2 THE NOME NTJGGET Wednesday, November 23, 1955
THE NOME NUGGET
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THANKSGIVING, 1955
Thanksgiving Day, which falls on the last Thurs
day of the month, comes early this year, on the 24th.
Thus, the interval between this November’s religious
observance and Christmas is a full month this year.
Businessmen always welcome an early Thanksgiv
ing, since it leaves more time for Christmas shopping
and hunters also enjoy an early Thanksgiving Day,
since it means an earlier hunting season in many states.
Our national Thanksgiving—which the day was
first called by Sarah J. Hale, who is credited with hav
ing begun the national observance of the day in the
United States in 1863—is certainly a day of richness,
yeward and satisfaction in the U.S. in 1955. Prosperity
is everywhere, the country is at peace, and a spirit of
plenty is evident.
Americans should never lose sight of the fact that
they are more blessed than any other people on earth,
materially. We should give thanks, and try to make
ourselves worthy of these blessings, spiritually.
We in Alaska, who sometimes complain of the
hardships and inconveniences necessary in a frontier
such as ours, should give thanks for the many blessings
which are ours and which can be found no place else
in the world. It is something intangible and hard to
explain to newcomers. Much is written about the chal
* lenges the country offers.
Let us be deserving of the good things here and
thankful that we are on this side of the International
Date Line where we can enjoy our freedoms.
Harriman Hits
Administration’s
Foreign Relations
SEATTLE, iff) — Gov. Averell
Harriman of New York said here
Monday night “our alliances are
, creaking” because of what he
called Republican “incompetence
and shortsightedness” in the field
-of foreign relations.
Speaking at a $7.50-a-plate
Democratic fund - raising dinner,
the New York governor described
the summit conference at Geneva
last July as a “great Communist
victory” he said resulted from
“confusion and contradiction in
Washington.”
Harriman said while he favored
holding the conference he later
found it “inexcusable . . . for the
President and his advisers to give
the impression that they believed
in the sincerity of the Kremlin
words in advance of deeds.”
World tensions relaxed, Harri
man said, when the President,
upon returning from Geneva,
“spoke though with some reserva
tion, of ‘the most shining oppor
tunity’ and the ‘spark ignited at
Geneva’.”
“But unfortunately so did our
defense effort. Secretaries Hum
phries and Wilson began to talk
about cutting our defenses still
more. Free peoples were thrown
off balance. They were psycho
logically disarmed, neutralists
and pro-Communist elements in
Europe were strengthened.”
Harriman is in the Pacific
Northwest to urge re-election of
Sens. Warren G. Magnuson of
Washington and Wayne Morse of
Oregon. While he has been men
tioned as a possible Democratic
candidate for President, he de
clined to discuss his own political
plans other than to tell reporters
at a news conference “I am not
a formal candidate for President
at this time.”
Legal Forms at The Nome Nugget
Due For A Change of Luck
LOCKPORT, N. Y., i3 — The
Hardison family moved tempor
arily into the home of a friend
here today, hoping fate would
leave them alone for awhile.
Within the past five months,
Mrs. Hollis Hardison suffered a
fracture of the pelvis in an auto
mobile accident; Dalton, a 14
year-old son, lost an arm by am
putation after he shot himself in
a hunting accident; Russell, 10,
and Fern, 16, were confined to a
hospital with hepatitis, a liver
infection, and Randolph, 6, was
run over by a tractor but escaped
serious injury.
Last Saturday night the Hardi
! son home in nearby Ransomville
burned down.
Ruth Fagerstrom Enroute To
Be Married In The States
Ruth Fagerstrom left yester
day for the east where she will
be married to Cpl. Frank Reale of
the Anvil Mountain military
group, who is now on furlough.
A combination farewell party"
and miscellaneous shower was
given Saturday evening in her
honor at the home of Diane Swan
berg with Lucy Ann Fagerstrom
and Peggy Lucas as co-hostesses.
Walter McCarthy Leaves For
Bangkok By Way of Europe
Walter McCarthy, son of Mr.
and Mrs. W. B. McCarthy, who
has been home on his first visit
in three years, left yesterday for
his headquarters in Bangkok
where he is stationed with the
CAT Airlines. Walter will take
the long way ’round, going by
way of New York and Europe in
stead of across the Pacific.
Alaska S.S. Hopes
To Buy Knot-Type
Ships From Govt.
SEATTLE, lP) — Alaska Steam
ship Co. is reported thinking of
buying all or part of the six lit
tle Knot-type freighters it’s char
tering now from Uncle Sam.
Besides its five Liberty ships,
Alaska Steam now owns two
Knot-type freighters, the Galena
and Susitna. They’re the only pri
vately owned ships of that kind
in America.
