THE NOME NUGGET
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NOME, ALASKA
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Entered as second class matter October 14, 1943 at the
postoffice at Nome. Alaska, under Act of March 3. 1879
LET US NOT FORGET
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I HEROES, TIME AJMD PEACE
By HAROLD SALISBURY
Let us honor the valiant hosts who sleep for our Country’s sake,
Honor and love the fighters who have fallen in war’s grim wake!
Grieve not their sacrifice,- for they made it willingly
Nor grieve that they sleep in distant lands or in an alien sea,
But honor the valiant fighters who answered the call afar,
- Honor them deeply,- but grieve for the need of bloody war!
Honor today, the armies,- of the air,- the sea,- the land,
Who died in the bitter carnage,- at home or on foreign strand!
Honor and bless the fallen,- sing to the souls who dared,
For no one knows the depth of their woes nor the hell of the
deeds they feared!
Honor the host of fighters who made up our Country’s might,
Honor the men and women who fell for their dream of right!
Honor the couraged fighters who fought in faith and trust,
- The men and women of all the earth,- whose cause to them
was just!
Honor the noble spirits in the name of Equality,
For each had his vision of truth and its sure validity!
Reverence the fallen ones,- and our precepts consecrate
As our prayers, to the fighters of the world, this day we dedicate!
Honor the numberless hosts who have fallen in numberless wars
In numberless centuries past on numberless countries’ shores!
Honor the valiant dead,- the pawns of the Bloody Fray,
Through which man’s slow and ponderous pace has made its
painful way,
Honor the warriors dead,- with reverence bless them once more,
Honor the noble hosts,- but grieve that there need be war!
Honor,- (this peaceful day), the fighters on History’s Scroll
Who gave all for their country’s cause nor knew another goal, j
- These countless heroes of Time, unknown, have given their aid
In winning the war against war,- in the sacrifice they have made, ‘
And they have not died in vain,- for all things work for good,
But the future can only honor peace,- by honoring Brotherhood! I
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Are You a Litter bug?
While Nome is conscientiously striving to pick up
after those who have carelessly dumped refuse here
and there within the city limits, we think it the appro
priate time to caution the zealous ones who are hauling
away their own garbage that the only place it should
be dumped is on the city-controlled garbage dump—
not along the sides of the road, destroying the natural
scenic beauty.
Evidence of this is particularly noticeable along
the Cape Nome Road. It is just as easy to use the city
dump as the side of the road. Furthermore, anyone
reported dumping along side the road outside city limits
is subject to a fine.
Auto Workers Reject Ford
Co. Stock Offer And
Prepare For Strike
DETROIT, (^—The CIO United
Auto Workers, flatly rejecting a
Ford Motor Co. offer to give its
140,000 employes the right to buy
Ford stock at half price, called
on Ford local unions throughout
the nation to get ready at once
for “possible strike action.”
The stock buying plan was in
cluded in a half-billion dollar,
five-year “package” offered the
union as a counter proposal to
the UAW demand for a guaran
teed annual wage.
Ford’s offer ignored the guar
anteed annual wage.
The company called its pro
posal that would permit employes
to buy stock in the tightly knit
family enterprise when it goes on
the market as “the most challeng
ing and* comprehensive” in the
history of the auto industry.
But the union stood pat on its
year-round wage demand and de
nounced the company’s offer as
“phony.”
C. F. O’Dell to Start
Simplified Bookkeeping
To Aid Small Businesses
Mr. C. F. O’Dell, owner of the
C. F.O’ Dell Bookkeeping and Sec
retarial Service, has announced
the recent purchase of a building
from Mr. Elias Mulch which will
make a very suitable office build
ing.
This building is to be moved
within the next 10 or 15 days to
the vacant lot between the Munz
Airlines and the Fashionette
Buildings, Mr. O'Dell having
leased this lot from Mr. Nels
Swanberg. The lot faces south on
Front Street, almost opposite the
bank.
Since the announced departure
from Nome of Mr. Leslie A. Ste
vens, it is quite fortunate that Mr.
O’Dell has decided upon making
this business investment. It is
understood that Mr. O’Dell is also
installing a simplified system of
bookkeeping, for the benefit of
small business establishments,
which will materially cut down
the costs of their bookkeeping.
Although Mr. O’Dell’s service is
not licensed to do “Public Ac
counting” yet, nevertheless, his
service can render all the book
keeping service that anyone’s pri
vate bookkeeper or private secre
tary may do and at much less cost
to the businessmen.
Albert Woolson, 108, Last
Survivor Union Army, Sits
Out This Memorial Day
DULUTH, Minn., lift — Albert
Woolson, 108, last surviving mem
ber of the Civil War Union Army,
today broke a long-standing tra
dition when he “sat out” Mem
orial Day.
The old soldier’s daughter Mrs.
John Kobus, said that it is the
first Memorial Day in her mem
ory that Woolson hasn’t been per
sonally feted or a parade march
er. However, at Newark, NJ., the
annual Memorial Day parade was
dedicated to Woolson.
Woolson was hospitalized twice
this spring with lung congestion
but has made almost a complete
recovery. He is up every day and
the past two Saturdays he visited
the family’s lake cottage about 38
miles from here.
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WEATHER FORECAST
Cloudy with light rain showers
tonight and Tuesday. Cooler to
day. Highest temperature expect
ed Tuesday 53.
Nome data last 24 hours as of
7 a.m. today: High temperature
59, low 39. Max. wind 35 mph.
from the NE. Sunrise 1:52 a.m.,
sunset 10:09 p.m.
Temperatures a year ago today:
high 57, low 46. Extremes this
date since 1907: high 68 in 1947,
low 21 in 1933.
