EXCURSION ~OX" AGAIN
Latest word today on the Lion
Rotary exchange trip between
Nome and Fairbanks is that the
trip is on again. A re-arrange
ment of date for Saturday, Nov.
25, has been made and it enough
people, 40, reserve seats the flight
wili -be made over on Novu 11
and the return on Nov. 12. i
. You can make your reserva
tion by calling .either Don Per
kins and Den Foster. The price:
$42 for the round trip.
Commissioner Downing Here
Commissioner of Public Works
Richard Downing arrived today to
discuss past and future road work
in this area. He was accompanied
by John Savelis of the Fairbanks
Public Works office. !
Utah Voters Turn Down
Fluoridation of Water
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah W) —
Fluoridation of the city’s water
system was soundly defeated in
an election yesterday.
The vote from 183 of 203 dis
tricts was 8,770 in favor of fluori
dation to 31,338 opposed.
Organized medical groups &U
supported fluoridation, arguing
that it would reduce tooth decay.
Ssweral groups actively opposed
it*, contending that fluoridation
amounted to mass medication;
that it was thus a step toward
socialized medicine, and that if
anybody wanted such use of
fluorine against tooth decay, he
could get it from his dentist.
The peanut isn’t a nut, it’s a
legume.
MMM HOSPITAL.
Admitted: Joe Regula, Cheryl
Norbert, Harold Koenig, and Sam
Jr., Harold and David Ahwinone
David Ah win on a, 2Wyear-old
son of Mr and Mrs. Sam Ahwin
ona, passed away at the hospital
on Tuesday.
Discharged: Harold and Sam
Ahwinona Jr., Eddie Ray Ahnang
nabooguk, Russell Tootkayalook
Jr., Lucy Strickland and Helen
Gogolin.
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HAS TO WORK . . .
TAMPA, Fla. — Alonzo
Smith Jr. asked to be excused
from jury duty because he had
to work.
“The boss man said I had to
work or there wouldn’t be any
place for me to work,” Smith said
yesterday.
“Well, then, maybe we can
straighten your boss man out”
said Judge Carl Durrance. “Who
do you work for?”
“The city,” said Smith.
Durrance said he would talk
to Mayor Julian Lane about the
situation.
BURIED JUG . . .
STEUBEN, (Maine Ifl — Ira
King says he’s all set now for
his 50th wedding anniversary, 15
years hence.
While deer hunting yesterday
he stepped on a bottle of Scotch
whisky that he lost 37 years ago.
The jug was almost completely
buried (beneath rotted leaves and
forest debris.
What’s King going to do with
it? Why save it, of course, for
that anniversary party.
Wien Now Testing
Latest Type Bush Aircraft
Pete Walsh, station mana
ger tot Wien Airlines, recently
returned from a station managers
meeting in Fairbanks and while
mere ne also attended several
evening classes In ticketing end
reservations which was conducted
toy Pan American for all airlines
traffic personnel and travel
agents in northern Alaska.
iWhile in Fairbanks he had the
pleasure of seeing the latest type
bush aircraft, the Pilatus Porter
being assembled in foe Wien hang
er.. It is now undergoing test
flights and we hope to see Sig
and Noel Wien flying it to all
the stations demonstrating its
wonderful performance. This
plana has a 360 hp Lycoming gas
engine. The next one will be
powered with a 550 hp Rolls
Royce turbo prop-jet, which will
give a much beter performance
than the piston engine.
Lucky “13”
Starts Nov. 11
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AUKRUK LANES
Cash Prizes
High Games and
Sorias Each Week
Everyone Is Eligible
Watch This Space
for Fuiher Details
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Instructors Needed for
Nome Shooting Club
Persons qualified aa hunter
safety instructors by the National
Rifle Assn., or adult persons who
haaja had small asms training ex
perience are urgently needed by
Nome’s new shooting club.
Formed last Friday evening,
meeting at the National Guard
Armory every Friday at 7 pum..
the marksmanship organization
is open to children over seven,
and adults. The present program,
under the direction of club presi
dent Art Johnson, will devote half
of each meeting to the training
of youngsters in the handling and
expert use of the .22 target rifle.
Following the juvenile instruc
tion iferiod, adults will be allowed
to try their skill at paper punch
ing from the 25-yard line with
target rifles and small and large
bore pistols.
Persons attending are asked to
not bring their own rifles unless
they have target grade .22’s. Tar
gets, ammunition, shooting jack
ets, and pistols can be supplied
by the shooter.
NAVY BOMBER CRASHES
BOSTON UR — A Navy bomber
with a crew of 11 crashed in the
Atlantic off Virginia today while
on an anti-submarine warfare
training mission and several hours
later two life rafts and possibly
two bodies were reported sighted.
The Coast Guard in New York
said a search plane reported the
rafts and evidence of possible
casualties in an ocean area 300
miles east of Norfolk, Va.
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YOUR SCHOOL:
Time lor a Progress Report
By Mr*. Helen B. Dunbar
When I first came tc Nome in
i!926 there was a faculty of five
teachers in the school. I taught
in Nome High School for two
years. Mr. Luther Dunbar was
the superintendent of the old
school, which was located on the
site now occupied toy the Arctic
dub, American Legion Hall, and
the former Oddfellow Hall, inci
dentally, for several years the
old. school building was used for
the meetings of the Oddfellows
Lodge and the Rebekahs after the
old part of the present school was
built in 1936.
The old school building of the
1920’s had two grade school
rooms on the lower floor, first,
second, and third grades were un
der one teacher; the fourth, fifth
and sixth grades were under a
second teacher. A small gymna
sium was located in the bade
part of the school. The second
floor held the following: the
seventh and eighth grades were
under one teacher; the high school
assembly room about the size of
two large school rooms; the su
perintendent’s office was in the
Horary; the science room; and the
home economies room which was
not used.
There were 21 students in the
entire 4-year high school. The su
perintendent and myself were the
entire high school faculty. Our
classes were small, but we had
the complete 4-year credit courses
required at that time. Every min
ute of the day was scheduled for
classes: the superintendent taught
algebra, geometry, general sci
ence, physics, trigonometry, and
geology. I taught English I-U-IH
IV, Spanish I-H, world history,
United States history and civics.
Extra curricular activities, such
as, basketball, gym classes in
tumbling and wrestling, debate,
glee club, and plays all were held
in extra hours after school. The
two of us had to do it &U.
Optimism never dies. Even in
such a cynical age as ours there
are still people who believe the
pictures they see in mail order
Nome Directory
Northwestern Alaska |
Chamber of Commerce
Meats Every Monde* Moon ot
North Star Dining Boom
Don Hoover. President
ALASKA CHAPTER NO. 1
Order of Eastern Star
Barbara Martin
5^5 Worthy Matron
Bev Morgan