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The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1955-12-23
NOME STUDENTS ARRIVE
FOR HOLIDAY AT HOME

Among the students arriving
home for Christmas holidays are
Kathy Jackson, from Santa Bar
bara, Calf; Mary Jeanne Boucher
from Portlnd, Ore; June Dunbar
and Loretta Snyder from Seattle,
and Robert Summers from Fair
banks.
Gordon Swanberg, USN, tried
to surprise his family by arriv-
ing home from San Diego fo1
the Christmas holiday.
Mary 10 Swanberg is expected
home for Christmas from Fair
banks.
Aileen Tweet arrived enroute to
Teller and her brother, Glenn, is
expected today or tomorrow.
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1955-12-23
A WOMAN's PREROGATIVE

LITTLE ROCK, Ark, Up 49,
Christmas tree statesmen got a
yuletide demonstration this week
of a woman's right to change her
mind.
A woman brought back tree
she had bought. She wanted to
exchange it, she said, because it
somehow didn't seem to fit into
her living room.
The salesman told her to take
her choice, and she started tour
of the trees. While she was look
ing, the tree she had returned was
replaced among those on display
Circling through the forest Of
Christmas trees, she finally picked
out one she liked-the same one
she had brought back for ex-
change.
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1955-12-23

Tonight at 300 pm. in the school gym, the Nome
School will present outstanding Christmas Program,
designed especially for your enjoyment. The program
will consist Of the following
Oh, Come All We Faithful -.------,--- Brass Group
The Twelve Days of Christmas Chorus Grades & 5
Jingle Bells Rhapsody Band
Play-Christmas Broadcast at
Squashvile School ----- Students from all grades
Christmas Reverence Band
Angels We Have Heard on Hgh -~--- Band and Chorus
Whence Comes This Rush of Wings . Band and Chorus
Silent Night Band
These the names of the children in the cast of
tonights play "Christmas Broadcast at Squashville
School,.
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1955-12-23
Mildred Hermann
To Hold Hearing
Here On Dec. %

Mildred Hermann, delegate at
large to the Constitutional Con-
vention, arrived yesterday to
spend the Christmas holiday with
her son, Russell Hermann, and
family
Mrs. Hermann reports that
there has not been vote on any
section of the constitution pend
ing hearings in all parts of the
territory during the holiday re-
cess. She will conduct hearing
here on Dec. % with the coopera-
ton of the Chamber of Commerce
in place to be selected by
President Fred Langsam.
She said that it is important
that not only adults but high
school students be selected to at
tend the meeting as it is the con-
Stitution which will govern them.
Mrs. Hermann declared that the
group working on the constitution
are a harmonious delegation with
a common cauSe-a good consti-
tuition, and that with the ages of
the delegates ranging from % to
80 it is an interesting congregation
of AlaSkanS.
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1955-12-23
Former Nome Doctors
Car Strikes and Kills
Willie Mitchell of Candle

SEATTLE, Up 80 A pedestrian
struck and killed by an auto
mobile as he crossed the Seattle
Tacoma Highway Wednesday
evening was identified through
fingerprints Thursday as Willie E.
Mitchell, rs, an Eskimo from
Candle, Alaska.
State Patrolman George Loss
said Mitchell was hit by a car
driven by DR.. Floyd J. O'Hara
So, of Vancouver, Wash.
Loss said O'Hara reported he
saw Mitchell and applied his
brakes. He said the car was near
ly past Mitchell when it suddenly
skidded and the rear of the ma
chine hit Mitchell.
Ed. Note: DR.. O'Hara was for
merly in Nome, practicing at the
old Maynard Columbus Hospital
in the late 192O's and early 1905.
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1955-12-23
CAB Proposes so Percent
Reduction In Mail
Subsidy For Pan Am

WASHINGTON, tR- The Civil
Aeronautics Board proposed today
a reduction of about go per cent
in the mail subsidy of Pan Ameri-
can World Anyways.
Under the Boards plan for put
ting the company's entire system
on a permanent mail rate basis,
Pan American would receive a
subsidy of about $9,850,OOO an
nually, beginning Jan. /. This
compares with $22,231, 900 in 1854
and $28,163,0O0 for 1858.
The subsidy is in addition to
service mail pay" This is what
airlines receive for actually trans
porting mail. The Board estimated
Pan Americans service mail pay
at about IA million dollars year
ly under the proposed permanent
rate system. This would give the
company a total of about $23, AL
900 annually in service mail pay
and subsidy.
The Board proposed, however, to
cut Pan Americans total compen-
sation in 1855 to SIC, 100000. This
was done by deducting S7,319,O00
from total compensation figure.
The Board said Pan American had
gains of the amount Of the reduc-
ton from sale Of flight equipment
and securities.
The Board said recent improve
ment in traffic had reduced the
subsidy requirement Of the Pan
American SYSTEM and that Of other
us. air carriers to a new low.
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1955-12-23
Says Administration Will
Balance Budget Only
For The 1856 Elections

