THE NOME NUGGET
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THE EARTH S EVENTUAL AXIS
THE 12th. 13th, AND 14th OF FEBRUARY
The anniversary of Lincoln birthday, Feb. 12, is
being observed today because it fell on Sunday. And
tomorrow is Feb.' 13, St. Valentine’s Day.
Abraham Lincoln saved* the Union which Wash
ington had started on its way. Lincoln did not desire a
war between the states, but when he saw, in 1861,
that the use of force might be the only way the Union
could be saved, he ably maneuvered to unite the
country and he succeeded in getting hi^ opponents to
fire the first shot at the flag of the United States. This
was a major strategic stroke, as was his Emancipation
Proclamation, freeing the Negroes of the South (but
not in the North).
Contrary to. popular belief, freeing the Negroes
was not the purpose of Lincoln, nor the Republican
party, in 1860, at least, in a one-stroke move. However,
when Lincoln announced the emancipation of the
slaves, he won worldwide support for his cause.
Most of the states of the Union now observe Lin
coln’s birthday as a legal holiday, and he is generally
rated with Washington, among American patriots.
Another interesting sidelight on these three days,
is that according to ancient British beliefs, the state
of the weather on the 12th, 13th and 14th of February
forecast the kind of weather which would follow the
rest of the year. The determination of the forecast
was simple.
If these three days were stormy, then the weather
for that year would be generally fair. If however, these
three days were fair, the weather would be generally
stormy.
Weather forecasting' has progressed quite a bit
since those days, although the results of the forecast
are about the same. The methods, however, are more
complicated, even if the accuracy is not.
If there were more self starters, the boss would
not have to be a crank.
Ambition is nothing more than a tickling around
the wishbone.
Remember, these trying times will be the “good
old days” in just a few years.
ELDERLY COUPLE
TAKE FIRST TRIP TO
FLORIDA BY PLANE
BOSTON, —Mr. and Mrs.
Frank Edwards, who remember
when it was stylish to travel bv
stagecoach, took their first air
plane trip yesterday. He is 99 and
she is 90.
The Edwards flew from Logan
Airport to St. Augustine, Fla., for
a two-month vacation.
The Newton couple has been
going south for the winter for the
past 20 years. The Edwards drove
to Florida each year until 1948,
when they switched to trains.
They made the switch to planes
yesterday.
In the 1890s the Edwards trav
eled through the West by stage
coach to obtain wool for bis busi
ness in Boston.
Hearing on Case Incident
Ends But New General
Probe Shaping Up
WASHINGTON, John M.
Neff, lawyer for an oil company,
testified today he had made no
contributions in recent months to
any senator’s “personal campaign
funds” other than the $2,500 that
Sen. Francis Case spurned.
On this testimony, the special
Senate committee created to in
quire into the Case incident closed
its public hearings.
However, a new, broad inquiry
into all “means and methods em
ployed by interests outside the
Senate who pressed for the pass
age or defeat of the natural gas"
bill apparently was shaping up.
To clear the way for it, Sen.
Hennings resigned from the Sen
ate elections subcommittee of
which he has been chairman. He
said he felt that the subcommittee
could not undertake the inquiry
while he remained on it since he
is a candidate for re-election.
MEASLES EPIDEMIC
ON FRENCH ISLANDS
GRAND BANK, Nfld., UP—A
Newfoundland fishing skipper has
brought word of a measles epi
demic sweeping the offshore
French islands of St. Pierre and
Miquelon.
Capt. Jacob Thornhill 01 the
dragger Columbia c timated that
between 1,000 and 1,500 children
and adults had been stricken but
said no deaths had been reporte .
The French colony off New
foundland’s south coast has a pop
ulation of about 4,700.
Thornhill said the epidemic had
closed the schools and forced the
shutdown of the fresh fish plant
at St. Pierre, the barren island’s
chief source of winter income.
BOSTON. 'T Mrs. Eva Sylvia
won an annulment of her mar
riage in Suffolk Probate Court
Friday. She told the judge her
husband walked out on her 35
years ago to go back to his first
wife.
