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The Nome nugget., 1952-11-17
NEW GREEK GOVERNMENT

ATHENS, Greece, P) The caretaker Greek government re- signed Monday and King Paul immediately appointed Marshal Alexander Papagos, overwhelm- ing victor in Sundays parliament tary elections, Prime Minister.
 Official figures from the Inter for Ministry gave war hero Mar shal Papagos'- right wing Greek Rally party 241 seats in the new 300-member parliament to only 59 for the Lefist-Center coalition headed by Gen. Nicholas P1atiras.
 The Communists, although they got 12 per cent of the popular vote, did not win a single parlia- mentary seat.
The Nome nugget., 1952-11-17
Proposed Air Services To Alaska Get CAB Airing

WASHINGTON, (P)-Proposals for new scheduled air service be- tween the United States and Alas ka get an airing today at a Civil Aeronautics Board pre- hearing conference.
 Purpose of the hearing is to set a date for the formal proceed ings and to outline it's scope.
 Eleven applications, involving nine carriers, are involved in the consolidated proceedings. Some of the proposals are largely techni- calities, such as Northwest Air lines request to designate it's present Seattle terminal as Seat tle-Tacoma.
 At least four carriers, however, proposed new scheduled service to the Territory. One of these, Air Transport Associates, Inc, has been beating on the Civil Aero nautics Board since 1949, and re- gently sought a court order to force the Board to give it hear ing.
The Nome nugget., 1952-11-17
Foremen Dispute Halts All Seattle
 Water Commerce

SEATTLE, (P) Creeping paralysis of Seattle's waterfront has spread to an eighth dock as a dispute over hiring of longshore foremen remained deadlocked.
 AFL .pickets appeared Sunday at the Luckenbach Steamship Company's Pier 46 for the first time, halting loading work on the freighter Marine Leopard.
 Maxie Weisbarth, port agent for the Sailors Union of the Pacific and spokesman for the AFL Mari time Trades. Department, said Saturday night:
 At the rate we're going, we may have all Puget Sound ship ping tied up."
 The dispute, now in it's fifth day, is the outgrowth of break with the AFL by nearly 100 long shore foremen who formed an in dependent union in Seattle.
 Weisbarth said the AFL would insist that all employers abide by contracts which call for hiring formen through AFL headquar- ters. Employers have said there are not enough foremen left in the AFL union to meet the needs.
 The picketing has halted all major water commerce with AL aska, but has not affected military vessels.
The Nome nugget., 1952-11-17
C-119 with 20 Men Aboard Missing On Flight From ElmendOrf to Kodiak

ANCHORAGE, tH1 n Rescue planes criss-crossed Alaska skies today in another search for a C-119 Flying Boxcar, missing with 20 men aboard.
 The huge transport, carrying crew of five, IA Army men and an Air Force enlisted medic, van ished Saturday on flight to Kodiak, 250 miles southwest of here The Air Force announced Sunday it was presumed to have crashed.
 It was the third C-119 lost in Air Force operations in 10 days.
 A sister ship from the 435th Troop Carrier Wing, Miami, Fla, sent to Alaska for weather training maneuvers, crashed on Mt. Silverthrone, 135 miles north of here, Nov. ' with a loss of 19 lives. Forty-four were aboard Boxcar which crashed in Korea a week later,
 Nine Air Force planes searched lofty mountains and open sea be- tween here and Kodiak Sunday for the missing transport, and dozens of other planes were on a standby basis.
The Nome nugget., 1952-11-17
Eisenhower Will Not Stop In Japan Enroute to Korea For Security Reasons

TOKYO, (P- President-ele Dwight Eisenhower will not stop in Japan enroute to Korea, an authoritative foreign office source told Kyodo News Service Monday.
 The informant said an informal note to that effect was received from Mikichi Araki, Japanese ambassador to the US.
 There has been speculation that Eisenhower would bypass Japan and fly directly to Korea from rome mid-Pacific air base. The primary reason is security, The Communists are much less apt to know of Eisenhower movements if he does not touch down in Japan.
The Nome nugget., 1952-11-17
AEC Refuses To Admit H-bomb Has Been Exploded
By ELTON c. FAY

