THE NOME NUGGET
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CAN’T HAVE HIS CAKE TOO
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THE TAX HOURS
If you are the average working man, you are put
ting in about two and a half hours a day for the U.S.
Government. That’s the average time required by the
typical American to earn the money he must pay
in taxes.
In other words, if you start work at nine o’clock,
you're working until about a half hour before noon
for Uncle Sam. That’s what the Kentucky Tax Re
search Assn, found in a recent compilation.
The Association also worked up figures showing
what the average man uses the money earned from
the rest of his day for.
Next in importance, in the time required to earn
it, is food. The average man spends an hour and thirty
seven minutes of his working day to earn food for
himsplf and his family. After that, in time required to
provide it, is the problem of housing, and the average
man spends an hour and twenty-four minutes each
day for the shelter, rent or payment he is making on
his living quarters.
Oddly enough, transportation is the next biggest
item, requiring forty-two minutes of the average man’s
thirty-six minutes. Medical and personal care require
thirty-six minutes. Medical and personal care reqiure
only twenty-three minutes of the working day, in earn
ings, and reading and recreation represent twenty
minutes of the average working days, in cost.
VIEWS AND REVIEWS
The ignorance about this part of the nation, in
other areas, is only equalled by our ignorance about
other sections.
What became of the prophet who predicted, some
years back, that the United States would not be able
to produce enough food for its people about now?
One reason newspaper advertising is better, and
more effective, than any other kind is that it is never
rammed down your throat; those who read such ad
vertising do so because they want to.
A good product, plus a fair price, and advertising
—equals the road to sucess.
Never give any advice, and you will be surprised
how easy it is to mind your own business.
Pope Says Pacts
Of Paris, Moscow
No Basis for Peace
VATICAN CITY, (*>—Pope Pius
XII today criticized recent ac
cords—presumably the rival mili
tary pacts reached at Paris and
Moscow—as having no basis for
“more extensive European unifi
cation.” He called for construction
of “a bridge of peace” between
East and West.
These words were contained in
the pontiff’s delayed Christmas
message to the world, in which he
urged the divided world camps to
seek peaceful coexistence.
The message of the 78-year-old
head of the Roman Catholic
Church was one of his most im
portant recently made.
The Pope made apparent refer
ence to the Paris accords for
bringing a rearmed West Ger
many into NATO and the counter
ing Moscow conference project for
a unified Communist command in
Europe, including East German
troops. He said:
“Recent accords which have
opened the way to a cold peace no
longer have for a basis the ideal
of a more extensive European
unification. Many, in fact, be
lieve that the governing policy is
for a return to a kind of national
istic state, closed within itself,
centralizing therein its forces, un
settled in its choice of alliances
and, consequently, no less perilous
than that which had its time of
highest development during the
last century.”
“Too soon,” the Pope warned,
have been forgotten the enormous
mass of lives sacrificed and goods
extorted by this type of state, and
the crushing economic and spiri
tual burdens imposed by it.”
Western-Style Gun Duel
In Fairbanks Takes Lives
Of Both Participants
FAIRBANKS, —A Western
style gun duel New Year’s Eve
took the lives of the two partici
pants.
Police said Harvey Evans, o5,
and John Cramer, 61, stood steps
apart in front of a billiards parlor
in Fairbanks’ south side, drew
pistols and opened fire.
Evans died early New Year’s
Day, some 10 hours after he was
struck by four bullets. Cramer,
who was shot three times, died
last night.
Police said the deaths culmin
ated a feud started a year ago
when Cramer shot Evans with a
shotgun.
Witnesses told police the two
met inside the billiards parlor on
New Year’s Eve and started argu
ing. The two left the building to
gether and just outside the door
opened fire at each other from a
distance of about eight feet. Both
men apparently fired at the same
instant.
Both men were Negroes.
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Nebraska Football Team
Whalloped by Duke
In Orange Bowl Game
MIAMI, Fla., UF>—Mistakes, mis
takes, mistakes . . .
The words were used often as
Coach Bill Glassford and the Neb
raska football team discussed jts
34-7 loss to Duke’s Blue Devils in
the Orange Bowl New Year’s Day.
“You can’t make the mistakes
we did and win a bowl game,”
said quarterback Dan Brown.
“Duke has a fine club and you
can’t take anything away from
them. Their offense was really
vai'ied and, boy, were they quick.”
Some examples of the mistakes:
Twice Nebraska passed deep in
its territory. Duke fullback Bry
ant Aldridge intercepted one and
it led to the Blue Devil’s second
touchdown, Glassford and Coach
Bill Murray of Duke agreed that
was the game’s turning point.
Halfback Nick McKeithan inter
cepted the other and Duke soon
had another touchdown.
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Lions Club Donation Aids
Drive for Student Building
With a gift of $1,000 from the
Mt. Edgecumbe, Alaska, Lions
Club, Sheldon Jackson Junior Col
lege at Sitka has launched a drive
for $15,000 from Alaskans as a
contribution toward a student
unipn building on the campus. A
matching amount from stateside
supporters, plus lumber sawed in
the school mill, will guarantee a
$50,000 recreation building for the
students.
Students attending a boarding
school need such a club house
where they can entertain them
selves playing games, listening to
music, or just sitting before an
open fireplace.
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Bring Your
Watch
to the
Nome Drug Store
for
Expert Repairs
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KNOW YOUR LEGISLATORS
MEMBERS OF 1955 LEGISLATURE
GOING TO JUNEAU THIS MONTH
House of Representatives
FIRST DIVISION
Burke Riley (D) Haines
Dora Sweeney (D) Juneau
Thomas Slewart (D) Juneau
Vernon Metcalfe (D) Juneau
Joseph McLean (R) Juneau
Ed Locken (R) Petersburg
SECOND DIVISION
Charles Fagerstrom (D) , Nome
Edith Bullock (R) Kotzebue
Lester Bronson (D) Nome
THIRD DIVISION
Ray Plummer (D) Anchorage
Ken Johnson (D) Anchorage
Wendell P. Kay (D) Anchorage
Irene E. Ryan (D) Anchorage
Russell K. Young (D) Anchorage
Stanley McCutcheon (D) Anchorage
Harry J. Palmer (D) Anchorage
Seaborn J. Buckalew (D) Anchorage <
E. G. Bailey (D) Anchorage
Peter Kalamarides (D) Anchorage
FOURTH DIVISION
Richard Greuel (D) Fairbanks
Hubert Gilbert (D) Fairbanks
Robert McNealy (D) Fairbanks
Warren Taylor (D) Fairbanks
George McNabb Jr. (D) Fairbanks !
Territorial Senate
FIRST DIVISION
Robert Ellis (D) Ketchikan
James Nolan (D) Wrangell
Doris Barnes (R) * Ketchikan
Marcus Jensen (D) * Douglas
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SECOND DIVISION
William Beltz (D) Nome
Neal W. Foster (D) Nome
Howard Lyng (D) * Nome
Charles Jones (R) * Nome
THIRD DIVISION
Jack H. Werner (D) Seward
J. Earl Cooper (D) Anchorage
Alfred Owen (D) Anchorage
William Egan (D) * Valdez
FOURTH DIVISION
Frank Barr (D) Fairbanks
Ralph Rivers (D) Fairbanks
John Butrovich (R) * Fairbanks
Mike Stepovich (R) * Fairbanks
* Holdovers elected in 1952
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