CHURCHES
LAVIN1A WALLACE YOUNG
Mission
Minister and Director—C. W.
Erickson
Sunday, October 31.
11:00 a. m.—Church school.
11 00 a. m. —Junior church.
6:30 p ’.m.—Youth meeting
7:00 p. m. Evening Worship.
Monday, 8:00 p. m. Men’s Club
at Kahzim.
Tuesday. 8:00 p. m.—Youth Fel
lowship Group at Kahzim.
Wednesday, 8:00 p. m.—Relig
ious Council.
Thursday, 7:13 p. m. Prayer
service.
Thursday. 8:30 p. m. Choir re
hearsal.
“Receiving from God brings
the privilege of sharing with
others!”
St. Joseph’s Roman Catholic
Church
Edmund A Anable, S. J.
Pastor
Sunday Masses. 8 and 10 a. m.
Week-day Mass’ 7:00 a. m.
Religious instruction for the
children: Monday afternoon, pri
mer class; Tuesday afternoon,
advanced class.
FEDERATED CHURCH
Sunday—
16:46-11:45 a. m. Sunday school.
•> Adult Bible Class.
7:45-1:45 p. m. Worship Ser
vice. Choir—prayer—sermon.
5:06-10:00 p m. Social Hour
and refreshments.
Tuesday—
7:30-8:30 p. m. Fellowship
Prayer Hour.
Thursday—
7:30-9:00 p. m. Choir rehearsal.
8:00-10:00 p. m. Hobby clubs,
share your hobby with others.
Everyday—
The social room is open to any
group or individual who wishes
to use it at any time. Ping-pong
table, piano, reading table and
other equipment is there for you
to use.
At all times—the pastor of the
church is always ready and
willing to help you in any way.
Feel free to call on him at any
HOLD REGULAR
MEETING WEDNESDAY
Midnight Sun Rebekah Lodge
No. 3A held a regular meeting
| Wednesday with Noble Grand
Gertrude K. Mazen. presiding.
At this time election of officers
was held and the following elect
ed: Nancy Smith, noble grand;
“Irene Jackson, vice grand; Rosa
B. Hagen, secretary; Ruth Reat
treasurer; Grace Mahan, trustee
for three years. The next meet
ing will be held November 22
instead of Nov. 24th.
Look for it in The Nugget—
youll find it!
PROFESSIONAL
DIRECTORY
HENRY JOSEPH
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ACCOUNTING, INCOME TAX
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Seattle Office:
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Telephone Elliot 8209
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NOME, ALASKA
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Phone Main 49
Alleged “Truths” Prove
Of No Value to Nome
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“Nome Is Colorful,
But, Oh How
Deadly Boring
By RUSSELL ANNABEL
United Press Staff Correspondent
"NOME. Alaska —.(UP)— To
visitors Nome is a colorful, uni
que and pleasantly - primitive
place, easily the most-interesting
frontier town in the high north—
but to the troops and the swarm
of civilian construction workers
who have been stationed here for
the past two years, Nome is a
vast headache.
“The town is Incredibly crowd
ed, the climate is savage, and
there are no facilities for recrea
tion.
“Nome has no USO, no service
club, no bowling alley, no con
fectionery shop or ice cream par
lor. There isn’t a pool table in
town. There are no dances. Mail
often arrives from three we«?ks
to a month late. And the rate of
single white girls to white men
is about 500 to 1.
Offers Little Choice
“A man has his choice after
work of staying in his barracks,
or wandering forlornly up and
down the hroken sidewalks of
Front street, or of spending the
evening making the rounds of
the roaring, jam-packed saloons.
One result of this has been that
since troops arrived two saloon
keepers have retired. Another
has been that engineers in charge
of vital constuct.ion work have
had to discharge 60 per cent of
locally-hired workers because of
drunkenness.
“The frontier atmosphere which
makes Nome a tourists’ delight
has long since ceased to interest
to the men stationed here.
“ ‘It was swell for a wh’le.’
says Pvt. Bob Soden of Seattle,
‘but we don’t even see it any
more. We are fed up with Eski
mos and that stuff. Maybe it will
help explain why when I tell you
I haven’t been in a white per
| son’s home or had a date with
a white girl since I left Seattle
I two years ago.
“Big Mae Jones of Spokane,
a diesel shovel operator, recently
summed up Nome’s most urgent
needs:
| “ “The trouble is there isn't
; a thing to do after work but
I hang around bars, and we are
| getting almighty sick of hang
| ing around bars,’ he says. ‘Some
body ought to put up a bowling
alley and some pool tables in this
town, and they could fly some
USO girls in here onoe in a while
for a dance. They ought to find
out how come the magazines and
newspapers are six weeks late
all the time. And maybe they
could do something to even up
the wages of GI kids working
with us. If they’ll give us that
kind of a break we can prob
V —————~
For some time now, every
once in a while, there appears
! in the Outside press certain
correspondent's meanderings
directed at Nome, which proves
of no aid to the city and its
citizens, but rather throws a
wrong slant on this community
in the eyes of those in the
States who have occasion to
read these so-called correspon
dent’s offerings.
