Health Committee
Advises Nome Be
Rough on Rats!
The Nome Health Committee
announced that they are getting
under way their Rat Control Pro
gram. In line with this, they have
arranged with the Alaska Depart
ment of Health for the use of
some films on rat control and the
rat problem. They have already re
ceived two of these films, and
plan to show them at public gath
erings and over television. These
films, “The Rat Problem,” and
“Sanitation Techniques,” show
how rats carry disease and how
they cause waste. They also show
some of the habit of rat, epecially
the Norwegian rat and the com
mon roof rat, which are both found
in the Nome area.
Much of the Rat Control Pro
gram for the Nome area, the com
mittee announced, will be based
on the findings of Dr. Everett
Schiller. Many will remember Dr.
Schiller from the time he was in
this area making a study on the
rat population. Among other val
uable information about the rats,
Dr. Schiller discovered that they
can survive and reproduce very
well in a climate such as Nome
has. He also discovered that the
rat population is on the increase
in the Nome area, and suggests
that this was quite possibly be
cause the rats, since coming to
Nome, have become more hardy
and have adapted to the cold
weather.
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It is suggested by Dr. Schiller
that there are three factors which
work well for rat control. The first
is that we need to keep our'gar
bage and refuse away from the
rats, for they cannot keep alive
without food. Secondly, to keep
rats from finding a place where
they can nest and reproduce. The
third factor in control is poison.
The most important and practical
way, he stated, is to keep food
away from the rats. We can do
this by covering our gadbage at
the dump by sanitary land fill,
and-by keeping our garbage cans
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NO PRIVACY . . .
SAN FRANCISCO, UP) — The
Soviet ballerina, Marine Kondra
tieva. 22, tripped lightly to her
hotel room, took one startled
glance at the bed and sped back
to the lobby.
She had seen a pajama-clad man
who hadn’t yet checked out.
"' The clerk assigned the Bolshoi
oallet dancer to another room.
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. . . Oh, he beat it down to
Cavota’s
— with his list for —
RAKES • BROOMS • C ANVAS GLOVES
STRAW HATS ® DENIM WORK CLOTHES
— for —
CLEAN - UP WEEK
Which, as you know, is going on now!
Cavota’s THE FAMILY STORE
. . . Oh. He’s Home . . . Cleaning up His
HOUSE and YARD for
NOME’S CLEAN-UP WEEK!
tightly covered in and around the
house.
In addition to causing a con
siderable amount of waste through
fod spoilage and contamination,
the rat is also a disease carrier.
He spreads such diseases as bu
bonic plague, salmonellosis and
rat bite fever.
The Health Committee urges
all people of Nome to assist in this
Rat Control Program. The commit
tee states that it will attempt to
keep everyone posted on ways in
which they can help to overcome
this rat menace.
The first of fifteen releases of
the films on T-V will be at 8 p.m.
on Sunday over KNOM-TV.
Date Set for Sanity
Hearing of La.
Governor Long
GALVESTON, Tex., (£1 — Pro
bate Judge Hugh Gibson today set
a sanity hearing for Louisiana’s
Governor Earl K. Long for
June 16.
Judge Gibson’s formal order
sgrid the hearing is “for the best
interests and protection of Earl
K. Long as a mentally ill person.”
The Governor’s wife earlier
signed documents asking that
Gibson hold a hearing aimed at
committing Long for mental treat
ment.
Her action came after the Gov
ernor showed signs of wanting to
leave John Sealy Hospital here,
where he started mental treat
mnts Saturday following a hush
hush trip from Louisiana.
Mrs. Long’s petition asked that
the Governor be committed for 90
days or less. Gibson earlier com
mitted the 63-year-old Governor
to the protective custody of the
hospital.
The hearing June 16 will follow
Texas law in that Long can be
present and be represented by
i attorneys.
Judge Gibson appointed three
Galveston attorneys to represent
the Louisiana Governor, but he
said Long still may name his own
i attorneys to represent him at the
hearing.
U. S., Japanese
Sliij )s to Cooperate
In Fish Research
SEATTLE, t/P> — The director of
the University of Washington’s
Fisheries Research Institute is
scheduled to leave here today to
take part in an Alaska salmon re
search project in cooperation with
Japanese scientists.
Dr. William F. Royce said he
| plans to arrive at Adak Tuesday
, to board one of two American
boats which will take part in the
i project.
r The American boats will work
with the Japanese boat Tenyo
Maru in gear research as well as
tagging operations.
The- Japanese vessel will fish
! with long lines and the American
| boats with gillnets and purse
seines in an effort to determine
the comparative efficiency of the
different types of fishing gear.
Dr. Royce said one of the Amer
ican vessels, the 81-foot Wind
ward, has been plagued by high
winds during tagging operations
along the Aleutian Islands.
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Rocket Ship Postponed
EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE,
Calif., (jPI — Technical difficulties
yesterday forced postponement at
least until Friday of a scheduled
first free flight for the rocket
ship XI5.
The glide test for the little craft
had been scheduled for Thursday
but a 24-hour delay was an
nounced.
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Good Fishing Reports . . .
SEATTLE, GPi — Halibut land
ings Wednesday were 100,000
pounds at Petersburg, 86,600 at
Ketchikan and 41,200 at Juneau.
There were none at Pelican, Sitka
and Wrangell.
Salmon landings were 32,000
pounds at Pelican, 19,500 at Ju
neau, 5,500 at Sitka. 4,900 at
Wrangell, 5,000 at Ketchikan and
1,200 at Petersburg.
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