THE NOME NUGGET
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TOUGH SHAPE FOR THE PENNANT RACE
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There is one extremely significant paragraph in
the President’s budget message to Congress. He said:
“This budget marks the beginning of a movement to
shift to state and local government and to private en
terprise, federal activities which can be more appro
priately and more efficiently carried on in that way.”
The philosophy underlying that statement is in
finitely more important even than the praiseworthy
cuts in federal spending the budget contemplates. For
only by turning our backs squarely on the super-state
idea, and by confining the federal government to the
constitutional functions which only it can undertake,
can we preserve either our liberties or our solvency
as a nation.
ARE PETTY OFFICERS PETTY ?
Representative D. R. Matthews, Democrat from
Gainesville, Florida, comes up with a suggestion which
we will support. He says the Navy ought not to call its
enlisted officers “petty” officers.
Matthews says he thinks the term “petty” was be
oueathed to Americans by the British. And, although
he says he is not an Anglophobe, he prefers to use an
other name in describing the Navy’s enlisted officers.
The main reason he objects to the word is the
dictionary’s definition of it. Petty is defined in the
dictionary as “small, trifling or inferior.” “I am sure
these names have no part in the magnificent work that
petty officers in our Navy perform,” says Matthews.
We have often wondered just why the Navy’s
enlisted officers are known as petty officers, and since
the word is not a particularly appropriate one for this
category of officers, we believe Matthews has come up
with something. His proposal to call petty officers “en
listed” officers is about as good as other suggestions,
and sooner or later, the Navy will probably discard
the word “petty.”
THE ALCOHOLIC STATES
(Fairbanks News-Miner)
The United States leads all other nations in its
rate of alcoholism, according to a recent Alcoholism
Research Foundation report. This is true despite the fact
that many other countries have a lower proportion of
teetotalers than the United States, where 30 per cent of
the men and 54 per cent of the women do not drink.
In the old speakeasy days, much was heard about !
the virtues of wine as a moderate drink. Wine is the!
favorite tipple of France, so the refrain ran, and who
ever saw a Frenchman in the gutter? Be that as it
may, the foundation says that France is second only'
to the United States in its rate of alcoholism.
Those rumors about the quantities of alcohol con-1
sumed in British pubs must have been exaggerated, too.!
Sweden, not England, is third on the list. Switzerland
is fourth, Denmark fifth. Canada, perhaps due to the
corrupting influence of her neighbor to the south, is
sixth.
But the United States is first and worst. It may or
may not be a coincidence that the United States is
the only one of these nations that has tried national
prohibition.
Most people are poor guessers — and those who
insist on guessing on horse races usually are poor
people.
Third Division Republicans
Meet At Palmer For
Divisional Convention
PALMER, Iff) — Third Division
Republicans who have had some
rough moments together during the
past few months, get together here
today for their two-day divisional
convention.
Civil Defense director Harold E.
Pomeroy is the convention keynote
speaker and many of the division’s
prominent Republicans are sched
uled to speak during the two days.
Elmer Rasmuson was scheduled
as the speaker at Friday’s lunch
eon with J. C. Morris the Friday
evening speaker. Both are of An
chorage.
Robert C. Reeve of Anchorage,
the congressional delegate nomi
nee of 1952, is the Saturday lunch
eon speaker. Territorial Rep. Bar
bara Dimock, Anchorage candidate
for the Republican nomination for
Delegate this year, will be the
featured Saturday night speaker.
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18.000 BLUEPRINTS NEEDED J
TO BUILD JET BOMBER
It takes 18,000 blueprints to !
build a single medium jet bomber.
In one plant, 40 copies of each
blueprint are required to' keep
production rolling — a total of
720.000 prints which must be kept
up - to - date and accurate at all
times.
The tremendous scope of- - this |
job is partially indicated by the
fact that, in a period of rapid
technological change such as that
at present, there are an average
of 200 changes per day on a single
set of prints.
Such up-to-the-minute changes
are essential, the manufacturer re
ports, to prevent costly modifica
tions when plane production is
further advanced.
