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The Nome nugget., 1949-12-23

Merry Christmas. It's easy to say it; and it's easy to mean it when we say it to you, our readers.
 We, your Catholic neighbors, feel that we owe you much for the reception you have given our little messages in the columns of this paper week after week-for the en- couraging words of goodwill and interest which we have received by letter and word of mouth.
 We feel sure that you now un- derstand more about your Catholic neighbors and how they worship than you did before the commence ment of our labor of love. We be- lieve that you consider us people sincere in a faith, which, although not your own, has behind it good- ness. authority, and reason which command, at least, respect. We are convinced that by now you ap- preciate the singleness of purpose in our work of providing this in-
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great number of those who want may be given work to earn an Lo7-st living and may receive necessary and opportune aid from those who are in better circum- stances"
 On peace, one of his constant thoughts, the Pope said:
 May peace, the object of our ardent yearnings, return at long last to the hearts of all, the fam lilies, to individual countries and 10 the community of nations"
 To all who come to Rome, con- fess their sins, receive commun- ion, visit the four Holy Year basil icas and recite in them the pre- scribed prayers, the Pope has promised a plenary indulgence. According to Catholic teaching this is full remission of the tenn poral punishment due to sin, which otherwise must be expiated before the soul may enter heaven.
 This special indulgence may be gained as many times as the pre- scribed conditions are met and may also be applied to the souls of the faithful departed who may be expiating in the fires of purga- tory, according to Catholic teach ing, the temporal punishment for their sins.
 In the Crusade of Goodness" |" whose leader, Father Lombardi, already has spoken to hundreds of thousands in Belgium, France, Austria, Canada and the United States, Romans are preparing themselves spiritually for Holy Year.
 The crusade is being broadcast from the Church of Saint Mary Major 10 the l20 parishes of Rome. "A great public procession through Rome. bore a portrait of the Ma. donna before which Pope Plus celebrated his first mass SO years aso-April l2. 1898.
 The portrait was carried from Saint Mary Major to St. Peters where the Pope will again cele- brate thanksgiving mass before it. Later it was carried back to Saint Mary Major. On Christmas Eve the Pontiff will lift an ivory handled silver hammer, strike the Holy Door at Saint Peters saying: Open unto me the gates of jus tice." The door, open only in Holy Years, is bricked up between ju- bilees.
 Previously loosened, the door will then be swung open. After a brief ceremony and prayers, the Pope-holding a lighted candle will enter the basilica, first of the
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enperors.

emperors.
 Dante, poet of heaven and hell, came from Florence for the first recorded Holy Year in 1900.
 The poet Francis Petrarch la mented the state of the church during the 1850 Holy Year. Lu- crezia Borgia, of poison fame, then wife of Don Alfonso of AragOn, gave much attention to her reli- gious practices during the eighth Jubilee in 1900.
 The tenth Jubilee in 1850 found Saint Ingatius LoYola. founder of the Society of Jesus. helping the poor who came for the Holy Year. Michaelangelo. than an old man. participated.
 Queen Catherine of Sweden gave up Lutheranism and return ed to Rome for the l4th Jubilee just 300 years ago-in 1650-and died here.
 Pilgrims of the past frequently mad to run a gauntlet of bandits.
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lP) NeWSfeatuTeS By F-auI- Brutto)

h--E - GILL AJ4 A14Oj
 VATICAN CITY - Called by Pope Plus XII the year of the great return and the great par don toe 1850 Jubilee will bring to Rome the most tremendous pilgrimage. Ii will be the 18th of which there is a definite record.
 Rich middle class and poor pill grims will come from the six con- tinents of the world. Many, for the first time in Holy Year history, will come by air: more by sea mad a good many, initiating their an- cient predecessors, will come on foot.
 For these last the Pope, remind ing pilgrims they should not come in the spirit of pleasure seeking" tourists. had a special word in his bull of May 26, proclaiming the Holy Year.
 Estimates of the number that will come to Rome 10 gain the spiritual benefits Holy Year offers range as high as 6.000.000. More than 100000 have already regis tered.
 I'll will be given an opportunity to see the Pope in vast public au- diences and to receive his bless ing.
 Romans. especially under the direction of the Crusade of Good ness" conducted by the noted Jes- uit orator, Father Riccardo Lom- bardi, are preparing for Holy Year. which begins Christmas eve. That day the holy door at Saint Peters Basilica and simultaneous 1y holy doors at three other Roman Basilicas - Saint Mary Major, Saint John Lateran and Saint Paul Outside to Walls--will be opened.
 
