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NOME LODGE NO. A-5
Nome Lodge No. A-5
Will have an Annual Roll Call
November 17th, 1939
Odd Fellows Building
L. O. O. M.
No. 1413
Meeks first and third Mondays
of each month
Odd Fellows Hall, 8 p. m.
Lyons & Orton
Attorneys At Law
Rooms 918-921 Alaska BoHdlnf
[ Seattle, Washington
Thos. it. Lyons Ira D, Ortot
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U & I DANCE U & I
The Folks Who Know—Say
It’s a Better Place To Go
Jonesy says — For Ice Cream
And Pie,
Try—The U & I.
Open Every Night 7 pm to 3 am
NO DRUNKS ALLOWED
CIIAS. CAVEY
Has Opened A Liquor Stor
Carrying an Assortment
of Fine Liquors, Win
es, and Beers.
FRONT ST. NOME
Pioneer Water Co.
Arrange Now For Your Winter
Delivery of Fresh, Sparkling
Spring Water
ALWAYS AT YOUR SERVICI
NELSON and RCI.LOCK
Phone Blac Main 15
SPECTACULAR NEWS, BUT —
Spectacular headlines, flaming
headlines, could be written that
w od be flashed across the front
pages of every paper in the coun
try if—if ony the condition they
report were new:
“175 DIE DAILY IN U S
FROM DREAD DISEASE”
“60 MILLION MEN, WOMEN
AND CHILDREN INFECTED
BL DEADLY GERM"
“64,COO VICTIMS WILL DIE i
WITHIN YEAR”
Sixty-four thousand persons
will die within the next twelve,
months! While the fiure is round1;
ly aicurate and true, there is no-'
thing new in this disease. The
public is apathetic because the1
story is so old —the old, old
story of tuberculosis. Why not
ask ourselves this year “What
can we do about it?”
The answer is “Buy Christmas
Seals!” Your local tuberculosis
association is av,pealing to you
for help to carry on its work,
work that it has been perform
ing in cooperation with medical
and public health authorities for
many years. Those would-be
headlines can give you some idea
of the scope of the task it under
takes in the prevention and con
trol of the disease. In the last
three decades alone, since the
time Christmas Seals were first
sold in the United States, the tu
berculosis death rate has been re
duced by over two-thirds.
“Protect Your Home From Tu
berculosis—Buy Christmas Seals”
is the national campaign slogan
for the 1939 seal sale. Such pro
tection has been the business of
i the Christmas Seal for thirty
two years. Let us buy enough
\ Christmas Seals to insure its
message being brought into ev
ery h: me in our community.
Now is-the time to look ovei
,-our job printing needs for the
sprmg and summer. The Nug
get Office will be glad to consul:
with you as to your wants and
prices on same.
1 I
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On Nome Milk
A. P.i'et, {he secretary of the
N W Alaska Chamber of Com
merce recently received the fol
lowing letter from the Milk In
dustry Foundation, New York
City. It was read to the members
at their last meeting. Being so
absurd and ridiculous, it was thot
it would be of interest to the
readers. It shows what erroneous;
publicity Alaska gets.
October 5, 1939
Secretary
Chamber of Commerce
Nome, Alaska
Dear Sir:
We received a clipping from a
number of newspapers which re
ported that “The milkman at
Nome, Alaska, does not worry
about spilling his milk. He calls
from house to house and delivers
a block of frozen reindeer milk
or cream equal to a pint or
quart. A white cord frozen into
the block of milk serves as a
handle to facilitate delivering.
The blocks of milk and cream
are wrapped in oil paper and
look like ice cream. As long as
it remains frozen there is no de
terioration in the quantity or
quality.”
We are wondering if this is a
fact. If sa, we would like to
verify it, as we try to collect
.interesting and unique items
about milk and milk distribution
from all parts of the world.
Yours very truly,
Charles Speaks
SOURDOUGH STATIONERY
At Nugget Office
That unique and humoroua
i and typical Alaskan stationery—
| “Sourdough Roadhouse Letter
heads and Envelopes”, have beei
j brought strictly uptodate, and ar*
now available at the Nugget off!
ce.
IMAGINE A BLOWOUT FOR THI S—Little Dorothy Bennett, 13, is dwarfed by 10
foot-hifirh tire on the snow cruiser beine built in Cliicaeo for use on the Byrd Antarctic expedition
* AMTAorTirA WILL END TRAFFIC WOES OF ‘ICE BUGGY’ —After its construction in Chicago and test
A n I A KW. ...here it's shown the huge snow cruiser built for Admiral Byrd’s polar expedition ran afoul of traffic
runs on Indiana s su \eAr Columbia City Ind.. the snow cruiser and a truck collided with slight damages. Near Lima,
[ 0.7it strn* abridge und angled off into u gully. The cruiser was bound for Boston, departure port for the Antarctic expedition.
