THE NOME NUGGET
Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday by the
NOME PUBLISHING CO.
NOME, ALASKA
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CLINTON GRAY . Productiori Manager
Entered as second class matter October 14. 1943, at the
postoffice at Nome, Alaska, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
THE THREE R’S -SOVIET STYLE
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U. S. CHURCHGOERS
The first nationwide survey of religious beliefs
and practices ever made in the United States was re
cently completed and Showed that only 35,000,000 Am
ericans go to church every week. An equal number,
35,000,000, never go to church. A slightly larger num
ber, 38,000,000, go to church periodically.
The survey showed that although only about one
third of the population goes to church regularly, 99
per cent believe in God. It is interesting to note that
of the 35,000,000 Americans who never go to church,
many nevertheless identify themselves as either Pro
testants or Catholics, or members of various denomin
ations.
The survey indicates the attitude of many Ameri
cans toward the church is a casual one. Nevertheless,
the fact that 99 per cent of the population believes in
God is a strong indications that the United States is
a bulwark of Christianity.
Even so, it is a bit suprising that so many Ameri
cans never go to church and this fact is a challenge
to all churches in this great country.
The mechanic looks on in awe as the white collar
worker displays his ignorance about mechanical de
vices. Each thinks the other is unfortunate.
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Budget At A Glance
Year ending June 30: 19 53 1954
Income ... $ 68,677,000,000 68,665,000,000
Outgo . 74,600,000,000 78,600,000,000
Deficit . 5,900,000,000 9,900,000,000
Year-end debt . 264,000,000,000 274,000,000,000
Alaska Timber Officer
Believes Japanese Must
Bid in Open Competition
SEATTLE, (At — The assistant
regional forester in charge of Al
aska timber management says
that unless there has been some
State Department “understand
ing” of which he is not aware, the
Japanese seeking timber rights in
the Tongass Forest reserve of
southwest Alaska must obtain it
by bpen, competitive bidding.
Charles Burdick made the com
ment this week before leaving to
join the seven-man Japanese tim
ber-seeking delegation.
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He also said it was his under
! standing that the present plan of
the Japanese is to establish a
sawmill at Sitka for the cutting
of lumber to be shipped to Japan.
He indicated that Japanese plans
for the establishment of a pulp
mill are being held in abeyance
presently.
The forester said he was mak
ing the statement to allay fears
voiced by Pacific Northwest tim
ber and pulp interests that Japan
ese may be sold a substantial part
of the 78 billion board feet of
i Tongass reserve to the exclusion
1 of American interests.
Airliner Crash in
Storm Kills Seven
Near Seattle
SEATTLE, (ff) — Off course and
afire in a storm, a commercial
airliner from California carried
seven persons to a flaming death
at the foot of a mountain 15 miles
east of here Wednesday night.
Two of the victims were chil
dren and two were women. The
three men aboard were members
of the crew.
The four-engined DC-4 owned
by the Flying Tiger Airlines of
Burbank, Calif., barely missed
1,980-foot Squak mountain as it
wondered about in one of this
winter’s worst wind and rain
storms, apparently seeking Boeing
Field here.
Then, witnesses said, it appeared
to catch fire at an altitude of 500
600 feet, nosed down and roared
straight into a ploughed field.
Vincent Herlihy, on whose farm
the plane landed, said his son
Michael, 15, was looking out the
front room window of their farm
home when he called to Herlihy
“There’s a plane on fire out here.”
Herlihy rushed to the frontdoor
and just as he got there, the flam
ing craft hit the ground, sending
up a huge flash of flame that
lighted the entire area like day
light.
Wreckage was scattered over a
wide area. It was believed all
aboard were killed outright.
The plane was bound for Boe
ing Field, Seattle. The passengers
were the wife and children of a
Flying Tiger Line ■ pilot. They
were homeward bound after a
holiday visit with the wife’s par
ents in Los Angeles.
