mining class
ever held by the University of
Alaska and Dean Howard Wilcox
• of the school of mines came from
Fairbanks to participate.
Some students missed their
nuggets and one woman in the
group recovered six in the wash
tub tailings.
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BACK IN CIVILIAN LIFE
AFTER MILITARY DUTY
• Major Clyde G . Sherman,
USA, is in Juneau on terminal
leave from military service pend
ing his assignment to civilian
work. Major Sherman was for
merly credit and organization
agent at Nome for the Office of
Indian Affairs.
VITAL STATISTICS
PROVE INTERESTING
Records of the U. S. Commi
sioner’s office show the follow
ing interesting statistics: Nome
has had a total of 159 births
during the year of 1944, with
March and June tieing for first
place, with a total of 20 births
each. Deaths filed were totaled
at 116, with a peaK In the month
of April of 15 deaths. Marriages
consummated during the year
puts Cupid way behind, with a
total of 41.
BIRTHDAY BALL
RESPONSE SAID
TO BE GOOD
The chairman of the Presi
dent’s Birthday Party commit
tee announced today that a total
of $276.00 has been collected for
the infantile paralysis fund. Of
this amount 30 percent remains
ni a local fund and the balance is
sent to the National Infantile
Paralysis Fund. B. B. Mozee
stated there is now a balance in
the local fund for the use of
those afflicted and in need of
help.
Mrs. C. F. Yenney, chairman
wishes to express her apprecia
tion to those who aided in this
cause. Special thanks goes to
Peter X. Peterson, who so kind
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over town.
FROM A
NOME BOY
Charles Hilton Esch, CM 2-c
Seabee in the navy, the son of
Laura E. and the late Peter Esch,
received in a poem somewhere in
the Southwest Paciric, by Rollie
Light, who is also in the Navy.
It was written while Rollie was
convalescing on a ship’s hospital
at sea.
Rollie Light, SK 1-c, U. S.
Navy, spent a couple of sum
mers in Nome in the late thirites.
The lines, in part, are:
After the Battle
There is a little cemetery
On an island in the sea;
On a South Pacific Island
That’s known to you and me.
There’s a tiny open chapel,
There’s snow white coral sand.
And in this barren graveyard,
Many snow - white crosses
stand.
Th^re, cavalry men and Seabees,
All of them boys from home;
Boys from Texas and from
Maine,
From Florida to Nome.
There are sailors’ names, Aussies
too,
Names on crosses white,
That lend a touch of reverence
To the balmy, tropic night.
There are officers and men, alike
Who now must realize,
That all of them are equal now,
They now can fraternize.
AT FIRLAND SANATORIUM
NEAR SEATTLE
Mrs. Carrie Uulrich, formerly
of Nome, is doing her ‘‘bit” at
Firland Sanatorium near Seattle,
While her son, Henry, and son
[ in-law, Paul Maphie, are doing
theirs. Both are officers in the
U. S. armed forces. When Henry j
was born, The Nome Nugget
carried a story about the “Seven
Pound Nugget.” His sister, Mar
garet Ulrich Maphie taught a ter
ritorial school for several years
at McGrath before her marriage.
Everyone reads The Nugget.
NOTICE
Any Motor Vehicles, not in
use, must be removed from
the street. They are a source
of danger to passing cars, and
the fire truck, and in the way
of the snow removal.
City of Nome, by Carrie M.
McLain, City Clerk.
Feb. 2, 5, 7.
NEVADA LIQUOR
STORE
LOCATED IN THF NEVADA GRILL BUILDING
H. G. Gabrielson, Proprietor
Why Not Purchase Your Winter Supply of Brandy
and Rum by the Case—At a Substantial Discount,
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