THE NOME NUGGET
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SCHOOL HOT LUNCH PROGRAM TO PROVIDE
MEALS DURING COLDEST PART OF WINTER
For several months past there have been articles
in the Nugget about Nome's Hot Lunch Program. Some j
of the people working on this project have families
of their own while others have no children. All are
working, not for their own interests, but because they
•have seen the improvements in-school work and health
of underprivileged and undernourished children when
a school hot lunch program is provided during the cold
est months of the winter.
The Hot Lunch Program will start on Tuesday,
January 3rd, and will continue for three months.
There are too many children in the Nome School
whose parents do not provide them with regular nour
ishing meals. Some, because they cannot provide the
essentials of healthy living, and others, through ignor
ance or indifference, spend their money on other un
necessary items. Aiding the children, who go to school
without breakfast, by providing them with a nourish
ing lunch is the goal of School Hot Lunch. The com
mittee asks your support by purchasing lunch tickets
for a child this month, and next month, the coldest
months of the year.
Levee Break That Took
19 Lives Being Filial In
At Yuba City, Calif.
SAN FRANCISCO, (A*—W o r k
crews, operating around the clock,
passed the halfway mark today as
they filled in a levee gap that ac
counted for 19 deaths at Yuba City
during the California floods.
Already the rebuilt levee was
holding back Feather River waters
from the stricken city, where 280
homes were destroyed and 1,200
others had major structural dam
age.
The state death toll reached 47,
a jump of 12 since Wednesday
morning, when water receded so
that rescue workers were able to
start hunting for victims.
The Red Cross said 4,600 per
sons still were being cared for at
44 emergency shelters. At one time
the homeless were estimated at
50,000.
Uncle Eli, 91, Welcomes
19th Child, Wants More
WHITESBURG, Ky., W—Uncle j
Eli Lucas, 91, announced the birth I
of his 19th child yesterday with !
the hope that “there will be many j
more children to bless our home.” ;
Thirteen of his children were'
by his first wife, who died several
years ago, and six were by his
second wife, whose age was not
learned. Neighbors described her
as “many years his junior.”
Proposes Inquiry
Into Opening Of
Wildlife Refuges
WASHINGTON, [JP^-Sen. Neu
berger (D-Ore) Wednesday pro
posed a congressional inquiry into
a recent Department of Interior
order opening wildlife refuges to
oil and gas lease.
The Oregon senator said he has
heard the first lease under the
new order has been issued to
Frankfort Oil Co., a subsidiary
of Seagram Whiskey Distillery, j
He said it covers about 12,000 j
acres on the LaCassine National
Wildlife Refuge in Louisiana.
He said he understood that
“only rarely have oil and gas
operations been tolerated on ref
uges owned outright by the Fish
and Wildlife Service,” adding:
“But if wholesale operations
are allowed, I fear for the future
of the great sanctuaries where our
wild creatures and birds have for
merly been safeguarded.”
In his proposal for a congres
sional inquiry on the department
order, Neuberger described Sec
retary of the Interior McKay, a |
former Oregon governor as “set
ting back the conservation move
ment half a century.“ Neuberger
said the administration “has
known itself indifferent to wild
life conservation and protection.”
Further Contributors
To Christmas Tree Fund
$1—Bert Bell, Clarence Trigg,;
Herk Edwards, Fred Ku’oon, Bob
Baldwin, Taylor Moto, C. M. Me- i
Lean, Mr. Woods, George Weyer,
Mr. Swim, Roy Snyder, Mr. Lam
brecht, Norm Asbridge, Mr. Sasse,
Mr. Nicholson.
$1.50—Dan Karmun.
$2—John Kost Jr., Jim Huston,
Travis Phillips, Dan Berrettini,
Mr. G., and Anoymous.
$3—Francis Waker, R. De Long,
Grant Nelson.
$5—J. Marasovich, R. J. Wilke,
Nels Swanberg, W. Brown, W.H.
Cameron, Chas. Fagerstrom, C.
B. Glavinovich, A.C.S., Juke Box
Steve, Morgan and Son.
$6—U.S. Marshal’s Office. '
$10—Nome Liquor Store, Lester ’
Bronson.
$20—Larry Galvin.
