THE NOME NUGGET
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CHRISTMAS CONCERT
By the Senior Choir of
The Community Methodist Church
Sunday, December 19, 1954, 8:00 P.M.
Organ Prelude
Processional: Adeste Fidelis . Portuguese Hymn
Invocation . Rev. Mr. Havens
Angels We Have Heard on High . French Carol
Christmas Lullaby . Moore
And the Glory of the Lord .. Handel
The Choir
The Angels and the Shepherds .... Reading by Mrs. Harold Yerger
The Birthday of a King . Neidlinger
feass Solo. Robert Heath
Today There Is Ringing . Christiansen
Noel . Traditional
The Choir
Organ Offertory and Prayer
Nightingale Awake . Swiss Folk Song
The Choir
Lullaby on Christmas Eve . Christiansen
Soprano Solo. Mrs. Reeves Havens
Silent Night . Gruber
The Choir
Familiar Christmas carols to be sung by the choir and congregation:
Joy to the World . Handel
It Came Upon a Midnight Clear . Willis
Recessional: I Heard the Bells on Christmas . Calkin
Benediction
The Choir Personnel include: Cpl. James Paterson. Director; Robert
Baldwin, accompanist: Sopranos: Caroline Glavinovich. Mrs. Rita Harper.
Mrs. Carrie McLain. Margaret MacDonald. Donna Lyle. Ruth Glavino
vich. Mrs. Reeves Havens; Altos: Mrs. Luther Dunbar. Lucie Ann
Fagerstrom, Lorene Larsen. Margaret Heller. Mrs. Harold Yerger. Reba
Tungwenuk; Tenors: Dr. William Kniker. Fred Hummler. Harlan Tripp.
Charles Hull; Basses: Herbert Williams. Robert Heath. Richard Small.
Ray Tveter.
It is requested that grade school children be accompanied by
adults and sit with them at the concert.
Speed Violator Runs
Into Family Reunion
SPRINGFIELD, Mo., (d>>—-There
was a little family reunion in
municipal court when 20-year-old
Wayne Niederhuth was brought
in on a speeding charge.
The court clerk who called the
case was his mother, Mrs. Lucille
Niederhuth. The judge who took
his plea of guilty was his grand
father, John Levan.
And it was his grandpa who as
sessed the $25 fine, plus $8.50
costs.
C. E. Hooper Dies
In Air Boat Accident
SALT LAKE CITY, UP)—C. E.
Hooper, nationally-known radio
executive who founded the Hoop
er system of rating radio and tele
vision programs, was killed Wed
nesday when he fell into the
whirling blades of an air boat
propeller while duck hunting on
Great Salt Lake. He was 56.
Hooper died a few minutes after
he was brought to a Salt Lake
City hospital, his body almost cut
in two by the propeller.
Safe Driving Day Held
A Success in Reducing
Number of Traffic Deaths
( By the Associated Phess)
Safe Driving Day was termed a
success Thursday and a standard
for Ihe future.
The evaluation was made by
the chief officer of the group
which sponsored S-D Day as a
one-day nationwide effort to make
a substantia! reduction in traffic
accidents.
An Associated Press survey
showed that 48 motor vehicle fa
talities were recorded Wednesday,
which was the nation’s first Safe
Driving Day.
The National Safety Council
figures that for each fatality there
are 35 injuries and 225 accidents.
The fatality toll thus indicates
there were 1,680 cases of injury
and 10,800 accidents on S-D Day.
On Dec. 16, 1953, there were 60
deaths, and on Dec. 1 of this year
there were 64 deaths. During the
first 10 months of this year traffic
accidents averaged about 27,000
a day.
Ladd Officials Report
Men Being Hired for
Work on Radar Net
FAIRBANKS, OPi—Officials at
Ladd Air Force Base reported to
day that laborers are being hired
in Fairbanks for work on the
“DEW” line, the “early warning”
radar net guarding our northern
approaches.
A limited number of workers
are being placed by the Western
Electric Co. for the job north of
Fairbanks. The Air Force an
nouncement, which it said was
authorized by Pentagon sources,
did not elaborate on the extent of
the Alaskan project.
Local unions say they already
have dispatched both skilled and
unskilled laborers to undisclosed
arctic sites. It has been widely
rumored here that a major project
is being started along the Alaska
arctic coast.
Brothers Under $10,000
Bail for Shooting 2 Deer
NATICK, Mass., (/PI—Albert
Morand 25, and his brother, Ron
ald, 17, Thursday were under stiff
bail of $10,000 for killing two deer.
The deer were in a Christmas
display cage at a Framingham
shopping centbr.
Police said the brothers admit
ted shooting arrows into the deer
and then beaitng them to death
with a tire iron.
District Court Judge Edward J.
Snow accused them of committing
an “inhuman act” and ordered
them held for the grand jury.
Former Sitka City Clerk
Jailed for Embezzlement
JCNEAU, l/P)—Vincent Beau
champ, former Sitka city clerk,
was sentenced to 24 months at
McNeil Island Prison Tuesday
after pleading guilty to embezzle
ment in conection with a short
age of funds of the Sitka Commu
nity Hospital.
The district attorney told the
court he had evidence Beauchamp
had been paying what he called
“blackmail,” but no details were
given. Total amount of the short
ages were reported to be between
$1,300 and $1,500.
One horsepower can lift 33,000
pounds one foot in one minute.