WASHINGTON, (P) - T h e Atomic Energy Commission has officially disclosed that hydrogen bomb research" was included in a test of nuclear weapons at heav- fly guarded Eniwetok Atoll but stood pat today on it's refusal to admit such a bomb had been eX- ploded.
 The commission, after issuing its terse announcement last night, also spoke of possible prosecution for those who have written let ters home about seeing what they described as the worlds first H. bomb blast.
 Dr. Harold C. Urey, Nobel Prize winning scientist who was a key figure in the development of the atom bomb, said in Chicago he believed the AEC announcement meant the United States has suc- cussfully exploded it's first H. bomb.
 But what, reporters asked, about the swelling volume of let ters coming back from ship crew members and others attached to the joint AEC-military task force which conducted the 1852 pro- gram?
 The letters, widely published in the United States, described an explosion on Nov. 1 which, to them, seemed to transcend any previous man-made detonation.
 In a written answer to questions which had been accumulating on his desk, AEC chairman Gordon Dean said:
 ]. Information would be limited to that contained in the formal announcement because any am- plification might give aid to po- tential enemieS.''
 2. The commission is concern ed' over the letters, and
 3. investigations are under way leading to possible disciplin- afy action or prosecution for vio- lation of task force regulations or the law"
The Nome nugget., 1952-11-17
WIDOW OF SEN. PITTMAN DIES OF BRAIN HEMORRHAGE

WASHINGTON, P)-Mrs. Mi mosa Gates Pittman, 80, widow of Sen. Key Pittnan O-NeW died Friday in her home of brain hemorrhage.
 She had been ailing with a heart condition for the last year.
 For the 28 years her husband served in the Senate, she was his constant companion.
 Mrs. Pullman reportedly met the future senator in Alaska when he was a sourdough Klondike miner and she the raughter of a miner and she the daughter of a
The Nome nugget., 1952-11-17
REUNION

DEPUVILLE, NY, (P)-A pair of childhood sweethearts have married-after each had celebra- ted golden wedding anniversary with another mate.
 Albert Shaw, 72, and the for mer Mrs. Minnie Seymour, 71, grew up together in Plessis, Jeff ferson County. Each married and moved away. Shaw's first wife died last February and Mrs. Sey- mour's first husband died in 1851. i.
The Nome nugget., 1952-11-17
Reds and Girls
 Exploit 5000 US. Airmen at Oxford
By PHILIP CLARK

OXFORD, Eng, (P1 = British Reds and red-light ladies are cash ing in on one of the biggest booms to hit Oxford in centuries-8, ,OO0 American airmen.
 Scores Of prostitutes have troop ed into this ancient cultural city to grab easy money from free spending Tanks on leave from the three big US. air bases nearby.
 And few unpleasant incidents involving Americans and Britons have provided big headlines for the sensational press and fresh propaganda for the Communists "Yank Go Home" campaign.
 Both the Air Force and Oxford City authorities insist that the 5000 American airmen in this area have behaved as well as can be expected. They agree the real porblem is prostitution.
 A weekend visitor to Oxford finds American airmen by the hundreds crowding the city's main streets, cinemas, restaurants, bars and dance halls.
 So do the girls-many hardened prostitutes from out of town, others local girls out for a good time.
 Gangs Of young toughs, or "Spivs," many dressed in Ameri- can-style "zoot" suits, sometime roam the streets looking for trouble.
 To Oxford's small but active Communist cell, its open season for stirring up anti-American feel ing among local British inhabi- tants. Their "Yank Go Home" campaign is going full blast there.
 The Americans are not blamed directly for the fact that Oxford'S rate of illegitimate births last year was seven out of every 100 babies nearly double the national aver age. The rate has grown since 1850.
 City Alderman E. w. B. Gill, bursar of Oxford's Merton Col lege, told a reporter: ''It's no use saying-as some people do-that American servicemen are to blame. Half the trouble is these confounded girls"
 A woman welfare officer said: T think the girls are mostly to blame, and in some cases their mothers encourage them. The mothers can't forget that during the war many English girls got good American husbands"
 But she thinks part of the trouble is that "so many of these young American visitors are mo- thers' darlings. Americans spoil their boys, and when they are left on their own in a strange country, they take naturally to 'womaniz- ing"
The Nome nugget., 1952-11-17
Annual Pioneer
 Roof Garden To Be Held Dec. Is

