THE NOME NUGGET
Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday by the
NOME PUBLISHING CO.
NOME, ALASKA
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E. P. BOUCHER . Managing Editor
CLINTON GRAY . Production Manager
Entered as second class matter October 14, 1943, at the
post office at Nome. Alaska, under Act of March 3. 1879.
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JUST THINK, JACK. YES, TODAYS CAR ^
ONLY A FEW YEARS CAPETS GIVE AMERICA
AGO MANY OF A RESERVOIR OF
TOPAZ'S HOT JET SPECIALISTS AND STRENGTH
PILOTS WERE FOR TOMORROWS
ORIGINALLY AIR POWER» ^
CIVIL AIR PATROL
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C.A.R, AN AUXILIARY OF
THE U.S.AIR FORCE ALSO
ASSISTS WITH AIR SEARCH
ANP RESCUE ANP OTHER.
emergencies'
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Get Acquainted With C.A.P.
DECEMBER FIRST WAS THE 17th Anniversary
of the Civil Air Patrol. This organization, which
•has more than 74,000 volunteer members, including
39,000 cadets, can muster about 4,400 planes in an
-emeigency, and maintains a nationwide radio net
work of more than 13,000 fixed, mobile and airborne
facilities.
The organization has been called the right arm
of the Air Force, and no place is it more valuable than
right here in Nome, where its efficiency has been
shown time and time again during emergencies created
by lost planes.
Although there are not many privately owned
CAP planes in the area, yet members stand ready and
prepared to organize a search when the crisis arises.
Pilots, observers, radio operators, first aid specialists,
instructors and technical specialists are needed to fill
out the membership here. Anyone interested is urged
to attend the meeting tomorrow evening, and get
acquainted with the program.
Baboon, Afraid of
TB Inoculation, Squats
Atop Church Steeple
FRANKFURT, Germany, UP) —
A runaway baboon who doesn’t,
like injections squatted atop a
slender church steeple today.
Neither subfreezing tempera
tures nor the pleading of her
keeper would tempt the 2t6-year
- old baboon to leave her lofty seat?
The animal broke away from
the Frankfurt Zoo Tuesday night
when her keeper tried to give her
an antituberculosis injection.
The zoo administration decided
it wasn’t necessary to call for the
fire brigade and their long lad
ders.
“She’ll come down,” muttered
the patient keeper. “And if she
thinks she’s getting away with it,
she’s wrong. She’ll get the
needle.”
American Freighter
Shipping Water In
Stormy North Pacific
TOKYO, LD — The American
freighter Green Mountain, which
sailed from Everett November 14,
reported yesterday it was taking
water in the stormy North Pacific
but expected to reach port safely.
A spokesman for the Japanese
Maritime Safety Board said the
7,641-ton freighter reported she
was shipping water through a
crack on the deck. The report
was not an SOS, the spokesman
said.
A Japanese patrol boat was
sent toward the ship but re
turned when the Green Mountain
radioed she did not need assist
ance.
The freighter, with 48 men
aboard, is expected to reach Ku
shiro, Hokkaido, Friday morning.
Meter Reader Finds
Lion In Basement
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, UP> —
The meter reader started down
the basement stairs but quickly
reversed himself^
“There’s a lion down there,” he
grumbled, and called police.
Police found a lion, too — 6
month-old Susie, a kittenish 80
pounds. City law doesn’t permit
people to keep lions in their base
ments.
■Police called the Animal Res
cue League, which sent Don Coo
per. He took her away, saying,
he hoped some zoo would like to
iiavt her.
Robert Minnick, whose base
ment it was, explained a man
■brought Susie to him when she
was 12 weeks old. T^ie man said
she came straight from Africa and
kept healthy on five rabbits a
day. He left Susie, borrowed a
gun and departed, ostensibly to
hunt rabbits. That was the last
seen of man and rifle.
Minnick kept Susie chained in
the basement, and the docile
boast never gave him any trouble.
But she kept on eating rabbits, he
said, and he’s been trying to find
a more suitable home for her.
Minnick’s surprised neighbors
said they weren’t aware he had
a lion in his basement.
GUARD MEN LEAVE FOR
PRE-CAMP CONFERENCES
A group of local National Guard
men left here Sunday for Bethel
aM Anchorage where they will
hold conferences in preparation
for the annual encampment at Ft.
