Wien Airlines
Activities
Friday evening Pilot S;g Wien
made a flight to Kotzebue. Deer
i»g, and Taylor. Passengers car
ried were C. T. Stenson for Kot
zebue; Ross Kinney, Claude Ster
ling, and E. Lottsfeldt, Deering
to Taylor.
Yesterday Pilot Wien made
one trip to Taylor with freight.
After returning to Nome he
made two trips to Bluff. Vance
Pe-arse, Warren Kerr, Ray De
vine, and Poe Petrie were pas
sengers to Nome from Bluff.
The Ford and Hamilton re
turned to Nome yesterday and
left again for Fox Bar with
freight.
Today freight is being carried
■to Fox Bar and Noxapaga and
Taylor with the Ford and Ham
ilton.
Sig made one flight to Taylor
this morning with freight. After
returning to Nome he left for
Bluff to bring W. H. Loerpabel
and J. G. Galvin to Nome.
Several trips are scheduled for
northern points this afternoon
with the Cessna.
TUBERCULOSIS MAY
BECOME EXTINCT
NEW YORK — The virtual dis
appearance of leprosy from the
civilized world which has never
been fully explained, may have
some bearing on the modern cam
paign for the complete damna
tion of tuberculosis, according to
the statisticians of the Metropol
itan Life Insurance company.
They declared that the two dread
ills have so many points in com
mon that similar factors may in
fluence the ultimate trends of
both diseases. In fact, there is a
possibility that something of the
sort actually has happened.
At the present time, although
there are some 3,000,000 lepers
in the world, a single new case
of the disease in a civilized land
is so rare as to be a medical cu
riosity, in the United States, for
instance, out of our annual total
of nearly 1,500.000 deaths, only
about 30 are caused by leprosy.
Yet in the Middle Ages the dis
ease was rampant in Europe as
well as in Oriental lands.
In the 14th century, however,
the Black Death came to smite
Europe. It is variously estimated
that one quarter to one third of
the population of Europe suc
cumbed to the scourge. It has been
j suggested that from that time
dates the rapid and unexplained
- decline of leprosy towards its
present negligible position as a
! mortality factor in civilized lands
j and something analgous. and al
i so not fully explained, happen
: ed to tuberculosis after the in
I fluenza epidemic of 1918-19. The
| tuberculosis death rate took a
'sudden plunge then and has kept
j on dropping ever since.
! For both leprosy and tuber
culosis the precise cause of the
sudden decline in mortality is
somewhat veiled in mystery, al
j though in the case of tubercul
osis. modern methods of treat
ing individual patients and im
proved public health policies
have been important factors in
reducing mortality. But it does
appear that the decline in lep
I rosy followed close upon the end
! of the Black Death scourge, and
in our own time we have seen
tuberculosis mortality rates an
analgous downward plunge after
the great influenza epidemic of
1918-19.
Are these coincidences And
is the secret bound up in the
disappearance of leprosy gone
i forever, or will it be uncovered
someday and assist us in the
complete elimination of tubercul
osis as a danger to human health
and life
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ILLUSTRIOUS FAMILY has Mrs. Otelia Compton of
Wooster, Ohio, who was picked by the Golden Rule Foundation
as “American Mother of 1939.” Seen in a family group are Mrs.
Compton, her late husband, and her daughter. Mrs. Mary Rice.
Left to right, rear: her sons, Wilson, a professor at George Wash
• ington university: Karl, the M.I.T. president; and Arthur, a Nobel
I nrize winner in Dhvsics. Arthur is at University of Chicago._
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THE CONSOLIDATED OLYMPIC LINE voices its |
sincere approval of your continued support of its new ser
vice and announces the sailings of the steamship El Capitan
from Puget Sound August 16th and October 5th.
W’e are now' making up the cargo list and request
your cooperation. Please bring in your wants and those of
your friends. If impossible to state the exact amounts, give
us an approximate idea.
J. C. Strittmatter, an executive of the new company,
is endeavoring to meet you to give you the benefit of the
company’s future plans and policies. Should lack of time
make it impossible to call upon all of our friends, please
don’t hesitate to come and see us at our headquarters.
