THE NOME NUGGET
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A LOOK BACK IN THE YEAR 2000
Looking back from the year 2,000—in sort of a “Bridie
Murphy” theme in reverse—the weekly Phoenix Arizonian
made the Congressional Record with the following editorial,
entered by Rep. John J. Rhodes of Arizona:
“Now in .those days (little more than four decades
ago, but they might have b£en centuries) man, a fum
bling and contradictory being, had discovered coal and
oil in the bowels of the earth, the invisible force of
electricity, and even gold in the barren wastes where
a more logical creature would never have looked for
anything. But man had not discovered the sun, which
from the beginning of time had 'hung high in the heav
ens for all to see.
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“In that primitive era, men depended upon a
smelly, inflammable liquid called gasoline to power
their cars, their homes and, ergo, their lives were en
tangled in a snarl of wires conducting electrical current
to their lights, their wireless radio sets, their thousands
and one devices to serve the home.
A fuel mined in underground gloom and danger
in one state would be shipped thousands of miles to
heat homes and besmirch cities in a far-off state. Water
power to generate electricity was a complicated indus
try in itself, keeping hundreds of thousands too busy
to look at the sun, much less enjoy its ready benefits
—except on vacation, when they frantically offered
their bodies to its rays to be transformed into a burnt
sacrifice to their pitiful ignorance of solar potentials.
There it was, God’s sun, intended for man’s great
benefit, shining alike on the factories of Ne\v England,
the farms and forests of the South, Kansas wheat and
Iowa corn, and Colorado rangelands, and California
forests and cities, and Pacific-washed beaches—and
all of the rest of man’s world, too—and no man knew
it for what it was. *
“A few scientists, to be sure, ventured singly to
probe the mysteries of solar significance. While other
men fooled childishly with pitiful man-contrived sourc
es of power, these visionaries sought the revelation
of solar power.
“Obviously, the breath-taking import of what it
could do for mankind was too fantastic for the normally
conditioned human brain to contemplate, but maybe,
possibly, just suppose.
Tn this present year of our Lord 2000, the manner
of life of less than 50 years ago seems quite unbeliev
able.'The sun’s servitude to all mankind has enabled
man to take more tremendous strides ahead than in
all the earlier years since the birth of Christ.
“Today every schoolboy knows that the era of
solar employment came into being on a date more
significant for mankind than 1066 or 1776—the first
days of November 1955, when the world’s greatest
scientists met for the first world symposium on applied
solar energy in Phoenix, Arizona.
There and then began the world we know today.”
TOO LITTLE AND TOO LATE
In a feeble effort to strengthen the hands of our
pitifully understaffed, courageous and dedicated Fed
eral Narcotics Bureau in its losing battle to curb the
swelling drug traffic, the Senate has passed and sent
to the House legislation permitting (not requiring)
the death penalty for selling heroin to minors, or for
the third conviction of sale to adults
Here, unless the House can vitalize it, is a prize;
monument to the policy of too little and too late. It is
about 100 years too late, and it (ails to consider that
m hired killer who works slowly is only less merciful
than one who shoots ius victims.
NOT AN EASY RIDE _
Large Group of
Girl CAP Cadets
Enjoy Visit Here
The Intra-National CAP Cadet
exchange brought in an interest
ing group of girls chosen from all
over the States. Each girl was
chosen in her state for some spe
cial outstanding work with the
j CAP Cadets.
The group was housed at the
j Pioneer Igloo, given a big tour,
| dance and buffet supper Tuesday
; evening and left Wednesday on
! their return trip.
In the party were the following:
Sandra Powell, Wichita, Kan.;
Doris Anderson, Grand Forks,
N.D.; Sally McReynolds, Omaha;
Edith Wittrock, Mankato, Minn.;
Marcia Wakeman, Sioux Falls,
S.D.; Jacqueline Wilson, Des
Moines; Patricia Sell, Pueblo,
Col.; Deanna Cherry, Twin Falls,
i Ida.; Jane! Thibodeau, Bonner,
! Mont.; Arlene Kirk, Salt Lake
! City ; Suzanne Coe, Laramie,
I Wyo.; Jo Ann Victor, Seattle; Jua
I nita Cargill. Portland, Ore.; Sonia
i Lillard, North Las Vegas; Dnrthea
; Whitsel, Lathrop, Calif.; and the
| following officers:
Capt. Martha O'Toole, Mitchel
Atr Force Base. N.Y., USAF es
cort officer; Capt. Doris Eacret.
Elok, Nev,, CAP escort officer; 1st
Lt. Rose Lubek, Whiting, Ind.,
CAP escort officer; and Gen. J C.
Harton, Colorado Springs.
The Cadets remarked that they
iwere well pleased with Nome and
the courtesy shown them.
They wished to express public
ly their gratitude for the courtesy
and kindness shown them by the
Polaris Hotel and their staff
The group will visit Anchorage
for two days and then go to Ju- j
rteau and other Alaska cities until
July g, when they will return to
their respective squadrons in the
States.
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Red China Asks
Negotiations to
Take Formosa
HONG KONG, UP)— Red China’s
Premier Chou En-lai last night
proposed direct negotiations with
Nationalist China to arrange the
“peaceful” transfer of Formosa
to the Communists.
“The dying gasp of the Taiwan
(Formosan) authorities under the
United States cannot last for
long,” Chou said in a speech to
the National People’s Congress—
Communist China’s Parliament—
in Peiping.
The speech was broadcast by
Peiping radio.
“On behalf of the government,"
Chou said, “I formally declare we
are willing to negotiate with the
Taiwan authorities on specific
steps and conditions for the peace
ful liberation of Taiwan and we
hope that the Taiwan authorities
will send their representative to
Peiping to discuss these tasks
with us.”
“Liberation" is the term Pei
ping always uses for the transfer
of Formosa to its control.
Generalissimo Chiag Kai-shek’s
anti-Communist government on
Formosa was certain to reject
Chou’s offer, as it has ail previous
suggestions that it give up the big
island 100 miles off the Chinese
mainland.