ARCTIC SANITARY
SERVICE
PHONE RED 181
Pentagon Plans
More Reduction
In Armed Forces
WASHINGTON, (*—’The Pent
agon is planning a further reduc
tion in the nation’s military man
power, with the bulk of the cut
coming in Army ranks.
Secretary of Defense Wilson
told newsmen Wednesday night
the total strength of the Army,
Navy, Marine Corps and Air
Force would be “something less”
than the figure of 3,047 000 at
which it had been planned previ
ously to level off in the fiscal
year starting next July 1.
Wilson declined to give specific
figures.
When the Korean fighting halt
ed a year and a half ago, military
manpower strength was about
3,558,000. Then a slow, steady
cutback was started. Until Wed
nesday, the program apparently
was aimed at reducing the force
to 3,047,000, of which 1,173,000
would be in the Army, and main
taining it there for an indefinite
period.
Wilson said the new overall re
duction in personnel would occur
“principally” in the Army. The
other cuts obviously will occur in
the Marine Corps and Navy. The
Air Force, expanding to a unit
strength of 137 wings from a pres
ent size of 119, will add to its
manpower. Present strength of
the Marine Corps is about 221,000;
of the Navy, 702,000.
Cardinal Mindszenty
Reported Freed by Reds
VIENNA, Austria, UP\—The Aus
trian Catholic office Kathpress
quotes informed circles in Buda
pest as reporting Josef Cardinal
Mindszenty has been released
from prison in Hungary. But the
agency says there is no confirma
tion of the report.
The Vatican also said it had no
confirmation of similar reports.
The State Department and
Catholic agencies in Washington
had no information that the cardi
nal had been freed.
Alaska Schoolchildren
Get Christmas Gift From
Board of Education
KETCHIKAN, (if)—Territorial
Board of Education Chairman A.
H. Ziegler played Santa Claus in
his own small way Wednesday.
His signature on a board order,
directed to the Alaska commis
sioner of education, makes the
days before both Christmas and
New Years a holiday in the public
schools.
It takes such an order, he ex
plained, to add the two days to
the yearend holiday period.
Duke and Duchess
To Winter in Florida
NEW YORK (if)—The Duke and
Duchess of Windsor, with two
dogs and 103 pieces of luggage,
arrived on the liner United States
Wednesday and said they are
planning their “usual winter vis
it” to Florida in the middle of
January.
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NOTICE TO MOTORISTS
The City of Nome is posting a
STOP sign at the corner of Third
Ave. Alley and B. St. facing the
alley which fronts the south side
of the Nome Public School. A
FULL STOP is requested 24
hours of the day.
Nome Common Council,
By Carrie M. McLain,
City Clerk
Pub Dec. 15, 17, 20, 1954
No Crime for Man
To Slap Woman in Return,
New York Judge Rules
NEW YORK, If a woman
slaps a man, he can slap her back.
So ruled Magistrate William E.
Ringel Wednesda’y in dismissing
assault charges brought against
Willis Van Nosdall, 36, by Mrs.
Lee Noble, 26.
She claimed Van Nosdall hit
back after she slapped him dur
ing an argument in a restaurant.
Asserting no one would bring
assault charges if a man struck
back at another, the magistrate
asked if a man had the right to
hit back at a woman.
“I suppose the courtiers of the
Victorian Age- would say no,” he
said. “But as a matter of law, we
can say the sexes are equal, with
equal treatment for all seves. I
think the same rule has to apply
in this case. Charge dismissed.”
NATIONALIST CHINESE GUNS
SCATTER RED CONVOY
TAIPEH, Formosa, (Ah—Nation
alist Chinese guns on Yikiangshan
Island opened up on a Communist
convoy of 35 supply ships Wed
nesday and the defense ministry
said the craft “scattered in confu
sion in all directions.” There was
no claim by the Nationalists that
any of the Communist craft had
been sunk.
THAT'S DIFFERENT!
BUTTE, Mont., iiP—She was be
fore Police Judge John Selon to
answer a charge of double park
ing.
“I deliver papers, judge,” Fran
ces Gilman told Selonao.
Can’t you pack the papers two
or three blocks if you have to?”
he asked.
“No, sir,” the small woman re
plied. “They weigh 1,500 pounds.”
Selon suspended her $2.50 fine.
AIR FORCE TO PAY FOR
HOUSE WRECKED IN CRASH
TOKYO, Ut)—The U.S. Air Force
Thursday announced it will pay
$1,000 as emergency relief to the
Hokkaido farmer whose house
was wrecked when Russian Migs
shot down a U.S. photo mapping
plane last month.
CANADA DIGS OUT AFTER
FIRST BIG SNOWSTORM
TORONTO, Ont., Iffl—Eastern
Canada dug itself out of slush and
snow yesterday after the first big
snowstorm this winter. At least
six persons were killed in traffic
accidents during the blow.
Mr. and Mrs. William Cameron
left Thursday for Huntington Park
Calif., to attend a family re-union
at Christmas time.
NOME VISITOR'S STORY
BEING MADE INTO MOVIE
Olive Barber, author of “The
Lady and the Lumberjack” who
visited Nome last summer, states
that her story is now being made
into a movie starring Clark Gable
and Marilyn Monroe.
ALASKA AIRLINES
To Anchorage: Capt. Roy Hop
kins, Cpl. Robt. Kelly, Albert
Paneok, Elesa Weckworth, Vic
Hansen, L. E. Parsons
From Anchorage: Ray Kennedy,
Dr. J. B. Wenberg, Jack Woods,
Mrs. Jack Woods, Richard Woods,
Mary Lou Bergamaschi.
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