T HE MlM E NUGG'ET
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HER FOUNDATION ^ ^
THE GREAT DISCOVERY
(Christian Science Monitor)
Some four centuries and a half ago, on an October
12, a man with a vision and his weary, rebellious crew
at last sighted land. Without being aware of it, they
had discovered America.
Since then the United States has been rediscovered
by millions. They have come in crowded steerage,
sailboats, troopships, luxury liners and airplanes or,
crossing the land borders in oxcarts, automobiles, on
saddle or on foot. Some had visions of great things.
Some came out of rebellion against oppression at home.
Some came for economic betterment. Some for adven
ture. Millions among these as well as among the
natives of this country have rediscovered America for
themselves as they grew into a fuller realization of
the treasure that is theirs, the inestimable richness of
being a free man.
And many, whether they arrived from abroad or
from within, have experienced an ever-expanding
concept of the real essence of America, the spiritual
truth, available anywhere, that alone hold out to the
despairing, joy, to the enslaved, freedom, to the poor,
abundance.
It is the truth that man as God’s child has been
endowed with certain inalienable divine rights which,
although at times lost sight of, are undeniably and
forever his and which no power can permanently
withhold from him.
This discovery is greater than all other discoveries,
even greater than the momentous one made by Col
umbus.
Printers pleased with profits but panting from
pace as politicians plead and persuade public with
platform promises by paper and pamphlet to plug
their party at polls. Be sure to vote tomorrow.
A bachelor is a fellow who is crazy to get married
—and knows it.
There is more to being a good teacher than know
ing your subject.
Americanism—the greater the family income, the
greater is the family’s needs.
Sam Godfrey Back
From Kougarok
River Holdings
Sam Godfrey, who with his bro
ther, W. F. Godfrey, are owners
of extensive gold mining ground
in the upper Kougarok, arrived in
town several days ago. Sam re
ports the driest season in his 25
years of mining in that area—no
snow water last spring and no
rain until Aug. 10. Tundra fires
qjidn’t help any either.
N. B. Tweet & Sons, who have
some of Sam’s ground under lease,
hydrauliced several Kougarok
River benches several miles above
Taylor, where Keenan and Castle
ton left off a number of year ago,
including some 200,000 square feet
of bedrock stripped for next sea
son.
After acquiring the sunken
(1952) Keenan and Castleton
dredge, raising and repairing it,
the Tweets started it digging on
Sept. 15. It is a one-'pcmtoon,
all - steel, two-cubic-foot bucket
dredge, and has an estimated 25
years dredging ahead.
In addition, the Tweets’ equip
ment includes eight Caterpillar
bulldozers, a Northwest one-yard
dragline with two overhead steel
sluice boxes, a number of pump
ing units both gas and diesel,
5,000 feet of hydraulic pipe, gi
ants, gates, etc., a complete ma
chine shop, a half dozen buildings
and a family airplane. Son Har
old, an experienced licensed pilot
and veteran of World War II, flies
it, with younger brother Bill as
co-pilot and mechanic. Bill is also
a veteran of World War II.
The Tweets are a pioneer Sec
ond Division family. Mr. and Mrs.
Tweet, both now past 80, and
small son Edgar (now deceased)
arrived in Teller in 1900. The rest
of the family—Norman, Harold
and Bill—were born and raised
in Teller. All but Norman married
and are raising third generation
Alaska families.
Sam and W. F. Godfrey are
veterans of the Klondike, Nome,
Fairbanks, Livengood, Ruby and
Iditarod gold strikes. W. F. God
frey and their nephew, Cub Bair,
spent part of the summer at
Sam’s Kougarok camp. Sam ex
pects to leave shortly for Seattle
and will return to Nome next
April.
TOTS IN TROUBLE
About 20 children were rouoded
up by Police Chief Herb Jenks for
getting into the old N.C. ware
house being torn down at the east
end of town and destroying as
well as messing up the interior
and exterior.
The children were all between
the 4th and 7th grades, it is re
ported. No charges are being
pressed but the youngsters will
have to go down and clean up
mess stated Jenks.
WEATHER FORECAST
Partly cloudy tonight and Tues
day with northerly winds 8 to 12
mph. Low temeprature expected
tonight 23, high tomorrow 38.
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& Cleaners
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Joe Amarok, Proprietor
CAB Suspends Pan Am
Proposal for Special Fare
WASHINGTON, UR—‘The Civil
Aeronautics Board has suspended
a proposal by Pan American
World Airways for a special pas
senger fare from Fairbanks to
Seattle on cargo aircraft.
The board said it would inves
tigate to determine whether the
fare would be unjust or unreason
able, or would divert traffic from
higher fare services without a
compensating increase in traffic
and revenues.
FBI TRACKS DOWN THIEVES
OF FAIRBANKS JEWELRY
FAIRBANKS, Off—Two men
have been arrested in the States
in connection with the theft of
more than 40 wedding and dia
mond engagement rings from a
jewelry store here last month,
FBI agent James H. Gale an
nounced Friday.
Gale, special agent in charge
of the Anchorage FBI office, said
John David Whiles was picked up
in Kansas City, Mo., and Thomas
Burton Morgan in Los Angeles.
Man Killed in Crash
Of C-47 at Ladd AFB
FAIRBANKS, Iff)—One man was
killed and three others were in
jured Saturday night when an
Air Force C-47 crashed at nearby
Ladd Air Force Base. Two pas
sengers were unscratched.
The plane was returning to
Ladd after a flight to Elmendorf
AFB near Anchorage. It was at
tached to- the 5001st Operations
Squadron at Ladd.
TOT KILLED IN CEMETERY
WHITEVILLE, Tenn., OP)—Death
struck in a cemetery yesterday.
Dennis Wright, 2, taken to visit
a relative’s grave, was killed by
a heavy monument-size headstone
that toppled when he stepped on
its base.
LONDON DOCK STRIKE
THREATENS FUEL SUPPLY
LONDON, UP)—A threat to fuel
supplies for London’s power sta
tions developed today as the crip
pling strike by more than 25,000
dock workers entered its second
week.
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