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Xmas Seal Sale
Machinery Set I p
Quiz Is Issued
The annual election of officers
to head the Association for the
year to come provided but little'
change in the printer’s set-up. E.
L. Bartlett was reelected to the1
office of President for the coming,
year. Mrs. William Paul will con
tinue as Vice-President and
James McNaughton will once
©gainst serve as Treasurer. Dr.
James C. Ryan replaced Rever
end G. Edward Knight as Secre
tary of the organiaztion.
Sea] Sale for '41
Along about the middle of!
September of each year, the first
flurries of the Seal Sale hustle
arm ouMit usually ucgin iu snow
up. This year was no exception.
The first step—the election of the
General Chairman for the Terri
tory has been solved. Once again
JIarry G. Watson of Fairbanks
has accepted the appointment.
Mr. Watson has quite an enviable
Seal Sale record, no drive of
which he has been Seal Sale
Chairman has ever faded to sur
pass all previous totals.
The National Tuberculosis As
sociation, in compiling estimates
for the coming Sale placed the
Alaska total at $7,500, an in
crease of $300 over last year
©nd a goal which should not be
difficult to attain.
A Test of Educational Program
The first extensive effort by the
Association to check the results
of the educational program in
the schools in the Territory is
now fully underway. Through
the cooperation of the Office of
Indian Affairs and the Territor
ial Department of Education,
copies of ten a question quiz en
titled "What Do You Know
About Tuberculosis” have been
sent to all the schools under the
direct supervision of these two
offices. Sufficient copies were
Bent to allow all children old
mnauph la eamprehend the ques
tions to take the quiz individual
ly. Survey sheets for compilation
of the results by age groups
were also included.
This being the first effort of
its kind, it will be of course, im
possible to say exactly what pro
gross has been made in the past
but it should afford some idea of
the extent of the existant know
ledge among the youngsters on
the subject of tuberculosis. Of
added value will be the informa
tion we receive which will allow
us to plan future educational act
ivities to cover those phases of
fundamental tuberculosis know
ledge which appear to be the
least known and understood.
While the test is relatively
simple, it has been found that
some of the questions are not
always correctly answered even
by adults.
Tuberculosis in the Armed Forces
Rwsimt experience in selective
service examinations throughout
the country shows that approxi
mately one out of every hundred
men are being rejected because
of tuberculosis.
The present plan of the Army
regarding tuberculosis is to chest
X-ray every recruit before ac
ceptance for full duty. When a
recruit is found to have tuber
culosis, the diagnosis in most in
stance has been found to be the
first information the man has
that he is a victim of the disease.
This program of chest-X-ray is
in reality the greatest case find
ing program that has been under
taken in the history of tubercul
osis control. If it is possible, to
adequately provide care for these
newly discovered cases, thou
sands of future cases of tuber
culosis infection will no doubt
be avoided.
Some camparison of the extent
to which the disease is prevalent
among this age group in Alaska
and a comparison of these figures
with those available thru the
past records of the Tuberculosis
Testing Program in the Schools
of the Territory should be pos
sible as a result of the approach
ing enrollment of the first group
of selectees from Alaska into the
armed force.
WHAT YOU DO KNOW ABOUT TUBERCULOSIS
(Check the answers you think correct)
1. Tuberculosis can be inherited?
Yes No
2. Tuberculosis can be cured?
Yes No
3. There is a special serum to prevent tuberculosis?
Yes- No
4. Tuberculois is most frequent in the age group:
114 15-36 35-50 Over 50
5. A positive reaction to a tuberculin test means:
You have active tuberculosis.
You do not have tuberculosis
You have tuberculosis germs in your body.
(5. Tuberculin testing in Alaska schools is financed by:
The Federal Government.
The Territorial Government.
The Sale of Christmas Seals
All three combined.
7. An X-ray of the chest tells the doctor:
You have flat feet.
Pf tuberculosis grems have damaged the lungs.
You have tonsilitis.
8. Which i.s the most important in recoving from tuberculosis
Outdoor exercise .Rest in bed.
Hot, Dry climate .Diet of milk and eggs
9. I uberculosis is caught most commonly by:
Getting your feet wet. ,
Sleeping with the windows open
.Contact with an active case of tuberculosis
10. Which of the following disease caused the greatest number
of deaths in Alaka last year.
.Cancer .Tuberculosis .Measles .Pneumonia
ANSWER KEY
1 —No 2.—Yes 3.—No 4.--15-65
5. You have T. B. Germs in your body.
6. All thre combined.
7. If Tuberculosis germs have damaged the lungs.
8. Rest in bed
9. Contact with an active case of Tuberculosis.
10. Tuberculosis
Two Cheechaeeos Plan W inter At
Wales And Visit Big Diomede Is.
A 10-month expedition to the
bleak shores of Cape Pr:nce of
Wales, westernmost point of the
Western Hemisphere, got under
I way recently as two Anchorage
men boarded a Mi row plane on
the first leg of a flight to the
cape.
The two, W. D. Pennington,
first aid man for Beohtol-Mc
Cone-Parsons Corporation, and
Bob Shankel, base worker, plan
to rehabilitate a cabin left by
gold prospectors in 1889 and
spend the best part of the next
year taking motion pictures, writ
ing a book, trading with the
Natives, collecting ivory, and
hunting.
