Champagne Scavengers j
HARTSDALE, N. Y„ UP) — The
pop of champagne bottles being
opened was heard somewhere in
Hartsdale Thursday night, but not
at the home of Mrs. John Blake
Mrs. Blake had put three bottles
of the bubbly stuff outside her
doorstep to cool as she continued
oariny Christmas dinner. When
she went to get them later, they
were gone.
The mystery remains unsolved.
The answer may lie, however, in
a Hartsdale tradition of giving
sanitation men something for the
holiday.
BUILT-IN YULE LOG .
OLIFFSIDE PARK, N. J., (J) —
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Perry
- thought it would be nice to spend
Christmas around a roaring fire
place in the living room of their
new home.
Perry lit the wood, smoke filled
the room, the Christmas tree wilt
ed and the flames burned a big
hole in the wall.
Perry told firemen he hadn’t
been informed the fireplace was
only an ornament.
ONE STOP AT MEKORYUK
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“Anica” news that the USMS j
North Star will make only one
stop at Mekoryuk next season and
that will be southbound.
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Rome Prison
Scene of Papal
Holiday Visit
By RICHARD EHRMAN
ROME, (#> — Rome’s grubby but
celestially named prison on the
Tiber unrolled a rented red rug
today to welcome Pope John
XXIII — the first Pontiff in mod
ern history to visit a jail.
The directors of Regina Coeli
— Queen of Heaven — jail also
took a few precautions, such as
sprinkling a few plainsclothesmen
among the prisoners.
“You could not come to see me,”
said the Supreme Pontiff of the
Roman Catholic Church, “so it is
right that I come to you.”
The 1,500 prisoners, most of
whom were permitted to look
upon the Pope from their four
floors of cells, cheered lustily and
rhythemically, “Viva II Papa!,
Viva II Papa!”
They chanted so loud and long,
ignoring guards’ orders to stop,
that one guard shouted “shut up.”
Superintendent Carmine Scalia
called an aide and whispered: “Re
mind the guard that they are to
follow today’s instructions. They
must act sweetly.”
Pope John made a quick visit
to the jail’s infirmary and to one
wing of cells. He stopped frequent
ly to slip his hand through the
bars so prisoners could kiss his
ring.
Later it was announced that
Pope John had given prison au
thorities several million lire to
buy Christmas presents for Regina
Coeli’s inmates — another first.
A million lire is worth $1,600.
NOME SANITARY
SERVICE
Phone Main 1
P. O. Box 558
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Research: A Key to Medical Progress
The next time you are in a drug store, take note of the hundreds of
drug preparations lining the shelves. These are only a fraction of
the great number of medicines available to yc” iV r
and pharmacist.
The United States enjoys the best medical cart n. .. . v\ i.d
much of the credit for this be- i
longs to our pharmaceutical com
panies, large and small, who
research, develop and produce
the life-saving medicines.
,. Seventy per cent of the pre
scriptions written today are for
products which didn’t even exist
less than a decade ago. Without
research, we would still be using
herbs, nostrums and potions of
yesteryear.
A very large part of all medi
cal research is carried on by the
pharmaceutical companies. It is
estimated that the pharmaceu
tical industry spends upwards of
$127 million annually searching
for newer and better medicines.
Pharmaceutical manufacturers
spend about 21.3 per cent of their
net profit before taxes on re
search, compared with 15.3 per
cent for the chemical industry as
.a whole.
What does this money go for?
One item: it costs about $75,000
a year to equip and maintain a
research scientist. Several large
drug makers maintain as many
as several hundred research
scientists.
After a product is developed
and is on the market, efforts to
improve it continue. So do efforts
to find methods for less expen
sive production, which will help
bring the price down. An exam
ple of this is penicillin. Soon af
ter this product went into pro
duction in the early ’40s, it was
very expensive and world pro
duction made enough .to treat
only 400 patients. Before the
decade ended, the American
pharmaceutical industry was
producing enough penicillin each
year to treat 570,000,000 pa
tients, and the price had declined
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99 per cent.
Unknown to most people, mil
lions are spent every year by the
pharmaceutical companies just
to insure high quality, purity of
materials and accuracy of dos
age, among other things. Noth
ing is ever left to chance*
What are the chances of find
ing a new drug? From the hun
dreds of thousands of compounds
screened and tested last year,
only 400 new products were
placed on the market. In the case
of a broad-spectrum antibiotic,
55 scientists screened 100,000
soil samples, taking two and a
half years and $4 million, before
finding one that was good enough
to market. Of the 5,000 analge
sics discovered, only eight are in
common use.
Who benefits from all this ex
pense and effort? The public does,
for in the final analysis we can
not place a price tag on life and
good health.
