From now until the New Year
ends may you have good health,
good friends, good cheer and
abundant happiness.
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ISHES
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By OLAF HALVERSON \
New Year’s Day is the begin
ning of a new year, but it has
not always held such an honored
place. It was not until 1752 that
England adopted the Gregorian
' calendar and decided to change
the beginning fo the year from
March 25th to Jan. 1.
Two calendars have been used
in modern times by nations of the
western world namely, the Julian
and Gregorian calendars.
The Julian calendar was named
after Julius Caesar who in 46 B.C.,
reformed the calendar according
to the calculations of an early as
tronomer named Sosigenes.
,The Julian year was 11.2 min
utes too long, amounting to three
days in 400 years. This explains
why the Russian-Greek Orthodox
Church in Kodiak still celebrates
the new year on Jan. 13.
The Gregorian calendar corrects
this error by eliminating three
leap years in four centuries.
Years like 1900 and 2000, called
centurial years, are leap years
only when divisible by 400. The
year 1956 is a leap year.
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Khrushchev Attacks President
Eisenhower For Interference In .
Affairs of Communist Nations
MOSCOW, GP>—Nikita Khrush
chev Thursday accused President
Eisenhower of ‘"crude interfer
ence” in the affairs of Commun
ist nations, and dismissed his open
skies arms inspection as “nothing
more than military intelligence.”
He boasted the Soviet hydrogen
bomb “can be considerably in
creased in power.” At the same
time he criticized Secretary Dulles
as “advocating massive retalia
tion and other absurdities.”
“Some Western politicians have
a strange idea of the Geneva
spirit,” he asserted. “They want
us to disarm our army and also
to disarm morally and politically.”
Khrushchev said he spoke about
Eisenhower critically “most un
willingly” because he respected
the President “so much.” But, he
declared, the President’s Christ
mas message to the people of
Eastern European Communist na
tions “is quite incompatible with
the Geneva spirit.”
This referred to a presidential
message broadcast by Radio Free
Europe saying:
“During the Christmas season I
want you to know that the Ameri
can people recognize the trials j
under which you are suffering; j
join you in your concern for the j
restoration of individual free
doms and political liberty, and I
share your faith that right in the j
end wall prevail to bring you |
once again among the free nations j
of the world.1,1
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“To pray for a change of re-1
gime in the people’s democracies j
is crude interference in the inter-)
ference in the internal affairs ofj
those countries and only leads to j
inciting passions and the arma- j
ment race,” said the stocky Com - !
munist leader, as 1,400 mempers
of the Supreme Soviet listened at
tentively.
(As far as U.S. officials could
recall it was the fist time any
major Soviet leader had used such
critical language about President
Eisenhower since the summit
conference in Geneva; in fact
since the Bulganin regime took
over in February after Georgi
Malenkov quit.
Khrushchev repeated the state
ment he made in India after the
recent H-bomb test explosion in
the Soviet Union—that the new
Russian weapon “was equivalent
to many million tons of ordinary
explosives.”
He said although “We do not
want to boast about our military
and technical strength,” he want*
ed to remind the West about the
test explosion.
(The telephone line over which
part of this story was dictated
was broken by the Soviet censor
for five minutes after mention was
made of Khrushchev’s statement
about the H-bomb.)
NOTICE
Ordinance No. 372, entitled "An
Ordinance of the City of Nome,
to amend Ordinance No. 324, Sec
tion 2 thereof, pertaining to the
opening and closing hours of Re
tail Liquor Stores under license
of the Territory of Alaska," v/as
adopted by the Nome Common
Council, Dec. 27, 1955. Copies of
this Ordinance are posied in the
City Hall, U.S. Post Office and
U.S. Commissioner's Office.
Carrie M. McLain,
City Clerk
Publish Dec. 28 and 30,^1955
■mini iw■ him ti-i riair tR.-JW
It’s the New Year again and as the Holiday Season
foretells the passing of another year,
we think of those who have helped make that
year a more enjoyable one. ,
If we could, we would grasp your hand, as
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good friends do, and thank you for your fine
and loyal friendship. It has been a pleasure
for us to strive to serve you this past year.
May the New Year be one
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of much happiness and success for you.
NAMES OF OUR SAVIOUR FOUND IN SCRIPTURE 5.
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Does the Bible refer to Christ as an “Apostle"?
Answer: HE3REWS 3:1
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