Richardson.
In the group were: Maj. Jim
O’Rourke, commander of the 1st
Scout Battalion, Capt. Bob Steele,
Lieut. Bill Caldwell, and Maj.
John Gillespie of the Army Ad
visory Group.
They are expected to return
to Nome Saturday.
PERFECT ATTENDANCE
Third Grade — MRS. WALSH
Garrett Aukon, Ruth Anne Em
mons, Gretchen Howarth, Linda
Hungerford, Janice Mclver, Myr
na Moto, Erwin Tucker, Jane
Tucker.
BROWNIE NEWS
We are making some Jack Frost
Trees. We are going to sell them
for $1.25, to help pay for our new
Brownie Uniforms. They will be
on display at Dorothy’s and The
Polar Curio.
We have selected our President,
Sharon Doyle; Treasurer, Ruthy
Young; Scribe Carol Shute.
CAROL SHUTE, Scribe.
VERNA MilCHELSON
Leader.
MOST CO-OPERATIVE
HOLLYWOOD STARS
HOLLYWOOD, Calif., GP — The
most cooperative actor and actress
in Hollywood — Tony Cur
tis and Dinah Shore. The Holly
wood Women’s Press Club selec
ted them for their 18th annual
“Big Apple” award, which will
be made December 16. The club
is comprised of 140 writers.
WHY WORRY?
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and RELAX!
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‘Convenience’
Flags Boycotted By
Maritime Men
(By The Associated Press)
American maritime workers are
providing much of the starch in a
four-day . worldwide boycott of
ships flying “flags of con
venience.”
Overseas, reports of success
were scattered. In the United
States, however, at least 70 ships
were tied up.
- The demonstration, which en
tered its second day yesterday, is
aimed at ship owners operating
under the flags of Panama, Hon
duras, Costa Rica and Liberia. By
registering under these flags the.
owners benefit from tax benefits
and lower labor costs, transport
workers contend.
Leading the worldwide action
is the International Transport
Workers Federation, which claims
a membership of seven million.
In the United States, 18 unions,
led by the National Maritime
Union and the Seafarers Interna
tional Union, have formed a
united front.
‘All Fanny’s Fault’
LONDON, lS’) — For 30 years
Mrs. Fanny Martin had a spot
les backseat driving record —
until Monday.
Then husband Maurice, 55, a
grocer, was fined a pound —
$2.80 — for ignoring a policeman’s
signal to stop.
“It was all Fanny’s fault,” he
told the judge.
“As soon as we start to move,
sh^’s off . .' . ‘Watch out : . . be
careful . . . mind that cyclist . .
slow down.’ . . .”
It was the nagging, he said, that
caused him to miss the signal.
ADMITTED TO HOSPITAL
Daniel Baker, Joe Ahanka, Al
ma Ahnongnatookuk.
Discharged — John Reed, Mary
Thomas, Ronald Ailak.
NOME SANITARY
SERVICE
Phone Main 1
P.O. Box 558
Syrian and Israeli
Artillery Duel
JERUSALEM, Israeli Sector, UP)
— Syrian and Israeli artillery
units dueled across the border for
an hour today. The shooting end
ed after U. N. truce observers
asked for a cease fire.
First reports indicated that one
man — an Israeli shepherd —
was killed toy shellfire.
An Israeli Army source charged
that the shelling began from a
Syrian position with fire directed
against two shepherds tending
their flocks inside Israel terri
tory near the Jordan River.
The spokesman added the Syr
ians also fired at Israel border
police trying to extricate the men.
The border police returned the
fire.
The border area follows the
River Jordan’s course from the
Lebanese frontier to the Sea of
Galilee.
It has been marked by sporadic
shooting over the years since ar
mistices ended the Palestine war
of 1948.
Sputnik III Rocket
To Burn Up Today
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., UP) — The
Pullman-sized rocket of Sputnik
III was expected to burn up and
fall to the earth today.
Scientists at Smithsonian Astro
physical Observatory said indica
tions were it would fall some
where between Central Europe
and the Middle East.
The rocket has been orbiting
since it fired Sputnik III into
orbit last May 15. Sputnik itself
is expected to continue circling
the globe for another year because
] its more compact shape offers
■ less atmospheric drag.
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