of more than 40 years, Igloo No. 1 Pioneers of Alaska ushers in the winter social season with it's an- nual Roof Garden.
 To those who have been resi- dents of Nome since it's infancy and participated in it's recovery from floods and fire, trials and tribulationS, threats of invasion, etc., as well as having enjoyed the comforts, satisfaction and qualification that result from ear nest, successful endeavor, to over come the obstacles that confront those who choose to live a iron tier life, the Pioneer Roof Garden has been considered the one event of the year that always brought the cosmopolitan population of Nome together as one big family for an evening of delightful en- tertainment and display of gen. uine Alaskan hospitality. And to the more recent arrivals it has shown an example Of how the people of a community, isolated, so to speak from the outside world, can find real enjoyment in meeting new friends who vel come them with genuine friend ship so characteristic Of the peo- pie of Alaska.
 Pearse Walsh Heads Committee
 The Roof Garden committee in charge this year, headed by Pearse Walsh, is making an all- out effort to make this celebra- ton one of the biggest and best demonstrations of its kind ever witnessed in Alaska.
 The Roof Garden program is again being prepared and business houses are as usual taking liberal advertising space in this unique folder which finds it's way through many of the States, being mailed by members of the Pio- neers to friends who are inter- ested in Alaska in general, and Nome in particular.
 Evidence of the benefits accru- ing to Nome from the circulation of this booklet was brought home last summer when certain tourists produced copies which they show ed to Mayor Jones while he was conducting inspection tours of Nome and vicinity. ~
 Nome's Historic Background
 No other town in Alaska has the historic background; geo. graphical location; wealth of early days of adventure that at tracted the attention of writers like Rex Beach; explorers like Roald Amundsen, Nansen, Stefan son and others who from time to time made Nome headquarters for their work.
 It has been the policy of the Pioneer organization to foster and keep alive such early day tradi- tions through the medium of it's Annual Roof Garden celebrations which have been enjoyed and appreciated each succeeding year. This year of 1852 bids fair to eclipse any of the celebrations of the past. The program committee under experienced and capable leadership is already at work, de- tails of which will be published in c1y1 "<fe
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1952-12-25
Births

The following births were recorded
at Bluffton Community hospital dur
ing the past week: 4
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Lootens, Mt.
Cory, a boy, Charles Rene, born last
Wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Burwell, Nc
Comb, a boy, Stevan Paul, born last
Wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Richard Wilson, Je-
nera, a boy, Jerome Lee, born Satur-
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Everett Pearce, Find
lay, a boy, born Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs Robert d. King, Bluff
ton, a boy, Dean Wagner, born Sum
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Don w. Freed, Mt.
Cory, a boy, born Monday
Mr.. and Mrs. James Kirkendall,
Continental, q girl, born Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Richard Pope, Mt.
Cory, a boy, born Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Carroll Hughes, Mt
Blanchard, q boy, born Tuesday
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1952-12-25
Kenneth Bauman, Bluffton College Grad,
To Address Youth For Christ Rally Here

A gifted speaker with a real mes
sage for youth in these uncertain
times, Mr.. Bauman is expected to talk
before a full church. He is the son of
DR.. and Mrs. H. r. Bauman, recently
returned missionaries from India who
are now living in Bluffton.
The Rev. r. R. WEIGH, assistant
director of Youth for Christ will pre-
side at the rally in the absence of
Joseph Thompson, director.
A full program of music and song
will be furnished by local young
people home on vacation from their
studies at Bible Institutes, colleges
and seminaries. Most of these young
people are music majors in their
respective schools and they will pre-
sent a varied, inspirational program.
The public is cordially invited to at
tend.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1952-12-25
First Collection
Of Sewer Charge
Yields $1,5O6
Revenue To Retire Bonds
Issued For Construction
Of Disposal Plant