WASHINGTON, Up - Senator
Sparkman D-Ala said today the
Eisenhower administration wants
a balanced budget just before the
1856 elections, but doesn't care"
how much red ink spending there
is the following year.
He referred in an interview to
administration proposals for a bill
lion dollar boost in military out
lays, a 200 million dollar increase
in foreign aid spending, and in
creased funds for health, schools
and roads.
He said he sees no way those
administration goals can be ac-
complished without mourning a
deficit in the fiscal year ending
June 80, 1857, and added:
Cali of these proposals the adj
ministration has been making re-
Gently will not affect the budget
for the current year lending June
3d. They want to balance the
budget then for political purposes
and they don't care how much
they spend after that"
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1955-12-23
Volunteers Fill Xmas
Stockings For Children's
Santa Party Saturday

Last evening volunteer work
ers filled hundreds of Christmas
stockings for the Community
Christmas Tree Santa Claus party
to be held in the school auditor
ium Saturday morning from 10
am. until l pm. The party is
for pre-school children and school
children through the fourth grade.
Mrs. Mary Andersen, chairman
of the committee, said that the
good cheer baskets to needy fam
lilies will be delivered today and
that all students in school will
receive a surprise in their class
rooms at school this afternoon.
The Community Christmas Tree
program will start this evening at
8 o'clock at the Nome School au-
ditorium. The tree was contrib
uted by Wien Airlines and after
the program it will be moved to
Front Street by the Volunteer
Firemen.
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1955-12-23
Floods Devastate
Oregon, Nevada,
And California

SAN FRANCISCO, RADevas-
tating floods spread south Of San
Francisco to Santa Cruz and east
to Reno, New, today, bringing the
known death toll to nine in north
ern California and three in Ore
gon.
Santa Cruz, a resort. city Of
$4,000, reported three dead, Il
missing and 800 to 400 as victims
of exposure.
The rain-laden Truckee River
swelled over its banks in Reno,
cutting the city in two and start
ing rampage of damage in the
downtown section.
Gale-driven rains continued to
beat the coast from Oregon south
ward, feeding gorged rivers that
already have smashed five vii
lagos into rubble.
San Francisco police today re-
ceived direct message from po-
lice Of Santa Cruz, rs miles south
of San Francisco, listing the cas-
ualty toll and saying:
Santa Cruz in dire need Of
help. 800 400 exposure victims
need blankets and help"
Water began seeping through
sandbag barbados at the River
side Hotel in Reno, heading into
the casino, bar and lobby.
Thousands of workers who live
on the south side Of the river
were cut off from their jobs as
all traffic across Reno's eight
bridge was shut down.
In Oregon, colder temperatures
stopped the melting snow in the
mountains. Only moderate rain
fell this morning. The South imp
qua River dropped nine feet at
Roseburg overnight.
Five villages stricken in the
northwest corner Of California lay
empty Their residents had fled
from waters rising from a record
week of storms.
The communities were: Pepper
wood, Elinor, Weott, klamath and
klamath Glen, all on the raging
Eel and klamath rivers which
pour into the Pacific high on Cali
fOrpio'c north oOoct
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1955-12-23
Cardinal Spellman Takes
Ride In Jet I'm Japan

TOKYO, R- Francis Cardinal
Spellman of New York, took a
short hop in a US. Air Force T33
jet trainer today.
Spellman, in the Far East on
his fifth consecutive Christmas
tour Of U. S. military installa-
tons, flew over the area while
visiting nearby Yokota Air Base.
At Yokota, the Cardinal visited
and talked with US. airmen, cele-
brated a noon mass.
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1955-12-23

Jimmie Mays plays the part of
Miss Grimes; Douglas Lee is Al
ONO; Rosemary Barber, Alice; Ju-
Illus Pleasant, Robert MacDoodle,
Johnny Payenna, Charles; Pamela
Mulvihill, Clara Topbottom; Rich
ard Young, Sam, William Nuipok,
Franklin Pinfeather; Carol. Doyle,
Mirandy Gooseberry; errill
Swim, Dottie; Mary Ann Hoy1e,
Susie; Myron Mecklenburg, Fred
die; Lois Okitkon, Lottie Andrews;
For an evening Of frie
guest Of the school and atte:
They will be expecting you
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1955-12-23
Paratrooper Spends Four Agonizing
DAYS In Snow-Covered Cascade Mts.
By ELMER G. VOGEL

