FAIRBANKS' COMMUNITY
MARKET PROVES SUCCESSFUL
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of squash and cucumbers. Some
wild blueberries and low bush
cranberries have been brought
in.
At least one member of the
marketing committee of the As
sociation has assisted in super
vising sales each mariket day.
These people deserve a lot of
credit, serving, as they do, with
out compensation. The Exten
sion Service, headed by Director
Oldroyd, has assisted in grading
the produce offered.
ADVANCE AGENT
FOR BLIND WORKERS
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP)—
Advanoe agent for Louisiana’s
800 unemployed blind, John H.
McAulay, blind himself, has a
new technique: He leads the
sightless to useful war production
the sighted to a useful source of
badyl needed manpower.
If a prospective employer
doubts that a blind person can
be of value in a war plant, Mc
Aulay goes into the plant to oper
ate a drill press, lathe, box fold
er or other machine he never has
seen, and he does it with the same
speed and accuracy as other plant
employes.
The employer sold, McAulay,
whose official title is field repre
sentative for service for the
blind, U. S. Office of Education,
seeks out a sightless worker who
can fill a critical job.
He estimates at least 400 of
the state’s 800 blind are qualified
for private employment, the re
mainder for sheltered workshops.
For the first assault of the
North African campaign 110 tons
of maps were required, and 400
tons more were needed in the la
ter phases of the campaign.
;[I'LL BUY THAT SHOT
SUN MOW* I SOLD SOME ®
STUFF FROM THE ATTIC ^vV*
| WITH A_WAMTAD
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Sell “White Elephant*”
Buy What You Want!
GRANT W LAIBLIN, 79
PASSES IN TACOMA
Grant W. Laiblin, 79, oldtimer
of Nome, died in Tacoma recent
ly. In the Gold Rish Days he
went to Dawson and later came
to Nome where he lived until
1918, going Outside to bring his
three children, all born in Nome.
He returned North each year to
mine on Iron Creek until 1936
when he had a partial stroke. He
leaves besides his widow, Bertha
E., in Tacoma, a daughter, Mrs.
Gladys Hammond of Seattle;
Mrs Enid Attix, Tacoma, and a
son, George F. Laiblin, now with
the armed forces in Africa in
the U. S Navy; and a sister, Mrs.
Emma Huflfsmith of Seattle
Services were held in Seattle and
attended by many oldtime Nome
friends.
In cool weather, when in
creased evaporation is necessary
for rapid growth, banana leaves
curl upward exposing the plant
to the rays of the sun.
Forty-four creeks In Oklahoma
have the same name of Sand or
Sandy—the most common place
name in the state.
Mail Reaching
Yanks in Japan
The six-week period from Sep
tember 15, through October 31
has been designated as the time
during which all Christmas mail
should be posted for army corps
personnel on overseas duty. Ar
rangements have been made with
the Post Office Department for
special handling of Christmas
letters and packages mailed dur
ing this period in order to get
them to men overseas before the
holidays.
To (facilitate this effort, send
ers are requested to mark their
packages “Christmas parcel” and
to pay special attention to the ad
dressing and packaging require
ments. Hundreds of packages
are lost daily because senders do
not wrap them strongly enough
to withstand the handling through
numerous postal centers and the
heat of a ship’s hold.
For the purposes of Christmas
mail, the term “overseas” per
sonnel means men who receive
their mail through a post office
at San Francisco, California;
New York, New York; or Seattle,
Washington. Letters and parcels
should contain the name and ad
dress of sender, the name, rank
or rating of addressee and the
unit to which he is assigned, or
name of the ship through which
the mail is to be routed.
Under postal! regulations,
Christmas parcels shall not ex
ceed five pounds in weight, or 15
inches in length or 36 inches in
length and girth combined. Not
more than one parcel will be ac
cepted in any one week from the
same sender tor the same ad
dressee. All articles should be
packed in metal wooden or solid
fiberboard, or strong doublefaced
corrugated fiberboard or strong
fully telescoping cardboard box
es. Fiberboard or cardboard
boxes must be securely wrapped
in strong paper end tied with
twine. In addition, senders are
cautioned that delays caused by
the necessity for censorship will
be minimized if the wrapping is
secured so as to permit easy in
spection of contents.
