2 THE NOME NUGGET Wednesday, December 31, 1952
THE NOME NUGGET
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Entered as second class matter October 14. 1943, at the
postoffice at Nome, Alaska, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
BORN WITH THE SILVER SPOON^
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HERE’S WISHING YOU A HAPPY NEW YEAR !
The Nome Nugget would like to take advantage
of the season to wish for the people of Nome and
residents of Second Division a New Year of greater
happiness and sucess.
This expression, we know, is issued carelessly
every year but often conveys a genuine sentiment
toward people in general. It is in our hearts to see
our people prosper in material as well as in cultural
growths. We hope to continue to give our readers an
unbiased picture of the world and territorial problems.
And if we tread on anyone’s toes while trying to
express the opinion of the majority of those within
our circulation, we do so without malice, as the voice
of the people.
And so we pass on our hearty greetings for the
New Year.
FOOD FOR THE MIND
(Christian Science Monitor)
The United States these days is loaded down with
advice from its friends as well as castigations from
its enemies. That is part of the price to be paid for
democratic world leadership—and when the advice
is good it is a light enough burden to bear.
An Indian industrialist and statesman, Minoo R.
Masani, recently advised the United States to pay
more attention to “food for the mind” in its foreign
aid. Unfortunately, even when it feeds the body, he
declared, it often starves the mind and soul, and he
added: “You have a feast to share and you only give
the scraps.”.
Among the qualities Americans might share with
the East, he suggested, were love of freedom, belief
in the dignity of labor, the spirit of adventure, gener
osity, and a “world-sized mind.” Then he said what
this newspaper has frequently asserted:
It is time we heard more about these aspects of your life
and less about the number of your automobiles and television
sets. The world needs your technicians, your engineers and
chemists, but it also needs your teachers, your labor leaders,
your social workers, your philosophers.
Such a moral and cultural outreaching is neither
imperialistic nor salesmanship. It is not even mission
ary activity in the old and sometimes invidous sense.
It is a sharing of the fruits of the mind by which the
giver is enriched as well as the recipient. It is a/recog
mzirag within one’s less privileged brother of the same
innate capacities discovered within oneself.
Kotzebue News
Enrollment in the Kotzebue
ANS Schools has reached the un
precedented total of 180, an in
crease of 29 over last year’s high.
A quonsef hut will soon be com
pleted which will alow it’s use
for a classroom.
At a recent meeting of the Arc
tic Circle Chamber of Commerce
action was taken on a suggestion
from Hugh Wade, area director of
the ANS, that he meet with the
Chamber members in Kotzebue to
discuss this problem. An invi
tation was issued not only to Mr.
Wade but to Edward Erickson,
territorial director of education,
for meeting in Kotzebue as soon
as it could be conveniently ar
ranged.
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Due to the recent outbreak of
diphtheria in Yukon River villag
es, Dr. E. S. Rabeau of the ANS
Hospital here, has been following
a program of “shots” which has
inoculated all school and pre
school children of Kotzebue.
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Father Tom Cunningham, who
was quite ill over Thanksgiving,
is now well and becoming ac
quainted throughout the village.
Jack Bullock, on a hurried bus
iness trip to Nome and Seattle, is
enroute home for the holidays.
Mr. and Mrs. Elwood Hunnicutt
are the parents of their 11th child,
a boy.
Burt Eaken has returned from
Elmendorf Field, where he was
employed as carpenter since the
middle of the summer.
June Rotman has arrived home
from Holy Names Academy, Seat
tle, to spend the holidays with
her father and mother, Mr. and
Mrs. Louis Rotman. She was ac
companied by her sister, Marjor
ie, who has been in Fairbanks for
the past several weeks.
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At the regular December meet
ing of the local chapter of the Al
aska Crippled Children’s Assn, it
was decided to sponsor a dance
and bingo game New Year’s Eve.
A double feature Disney show
will be given for the kids at the
Midnight Sun Theatre.
After the business meeting Dr.
Francis Coddington, of the Mt.
Edgecumbe Hospital, gave a lec
ture and showed slides on tuber
culosis that were informative and
interesting.
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The Salvation Army of Fair
banks forwarded a large box of
games and gifts for the children
of the local hospital, which were
gratefully received and will be
put to good use.
Donations from many individu
als, both in money and gifts, have
been received from other Alaskan
cities as well as from the States.
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The Arctic Circle Chamber of
Commerce unanimously voted for
a resolution to be presented at
the All-Alaska Chamber of Com
merce directors’ meeting to be
held in Juneau starting Jan. 12,
when legislative matters will be
reviewed. The resolution calls for
a raise in the present $5 school
tax to $15. It was felt the present
tax, orignally assessed many years
ago, could be tripled without in
creasing the expense of collection.
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Under the direction of Mar
jorie Raasch, plans afe being com
pleted for a night each week of
supervised games, under Chamber
sponsorship, for school children.
Deputy Marshal Jones is organ
izing a band and entertainment
Jury Report on U.N. Reds
Held Up Because of
Election, Official Testifies
WASHINGTON, [IF)—A Justice
Department official testified yes
terday that a federal grand jury
report on its search for Commu
nists in the United Nations was
held up last fall partly because of
fear “it would be used as a politi
cal football.”
The testimony, to a House sub
committee investigating the de
partment, was from Roy M. Cohn,
special assistant to Attorney Gen
eral McGranery. Cohn said his
own arguments for releasing the
report in October were over-rid
den at a high-level conference
presided over by McGranery.
The subcommittee is following
up reports that the State and Jus
tice Departments interfered with
the grand jury after its hunt for
U.S. citizens with Red leanings
who were in the hire of the U.N.
Cohn said he told his col
leagues: “We have a job to do; we
can’t be affected one way or an
other by the election.”
among the older juveniles of the
village.
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With lighted trees and Christ
mas decorations in every window,
Kotzebue is preparing for the
week of holidays when native
games and dancing will be held
nightly. In the past, reindeer ra
ces as well as dog races were held
during Christmas week, but this
is no longer possible with the
few deer which are now trained.
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Information has recently come
into the village that the Charlie
Clark herd out of Deering and
Ross Stalker’s herd out of Noatak
are showing increases over past
years, presumably the result of
better herding practices.
CA VOTA’S
THE FAMILY STORE
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