Former Red Quits
U.N. As Target of
U.S. Loyalty Probe
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y.,
A high U.N. official, admittedly
a one-time American Red under
ground worker and currently a
target for U.S. loyalty probers,
has quit his post. He is the second
American in two days to resign to
save the U.N. from “embarras
ment.”
David Zablodowsky, 49, handed
in his resignation late Wednesday
to U.N. Secretary General Trygve
Lie—one day after David Wein
traub quit his job as director of
the U.N. division of economic
stability and adjustment and de
velopment. Both men were on a
U.S. State Department list of 11
American U.N. employees labelled
as “Communists or under Com
munist discipline.”
Zablodowsky, $10,800 - a - year
director of the U.N. Documents
and Publications Division, admit
ted last fall to the McCarran Sen
ate subcommittee that he served
in the Red underground in the
1930s with Whittaker Chambers,
chief witness against Alger Hiss.
He insisted, however, that he had
severed all Communist connec
tions shortly after his service with
Chambers.
Weintraub denounced as “out
rageously false” the allegations
that he was disloyal to the U.S.
or had any Communist links. He
told Lie in his letter of resigna
tion he was quitting to save the
U.N. embarrassment during the
current probe and to give himself
more time to defend himself
against the charges.
Although it is not especially in
telligent, the squirrel monkey has
a brain which is larger in pro
portion than a man’s.
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Director of Welfare Says
Department Needs Funds
For Increasing Needs
JUNEAU, tP) — Territorial Wel
fare Director Henry Harmon told
a civic club here this week his
department will need more funds
to meet increasing needs. .
He reported the department has
given old age benefits to 1,660
persons in the past year. The
monthly grant averages $56.69 for
each recipient of the aid, with a
few getting the maximum $80 al
lowed by law.
Under the aid to dependent
children, the department has aided
804 families, he said, including
1,917 children. The aid averaged
$76 monthly per family or $31.90
for each child.
Pacific Storm Breaks
Swedish Tanker in Half;
21 Men Adrift in Lifeboat
SAN FRANCISCO, OP)—A Swe
dish tanker with a crew of 40
broke in half Thursday and three
cargo vessels were in distress as
50- to 70 - mile - an - hour winds
whipped the normally calm Paci
fic into fury.
The Swedish tanker, S.S. Av
anti, sent an S-O-S reporting
crisply:
“Ship broke in two. Eleven men
on back part saved. Eight men on
front part and 21 men on lifeboat
still drifting. If any ships nearby
please give help.”
The Avanti gave her position
as about 240 miles northeast of
Okinawa and about 180 miles
south of Kyushu, southernmost
Japanese main island.
Magnuson Hits GOPs Who
Favor Hawaii Statehood
But Not Alaska’s Now -
WASHINGTON, UP>—-Sen. Mag
nuson (D-Wash) Thursday chided
Republican senators who propose
to give Hawaii statehood but to
postpone similar action for Al
aska.
Magnuson referred to the Mon
day meeting in New York be
tween President-elect Eisenhow
er and Republican Senators But
ler of Nebraska, Knowland of
California, Watkins of Utah and
Cordon.
The meeting reportedly dealt
largely with statehood for Hawaii
with no mention of Alaska. Know
land was quoted after the meet
ing as saying he expected favor
able consideration of the Hawaii
Island bill soon.
33 of Crew of Swedish
Tanker Are Rescued
(By tke Associated Press)
A Japanese patrol ship report
ed Friday night that 33 crew
members of the shattered Swed
ish tanker Avanti have been res
cued and that eight more are
either dead or missing.
The report was radioed from
the Kusagaki, a patrol ship of the
Japanese Maritime Safety Board
at sea off Kyushu Island.
There was no fresh word on
another ship in trouble in the
wind - lashed Pacific, the Pana
manian freighter Santa Despo.
The Santa Despo was last re
ported out of control in raging
seas about 60 miles north of Mid
way Island.
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