$59.56—Fines from Sadie Haw- ;
kins Night at Breakers Bar.
Seventeen good - cheer baskets |
were distributed Friday, Dec. 23.1
Approximately 600 Christmas
stockings were distributed, about
50 more than last year. (
Santa talked to every youngster
to whom he gave a stocking.
Although the contribution jars
have been collected, it is not too
late to donate if you have not al
ready done so.
Winds in France, Italy
Cause Widespread Damage
LONDON, CP)—Violent winds;
tore into France and Italy today, j
causing widespread damage.
Gales up to 60 miles an hour
swept Italy’s Ligurian coast,
blowing down trees.
In France, the winds toppled
chimneys, smashed store windows
and tore off roofs. A break in
power plunged large areas in Brit
tany and around the mouth of the
Loire into darkness.
PAN AMERICAN
Arriving Thursday: Capt. Wiz
man.
Departing: Mildred Hermann
and Ruth Monroe.
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Questions and Answers Clarify
Workings of Hot Lunch Program
All of the following questions
have been asked regarding the
school hot lunch program^ and
the committee give the answers:
Q. When does the lunch pro
gram begin and how long will it
continue?
A. The lunch program begins
next Tuesday, Jan. 3, and is plan
ned for three months.
Q. Where will the lunch be
served?
A. In the Kozga Building across
from the school. The use of this
building has been donated by the
Lavinia Wallace Young Mission.
Q. What children may have the
lunch?
A. Any child in school may be
served a lunch.
Q. Who will cook and serve the
lunch?
A. Mrs. Gilmore Asitonia has
been employed to do the cooking.
The daily menus have been plan
ned by the school lunch commit
tee. A mother will assist in the
serving and older school children
will also help with details.
Q. How can I feel certain that
m3r child won’t catch some disease
such as TB b>T eating at school?
A. Procedures of cleanliness
will be followed in food prepara
tion. The lunch will be served on
paper plates and in paper cups
which will be destro3'ed after use.
The silverware will be washed in
hot, soapy water, dipped in a dis
infecting solution and scalded
with boiling water.
Q. How much are the tickets
and where may my child pur
chase one?
A. The tickets may be pur
chased at school from the child's
teacher. Each meal is 25 cents.
The teacher may sell a single
ticket for 25 cents, a weekly ticket
for SI.25; or a ticket for 4 weeks
for $5.
Q. Do the teachers have any
part in this program? e
A. The3r will sell the tickets and
one teacher will be at the lunch
room at all times that food is
being served.
Q. I don’t want my child to
eat there all the time but may
he eat sometimes if I am away
from home at lunch time or ill
and unable to prepare his lunch?
A. Your child is welcome for
one da\r or several da\rs or every
day.
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Q. My Susan won’t e^t lots of
things and doesn’t seem to care
much about luhch. Will eating at
school help her?
A. Children will usually eat
better in a group and try to eat
everything if they see their
friends enjoying it. She should
benefit by this group experience.
Q. What is a sample menu that
my child will be served?
A. A sample menu is: Meat
halls and gravy, steamed rice, two
pear halves and grated cheese,
bread and butter and milk, all for
25 cents.
Q. I have no children but I
would like to participate in this
worth-while project. What can I
do?
A. You cay offer to assist in
the preparation of the food or
, contribute money. Both are im
portant to the success of the hot
lunch program.
Q. We have very little money
and my child needs a lunch. What
do I do?
A. Please talk to Miss McCoy,
Miss Jolly or Miss MacDonald.
They will be able to advise or
help you.
Q. I don’t understand about the
$2,000 the school board has given
to the hot lunch program.
A. The $2,000 hasn't been given
to the committee to spend. It is
a reserve to be used if necessary.
| At the end of the hot lunch per- '
iod it is hoped that the $2,000 will
still be on ha**d. In other words,
the money from the children who
buy their own tickets and the
money received from the govern
ment should pay most, if not all
of the expense. Ideally, the lunch
program should pay its own way *
without using the $2,000 reserve.
Then this $2,000 will be avail
able for the school lunch program
next year.
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May this message be a
friendly handclasp with
the best of good wishes
for the happiest and
most successful New
Year of them all.
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