We have had some wrinkles to iron out, they are now
behind us. We are rapidly ascertaining your needs and assure
you of continued improvements.
9 There’s only one thing that counts in the steamship
business and that is the freight which the ship carries, there
fore, if you feel that competition is desirable, naturally re
sulting in lower costs to you, then your support is needed
particularly at this time.
Consolidated Olympic Line
SAM TAGGART, Local Agent
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Canned Salmon
Subject To Inten
sive Competition
The intensive competition for
the consumer’s attention faced
by Alaska’s canned salmon from
sea food items produced in other I
areas was pointed out recently
by A. W. Brindle, president of
Wards Cove Packing Company.
“When the American house
wife goes into her grocery store
to buy foods for her family din
ner, she has a far wider choice
today than she had years ago.
The grocery industry is now cel
ebrating its “Parade of Progress”
to dramatize the change that has
come over the groceiy business,
and one of the major themes is
j this wide variety of foods that
| is now offered the consumer.
“While this wide variety is a
I boon to the housewife, it really
; means new competition for the
older established foods, such as
canned samon. Canned fish from
other regions have come into
prominence. Many other protien
foods such as macaroni, and can
ned meats have come into prom
inence,” Brindle said.
“As one example of the compet
ition which has grown up, con
i sider the canned fish industry in
1 California, In 1912, California
| canned 75,000 cases of tuna and
! 18,774 cases of sardines, a total
of 93,774 cases. In that year,
mackerel had not yet been put
in cans. Now look at what the
j same region did last year. The
| California tuna pack was 2,537,
j 977 cases. The sardine pack 2,427,
i 249 cases. And mackerel amount
| ed to 945,593 cases. A total in
| California alone of 5,910,819.
“In addition to this California
i pack a large amount of tuna
jeame in from Japan and Hawaii.
: All in all, canned salmon went
into a domestic market shared
by more than six million cases
of other canned fish last year.”
Brindle pointed out that the
price competition from these fish
items was particularly severe,
j California sardines, packed in 48
one pound tails are selling at
$2.65 per case, and mackerel at
$3.30 per case.
“Such low prices create very
severe competition for Alaska
Pinks and Chums which in the j
main are eaten by the same class j
if consumers as now use sardines i
and mackerel,” he said “Tuna j
fish in many homes has supplant
ed to some extent the previous j
demand for such items as red j
salmon, cohoes, and Chinooks.
"Another factor which has1
materially increased the competi
tion faced by canned salmon, and
which makes it difficult to ob
tain good retail prices for our
product is the increased avail
ability of fresh fish in many of
the large cities of the country.
Twenty years ago, canned sal
mon suffered very little from
competition of fresh fish. Poor
refrigeration and slow transporta
tion kept fresh fish consumption
close to the seacoast Today that
has all changed
"With modern refrigeration,
fast rail transportation and
speedy fishing vessels, fresh fish
distribution has spread far in
land. In metropolitan markets in
the eastern part of the United
States, it is common to see fresh
fish retailing at five cents per
pound.
"This increase in competition
on all sides has made the task
of marketing Alaska’s salmon at
J reasonable prices an extremely
| difficult problem,” Brindle con
! eluded.
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You can save -2.00 by paying six
months in advance for your sub
icription to The Nome Nugget.
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Friend to Alaska s Children
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ALASKA'S CHILDREN ARE LUCKY . . . all can attend schools noted
for their high educational standards. I he Canned Salmon Industry has a
hand in this. It pays the largest proportion of territorial tax revenues —
and much of this income is used to operate your school system. Thus the
Salmon Industry helps to give your children a good start in life.
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NO CRACE AND POETRY Is there, in this wild turkey flying above the woods of Jack
sonville, Fia. Note how dishevelled the bird appears, before settling into smooth flight.
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PARIS SANDBACS THE AIR'RAIDERS with a precaution against Incendiary
bombs. Here is one of the distribution stations where sand, chemically treated to extinguish flame is
unloaded from river barges with a power shovel, run through a hopper into sacks, and dispatchc d inlo
all sections of the city by motor trucks. The sand is spread in attics to stop penetration Stwha.