First Class of Baby-Sitters
Are Graduated From
Welfare Office Class
The first class of Baby-Sitters j
completed their course on Dec.
23 and will receive their certifi
cates as soon as they can bring
their X-ray reports to the Welfare
Office.
Eight women of the community
served as teachers for the class
and their help was greatly ap
preciated by Isabel Miller, Child
Welfare worker who acted as co
ordinator. Mrs. W. B. McCarthy
took the whole group for a dis
cussion of Home Recreation. Mrs.
Maxwell Kennedy, RN, and Miss
Margaret McDonald, PHN, taught
Baby Care, and First Aid and
Safety respectively.
Each girl went to a different
home for instruction in the day
time care of children and the
following mothers gave one or
more days to helping with this
part of the course: Mrs. Clinton
Gray, Mrs. Reeves Havens, Mrs.
Wallace Mclver, Mrs. Raymond
Tveter and Mrs. James Walsh.
The LWY Community Center fur
nished some of the materials for
the course in addition to the books
which the students bought.
The girls receiving certificates
are: Agatha Alvanna, Agnes Dim
mick, Eleanor Herman, Etta
Oquilluk and Ruth Teayoumeak.
They may be contacted for the
present through the Welfare Of
fice.
If there are enough out-of- |
school girls interested, another j
class in “baby-sitting” will be j
offered to them in March. They !
may register at the Welfare Of
fice at any time.
A course for young people at
tending school is also being con
sidered and plans will be an
nounced later.
WEATHER FORECAST
Compiled by the
U.S. Dept, of Commerce Weather Bureau
Continued clear with little
change in temperature today. Fair
and not so cold tonight. Cloudy
and warmer Thursday with snow
Thursday afternoon.
Low temperature expected to
night -3, high Thursday 12.
Nome data last 24 hours as of
7:00 a.m. today: High tempera
ture 5, low -18. Maximum wind
15 mile an hour from the north
east. Sunrise at 10:02 a.m., sunset
at 2:05 p.m.
Temperatures a year ago today:
high 13, low -1. Extremes this
date since 1907: high 35 in 1941,
low -42 in 1929.
Other stations as of 7 a.m. today:
Station Temp. Weather
Barrow -7 Cloudy
Kotzebue -33 Clear
Wales -6 Clear
Nome -10 Clear
Unalakleet -9 Part cloudy
Bethel -11 Cloudy
McGrath -32 Cloudy
AnchoTage 1 Cloudy
Fairbanks -43 Ice fog
Whitehorse -29 Clear
Edmonton >-15 Clear
Juneau -4 Clear
Ketchikan 20 Cloudy
Seattle 42 Cloudy
San Francisco 45 Clear
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Joe Amarok, Proprietor
Proposes 25 Pet.
Pay Raise For
Military Serviees
WASHINGTON, UPI — Senator
Mansfield (D-Mont) proposed yes
terday a 25 per cent boost in mili
tary pay rates as a means to main
tain a three-million-man military
force on a permanent basis with
minimum use of the draft.
Mansfield said, too, he is op
posed to any universal military
service program which is not ac
companied by a new excess pro
fits tax on war production. He
included the modified system
which the Eisenhower administra
tion has said it will ask Congress
to approve next year.
The Montanan, who has served
in the Army, Navy and Marine
Corps, declared in an interview:
“If we have to draft men, then
we should also draft the excess
profits which come from war and
defense production.”
He said that when the admin
istration’s military manpower pro
gram reaches the Senate he will
propose that kind of a tax as an
amendment.
Mansfield said the government
“should pay its soldiers, sailors,
airmen and marines enough
money to keep them in the ser
vice permanently. Military service
should be treated as a career and
should be paid accordingly.”
Asked whether his proposed 25
per cent pay raise would apply
to generals as well as privates,
Mansfield said he was primarily
interested in the enlisted ranks.
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Stromboli Volcano In
Sicily Erupts Today
MESSINA, Sicily, Wt—Stromboli
volcano erupted today. Rolling
earth tremors again shook the
lonely Lipari Island and, on Sic
ily, smoke poured from Mt. Etna.
These signs of nature in a rest
less mood frightened fishermen
and farmers, but no serious dam
age or casualties were reported.
The eruption of the bleak crater
on Stromboli, a cone-shaped is
land in the Lipari group 30
miles north of Sicily, was the
third this year.
Sparks shot up from the mouth
of the cone and lava poured down
the slope into the sea. It followed
a well-worn path and caused no
immediate damage. Some fisher
men took to their boats, but most
of the islanders remained calm.
Why Airplane Propellers
Sometimes Fly Apart
By Don Gretzer
CAA Office of Aviation Safety
People sometimes ask why the
CAA is so persnickety about
the use of “unapproved” propel
lors on airplanes. The answer
lies in the fact that the best pro
peller in the world may fly apart
under certain vibration conditions.
Take for instance, the case of the
“Exploding Propellers.” The air
craft did well at high speeds, but
when the throttle was cut, the
propellers came apart in the air,
and even the gears flew to pieces.
Vibration studies showed that
at certain low power conditions
the crankshaft hit a resonant fre
quency; the vibration was trans
mitted through the gears to the
propeller. The gears and propel
ler broke because they were not
as strong as the crankshaft. Heav
ier damper weights on the crank
shaft cured the problem.
Then there was the problem of
crankshafts in trainer engines, all
of which broke at the same spot
and at the same engine speed.
In this case, the counterweights
were acting like tuning forks, set
ting up a vibration strong enough
to break the strongest crankshaft.
A different method of installing
the propeller to change the criti
cal speed solved the problem.
Seek Dogs to Molher Tiger Cubs
EDINBURGH, Scotland, UP) —
Begum, three-year-old tigress at
the Edinburgh Zoo, gave birth to
six cubs Monday. The zoo appeal
ed for three collie dogs to help
mother them.
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O GOD OUR HELP IN AGES PAST
"God is our refuge and strength, a very present help
in time of trouble."
Psalm 46:1 Paid Adu.
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McCarthy Censure Had
Effect Restoring People’s
Confidence In Senate i
WASHINGTON, i/Fl— Sen. Ful
bright iD-Ark> ranks the condem- 1
nation of Sen. McCarthy as the
Senate’s “greatest single accom
plishment during 1954.”
“That action had the effect of
restoring the confidence of our
people in themselves and in our
democratic institutions,” he said
in an interview today.
Fulbright, one of the leaders in
the move to censure the Wiscon
sin senator, said a general feeling
of confusion and fear had arisen
in the country but was dispelled
by the Senate’s action.
“Why,” he said, “it had gotten
to the point where people were
suspicious of their schools, mis
trusted religious leaders and had
no confidence in government of
ficials. Those are the very foun
dations of our democracy.”
Fulbright said a school super
intendent recently admitted to
him that, because of the general
atmosphere, teachers on his staff
were not allowed to discuss Com
munism.
“FAITH FOR OUR DAY”
llth Annual Worldwide
BIBLE READING
The Scripture selections which
follow emphasize this theme.
December
29 Psalms 118: 41-80
30 . Psalms 119:81-128
31 . Psalms 119:129-176
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