THE NOME NUGGET
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AMERICA ISN’T ALL WALL STREET, IVAN
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TYPEWRITERS ARE WEAPONS
The U.S. Information Agency reports that in Com
munist Romania citizens who wish to own a typewriter
or duplicating machine must now have a special license
from the police. The edict also forbids such persons
to move the machines from their homes, or permit
anyone else to use them without police permission.
A similar regulation was published some time ago in
Czechoslovakia.
The Communist masters of these nations know
what they are doing.
They recognize that the typewriter is one of the
most dangerous weapons they can permit their enemies
to have. Only a printing press would represent greater
peril to them.
Nothing could more clearly demonstrate the para
lyzing fear that strikes the heart of a Communist at
the thought that the people he rules might somehow
lay their hands on the truth about him. The freely
spoken and freely written word has always been, and
must always be, the greatest enemy of tyrants.
Brantford (Ont., Can.) Expositor says:
The United States Navy, says Washington, plans
to go right ahead building and operating aircraft car
riers, despite advice to the contrary from Field Marshal
Lord Montgomery. The latter warned that the day of
such unwieldy craft was being shortened by airpower.
There is nothing new in the official Navy attitude,
and it is not exclusive with Washington. Haig was
suspicious of tanks in the first World War, thinking
they were too new-fangled. And the Polish Army re
lied on cavalry, of all things, in the Second World War.
And remember what happened to a couple of front
rank British ships which went about without air cover?
Red Hook, (N.Y.) Adverstiser says:
“A Rhinebeck woman has been arrested on a
charge of refusing to yield a telephone party line in
a fire emergency ... It is good to know that there is
a law protecting the status of the telephone as an
emergency weapon.”
“It’s more blessed to give than to receive”—but!
the pleasure of being blessed is offset to a considerable
extent by the pain of being broke. ' j
Nome’s Army Bruins Win
All-Alaska Company
Basketball Crown
The Army Bruins, the basket- i
ball team from T-23 at Nome *
Field, which won the recent Base
City League championship, re
turned from Fort Richardson last
week where they won the All
Alaska Company basketball
championship.
The Bruins won all the games
they played with the Post Engi
eers, the 99th MRU and a free
pass.
The Bruins played as the Nome
Nuggets at Fort Richardson. The
players who made the trip were:
Bob Hall, Loren Keiser,-Hubert
Glass, Ole Johnson, Dick Tarbell,
Howard Mark, Spencer Roberts,
Earl Bowman and Ronald Sims.
The Bruins utilized team height
and accuracy at the foul line to
overcome the passing and running
game of the other contenders.
In the last game, against the
99th Machine Records Unit of
Fort Richardson, they dominated
the rebounds at both goals dnd
converted on 24 charity tosses.
Following the game, Col. Bar
ney A. Daugherty, Fort Richard
son post commander, presented
the winning team with a trophy.
RETIRED AIR FORCE CHIEF
ROBBED OF VALUABLE FURS
LOS ANGELES, i/Pi—Ira C.
Eaker, retired deputy chief of the
U.S. Air Force, reported to police
jewelry and furs worth $4,170
were stolen from his Sunset Boul
evard home Friday night.
Eaker, now vice president of
the Hughes Tool Co., said burg
lars broke in while he was out to
dinner. He said the losses includ
ed a mink coat and stole valued
at $3,900.
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WEATHER FORECAST
Compiled by the
U.S. Dept, of Commerce Weather Bureau
Clearing and colder tonight
with decreasing S-SW winds.
Cloudy Tuesday with increasing
easterly winds. Snow beginning
Tuesday afternoon. Lowest tem
perature expected tonight -8,
highest Tuesday 17.
Nome data last 24 hours as of
7 a.m. today: High temperature
21, low 11. Max. wind 21 mph
from the east. Sunrise 6:21 a.m.,
sunset 6 p.m.
Other stations as of 7 a.m. today:
Station Temp. Weather
Barrow -25 Blowing Sno
Kotzebue 13 Snow
Nome 15 Snow
Unalakleet 12 onow
Bethel 22 Part cloudy
Nenana 22 Snow
McGrath 7 Cloudy
Anchorage 19 Snow
Fairbanks 10 Cloudy
Whitehorse . -5 Cloudy
Edmonton 26 Snow
Juneau 29 Part cloudy
Ketchikan 37 Part cloudy
Seattle 48 Clear
San Francisco 15 Cloudy
ASTRONOMY NOTES
By OLAF HALVERSON
The constellation Orion is di
rectly overhead when observed at
the equator of the earth. It is
therefore easily seen in all parts
of the earth except the extreme
northern and southern regions.
