THE NOME NUGGET
Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday by the
NOME PUBLISHING CO.
NOME, ALASKA
Telephone Main 125 $1.50 PER MONTH
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E. P. BOUCHER . Managing Editor
CLINTON GRAY . Production Manager
Entered as second class matter October 14. 1943, at the
post office at Nome. Alaska, under Act of March 3, 1879.
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SORT OF A POLITICAL SNIPE HUNT !
RED CROSS
(' GOD THINGS HAPPEN WHEN YOU GIVE —
* A tornado leaves a town desperate for help; Red
Cross brings food, clothing, shelter. A soldier and a
father is 3.000 miles from a family in trouble; Red
Cross helps bring him home. These are Red Cross
services.
When you gave your dollars last year here in
Nome, did you know that S350 was given to relief in
Chile? Did you know that a widow with four children
in Kwiguk, who lost everything in a fire, received
S100 for establishment of a new home? Did you know
that several local boys in service received loans (which
are to be returned to the fund) for special emergency
leaves?
You are urged to give your annual contribution
on Thursday and Friday in the foyer of the Post Office
where volunteers workers will have a desk. The Nome
charter quota is $880.
These distinguished Americans have this to say
about the Red Cross:
The American Red Cross is a part of the Ameri
can way of life — and all Americans should support
this magnificent voluntary organization.
— Herbert Hoover
The plight of the homeless, the hungry, the sick,
and the aged is insistent and continuous, and I know
of no organization the world over more qualified to
deal with these human miseries than the American
Red Cross.' '— Adlai E. Stevenson
The work of the American Red Cross shines like
a beacon light ... I know this to be true, because the
General Federation of Women’s Clubs with 11,500,000
members throughout the world has always partici
pated enthusiastically in Red Cross work and observed
firsthand its widespread and efficient activities.
— Chloe Gifford, President General
Federation of Women’s Clubs
The Annual Teen-,Age Exodus
PASSING THROUGH NOME this past week have
been almost 300 children from villages all along
the Arctic and Bering Sea coast.
It is wonderful that we have a government which
is so concerned about the education of the Eskimo
youth that it will transport them free of charge and
educate them free of charge through high school.
Where else in the world would a government pick up
the tab for thousands upon thousands of miles of
travel by air for hundreds of children?
However, there is created by this program a
growing concern. Children uprooted from their homes
at the sixth grade level and shipped away for nine
mouths out of each year gradually drift away from
their families and by the time they are of high school
age their home responsibilities, home discipline and
even home religion is not as binding as it should be
for the young teenager. Hence we have a group of
young pople growing up who either drift away com
pletely or become delinquents.
The homo is the foundation of the nation and if
the money used for transportation could be diverted
to boarding facilities at Nome, Unalakleet and Kot
zebue, all these children would be in closer contact
with their families, their friends and more actively
interested in the part of Alaska which is rightfully
theirs to develop. If the youth continue to be trans
planted, how can Northwestern Alaska grow? This is
a serious problem which doesn’t take a psychologist
to understand.
Since Mt. Edgecumbe cannot take care of all of
those needing education, would it not be more prac
tical to build a school boarding facility at Nome and
divert some of the students and try it out, rather than
ship them all the way to Oregon. We are building a
hew state and we need our young people at home.
Army
THIS 40-POUND LOAD—holds oil needed gear of field
soldiers. Infantryman packs his rucksack for another day of
plodding over the mountains in a 3-day training exercise in
Alaska. Specialist Four Walter A. Cook of Marquette, Michigan
is a rifle team leader of Company B, 1st Battle Group, 23d In
fantry stationed in Alaska.
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Letter To The Editor
If you will take a ride out to
the cemetery and drive by the
vault, on the northeast end of it
you will see a spruce tree about
eight or ten feet high. This tree
was brought from Council and
planted by Barney Coggins right
after the tailings were hauled to
the cemetery. It is to me, proof
that all we need on the thawed
hills back of Nome is to plant
young spruce in the wilow
patches, which gives them pro
tection from the snow drifts in
the winter.
At about the same times Rube
Cramer scattered some spruce
seeds on several graves. At Rube’s
funeral here I noticed several
young spruce trees growing and
I assume they are from the seeds
he planted.
The larger part of the ground
on the coast range back of Nome
is thawed ground and in my op
inion, this showing in the ceme
tery proves that spruce will grow'
there. If the Boy Scouts would
make this a project and scatter
spruce seeds in the willow patches
we would soon have the whole
of the southern exposure covered
with spruce. By planting wild
currants and raspberries also in
that time it would be a pleasing
sight to see the mountains cov
ered by growing spruce and the
addition of small fruits to our
blueberries, salmon berries and
moss berries.
I have written to the Univer
sity of Alaska about the planting
of wild rose hips which grow' in
profusion on the roads near the
college. I have asked whether
the roses will grow from the hips
or if one has to transplant the
roots. A profusion of blooming
wild roses is a wonderfully beau
tiful sight.
—Charles D. Jones
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Keeling means that the dog walks at
the trainer’s side with his head close
to the trainer's knee. To teach this
command, place the dog in heeling
position. Walk with the leash slack,
praising the dog when he comes along
in place. When he steps out of lines
pull him into position, commanding
"heel”. Jerk the leash momentarily.
When the dog learns that the right
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given anei the dog pushed down into
a sitting position. Repeat the exercise
until the dog obeys the command
instantly. If the dog is slow to sit, the
trainer must, slap the dog's hind
quarters with his hand or the end
of the leash.
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trainer backs away a short emtance,
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coaxed to come, but if goou perform
ance is rewareled with praiac and a
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command is speedily mastered.