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2 THE NOME NUGGET Monday. December 28. 1953
THE NOME NUGGET
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“JUDGE NOT — THAT YE BE NOT JUDGED"
We can never say that “Christmas has come and
gone" . . . for in a very important sense, it is never
“gone." Each Christmas of our lives, no matter how
many, leaves at least some further tiny shred of Chris
tian understanding in our hearts. And if we could live
long enough even the most cantankerous and rebellious
of us might absorb the full significance of the Nativity.
But, with that most significant of all dates on the
calendar behind us, we would like to examine briefly
that sudden and mysterious drive to “put Christ back
in Christmas," and its corollary—to put Santa Claus
out of Christmas. We understand that various of the
clergy are behind this move. And we would like to
ask by what consecrated arrogance do they presume
to tell us that we have evicted Christ from our most
celebrated holiday—or that we must spell the day with
a “y" to sanctify it?
It is difficult to imagine that any man with the
mental capacity for spiritual guidance of others can
be so obtuse as to miss the point that Santa Claus pro
vides a joyous embodiment of Christ’s teachings that
youthful minds are capable of understanding. The fact
that some merchants — perhaps even a majority of
them—have over-commercialized this beloved symbol
of brotherly love, of the joy of giving and the warmth
and sanctity of family ties, is rather beside the point.
Even a preacher should admit that merchants are
people, and cherish in his heart the hope and belief
that they will see the error of their ways. But we
can conceive of no more shocking error in these times
than to banish Santa Claus. For this, if we have any
concept of Him, Christ would truly weep.
Nor can we think of any single accomplishment
better calculated to advance in America the cause of
Godless Communism.
Churches are hospitals for sinners — not clubs
for saints.
The government’s main troubles appear to be too
much overhead and too much underhand.
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Nowadays, Pop no sooner gets his daughter off
his hands than he has to get his son-in-law on his feet.
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Gang of Hoodlums
Beat Up Legless
Korean Veteran
LONG BEACH, Calif!, UP) — A
special squad of detectives has
been assigned to investigate the
brutal Christmas Day beating of
a legless Korean war veteran by
a pack of young hoodlums.
Charles J. Baker, 23, who not
only left his legs in Korea but
also the fingers of. both hands,
was set upon by five or six youths
as he was going home from a visit
to his uncle’s home early Friday
morning.
He told sheriff’s deputies that
while he was driving in his spe
cially equipped amputee’s car an
other automobile forced him to
the side of the road in the nearby
Artesia district. He said he was
dragged from his car by the
youths and after being beaten and
robbed of his new Christmas
wrist watch and $10.
“I told them I didn’t have any
fingers or legs and that I had
been . in the war but they were
all cursing and yelling and hitting
me with their fists,” Baker told a
reporter.
One of his artificial legs was
almost torn off by the attackers.
He was treated for numerous
bruises and abrasions at an emer
gency hospital after a friend hap
pened by and gave him aid.
Baker and his wife, Bernice,
have an eight-month-old baby
daughte-r. He was serving with an
Army unit in Korea on Nov. 26,
1951, when he was shot through
the chest and leg and lay in freez
ing weather for 36 hours. When he
was finally taken to an aid station
his legs and fingers were gone be
yond hope of saving. He is still
receiving treatment at a veterans’
hospital. ■
Sheriff Eugene W. Biscailuz has
assigned six detectives to try and
find Baker’s attackers.
Four Persons Rescued
After Marooned 6 Days
In Manitoba Wilds
WINNIPEG, (#1—After 6 days
in the snows of northeastern Man
itoba, four persons marooned in
a snowbound plane have been
rescued. At one point during the
ordeal the temperature fell to 18
below zero. The group huddled
around the plane, which was well
equipped with emergency rations,
heaters and sleeping bags.
The day after the plane was
forced down, a child was born to
a passenger, Mrs. Annanias Har
per, but the baby died Saturday.
TWO DAUGHTERS BORN
Mr. and Mrs. James Walsh of
PAA are the parents of a daugh
ter, Cecelia Erin, born Saturday
and weighing 7 pounds and 10
ounces.
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Mr. and Mrs. James Picnalbok
are the pare-nts of daughter,' Ar
lene Dianne, born yesterday- and
weighing 11 pounds.