 The broad outlines of the Holy Years purpose and aims are men, toned in the Pope's bull, announc- ig it. To-day, as never before," he said, there is a most urgent need that all things be refashioned in the truth and power of the gos- pei"
 The Pope-a. he has several times in the past-gave a special attention to the Holy Land.
 Everywhere" he decla "but especially in the holy places of Palestine, may be tranquility of order founded on just settlement be restored as soon as possible"
 The Pope's announcement ex- pressed hope that "the various so- cial classes. with hatred banished and differeces settled. may be united in justice and fraternal agreement. and that finally the
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A merry Christmas to you and yours!

formation, thereby gaining mutual tolerance and understanding; and we think you have likely witesses with us the good that this has ac- complished among religionists of many types in this locality.
 So in thanking you for your kindly reception of our articles. we wish to offer to you and to yours our most cordial wishes for a mighty merry Christmas, to- gether with the prayer that you will receive in abundance the blessings and graces which the Christ Child brought out fo Hea- ven for you and for us 1900 years ago.
 Peace on earth" is our prayer. now and always-"peace on earth to men of good will"
 Sponsored by
 SAINT JOSEPH'S CHURCH
 PAID ADVERTISEMENT
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1
 War, chaos left by war, threat of war, plague and disorder were background, and sometimes fore ground, for nearly all "A past Ju- bilees of the Catholic Church.
 But is the past, as for the 1850 Holy Year declared by Pope Plus XII, the hope for peace and the uplifting of mems hearts to Spir- itual life were primary motives for calling jubilees.
 Countless thousands came. de- spite the hardships of long jour neys. perils of war and the threats of bandits. From France in the Middle Ages many devout Chris tians made 50-daY barefoot walk ing pilgrimages.
 For the first Catholic Jubilee of which there is definite record that declared by Pope Boniface VII in 1300-pilgrims came to Rome in such great numbers that ] they filled the streets like an army that grows day by day" Many, came on foot, the very old borne on the shoulders of the young. They came singing hymns. 1 When the second Jubilee was called in 1850 by Pope Clement 1 VI the papacy was established at 1 Avignon. Clement never came to ! Rome, where anarchy and disor- der were then rampant and there was plague-the plague described by Boccaccio in his Decameron. The earthquake of 1349 had wrought havoc in France and Ger many. In Rome the roof of the 1 Lateran basilica fell and the .Ba- silica of Saint Paul was damaged. ! Ludwig the Bavarian descended I upon Rome and put it to fire and sword. The winter was unusually bitter. But even so more pilgrims came than in 1900
 The fourth Jubilee was an nounced by Pope Boniface TX for ] l400. Trouble continued 10 tear Rome, which was divided by the anti-papal schism. The plague killed 700 to 800 daily and bitter ness rose against the Pope but large numbers made the perilous pilgrimage.
 Pestilence that had been spread ing in Italy entered Rome during the sixth Holy Year, set by Nicholas V in l45C. Hospitals, churches and houses were full of the dead and dying. Paolo dello Mastro, writer of that day, reported that people "fell dead in the streets like dogs" But pilgrims, nonetheless, contin- ued to came to Rome.
 Opening of the seventh Jubilee - that of Sixtus " in 1475 - found comparatively good times | in Italy.
 1nfamy was widespread and in high places when Alexander VI, who was Rodrigo Borgia, member of the then powerful family, de- clared the eighth Holy Year for 1900. It was this year that the ceremony of the holy door was es- tablished.
 The ninth Holy Year - called by Clement VII in 1925 - found the Catholic church in the midst of a bitter fight with Martin Lu-
Smyrna times., 1949-04-21