The first months collection of
Buttons new service charge
was computed by the municipal light
and water plant office this week at
$1,506.07, according to James Draper,
superintendent.
The sum collected from the COM
munity's residents proportionately to
the amount of water consumed, has
been turned over to the new Sanitary
Sewer Fund. 1t will accumulate to pay
off part of the bonds issued to finance
installation of the towns sewage dis
posal plant and interceptor sewers.
Not included in the initial collec-
ton are charges to be paid by the
Page Dairy Co. When contract nego-
t~iations are completed between the
village and the dairy company, it is
expected that these collections will
considerably bolster the revenue.
On the basis of the first collection,
the revenue from the monthly sewer
service charge will add up to ap-
proximately $4,000 per year. Actual
ly, however, the collections should be
greater than this since water con-
sumption and resulting sewer service
charges will accelerate as the weather
warns up.
Nh. Draper said that the Board of
Public Affairs wishes to impress the
fact that none of this revenue can he
diverted to any other use than for
construction and maintenance of
sewers. The light and water plant
office facilities are merely being used
as the most economical means of col
lection and the board has no jurisdic-
ton over the fund.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1952-12-25

Nearly so Button business
places will cooperate this year in
providing a huge array of gifts
for the first 1853 baby born at
the Community hospital, in a New
Years Day Baby Derby contest
for the town and surrounding
area.
Buttons 1853 Derby winner
and the lucky parents will receive
the gifts through the courtesy of
the participating merchants spon-
soring the project.
Reigning as King or Queen of
the Baby derby will be the first
infant born in the Bluffton hospi-
tai after the stroke of IL on New
Years Eve, providing the parents
live within q 10-mile radius of
town.
Last years Baby Derby winner
was an eight-pound, 13-ounce
baby boy, son of Rev. and Mrs.
Frank Harder, of Pandora. He
was born at $3.50 a. m. New Years
Day.
The 1851 Derby winner vas
Barbara Joyce Allen, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Jerome Allen, three
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1952-12-25

the customs of a strange land to
which they have come for education,
the holiday will not seem the same
this year so far as Naimeh Mukarkar
and Evelyn Suhweil are concerned.
In Bethlehem, the celebration of
Christmas centers at the Church of
the Nativity, which was built 1000
years ago by the Emperor Constan-
tine.
This church was erected right over
the grotto stable where Jesus was
born, and tourists flock to Bethlehem
from all parts of the world for Christ
mas worship at the actual location of
the Virgin Birth.
Manger In Grotto .
Two flights of steps lead down from
the floor of the church to the cave in
which the manger is located. Opposite
the manger in the grotto is an altar
dedicated to the Three Wise Men. In
the MOSAIC above the altar three words
are preserved "Gloria in Excelsis."
Inside the grotto it is dim, the only
light coming from So oil-burning
lamps. The floor and walls are cover
ed with slabs of fine white marble.
Another Christmas custom in the
Holy Land, which the two Bluffton
college students will miss this year,
is the usual pilgrimage at noon on
Christmas Day to the little church
built east of Bethlehem in the fields
where the shepherds received the first
notification of the birth of the Messiah
from angels singing in the heavens.
Two celebrations Of Christmas mark
observances in Bethlehem, Miss
Mukarkar and Miss Suhweil pointed
out this week.
Two Christmas Dates
Roman Catholics and Protestants
celebrate the birth of Our Lord on
December 25, the same as in this
country. Thirteen days later the Greek
and Syrian Orthodox churches, origin
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1952-12-25
Graduates From
Marine Corps OCS

Wearing his ~lieutenant's bars,
James Howe, son of Mayor and Mrs.
". A. Howe, returned home for the
holidays last Friday from Quantico,
Va, where he was recently graduated
with honors from the Marine Off
GERS Training School.
1t. Howe ranked second in his class
of 40 officer candidates who hailed
from colleges and universities from
all parts of the country. 1t. Howe
was graduated from Northwestern
last June. He was a letterman there
in football.
At the close of his leave, he will
report for duty on January 8.
1t. Howe Joined the Marine Corps
in October of this year.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1952-12-25
Orange Township Field Yields Record
Corn Production OF 1l1.2 Blu. Per Acre

trade name of 1877 Hybrids, hybrid
variety 456.
Representatives of the seed compa-
ny checked the field during the sum-
mer and their report shows a better
than 80 per cent stand. The project
was also visited by a number of local
farmers.
Another field consisting of 90 acres
which had been in corn the previous
year, was planted to hybrid 1923 and
produced $50 bushels for an average
yield of 91.66 bushels per acre.
Both fields were planted in the
sbme manner and 1927 pounds of fer
lizer per acre was used on both.
Under better rainfall conditions, MI.
Moore estimates he might have had q
return as high rs 100 bushels per
acre in the first Held.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1952-12-25