Alaska-Juneau Co. To Seek
Authorization To Enter
Another Line of Business
SAN FRANCISCO, UP*—Alaska
Juneau Gold Mining Co., which
shut down its mine in 1944, has
called a stockholders meeting for
April 13 to seek authorization to
enter another business.
In a letter to stockholders presi
dent C. A. Norris said production
of wood pulp is under considera
tion and added there are other
possibilities “one of which may
require immediate action.”
Since it quit mining low-grade
ore eight years ago, the chief
source of income of the big Ju
neau, Alaska, mine has been from
sale of power. It has reported that
net losses averaged S280,000 an
nually over the past five years,
although it paid out more than 14
million in dividends in its 60 years
of existence.
Charles Bunnell and
Andrew Nerland Honored
By Fairbanks C. of C.
FAIRBANKS, Alaska, UP)—The
Fairbanks Chamber of Commerce
Wednesday honored Dr. Charles
Bunnell, former University of Al
aska president, and Andrew Ner
land, head of the Board of Regents,
as the “two grand men of higher
education in Alaska."
University President Ernest N.
Patty described the educators as
“two of the great Alaskans of his
tory” and paid tribute to Bunnell |
for the firm foundation and high
standards he created for the uni
versity during 30 years as presi
dent.
Elmer Rasmusson, regent from
Ahchorage, praised Nerland’s
many years of service as board
president, declaring he was the
legislative father of the university.
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Holy, Holy, Holy
"Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God Almighly, Who was, and is,
and is to come." R. V.
Revelations 4 : 8b Paid Adv.
Radar Landing
Device Slated For
Anchorage Airport
NEW YORK. (#1 — An aviation
company official says more than
two dozen cities in the United
States and Alaska will be equip
ped with a new radar setup to
allow airport landings and take
offs at a one-a-minute clip, even
in zero visibility.
Edward K. Foster, vice presi
dent of the Bendix Aviation Corp.,
said Wednesday the new radar
development technically is cap
able of “landing any aircraft
equipped for normal instrument
flight regardless of visibility.”
The equipment, Foster added,
“will practically eliminate land
ing delays due to fog.”
Cities slated to receive their first
precision approach radar include
Oakland, San Francisco, Portland,
Ore.; Seattle, Dallas, Houston, and
Anchorage, Alaska.
The fan rotor for a new air
craft wind - tunnel weighs 122Vfe
tons. The tunnel will generate
winds in excess of 900 miles per
hour for research in aircraft and
guided missile design.
Yum Yum — We've got them
again — Air-fresh cut-up Fryers
at the U. S. Merc.
NOTICE TO VOTERS
The Poll Book for the registra
tion of voters for the forth-coming
Municipal and School Board elec
tion shall close March 27, 1954.
Carrie M. McLain
City Clerk
Publ. Mar. 12, 19, 26, 1954.
NOTICE
Notice is hereby given of Ordi
nance No. 362 entitled,
"An ordinance of the City of
Nome, Alaska, creating a Utili
ties Board for the City of Nome,
prescribing the qualifications,
and providing for the election,
at the General Municipal Elec
tion of April 6, 195-1, of the
members of said board, and for
election of new members to the
said board at succeeding regular
municipal elections, prescribing
the powers and duties of such
board, and providing for the
operation of fh«» Nome Light
and Power Utilities."
Ordinance No. 362 is posted in
the City Hall, U.S. Post Office,
and U.S. Commissioner's Office
for your further reading.
NOTICE
Notice is hereby given that Or
dinance No. 363, eniitled,
"An ordinance of the City of
Nome, Alaska, vacaiing Third
Avenue between West 3 Street
and Division Street as a public
thoroughfare, and giving unto
said street a block a >d lot desig
nation,"
shall be submitted for ratification
to the qualified electors at the
forthcoming Nome School Board
and Municipal election to be held
April 6, 1954, in the City Hall.
The portion of Third Avenue to
be vacated for school use is locat
ed north of the school and the
school playgrounds.
Ordinance No. 363 is posted in
the City Hall, U.S. Post Office and
U. S. Commissioner's Office for
your further clarification.
CITY OF NOME
By Carrie M. McLain
City Clerk
Publ. Mar. 13, 20, 27, 1954.
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'Cry of the Orient’