THE NOME NUGGET
Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday by the
NOME PUBLISHING CO.
NOME, ALASKA
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Entered as second class matter October 14, 1943 at the
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House-t o-House
Search Prevents
Stove Explosion
ROCK FALLS, 111. UH—A house
to-house search was made in this
northwest Illinois community yes
terday for a man unknowingly
courting disaster.
It ended not a moment too soon.
Andy Chambers, 24, thought he
had bought five gallons of fuel oil
for home heating at a gas station.
Twenty minutes after Chambers
had left the station carrying his
five-gallon can, the attendant dis
covered his mistake.
Instead of fuel oil he had sold
Chambers high test gasoline.
The attendant notified Fire
Chief Russell Maynard and Police
Chief Glenn Keime of the error.
Maynard and Keime asked ra
dio station W S D R in adjacent
Sterling to broadcast emergency
warnings every 10 minutes for the
purchaser of the fuel not to use it
in a furnace.
The station quoted Keime’s
warning that ignition of the gaso
line in a furnace would “cause a
terrific explosion.”
Then Maynard and Keime asked
the station to appeal for volun
teers to make a house-to-house
search of Rock Falls.
Within 20 minutes, between 60
and 100 turned out, several hun
dred others within an hour.
Throughout this town of 10,000,
the volunteers trudged, knocking
on doors.
Two of the volunteers, Fred
Maynard, a volunteer fireman,
and Wayne Farrington, arrived at
the four-room house in which
Andy Chambers lived with his
wife and three other adults.
Chambers told Maynard he had
poured the fuel into the furnace’s
tank and “was just going to light
it when you knocked on the door.”
MMM HOSPITAL
Admited: Arella Brown, Tim
othy Kenick, Roy Dimmock, Eric
Jackson.
Discharged: - Naomi Anderson
and infant son.
American Legion OKs
Resolution Supporting
Alaska, Hawaii Statehood
INDIANAPOLIS, WV-The Na
tional Executive Committee of the
American Legion Friday unani
mously approved resolutions sup
porting the admission of Hawaii
and Alaska to statehood.
The resolutions, both identical,
said residents of Hawaii* and Al
aska had proven their ability to
assume the responsibilities of self
government.
Admission of the two territories,
the resolutions said, are “essential
to the defense of Hawaii and Alas
ka and the United States.”
The resolutions were presented
to the national committee by the
resolutions subcommittee. The ap
proval means that the Legion has
the authority to support any legis
lation aimed at admitting the ter
ritories into statehood.
WIEN AIRLINES
From Kotzebue: A.J. Diorio, Ar
vid Larsen, Alvin Reiners, G.O.
Brown.
To Kotzebue: Dora Mulch, Del
bert Hess, Robt. Morgan, Mr. and
Mrs^Tom Willock,, Pete Sand
vik, Sam Ballot, *F. H. Bemis,
Donald Keyes.
From Fairbanks: Richard and
Mrs. H. Blodgett.
To Fairbanks: Richard Hopkins,
Jim Carey, Wayne Oyloe, E. E.
Howick, Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Bart
lett.
From Golovin: Nick DePetris.
MAN LOSES BOUT
WITH FOUR-POINT BUCK
SHEPHERDSVILLE, Ky.,
C. R. Shelton lost an impromptu
wrestling match with a four-point
buck last week.
Shelton, 41, was trying to find
out why several dogs were bark
ing near his farm, when the deer
bolted through a patch of tall
grass and banged into Shelton.
The farmer and the buck wres
tled a bit before the buck slipped
away and swam across a river.
Said Shelton, who suffered vari
ous cuts: “I was mad enough to
kill him.”
$400,000 Libel Suit
Against Juneau Empire
Went to Jury Saturday
KETCHIKAN, UV-The $400,000
libel suit brought by three former
high territorial officials against
; the Daily Alaska Empire of Ju
neau went to the jury Saturday.
Former Gov. Eemest Gruening
| of Alaska sued the empire for
$100,000 actual damage and $100,
000 punitive damage for news
stories and editorial comment that
appeared in the Empire Sept. 25,
1952. Former Territorial Treasur
er Henry Roden and former High
way Engineer Frank Metcalfe
each asked $50,000 actual and
$50,000 punitive damages.
At issue was the Empire’s stor
ies and comment on the establish
ment of a special bank aceount by
the Alaska Board of Road Com
missioners to operate a ferry ser
vice between Juneau and Haines.
The three men were all members
of the board.
The newspaper’s counsel, H. L.
Faulkner of Juneau, argued in its
defense that territorial law re
garding the handling of territorial
funds is exceedingly broad and
covers such situations as the spe
cial ferry fund. He argued the
Empire definitely said it was not
accusing anyone of profiting thru
the fund but did say the funds
were mishandled.
Doorkeeper, 72,
Sees ‘Wonderful
'
Cross Section’
By FLORENCE DOUTHIT
FAIRBANKS, UP>—One of the
most familiar faces at the Consti
tutional Convention is that of
Charlie Wilson, who traveled 370
miles by foot over the Valdez
trail to Fairbanks in 1913.
Wilson holds the title of door
keeper, but he keeps watch on
more than just the door.