Uncle Sam owns the rest, and
he hasn’t been eager to get rid
of them.
Alaska Steam now charters the
dry cargo Knot - ships Square
Knot, Square Sinnett, Coastal
Rambler and Coastal Monarch
and the similar Reefers Lucidor
and Palisana.
It hasn’t been able to buy them
at what it considers a reasonable
price. The two it owns—the Gal
ena and Susitna—it bought from
other private operators.
With their limited cargo ca
pacity, around 5,000 tons, the
Knot-type ships aren’t adapted to
many services.
They are tailored to smaller
ports in the Alaska trade. They’ve
proved that with Alaska Steam,
also with the Defense Department
when Uncle Sam pulled a small
fleet of them out of layup for part
of the Arctic supply mission to
radaf' sites last summer.
Alaska Steam’s President D. E.
Skinner has been talking hope
fully at congressional hearings
about shaking loose some of the
little motorships from the gov
ernment.
His hopes rose when the gov
ernment agreed to sell some Knot
ships to companies in Brazil and
the Philippines.
When he heard that news, Skin
ner commented:
“I can’t imagine the govern
ment not being willing now to
sell to an American operator.”
Eisenhower Confers With
Cabinet On His State of
Union Message In January
GETTYSBURG, Pa., UP)—Presi
dent Eisenhower had a two-hour
session with his cabinet at Camp
David, near Thurmont, Md., Tues
day and then returned to his farm
home near here.
Harold E. Stassen, the Presi
dent’s special assistant for dis
armament problems, rode with Ei
senhower on the 22-mile auto
mobile drive from Camp David.
There were indications the cabi
net session was concerned with
the state of 'the Union message
which Eisenhower will lay before
Congress in January.
MMM HOSPITAL
Admitted: Morris Thomas, Mrs.
Harvard Brown, Mary and Nora
Walsh.
Discharged: Gilbert Pelowook,
George Chapman.
! New Japan Administration
Seen To Be Friendlier
To Both U.S. and Russia
TOKYO, — Prime Minister
Hatoyama won overwhelming re
election Tuesday, formed a new
right - of - center administration
with his newly merged Liberal
Democrats.
The ’program he immediately
announced hints at closer rela
tions with Communist nations and
perhaps dropping some American
occupation reforms, but it is ex
pected Hatoyama’s new adminis
tration will in reality be even*
friendlier to the United States
than his two previous govern
ments since last December.
At his first press conference
Hatoyama said he was determined
to seek normal relations with the
Soviet Union.
Legal Blanks al The Nome Nuggel
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Republic Aviation Co.
Announces New Super
Sonic Fighter-Bomber
EDWARDS, Calif., (^ — Repub
lic Aviation Corp., has announced
the successful flight testing of the
new supersonic FI 05 A fighter
bomber. It was developed to fill
the need for a supersonic fighter
bomber capable of delivering nu
clear weapons as well as heavier
loads of conventional bombs and
rockets at extremely high speeds
over a long range.
The initial flight was Oct. 22
and 12 others have been made
since, the company said. Perform
ance details are classified secret.
The F105A has short, thin
swept-back wings, a long cylin
drical fuselage and wing root in
take ducts permitting radar equip
ment to be installed in the nose.
Fin* Job Printing at The Nugget
[ HEALTH HORIZONS 1
Man's Disease Defense System
Were it not for our built-in systems of defense against bacterial in
fections mankind would long ago have succumbed to disease.
How these systems operate is a matter of vital importance to the
future of medicine Much is unknown but the latest information from
“The Journal of the American Medical Association” is that a newly
isolated protein, called properdin. <
plays an important role in the
body’s automatic defense against
bacteria
It seems the common rat pro
vided the clue to the discovery
Science had lofig marveled at the
ability of the rat to fend off infec
tions The guinea pig. on the other
hand, was known to be extremely
susceptible to disease
The question why the rat should
be better equipped to defend him
self against disease than the
guinea pig led to exhaustive chem
• ical examinations of serums taken
from both animals Properdin was
presem m the rat serum in quan
tities 25 to 35 times greater than
m the serum of the eruinea pig
The amounts of properdin in man.
m the cow and in the pig were
then measured
Man was found to have much
less properdin than the rat. less
than the vow and the pig but more
than the guinea pig This informa
tion was compared with the scale
of resistance to infectious diseases
of vertebrate annuals: already !
known to science, and it fitted al
most precisely Man is more resist
ant to disease than the guinea pig
but less resistant than the rat the
cow m the hog Apparently propel
dm is one of the barricades against
disease bacteria
Whethei one day injections of
properdin will be used to increase
man’s defense against bacteria!
disease depends «.n a numbei of
complex problems no* being su.J*
led in the medical laboratories
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