THE NOME NUGGET
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_CUTTING OFF HIS NOSE •—AGAIN?
A Commendable Plan—for Nome
The Alaska Native Service has a new and com
mendable plan for the improvement of the education
of the Eskimo youth who are now unsuccessfully sent
to Mt. Edgecumbe and are unable to adjust themselves
when they return to their villages.
Nome is definitely the place for the first, step
away from home for the Eskimo youth whose villages
usually do not give them education past the sixth grade.
They should be brought here where they can have
contacts with families from their homes and even rela
tives. They can be assimilated more successfully here
than any other place in the territory.
Civic organizations should get behind a plan to
present to William Olsen, showing him the feasibility
of this location. Civic organizations should also recog
nize that the construction program for this project
would benefit the workers in the area who are them
selves Eskimos, and also that the project would bring
another permanent part of the economy of the Second
Division so badly needed at this time.
From the high school training here, the students
would be prepared to step out to large cities in the
territory or stateside without being at a disadvantage.
They would also have the encouragement of seek
ing higher education at Alask’as colleges, toward which
few can now aspire.
This is an opportunity to further improve the
* headquarters of Second Division.
SIX NEW VIRUSES FOUND
United States Public Health scientists have found
six new disease-causing viruses. They are tentatively
v being called the APC agents.
These agents are believed to be responsible for a
number of hitherto undiagnosed diseases and some
diseases which had been though to be caused by other
things. One disease which has already been traced to
one of these agents is a type of pneumonia—a type
which has been causing trouble in Army camps.
These agents are thought to affect the respiratory
system, and can cause conditions which have been
classified as grippe, conjunctivitis, summer cold, ca
tarrh, tonsilitis and affections of the adenoids.
The new discovery is though to be important and
doctors think that almost everyone has, at one time
or another, been infected with one or more of these
viruses.
“Cue” Shows Only
Steel and Concrete
Stand Nuclear Blast
SURVIVAL CITY, Nev., ifl —
Man - made steel, concrete and
earth shelters may be the only
solid defensive answer to man’s
most terrifying weapons, atomic
and thermonuclear bombs.
That appears today to be the
foremost tangible result of Oper
ation Cue, the major Civil De
fense test, and allied military ex
periments in Thursday’s powerful
atomic shot.
Two dogs in a concrete bath
room shelter lived through the
blast that leveled the rest of one
house Va of a mile from ground
zero. Mannequins in shelters in
another shredded house were un
affected.
And the commander of Task
Force Razor, the tank group
which rode out the blast in 55
tanks at 3,100 yards, said they
might have been twice as close
without danger.
“I believe we could move them
in to 2,000 yards, and some of
our people say 1,500,” declared
Lt. Col. John G. Wheelock of
Saginaw, Mich.
Fifteen hundred yards is closer
than the first row of houses in
Operation Cue.
Super-Rancher Kleberg
Dies of Heart Attack at 68
KINGSVILLE, Texas, (if)—Rich
ard M. Kleberg Sr., cowboy and
congressman, died yesterday at 68
in Hot Spring, Ark., a victim of a
heart attack. Kleberg was chair
man of the board of the 1,250,000
acre King Ranch, an empire of
cattle, horses, oil and cotton. He
was a grandson of Richard King,
the founder.
Kleberg and his brother Robert
expanded and brought to national
prominence the big ranch. They
developed breeds of cattle and
bird dogs, worked1 with thorough
bred horse development and
brought the King Ranch stables to
the tgp of the racing world with
such horses as Assault and Stymie.
Pvt. David Carter, Nome,
To Take Part in Army
Exercise Apple Jack
FORT LEWIS, Wash.—Pvt. Da
vid Carter, 21, son of Thomas Car
ter, Nome, Alaska, is among 26,000
soldiers slated to participate in
Exercise Apple Jack during May
at the Yakima Firing Center in
Washington.
Apple Jack will test the effi
ciency of infantry and support
units in mountainous and desert
terrain. The simulated use of at
omic weapons will be one of the
conditions of the exercise.
Carter is assigned to the 2nd
Infantry Division’s Signal Com
pany at Fort Lewis.