Wilson, a 72-years-young man
with a shock of snow white hair,
is working at the convention be
cause he says he wants to watch a
constitution for Alaska made.
He came out of nine years re
tirement to do it.
“About half of these fellows
(delegates) are oldtimers, not nec
essarily in age but in residence
and allegiance to Alaska,” Wilson
said.
I don’t see how the voters man
aged to get such a wonderful bal
ance,” the slight, sharp-eyed man
from Nenana said.
Wilson sat cross-legged at the
rear of the convention chamber
and reeled off the names of the
delegates who had spent all or
most of their years in Alaska.
“The oldtimers will keep an eye
on things,” he said gravely. “We
need them here to keep the others
straight.”
This convention is small for
Charlie', who has for many years
been a national officer in the Vet
erans of Foreign Wars, including
the posts of assistant inspector
general and aide de camp.
“It’s small but it’s big, too, if
you see what I mean,’ Wilson said.
“There is a wonderful cross sec
tion—a really fine pick from the
people.”
C-124 Globemaster Crash
Kills 10 of 11 Men Aboard
TOKYO, (#)—A aboard of U.S.
Air Force officers flew to Iwo
Jima today to investigate the
crash of a giant C-124 Globemas
ter that killed 10 of the 11 men
aboard.
The four-motored doubledecked
transport crashed while taking off
from the famed World War II bat
tle site yesterday after ferrying
cargo from Tokyo.
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ARCTIC^ SANITARY
SERVICE
PHONE RED 181
Pope Pius XII Saw Vision of Christ
In Most Critical Hour of His Illness
VATICAN CITY, UPV—The Vati-4
can announced today that Pope
Pius XII saw a vision of Jesus
Christ during the most critical
moments of his grave illness last
winter.
The recovery of the desperately
ill pontiff began soon after.
The announcement was made
by Luciano Casimiri, chief of the
Vatican press office, upon authori
zation of the Papal secretariat of
state. The secretariat normally
would make such statement only
with the personal authorization of
the Pope.
Casimiri told newsmen they
could state that “responsible Vati
can circles” confirm the report of
the vision published last week in
Oggi (Today), the largest Italian
weekly magazine.
The Oggi article said:
“The secret about the episode
was kept until now, and only the
affectionate indiscretion of one of
those knowing it enabled us to
learn and tell of the marvelous
episode, which undoubtedly will
deeply move the Catholic faithful
Beta Sigma Phis Hold
Davy Crockett Box Lunch
Dance Saturday Night
The Beta Sigma Phi sorority
held its annual fall dance at the
Pioneer Hall Friday night, a Davy
Crockett dance this time. The
hall was appropriately decorated
with various fur skins on the
walls also guns and bows and
arrows, etc. The members and
guests were in costume, the ladies
wearing costumes of the era, and
the men’s, of course, including
the Davy Crockett cap. Prizes
for costumes were won by Mari
lyn and Norman Asbridge.
During the course of the eve
ning a Thanksgiving turkey was
given to the Roscoe Wilke’s.
Box lunches all included fried
chicken and partners were chosen
by the men finding the lady
with the matching card. The so
cial chairman had even carried
the details so far as to include
the invitations which were written
on chamois in the shape of a
coon skin with real fur for the
tail.
Thisby and Mize Are
Local Pool Champs
Local sports-minded citizens
have been enjoying a rare treat
of late. The Morrison-Knudson
pool and billard champions,
Leonard Thisby and Charles
Mize have been operating to
the full enjoyment of all con
cerned at the Bering Sea Pool
Parlor, and have lately ex
tended their string of victories
over the Alaska District seg
ment of their organization, as ■
well as over other local em
ployes.
Anyone desiring lessons or
instructions in the game should
contact either Thisby or Mize
at the Bering Sea any time
after five p.m.
To date their best students !
have been Cecil Standley, Red
Seebart, and Carl Hutchinson
while John Dalkey has shown
marked signs of improvement.
Paid Adv.
all over the world.”
“The Holy Father is perfectly
sure he saw Jesus—it was no
dream; in that moment (on Dec. 2,
1954) he was fully awake and
clear-minded.
“On the following day, when it
seemed there were no hopes left,
when the world’s newspapers al
ready had been circulating with
forecasts of a grave catastrophe,
the ailing Pope started to improve
in such a sudden manner that
many people considered it a mir
acle.”
Oggi said that on Dec. 2, 1954,
when the ailing Pope’s illness
from a gastric disturbance reached
a climax, the pontiff began recit
ing a prayer, “Anima Christi (Soul
of Christ).”
When he came to the invocation,
“in horae mortis mea, voca me (in
this hour of my death, call me),”
the Pope saw “the sweet person of
Jesus Christ at his bedside.”
“In that moment,” said the
magazine, “the Holy Father be
lieved that the teacher came to
call him to himself, and serenely
answering to the call, he contin
ued the prayer: ‘Jube me venire
ad te (order me to come to you.’
Jesus, however, did not come to
take him, but to console him and
give him the certaintly that his
hour had not yet come.”
Remember — There are only
28 more shopping days until
Christmas!
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