THE NOME NUGGET
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HOW DOES IT ADD UP ?
GIRL SCOUT WEEK
i By BORGNEY READER, Girl Scout Leader)
Just as the Pilgrims in the fall of 1621 sat down
and gave thanks that they were established in a free,
new country, so we today have reason to pause and
count our many blessings.
As Girl Scouts, we are thankful that we belong
to a family that sets spiritual values foremost, those
spiritual values which are so well expressed in the
Promise that we make when we join the Girl Scout
movement:
“On my honor, I will try:
To do my duty to God and my country
To help other people at all times,
To obey the Girl Scout Laws.”
Very simply and humbly we say we will try to
do our duty to God. Second only to that, we say we
will try to do our duty to our country. And last, we
will try to help other people at all times. Surely this
is a basis for good living; surely it should bring out
the best in us.
And we have need for the best that is in us because
we are working with our Girl Scouts. This is the second
reason to be thankful: that we are privilaged to work
and play with young people. Particularly if you are a
leader, you could hardly find more optimistic work;
for with your girls you are always looking forward
into the future, where, according to the girls, all sorts
of wonderful things may happen. All this they express
as they sing their merry songs; all this they think of
as they joyously start out on a hike. Always remember
that you, as a leader, are fortunate to share in their
happy thoughts.
As citizens of this great, free country of ours, the
United States of America, we can be thankful that our
Girl Scout Laws, which stress loyalty, honor, friendli
ness and service to our neighbors, reinforce the best in
our American heritage and tradition. For it is these
everyday qualities practiced by our forefathers which
made our country great and kept it free. Indeed, we
are fortunate to be constantly reminded of these same
qualities, so that by practicing them and by passing
them on to our girls we are accepting our responsibility
as American citizens.
Returned Mine Operators
Greeted At Meeting Of
Pioneer Igloo No. 1
Pioneers had an interesting
meeting Wednesday evening. Pio
neer Olaf Lundberg o'f Candle, en
route to his winter home at Ar
lington, Va., gave an explanation
regarding-the sale of the old Fair
haven Hospital building at Candle.
Part cf the proceeds of the sale
will be turned over to Igloo No. 1
and the Good Cheer Christmas
fund for the Alaska Pioneer
Home.
George Bodis, Dick Creek gold
placer operator, was again wel
comed along with Carl Hill who
has been in the “hills” for the
summer season.
Pioneer Mike Kelly was ap
pointed chairman of the Roof Gar
den Committee. He will later an
nounce his committee appoint
ments, looking forward to the
best Roof Garden entertainment
ever held in Nome. Entertainment
committee chairman Jack Blattler
states that there will be several
now acts which will be presented
by his troupe of entertainers.
Pioneers Tony Polet, Charley
Jones and George Go'shaw were
appointed as a special committee
for an event to be announced
later.
Pioneers George Waldheim and
Clarence Ausley did themselves
proud as good vendors of excel
lent refreshments which the big
gathering enjoyed and everyone
expressed complete satisfaction.
Next regular meeting will be
on Nov. 17. Two prominent Pio
neers will offer their own brand
of refreshments. The president
urges evc-ry Pioneer to attend.
.Master of Modern Art
Henri Matisse Dies at 84
NICE, France, Wl—Henri Mat
isse, one of the greatest masters
of modern art, died Wednesday
afternoon in his apartment in this
Riviera resort city after years of
ill health. He was 84 years old.
Although so crippled in recent
years he was able to be on his
feet only a few hours each day,
Matisse continued his art, which
included textile designs, etchings,
sculpture and decorative cutouts
as well as paintings.
Cablecar Line Voted Out
SAN FRANCISCO, W—Voters
killed a proposition Tuesday to
restore one cablecar line by a vote,
of 128,482 to 78,466. However,
San Francisco still has cable cars.
JAPANESE SURVEY TEAkd
TO VISIT SITKA NEXT YEAR
TOKYO, W)—A Japanese tech
nical survey team will leave soon
after the first of the year for
Sitka, to study the possibilities
of building a saw mill and pulp
plant there, the Alaska Pulp Co.,
Ltd., of To'kya said today.
The company had planned pre
viously to send the survey team
this month.