Projects Scheduled for 2nd Division
By Territorial Dept, of Aviation
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Nome Students Who
Had Perfect Attendance
All Last School Year
Following are the names of
Nome Public School students who
were awarded perfect attendance
certificates by Superintendent
Wm. Angell at the graduation
exercises Thursday evening:
First Grade—Lloyd Hardy.
Second Grade — Richard Nug
lene, Kathleen Mclver, Victor
Hudgins, Rennie Kowasuk, Rich
ard Miller.
Third Grade — Stanley Ander
seh, Eileen Norbert, Allen Reed,
Jeanne Heath, Clinton Gray,
Julius Pleasant, Helen Moses,'
Stephen Andersen.
Fourth Grade—Jeanette Ander
sen, Richard Atuk, Vicky Castel,
Carol Doyle, Nicky Longley,
Carol Miller, Mike Simon, Sally
Walker, Diane Wilkie.
Fifth Grade—Steven Peterson,
Joan Aukon, Douglas Davis, Ron
ald Locke, Alfred Moses, Rich
ard Norbert, Ernest Ailak, Ethel
Ailak, Charles Burnett, Ida Cab
inboy, Sheryll Martin, Cora Sen
ungetuk.
Sixth Grade — Ray Arnold,
Rodney Boucher, Clarice Hardy,
Frances Johnson, Patrick Norbert,
Maggie Panek.
Seventh and Eighth Grades —
Fritz Chambers, Frances Long
ley, Janet Muller, Lee Oman,
Donald Outwater, Richard Ben
son, Cora Senungetuk, Earl
Towner.
High School — Suzanne Fager
strom, Ruth Glavinovich, Carolyn
Glavinovich, John Johnson, Lor
etta Johnson, Gloria Jean Mogg,
Roy Snyder, Robert Summer, and
Gladyce Walker.
Nome Parents
Have Son Who Will
Study at Caltech
COLLEGE, Alaska, May 23—Last
week the University of Alaska
graduated its first bachelor of
science in geophysics.
Today that student accepted a
research assistanceship scholar
ship at California Institute of
Technology. There at Pasadena,
T. Neil Davis will study for his
Doctor of Philosophy degree.
He is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Bon V. Davis of Nome, Alaska.
Davis, who is married and has
a family, was an honor student at
the 'University of Alaska. He re
ceived several other offers before
he accepted the Caltech position.
“Time” magazine, which last
week devoted nine pages to a
story about Caltech, says that the
school “occupies a special place
in the esteem of scientists and en
gineers. Though it may have ri- j
vals, it has no superior anywhere j
in the world.”
Olaf Lundborg, one of Candle’s
oldest pioneers, returned yester
day on his annual trip north.
-Lundborg, a retired mining
man, has mining interests in the
Candle area.
NOTICE
NEW HOURS
Bering Sea Barber Shop
12 NOON TO 6 P.M.
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>, By Senator Howard Lyng
In addition to the construction
of two fields, one at Kiana, 100
miles northeast of Kotzebue, and
one at Selawik, 100 miles east of
Kotzebue—both north of the Arc
tic Circle—the following projects
are scheduled for the Second Di
vision this season:
Shakloolik—Steel matting is to
be placed on the airstrip built
several years ago by Lee Bros.
Wales—New field was built last
season by Jack Bullock and steel
matting freighted to Wales. This
matting will be layed on the field
some time in June or July.
Savoonga, Si. Lawrence I.—On
the strength of a bill put through
the last Legislature by the writer,
a DC-3 airfield is to be built at
Savoonga. Survey is scheduled for
this season, construction for 1956.
Steel matting will be the topping.
The Territorial Department of
Aviation is in the process of ac
quiring 1,000 tons of steel matting
from the Army from the Aleutian
Chain surplus.
Bluff—Here, $2,500 has been
supplied as matching fudns to
ward construction of a small
plane strip for the new dredging
operation of vetrean bush pilot
Bill Munz.
Noorvik—Seventy-five miles
northeast of Kotzebue a survey
for a new airfield will be com
pleted this season. Construction
is scheduled for 1956.
Shungnak, 180 miles northeast
of Kotzebue—A survey was com
pleted for a new airfield last year
| but construction is not scheduled •
until 1956.
Hope and Pt. Barrow are both
scheduled for field surveys by
1956. One of them will get a 4,000
foot DC-3 airfield,' probably both,
for this would extend the Fair
banks-Barrow trip for tourists
and big game hunters, as well as
benefit the villages themselves.
Dahl Creek, 200 miles northeast
of Kotzebue in the upper Kobuk,
or else at the village of Kobuk, a
few miles distant, a DC-3 airfield
is scheduled in the next year or
two. The other gets a small field.
Bill Munz, veteran Second Di
vision pilot, recently succeeded
Neal W. (Willie) Foster as Second
Division member of the Territor
ial Board of Aviation.
38,000-Year-Old Stump
Displayed At Alaska
Science Conference
COLLEGE, Alaska — Persons
attending the Sixth Alaskan
Science Conference at the Uni
versity of Alaska June 1-4 will
see the oldest wood tree stump
known in Alaska.
The 38,000-year old specimen
will be part of a paleontological
display set up by Otto William
Geist, research associate in pale
ontology at the university. The
famous Carbon 14 process was
used to determine the stump’s
age. Another article on display
will be a piece of hide and the
hair of a female super bison of
approximately the same age as
the stump. Geist obtained the
hide at Dome Creek.
Geist will show many other
items he has obtained while roam
ing the entire territory and parts
ot Canada for his fossil speci
mens.
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