THE NOME NUGGET
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A RARE AND HONORED GUEST
THE CELEBRATION OF CHRIST’S BIRTH
Christmas spirit is a contagious thing that is hard
to define. Some get the spirit early, others get it
gradually, but sooner or later it affects everyone.
The town is looking more festive every day with
trees lighted from the tops of buildings and music
floating down the street and from the radio.
Store windows are dressed in holiday colors hint
ing of the worldly part of Christmas which is an im
portant part of the celebration of the happiest time of
the year, for the giving of gifts is the manifestation
of brotherly love.
The spiritual part of the celebration is expressed
in all our churches whose programs are varied enough
to please everyone and in which each and every one
should find time to participate and celebrate — the
birth of Christ.
Parents Invited to Join
Cubs at Christmas Pack
Meeting Tommorow at 7
Tomorrow evening at 7:00 Cub
Scouts, their leaders and parents,
will enjoy a Christmas pack meet
ing at the Social Rooms of the
Community Methodist Church.
All parents of Cubs are urged
to attend this part of Cubbing
as the boys whose parents do not
come cannot fully enjoy the fel
lowship together as the party is
planned to do.
MAGPIE BROWNIES NEWS
We have been very busy this
last month making gifts. We won’t
say what we made because they
are Christmas presents.
We had our Christmas party
last Thursday and we pinned
candles on a tree, blindfolded,
and played “twenty questions.”
Afterwards we had ice cream,
cookies, cupcakes and Kool-aid.
Margaret was sick so the girls
brought her some refreshments
and her presents. Everybody got
two presents.
We made a Christmas card.
—Carol Doyle, Scribe
Los Angeles Daily News
Suspends Publication;
450 Workers Jobless
LOS ANGELES, (iP—Approxi
mately 450 Los Angeles news
paper workers were looking lor
new jobs today after suspension of
publication by the Daily News, a
morning paper.
Operations at the Daily News
Building came to a halt Saturday
with the announcement by Pub
lisher Clinton D. McKinnon that
the paper, undergoing financial
difficulties, has sold its name,
goodwill, circulation lists and
features to the Times-Mirror Co.,
which publishes the morning
Times and afternoon Mirror.
The suspension of the Daily
News reduces the number oLmet
ropolitan papers in Los Angeles
from five to four. The Daily News
was the only Democratic news
paper in this field.
MMM HOSPITAL
Admitted: Freda Moto.
Discharged: Kathleen Murray,
Dan Tatoowi, Rebecca Nuglene,
Helga Engstrom, R. Pauwok, and
Ada Ward and infant.
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Justice Douglas and Wife
Honeymoon in Arizona
TUCSON, Ariz., I/Pi—Supreme
Court Justice William O Douglas
and his bride are honeymooning
in Arizona today.
Married in Tallulah, La., last
Tuesday, the couple arrived by
automobile Thursday.
The justice said he would re
turn to Washington next month
when the Supreme Court recon
venes.
Swedish Skipper
Goes Down With Ship
TOBERMORY, Scotland, (/PI—
Ivan Dahn, a 57-year-old Swedish
ship captain, went down with his
damaged freighter yesterday after
his crew of 20 took to lifeboats.
The crewmen all survived without
injuries.
The ship, the 1,337-ton His
pania, was enroute from Liver
pool to Sweden with a cargo of
steel when it hit a reel' half a mile
off Scotland’s west coast during
a storm. When the freighter was
backed off the reef, it took a 25
degree list to port.
The crew abandoned ship in
two lifeboats. They circled the
ship pleading for the captain to
ioin them, but he stuck to the
bridge.
“The skipper could have come
off with us, but perhaps he
thought he had more time,” said
the first officer Walter Einersson.
$28-a-Month Pay Raise
Averts Pilot’s Strike
SEATTLE, (/P>—Agreement Fri
day on a $28-a-month increase for
pilots of West Coast Airlines dis
pelled the possibility of a strike
today.
The new wage contract for the
62 fliers who operate in the Wash
ington, Oregon and Idaho area for
the air line brought their maxi
mum pay to SI,032 a month, said
to be comparable with pilots for
similar lines.
OHIO GRIDIRON CHAMPS
LEAVE FOR ROSE BOWL
COLUMBUS, Ohio, (/Pi — Ohio
State University’s national college
football champions took off in a
chartered airplane Saturday for
California and the Rose Bowl
game Jan. 1.
Coach Woody Hayes said he
will hurry his 44-man squad to a
practice as soon as their plane
lands at Burbank.
Anyone who kills a horned toad
in New Mexico, sells it or trans
ports it out of the state is sub
ject to a fine of $100 or a 60-day
jail sentence.
NOTICE TO
REAL AND PERSONAL
PROPERTY OWNERS
The lax rale on 1954 Real and
Personal properly assessments of
the Cily of Nome, has been set
at 1% (one per cent) by the Board
of Equalization. City properly
taxes are now collectible.
Carrie M. McLain,
Cily City Clerk
Pub. Dec. 20, 22, 24, 1954
Bring Your
Watch
to the
Nome Drug Store
for
Expert Repairs
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$44,000 Cash Stolen
From Post Office
Of Small Mining Town
BRITTANIA BEACH, B.C., UP)
—Theft of a payroll package con
taining $44,000 in cash was dis
covered Friday when the post
office opened at this littler copper
mining town of 1,500 on the Brit
ish Columbia coast.
It was one of Canada’s largest
post office robberies in recent
years.
Mounted police, who did not
report the theft until Saturday,
said the money was received at
the post office in a registered
package from the royal bank of
Canada Thursday, and was taken
either Thursday night or early
Friday morning.
The package apparently had
not been put in the safe where it
usually is kept. The safe was
locked and undamaged when the
money was found to be missing
yesterday.
“FAITH FOR OUR DAY”
llth Annual Worldwide
BIBLE READING
The Scripture selections which
follow emphasize this theme.
December
20 . I Corinthians 15
21 . Ephesians 6
22 . Philippians 4
23 . Hebrews 11
24 . Revelations 21
25 Christmas. Luke 2:1-20
Canada to Investigate
Hydroelectric Possibilities
Of U.S.-Canada Rivers
OTTAWA, UP*—'The Canadian
Resources Department will con
duct an investigation next sum
mer into the economic feasibility
of diverting flood water for hy
droelectric power from the Col
umbia River into the Fraser' River
system in British Columbia.
Resources Minister Jean Lesage,
announcing the investigation to
day, said it will complement stud
ies being made by the internation
al joint commission on the power
potentialities of the Columbia
River basin of Canada and the
United States.
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