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Hundreds Of Polish
Teen-Agers Nabbed In
Drive To Stop Hooliganism
VIENNA, Austria, Iff) — Hun
dreds of teen-agers have been ar
rested in Poland in recent weeks
in a drive to put down acts of
hooliganism by roving gangs of
young rowdies, threatening Com
munist order.
Polish newspapers reaching
here report almost daily raids by
police in cities like Warsaw,
Krakow and Lublin and in small
er towns. Young rowdies are
rounded up and sent to labor
camps.
Western diplomats in Vienna
see the rowdyism as an expression
o'f restlessness of Polish youth
with Communist restrictions and
only indirectly as a form of anti
communism.
The newspapers say that Com
munist youth organizations have
been infected by rowdyism. On a
recent excursion “the first cul
tural and educational demand of
the Communist youth leaders was
an energetic demand for vodka,”
one newspaper comments.
The juvenile gangs appear sim
' ilar to those warring with author
ities in some U.S. cities.
Army To Set Up 35 Nike
Guided Missile Bases To
Guard Northern Border
WASHINGTON, (if)—The Army
reportedly hopes to overcome a
half-year lag in its schedule for
setting up Nike guided missile
launching bases and have about
12 ready by midsummer.
Signs are that priority is being
given to obvious industrial targets
such as the New York-New Jersey
metropolitan area, northern air
craft manufacturing centers like
Buffalo and Seattle and the Chi
cago and nearby Indiana indus
trial complex.
Only one installation has been
completed for the big missiles in
tended to seek out and destroy
enemy aircraft. It is at Ft. Meade,
Md., emplaced to defend Washing
ton and Baltimore. The goal is
understood to be about 35 battery
sites guarding the northern bor
der of the United States.
There have been unofficial
claims the missiles are so accu
rate that two out of three launch
ed will score hits. An official
Army picture showed a test shot
against a remote-controlled B-17
bomber, but this plane is much
slower than up-to-date jet air
craft.
Work On Both Ends Of
Fairbanks Pipeline To Be
Pushed Despite Weather
ANCHORAGE, OP) — Prelimin
ary work on both ends of the
Haines-Fairbanks pipeline will be
pushed despite winter weather as
fast as materials can be brought
in.
“Due to storms and sometimes
sub-zero temperatures, there will
be' some days when we can’t
work. But this project is started
and we can’t stop now,” Maj. John
E. England, resident engineer ad
ministering the $29,001,281 con
tract, said as he conferred with
the Alaska District Engineer.
At Fairbanks, the north end of
the 621-mile pipeline, from 8 to
18 miles already have been clear
ed. At Haines, at the southeast
end of the line, work starts on
Jan. 8.
The Oaks Construction Co., of
Anchorage, a sub-contractor and
first on the ground at the Fair
banks end, h^s a crew of about
15 men, mostly “cat skinners”
driving the ponderous bulldozers
on the tough job of clearing the
way for laying the pipe.
There are three times as many
I widows as widowers in the U.S.
MINERS & MERCHANTS
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BANK OF ALASKA
NOME ALASKA
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ARCTIC OIL DELIVERY
STOVE OIL FURNACE OIL
Ben Young
We Check Your Tank Regularly
Office Phone: BLACK 78 Residence: MAIN 52
SERVICE CLEANERS
4th and B Streets Opposite School House
QUALITY DRY CLEANING A SPECIALTY
Prompt and Courteous Service
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Mickelson, Proprietors
PHONE RED 96
Big Bookstore
Owes Success To
Former Nomeites
“The Most Beautiful Bookstore
in the World,” Vroman’s, accord
ing to the Star-News of Pasadena,
California, opened recently and
was featured in a 22-page edition
of the paper. The store was start
ed by A. C. Vroman in 1894 and
its owners have become the larg
est book dealers west of Chicago
with branches in San Francisco,
San Diego and Alhambra, with a
staff of around 150 people.
The Sheldon family has played
an important part in this growth,
as A. D. Sheldon joined the firm
in 1914 and served as president
until his death in 1950. His sons,
Southard G. and Allen V. Sheldon,
are both members of the firm. A
brother, Joe V. Sheldon, served
until his death in 1938. Both Allen
and Joe were successful business
and mining men in Nome, both
well liked. Joe Sheldon was with
the Alaska Miners and Merchants
Bank in Nome.
Leslie L. Hood is president o'f
the firm, elevated to that position
upon the death of the late A. D.
Sheldon, son of Joe and Vesta
Sheldon, bom in Nome, joined
the firm in 1935 and is now vice
president. His brother, Harry L.
Sheldon, is secretary and South
ard G. Sheldon is treasurer. Nome
is indeed proud of her “home
folks” who went outside and de
veloped such an outstanding busi
ness.
After the death of Joe Sheldon,
his widow, Vesta Sheldon, mar
ried Earl James. She lives at 1725
Medewick Drive, Altadena. In a
letter received by Mr. and Mrs.
J. C. “Jim” Gaffney, old time
friends since 1900 in Nome, she
states she is slowly recovering
from the fall which has confined
her to the house for several
months.
Arctic Sanitary Service
Phone RED 181