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VOL. LVII No. 149 NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1955 Per Copy—15*
Christmas Lights To Be
Installed Tomorrow In
Downtown District
The special Christmas lighting
of the downtown area is expected
to get underway tomorrow and
complete the festive appearance
have undertaken the decoration
project.
Most of the business houses
have contributed to a fund solicit
ed by the Volunteer Firemen who
have undertaken this project.
Most business houses already
are showing holiday decorations
and lights and the N.C. Store and
the Polaris Hotel have mounted
lighted trees on their roofs. The
Covenant Church and the resi
dence of Boyd Harwood also lend
a cheery holiday atmosphere and
both the N.C. Store and the Nome
Specialty Sales keep “music in
the air” with their broadcasts.
Kiwanis Club Proves
To Canadian Boy That
Santa Lives in Kentucky
LOUISVILLE, Ky., UP)—1The 9
year-old Canadian boy who be
lieved he could find Santa Claus
in Kentucky instead of the North
Pole wasn’t mistaken.
Edward Christie had tied a note
to a Christmas tree destined for
shipment to Louisville.
The note was discovered by
members of the St. Matthews Ki
wanis Club as they unloaded some
of the Canadian trees. It read:
“Dear Santa,
“I hope you get our letter, We
live in Canada. Out in the coun
try. I am 9 years old. I have a
brother Stewart. He is 7 years
old and a sister Sally. She is 4
years old. Would you please bring
us a truck and a doll and a train
and some games. From Master Ed
ward Christie, Harvey Sta., York
Co., N.B., Canada.”
After toys were purchased, Ki
wanian Cliff Eblen said the chil
dren “will have a fine Christ
mas—more than the boy asked
for.”
General Motors Charged
With Falsely Advertising
‘Genuine’ Parts Better
WASHINGTON, UP) — General
Motors Corp. has been charged by
the government with falsely ad
vertising that “genuine Chevrolet”
replacement parts are better than
parts competitors sell without the
“genuine” label.
GM had no comment on the
complaint, issued by the Federal
Trade Commission.
FTC said GM buys many Chev
rolet parts from other manufac
turers, some of whom design the
parts themselves and sell to others
besides GM.
These parts, said FTC, “are at
least equal in all material re
spects” to those GM sells, but GM
advertises the parts it buys as
“genuine” with the implication
that all others are not as good.
The federal agency accused GM
of representing that the Chevro
let parts it distributes are de
signed and manufactured exclu
sively for GM. It called this “false,
misleading and deceptive” and
said GM’s claims “divert business
from competitors to their injury
and the injury of the public, in
violation of the Federal Trade
Commission Act.”
Nome’s Hospital
Awarded $11,300
For Improvements
NEW YORK wn — The Ford
Foundation has named 12 hos
pitals in Alaska as institutions
which are believed to be eligible
for almost $310,000 in grants.
Seward Sanatorium at Bartlett
would receive the largest grant,
$82,500. The Maynard-MacDougall
Memorial Hospital, Nome, will re
ceive $11,300.
The foundation explained that
the hospital grants are for use by
the decision of each hospital for
any improvement or extension of
hospital services, but not for oper
ating expenses or services the hos
pital currently is performing.
The amount of each grant was
computed on the basis of the pa
tient days of service provided by
each hospital and the number of
births in the hospital.
Other Alaska hospitals and the
amounts offered include:
Providence Hospital, Anchorage,
$48,600; St. Ann, Juneau, $38,000;
St. Joseph’s, Fairbanks, $36,700;
Ketchikan General, $32,700.
$10,1)00 each to Cordova Com
munity Hospital; Hudson Struck
Memorial, Fort Yukon; Griffin
Memorial, Kodiak; Valley Presby
terian, Palmer; Seward General:
White Pass and Yukon, Skagway.
Alaska’s ESC
Fund Down To
Only $318,000
JUNEAU, (A*—1The Alaska Em
ployment Security Fund contains
only $318,000 in “free and clear”
money, the Employment Security
Commission reported yesterday.
The balance shown in the un
employment fund Nov. 30 was $3,
968,000, which included $3 million
borrowed from the federal gov
ernment and $650,000 impounded
for claiments in the Fidalgo Island
Packing Co. case.
