THE NOME NUGGET
Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday by the
NOME PUBLISHING CO.
NOME, ALASKA
E. P. BOUCHER . Managing Editor
CLINTON GRAY . Production Manager
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Entered as second class matter October 14, 1943 at the
postoffice at Nome, Alaska, under Act of March 3, 1879
EVERYBODY WINS
In case you didn’t realize it, frozen foods are 25
years old this year.
Since the organization of Birds Eye Frosted Foods
as a division of General Foods in 1929, more than 1400
other processors, large and small, have come into the
field. Last year they froze 3,400,000,000 pounds of
the nation’s nutriment in 300 different kinds of food
under 1,500 brand names. These comestibles came out
of half a million frozen food cabinets in about 250,000
stores. And if you are an average American, you ate
36 pounds of them yourself.
But this billion dollar industry that has changed
the eating—and housekeeping—habits of the nation,
that has become a tremendous factor in the prosperity
of the American farmer, did not happen overnight.
For long years Birds Eye struggled almost alone to
meet the staggering and unprecedented problems that
came in unending succession. First, proper freezing
equipment had to be developed and manufactured.
Foods had to be studied to know what kinds were best
to freeze. Farmers had to be encouraged and supplied
with proper seed to grow crop^ for freezing in their
fields.
In the long history of human progress there have
been few developments that were more visionary at
the outset or have been more sweeping in their impact
on public health and convenience, on the welfare of
all who eat food, and all who produce it.
Twenty-five years later, Mr. Birdseye’s cold propo
sition is the hottest thing in the world of nutrition.
300-Acre Fire Rages Out
Of Control Near Ft. Yukon
FAIRBANKS, UP)—1The Bureau
of Land Management office here
said yesterday 57 employes of its
Forestry Division are fighting a
3,000-acre fire raging out of con
trol near Venetie, above the Arc
tic Circle near Fort Yukon.
The BLM said five other fires
also set by lightning in the same
general area have been brought
under control.
WEATHER FORECAST
Cloudy with rain and little
change in temperature. Winds
easterly 12-18 mph tonight be
coming SE 15-20 Thursday. Low
temperature expected tonight 45,
high Thursday 54.
Nome data last 24 hours as of
7 a.m. today: High temperature
54, low 42. Max. wind 13 mph
from the SW. Sunrise 2:05 a.m.,
6unset 10:07 p.m.
Temperatures a year ago today:
high 62, low 39. Extremes this
date since 1907: high 72 in 1937,
low 35 in 1934.
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GLUE POT
Soda Fountain
CIGARS, CIGARETS
TOBACCO
CANDY
FRESH ICE CREAM
EVERY DAY
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Nome Chamber Completes
Reception Arrangements
For McKay and Party
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begins promptly at 12 o’clock
noon at the Bering Sea Club, also
that it will be a regular Chamber
of Commerce meeting with invita
tional guests in addition to the
Mayor, City Council and depart
ment heads of the City govern
ment. Total number of places
provided for is 60. The committee
requests promptness on the part
of all luncheon guests, for the
secretary’s party is travelling on
a very tight schedule, and must
leave Nome Field promptly at
1:30 p.m. following the luncheon.
Recommendations Will Be Made
The Resolutions Committee,
George Goshaw, chairman, read
the following list of prepared
statements and recommendations
which are to be incorporated into
a printed brochure and presented
to the Secretary— 1. Roads, 2.
Federal Land Office, 3. High
Water Freight Rate, 4. Mining,
5. Fish and Wildlife, 6. Economy
of the Eskimo' People, 7. Nome
Federal Bldg., 8. Tourists, 9.
Arctic Oil and Gas Fields, and
10. Conclusion.
Territorial Senators Percy Ipa
look of Kotzebue and Charles D.
Jones and Howard Lyng of Nome,
assisted chairman Goshaw in the
preparation.
U.S. Attorney Russell Hermann
is in charge of transportation and
has arranged or sightseeing trips
about Nome and for the reception
and departure at the airfield.