(Q 1958 Schtring Corporation)
COMMUNITY METHODIST
Second Avenue at West C Street
Rev. Gerald McCray, Minister
and LAVINIA WALLACE YOUNG
COMMUNITY CENTER
MISS ESTHER MCCOY, DIRECTOR
SUNDAY
11:00—Morning Worship
9:45—Church School
3:30—Hospital V isiting
6:15—Youth Fellowship
7:00—Evening Worship
WEDNESDAY
7:00—Choir Practice
7:30 p.m.—Prayer Meeting.
ASSEMBLY OF COD
Third Ave. West
HARRIET BROWN, PASTOR
SUNDAY
10:00 p-m.—Sunday School
11:00 a.m.—Morning Worship
7:30 p.m.—Evangelistic Service
TUESDAY
7:30 pun.—Teachers Instruction Class
THURSDAY
7:36 p.m.—Bible Study
FRIDAY
7:00 p.m.—Women’s Missionary Council.
NOME COVENANT CHURCH
Front and B Street
Roald Amundsen. Pastor. Main 100
SATURDAY
7:30 p.m.—Film Showing, “The Stret.”
SUNDAY
10:00 a.m.—Worship and Sunday School
hour.
7:30 p.m.—Gospel hour.
..' NcisDAY
Ladies Meeting in Phoebe Hall.
THURSDAY
7:30 p.m.—Bible Study, Diseussion and
Prayer.
8:30 p.m.—Choir Practice.
FRIDAY
7:00 p.m.—Eskimo Language Service.
SATURDAY
7:00 p.m.—Everyone Sings.
CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE
at Third and Dir*snm
EDGAR BJRB. PASTOR
10:00 a.m.—Sunday School
11:00 a.m.—Morning Worship
6:30 p.m.—Junior Society and N.Y.P.S.
7:30 p.m.—Evening Service
THURSDAY
NOME GOSPEL HOME
80S Fmnf Street
EVERETT BACHELDER — WHITE 131
Christians gathered unto the Name
of the Lord Jesus Christ (Matt. 18:20)
FRIDAY
4:00 p.m.—Girls Class
SATURDAY
7:00 p.m.—Fellowship Hour
LORD’S DAY
10:15 a.m.—Family Bible Hour
2:00 p.m.—Sunday School
7:00 pjn.—Gosppl Meeting
8:15 p.m.—Remembrance Feast
WEDNESDAY
7:00 p.m.—New Year’s Eve Watch Night
Service. . . . Five Hours of Gospel
Films. Recrea.ion, Refreshments
and Devotions.
THURSOav
7:00 p.m.—Prayer Meeting and Bible
Study.
OUR SAVIOR'S
LUTHERAN CHURCH
Phone Red 94
JOHN L. MAAKESTAD, Pastor
Phone: Red 65
SUNDAY
No Sunday Schopl.
10:00 a.m.—Family Day Worship.
7:30 p.m.—Evening Service.
WEDNESDAY
Watchnight Social and Service. Begin
ning 8 p.m. Social Hour 10:30 p.m.
Coffee and light refreshments, 11:30
p.m. Watchnight Services ending at Mid
night.
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Spiritual Truths
Contributed By
Nome Gospel Home
A Camera Thai Pictures The Pasl
The Air Force has just devel
oped a camera which makes pic
tures today of things which oc
curred yesterday. In the first
flight -with this camera an
empty parking lot was photo
graphed from the air, and yet in
the picture that turned out were
the many cars that had been
parked there hours before the
flight. These new cameras have a
special detection device in them
that is sensitive to certain rays of
the sun.
This wonderful invention should
remind all of God’s creatures that
there is one in heaven who can
see events in the past as they
transpired. What a joy to know
that we can be able in true spirit
to visit the Babe in the Manger;
and also look back and record the
greatest picture of all in our
hearts, when He was lifted up on
Calvary. “And thou shalt call His
name Jesus, for He shall save
his people from their sins.” (Mat
thew 1:21).
Navy Rescues Morocco
Flood Victims
LONDON, UP> — The U. S Navy
rescued 134 persons and delivered
food to 3,000 persons in flooded
northwestern Morocco, naval
headquarters reported today.
The rescue operation, with heli
copters and planes based near
Port Lyautey, started on Christ
mas and continued on a diminish
ing scale today.
Heavy rains caused flooding of
the Ouergha and Sebou Rivers.
Highways from Rabat and Tan
gier were closed. Many villages
and farmers were isolated.
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DeLaval Steam Turbine Co. Pumps
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Gates Rubber Company . Belts
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Hydraulic Supply Mfg. Company . Pipe
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Lincoln Engineering Co. Greasing Equipment
Mallory ... Blocks
Onan . Light Plants
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