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| EDNA CHRISTOFFERSON FIX ;
IFOR REPRESENTATIVE
ON THE DEMOCRATIC TICKET ;
PRIMARY ELECTION, TUESDAY APRIL 30, 1940 |
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VOTE FOR
RICHARD E. LEE
As Your Candidate For
THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
ON THE DEMOCRATIC TICKET
At The Primary Election
To Be Held APRIL 30TH In Your Community
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“Confidence In Alaska’s Future”
ELIZABETH M. CROSS
! DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE
! FOR REPRESENTATIVE
25 Years’ Business Experience Second Division
Primary Election April 30, 1940
FRANK WHALEY
Candidate for Representative Democratic Ticket
Alaska Legislature
Primary Election April 30, 1940.
Permanent resident 2nd Division past seven years;
engaged in and vitally interested in commercial aviation
and mining.
Having visited practically every airport (improvis
ed and otherwise) in this Division, and being familar with
the needs of the mining industry, I feel warranted in stating
thak I am qualified to represent this section of Alaska
if chosen.
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l wanted to pay for every rein
£ deer acquired from non-native
I* owners. Prices paid ranged from
l $3.00 to $8.00 per head.
£ “Many facts were brought to
jj light by this intensive census
\ taking of the reindeer popula
j. tion. On one are& the fawn crop
i of 1939 was less than 2%. Wolv
• es working on the untended herd
•f drove the mothers from the fawn
ing grounds with the result that
the fawns were abandoned and
starved. Well tended herds show
ed fawn crops up to 74% of adult
females.
“Many herds have materially
decreased in the past two years.
A number have been totally des
troyed by wolves, human kill and
starvation. The winter of 1938-39
was exceptionally hard on rein
deer herds. Heavy icing condi
tions on the ranges during the
spring of 1939 caused the death
by starvation of thousands of
reindeer. On many ranges wolves
have killed a large number of
reindeer and harried the herds
extensively, leaving the remain
so that spring losses were heavy.
Close herding of the reindeer
^ ing deer in a weakened condition
would have prevented much of
this loss.
“The Kivalina herd has decreas
ed from 42,000 counted through
the, corrals in 1932 to less than
5.000 today. The Kotzebue herd
has become totally extinct. It
once numbered over 17,000. The
Buckland herd has fallen from
12.000 to 2,150, the Lomen-Kotze
bue herd from 12,000 to zero in
five years. The Koyuk Reindeer
Association has 200 reindeer but
owes 424 to other owners. The
Shaktoolik Company has 491 and
owes 825. A few years ago they
possessed 12,000 head. The Holy
Cross and Mountain Village
- herds are practically non-exist
I ant now where a few years ago
each had thousands of deer.
These are all native owned herds
with non-native owners inter
mixed.
“Three herds only show sub
stantial increases. These are the
herd on Nunivak Island where
no predators exist, the Catholic
Mission herd at Akulurak on the
lower Kuskokwim which has
been well tended and has had no
predator problem, ahd a herd at
Naknek on Bristol Bay owned by
a group of Laplanders. Otherwise
herds flrom Barrow south are
showing heavy decreases.’’
“Much of the lack of attention
to their reindeer herds by the
natives has been occasioned by
the conflict of interest between!
them and the white owners. To
an Eskimo a reindeer is food and
skin clothing, to a white it is an
investment that should show pro
fits. As these profits were non
existent the whites have been un
' willing or unable to bear the
costs of herding and handling the
i deer. The natives could not be ex
pected to care for all deer where
ownership has been mixed so con
sequently the herds have been
pretty much untended and have
scattered over the ranges in
small bunches where they were
easy prey to wolves. The pur
chase of non-native owned rein
deer by the Government will re
move this conflict and thus pave
the way for better range manage
ment for both native and Govern
ment owned deer.
“The principal difficulties in
dealing with white owners has
been with those living in the
States who have had little or no
connection with their herds and
therefore cannot uderstand why
or how there can be a decrease
in numbers when Government
reports advise that well tended
herds can often do double in
number every three years. Herds
will still show this large increase
if well tended on good forage
and with no heavy losses by pred
ators. While reindeer belong to
the caribou famiy they are very
little better equipped by nature
than sheep to protect themselvesI
from predators or to drift to op
en ranges when ice or heavily
crusted snow covers all forage.
