THE NOME NUGGET
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ABC’s OF AMBITION
It is cheering news to hear that a million grade
school youngsters in 17,000 schools across the nation
will be deliberately exposed to the ambition virus next
fall via a brand new, made-to-order medium.
During the years of creeping paternalism in
Washington, the idea that people should be required
to do less and less for more and more, that they must
be protected against their own mistakes and inertia,
has taken its toll of individual initiative. This softening
of the urge of achievement and the spirit of competition
has seeped down into the schoolroom and affected our
children to the dismay of teachers, youth training or
ganizations of all sorts, and latterly of employers, who
are shocked ait the extent to which lassitude has re
placed the old up-and-at-’em spirit.
People haven’t changed. Only their attitudes are
changing. And certainly the youngsters, who represent
our best hope of survival as a nation, are born with the
same potential fire as their great-great-grandparents
who forged the mold of America’s greatness. The prob
lem that faces all concerned is how to rekindle the
traditional spark.
The newest effort is a highly informative and in
spirational text on the American free enterprise system,
its origin and accomplishments, and stressing the re
wards that can flow' only from individual initiative
and applied effort. The book will be known as “ABC’s
of American Industry ’ and is planned and written to
rouse and nourish nine-year-old grade school intel
lects—and above
One million youngsters out of the nation’s 22,
million grade-schoolers is but a sampling, to be sure.
But, if the first million are enthused, a new road back
to sanity and an understanding of the facts of life will
be broken through the jungle of confused, imported
ami outworn ideologies. From there, this ABC book for
today—which is to be continuously brought up to date
—can rapidly became a nationwide text for the stimu
lation and broadening of eager young minds. The book
will be free to all pupils of nine and over in selected
schools.
If you find goods are not moving as fast as v^u’d
like, there is something you can do about it: advertise.
ALASKA AIRLINES
From Anchorage: Robt. Bald
win, Maud Williams, Mr. and
Mrs. Pete Curran, C. Potter, V.
Hope, Robt. Barr, Edward Bond,
Chas. Stevenson, J.L. Dumbrow
ski, J. Dawson, J B. Boland, P.
F. Schultz, Robt. Overstreet, Jay
Harmond, Frank Buske, Donald
Adam, Carl Topkok, L. Miller,
Paul Kunnuk, H.W. Nord, Arthur
Outwater, Joan Killorozoac, Sgt.
Evan William, Maj. Arthur Cum
mings, Gerald Oxereok, J.J. Wil
liams.
To McGrath: Mr. and Mrs. S.
Norback.
To Unalakleet: Thomas Pike.
From Unalakleet: Walt Sipprell,
Henry Bender, John Olson.
To Anchorage: Earl Phillips, L.
Miller, G. Hayes, D. Frederickson,
M. Menderson, k. Krause, S. Ol
son, Wm. Mallory, Chas. Green,
Sig Krogstad, Flora BCnett, Mrs.
Ann Woofls, Wm Snyder, Jackie
j McCall, Wm. Fulford, T. White
law, L. Zaremba, V. Norris, Jack
Corbett. •
DEFEATED DECORATOR
The wife of a rising young ty
coon, says Tony Weitzel in the
Chicago Daily News, hired her
first interior decorator. He showed
her a whole spectrum of colors
but she insisted she wanted some
thing none of her friends would
have.
Finally the frustrated decorator
broke. "Madam,” he exclaimed,
"there is no such color. It’s just
a figment of your imagination.”
WEATHER FORECAST
Compiled by the
U.S. Dept, of Commerce Weather Bureau
Partly cloudy tonight through
Tuesday. Temperatures tonight in
the low 40s, high tomorow in low
60s.
Nome data last 24 hours as of
17 a.m. today; High temperature
63, low 39. Max. wnid 13 mph.
from the west. Sunrise at 1:18
a.m., sunset at 10:48 p.m.
Temperatures a year ago today:
high 42, low 33. Extremes thig
date since 1907: high 80 in 1948,
low 28 in f91>8.
Other stations as of 7 a.m. today:
Station Temp. Weather
Barrow 33 Part cloud>
1 Kotzebue 36 Fog
Wales 33 Fog
Gambell 39 Fog
Nome 48 Part cloudy
Unalakleet 49 Cloudy
Bethel 53 Part cloudy
McGrath 50 Light rain
Anchorage 54 Cloudy
Fairbanks 55 Ligfht rain
Juneau 57 Cloudy
Seattle 64 Cloudy
San Francisco 59 Part cloudy
CODE REQUIREMENTS FREEZE
JUVENILE FUND ALLOCATION
JUNEAU, Iff—Not one cent oH
the $40,000 appropriated by the
last legislature to help communi
ties operate juvenile detention
facilities has been spent so far,
Calvin Pool, director of Territor- j
ial Juvenile Institutions, said j
Tuesday.
Reason is that no Alaska com
munity can meet the requirements
of the Juvenile Code, one require
ment of which is that the facility
must be such that juveniles can
not communicate with or view
adult prisoners, Pool said. In Al
aska today, he pointed out, prob
lem juveniles must go to jail or
be cared for by the Welfare De
partment.
The 1954 legislature appropri
ated $100,000 for the newly creat
ed Board of Juvenile Institutions
program. Of this, $40,000 was in
tended to reimburse communities
on a matching basis for the cost of
operating juvenile homes. The !
money would go to pay salaries i
and other operational expenses.
The $60,000 item was to help j
communities build or lease deten- j
lion homes. None of that money |
has been spent either, Pool said.
“The fact is, we can’t operate I
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under the present law,” he said.
“The legislature says we must set
up these facilities but there isn't
enough money to do the kind of
job that must be done in Alaska’s
major communities.”
Pool said something must be
done to treat girls who get into
trouble, pointing out there are no
correctional or maternity-type in
stitutions for girls.
He said statistics show that 75
percent of youngsters who get into
trouble can be rehabilitated if
they receive proper treatment. An
effective juvenile control program
might even save 95 percent, he
added.
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