THE NOME NUGGET
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THOSE NEW YEAR RESOLUTIONS
The trouble with New Year resolutions is that they
are usually made by people who too often fail to keep
them.
Acording to statistics, 50 percent of the resolu
tions made on January 1st will have been broken by
January 31st. By June 1st, not 10 percent of the reso
lutions will be intact, and this percentage will be
reduced to 6 percent by November. Think of it, only
6 out of every 100 makers of resolutions will cling
wholeheartedly to them for ten months.
In the making of resolutions there are two impor
tant angles that many people overlook. First, no specific
day is required for their making. Resolutions can be
made in July as well as in January. And secondly,
when a resolution is broken, there is no good reason
why it should be abandoned completely. A resolution
broken only once is far better than one twice broken.
For instance, you may have resolved to write a
weekly letter to a service man or woman. Two or three
weeks may have passed and as yet you haven’t written.
But that is no reason why you shouldn’t write. Letters
are great morale boosters; most servicemen would
rather receive a letter than sit down to a feast.
Letters are easily written, so if you failed to in
clude them in your resolutions, resolve now to write
each week to someone—and then stick everlastingly
to your resolution.
Jurist Accused
Of Prejudice
In Beck Trial
SEATTLE, —Arguments on
motions seeking new trials for
Dave Beck and his son were in
abeyance today for 12 days after
the defense played its trump card
—an affidavit accusing a jury
foreman of saying “they ought to
throw the book at Beck.” _
The foreman, who headed the
jury which convicted the Team
ster Union president of grand
larceny, denied making the state
ment.
The affidavit against the jury
foreman in the Beck Sr. trial was
sworn to toy Robert Paulson of
nearby Edmonds.
It accused the foreman, Charles
Hickling, a Bellevue hydroplane
driver and boat builder, of having
made the statement in October
about six weeks before the trial
while the two men were working
at the Boeing Airplane Co. plant.
Beck and his 37-year-old son,
Dave Jr., were convicted of grand
larceny within the past month in
separate jury trials. They were
accused of keeping a total of
$6,550 from the sale of three
union-owned Cadillacs.
Paulson, in the affidavit, said
h$ and Hickling had discussed
current events many times and on
or about Oct. 15 of this year, he
said Hickling said during a dis
cussion of the Teamsters Union
and Beck that “They ought to
throw the book at him (Beck).”
Hickling immediately issued a
statement denying the allegation.
Delivery of
Bomarc Missile
Started Today
SEATTLE, UP>—The Boeing Air
plane Co. will roll out Monday
its first B'bmarc pilotless inter
ceptor missile, built under an Air
Force production contract,, the
company announced.
Delivery of the missile will
start a supply rolling to Bomarc
bases scattered about the United
States. Four bases have been an
nounced for northeastern United
States and others are being plan- i
ned.
The supersonic ground-to-air:
missile has a range of 200 to 300
miles at speeds two and a half
times as fast as sound—approxi
mately 1,750 miles an hour at sea
level. Its purpose is to intercept
and destroy enemy aircraft or
missiles.
The Bomarc has undergone ex
tensive testing at Cape Canaveral,
Florida.
The contract with the Air Force
calls for $139,315,444 worth of
the missiles. A unit price was not
given.
Seven-Year-Old for a
Joyride in s Track
WASHINGTON, England, (JV
Motorists blinked as a small truck
weaved through the traffic here,
apparently without a driver.
They watched as the truck
scraped against the wall of a po
lice station and shuddered to a
halt. Then the driver got out.
The driver was Jim Brennan,
7 years old and four feet high.
He had driven the truck, which
belonged to his uncle, 1 Vi miles
along busy streets, around five
sharp comers, across a railroad
crossing and up and down three
steep hills.
He couldn’t see over the driving
wheel. He had great difficulty
reaching the pedals. And he had
no idea how to stop.
It all happened because Jim
went to his uncle’s house on an
errand and missed the bus home.
His uncle was out. He saw the
truck standing there and climbed
in.
Starting, accelerating and
changing gears wfre all easy. He
had watched his uncle do it. As
for stopping — well, he hoped
when he got home his uncle
would be there to show him'how.
A policeman was slightly sur
prised when Jim crashed the
truck into the station.
He took his name and address
and drove him home in a police
car. But couldn’t do anything
more about it because under
British law no one under 8 years
old can be prosecuted.
Jim’s father, however, was un
der no such restrictions.^ He
spanked young Brennan and can
celled a present of a new bicycle.
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