Arctic Sanitary Service
Phone RED 181
U.S. and Russian
Troops Work in
Flood Emergency
VIENNA, Austria, W)—Ameri
can and Russian troops worked
within a few hundred yards of
each other outside Vienna Tues
day in an effort to save a U.S.
airfield and two Austrian villages
from floods.
The waters of the swollen Dan
ube River—raging downstream
leaving 70,000 homeless in Ger
many and western Austria—
threatened the U.S. Air Force
base at Tullin. Isolated in the
Russian occupation zone of Aus
tria, it is 22 miles northwest of
Vienna’s American sector.
German officials said the air
field was “pretty much out of
danger” unless the waters took a
big rise.
Floods from the Danube ap
proached within 200 yards of the
field, inundating the communities
of Tullin and Langenlebarn and
flooding a road cbnneeting them
with the airfield.
The Russians sent troops and
trucks to one stretch of the road,
while the Americans sent trucks
and scores of airmen to another
stretch.
The police said there was no
actual cooperation between the
Cold War opponents.
“They pass by each other on
the highway, but they ignore each
other,” one official said.
The flood, the worst in centur
ies in Central Europe, took an
other victim Monday night. A
three-year-old child fell into the
swirling Danube near Vienna,
bringing the total dead reported
in Austria and East and West
Germany to 28.
Conservative estimates placed
property damage at hundreds of
millions of dollars.
A U.S. Army helicopter pilot
aiding in flood rescue work in
Bavaria, tells this one today:
He plucked several marooned
people from a farm house. Later
he took a man from a housetop
who looked vaguely familiar.
“Didn’t I bring you out a few
hours ago?” the pilot asked.
“Yes,” replied the man, “I en
joy riding in a helicopter and so
I went back by row boat.”
Andrew Nerlands Visit
Former Home In Norway
Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Nerland
who left here a short time ago
when Nerland retired after many
years’ service with the U. S.
Smelting Co., are now in Vistdal,
Malde, Norway, visiting relatives
and friends of Mr. Nerland whom
he had not seen for 32 years.
They stated that they left New
York on June 22 and arrived in
Oslo the following day.
Mrs. Nerland, who does not
speak Norwegian, reports that she
sits quietly with the groups of
relatives and is having a wonder
ful time enjoying the different
foods and customs.
They plan to visit Pete Sather
who is visiting his former home
near there, as well as Klaus
Hole who is also visiting his
home in the old country.
Dollars in Diri Despite Drought
STELLA, Neb., iff) — Farmer
Herbert Walker stood watching
the hot winds blow over his corn
field and casually remarked that
even if the crop did burn up
there was money in the field.
He had plowed under his pock
etbook, containing $87, while cul
tivating the crop.
Fin* Job Printing at the Nugget
Two Active Seward Peninsula Tin 1
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Four-month-old Baby Girl
Is Attacked Sexually
HOBBS, N.M., UFi — The four
months-old daughter of a Japa
nese war bride and a former G.I.,
was kidnaped and sexually at
tacked early today.
Little Jackie Jo Davis, daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Davis,
who live just across the Texas
line from here, was abducted from
her home by a dinner guest, who
police identified as Bill Hughes,
34, of Seminole, Tex.
The strapping Hughes, 6 foot, 2
inches and 195 pounds, was held
in Seminole after his arrest near
the car in which officers said he
abandoned the baby.
Jackie Jo, a tiny brunette in
fan, received lacerations on the
lower abdomen which had to be
sutured, a Seminole physician
said. He described her condition
as “good.”
Police said Hughes was a din
ner guest in the Davis home last
night and had baked a chicken
for them.
Trio To Make Raft Trip
Through Rugged Canadian
Northwest Territories
EDMONTON, Alta., (#1 — Two
Americans and a young Canadian
woman left Edmonton yesterday
on a 2,500-mile trip by car, boat
and plane through the rugged
country of northern Alberta and
the Northwest Territories.