Ann Walsh, teacher from Fair
banks, arrived home on Christmas
Day to spend the holiday with her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. M. J. Walsh,
and other members of the family.
Charles Ward and Stella Gallo,
both of Fairbanks, were married
Saturday by the U.S. Commission
er. Ward is employed by the Alas
ka Railroad and the bride is a
teacher in Fairbanks.
Statement of Real Property
Ownership forms as required by
the Alaskan Registration Law of
1953, are now available at the
Nome Nugget office.
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Things Were Really Crazy In 1933
By CHARLES MERCER
AP News Feature Writer
That old year, 1953, saw many
people doing unusual things —
screwball, ingenious, happy
things.
A suburb of Montreal was
troubled for a while by a Peep
ing Tom who rode to his peeping
places on horseback, planted a
ladder, and climbed aloft for his
observations. Was he crazy?
Well, in Oklahoma, a county
court had been depending on a
psychiatrist for years for advice
in sanity cases. But . last March a
jury found him mentally incom
petent.
Still, men kept trying to stick
sanely to the jobs. In Ohio a
gasoline delivery truck driver de
livered $1,700 worth of fuel to a
station—then discovered he had
stuck the hose nozzle in a sewage
drain by mistake.
In Missouri an eager workman
sawed and sawed at what he
thought was a tree root—until he
cut through a cable and killed
service on 1,000 telephones.
Some men tried to blame jtheir
troubles on women as the battle
of the sexes surged ahead. Police
in Ashland, Ohio* broke open a
car trunk when they heard cries
for help. Out crawled a woman
who said she had hidden, there to
check up on her husband. .
In Perth Amboy, N.J., a 67
year-old fellow was standing on a
corner when a- 'beautiful woman J
stopped and asked1 directions.
Suddenly she began hugging and
kissing him. “I was so excited
and she was so nice,” he sighed
later — until he discovered his
wallet and $450 were missing.
Various couples were divorced
for various reasons, including: a
husband who would buy only
ham, a husband who insisted on
giving his wife weekly intelli
gence tests, a husband who tied
his wife in the cellar and poured
water over her to ‘'cool her off.”
Then there was the* wife" who
insisted on taking her first hus
band along whenever her second
husband took her out'for dinner.
The second husband won a di
vorce, complaining he always got
stuck with the check.
i was a great year for the
u- .in spirit—of all ages. A
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man in Leonia, N.J., who was
warned of a weak lung in 1861,
celebrated his 104th birthday. In
Laingsburg Mich., a man warned
of a weak heart 50 years ago
celebrated his 100th birthday.
A 110-year-old Confederate vet
eran took his first airplane ride.
In England a 95-year-old man was
forbidden to ride his motorcycle
after police caught him speeding
with a bottle of whisky in his
pocket.
In the general mood of exhilar
ation people picked up things
that didn’t belong to them. A fel
low in Wichita, Kan., wired his
air conditioner to a line supplying
power to a doctor’s x-ray machine
next door. As a result, the doc lor
misread an x-ray and treated a
patient for ulcers when the guy
merely had gas on the stomach.
In Akron,, Ohio, an. 8-year-old
girl stole an adding machine from
a store window 'while in Seattle
a man with $5,506.53 in his pock
ets stole a pair of socks. And the
most frequently stolen library
book in Tulsa, Okla., was the
Bible.
The random impulse was the
cause of so many things. Like
the man in Chicago who fell 11
stories and had the presence of
mind to say when he got to his
feet, uninjured, “I must have for
gotten my parachute.” Or like the
Mobile, Ala., barber who, plagued
by ulcers and a nagging wife, had
police lock him for the week-end.
Names, as usual, made news.
The- University of Oklahoma en
rolled a freshman named Never
Fail. A fellow in Frederick, Md.,
changed his name from Outhouse
to Dean. In Caldwell, Idaho, a
marriage license was taken out
by a chap named Fiddler — his
first, last and only name, just
plain Fiddler. In Caldwell too a
new conservation officer showed
up. His name: Les Trout.
Nixon's Father No Longer Critical
PHOENIX, Ariz., UP)—Frank A.
Nixon, father of the Vice Presi
dent, no longer is listed as crit
ically ill at St. Joseph’s hospital
here. He is recovering from a
gastric hemorrhage. -
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