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Nome Health
Council Monthly
Meeting Held
The regular monthly meeting
of the Nome Health Council was
called to order by Chairman
Henry Miller.
The minutes of the previous
meeting were read and approved.
Mrs. Sprenger gave the month
ly report for the Public Health
Nurse in which she stated that
Child Health Conferences which
were begun in November w'ere
completed in December after
four more meetings. Fifty-seven
children were examined by Dr.
Morcom during that month. The
Native children were included in
cooperation with the Office of
Indian Affairs. Diphtheria im
munications are planned for Jan
uary which will give parents an
opportunity to have children im
munized who have not had the
diphtheria toxoid or who have a
positive reaction to the Schick
test.
Mr. Woods reported that he
had seen Mr Starling who had
already prepared a program for
the use of the Native gym for the
entertainment of the natives.
They have their own dances, roll
er skating etc.
Dr. Morcom reported that Dr.
Morley was in town last week
again checking on Sanitation and
Health Certificates from all stor
es handling food stuffs, restau
rants, beer parlors, beauty slaons
etc and found everything in fair
ly good order.
At this time the films on syph
ilis were shown. Syphilis is a
dangerous disease which is very
common. It is dangerous because
it is catching. It is often passed
on from mother to child. If it is
neglected it causes miscarriages,
stillbirths, diseases of the heart,
and arteries, strokes, blindness,
deafness, softening of the brain,
insanity, paralysis and many
other grave and painful condi
tions. Syphilis probably kills
more people than any other con
tagious disease. A person may
catch syphilis by getting these
germs into the body. The most
common way is through sex re
lations with a person who has
the disease. However it is some
times caught by kissing a per
son who has syphilis and also by
using a glass or pipe or some
thing else that has just been
used by a person with the dis
ease. Usually the first sign of the
disease is a sore breaking out,
which after a time will heal, leav
ing a scar. In the meantime the
germ has quickly gotten into the
blood-stream and carried to all
parts of the body. If syphilis is
treated immediately it may be
cured through the proper treat
ment especially in the early stag
es. The proper treatment can on
ly be realized through a reliable
physician. Advertising quack doc
tors or medicine companies usual
ly only want your money, not
your health.
After a general discussion re
garding the above disease, the
meeting adjourned.
LAWRENCE KERR RESIGNS
FROM JUNEAU D A OFFICE
Lawrence Kerr, Clerk in the
office of the U S Attorney at Ju
neau for many years, according
to a recent issue of the Empire
left January 11 for the States.
His resignation becomes effective
today.
Institution of a Civil Service
system in the office has caused
Kerr to be replaced by two wo
men clerks.
NEW NAME FOR STEAMER
SITKA—The old steamer City
of Victoria, which arrived here
recently after a stormy trip to
become a floating hotel for naval
air base workmen is soon to be
christened the City of Sitka.
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Department of Agriculture Weather Bureau
FORECAST, NOME AND VICINITY
Fair and warmer tonight Thursday cloudy, pnssibly light snow
in afternoon or night.
Data For 24 Hours Ending 1:00 pm Today
Highest temp — 2 Lowest temp — -24 Precipitation 0.00
Temp. Humidity Wind Weather
12 Midnight -2 33 N-9 Clear
Sam -4 57 NW-5 Clear
12:30 p m . -3 58 NE-5' Clear
One Year Ago Today
Highest temp — 23 Lowest temp — 15 Precipitation 0.01
Total Precipitation this mo.—0.45 Total since Jan. 1, 1940—0.45
Tomorrow: Sunrise 8:47 pm Sunset 3:42 pm
■Hie Peninsula: Temp. Wind Weather
Candle .
Council . . *18 W-36 Clear:
Golovin . -10 NW-16 Cloudy j
Kotzebue . -22 Calm Clear
Solomon . -10 N-25 Clear
Teller . -16 N-12 Clear
Wales .
Weather Elsewhere: 1:0# am Nome Time
Temp. Wind Weather Precip.
Anchorage . 38 NE-10 Pt Cldy 0.13
Pt. Barrow . -33 SE-3 Clear 0.00
Bethel .„.. -6 NE-32 Cloudy 0.00
Dutch Harbor ._... 24 N-15 Cloudy 0.00
Fairbanks . -7 S-3 Clear 0.18
Cordova . 41 E-10 Rain 1.58
Juneau... 38 SE-3 Cloudy 0.00
WEATHER SYNOPSIS AND GENERAL
The map today indicated three
low pressure centers over the
North Pacific and Alaska Gulf
region. The low in the gulf is
centered near Kodiak and there
are indications of slight low pres
sure trough extending northward
however map reports are not
available for positive proof. High
pressure prevails over northwest
em Canada and lower eastern Si
beria.