EASTON, Wash, R-Sgt. John
Horan's feet were blistered and
swollen He was. weary and cold
beyond belief or endurance. But
there was the road, and an inn-
and two men.
"They looked up and knew
everything was going to be all
right"
And that was the way the Is
year-old paratrooper from May
nard, Mass, described the last
moments of the longest four days
he ever spent-four days in snow
clad Cascade Mountain foothills
into which he plunged on a para
chute from temporarily disabled
plane.
h The story he told Of his fight
for survival was an epic combin-
alton of pluck, luck and training
Plus determination to see again
his japanese wife, Teruko, and
their three small children who
landed in Seattle Tuesday from
Japan.
1t was Sunday afternoon about
1870 pm. when he jumped from
an Air Force C-54 on the pilots
orders. The plane had gone into
a flat spin at 10000 feet. Koran
bailed out at 10000 and the plane
righted itself before others aboard
had to jump.
After he landed he began nix
ing, sinking to his hips in snow
eight feet deep. All night he
floundered through the drifts I'M
til he spotted cabin in the
woods, at point about four
miles south of where he landed.
Inside the cabin he found some
matches and started a fire. He
found some cocoa, the only food
in the place, and melted snow to
make himself a drink. Warmed
and strengthened, he thought of
getting out of the woods-encour-
aged by the distant roar Of trucks
winding through the steep Sno-
qualmie Pass road.
He started out on rude snow
shoes made of shingles and. got
only 500 feet before his feet and
snoWshoeS gave out. Back to the
cabin and nights sleep.
Tuesday his luck was no better,
the distance travelled no greater
before his tortured feet gave up
and he went back to the cabin.
The third day he knew there
could be no turning back ALI
afternoon and night he floundered
along. Toward midday yesterday
the truck noises began getting
closer and louder.
"Then, he said, 81 knew I was
going to make it. The rain got
worse and I got colder, but my
hopes were rising"
Around a bend and there were
men he had heard talking, and the
inn, and by chance a doctor who
had stopped to fix broken tire
chain. The inn was three and a
half miles from the cabin in the
woods.
After emergency treatment for
frostbite, a rest and some food,
the sergeant talked by phone with
his happy wife.
Later an ambulance took him to
the Army's Madigan General Hos
pital at Ft. Lewis, 40 miles south
west of Seattle.
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1955-12-23

All children in Nome from 1 to
IL years old are invited TO be the
guests of the personnel of Nome
Field at Theater Party on SAT-
urdaY at 1:l5 Pm
Transportation will be provided
by bus at the Alaska Cab stand.
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1955-12-23

Pepper Gray, Albert Dinglepaugh;
Don Pierce, Scrooge; Charles Bur
nett, Bob Cratchit; Ruth Otton,
Mrs. Cratchit; Grant Doyle, Fred,
Scrooge's nephew; Ann Chambers,
Fred's wife; Alan August, Tiny
Tim; Betty Ann Hoogendorn, Pol
ly Green; Esther Tobuk, Mary
Scott; Edna johnson, Sally Pud
d1efoot; Bobbie Cannon, 1st ghost;
Robert Oksoktaruk, End ghost;
Billy Muller, 3rd ghost.
ndly yuletide spirit, be the
I'd their Christmas Program.
, 1955-03-25
IL. MORAVIAN CHURCH
MIDLANDS
R V SERVICES
Sunday, March 9th at
II AN. and 2 PM.
Guest Preacher.
Nh. Arthur Joseph

G So.
Mas is in New York early in
April and it is anticipated that
a special advertising am
paign will be instituted to
take full advantage of this
publicity opportunity.
WEST -.
van Dalen.
The Puerto Rican delega-
ton consists of: Hon. Mariana
yillaronga, Hon. Ramon Co
Evening star., 1955-01-10