Seitoku Hosokawa, chief of the
company’s public relations office,
said three Japanese forest tech
nicians are already in Alaska to
survey the U.S. government-own
ed forest zone in the Sitka district.
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WEATHER FORECAST
Compiled by the
U.S. Dept, of Commerce Weather Bureau
Partly cloudy and colder to
night. and Saturday. Winds NE
15-20 mph. decreasing Saturday.
Lowest temperature expected to
night 26, high Saturday 34.
Nome data last 24 hours as of
7 a.m. today: High temperature
39, low 32. Max. wind 12 mph.
from the north. Sunrise 8:00 a.m.,
sunset 3:29 p.m.
Temperatures a year ago today:
high 20, low 13. Extremes this
date since 1907: high 44 in 1926,
low -10 in 1918.
Other stations as of 7 a.m. today:
Station Temp. Weather
Barrow 19 Snow
Kotzebue 26 Sno’w
Wales 27 Snow
Nome 23 Cloudy
Unalakleot 34 Cloudy
Bethel 56 Drizzle
McGrath 18 Rain
Fairbanks 14 Fog
Whitehorse 38 Cloudy
Juneau 50 Cloudy
Edmonton 46 "Cloudy
Ketchikan 50 Rain
Seattle 59 Cloudy
Sar. Francisco 61 Clear
Astronomy Notes
By OLAF HALVERSON
On Monday evening, November
1st, about five minutes to six,
there was an unusual and beauti
ful display of meteors shooting
across the sky. Three of them ap
peared suddenly in the eastern
sky and slowly traced a brilliant
course in the sky. One of them
burst into colors of blue, yellow
and red. The display reminded
one of sky-rockets and also of the
historic shower of meteors in
November, 1866, when observers
thought the heavens were falling
down upon the earth.
With astronomical precision,
November is a month when me
teors frequently come into our
atmosphere. It is in November
when the earth passes through a
shower of meteors left by a dis
integrated comet. The energy of
their motion is suddenly convert
ed into heat and light by friction
with our atmosphere. Their en
tire substance becomes vaporized
unless they reach the earth, and
they are then called meteorites.
Egypt U.N. Delegate Dies
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., (A>1—
Dr. Mahmoud Azmi, Egypt’s chief
delegate to the United Nations,
died Wednesday night a short
time after he collapsed with a
heart attack while speaking in the
Security Council.
The diplomat, who was 65 years
old, slumped to the horseshoe
shaped council table in the midst
Of a speech replying to an Israeli
complaint against his govern
ment.
A modern fighter plane sucks
132,000 cubic feet of air into its
turbines every minute of flight.
That’s enough air to keep the
average human being alive for
nearly four months.
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SKYWRITING
By HAROLD SALISBURY
The planes that used to pour white smoke
And zoom across the sky
Writing mundane messages
To charm the mundane eye
Are missing in Alaska,- but
Real messages are scriven
Writ by the Master Skywriter
Upon the walls of Heav’n,
There, from the strokes of magic brush
From which rare colors roll
Great messages take shape,- whose joy
Is mirrored in the soul,
In wind-strewn, tumbled, transient clouds
Is ageless truth released
And scowling clouds of boisterous storm
Deploy the power of peace,
There, sometimes, words in lacy clouds
Shine on an azure field,
In swirling, opalescent mists
Are noble thoughts revealed
And proverbs piled in soft grey banks
Extol His truth and leaven
The cavalcades of eloquence
Upon the walls of Heaven,
When sadness weighs upon the heart
And sorrow’s dictates sting,
And sight is blinded by despair,
’Tis difficult to sing,
Read then the message in the sky
And grasp the purpose given
That soothes the soul,- the handwriting
Upon the walls of Heaven!
Etched in a tenderness of tone
Or chiseled in relief
The sky is full of thoughts that tell
Truth’s triumph over grief,
Bubbling,- swirling,- puffed or spun
Unto our hearts befall
The messages of time and space
Inscribed on Heaven’s wall,
And planes that spill their mundane smoke
Charm but the eye mundane
But phrdses formed of cosmic truth
Bespeak the cosmic gain!
Then to behold the words in gold
When dull day fades at even
We read the tale eternal writ
Upon the walls of Heaven!