THE NOME NUGGET
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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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_DO YOU REALIZE—?_._
DURING THE
SPUTNIK AND
SPACE AGE
OUR NATIONAL
SECURITY
BUDGET HAS
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DURING
THAT SAME
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Pacific Northern
Plans New Cachet
For Statehood Stamp
Another colorful cachet, sim
ilar to the “King Salmon” first
day cover which proved so popu
lar with collectors, is planned for
the Alaska Statehood Stamp, by
Pacific Northern Airlines, the
Alaska Flag Line.
The 7-cent commemorative
stamp is to be issued on the day
that Alaska is formally admitted
as the 49th State, expected to be
in late December or early Jan
uary.
Collectors desiring this colorful
PNA first day cachet are re
quested to send self-addressed en
velopes in an outside envelope to:
Alaska Statehood Cachet, Pacific
Northern Airlines, Baranof Hotel,
Juneau.
An enclosure of medium weight
should be placed in each envelope
to be cancelled, and the flap
turned in or sealed. Envelopes
should be properly addressed,
with a limit of one per person.
The colorful cachets will be |
mailed from Juneau, Alaska’s Ca- j
pital, on the first day of issue of j
the new stamp.
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ASTRONOMY NOTKS
By OLAF HALVERSON
Mars has two Satellites and
their names are Phobos and Dei
mos. Both are tiny bodies, prob
ably not exceeding 10 miles in
diameter. They are so near the
bright planet that they are invis
ible except with large telescopes
at favorable times.
Phobos revolves eastward at
the distance of only 3700 miles
from the surface of Mars. -It com
pletes one revolution in 7 hours
and 39 minutes. This is les than
one third of the time it takes the
planet to make one rotation.
Viewed from the planet, therefore,
Phobos rises in the west and sets
in the east. No other known sat
ellite in the solar system revolves
in a shorter interval than the ro
tation of its primary.
Deimos, the outer satellite, re
volves eastward arounu .ars
once in 30 hours i«
It is doubtless smaller than Pho
bos, because it shines with only a
third of its brightness.
Snow, Rain and Sleet
Blanket The Nation
Swirling snow and sleet spread
eastward today, putting motor
vehicle travel on a dangerous foot
ing from the Rockies almost to
the Atlantic seaboard.
The snowfall ranged up to 13
inches at Devil’s Lake, N. D., and
two inches in Amarillo, Tex.
As the storm pushed eastward,
the snow ended in eastern Colo
rado and Kansas and Western
Missouri. But the first flakes be
gan to flurry in Buffalo, N. Y.,
and Washington, D. C.
Heavy snow and glaze warnings
were put out for a broad area
extending from Texas northeast
ward to the eastern end of the
Ohio vlley.
Freezing rain already had
slicked roads from Oklahoma east
ward into Kentucky and Ten
nessee.
Cold weather across the north
ern half of the nation added to
the hazards of ground travel.
Temperatures shrank to 5 be
low zero at Denver and Fargo,
North Dakota.
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Eliz Tweet, Owen Sundstrom,
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Mabel Brown, Mary Bergamaschi,
Elodean Ketchen.
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Minnesota Democrat
Asks Investigation Of
Defeat For House Seat
WASHINGTON, UP) — Repre
sentative Coya Knutson (D-Minni
said today she is asking the House
Elections committee to investigate
the election in which she was de
feated.
The blonde Mrs. Knutson dis
closed this at a news conference
in which she refused to answer
practically all questions — espe
cially about her family affairs.
Her husband, Andrew Knutson,
tried during the campaign to get
her to abandon politics and come
home.
He also filed, but later appar
ently dropped, a $200,000 slander
and alienation of affections suit
against his wife’s administrative
assistant, William Kjeldahl.
Her Republican opponent, Odin
Langen, has been declared elec
ted and is scheduled to take the
Minnesota 9th District seat Vhen
Congress convenes January 7.
She and her husband got to
gether with their adopted son
Terry, 18, for Thanksgiving
dinner.
Too Much Coffee—Ulcers!
LOUISVILLE, Ky., UP> — One
cup of coffee to a coffee break.
Any more and you may give your
self an ulcer.
“Discipline yourself a little bit
and appreciate that the common
things we do, if done to excess,
can cause difficulty,” said Dr.
Robert W. Zellinger, head of sur
gery at Ohio State University.
Coffee, tea, alcohol, smoking
and cola drinks stimulate the se
cretion of digestive acids, he said.
Too much acid: Ulcer. ...
Dr. Zollinger told Louisville
physicians that stomach acids also
aggravate such conditions as pan
creatitis or inflamation of the pan
creas gland, source of .certain pow
erful digestive juices.
Today the submarine serves as
a guided missile platform, early
warning station, killer of surface
and underwater vessels, scout,
coastal raider, troop transport,
supply ship, minelayer, and sea
plane tender. _
Construction of the Alaska
Railroad, running from Fairbanks
to Seward, was authorized in 1913
and Corps of Engineers personnel
and equipment were moved to
Alaska from the Panama Canal
to assist in speeding the work.
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