Parcels should not include any
weapons, perishables, intoxi
cants, poisons, or inflammable
articles such as matches or light
er fluid. In general, the public
is urged not 10 send food or
clothing. Men overseas are
amply provided with both, so
shipping space for gifts should
be used for other purposes.
Mail for military personnel
may be insured or registered by
the sender.
These regulations apply also
to men in the Navy and Coast
Guard.
PRIVATE MINSTREL
SHOW AT HOME
LOGAN, W. Va. (AP)—H. C.
Webb doesn’t have to step out of
his home if he wants to be enter
tained .by a good, oldfashioned
fast-jiggin’ minstrel show.
He has things arranged so that
he can enjoy all the buck and
wing and other clogs by just .pat
ting his foot. For the past two
years, the barber has perfected
what he calls his “Midget Min
strel Show” and today can make
his home-made puppets keep
perfect time to any tune he hap
pens to pick out on his mandolin.
His trick lies in a panel in the
little stage which is connected by
a long rod to a pedal trapped to
Webb’s foot.
In early times the island of
Stromboli in the Mediterranean
was believed the home of Aeolus,
god of the winds.
Rotenone, harmless to birds
and animals, is many times more
powerful against certain insects
than lead arsenate and nicotine.
Advertise it in The Nugget.
Bob
CLOTHES LINES
KEEP ’EM FLYING
BILOXI, Miss. (AP) — Uncle
Sam's clothes lines keep ’em fly
ing here—over four and a half
million pieces of Army clothing
in the past three months.
The Kessler field laundry’s re
port showed recently that 4,601,
499 items of clothing were wash
ed during the quarter and that
480 civilians who were employed
by the laundry were paid $115,
516.22. A service man’s laundry
costs him 40c a week, regardless
of the size of his weekly bundle.
HOT CAKES GET
SOLDIERS’ VOTE
CAMP PICKETT, Va. (AP) —
From a letter the boys at this
Army post received from a sol
dier in Sicily, they found out that
it’s not Betty Grable or Lana Tur
ner or Dorothy Lamour that the
men on the fighting front are
thinking about.
The letter made a request for
five bounds of baking powder
“so that Mess Sergeant Weldon
C. Smith can whip up a batch of
longed-for hot cakes.”
NEW RAINBOW GROUP
IN ARMY TODAY
ALEXANDIA. La. (AP)—High
flying bomber crews get on pret
ty intimate terms with rainbows
but that’s only one of the rea
sons the first batch of trainees
at the Alexandria Army air base
are called “the rainbow group.”
Almost as representative as the
famous rainbow infantry division
of World War 1, the group in
cludes men from 47 states, the
district of Columbia, Hawaii and
Canada.
The original rainbow bunch
represented every state in the un
ion. That’s why the boys around
here are looking for a good
bomber man from Nevada. It’s
the only state they lack.
There are 18 species of toad
native to this country.
Extension Service Director
Lorin T Oldroyd. Teports that
the results of the Fairbanks com
munity market, operating under
the supervision of a volunteer
group known as the Fairbanks
Cooperative Marketing Associa
tion, are highly successful.
The market was established
qhiefly to facilitate the sale of
surplus Victory Garden produce
to various construction concerns
engaged in operations in the
Fairbanks area As a result, both
buyer and producer have profit
ed, inasmuch as a really consid
erable amount of fine vegetables
and fruits has been assembled
for sale.
Sales from the opening date,
July 12, 1943. through the mar
ket date of September 7, total
$14,523.70. according to market
manager Murray W. Shields. Mr.
Shields states that 125 gardeners
have participated, which, indeed,
is indication that Fairbanks Vic
tory gardeners have supported
tbe institution, and that Victory
Gardens can and have been a
definite factor in food produc
tion.
Two markets have been held
each week, between the hours of
7:00 to 9:30 a. m,, facilities hav
ing been made available at the
old Fairbanks Gardens for the
handling of the produce.
The market has handled quite
a variety of vegetables and fruits
including, of course, such estab
lished items as cabbage, lettuce,
radishes, beets, greens of various
sorts, carrots, early potatoes, etc.
The astonishing factor is the vol
ume of red, ripe tomatoes which
has come in. Most of these to
matoes have been grown out of
doors this season. Also, there
has been a considerable offering