younger women whose tumors have
spread to bone. Prolonged effective
antagonism Of both male and fe-
male sex hormones is logically de-
sirable in the treatment of cancer
of the prostate and breast, and for
this reason vitamin-hormone rela-
tionships assume considerable i'm
portance.
Other research by DR.. Perry
Hudson and DR.. w. w. S. Butler,
III, under the American Cancer So
ciety grant to DIR. Scott, has in
cluded analysis of the basic consti-
tuents of the prostate gland in an
imals and man and their relation
to the glands metabolism done in
an effort. to learn how cancer diff
fers from benign and normal
tissue.
Support research Give to the
American Cancer Society.
Smyrna times., 1949-04-21
Cancer Clue Found i'm Sway Link of
Vitamins, HOrmOnes, Prostate Growth

subtle that diagnosis is usually
made late.
DIR. Hugh Jewett, in reviewing
1000 cases of prostate cancer seen
at the Johns Hopkins Hospital
prior to 1943, found only ten per
cent operable; and of these only
one-half survived the operations
five years or more. On the basis
of this report, one would expect
only five patients in 100 to survive
five years.
One of the big needs for prosta-
tic cancer is a simple diagnostic
test which will reveal the condition
in its early and operable stage. The
engine acid phosphatase appears
abundantly in the blood of 65 per
cent of prostate cancer patients
and could serve as blood test ex-
cept that it does not register until
the cases are hopelessly advanced.
Since 1910 DIR. Scott and his
former chief at the University of
Chicago, DIR. Charles Higgins, have
been highly successful in affording
temporary relief to prostatic can
Ger cases by means of castration
and administration of female sex
hormones. Why this relief is only
temporary is not clear, but may be
related to the production of male
hormones by endocrine glands 9TH
er than the tests.
It has been known that male and
female hormones have had pro-
found but undependable results in
relieving some breast cancers; gen.
orally, female hormones are effec-
tive in post-menopausal cases and
male hormones afford relief to
Smyrna times., 1949-04-21
in animals.

in animals.
1t appears from this and previ-
GUS experiments that folio acid, one
of the vitamin B complex, is
necessary for estrogen female sex
hormone) effects on prostate
growth. The anti-vitamin, amin
opterin, presumably counteracts
foic acid, eliminating this neces-
sary portion of the estrogen mech
anism. This work represents but a
portion of attempts to counteract
the action of sex hormones by the
administration of certain vitamins
and their antagonists.
DR.. Scott will not predict what
effect the vitamin = hormone tie
may have in prostate cancer or
benign enlargement of the gland.
Conservative estimates place the
incidence of cancer of the prostate
at ten per cent in men over so
years of age. Symptoms are so
Smyrna times., 1949-04-21
SPEAKS AT ROA MEETING
1t. Howard w. Thompson Address
ed Sussex Chapter

ktOn We AAOthPoCAA AAAAANSo-
ed Sussex Chapter
The monthly meeting of the
Sussex Chapter of the ROA met
at its usual meeting place, the Old
Bell Inn, in Georgetown, Thursday,
April 7th at pm. Due to urgent
legislative matters Rep. Warren
Allen of Seaford was unable to full
fill his engagement as speaker of
the evening. 1t. Howard w.
Thompson ,USNR, was called upon
by the president, Maj. Francis
Richardson, and gave a very en-
Tightening report on 1.-THE Threat
of Communism to America" The
speaker, a Georgetown attorney,
has recently returned from two
weeks tour of active duty. Capt.
Tom Bennett of the us. Air Force
Reserve discussed plans for a
membership drive and urged each
member to bring a member. The
next meeting will be held at the
same place May 5th. Any reserve
officer of any branch of the armed
forces is invited and urged to at
tend.
Smyrna times., 1949-04-21
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
Church School Had Record Attend
ance Last Sunday

