Pioneer Business Women Retire
From Teller Commercial Company
Teller’s four - woman team of
pioneer business women who
owned and operated the Teller
Commercial Co., since 1923, are
retiring, having sold out their
interest in the business to Mr.
and Mrs. Bob Blodgett.
Mrs. Peterson and her sister
Adele Volmers passed through
Nome yesterday enroute to Duns
muir, Calif., to make their home
with their brother and get re
acquainted with their family and
old friends.
Mrs. Marx and her daughter
Ethel Vogan will remain in Teller
for the winter.
The Teller Commercial Co., was
started by Capt. T. A. Peterson
and Mrs. Marx, who was widowed
when her husband perished on
the winter trail with his dog team.
Her son went to the Teller school
until it was necessary to go to the
States for higher education, and
he is now a professor in the east.
Capt. Peterson died several
years ago and was well known
throughout the area as he freight
ed supplies up the Tuksuk river
and coastwise.
Miss Volmers joined her sis
ter in 1925, coming as a visitor
101st Airborne Division
To Become Combat Unit
WASHINGTON, UPh-'The Army
announced today the 101st Air
borne Division, now a training
unit, will become the third major
paratroop combat outfit of the
Army. This will mean total Army
combat strength by the end of the
fiscal year will be 19 divisions—a
net loss of one from the present
strength.
There are now two airborne
combat divisions, the 82nd and the
11th.
ARCTIC SANITARY
SERVICE
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and remaining to become a real
Alaskan.
In addition to running a store,
the partners served in many other
capacities such as Weather Bu
reau observers, U.S. Commission
er. They could tell about the
many things that go into the mak
ing of history in the northland,
including such things as the land
ing of the Amundsen polar flight
at their village.
The new owners of the Teller
Commercial Co., Mr. and Mrs.
Blodgett, are not new to Alaska.
Mrs. Blodgett was a nurse at Pt.
Barrow with the ANS and Mr.
Blodgett has been with the Puget
Sound and Drake DEW line proj
ects out of Barrow. They own
their own home at College,
Alaska.
FWS Handled More
Than 6,800 Enforcement
Cases Last Year
WASHINGTON, UP> — Fish and
Wildlife Service enforcement of
ficials handled more than 6,800
law enforcement cases during the
year ended June 30, the Interior
Department reported Monday.
The service said 1,389 cases
were brought in federal courts,
including 207 in Alaska.
The report said there were only
144 full-time Fish and Wildlife
Service enforcement officials, 24
of whom were in Alaska.
Fines in 'the federal cases in
Alaska totaled $18,412, of which
$2,403 was suspended.
NOTICE
The Nome Common Council
shall sit as a Board of Equaliza
tion, between the hours of 7:30
p.m. and 8:30 p.m. December 12,
13 and 14, 1955.
Property holders have this op
portunity to make adjustments in
their Real and Personal Property
assessments.
Nome Common Council
By Carrie M. McLain,
City Clerk
Publish Dec. 9, 12, 14, 1955
Just Boxes and Boxes of
BEAUTIFUL GIFTS
BEING OPENED AS FAST AS THEY ARRIVE
Wrought Iron Trivets
Novelty Lamps and Planters
Wrought Iron Novelties
Ceramic Ashtrays—Little and b-i-g GIANT size
Hundreds of novelty low-priced gift items
such as fur collars, pom-pom neckties
and brocaded evening bags
COSTUME JEWELRY—the perfect gift for her
Just to window ship gives you a lift!
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j Delegates Were
j Completely in the
iDark Yesterday
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By FLORENCE DOUTHIT
. FAIRBANKS, —Constitution
al Convention delegates, who have
struggled with many an obscure
question as they labor to frame a
constitution for the future 49th
state, had to admit yesterday they
were completely in the dark.
The time was 4:30 p.m. The del
egates had been working in plen
ary session for more than seven
hours. It had been a trying day of
constant disagreement. Delegate
John Ellenthal had the floor, once
again defending his suffrage com
mittee’s recommendations. Then,
without warning, every light in
the three floors of Constitution
Hall went out.
Silence fell for a rare moment
on the assemblage of 55 constitu
tion framers. Then tiny flares of
match lights appeared throughout
the large table-lined chamber.
“The convention will come to
order,” said President William
Egan, obviously not really caring
if it did.
“May we hold that the conven
tion is in the dark,” asked Burke
Riley, Rules Committee chairman.
For the first time that day the
delegates were enjoying them
selves.
Somehow Egan managed to
scream, “Adjourned!” and every
one began wondering how to find
the exits.
Still in their seajs, a sudden
quiet fell on the assembly. Dele
gates were listening to a steady
clicking in the background. No
one had told the stenotypist to'
stop work and she was recording
every word.
After about five minutes, the'
lights went on again.
PRINCESS MARGARET
CHRISTENS NEW LINER
GLASGOW, Scotland, Iff)—Prin
cess Margaret, standing in the
rain, smashed a bottle of cham
pagne today to launch the 21,637
ton Cunard passenger liner Carin
thia. The ship will go into service
between Britain and Canada.
North Star
Thursday Specials
CREAM PUFFS
(with real cream)
RAISA* BREAD
PARKERHOUSE ROLLS
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Friday Specials
LEMON CHIFFON PIE
BUTTERSCOTCH
BROWNIES
RYE BREAD
Order Your
Christmas Fruit Cake
Now for Home and Gifts
Vernon Olson, Formerly
Of Nome, Taking Basic
Training at Ft. Richardson
FORT RICHARDSON, Alaska—
Pvt. Vernon R. Olson, son of Mr.
and Mrs. John H. Olson, is pres- .
ently training with the Army at
Fort Richardson in his first eight
weeks of basic training. Pvt. Olson
entered the service last month and
will spend 16 weeks training with
the Post's Training Detachment.
The 22-year-old private, for
merly employed as a truck driver
with the Alaska Road Commission
at’Nome, will receive infantry ba
sic and specialized training before
his regular assignment.
A 1953 graduate of Nome High .
School, he attended the University
of Alaska for one year.
Fine Job Printing at The Nugget
See James K. Moses
Eskimo Artist
For hand drawn Alaskan
Christmas cards, also
regular Eskimo life drawings.
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