Few sheepmen on the western
ranges would expect anything
but a total loss of their herds
if left untended winter and sum
mer. Reindeer need man as much
as men need reindeer.
“The purchase of reindeer took <
precedence over the purchase of
cold storages, abbattoirs, and
range improvements but the pro
gram has progressed now to a
point where negotiations are be
ing completed for the purchase
of this class of equipment.”
Mr. Burdick plans to complete
all deals by June 15 of this year.
After making his report to the
Secretary of the Interior he will
return to his work with the For
est Service at Juneau, Alaska.
LEAP YEAR OFFER
TO ALASKANS
Matrimonially inclined Sour
dough bachelors who have been
seeking someone to give them all
the comforts and joys of a home I
now have their opportunity. It is j
offered by Mrs. Effie Culberhouse j
of 5161, Long Beach, California.;
In a letter from that address she
tells her own story as follows:
Leap Year Offer
“I am a widow, 47 years of
age; five feet four inches tall;
weight 135 pounds; medium
brown hair; hazel eyes; fair com 1
plexion; neat appearance; best of
health; kind and affectionate; ef i
fkient home maker and a Protest1
ant.
“I was born in Texas, February
9. I object to liquor & positively
am no gold-digger.
“I have an adopted son, age 7
I wish to correspond with a gen
tleman between the ages of 40
and 57 years, weighting 175 to
200 pounds—one who has suffic
ient income to maintain a home.
I gladly 'will correspond in what!
might result in an exchange of
references.”
Chamber Would Advertise
Alaska On Can Labels
The Cordova Chamber of Com
merce discussed at some length
recently the possibility of having
the labels which adorn the can
of the several Alaska seafood
products contain reference to the
fact that the product contained
therein was packed in Alaska.
Many of the wholesalers and
brokers, it was pointed out, do
have the words “packed in Al
aska” or similar phrases includ
ed in the working on their labels,
but there are still many thou
sands of cans of our superior sea
products which do not get just
credit and identification and as a
result the Territory is losing val
uable advertising of its principal
resources.
Several suggestions were made
of remedies for this situation and
the matter was left in the hands
of the advertising committee for
study and recommendations.
—Cordova Times
Clyde (Tex) Cockburn
For Representative
Democratic Ticket
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“Devoted to the best In
terest of the 2nd Division
and Alaska as a whole.”
Primary Election
April 30, 1940.
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Notice To All Republicans
In accordance with the authority vested in The Re
publican Central Committee of Alaska, the governing
committee of the Republican Party in Alaska, notice is
hereby given that the Republican Central Committee of
Alaska will meet at 7:30 o’clock P. M., on >Iav first, 1940. at
the City Hall in Douglas, Alaska, for the purpose of comply
ing with the CALL for a Republican National Convention,
providing for the selection of three DELEGATES-AT
LARGE and three ALTERNATE Delegates-At-Large to at
tend the Republican National Convention to be held in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on June 24, 1940; and for the
purpose of setting a time and date for the convening of the
Republican Territorial Convention at Sitka, Alaska, and for
the promulgation of rules and the official CALL for the
1940 Republican Territorial Convention.
Elton E. Engstrom, Chairman Repub
lican Central Committee of Alaska
Juneau, Alaska. Henry Benson, Secretary Republican
April 17, 1940. Central Committee of Alaska.
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I MINERS & MERCHANTS BANK OF ALASKA |
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An Alaskan Bank Which Has Served This t
Community Continuously Since 1904 %
GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS CONDUCTED |
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FRANK A. BOYLE
Democratic Candidate For
AUDITOR OF ALASKA
Primary Election, April 30, 1940
HE STANDS ON HIS RECORD
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TOLBERT SCOTT
Democratic Candidate for Representative
Came to Alaska 1906, have lived here continuously 9ince
All my interests are in Alaska
Served in 1933, 1935, 1937 Legislatures
1 am asking your support in the
Primary Election, Tuesday, April 30, 1940
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