THE NOME NUGGET
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AN EXPLORER S DIET
Vilhjalmur Stefansson, the famed arctic explorer
and scientist, was one of the speakers at the recent
Golden Anniversary Meeting of the American Meat
Institute. Now 77 years of age, he told of an experiment
in diet he undertook 27 years ago.
At that time, many people blamed the eating of
meat for almost every human ailment. Mr. Stefansson
dramatically disproved this—by living for an entire
year on an exclusive diet of meat and fat under rigid
medically controlled supervision in a New York hospi
tal. The complete success of this experiment did much
to change scientific thinking toward the consumption
of meat.
Then, a year ago, the explorer went back to what
he described as “my old favorite arctic diet of lean and
fat in the ratio of about four to one.” There was im
provement in his general health, and a needed loss of
weight. On top of that, a* stiffness and tenderness in his
joints which had plagued him for some years disap
peared after six months of the meat diet.
Finally, Mr. Stefansson said that he is convinced,
after three score and 17 years, that a diet liberal in
meat and its fats has helped him to maintain a healthy
weight level, has been good for his complexion and
general skin tone, has helped him keep cool in sum
mer and warm in winter, has enabled him to resist
mental and physical weariness, and has been vital to
his health and well-being generally.
“Using the excuse of ‘Let the government pay for
it’ is a fallacious one. Conscience should tell the waster
of public funds that he is not cheating a mythical
human being of great wealth, but he is cheating himself
and his children.” —Mount Dora (Fla.) Topic
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Egypt Nationalizes
All Foreign Firms
CAIRO, UP—President Nasser’s
government has ordered all for
eign banks, insurance companies
and trading firms in Egypt con- j
verted to Egyptian management
and ownership.
British and French «onc:ems
were “Egyptianized” as of :oday,
being classed as enemy property.
Other foreign firms were given
five years to convert themselves
to Egyptian joint stock companies.
The series of “Egyptianization
decrees” announced by the Nas
ser regime stopped just short of;
the government’s taking over j
ownership. But it insured gov
ernment control of foreign-owned
concerns through a new octopus
like “economic organization” that
will be given shares iin the firms.
The decrees affect hundreds of
foreign concerns, including some
owned by Americans. They spell
the end of a middle class Euro
pean community that has pros
pered in Egypt for a century as
importers of Western-produced
consumer goods and bankers and
insurers for Egyptian economic
life.
$813,000 Worth of Alaska
Indian Health Facilities
Proposed in Budget
WASHINGTON, (^^Construc
tion of $813,000 worth of Indian
health facilities in Alaska was
proposed 'in the budget sent to
Congress today by President Ei
senhower.
Health centers, cljnics and health
stations to replace inadequate fa
cilities or provide operations at
new locations: Gambell, $30,000,
and Savoonga, $30,000.
Construction of permanent units
or quarters for personnel, Jiuieau
area, 21 costing $520,000.
Modernization of the hospital
at Bethel, $25,000.
Anchorage hospital, $73,000 for
water and electrical systems; the
Bethel hospital, $40,000, to pro
vide a stand-by water supply;
Kanakanak hospital, $9,000 to
provide a concrete reservoir, and
Tanana hospital, $86,000 to pro
vide a new water system.
Big King Salmon
Caught by Hand
In Irrigation Ditch
REDDING, Calif., (A*l—Big king
salmon were caught by hand in
an irrigation ditch yesterday.
People with fishing licenses
were allowed to take the limit of
three.
Thousands of salmon were
trapped yesterday when gates to
the 30-mile irrigation ditch were
closed and the water level sank
to one foot. The ditch carriers ir
rigation water from the Sacra
mento River,
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Southeast Alaska Republican Defends
Action of Delegation Backing Clark
KETCHIKAN, K. Board
man, president of the Ketchikan
Republican Club, attacked as “ir
responsible” Monday the state
ments attributed recently to the
president of the Anchorage Re
publican Club about the south
eastern area’s delegation to the
recent Alaska central committee
meeting.
The delegation was described
in the statement as representing
only a “small clique” and not the
entire southeastern district.
“On the contrary,” Boardman
said, “our representatives had and
have our solid support in the
stand they were forced to take at
Anchorage.”
Boardman apparently referred
to their support of Henry Clark,
former manager of the Alaska
Development Board, as a recom
mended candidate for governor
of Alaska. The central committee
voted 10 to 4 in favor of Walter
Hickel, or Anchorage, for the po
sition, and Clark was not among
the other two candidates ap
proved.
Boardman said the delegation
should 'be praised “for standing
up to the steam roller tactics
forced on them” and that they
also reflected the desires of the
Alaska Native Brotherhood.
He also described the Anchor
age Republican organization as
“ineffective” in its support of
candidates at the fall elections
and said Ketchikan was more of
a “normal community” than any
other in Alaska because it is not
dependent upon large govern
ment expenditures and payrolls.
“Attempts by interior Alaska
Republicans to minimize the ac
tions of our representatives are
intolerable to us,” he said.
Nome Ministerial Assn.
Host to Welfare Workers
The Nome Ministerial Associ
ation met Monday evening at the
Methodist parsonage.
Guests were Miss Zollman and
Miss Morris, who are visiting
Nome and are with the Welfare
Dept. Miss Morris told us of the
interest that the Welfare Dept,
has in the religious life of the
child, and that each child should
be taught to have a definite relig
ious experience.
Miss Vollmer was recently in
Ketchikan and brought greetings
from the Rev. Reeves Havens
family and others.
An election for the 1957 offi
cers was held, with Knutsen re
elected as president, and Everett
Bachelder re-elected as secretary
treasurer.
Rev. Willard Mecklenburg was
re-appointed by the president to
be jail chaplain.
The greatest depth in the At
lantic ocean (30,246 feet) is north
of Puerto Rico.
Hard-Won Venison Lost
To Garbage Collectors
MILWAUKEE, OP)—James Flan
nigan asked the city Monday
to pay him $45 for 45 pounds of
vanished venison.
The meat represented steaks
from the first deer Flannigan had
bagged in four years of hunting.
He asked for a dollar a pound
compensation “even tho it cost
me several times this.”
Flannigan explained that the
venison, wrapped in paper and
placed on his back porch to be
come frozen, must have been
whisked away by over-zealous
garbage collectors.
His claim was referred to the
city council.
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