Church School Had Record Attend
ance Last Sunday
The First Presbyterian Church,
the Rev. Walter G. Hards, Pastor,
for Sunday and the coming week:
Church School, 10 am. Subject to
be discussed by Adult Bible Class:
1.-TWO Fools: A Study in Values"
Sunday morning worship service at
IL am. Sermon; THE Reality of
Worship" The Church School is
growing present this past Sun
day-a record attendance. On this
past Easter Sunday the following
new members were welcomed into
the Church: Mrs. Homer Short,
Mrs. Elwood Massey, Mrs. Ollie
Loose, Mr.. Allan Robinson, Mr.. Eu-
gene McBrine, Mr.. and Mrs. Carl
ton Blendt, and Mr.. and Mrs. Carl
Wright. Easter flowers were placed
in the Church by Mrs. c. E. Row
land in memory of her son, Ivison
ID. Rowland, the Denney family in
memory of R. III. Denney and Mr..
and Mrs. Carl Wright in memory
of Mr.. Wright's parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. George Wright and Mrs.
Wright's father, Mr.. Roy T. Kreid-
er. The Board of Trustees have
Monday, April 25th at 7:30 pm.
All Church members are urgently
requested to attend as special bus
mess is to be discussed. The Board
of Trustees at their meeting
Wednesday evening elected the
following officers for the coming
year: President, Elmer p. Corrie;
Vice President, George c. Roth
well; Secretary, Harper c. Jones;
Treasurer, Harry ]. Lower; Asst
Treasurer, Frederick Slaughter.
The Missionary Society has had to
postpone their meeting until May
End due to the corporation meet
ing. There will be a Presbyterial
meeting in the Dover Presbyterian
Church on April 26th, starting at
1920 am. All ladies of the Church
are invited to attend. Senior
Choir rehearsal, Mrs. Vernon
Westfall, director, will be held on
Wednesday evening at 8 o'clock.
Smyrna times., 1949-04-21

A relationship among sex hor-
mones, vitamins and prostate
growth has been established in re-
cent research at the Johns Hop
kins Hospital.
DR.. w. w. Scott, working under
an American Cancer Society re-
search grant, disclosed that one of
Smyrna times., 1949-04-21

his associates,
DR.. H e RIB rt
Brendler, h a s
found that the
substance amin
opterin nullifes
the depressant
effect of female
sex hormones on
prostate growth
Kodiak mirror., 1949-09-24
NOTICE

To Whom It May Concern: Will the person who now has the 16 gauge Winchester pump shot- gun with Olychoke that was fo . merly in the possession of Jack Wagner please contact Jake Foley at the American Legion Club or call 3O52
 The gun was NOT owned by Wagner l gave it to him for cleaning and while it was in his Bassession it disappeared. I will Ray any money that may be due OR the gun.
 Jake Foley.
Kodiak mirror., 1949-09-24

Bay containing 76.10 acres, and it is now in the files of the Dist rict Land Office, Anchorage, Alaska.
 If no protest is filed in the District Land Office within the period of publication or thirty days thereafter, said final proof will be accepted and final cert ifcate issued.
 George A. Lingo,
 Manager. Date First Publication S-27.49 Date Last Publication 10.29-49
Kodiak mirror., 1949-09-24
NOTICE
United States


 Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management
 District Land Office
 Anchorage, Alaska.
 July 19. 1949
 Notice is hereby given that Harry A. Howe, entryman, of Route 2, Box 54, Clatskanie, Oregon, together with his wit. nesses, Robert VonScheele and Eunice VonScheele Neseth. both of Kodiak. Alaska. has snbmitt- ed final proof on his homestead entry, Anchorage Serial No 08l38, for land embraced in U. s, Survey No. 2565, situated on Kupreanof Strait, North end of Kodiak Island at Foot of Kup. reanot Mt, approximately 3 miles westerly from Dry Spruce
Kodiak mirror., 1949-09-24
Fined $50

Found guilty of reckless driv- ing in town on Sept. IS, Ray mond Martin of the roads and runways department of the base was fined $50 and had his license suspended for 50 days in the city magistrates court Tuesday.
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1949-09-13

