THE NOME NUGGET
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NOME, ALASKA
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E. P. BOUCHER . Managing Editor
CLINTON GRAY . Production Manager
Entered as second class matter October 14, 1943, at the
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Nome Welcomes The Seattle Chamber
EVER .SINCE GOLD was found on the shores of
Bering Sea, Nome has helped Seattle grow.
For sixty years Nome has depended on Seattle
to supply its needs by boat, especially in the months
of June and October.
Before the use of airplanes for freighting, Nome
was completely dependent on Seattle and its business
houses, and Seattle businessmen responded to Nome’s
needs by giving preference to Nome orders, partic
ularly in October. Nome reciprocated by giving all
its business to Seattle.
As the world gets smaller and far away places
get close by ia!ir, it is most fitting that Seattle business
men and Nome businessmen become even more neigh
borly, and visit with each other, to exchange views
and to share their mutual problems.
One of the outstanding mutual benefits will be
the completion of Highway 97, which will mean more
business for Seattle, and for which the Congressmen
of the State of Washington must co-operate with the
Congressmen from Alaska, in order to bring it to
completion.
This is only one of the many projects to make
Alaska grow, and as Alaska grows Seattle grows.
We extend a hearty WELCOME to the SEATTLE
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE!
Personal Income
On Rise In U. S.
WASHINGTON, Uei — Personal
income climbed to a new record
last month. Much of the increase
was in the durable goods indus
tries that had been hard hit in
the recession.
The Commerce Department re
ported that the income total in
September reached an annual rate
of 375% billion dollars — up
1% billions from August and up
about 11 billions from the reces
sion low last .February.
It was the seventh straight
month in which personal income
had risen and the third straight
month in which it set a new
mark.
The figures given out by the
Commerce Department were ad
justed for seasonal factors.
Swedish Scientist Says
Russians Testing
In Barents Sea Area
STOCKHOLM, Sweden, UR —
Swedish scientists say the current
series of Soviet nuclear test ex
plosions is being held in the Bar
ents Sea, 1,350 miles north of
Moscow.
Markus Bath, an assistant pro
fessor at the Seismic Laboratory
at Uppsala, wrote today in the
newspaper Dagens Nyheter that
measurements at four stations in
Sweden pin down the tests to the
same area where Russia held
tests last year and early this year.
The spot is about 40 miles west
of the central coast of Novaya
Zemlya, an island between the
Russian coast and the Arctic
Ocean. ~
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‘Health Story’
Contest Underway -
In Alaska Schools
A voluntary “Health Story”
contest is. underway in Alaska el
ementary schools and will contin
ue throughout the 1958-59 school
year, according to Mrs. Norma
Johnson of Juneau,'sponsor of the
contest.
Mrs. Johnson says there will be
a different topic for each month
of the year, and a winner will be
selected for each month. There
will be three classifications: pri
mary for grades 1, 2 and 3; in
termediate for grades 4 and 5;
upper for grades 6, 7 and 8. The
monthly winning stories will be
made into a pamphlet to circulate
in participating schools.
Each month the participating
classes will receive a copy of some
study suggestions and suggested
references. After research and
discussion, stories are to be writ
ten, exhibited in the contesting
schools, then sent to “The Story
Exchange,” in care of Mrs. Norma
Johnson, 314V£ Third Street, in
Juneau.
Though this is an “out of school”
project, any class may partici
pate, Mrs. Johnson says. Classes
are encouraged to submit a story
each month.
The monthly topics include:
October — Our Community Health
Services; November — Safety.
First Aid, Illness Prevention and
Treatment; December — Cleanli
ness, Sanitation, Personal Appear
ance; January — Our Community
Health Improvement Project; Feb
ruary — Clothing; March — Eyes
and Ears; April — Food, Nutri
tion, Teeth; May — Exercise,
Rest, Recreation.
Stories can be on any part of
the topics for. the month and
should show the application to that
particular community, Mrs. John
son says, They should be 200
words or less.