The Nugget wishes to present
two of these articles, which
have a direct bearing on the
civic status of the city, with the
hope that such diatribes will
i in the future be omitted from
the columns of the Outside
press and be replaced by arti
cles more beneficial and more
pertinent to the future of our
city.
The two articles on either
side of these paragraphs are
reprints of the ones in Ques
tion and will prove self-explan
atory.
ably stick it out here another
two years without going nuts.’
‘‘Although it is only about a
10-day voyage, newspapers and
magazines from the States are
! usually a month to six weeks old
when they arrive. Consequently,
the men consider the newspapers
valuable chiefly for their comic
strips. This week in Nome the
Adventures of L’il Abner were
overshadowing the ‘news’ that the
Japanese had evacuated Kiska.
Difference in Pay
“A matter which has not en
deared Nome to the troops is the
fact that soldiers and civilians
work together on construction
projects here, but the civilian
truck drivers are paid an aver
age of $140 a week, while the
soldiers draw fhe standard army
i wage of about $20 a week for the
same kind of work. The greater
j number of protests about this
come from civilians.
“ ’The GI kids are in there pitch
j ing as hard and earnestly as any
| body,’ says Paul Webber. San
Francisco, ‘but we make as much
money in one shift as they do all
week.
“ ‘I don’t know what can be
done about it. but 1 do know that
it isn’t fair.’
“Despite the lack of white girls
-• • • .« .» • * « • • * • • * « • m a
“Government Senti>:
Tens of Unneeded
Supplies to Nome
•‘•SEATTLE. March €.—OIF)— |
The Seattle Post-Intelligence r
said today that enough coffee, .
butter and other food? to give
each of the 400 residents c.f
Nome, Alaska, thousands of
pounds apiece was landed there
last October by the Civilian Re
serve- Food Supply Office.
“The coffee and butter, the pa- i
per said, were part of an unex
pected and unneeded sh.pload of
foodstuffs for which there was no |
storage place in the community.
Much of the shipment, the arti- j
cle said, already has spoiled on j
the beach.
“Alaskans charged the stuff was
purchased and ordered sent by
Washington, D. C . and Chicago |
government officials to whom !
Nome was only a place on the ’
map, and wtho do not real ze that
its present civilian population
numbers only about 400 persons,’
the paper said.
“Included in the alleged ship
ment, the paper said, were 350
tons of butter, 175 tons of cof
fee, 18 tons of salad oil, 50 tons
of soap, 503 tons of canned milk,
70 tons of canned pears, 18 tons
of toilet tissue and 78 tons of
dried eggs.
“The shipment was purchased,
the article said, under the direc
tion of Harold Snell, Alaskan
railway official authorized by the
U. S. Department of the Inters r
to serve as territorial food ad
ministrator for the Civilian Re
in Nome, there have been rela
tively few marriages between
soldiers and Eskimo girls, accord
ing to Nome’s grizzled, tuba-play
ing chief of police, C. F. Yenney,
formerly of Walla Walla. One
Florida-born soldier, who recent
1 ly married an Eskimo garl, said
| he was just bored with himself
; and tired of not having a home,
and that getting married seemed
like a good idea.
“ ‘These lads marry native
girls because they are bored and
lonesome,’’ Yenney says. “When
they are transferred, they won’t
want to return, and I don’t be
lieve that many will feel right
: about their wives joining them in
I the States.’ ”
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No Storage Space
"The paper said lack o'f a warm
storage space caused the brine .n
which the butter was packed t
freeze, bursting the barrels and
wist ng much of the shopmen
Canned pears aiso burst their
containers, the article said, and
the rest of tr.-e shipment is ex
pected to deter.orate with the
arrival of spring thaws.
“The paper said Alaskans had
expressed first disbelief and then
amazement.
“ ‘This thing has becc.me a
joke the length and breadth of
.Alaska," one Alaskan business
man was quoted. "it is incred
ible, so unbelievable, it’s funny.'
"Another Alaskan the paper
“ 'Th*s is only one instance.'
| he was quoted. ‘Do you know
| the government sent 150 cases of
canned salmon to Nulato on the
Yukon R ver? If there is one
thing N'ul-ato doesn't need it's
salmon. Catching salmon is Nu
lato's sole industry.’ ’’
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