Once Upon A Time There
Was Only One Bowl Game
AP FEATURE SERVICE
PASADENA, Cal. — How did
all these New Year’s Day foot
ball bowl games get started?
Well, the Rose Bowl, oldest of
the holiday gridiron attractions
put on its first game in 1916 when
Washington State beat Brown.
14-0.
But Pasadena had been in the
news with a January 1 celebra- j
tion long befor: that. Away back
in 1890 its first Tournament of
Roses was held. And the Tourna
ment of Roses parade still far j
outdraws the football game.
More than a million and a quar
ter people swarm into this town,
with a normal 85,000 population
to see the five-mile long morning
parade. Around 86.000 see the
grid game in the afternoon. But
the game pays for the parade.
The gross is around $325,000 and
after $20,000 expenses is taken
out the profit is split three ways
roughly 26 percent to the Touma
irnmt of Roses Association, and ■
37 percent to each of the com
peting teams.
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The Tournament of Roses As
sociation allows the Pacific Coast
Conference to select the west
ern representative in the Rose
Bowl. The team is allowed to
'choose an “eastern” club. Tie
Association has 125 active and
300 associate members.
Seven years ago the New Or
leans Mid-Wint r Sports Associa
tion in the process of organiza
tion asked civic and business
groups and citizens to join. Only
39 citizens and organizations com
I bined thought enough of the pros
pects to become member?.
But their dr:am came true. The
Sugar Bowl and a sports week of
top-ranking amateur competition
in track, tennis, basketball, box
ing, yachting and rowing has
gr wn out of their idea.
The sports committee got 300
citizens to guarantee $100 each
for expenses so nobody could
lose much during the first three
years. Since then the Mid-Winter
sports Association has assumed
all obligations. They raised $710,
000 to increase Tulane’s stadium
—the Sugar Bowl—to seat 70,000.
There is no sectional represen
tation idea behind the Sugar
Bowl. An 11-man executive com
mittee chooses and invites com
peting teams. These teams usual
ly get 37 V2 percent of the gate.
The Cotton Bowl at Dallas
was born five years ago in the
mind of an oil man, J. Curtis San
ford. He just about put on the
first game single-handed. But it
was a success and T.xas Christ
ian and Marquette drew around
$16,000 each Sanford just broke
even.
He, along with other Dallas
business men promoted the Cot
ton Bowl each succeeding year.
Tiiis year it was turned ov.r to
the South wqst Conference to
run.
The Orange Bowl game was
conceived nine years ago as a
publicity stunt.
Miami boosters, searching for
something to attract early-sea
on attention to tbs winter re
sort hit upon the idea of a New
Year's Day football game.
Chick Meehan brought Manhat
tan Co lege to play the Univer
sity of Miami. Some 3.500 spec
tators sat in improvised wooden
stands on January 1, 1933 and
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Byi}on Nelson held an armful of cash, his winnings in the $10,000
Miami Open. As leader with 271 strokes, he earned $2,500 prize
money. Clayton Heafner of Linville, N. C., one stroke behind, reach
ed for part of the money. He won $1,250.
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Reorganizes
French Cabinet
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j ister Charles Huntziger who sign
i ed the armistice with Germany,
becomes th defense chief. Pierre
Flandin, reputedly a pro-Nazi,
directs foreign and economic af
fairs.
The change came as diplomatic
circles in Switzerland heard that
Bonapartists we:e negotiating
with the Vichy government for
the r turn of Napoleon’s great
grand nephew. Prince Louis Nap
oleon, the Count of Montford,
aged 26, to become the ruler of
modern France.
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Former British
Snh Thetis Sinks
Italian Snh
London’s Admiralty reported
the dramatic sinking of an Ital
ian sub by the British submarine
Thunderbolt, formerly the Thetis
which sank June 1, 1939, taking
, 99 men to their deaths.
MEXICO TO PAY INSTALL
MENT ON SEIZED LANDS
MEXICO CITY — Government
officials announced today Mexi
co’s regular installment payment
for agricultural lands seized
from American citizens will be,
paid tomorrow. Finance minis
ter for the Mexican government
said the payment would amount
to nearly a half million dollars.
An additional $24,000 will be
i paid to individual companies.
watched as Miami toppled favor
ed Manhattan, 7 to 0.
That was the beginning, al
though the affair was then call
ed the Palm Festival Game. In
i 1934 Duquesne whipped Miami
33 to 7. Bucknell walloped Mi
ami 26-0 in 1935.
The game had caught on and
the Orange Bowl title was adopt
ed. Miami built a steel-and-con
I cr.te stadium and plans were
Hard to makS the event serve
double duty in publicizing the
| state'.^itrus industry and tourist
j attractions.
Through sheer luck backers
managed to match opponents
j who turned in two corking con
; tests. The 1939 game in which
Tenness e conquered previously
j unbeaten Oklahoma, 17 to 0, real
ly put the Orange Bowl on the
map. The gross gate was $91,000.