The unencumbered balance one
year earlier was about $4 million.
The commission said the effect
of the new law is to reduce eligi
ble claimants and increase aver
age weekly payments per claim
ant. November payments were
$264,953, compared with $578,654
in November, 1954.
This year, 7,229 persons have
applied for unemployment insur
ance, compared with 60,900 in the
same period of 1954.
Spurned Lover Throws
Gasoline Onto and
Ignites Sleeping Couple
OAKLAND, Calif., UT) — Mrs.
Alice Franklin, 35, a divorcee,
died today from burns, received as
someone threw gasoline over a
sleeping couple and set them afire.
Robert L. Hand, 27, a former
airman, who was with Mrs.
Franklin in her apartment, died
yesterday from bums that blister
ed his entire body.
Police said someone slipped into
the apartment yesterday while
they were asleep, poured gaso
line through the room and set it
afire.
“It was definitely a murder at
tempt, probably a revenge attack
on the part of some spumed lover
of the woman victim.”
! Clarifying Confusion
Of Hours For Liquor
Stores and ‘'Dispensaries”
There seems to be some con
| fusion as to the meaning and in
tent of the City Council in their
action on extended hours for liqu
or dealers.
Dealers in bottled goods are
asking for extended hours from
8:00 a.m. until 9 p.m. They are
now required to open at 8:00 and
close at 6:30 p.m. Action was de
ferred.
The extended hours are for
the bars, which will be al
lowed to remain open until 3:30
a.m. on the Fourth of July and on
r^ew Year’s Eve. They now close
at 1:00 a.m.
<We avoided using the word
“dispensaries,” insomuch as Web
ster limits the word to medicinal
preparations only.)
16 New Nations
Welcomed Into
General Assembly
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., (JP>—
The General Assembly brought
the five-year freeze on new U.N.
members to a happy end Wed
nesday night by welcoming 16
nations into the international or
ganization.
In a jubilant session, the assem
bly overwhelmingly placed its
stamp of approval on the Security
Council’s dramatic recommenda
tion of the 16, boosting the total
U.N.' membership to 76.
Arrangements were quickly
made today for the 12 non-Com
munist and four Red nations to
take their seats at once.
Japan’s exclusion — along with
Outer Mongolia — cast the only
shadow over the proceedings. Of
the 18 applicants originally pro
posed for acceptance in a package
deal, they were the only two not
to make the grade. Because Na
tionalist China’s veto kept Outer
Mongolia out, the Soviets .vetoed
the Japanese.
These were the new additions
to the U.N. roster:
To the Soviet bloc, now a group
of nine members—Albania, Bul
garia, Hungary and Romania.
On the non-Communist side —
Ireland, Portugal, Italy, Austria,
Finland and Spain—all European,
and Libya, Jordan, Ceylon, Nepal,
Cambodia, and Laos, recruits for
the Asian-Arab bloc.
In an emotional speech, assem
bly President Jose Maza of Chile
declared the admission of the 16
would give new vigor to the U.N.
Chief U. S. delegate Henry
Cabot Lodge Jr., said the United
States was “overjoyed that 12
free countries have been elected.”
Vic Raschi Recovers
$140,000 Worth Of
Securities He lost
ROCHESTER, N. Y., W — Vic
Raschi, former New York Yankee
pitching star, reported today he
had recovered $140,000 worth of
non-negotiable securities he lost
yesterday.
Raschi declined to identify the
finder of the bonds, but said he
was informed by telephone last
night that the securities had been
found.
Raschi said he believed the
bonds dropped from his pocket as
he was getting out of his car.
Air Force Working To Develop Method
Measuring Ice Thickness From The Air
IVWA Chamber .
Meeting Notes
The very active Chamber of
Commerce held an interesting
meeting Tuesday noon, taking ac
tion on several items of impor
tance to Nome and surrounding
areas.
The Chamber decided to take
definite action on sponsoring the
Alaska Visitors Association, which
is taking much headway through
out other parts of Alaska under
the leadership of Frank Whaley.
Complete plans will be formulated
at the first board meeting after
Christmas and presented.