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Bright Meteor
Seen at Points
In Southwest
LOS ANGELES, 14”!—A bluish
white meteor with a brilliant or
ange" tail flashed across the Cali
fornia sky and was seen from
points more than 600 miles apart
early yesterday.
Observers as far north as Santa
Clara, 400 miles from here, and
south to El Centro, 175 miles to
the southeast, and east to Win
slow, Ariz., reported sighting the
phenomenon shortly after 1 a.m.
Witnesses reported seeing it for
10 to 30 seconds.
A sentry at Camp Irwin, the
Army’s huge armored equipment
maneuvering bas£ on the Mojave
Desert, said blazing objects ap
peared to fall nearby. Another
soldier on the same reservation
said he saw the same apparent
breakup of the meteorite.
Two witnesses in the towns of
Barstow and Daggett, near the
camp, said they heard deep boom
ing sounds after the flash.
A TWA pilot, Capt. Robert C.
Downing of Malibu, Calif., flying
over Winslow, said the meteorite
“looked like it was coming right
under us. It made us duck and
pull up the airplane a little."
WIFE SMASHED EYEGLASSES
LOS ANGELES (£>—Frank Ric
cobono has won a divorce after
testifying he couldn’t see eye to
eye with his wife, Patricia, 32,
because she frequently broke his
glasses.
“Each time she became angry
she would snatch my eye glasses
and smash them,’’ Riccobono, 34,
a tailor said Friday. “She knew 1
couldn’t get along without them.”
Riccobono was granted the di
vorce on cruelty grounds.
Marine Corps at Kodiak
Gets Three Recruits, Two
From Second Division
KODIAK, Alaska—Ray Nelson,
19, son of Mr. and Mrs. William
Nelson of Nome; Robert Apok Jr.,
21, son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert
Apok of White Mountain; and
Frank Y. Devlin, 19, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Joseph Devlin of Wasil
la were enlisted in the Marine
Corps at Kodiak on Jan. 24.
The three youths registered for
enlistment with Master Sergeant
Leonard L. Gaston, USMC, Ma
rine Corps Recruiter for Alaska,
at Anchorage.
Nelson graduated from Nome
High School and Devlin graduat
ed from Wasilla High School prior
to their enlistment. Apok graduat
ed from Edgecumbe High School,
Mt. Edgecumbe, Alaska.
The three new Leathernecks
were flown to the Marine Corps
Recruit Depot at San Diego, Calif.,
Jan. 31 for recruit indoctrination.
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Arthritis Target
Women appear to be prime targets for the great crippler, arthritis.
Statistics show that for every man. three women fall prey to this disease.
Rheumatoid arthritis is the malady’s formal name. Along with allied
conditions, in one way or another, the disease has afflicted more than 10
million people in the U.S. and completely crippled some 200,000 others.
The secretary, housewife and «
voung mother are most suscepti
ble. Arthritis is insidious. Its
symptoms at first are usually mild.
Gradually they worsen, until one
day you wake with an arm or leg
that is completely useless.
What causes arthritis? Scien
• ists have not yet found an answer.
Nor have they yet found a com
plete cure.
They do have available a num
ber of chemicals to control the
symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis
in many patients. These drugs, ad
min. tered by the physician, can
I'ft 1 ;e hopelessly crippled ar
thritic victim out of the wheel
cegir and back into normal life.
Among the medicines which
h proven effective in some pa
i.-■ t. are aspii ”, gold compounds.
! and the much-heralded hormones,
j cortisone and hydrocortisone.
However, these drugs are not
I fully effective and the hormones,
I in particular, sometimes create un
j pleasant side effects in some pa
j tients and thus force their aban
I donment.
Recently, a new synthetic hor
j mone called Sterane has been
! placed in the hands of physicians.
! Sterane appears to be far more
j potent than cortisone or hydrocor
tisone and offers promise of reduc
ing the side effects noted with the
other hormones.
With advancing research and
rehabilitation, many arthritic pa
tients will be given a new lease on
life.