THE NOME NUGGET
published Monday, Wednesday, Friday, by The Nome
Publishing Company, Nome, Alaska.
, Telephone Main 114 P. O. Box 518
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SOARING MARKETS AND
ALASKA’S POSITION
It behooves Alaskans to be on
the qui vive relative to her econ
omic position under the new war
conditions. Soaring prices of com
modities throughout the world
touch her industries directly.
Warring nations will need her
raw materials, her food stuffs,
and her gold will be more than
an asset to any nation—especial
ly to America.
Belligerent nations will be too
much occupied in most instances
to maintain their normal produc
tion of raw materials. Alaskan
salmon —major item of Alaskan
production—likely will mount in
price. Metals aside from gold
will do the same.
Gold becomes the sinews of
war, and the nation without it,
taking the hazard of being wiped
out, is in a poor position to go
into the world markets and seek
Credit. Alaska’s gold helps might
ily to fortify Uncle Sam’s war
time position.
While mounting commodity
prices may help producers, it
means higher costs of gold pro
duction and a greater burden on
the operator of lower grade pro
perties. To offset this and keep
all the wheels of Alaskan indus
try moving it is well Alaskans1
keep their ear to the ground and
an eye open for their own pro
i tection.
The president has it within his
power to raise the price of gold
—which may be found advisable
. to protect the gold miner and see
that his revenues keep step with
the increased price of cotmmod-'
ities.
Here is a matter vital to Al
askans. May they not be asleep
to the situation but be ready to
press home the facts through ev
ery effective channel and see
that the wheels of industry keep
moving and Alaska continue to
serve her people and the nation
to the maximum under every pos
sible condition and through ev
ery emergency.
Many will recall the trite but
useful story of the purchaser
iwho wrote a hot letter to a
merchant on the subject of del
ivering a cookstove without in
I eluding the legs, adding as a post
script: “Since writing the above,
have found the legs in the oven.''
In view of the kaleidoscopic
changes which are taking place
j in Europe, comment on the sit
l uation there is likely to have to
i be killed by a last-minute post
| script, but the subject fills the
front pages and will not be ig
nored.
There are things doing right
| now, but it was lively 25 years
ago at this time of the year as
well. The Allies were catching it
from the Germans in Belguim.
The English and French forces
' were falling back before the do
termined advance of the enemy,
although what was really an un
pleasant necessity was garbed
I with the cloak of strategy. Am
| ericans in Germany were being
] warned to avoid starting some
i thing and to act circumspectly.
' There was plenty of European
eloquence to the effect that this
' country should take a hand:
much of which a distressingly
: similar counterpart in the news
i of August, 1939.
Fair
The Nome Nugget job printing
; department yesterday completed
| the printing of the Northwestern
Alaska Fair's premium booklet.
They are attractively and neat
ly turned out and a credit to our
local news and printing plant,
| whose staff has been laboring un
der difficulties during the past
several weeks. These booklets
will be given immediate circul
ation throughout Nome, the 2nd
Division, and the principal towns
of the Territory as well as the
Puget Sound area in the States.
Coincident with publication of
the Fair booklets it is deemed
i advisable to publish the list of
Fair Division superintendents, 1
both for the purpose of caling
to their attention the close prox
imity of the Fair dates, and that
much of the success of the Fair
is dependent upon the celerity
and earnestness of purpose with
which each superintendent ap
proaches the -task in hand. The -
Fair dates have been set for Oct- j
ober 12. 13, 14. Following is a
complete listing of superintend
ents.
LIST OF SUPERINTENDENTS
FOR THE FAIR
October 12. 13, 14, 1939.
Division A, Territorial School,
A. A. Ryan.
Division B, Native School,
School Teachers.
Division C, Native Products.
School Principal.
Division D, Reindeer, J. Sid
ney Rood.
Division E, Mining, Aben Shal
lit.
Division F, Furs, Dave Gray.
Division G, Handicraft and
Needlework, Mrs Ken Rank.
Division H. Art Department.
Mrs. Don Lyle.
Division I, Household Econom
ics Mds. S. David Mazen.
Division J, Antiques, Mrs.
Fred Roberts.
Division K, Floral Dpeartment,
Mrs. Walter L. Slack.
Division L. Fish, Mrs. Ralph
Ki'zmiller and Mrs. Harry Gab-1
rielson.
Division M. Vegetables, Mrs.!
Rhetta Harper.
Division N, Baby Department,
Mrs. W. E. Barber.
Division O, Public Health, Mrs.
Kurt Sprenger.
Division P, Amateur Movies,
Mrs. W. H. Cameron and Mrs.
Wesley Kennedy.
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S? uim noses of Wall Street skyscrapers. Gardener lohn
stehlik, thanks to his whim last April in planting some of the
kernels left for birds, now has 10 stalks of evergreen corn in the
historic graveyard of St. Paul's chapel. Church and Vesey streets,
N>w York Stalks have 10 ears, worth about 50 ceuts.
TRUCKIN’ WITHOUT MUSIC-After the cotton
has been picked and weighed, the sacks are emptied into trucks
for a trip to the gin. Thts truck, loaded, near McAllen, Tex. will
have enough fiber for four bales—50# pounds each. ’
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