A letter addressed to Gov. Frank
Heintzleman and William Olsen,
Alaska head of the Alaska Native
Service, was prepared by Larry
Galvin, pointing out the fallacies
of the plan to ship the young peo
ple out of the Second Division for
schooling in other areas. The letter
shows how it is important both
economically and socially that
school age children be educated
where their homes are.
The re-establishment of dog
racing was discussed due to the
increasing interest both here and
in the villages. It was stated that
it would be not only a tourist at
traction for the area where racing
originated, but also a method and
means of bringing the people of
the area closer together.
E. M. Scott, of the Arctic Health
Research Center, U.S. Public
Health Service, gave an interest
ing talk on his exploratory work
here with diabetic Eskimos. This
is a new phase of study insomuch
as it was believed Eskimos were
not subject to*this disease.
Post Office Will Handle
17 Billion Pieces of Mail
Last Quarter of 1955
WASHINGTON, (tf> — The Post
Office Department estimated to
day it will handle something more
than 17 billion pieces of mail in
the final quarter of this year.
The figure, about a billion
pieces higher than that for the last
three months of 1954, amounts to
an average of more than 300
pieces for every family in Am
erica.
This month’s deliveries alone,
reflecting the holiday rush, are
expected to reach a record of
about 7,330,000,000 pieces, or 2V2
billion above the normal 1955
month.
Postmaster General Summer
field urged in a statement that
return addresses be put on Christ
mas cards.
“For some obscure reason,” he
said, “many persons seem to feel
it is bad taste to put a return
address on Christmas cards. Ac
tually, it is in the best of taste.
It saves friends and acquaintances
much time and effort keeping
their mailing lists up to date and
assures the sender, if he uses
three-cent postage, that he will
know if a greeting is not deliver
able.”
The postmaster at Santa Claus,
Ind., reported this week that
mailings there are running around
85,000 pieces a day and will reach
a peak of 125,000.
> BOSTON, LP>—Air Force scient
tists are rushing research on a
problem of swiftly-growing im
portance to the United States and
Royal Canadian air forces in the
strategic arctic—how to use the
snow and ice as safe landing fields.
They hope to develop an air
borne indicator of ice thickness
and strength for arctic aircraft.
With the increasing significance
of the arctic in the defense pro
gram and aircraft more and more
needed in those snowy wastes, the
Air Force Cambridge Research
Center said today:
“The problem of safe landings
and takeoffs by heavily loaded
aircraft has reached major pro
portions.”
From now until May, scientists
of the Air Force Cambridge Re
search Center of the Air Research
and Development Command will
be setting off thunderous charges
of TNT in the far north. Helicop
ters will hover over the frigid
wastes, dropping assorted pointed
projectiles from various heights
onto the ice. Huge tanks of 80-ton
capacity will be loaded onto the
ice and pumped full of water.
Researchers will saw out big
ice beams and load them to the
breakage point. They will cut out
cylindrical samples of ice for
testing. Ice crystals in process of
growth will be studied under the
microscope.
Experts from the Terrestial Sci
ences Laboratory of the Geophys
ics Directorate, Air Force Cam
bridge Research Center, and three
other agencies already are in
Hopedale, Labrador. There they
will conduct 17 separate experi
ments between now and spring.
At this little town, on Labra
dor’s bleak northeast coast, North
east Air Command planes must
land on ice and snow to perform
their missions. Charged with re
sponsibility for support of USAF
operations in Newfoundland, Lab
rador, Greenland and the eastern
section of the Canadian arctic, the
Northeast Air Command sought
the investigation of strength of sea
ice sheets.
Air Force Discontinues
‘Survivor School’ Course
Pending Psychology Tests
WASHINGTON, UPi — The Air
Force “survival school” in Nevada
has stopped putting student vol
unteers through “brainwashing”
interrogations, though it says the
practice may be resumed later.
An Air Force spokesman said
students now merely observe rug
ged questioning sessions staged by
instructors.
Psychologists will try to deter
mine which teaching method is
more effective.
A final decision on which sys
tem to use may be made in the
spring, the spokesman said.
The school, at Stead Air Force
Base, Nev., offers a 10-day sur
vival course designed to prepare
airmen for ordeals they would
face if stranded behind enemy
lines or captured.
Some questions about the
school’s realistic methods were
raised after disclosure last fall of
its existence.
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