THE NOME NUGGET
Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday by the
NOME PUBLISHING CO.
NOME, ALASKA
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E. P. BOUCHER . Managing Editor
CLINTON GRAY . Production Manager
Entered as second class matter October 14, 1943, at the
post office at Nome, Alaska, under Act of March 3, 1879.
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Meet The Candidates
THE THREE TOP Democratic candidates for the
Alaskan seats in the Congress of the United
States and the first elected Governor are 'arriving here
tomorrow for an overnight visit.
It is important that Alaskans should take the
opportunity of meeting these outstanding men and
form their own opinions before casting their ballots
for voting representation — their voice — in the U. S.
Congress.
We hope Nomeites will have the same privilege
of meeting the Republican candidates in the near
future.
Senator Frank Church of Idaho in a recent adress
referred to Seward’s Ice Box as the Treasure Box of
the future, and the present time one of great decision
for the people. Church paid special tribute to former
Governor Gruening, “who did much to set Alaskan
affairs in order, paving the way toward Statehood,
even as Gruening’s own book, ‘The State of Alaska,’
supplied the Congress with the factual ammunitioon
needed to win the Statehood battle. Gruening is one
of the great citizens of our times, and is regarded,
above all others, as The Father of Alaskan Statehood.”
Columbus Was Right
WITH THE Sputniks has come the rediscovery
that the world is round! Excitement over pros
pects of space travel raises unprecedented enthusiasm
for geography. To young and old, .the earth is suddenly
a great ball spinning in orderly relationship to the sun,
the moon and the countless other bodies of a limitless
universe. All at once, in thought and spirit we find
ourselves in outer space viewing our world in-the
round. We see mountains and oceans and plains in
three dimensions, as we have long^seen the ridges and
craters of the moon.
So on Columbus Day, which comes on Sunday,
we can think back to the time when he had a hard
time making the people of his world believe the world
was round.
And if Columbus were around today,-he’d prob
ably be out there on a satellite looking for another
world to discover.
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POPE PIUS . . .
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2,000-year history of the Church.
He wanted to be known as the
‘Pope of Peace,” but when he
was elected March 2, 1939, the
world already was on the eve of
World War II. Ahead were the
years of onslaught against reli
gion. by Communism.
In the Pope’s last hours, ex
pressions of hope for his recovery
had come from around the world
and from people of all creeds.
These messages now turned to ex
pressions of sorrow from the high
and the low.
The Soviet news agency Tass,
which had not reported the
Pope’s illness, reported his death
in a brief dispatch.
The death of Pius XII, who
guided the church through Nazi
fanned hot wars and Communist
chilled cold wars, did not deprive
it of his guidance. He left behind
scores of encyclicals, speeches
and other documents which have
! become part of Roman Catholic
heritage.
He literally worked himself to
death, in the opinion of Vatican
officials.
Nationalists
Fight Red Planes,
With One Loss
TAIPEI, Formosa, UP) — Jet
fighters of the Chinese National
ists and Communists battled over
the Formosa Strait today. The
Nationalists said five Red planes
were downed at a cost of one of
theirs.
The Nationalist air force said
machine-gun fire from its F86
Sabre Jets shot down four MIG17s.
A Sabre Jet collided with a fifth
MIG, sending both crashing into
the ocean and killing the Nation
alist pilot, a spokesman said.
Peiping Radio claimed Commu
nist planes shot down two Na
tionalist Sabre Jets and damaged
a third. It said one Nationalist
pilot “has been captured alive.”
Red losses were not mentioned.
The Nationalists now claim they
have shot down 34 MIGs and
damaged or possibly destroyed 11
more since the Communists began
bombarding the Quemoy Islands
August 23. In that period the Na
tionalists say they have lost only
the plane in today’s collision.
It was the largest aerial battle
since 32 Sabre Jets clashed Sep
tember 24 with more than 100
MIGs. The Nationalists claimed
14 MIGs shot down in that en
gagement.
News, of the battle climaxed
the observance on Formosa of the
47 th anniversary of the revolution
which overthrew the Manchu
Dynasty and led to establishment
of the Chinese Republic.
President Chiang Kai-Shek said
jin his annual address that the Na
tionalists had won the first round
of the battle of Quemoy. He pre
dicted they would win the “sec
ond round” and eventually would
recover the mainland from the
Chinese Communists.
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