THE NOME NUGGET
Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday by the
NOME PUBLISHING CO.
NOME, ALASKA
E. P. BOUCHER . Managing Editor
CLINTON GRAY . Production Manager
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Entered as second class matter October 14, 1943 at the
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GUIDE0....WE HOPE
A NEW CALENDAR?
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Considerable support has been voiced in the United
Nations in favor of the adoption of a new world calen
dar. The new calendar would make every season of
the year the same number of days—91 days and 13
weeks.
Moreover, the four quarters would be identical in
that the first month of the quarter would contain 31
days and the second and third months would contain
30 days. February would always include 30 days.
To solve the problem of leap year, and other
adjustments, the calendar would provide for a new day
—World's Day—which would follow December 30
every year. Another World’s Day would be held every
leap year, and would follow June 30.
The new calendar is arranged so that each month
contains 26 weekdays. Four of the months contain five
Sundays, but the weekdays remain the same in all of
the months. Each new year would begin on Sunday,
January 1.
Every quarter would begin on Sunday and end on
Saturday.
India proposed in the December meeting of the
Economic and Social Council of the U.N. that the
question of the new calendar be put on the agenda for
consideration. By a vote of 12-2, the proposal was
accepted, the only two nations voting against it being
the United States and Great Britain.
The new calendar would also allow dates, such
as Easter, to be stabilized. The effort to reform the
calendar has been actively pushed for the last 15 or 20
years, and was supported by 14 nations when the
League of Nations submitted the question to all govern
ments in 1937.
We are in favor of calendar reform, believing it
would achieve what must eventually be achieved in
the way of calendar computatioVi. Although there may
be disadvantages and even objections, and although
the present calendar has been good enough for many
generations, that does not mean that the present calen
dar cannot be improved or that it is not the duty and
obligation of this generation to improve it.
An ant-watcher says when ants meet, they always!
pass eotch other to the right. They must ako observe!
all other traffic rules, as records show that traffic;
fatalities among ants during 1954 numbered 0. I
Ice Pool Dates
Since 1917, when the Pool
was started, the ice has gone
out at Nenana as follows:
1917— April 30 .11:30 a.m.
1918— May 11. 9:33 a.m.
1919— May 3. 2:33 p.m.
1920— May 11.10:45 a.m.
1921— May 11. 6:42 a.m.
1922— May 12. 1:20 p.m.
1923— May 9. 2:00 p.m.
1924— May 11. 3:10 p.m.
1925— May 7. 6:32 p.m.
1926— April 26 . 4:03 p.m.
1927— May 13. 5:42 a.m.
1928— May 6. 4:25 p.m.
1929— May 5. 3:41 p.m.
1930— May 8. 7:03 p.m.
1931— May 10. 9:23 a.m.
1932— May 1.10:15 a.m.
1933— May 8. 7:30 p.m.
1934— April 30 . 2:07 p.m.
1935— May 15. 1:32 p.m.
1936— April 30 .12:58 p.m.
1937— May 12. 8:04 p.m.
1938— May 6. 8:14 p.m.
1939— April 29 . 1:26 p.m.
1940— April 20 . 3:27 p.m.
1941— May 3. 1:50 a.m.
1942— April 30 . 1:28 p.m.
1943— April 28 . 7:22 p.m.
1944— May 4. 2:08 p.m.
1945— May 16. 9:41 a.m.
1946— May 5. 4:40 p.m.
1947— May 3. 5:53 p.m.
1948— May 13.11:13 p.m.
1949— May 14.12:39 p.m.
1950— May 6. 4:14 p.m.
1951— April 30 . 5:54 p.m.
<Sr?—M^y 12. 5:04 p.m.
io^_Anrl 29 . 3:54 p.m.
1954—May 6. 6:01 p.m.
Visitors Assn. Makes
Arrangements for
Publicity During .195 5
One of the 'principal functions
of the Juneau office of the Alaska
Visitors Association is the dissem
ination of accurate information to
the national press and to leading
magazines.