NEWTON ABBOT, England, UP)
—Mrs. Catherine Booth Clibbom,
daughter of Salvation Army foun
der William Booth, died today of
pneumonia. She was 96.
Lodge Has Faith
China Will Free
15 U.S. Airmen
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., (#—
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., U.S. am
bassador to the U.N. said Satur
day he had faith that 15 U.S.
fliers now imprisoned in Com
munist China would be freed.
He told visiting members of
Congress, in reply to a question
over the fliers’ prospects, “I can
only say that I am optimistic,
that I have faith, that it (the re
lease* is going to come about.”
Lodge said U.N. Secretary Gener
al Dag Hammarskjold talked with
the Communist Chinese ambassa
dor in Stockholm on the subject
recently. Lodge said he had fre
quent talks with Hammarskjold
and the secretary general “is leav
ing no stone unturned,” in ef
forts to effect the men’s release.
Hammarskjold was directed by
the last U.N. Assembly to try to
win freedom for the fliers.
Lodge spoke briefly and an
swered questions in a half hour
session with one senator and 40
representatives spending the
weekend in New York with their
families.
In reply to a question, Lodge
said for the U.S. to withdraw from
the U.N. would be “about the
most imprudent thing we could
do.” ■
“I think it would mean World
War III,” he said.
In addition, he added, it would
end the U.N.’s constructive work
and enable the Soviet Union to
turn the organization into a wea
pon against the United States
Prior to the invention of spec
tacles about five centuries ago,
very little was known about
light.
THE DARBY OF THE NORTH
By HAROLD SALISBURY
The Darby of the North,- the Nenana Ice Classic
Has a “poke” as big as Uncle Sam’s Attic!
The All-Northern Sweepstakes,- the Cracked Ice Tussle,
Which, the colder it runs, the hotter its hustle!
And thousands of starters down the old back-stretch
Are straining like hell now, the favors to fetch,
And thousands of starters jockey for position
As they come round the bend, a-swishing and a-wishingl
And soon down the home-stretch they’ll gallop and trot
All frantic to get to the wire and the pot!
For though it’s the Ice Race, it sizzles like a girdle
Which breaks up the ice when the cocktails gurgle
For the Ice Race Jockeys are as hot as the Senate
As they struggle for a sack with a lotta “dust” in it?
“These runners are torrider than Texas,” I quotes.
Who run for a feed-bag with nuggets for oats!
And who’s at the pole? And who the fastest goes?
Ain’t known till somebody wins by a nose,
When some magic instant,- with the heat of surprise, \
Will thaw the ice into the hell of a prize!
Rise up, old Thermometer,- and bring on your Spring
Let the ice-break make some lucky guy sing,
Beam down, merry Sunshine,- melt every last inch
That some mystic guess makes lucky, some wench!
So the race forges on in its feverish way,
Each dawn bringing closer the fantastic day
With its fortunate hour and fabulous minute
As the boisterous entries run for all there is in it,
This Darby of the North,- the Nenana Ice Classic,
With a “poke” as big as Uncle Sam’s Attic!
Sorority Gets Thankyou
Note From Mrs. Doolittle
For Reception in Nome
| The Beta Sigma Phis’ regular
meeting was at the home of Mary
[ Roell Thursday evening.
The meeting was called to order
by President Mary Roell and a
letter was read from Betty Gus
tafson, who is in Anchorage rep
resenting the Nome chapter of the
sorority at a convention for all
the Alaska chapters. This is the
first of such conventions to be
held in Alaska.
A thankyou note from Mrs. Doo
little was read and it was also'
mentioned at the meeting that the
Anchorage Times carried an arti
cle relating how much she had
enjoyed her visit to Nome and
that the sorority had given a tea
in honor of the visiting ladies.
During the program, conducted
by Maybelle Lenert, Betty Alex
ander and Marilyn Osbridge took
part. A book report on Dale Car
negie’s “How to Stop Worrying
and Start Living” was given by
Carolyn Reader. It was hgreed
that it was well worth reading.
Delicious refreshments were
served at the close of the meeting
by Anita Mays and Beverly
Morgan.
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