auctioneer catches the bid. echo
ing it aloud.
Other Methods
Another wiggles his ears. This,
too, is a bid and is instantly ac-
cepted Still another wiggles his
eyebrows.
All the while, sharp-eyed
clerk hovers alertly, noting who
the current bidder is, getting his
name in the unlikely event that
he is a stranger When the lot is
knocked down to the top bidder,
the clerk notes the fact. And the
sale is made.
This is no small-town business,
either.
Esbjerg is to Scandinavian fish
what Chicago is to American
wheat. Some 1000 fishermen in
500 boats last year caught nearly
100000 pounds of fish.
Fish caught elsewhere and ex-
ported through Esbjerg raised the
years export total to s0,000,000
pounds.
This may not seem large when
compared with Boston's catch last
year of 2oo. 0OO, 900 pounds
But it is quite business for a
town of $4,000 persons.
Much progress has been made
in the 1000 years and more than
these people have been making
their living from the sea. The
seine of Biblical days is still in
use, but it is a vastly larger and
stronger seine.
There are freezing factories,
where fish are preserved so as to
keep almost indefinitely for ex-
port. There are great cold-storage
plants where fish are filleted and
packed.
The building of trawlers. is it.
self a business that keeps many
busy. Nor are the boats parts of
fleets owned by great companies.
Almost all the boats are owned
either by the skipper or by a
small partnership the members of
which are the crew.
Seamanship is still handed
down from father to son. But the
government maintains a school of
navigation for some 20 students
each year. as well An examina-
ton at the school is now required
OF anyone before he can command
a boat.
Loans Provided
The government helps in other
ways, too.
Loans are granted at low in
terest through associations of
fishermen for buying boats and
gear Of all kinds. There are even
endowments for research in fish
ng,
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1949-09-13
The Northern Lights have pr

The Northern Lights have pro-
Ei5ed the idea for an electronic
valve. designed BY Hannes Alfven.
professor OF electronics at the
Stockholm Institute Of Technol-
ogv. and his assistants The de-
sign IS based on a type Of cleo
tronic movement not previously
utilized. The invention Is ex-
pected to prove useful in the mo-
dern mathematical computing ma
c'1ines-the so-called mechanical
brains-and for automatic tele-
phone exchanges.
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1949-09-13
OUT
University
WAY
Hey Girls! This
IceIander Thinks
You're Too '!cy''


some. 22-year-old Icelander with
blond hair. He came here from
Reykiayik. Iceland. last March to
study at the School of Fisheries at
the University of Washington. He
mas also studied what he calls our
icebergs-U. $. womanhood.
Palmi heard OF the school from
friend while in Iceland Now that
he's here he plans to remain at the
university for four or five years.
Then he's going to return home
and show his stuff.
Palmi I h link America is all
right. but he believes Americans
are quite conservative. particular
y in their morals, He has noticed
that freshman college students can
be pretty radical in their views.
but my heavens they know nothing
about politics. so they're really
quite conservative, The Ameri-
cans conventional morals is ex-
pressed in the relationship be-
tween boys and girls. he says.
adding that it takes a long time
to be on easy terms with an Amer
lean girl. In Iceland. he remarks.
il is easier to get acquainted with
the weaker sex.
Preserve Culture
Palrli has known Americans for
several years. There were plenty
OF L. S. soldiers in Iceland during
the war and they got long fine
with the inhabitants. Now a crew
OF men employed by American Air
lines have moved in. Unfortun-
ately, some OF them are dealing in
the black market. AS a whole, he
says. Icelanders prefer to remain
b. themselves and preserve their
Old culture. one OF the finest if not
the finest in the world today.
Libraries in Every Home
During the past 20 years. the
1e=landers. 10000 strong. have
eadeavored to clean up" their
language. discard Danish and for
eign words and phrases. They are
breaking away from Danish influ-
ences, having established a repub-
liz in 1914 The Icelanders take
great pride in their writer's and
artists. who often make a profit
able living on their works. Hall
dor Jilkan Laxness Is perhaps the
most popular writer The Ice
lsaders read very much and there
are well-stocked libraries in every
home
As for politics. the Icelanders
ara giving most OF their support
10 the Conservatives. who are real
y like liberals elsewhere in the
world. They control 20 TO 50 seats
in the Alung. congress. Other
parties in order Of their popularity
are Social Democrats. Farmers
Party and the Communists.
Watching a demonstration Of
Scandinavian dancing the other
DAY. Palul remarked, I had 10
come over here to learn folk dane
ing"
Even in Iceland. the young peo-
PIE mostly dance modern dances.
Don't work off too much sweat
or those icebergs. Palmi. Stick
around. they'll melt before you
know il