Throughout 1954 they have
been in touch with the leading
magazine editors throughout the
United States and the following
definite commitments for Alaskan
stories have been made:
Mademoiselle .March, 1955, “Al
aska Career Women;” Esquire, an
article on the Northwest to in
clude Alaska, written by Dick Jo
seph in early 1955; Saturday Re
view, five mentions in Annual
World Calendar to appear in a
mid-January issue; Profile of
America, published by Thomas
Crowell Co., Alaskan chapter.
True, personality article on
Haines, Alaska, by Evan Hill
(spring, 1955>;Wining & Dining
Around the World, by Joyce Mar
tin, to be published in 1955; two
children’s textbooks, Alaskan
chapters by the AVA, Follet Pub
lishing Co., Chicago, for release
in 1955; New York Life Insurance
House Organ, F. L. Cooper, editor,
pictorial lay-out and travel article
early in 1955; Bob and Ira Spring,
Katmai National Monument fish
ing to be featured in the new
Sports Weekly published by Time.
Firs! We Showed
"FIVE FINGERS"
Then We Showed
"THE DESERT FOX"
And Now We Bring You
The story of the battle for Tobruk
In the North African Campaign
During World War II.
At The Theater
February 8, 9 and 10
How U. S. Radar Warning Post in
Western Alaska Appears to Visitor
By ELTON FAY
An Early Warning Radar Sta
tion, Alaska, i#—From this wierd,
mountaintop site, where an elec
tronic eye scans the skies in
ceaseless vigil, may come the first
alarm to the United States that
enemy bombers are on the way.
For obvious reasons, the precise
location may not be disclosed. But
one may say that it is in western
Alaska, and one in a network of
similar stations across the north
land.
Some of the stations are close
enough to the international
boundary in the Bering Sea and
Bering Strait so that, on occasions
the probing radar eye glimpses
aircraft flying in the skies beyond
the boundary. Conversely, it may
be assumed that Soviet radar
sights American planes over the
westernmost fringes of Alaska.
WEATHER FORECAST
Compiled by the \
U.S. Dept, of Commerce Weather Bureau
Partly cloudy tonight with in
creasing cloudiness tomorrow.
Light northerly winds. Low tem
perature expected tonight -15;
high tomorrow 0.
Nome data last 24 hours as of
7 a.m. today: highest tempera
ture 12, lowest -16. Max. wind
26 mph from the N.E. Sunrise at
8:48 a.m., sunset at 3:44 p.m!
Temperatures a year ago today:
high -9, low -26. Extremes this
date since 1907: highest 37 in
1945; lowest -38 in 1914.
Other stations as of 7 a.m. today:
Station Temp. Weather
Barrow -31 Part cloudy
Kotzebue -17 Clear
Wales -15 Clear
Nome -16 Clear
Unalakleet 6 Cloudy
Bethel 11 Fog
McGrath 9 Cloudy
Anchorage 8 Part cloudy
Fairbanks -6 Cloudy
Whitehorse 9 Part cloudy
Edmonton 21 Cloudy
Juneau 34 Sno shwrs |
Ketchikan 35 Clear I
Seattle 47 Rain
San Francisco 50 Fog
Here is the way the station
looks to an arriving visitor:
Perched on the domed top of a
snowclad mountain is a gigantic
bubble, kept in globular shape bv
air pressure. Within the fiberglass
bubble a huge radar antenna ro
tates constantly, day and night,
peering into the distance and
aloft.
The bubble protects the anten
na from snow/and ice, without
blocking off or diminishing the
effectiveness of the radar impuls
es. From the bubble, a visitor de
scends through an airlock (much
like a chamber in a submarine
and used to maintain constant air
pressure within the bubble) to the
radar rbom below.
There half a dozen men are on
duty, dimly distinguishable in the
darkened room. On the black face
of a ’scope a bright blue pencil
line of light rotates, its cycle cor
responding to the rotation of the
antenna above.
The ’scope gives clues to air
craft seen, their number and their
speed.
From the room goes forth, in a
steady flow, information radioed
back to a control center at a main
base in Alaska, to be interpreted
and fitted into a general pattern.
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