Kenneth Bauman, a Blutfton col
lege graduate, and president of
Young Peoples Union of the General
Conference Mennonite Churches of
America, will be the featured speaker
at the final 1852 Youth for Christ
rally in the Ebenezer Mennonite
church Tuesday, December 80, at 7:45
p. m.
MI. Bauman is well known in this
area having been active in Gospel
Team work during his four years at
Button college. He was also part
time pastor of the Evangelical Men
monte church during that time.
He attended New York Biblical
Seminary since leaving here, and is
now attending Mennonite Biblical
Seminary in Chicago as further prep
aration for foreign mission work.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1952-12-25
Christmas EUe
Programs Planned
In Local Churches

Special Christmas Eve programs
have been arranged in two of Bluff
toms churches with a morning wor-
ship service on Christmas Day in
another. In most of the local
churches special programs e pre-
sented last Sunday.
At the Evangelical and Reformed
Church the pageant, "Three Can
dies" will be presented in special
services Wednesday evening at 1880
o'clock. The story of the ''Three
Candles" will be presented by a large
cast in pantomime with three read
ers interpreting the action and var
ious enc Both junior and senior
choirs will participate in the presen-
tation.
The Sunday School children of the
Ebenezer Mennonite church will be
in charge of the Christmas Eve pro-
gram there at 7:45 o'clock. The
public is cordially invited.
On Christmas morning worship
services will be conducted at 9:30
a. m. in the First Mennonite church
with DR.. Paul r. Shelly, pi&fessor
of Bible at Bluffton college, d%liver-
ing the serSlon. He will be aafsted
by other M listers who are me nRers
of the cong egation.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1952-12-25
Crowded BlufftOn
Stores VictimiZed
By Shoplifters

At least two Button stores have
been victims of shoplifters during
the pre-Christmas rush of business
and others possibly are missing
smaller items of merchandise on dis
play, it appeared this week
Merchants discounted the POSSIBLE
ity that organized shoplifters have
worked" the town, although it is
believed that the known losses can
be attributed to strangers who have
drifted in to take advantage of
crowded conditions in the local
stores.
At the Greding Hardware store a
steam iron valued at SO disappear
ed under suspicious circumstances
that led the proprietors to believe
it was the work of a man and
woman team. Actions of the pair
one day last week attracted the at
tention of Raymond Greding, who
suspicioned that they might be on
the lookout for a shoplifting oppor-
tunity, but he was caught offguard
when other customers took him to
the real of the store.
Returning to the front of the long
store room as quickly as possible
after the man and women had left,
Mr.. Greding confirmed his suspicion.
The iron was missing and the dis
play had been cleverly r~earranged
so that the absence could not easily
be noticed.
At the Rexall Drug Store a $3.50
movie camera mysteriously disap-
peared recently from it's display case.
Armin Hauenstein, proprietor of the
store, said that it would have been
necessary for a person to have open
ed the case from behind the counter
in order to have reached the camera,
and was at loss to understand how
the act could be accomplished with
out the person having been seen.
A check-up with several other
store owners indicated that there has
been no abnormal loss this season
although several merchants reported
the usual incidents earlier in the
year.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1952-12-25
Electric Line Crew
Stretches New Wire

The line construction crew of the
municipal light and power plant be-
gan work Monday morning stringing
a new main power line to accommo-
date the increased load the plant is
being called upon to deliver particu-
larly on the west side of town.
The line will extend a distance of
about three and a half blocks from
Washington avenue at its intersec-
ton with the alley east of Main
street west to Spring street.
James Draper, superintendent OF
the light and water plant, said that
the action was taken to prevent over
loading the lines serving the north
western part of town.