The central star in the Sword
of Orion appears blurred and is
the multiple star Theta which is
in the midst of the great Orion
nebula. Viewed through a pow
erful telescope it is made up of
six stars. Even with a small tele
scope, four of these stars can be
easily seen. The lowest star in the
Sword is a triple star and the
entire constellation is composed
of double, triple and multiple
stars.
Many branches and streamers
of nebulous light extend out from
the central portion of the nebula
and it is known that the entire
constellation of Orion lies in the
folds of this nebula. The nebula
is a glowing, whirling mass of
fiery gases in rapid rotation.
Nehru Escapes
Armed Attack by
Rickshaw Fuller
BOMBA Y, India, UP— Prime |
Minister Nehru escaped a possible
attempt on his life Saturday by :
warding off a knife-wielding rick
shaw puller who jumped on his
c.,r. But both Nehru and the In
dim government are inclined to
minimize the incident.
Police, fearing an attack by an
assassin, arrested the knife brand-,
isher and another man. ^
The rickshaw “boy” was iden
tified as Basl Rao, from the Ma
harashtra area. A Maharashtra as
sassin was hanged in 1S48 for the
slaying of Mohandas K. Gandhi.
The other man arrested Saturday
was not identified.
The motive for Saturday's in
cident was unknown.
Unhurt and seemingly unper
turbed, Nehru commented it was
a very small knife and not at all
dangerous.”
In New Delhi, government offi
cials immediately issued state
ments declaring that the incident
could not be called an attempt on
Nehru’s life, that the rickshaw
boy might have been angry at j
some one else in Nehru’s car. For
instance, they said, Pandit R. S. !
Shukla, chief minister of Pradesh
State, controls rickshaws through ;
a licensing system.
Nehru, now 65 and in good
physical condition, said he could
have taken the knife away from
R,ao, “but in the meantime police
attacked him and removed the
man from the spot.”
WIEN AIRLINES
From Fairbanks: Selma Ting-1
ook, Wanda Halverson, Paul
Jones, La’ura Davis, Wm. Cody,'
Ed Bloom.
From Kotzebue: Mabel Seetook,
L. Leidholdt, R. Frank.
To Fairbanks: Richard Gookins, t
Frank Lee, Richard Jennings, C.
Lohnon, John Maciolet, Ralph;
Carroll, Stan Smart, Wm. Norman
To Kotzebue: Don Cline, Jack
Jenkins, Nanna Esenituk, Tom
Carter, Alice Sheldon, Doug Shel
don, I. Kumz, Paul Octock, Eliza
beth Davidovics, Mr. and Mrs.
John Cross and daughter, Lloyd
Tarver.
From Deering: Mr. and Mrs.
Harold Dimmick and children.
Fine Job Printing at The Nugget
$4 Million Requested For
Repairs To Alaska R.R.
Between Seward, Portage
WASHINGTON, UR — General
Manager Frank E. Kalbaugh of
the Alaska Railroad Thursday
urged the Senate Appropriations
Committee to approve $4,1000,
000 to repair the railroad between
Seward and Portage.
Prior to his appearance befoi’e
the committee, Kalbaugh said in
an interview that the railroad is
continuing to “show a profit” and
that all net earnings are being
set aside for future use of the
railroad for capital expenditures,
maintenance and operation.
Plans are now underway for
some $750,000 worth of improve
ments to be financed by the sur
plus funds, Kalbaugh sadi.
He said the railroad operated
“in the black” by about $917,000
during the first seven months of
the year ending June 30. It had
a $719,525 net operating profit in
1953-54, even though some freight
rates were reduced. The railroad
had operated at a deficit in most
prior years.
Unusually Cold Weather
!n Nome Last Month
Compiled by the
U.S. Dept, of Commerce Weather Bureau
February was unusually cold
and dry. Temperature, precipita
tion, wind and sky cover all aver
aged considerably below the nor
mal. No severe storms occurred
during the month, but most roads
were closed by drifting due to
high winds on the 9th and 10 th.
Average monthly temperature
was -5.8°, a departure from nor
mal of -11.5°. Highest tempera
ture during the month was 26° on
the 25th; the lowest was -33°. on
the 16th. On 23 of the 28 days the
temperature reached a minimum
of 0° or below.
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