The pressure distribution is
causing a slow flowing aloft
northward over Alaska of warm
moist air which is producing con
siderable cloudiness and some
precipitation over central and
southern Alaska.
The present pressure and wind
distribution is favorable for in
creasing cloudiness and warmer
during the next 24 hours, with
possibly some light snow Tliurs
day or Thursday night.
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Suggestions and Criticisms Invited
The Washington
News-Letter
J. J. Eckles, Secretary
To the Delegate
WASHINGTON, Jan. 15 — Lit
tie of the customary feeling of
excitement was in the air, which
usually accompanies the opening
of sessions of Congress when the
third session of the Seventy
sixth Congress convened on Jan
uary 3. There was no impelling
sense of emergency such as has
characterized other opening days
for some years past but there
was definitely an attitude of busi
ness-like anticipation on the part
of members of both House and
Senate at the opportunity to once
more work on the advancement
of proposed legislation both na
tional and local in sc pe which
has necessarily been inactive
since adjournment of the first ses
sion on August 5, 1939. Every
sort may be expected from Con
gress to make up the time lost
on such measures during the sec
ond session when all Congression
al action was limited to neutral
ity matters.
Adding to a number of bills re
lating to Alaska on Delegate Di
mond’s program which are pend
ing before Congressional commit
tees, Mr. Dim.nd on January 3
introduced two bills. One of
these is “to provide that fines
for failure to pay license taxes
in Alaska shall be disposed of as
provided for the disposition of
such taxes,’’ as indicated in the
quoted title of the measure. En
actment of this bill will mean
that fines collected for failure to
pay license taxes which, if paid
would have been credited to the
cities and towns in which they
originated will be paid over to
the municipaltes just as the fines
would have been. Example of
the pressing need for such legis
lation occurred last year when
the court assessed a fine against
a Wrangell salmon packing com
i pany in the amount of unpaid
taxes totaling more htan $6,000.
Under existing Jaw the fine was
credited to a court fund instead
of to the town of Wrangell as
the taxes would have been. The
Delegate has a special bill pend
ing in Congres to authorize the
court to transfer this money to
the city treasurer of Wrangell.
The bill just introduced is to
meet such situation as may occur
in the future without the need
of special legislation.
The second bill introduced by
the Delegate on the 'opening day
of tht session is one to authorize
the Government to pay $300 to i
the heirs of the late Edward Mu
her for his services as native
policeman at Douglas during the
period from N vember 5, 1889
to November 4, 1890.
Dimond Urges Preferential
Employment Alaska Residents i
At the executive session of the i
House Committee on Merchant
Marine and Fisheries held Jan
uary 4, Delegae Dimond prop s-:
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NEW ENVOY -Economist
and sportsman, wealthy James
H. R. Cromwell (above) was
nominated by the President as
U. S. minister to Canada. Crom
well, with his < heiress-wife,
Doris Duke, has long been sup
j porter of F.D.R. administration.
ed a resolution pointing .it that
it is in the national interest that
the resident population of Alas
ka increase, and the necessity of
gainful employment of residants
in the industries f the Terri
tory if the population is to con
tinue to increase and urging that
bona fide permanent residents of
Alaska be given priority in em
ployment in the fishing industry,
particularly in the Bristol Bay
salmon fishery where the fish
ing season will be curtailed.
Legislation for Refunding of
Alaska Municipal Bonds
Passes Senate
The bill to authorize Alaska
cities and towns to refund out
standing bonds for the purpose
of obtaining lower interest rates
which Delegate Dimond intr due
ed in Congress last year and
which passed the House on July
28, 1939 was approved by the
Senate January 8 and is now
awaiting final action at the White
House.
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MISERY COT HI M—If Ilarry Parker, venerable Negro
messenger who's attended 67 congress' openings, missed the ,?an.
3 opening, blame it on the “misery in bis back.'' He's shown at
home ill a soft-bottom chair given him by Win. McKivh-v.
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"bone P.laek 44 or Main 15
FIVE WITH BUT A SINGLE THOUGH T—Their eastern invasion doesn't seem to
worry any of these members of Missouri’s stellar basketball tc~m, massed for an attack on a lone
basketball in New York, scene of the Missouri team's test against New York University. Left to right,
with the clutching hands, are: Haskell Tison, center: Capt. John Lobsiger, who’s considered one of
the best guards in the Big Six; Arch Watson, forward; Martin Nash, guard; and William Harvey, for
ward. The .Tigers are coached by George Edwards.
LOOK OUT, HERE THEY COME !—Now’s the time to run if you want to duck the
flying hoofs of the nine-year-old plater Dreel (white face). Come Home, and Flying Victor" (left) at
Cora. Gables, Fla. Dreel, an 11-to-10 favorite paying $4.20, won the six-furlong test with Come Home
second and Flvtn» behind fur third olacs. j . j