Friend to Alaska s (Children
ALASKA’S CHILDREN ARE LUCKY ... all can attend schools noted
for their high educational standards. The 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.
ROLL CALL OF IOOF
VERY GRATIFYING —CARD
WINNERS OF SOCIAL
The annual Hull Call of Nome
Lodge No. A-5, IOOF which
was held last Friday evening
proved all that was expected.
Witli only a very few exceptions]
and those who could not be pres
ent on account of occupation or
away from the City responded
when their names were called. A
number f letters were received
and read, all expressing their re
grets in not being able to be
present.
After the regular meeting, the
families of the Odd Fellows, the
Rebekahs and their families joir
ed in and a very pleasant even
ing was spent.
The winners of prizes were:
The Ladies —Mrs W L Slack
first; Mrs Ole Hay second; Mrs
Waldheim eonso 1 ation.
The gentlemen —Bob Ledger
waf»d first; Divid Mazsn second;
' n —. .Ton .« consnlatlon.
Book Published
On Economies Of
Pacific Fisheries
The first published authoritat-1
ve discussion of the economics!
if the North Pacific Fisheries has]
just been issued by the Institute!
if Pacific Relations in New York
City.
The book is ‘‘North Pacific ;
Fisheries” and it is the work of'
Professor Homer E. Gregory of j
the college of economics and bus ]
ness, University of Washington,,
ind Kathleen Barnes of the re-j
'arch staff, American Council,;
. nstitute of Pacific Rcla'ions.
Reviewing the book tills week,]
Edward W. Allen, noted author!
ty on fishery matters and chair j
man of the International Fisher-1
ies Commission writes:
"First in romantic interest and
a runner-up in economic im
portance, the fisheries of Alaska
and the Pacific Northwest find
their intimacies laid before the
public in a book just off the
press.
"Japanese threats, labor troub
Ies, practical conservation, ‘gear
fights’, transportation problems,
taxation and finances, prices and
marketing, economic hazards,
competition versus monopoly,
international cooperation, and
the simewhat ominious depend
ence of Puget Sound’s best and
most reliable customers, Alaska,
upon the prosperity of the fish- i
ng industry—these are some of!
the subjects dealt with in “North
Pacific Fisheries.'
"Without attempting thcmselv ,
es to solve the legal problems in
volved in protecting American I
fisheries against ruthless foreign j
exploitation, the authors demon
strate the absolute necessity for,
such protection. They review the;
history and effects of unrestrict
ed fishing, show how government
al regulations based upon scien
tific knowledge and effective en
forcement is essential to the pre
servation of fisheries such as the
salmon and halibut; how control
confined to three miles from
more would be wholly inade
quate; accordingly that protec
tion of some kind beyond such
narrow range must be secured if
these cries ich mean so
much to the people of this re
gion are to be maintained.
"The Ala ka fi.iiv ries alone r *
present an investment of about
one hundred million dollars with
an annual production oi 60 to 70
per cent of tht figure, and direct
ly or indirectly give employment
to about 50,000 persons. The Pac
ific Northwest, including British
Columbia and A’ iska, has an an
nual output of one billion five
hundred million ; *unds. Alaska,
Washington and Oregon produce
about 40 per cent of the canned
fi li & by-products of the whole
United States.
"An interesting sidelight on
the canned salmon indus'ry is
that although some nine leading
companies have resulted from
mergers, there apparently are de
finite limits to the economy of
large scale production, there is
no monopolistic control, and nu
merous small concerns compete
side by side with the large ones,
“For Alaska the fisheries not
only represent the biggest pro
duction (more than half of the
territory’s production of every
kind) and the biggest payroll
and tax support but they are the
basis for transportation service
for every resident of tre terri
tory regardless of his vocation,
for they alone furnish sufficient
freight and passenger traffic to
justify adequate transportation
facilities.
"The authors again emphasize
the necessity for the preserva
tion of the fishery resources of
this coast from uncontrolled ex
ploitation They point with ad
miration to the remarkable re
storation of the halibut banks as
a result of the intelligent cooper
ation of Canada and the United
States. They urge that this serve
not only as a pattern for these
two friendly American nations
but for all the world’’
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