&
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H., o. is. Formerly $7s.s5 9.sS
. t2l Ncert Steai Befhfubs, HssmeRy House Yellow,
e.. % is. Formerly $76.os------------- s.ss
IA Oil ToHks homert aueisy. AIS saIIea capacity.
a. 10. Formerly $3.50 24.S8
"a Oil Fusneee, Homer quality, compact medsi,
is Formerly $l29.50 1888
ca Leundry Tub, exclusive HomoSs, white enemel
finish, es 10. Formerly $44.5o--------- 2s.es
"a homerf Steel sashiub. sIeamins white finish.
uedern styling. % is. Formerly $6S.Ss- 9.ss
tIl Sink. heevy-sause steel, 2lxz0 Inch sxe
Hcmat queliiy, s Formerly $iS.9S--- 3.e6
Cil Homert Steel Sink. hermoay heuss YelIew, IS
inch size, es Is. Formerly $S2.9S ----4--- 9.Ss
a. HcmaH Steel Sinks, bokad-on white smaMse
fiMish 66 inch sixe, o. is. Formerly $47.s5=-ilss
"a homsrt Steel Sinks, sn,al kitchen 81 inch sire,
white tiash, 60 TO- Formerly $3s.9S S-------l2.9S
90 Homorf Steel Sink, Hermeny House Yellew,
32x20 inch sire, o. 10. Formerly $2S.S5-----5.es
Ele<tric Dishweshev-sink. ksnmose aueIisy 20 inch
size. Formerly $279.95 l99.ee
. "a, 1854 Hemert Windew Fans. easy % insssI. 20
inch size, a. q. Formerly SS4.So-------- 3S.ss
tsl 1854 easement Window fens, HemaN euslity.
% d. Formerly $G1.95. ---------~----- :. %.66
t6l 1854 Homan Window Fens for - room
home. o. 10. Formerly $47.9S--------@-- 1888
ul homert Attic FaM, with shulssr, 1854 mode
30 inch size, es q. Wss $ii4.9S-------- y9.sS
til hema Oh Fuvnees, exclusive lectures, 1000
bm eutput. % is Was $iis.9S S---------- 4s.Se
Evening star., 1955-01-10
1-Mon Chain Saw
. Regularly $l9e.95 RI ~AN
. Demonstrators ...
Only 5. Easy Terms

sow s79S5. Dovd BrodIey. 10 times foster cutting.
New Chain Saws. req. $685. $l5s.ss
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-11-10
COaIe Studies
Effective Use
Of Elevators

Montgomery County's new
Facilities and Services Officer,
Vaughn b. Coale, began study
Tuesday 10 determine the most
effective use of the two elevators
In the County Office Building.
Mr. Coale says only one of the
elevators is used most of the
time During peak hours both
lifts are used. Each Westing.
house elevator can accommodate
a maximum Of 20 persons.
Reason for only one elevator
being used, says Mr.. Coale, is that
one lift Is automatically con.
trolled, the other must be oper.
ated manually. IF | put an
operator in the manual lift and
let the other run itself, the auto.
matte elevator answers all the
calls. It's faster!"
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-11-10

$4,000 by merchant contribution
Mr.. Leisner reported Tuesday
that the 5000 he raised came
from about 60 merchants, with
approximately 100 in the area yet
to be solicited. Besides locally.
owned firms, central offices of
chain stores with Wheaton
branches will be asked to con.
tribute TO the decoration fund.
The display will consist of
metal foil ropes hung across the
streets, huge candy canes, lighted
Santa Claus faces, 24.inch glitter
snOWflakes, and models of rein.
deer.
They will be put up on Old
Bladensburg Road from Fern
Street to Viers Mill Road; south
on Viers Mill Road to Georgia
Avenue; north on Georgia Ave.
nue. to Blucridgc Avenue; on En-.
nails Avenue, and on Viers Mill
Road TO Grandview Avenue.
Going up the day after Thanks.
giving November 25 the dis.
plays will remain in place until
January D. The Chamber was
told that Wheaton service sta.
ton employees have volunteered
TO take care Of turning the lights
on at 5 each evening, and turning
them off at II.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-11-10
Police Need
In Rockville
Still Studied

