Reggie Okitkon, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Gabriel Okitkon of Nome,
who recehtly completed a radio
teletype operation course at Fort
Gordon, Ga., sends holiday greet
ings to his friends in Nome. In a
recent. letter to his mother, he
stated he is now an instructor at
- Fort Gordon. •
Christmas Bargains
Handkerchiefs
Panties
Christmas Towels
Costume Jewelry
Leather Purses
Evening. Purses
Baby Dolls
Gowns
Cups and Saucers
Aprons
Nylon Gloves
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Nylon Robes
Gowns
Dresses
Dorothy’s Shop
Cost of Living
Creeps Higher
WASHINGTON, UPi — Living
costs crept upward to another all
time high in Novemberf but the
rise was at a slower pace than in
other recent months, the govern
ment reported yesterday.
Consumer prices advanced less
than one-tenth of one per cent to
a level 25.6 per cent above the
1947-49 average. A month earlier,
prices were 25.5 per cent above
the base period.
It was the sixth time in seven
months that prices, as measured
by the Labor Department’s con
sumer price index, advanced to a
new peak. The November rise
was less marked than in Septem
ber and October, and Ewan
Clague, Commissioner of Labor
Statistics, said he looks for rela
tive price stability until next
spring.
A continued downtrend in food
prices helped check the Novem
ber rise in the index. The big fac
tors on the upside were increases
in charges for services and for
durable goods including new
autos.
The November rise in the index
will bring pay increases to about
170,000 workers who get cost-of
living increases under union con
tracts.
Factors affecting the shift in
buying power included the return
of steelworkers to their jobs,
which boosted average hourly
earnings, and a drop in the fac
tory work week because of lay
offs by makers of autos and other
goods affected by a shortage of
steel.
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Biggest Set Ever Made
Constructed Outside Cairo
For ‘Ten Commandments’
The biggest set ever constructed
for motion pictures: the tremen
dous pylons, gates, colossi and
avenue of sphinxes through which
the Exodus passes in Cecil B. De
Mille’s production “The Ten
Commandments,” was built out
side Cairo, Egypt, and outdrew
the Pyramids in popularity with
tourists. The DeMille masterwork
wyll be playing at the Nomerama
starting on Christmas Day.
Three-month-old Fraser Clarke
Heston plays the infant Moses in
the mammoth production. Little
Fray is the son of Charlton Hes
ton, who portrays the adult Moses
in the mammoth Vista-Vision
Technicolor masterwork.
, Three months of location shoot
ing in Egypt, plus 120 work days
on the Paramount lot created a
record as the longest movie shoot
ing schedule.
The picture was made by the
famed producer-director in answer
to hundreds of letters through the
years. Ministers, priests, rabbis,
lay religious leaders, civic digni
taries, international statesmen and
plain people of all denominations
wrote and commented upon the
inspiration they had drawn from
DeMille’s earlier biblical dramas,
notably “King of Kings.”
The script totaled 308 pages —
almost three times as long as that
of the average Hollywood film.
There was little leeway for indi
vidual interpretation by the ma
jor performers, however, since so
many lines were direct quotes
from Exodus.
This immense production had
the largest payroll in the history
of the entertainment business.
Along with the tremendous cast,
thousands of technicians and
craftsmen drew checks totaling
more than seven million dollars.
Carpenters alone were responsible
for 93,000 man-hours.
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Fairbanks Flyers
Walk Out from
Mountain Crasli
VANCOUVER, B. C„ UF> — Two
Fairbanks men, who spent more
than 48 hours in the rugged wil
derness of northeastern British.
Columbia after crash-landing
their aircraft, were to continue
their journey home yesterday —
by commercial airline.
The men, bar owner Don An
derson and pilot Bob Cooper,
spent Monday night at Fort St.
John, B. C, recovering from the
ordeal in which they spent two
nights in the open with no sleep
ing bags and little food, and even
tually walked 25 miles to safety.