In the party are Harry Aleson
of Richfield, Utah, professional
boatman on the Colorado River;
Harry (Pete) Sparkes of West Or
ange, N.J., a mathematics instruc
tor at Carnegie Technical College,
Pittsburgh, Pa., and Mrs. Maureen
Henderson of Aldershot, Ont.
They left by car for Peace
River, 250 miles northwest, where
they are to embark in two United
States Navy powered rafts for a
winding journey over the Peace,
Slave and Mackenzie Rivers and
a number of lakes to Aklavik,
on the delta of the MaeKenzie
River near the Arctic Ocean.
Bearded elderly Harry Aleson
has -traversed Grand Canyon three
times in one of the rafts.
Ft, Monmouth Worker,
Suspended Year Ago,
Cleared and Reinstated
FT. MONMOUTH, N.J., UP)—
Bernard Martin, a technical writ
er suspended a year ago from Ft.
Monmouth as a purported security
risk, has been cleared and rein
stated.
In an announcement Monday,
Army authorities said -Martin had
been notified July 9 he could re
turn to work at the electronics
center. But the Army did not dis
close whether Martin would be
put back on his old job.
Reportedly, Martin was one of
21 Ft. Monmouth employes sus
pended from their jobs as alleged
security risks and given hearings
by the first Army review board.
Martin thus would be the first of
the group cleared publicly.
' Ralph Lomen, president of
Nome’s Lomen Commercial Co.,
arrived from Seattle July 9.
Ralph, a member of the pioneer
Lomen family, whose father,
Judge G. J. Lomen and older
brother Carl landed in Nome in
June 1900, arrived himself in
1903, graduating from Nome’s
high school in 1906, as one of the
two members comprising its first
graduating class.
Mr. Lomen, in addition to his
considerable local interests, is
vice president and general man
ager of the Zenda Tin Corp. with
large interests in the^ Tin City
district. The past two seasons’
drillings have shown approxi
mately 4,380,000 pounds of tin on
Cape Creek at an average depth
of 30 feet. While drilling has not
been completed on a number of
adjoining creeks, all that will be
done this season, Mr. Lomen
states, is some stripping and as
sessment work.
Mr. Lomen is also vice presi
dent and general manager of the
Alaska Tin Corp., which has ex
tensive tin holdings back of Shish
maref on Ear Mountain, where a
crew is presently engaged in
trenching on several lode claims
and continuing the placer drilling
started last summer.
While in the States last winter
Mr. Lomen made two trips to i
Washington D.C. in the interests
of his companies, and others en
gaged in the opening up and de
velopment of Northwest Alaska’s
extensive tin-bearing districts, re
maining for a number of weeks
each visit. Many influential de- i
partment heads, congressmen and
senators were interviewed, and ■
much sympathetic assistance en
gendered on behalf of the devel
opment of Alaska’s tin fields.
Among those who were especially
active and helpful were Senator
George Malone of Nevada, chair
man of the Senate subcommittee
on minerals, metals and strategic
materials, Assistant Secretary of
the Interior Felix Wormser, the
Interior Department’s expert on
minerals and metals, Delegate to
Congress E. L. Bartlett, and Alas
ka’s Governor Frank Heintzle
man.
Mr. Lomen states that his com
panies’ gold dredge operating in
the Council District for the past
several seasons, and which was
being readied last May for the
present season when the sudden
death of Dredge Superintendent
Charley Gustafsen occurred, will
remain shut down for this season.
TOO HOT IN THE COOLER
MIAMI, Okla., UP)—It was even
too hot in the “cooler” here yes
terday.
With the temperature at 115
degrees, Ottawa County Sheriff
James'A. Alleman ordered seven
prisoners out of the jail, marched
them onto the courthouse lawn
under shade of trees and permit
ted them to play cards.
“It was too hot in that fourth
floor jail,” the sheriff remarked,
“even for law violators.”
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