Health education materials and
suggestions for this proqect have
been obtained from Alaska Tuber
culosis Association, Alaska De
partment of Health, • Territorial
Police, Alaska Safety Council and
other health and safety agencies
and education sources.
Mrs. Johnson says schools may
indicate that they wish to take
part in the contest by sending a
card to “The Story Exchange,” at
her address given above.
Last year’s story exchange was
a primary grades social studies
unit on the topic “Let’s Trade
Stories.” This was reported in the
October “Instructor,” elementary
teachers’ magazine. Students in
schools over- the states and in
Alaska participated.
OUT ON A LIMB!
DENVER, IP) — Tree-trimmer
Ernest Borquez, 27, climbed con
fidently out on' the limb, at
tached his safety belt and began
sawing away. When the limb fell
so did Borquez. He was on the
wrong side of the cut. He was
taken to a hospital with head
and internal injuries.
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Whooping Cranes With
2 New Additions
Sighted In Montana
WASHINGTON, Iff) — The few
remaining wild whooping cranes
are flying south, and two young
birds have been sighted in Mon
tana.
Production of the young is
watched closely each year, as this
tells whether the fight to save
the species is succeeding. The
Canadian wild life service some
time ago reported sighting three
young birds in the Great Slave
Lake nesting area.
Manager Almo G. Adams of the
Medicine Lake National Will Life
refuge in Montana sighted a
single whooper October 4. Then
on October 13 he saw four birds,.
including two young.
This was announced today by!
the Fi£h and Wild Life Service,
which also said a pair of the birds
was sighted October 19 at the Ar
ansas National Wild Life refuge
in Texas. This is tl\e normal win
tering area for this species.
Last January, the service
counted only 32 of the big birds
still remaining in the world —
26 wild and six in captivity in
New Orleans and San Antonio.
FIRST SUB-ZERO TEMP.
FOR SEASON IN COLORADO
FRASER, Colo., Iff) — Fraser,
high in the Colorado Rockies, to
day recorded its first sub-zero
temperature since last winter.
The mercury fell to —2.
Elevation of the small commu
nity is' 8,550 feet. It generally is
the cold spot of the country, and
today was no exception.
Other Colorado minimums
mostly were in the 30’s.
In 1908 in, Messina, Sicily, about
85,000 persons were killed and the
city totally destroyed by one of
the most disastrous of recorded
earthquakes.
NOTICE
Sales Tax Reports on retail
sales and Services for the quarter
ending September 30, 1958. must
bq in the City Clerk's Office by
Thursday, October 30th.
ROBERT F. SCOTT,
Pi fv Plprk
Pub.: 20-22-24-27-29, 1958.
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Twining State.s
Nuclear Weapons
Should Be Used
WASHINGTON, — General
Nathan F. Twining said today
that U. S. national policy “calls
for the use of nuclear weapons
in any case where such use would
be advantageous to us.”
The Chairman of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff ddded that na
tional strategy calls for fighting
an enemy “on our terms and not
on his.”
Twining cautioned the armed
services against beliefs that only
one military service should be
built up for any particular type
of war, general or limited.
In an apparent effort to offset
Army pleas for greater airlift and
larger manpower, Twining said
that airlift, though obviously de
sirable, had been accorded a rel
atively lower priority by the
joint chiefs.
He urged the Army to concen
trate development efforts on low
yield nuclear weapons and those
which produce maximum frag
mentation to saturate a given,
limited area.
MAYORALTY MIXUP
DALLAS, Ut — The hotel desk
clerk, busy assigning rooms tor
the International City -Manager’s
Association convention, looked
blankly at the man standing be
fore the desk.
“You are Rene Labrosse, city
manager from Pointe Claire, -Que
bec?” he repeated. “And you
wish your wife, Mrs. Labrosse, to
be put into the double room with
the Pointe Claire mayor, and you
take tiie single?”
The visitor nodded. The clrek
nervously drummed his fingers..
Finally the clerk asked: “he
mayor — it is a woman mayor?”
“Of course,” answered the
visitor.
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