The search for the two men be
gan Saturday after their Waco
plane failed to reach Watson
Lake, Y.T., on a 700-mile flight
from Prince George. They were
en route to Fairbanks.
Cooper, a bush pilot with 4,000
hours flying time, crash-landed
the plane Friday on Baskey Moun
the plane 40 miles north of Fort
St. John, after sand in one of the
fuel tanks caused the motor to
stall.
Neither man was injured as the
plane skidded 50 feet along the
rocky side of Pine River Valley
in a landing which Anderson de
scribed as “The finest I’ve ever
seen.”
G.S.A. To Protest Raise
In Alaska Shipping Rates
WASHINGTON, OR—The Gen
eral Services Administration said
yesterday it will ask for a hearing
on a proposed 10 per cent increase
on water freight between Puget
Sound and Alaskan ports.
Th new rate, sought by the
Pacific Coast-Alaska Freight Con- ;
ference, becomes effective Jan
uary 10 if approved by the Mar
itime Board.
Senators Bob Bartlett and Er
nest Gruening, and Representa
tive Ralph Rivers, joined in ask
ing GSA to request the hearing.
The three said in a letter to
GSA that the proposed increase,
if made effective, will create “in
flationary consequences” in the
economy of the 49th State.
Bartlett said the federal gov
ernment is the largest single ship
per in the Alaska trade and would
carry the largest burden of any
freight rate increase.
The shippers sap the increase
is needed because of higher costs,
including a wage raise in a new
contract with longshoremen.
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Rockefeller Tells
Of Personal Brush
With Juvenile Mob
NEW YORK, Iff) — Governor
Nelson A. Rockefeller says he has
a personal knowledge of juven
ile delinquency because his son
Steven was beaten up three times
by a youth gang.
The Governor said it was 10
years ago when Steven was 13.
He said the beatings took place
in Manhattan while Steven was
en route home from school.
Rockefeller made the disclosure
in a panel interview on juvnile
delinquency, published in the lat
est issue of the Ladies’ Home
Journal.
“Youthful crime and Violence
have increased in alarming pro
portions in recent years,” the
Governor is quoted.
“You know, one of my sons was
beaten up three times on his way
home from school here in New
York a few years ago. In fact, 82
boys in his school were attacked
and beaten.
“Juvenile delinquency isn’t
some abstract problem of a group
of unfortunate people remote from
us. It is right here. It affects all
children and all families directly
and indirectly.”
New Radar Stations in
Canada will Scan Lower
OTTAWA, (je — Canada and
the United Stafes have agreed on
construction of 45 new radar sta
tions to fill the gaps in the Pine
tree air defense line in Canada, a
Defense Department spokesman
said today.
Work on determining the sites
has started, the spokesman said.
Estimated cost of the project will
run into millions of dollars.
The gap-filling stations are in
tended to overcome one of the
chief loopholes in the Pinetree
radar system: inability to detect
aircraft with any degree of ac
curacy below an altitude of 2,000
feet.
The 45 new stations are in ad
dition to seven new heavy radars
to be built, five in the west and
two in central Canada. The two
in central Canada will be erected
at Moosonee, Ont., and Chobouga
mau, Quebec. Location of the five
in the west has .not yet been
announced.
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Northwestern Alaska
Chamber of Commerce
Meets Every Monday Noon at
North Star Dining Room
Russell Hermann, President
ALASKA CHAPTER NO l
Order of Eastern Star
Doris Wilke
Worthy Matron
Helen Dunbai
Secretary
Meets first and third Mondays
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HERB JENKS, W.M.
Norvin V*. Lewis, Sec.
Meets First and Third Thursday
of Each Month
NOME ROTARY CLUB
Ash Craft
President
Herb Jenks
Secretary
Wednesday Luncheon
Parent-Teachers Assn.
Meets laii Tuesday of every
month at School.
WERNER BOHRER, President
VESTA SUNDSTROM. Secty.
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