THE NOME NUGGET
Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday by the
NOME PUBLISHING CO.
NOME, ALASKA
E. P. BOUCHER . Managing Editor
CLINTON GRAY . Production Manager
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Entered as second class matter October 14, 1943 at the
postoffice at Nome, Alaska, under Act of March 3. 1879
THAT HELPLESS FEELING
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AMERICAN
MILLION /V
BIGGEST SCHOLARSHIP FUND LAUNCHED
A new organization, created to operate a scholar
ship fund program which is believed to be the largest
in existence, has announced initial grants of over $20,
000,000 in behalf of education.
Among the initial grants was $20,000,000 from the
Ford Foundation, $500,000 from the Carnegie Corpora
tion, $600,000 from the Sears Roebuck Foundation, and
others. The new organization is to be known as the
National Merit Scholarship Corporation. It is an inde
pendent agency.
A nationwide search for talent in the high schools
will be conducted each year, and the most talented
young men and women will be sought for scholarships.
To receive a scholarship, a student must compete in an
examination with those from the various high schools
in all parts of the country.
. We hope the competitive examination will not be
given with the thought in mind that the highest-ranking
students, wherever they are, wll be given the scholar
ships. Schools in different areas of the country are in
different stages of advancement and attainment, and
actually, the studeht who comes from an area where
schools are not quite as advanced as in other areas is
more in need of scholarship aid than the student who
comes from a school which is among the best in the land.
THE SEA WALL
By VERA C. SIEGWART
The Sea Wall stands beside the Sea
And this would seem most naturally.
Yet, by Man, it came to be
This boulder bank along the Sea.
What can the giant boulders tell
Of ancient days in mystic dell,
Before they came to weave their spell
And here beside the Sea to dwell?
Were they lifted by a giant han'd
As they came from out the barren land,
Here beside the Sea to stand
As sentinels on this Arctic Strand?
And as they dream beside the Sea,
These giants of eternity,
They s'tand between the storm and me,
This boulder bank along the Sea.
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Maj. Gen. Adler, General
Manager of New York
Times, Dies of Cancer
NEW YORK, W — Maj. Gen.
Julius Ochs Adler (ret), 62, gen
eral manager-first vice president
of the New York Times and pub
lisher-president of the Chatta
nooga, Tenn., Times, died today
in New York Hospital of cancer
of the pancreas.
Adler first underwent surgery
for a kidney ailment during World
War II. He was operated on for
cancer four months ago, and re
turned to his journalistic duties
for about two months.
He retired as commanding gen
eral of the 77th Infantry Division
at the end of 1954. He had reached
the mandatory retirement age of
62 on Dec. 3.
Adler, born in Chattanooga,
Tenn., joined the Times in 1914,
became vice president and treas
urer in 1919 and general manager
in 1935. In that year he also be
came president and publisher of
the Chattanooga Times.
WSCS MEETS FRIDAY
Women’s Society of the Meth
odist Church meets Friday eve
ning at th^ home qf Mrs. Roy
Snyder, CAA No. 1, for their
monthly meeting.
fine Job Printing at The Nugget
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BRING YOUR
WATCH
to the
Nome Drug Store
for
EXPERT REPAIRS
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24 Parents and Teachers
Join PTA at Meeting;
Band Members Perform
About ninety parents and teach
ers attended the Parent-Teacher
meeting sponsored by the Nome
PTA Friday evening at the Nome
School auditorium.
President Harry Johnson pre
sided at the meeting and he in
troduced Superintendent Wm. An
gell who in turn introduced the
teachers of Nome School.
A program of instrumental
music was presented by members
of the Nome School Band under
the direction of Robert Heath,
music teacher. A clarinet trio,
composed of Alice Glavinovich,
Ruth Glavinovich, and Charlene
Hudgins played two numbers and
the brass quartet played several
pieces. The brasses are played
by Fritz Chambers and Ray Ar
nold on cornets, Peter Barber on
the slide trombone, and Earl
Towner on the tuba.
Robert Heath presented a brief
talk on the reason for PTA and
invited everyone present to join.
Coffee, tea and cup cakes were
served. Mrs. Christie Waldheim,
Mrs. M. J. Walsh, Mrs. Roy Sny
der and Mrs. Carrie McLain
poured.
After the program the parents
visited their children’s teachers
in their respective rooms.
Twenty-four parents and teach
ers took advantage of the oppor
tunity to join the Nome PTA.
STOLEN LICENSE PLATES
WILL NEVER BE USED
MADISON, Wis., The per
son who stole the license plates
from a Madison car probably will
not use them.
The car is the state-owned ve
hicle used by Gov. Kohler. The
plates carry the only number “1”
issued, and they naturally attract
I attention.
Stockade Escaper
Meets Tanks and
Heavy Gunfire
FORT KNOX, Ky., (#>--The
stockade guards were far behind,
so the young soldier stopped his
running. He could walk his way
to freedom now.
He might even sit and rest a
spell, he though—just as the first
roar of heavy gunfire shook the
earth under his tired feet.
Then he saw the tanks closing
in and the billowing smoke
screens being laid down. Grenades
burst around him, and the hills
echoed the blasts of deafening
rifle fire.
He was startled to think, he
confided after Friday’s nerve
wracking experience, that the
Army would go to this extreme.
How could it place so much im
portance on just one G.I. who had
tired of stockade life and had
broken away from a clean-up de
tail?
What he didn’t know was that
the 144th Ordnance Company and
a unit of the 3rd Armored Divi
sion were engaged in war practice
and were using blank ammuni
tion.
In his dash for the open spaces,
the soldier’s flying feet had car
ried him to the middle of a ma
neuver area.
Military authorities withheld the
soldier’s name, but they gave as
surances that no place ever looked
better to him later than the post
stockade.
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buy, sell or rent
houses, household furniture or
appliances, see
George Hite—Main 123
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