THE NOME NUGGET
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Nome’s 4New Look’ Should
Surpass Last Year’s
Nome needs its annual “new look,” and it doesn’t
require any imagination to find filth, garbage, junk
and debris of every kind on every vacant lot and most
of the occupied lots.
Let’s go farther this yeax’ than we did last year
when we really made some progress on long-standing
eyesores and move those relics which are not improving
with age as well as the smaller items of rubbish.
Let’s go still farther and report our neighbor who
does not use the sanitary services offered and jeopard
izes the health of the community by dumping human
refuse within city limits.
Let’s have the cleanest town in Alaska !
HAVE WE LOST SOMETHING?
Back in the days when your scribe went to school
and teachers were more hard-boiled than now, no one
«ver had to get a goose egg in an exam. Even if he didn’t
answer any of the questions correctly, he’d get ten
percent if his errors and lack of knowledge were set
forth neatly.
Today, employers from one end of the country to
another are tearing their hair over the high cost of
sloppy handwriting. Illegible names and addresses,
undecipherable orders and receipts, tally sheets, check
lists, memos, and instructions that can’t be decoded,
add up to millions in annual business losses. So we
wonder what ever happened to that “ten percent for
neatness.”
Perhaps the Handwriting Foundation, the group
that was set up to study the problem and try out ways
and means of encouraging people to write more legibly,
should consider this old-fashioned custom that was once
popular with the Three R’s trade. The Foundation
might bring its influence to bear on today’s educations
to reinstitute this practise of rewarding the pains-taking
pupils. If a document is neatly written, it seems to us,
it can hardly avoid being legible as well. And 'young
sters sufficiently drilled in heedfulness and in taking
pride in their accomplishments are likely to carry these
virtues out of the schoolhouse with them and through
their working lives.
To coin a proverb: “It’s the illegible scribble that
makes profits dribble.”
Stevenson Says
U.S. Is Misled on
Strengtli of Reds
Adlai Stevenson says the Eisen
hower Administration has “delib
erately, intentionally, and contin
ually misinformed” the country
on how it is faring in the world
battle against Communism.
Stevenson, campaigning against
Sen. Estes Kefauver for votes in
Florida’s Democratic presidential
primary tomorrow, said this at a
Fort Lauderdale rally Friday.
He was commenting on Presi
dent Eisenhower’s statement ear
lier in the day at Waco, Tex., that
Communism is “in its deepest
sense a gigantic failure.” This was
one passage in a speech Eisen
hower delivered at Baylor Uni
versity’s commencement exercises.
Stevenson said it appeared from
news reports of Eisenhower’s re
marks that the President meant
this in only “a very limited sense.”
“Yet,” Stevenson said, “the still
larger picture is that the present
administration in Washington con
tributes daily to the illusions in
this country that either we’ve got
the Communists on the run or
i their whole system is bound to
collapse anyway because it is
evil.”
Although Eisenhower termed
Communism a "gigantic failure,”
he also cautioned it is a threat
"from which even this mighty na
tion is not wholly immune.”
Alaska Teacher Will
Stick to Teaching
After Crash Landing
BENSON, Ariz., WV—An Alaska
schoolteacher piloted his plane to
a crash landing in a grove of mes
quite trees Saturday and- walked
away from the wreckage un
harmed but disillusioned with
flying.
John Coray, 30, who teaches
with his wife at Port Graham,
was flying home to Alaska in a
used Republic Seabee he bought
in Wichita, Kan., last Thursday.
The low mesquite trees crum
pled the wing* on the singe-engine
amphibian and Coray abandoned
it as a total loss. He took a bus to
Tucson, where he planned to fly
back to Alaska.
Coray said the plane experi
enced a power failure soon after
takeoff from the Benson airport.
He headed for “the largest mes
quite grove I could find” to cush
ion the shock, brushed some pow
er lines and set the craft down on
top of the trees.
Coray had two forced landings
before reaching Benson, where he
stopped yesterday to check into a
balky gas guage. “I’m going back
to Alaska where it’s safe,” he said.
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25 Million Shots
Polio Vaccine
To Be Available
SEATTLE, —Polio vaccine
sufficient to inoculate 25 million
people is expected to be available
by the start of the 1956 “polio sea
son,” Dr. John Gorrell of New
York said today.
The director of medical service
for the National Foundation for
Infantile Paralysis passed through
Seattle on his way to Alaska. He
will confer there writh health and
medical officials.
“We expect that the increased
immunity among children (follow- J
ing the inoculations) will bring at I
least a 40 percent reduction in
incidence of paralytic polio in |
persons of all ages,” Dr. Gorrell
said.
“It is the children who Wing the
virus into the home," he said.
He urged parents to have their
children immunized at once so at
least two “shots” can be given be
fore the peak season in late sum
mer. Estimates by manufacturers
indicate supplies sufficient to in- !
oculate most young adults as well |
as all children will be available j
by the end of the year, he stated, j
Alaska has had high levels of
poliomyelitis for the past two |
years, Dr. Gorrell noted. He said, :
however, only one case had been
reported so far this year.
A1 Simmons, of Baseball
Fame, Dies at 54
MILWAUKEE, (4V—A1 Simmous,
one of the greatest hitting out
fielders in the history of baseball,
collapsed and died of a heart at
tack here early Saturday. He was
54-years old.
Simmons, who rose from the
Milwaukee sandlots to become a
member of baseball’s ball of fame,
with a lifetime Major League bat
ting average of .334, had been liv
ing in retirement for the past few
years.
Funeral services will be held at
St. Hyacinth’s Roman Catholic
Church tomorrow.
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