’ each team getting about $27,000.
This year's program featured
Stanford and Nebraska in the
Rase Bowl, Tenn' ssee and Boston
College in the Sugar Bowl, Mis
sissippi State and Georgetown in
the Orange Bowl and Fordham
i and the Texas Aggies in the Cot
son Bowl. In other less publiciz
ed bowl games Western Reserve
1 met Arizona State in El Paso's'
Sun Bowl.
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In 1900, the Nome Nugget published its
first edition. The Alaska Line feels that this
is an anniversary well worth commemorat
ing. With the beginning of the New \ ear,
Editor and Publisher Russell G. Maynard
and Mt>. George S. Maynard, business man
ager, together with their efficient staff, can
< look with pride and satisfaction upon the
Nugget's record of 41 years of actively pro
gressive service to Nome and to Alaska. The
Alaska Line believes that the people of Nome
are to be congratulated upon their good for
tune in having the Nugget to serve them.
ALASKA STEAMSHIP
COMPANY
May Inaugurate
New Programs
Of Soe. Security
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Inventory time is almost at
hand and it might be well for
the people of the Territory of
Alaska to take an inventory of
the social security program and
to plan for future developments,
according to Hugh J. Wade, Terri
torial Director of the Alaska Of
fice of the Social Security Board.
In 1940 the Territory of Al
aska received in grants from the
Social Security Board a total of
$310,702.99 bringing the total
amount of money granted to the
Territory by the Board to $831,
121.55 since the enactment of the
Social Security Act.
The Department of Public W 1
fare :n 1940. received $246,908.14
to be expended in accordance
with Alaska’s Qld-AgeAssistance
Law under a plan approved by
the Social Security Board. Under
this program 1.500 r.e dy-aged in
dividuals are receiving old-age
assistance. The sum represents an
increase of $65,613.24 over the
amount received by the Terri
tory in 1939 and there is an in
crease of 300 persons receiving
aid from this program.
'The Unemployment Compensa
tion Commission has been grant
ed during the year 1940 by the
Social Security Board from Title
III funds, a total of $63,794.85 for
use in paying the administration
costs of that ag ncy. During the
past year many thousands of dol
lars were paid out by this agen
cy in unemployment benefits to
persons entitled thereto under
the Alaska Unemployment Com
pensation Law.
There are two programs provid
ed for in the Social Security Act
not yet in operation in the Terri
tory of Alaska. They are: Aid to
Dependent Children and Aid to
the Blind. It is the hope of the
Social Security Board that the
members of the Territorial Leg
islature at the fifteenth regular
session convening in January of
1941 will give serious thought
and study to the advisability of
enacting legislation which will
permit the Territory to partici
pate in these two additional pro
grams.
According to Mr. Wade if the
legislature does take such action
the Social Security Board would
be able to grant additional sums
of money to the Territory to as
sist in rendering aid to th-se two
unfortunate groups of Alaska
residents.
In addition many State Legis
latures are, according to Mr.
1 Wade considering extending
I their unemployment insurance
! benefits to individuals employ d
j by so-cal'ed small employers.
I Such action is recommended by
'he Social Security Board, and it
j is hoped that the members of the
j Alaska Legislature will consider
similar action.
FORFEITURE NOTICE
To Chas. Olsen, his heirs, ex
! ecutors, administrators and as
s; i cfn S
You and each of you are here
, by notified that I have expend
ed during the y ar ending July
1st, 1940, two hundred dollars in
labor and improvements upon
the Sand Hill Association Placer
mining claim, situated on the
r'ght bank of Snake Riv r about
three and one-half miles north
westerly from the mouth thereof
and th town of Nome in the
Cape Nome Mining and Record
ing District, Territory of Alas
ka. in order to hold said mining
! claim under the provisions of U.
S. C. Tit. 30 S c. 28. and amend
ments thereto concerning annual
lab r upon mining claims, being
the amount required to hold said
claim for the period ending July
1st. 1940.
And if, within ninety days af
ter the publication of this Notice
you fail to contribute your pro
portion of such expenditure as a
co-owner, which amounts to one
hundred d liars, your interest in
said mining claim will become
the property of the subscriber,
your co-owner, who has made
th? required expenditure to hold
said claim.
Dated at Nome, Alaska, the
6th day of December, 1940.
John Carlson, Co-owner
Publish Dec. 6 13 20 27, 1940.
Jan. 3 10 17 24 31, Feb. 7 14 21
28, 1941.
CHAS. CAVEY
Carrying an Assortment
of Fine Liquors, Win
es, and Be* ■«
FRONT ST NOME
“SOURDOUGH”
STATIONERY
At Nugget Office
WOULD GIVE MONEY
DETRORIT. i/P) —Henry Ford
said today that if Great Britain
ne ds money he favored “giving
them all they want.”
"It will end the war in a hur
ry," he said in a brief interview
"We did it before and we might
js wed do it again.”
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