The problem of whether Rock
ville's police protection is ade-
quate for a city with 1900 pop
ulation is still under scrutiny by
the Mayor and Council. City Man
ager John MARYLAND reported at
Tuesdays meeting that minimum
standards call for one policeman
for every 1000 population.
An estimate of Rockville's pol
ice manpower gives the city a
total of 10 and one-half men on
duty per day, according to Mr.
MARYLAND. This includes one and
q half motor policemen, two pa
troll cars with two men each and
three clerks at the Rockville sub
Station of the Montgomery Coun-
ty Police Department plus two
city traffic policemen.
The national average is 1.8 per
1000 population said Mr.. Mark
land and for the State it is 196
per 1000. Frederick, for example,
with a population of $4,000 has
80 men.
Mr.. Marklands figures indicate
that the Montgomery County
Police Department is also below
both State and national stand
ards. Rockville residents pay 14h
cents on the tax dollar to the
County for police protection or
total of $4,000 annually. Coun-
Gil members felt that the whole
problem would have to be studied
from the County level and refer
red it back to staff for more in
formation.
The Mayor and Council re.
ceived the audit report for the
fiscal year '54'55 from their &C.
countant, Eugene c. Meyer. The
city has shown Improvement in
CONTINUED on Page g.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-11-10
Chamber Says Yes
Chamber Says Yes
Wheaton viii Dress Tn
For Christmas, After All

After Vic Leisner presented the
Wheaton Chamber of Commerce
with 5000 in cash and pledges
raised in a single-handed, per.
sonal canvass of Wheaton mer.
chants, the Chamber voted Tues.
day to go ahead with plans for
Wheaton's first full.scale Christ.
mas street decoration.
The Chamber unanimously
voted to sign a contract with the
HargroVe Display Co. to put up
decorations costing $4,000. The
action came at its regular lunch.
con meeting.
This climaXed an on.again, off.
again fight on the decorations,
which came TO head at the DC.
tober u meeting. At that time,
Mr. Leisner, president of the
Chamber, pleaded with his fellow.
members TO give back TO the
people of Wheaton, in the form of
Christmas decorations, some Of
the good they have done for us, !"
and offered to personally raise
half Of the required $4,000 by
this week. meeting.
The decoration plan was passed
several months ago, but was re.
scinded at an October meeting,
when several members argued
that II was impossible to raise
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-11-10
Burglar Eludes
Capture, Leaves
Crimes UnsOlved

Detective Captain G.. w. Linthi-
cum says had the housebreaker
who successfully eluded police
Tuesday morning been captured,
he would have cleared up" many
of the recent home robberies.
The man was discovered in a
house at 1904 ASHORE Place, Sill
yer Spring, by owner Col. David
Liston. Col. Liston gave chase
and police Joined the search but
the housebreaker escaped.
Capt. Linthicum says colored
maid, Flossie Grimes, arrested
last week, probably accounts for
many of the County's house
breakings. There were 80 success.
full and attempted housebreakings
in Montgomery County last
month.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-11-10
Accidents Set
Second Worst
Record Ever

October was next to the worst
month in history for Montgom
cry County motor vehicle acct
dents. The 277 wrecks were
topped only by the 292 in Decem.
Der of last year.
While accidents are going up
arrests for traffic violations are
going down. In October 1854
1850 arrests were made for both
standing and moving violations
This October, 2,155 arrests were
made.
Last months two fatal acci.
dents flour people were killed.
brings the highway death toll for
the year to Is. Last October
only one person was killed in an
accident and the ten-month total
was II.
In the 60 accidents involving
injuries, 81 persons were hurt.
Total injury accidents for the
first ten months of the year is
COB. Last years total through
October was 479.
Accidents involving pedestrians
have jumped 40 percent over last
wear NinetV.one walkers in.
Guiding 68 under Is years of age.
have been in accidents. Pedes.
trian accidents for the first ten
months of 1854 totaled &c.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-11-10
PubHcWLL
Get School
Cash Data

Montgomery County PTAs and
other interested organizations will
now have available to them for
the first time complete and up
to-the-minute information on
school finances, it was learned
at Tuesdays all-day School Board
meeting.
Brian Benson, director of fl
nance, presented the board with
financial report on the operat-
ing budget as of October 81, and
a complete summary of capital
appropriations, funds available by
source and their ALLEGATION, as
well as a school construction re-
port giving the progress of every
project in the budget from 1850
to November l of this year.
Mr.. Benson gave the credit for
this record-breaking report to the
hard work of the members in his
department and a revised IBM
system. He said that the per-
sonnet division would for the first
time know exactly where they
stand and where they are going
in terms of the budget within the
space of a week.
The operating budget lists for
all divisions the number of posi-
tons filled against the number
budgeted; the amounts budgeted,
encountered and the unexpended
balance. Board member Helen
Scharf pointed out that this was
the kind of information that a
number of county organizations
had been seeking and arranged to
have it made available to them.
She also asked for time at a later
meeting to discuss each conStruc-
ton project.
The board also agreed to set
aside time at Mondays meeting
to hear statements from the Ma
tional Association for the Ad-
vancement of Colored People, the