THE NOME NUGGET
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Entered as second class matter October 14. 1943, at the
postoffice at Nome, Alaska, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
TIME ON HIS HANDS
BIRTHDAY PARTY
(Christian Science Monitor)
Recently the Statue of Liberty celebrated her 66th
birthday on Bedloe’s Island. A flag was presented,
speeches were made, and Liberty showed no signs of
wanting to lay down her torch. Yet if that gallant lady
had been holding down any of a great many other jobs
in the United States she would have faced compulsory
retirement a year ago at the mystical moment of
reaching 65.
A writer in the November Reader’s Digest decries
as nonsense the practice of compelling people to retire
at 65 or even at 60 when they are qualified to work,
prefer to work, need to work, and have invaluable ex
perience and talent to offer. He recalls that the great
Inca civilization prescribed certain occupations for
certain ages regardless of individual abilities, and im
plies that this rigidity may have contributed to the
decay and downfall of the Incas.
The arbitrary retirement policy of present-day
Americans, the writer asserts, ignores vital statistics,
is medically unrealistic, and takes no account of the
fact that inflation has made a mockery of many pension
plans. Other voices have been pointing out the same
thing and deploring the waste of skills and energies
through inelastic retirement policies. There appears to
be a growing recognition that a man is as young as his
thinking, as mature as his experience, as valuable as
his demonstrated ability.
Keep that torch high, Liberty.
It appears to be getting harder and harder to re
concile our net income withour gross habits.
Red Loudspeakers Play Carols,
Exhort U.N. Troops to Surrender
SEOUL, (IP) — Chinese loud
speakers on the central Korean
front broadcast Christmas pro
grams for Allied soldiers.
White Horse Mountain and Tri
angle Hill echoed Thursday night
with carols, national anthem and
a woman coaxing in the Korean
language “Come on over to our
side.”
A battle line loudspeaker near
Triangle invited:
“You don’t want to be a part
of the mess in the White House—
surrender.”
Japanese Government Gives
Peak of Mt. Fuji to Sengen Shrine
TOKYO, (/P) — The Japanese
government gave away the peak
of majestic Mt. Fuji Friday.
Kyodo News Agency said the
top one-fifth of the snow-draped
mountain will be given free to
the Sengen Shrine, which is at
the summit, provided:
The Sengen Shrine must agree
not to sell the land, make a profit
on it, conflict with other religious
organizations which consider Fuji
semi-sacred, or impose restric
tions on the use of the area for
sports or recreation.
Pravda Repeats Favorite
Theme—That The West
Preparing World War III
LONDON, (/P)—Despite Stalin’s
stated willingness for talks with
President - elect Eisenhower to
ease world tensions, the Moscow
newspaper Pravda harped away
Friday on its favorite theme —
charges that the West is prepar
ing a third world war.
Just a day. after Moscow radio
gave the top spot in its news
broadcasts to the Soviet premier’s
answers to newspaper questions,
the radio quoted Pravda as say
ing in a lead editorial:
“The imperialists are seeking a
way out of the sharpening con
tradictions of the capitalistic sys
tem on the path of preparing and
unleashing a new world war.
“In the face of* this western
threat,” the broadcast continued,
“All peace-loving people are in
tensifying the struggle for peace
and international safety” with the
Soviet Union in the front ranks
as an invincible bulwark of
peace.”
Stalin’s statement monopolized
all Moscow Radio broadcasts
monitored here Thursday.
English language transmissions
beamed to the United States re
peated the questions and answers
43 times in the early morning
alone.
Nobel Prize Winner
STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN — The
Nobel Prize in Medicine for 1952
I was awarded to Dr. Selman A.
! Waksman (shown) of Rutgers Uni
versity. The award was in recogni
tion of the contributions made by
Dr. Waksman, co-discoverer of
streptomycin, in the field of micro
bilogy. At New Brunswick, N. J.,
where he heads the Rutgers Insti
tute of Microbilogy, Dr. Waksman
called the award “the culminating
point of my work, begun in 1916.”
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NOTICE
Pursuant to an Order of Court entered
on the 29th day of November. A.D. 1952,
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a Gen
eral Term of the District Court. Second
Division. Territory of Alaska, will be
held in the Court House at Nome in said
division and territory, commencing at
the hour of 10 o’clock A.M. on Monday,
January 5, 1953. and to continue there
after according to further Orders of the
Court.
Given under my hand and with the
Court’s seal affixed this 29th day of
November, A.D. 1952.
(SEAL I
Norvin W. Lewis
Clerk of the United States District
Court for the Territory of Alaska,
Second Division.
Publish Dec. 12, 19. 26, 1952, and
Jan. 2, 1953.
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Dureau oj t^avor oiansncs
Bread and sugar and sweets are having a neck-and-neck race for
low position among the major food items which are used in the Bureau
of Labor Statistics consumers’ price index. The latest monthly report
from the BLS showed a slight reduction in the “all foods” index as
compared with the previous month.
Among the major items in the index, bread has advanced less than
any of the others, when compared with the 1935-39 average which the
BLS uses as 100. Bakers say this points up even more sharply their
statement that “penry for penny, bread is your best food buy.”
Three Russian Soldiers Shoot
Down West Berlin Policeman
BERLIN, VP) —A West Berlin
policeman was shot to death in
the French sector of the city on
Christmas day. The French said !
three Russians soldiers were re
sponsible and demanded their
punishment. The Russians re
fused, saying the shooting stem
med from an attempt by West
Berlin police to kidnap three So
viet border guardsmen.
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