One other white man will be
near, for Cortez L. Cructhcr,
schoolmaster at Wales, is at pres
ent the only white man in the
area. There are 193 Natives in
the settlement.
23 Miles From Soviets
Exact location of their cabin
j will have to be decided when
; they arrive there. Pennington
has never been in the area, but
Shankel has visited there pre
viously. They do not plan on set
tling in the towm, but expect to
be a short distance either north
or south of the Native village.
Site of their new home will be
about 23 miles from the Russian
settlement on Big Diomede Is
land and a little over 21 miles
from America’s Little Diomede.
In celebration of New Years, the
two p'an a dog team expedition
across the frozen Bering Strait
to the Russian settlement. They
estimate it will take them about
two and a half days but aren’t
sure they will be allowed to set
foot on the island after they get
there.
Food Setn Ahead
Food and most of the equip
ment for their trip was sent to
Wales on the last trip of the MS
Meteor.
Fifteen hundred feet of color
ed motion picture film will go
with them and an addition 1500
feet will be sent in later.
They will carry two rifles, one
a ,30-’06, the other a .300 Savage,
and a .22 caliber pistol. Each
gun will have 190 rounds of am
munition with 3,000 rounds for
the pistol.
Also among their supplies will
be 20 pounds of hard candy, a
carton of chewing gum, four |
quarts of whiskey, four quarts of:
rum, 10 pounds of pipe and cig- j
arette tobacco for themse'ves and
seven cartons of Bull Durham;
for trading with the Natives.
Value of their food alone is in |
excess of $800.
Are Cheechsuros
Neither one of the two adven
turers are oldtime Alaskans Shan
kel having been here but three'
years and Pennington having
come north only 13 months ago. I
However, they believe they are,
ready for anything that mayj
come up.
In the middle of February.
L'oyd Pennington, father of
young Pennington is to fly to
visit them and join them in a
polar bear hunt.
Takes First Aid Kit
Young Pennington is taking a
large first aid kit with him ga
thered through the cooperation
of Dr. Harold Sogn, Dr. C. J. Too
hey and sisters at the Providence
Hospital, and expects to be call- J
ed upon for all kinds of treat-!
ments for the Natives during the
winter months.
Mail service reaches them once
a month, weather permitting, and
both p'an to correspond with j
friends in Anchorage and Out
side.
SOURDOUGH STATIONERY
Write to your friends and rela-,
tives on the ‘Outside,’ using Sour
dough Stationery. They’ll get a
big kick out of it.
AIR RAID “OSCARS” IN
FBI SHOW WOULD SCARE
MAN EVEN FROM MARS
by JACK STINNETT
WASHINGTON — If bombs
j ever fall on the United States,
our police won’t be caught short
on knowledge of the best meth
ods of meeting such emergencies.
Over at the Federal Bureau of
Investigation, J. Edgar Hoover’s
boys have set up an exhibition
straight from England showing
all the equipment used by police
during blackouts and air raids.
There are a couple of Oscars
(ghoulish dummies used by the
FBI in demonstrating murder in
vestigations) togged out in cos
tumes that would make men
from Mars look like a bunch of
sissies. In snouted gas masks,
j rubber suits and boots, steel
| helmets, walkie-talkie radios
strapped to their backs, and
“blackout lights,” which look
like cowbells at their belts, these
two fellows are enough to finish
1 off a good nightmare even if
i never a bomb was dropped.
To anyone who ever has bat
tled the traffic of American cities
probably even more impressive
will be the display of street
lights, traffic lights, and auto
headlamps. With bumpers paint
ed with strips of white paint
around fenders, and a single
headlight that shows three slits
of down-cast light, the sample of
an authorized car for black-out
driving can be dimly seen at 20
paces.
The streetlamps, “20 feet above
the kerb,” toss out the glorious
illumination of .02 of one candle
power—about the same as a light
ed cigarette held a foot away
from the object you wish to see.
The traffic lights are the cus- j
tomary green-yellow-red, but the
light is emitted from little four
inch crosses, with bars an eighth
of an inch wide.
There’s a lot more to the ex
hibition—bomb shelters, various
methods of combatting incen- j
diary bombs, air raid sirens, first
aid in air raids, and a dozen oth
er horrendous things that any
good police force in a bombed ]
city would have to know.
The exhibition is semi-public—
that is, available to visitors to
the Justice Department Building,
when it is not being used to in
struct “re-training courses” in
the FBI’s national police school,
where 400 men from police de- j
partments all over the country!
1 are getting concentrated instruc
tion in methods employed by Lon
don bobbies to protect the public
1 during air raids.
—
There is one story in connec
tion with the exhibition that
never has been told. Early last
winter. Hoover sent two of his
ablest assistants to London at the!
height of the air-raid season.
He told them to take their time
to make a thorough study of
everything that had to do with
police activity during blackout
and air raids. He armed them
with special letters to Scotland
Yard officials and ordered them
to bring back every item of
equipment that might be used in
demonstrating British methods to
the American police.
The men stayed four months
and collected hundreds of pieces
of equipment, ranging from mit
tens with finger tips cut out (for
teletype operators and such dur
ing gas attacks) to tail-fins from
4,400 pound “land mines” (which
were dropped on London and
made craters 60 feet deep).
The men came back by plane,
the exhibition by ship, Some
where off the coast of the British
Isles, ship and exhibition lie at
the bottom of the sea, victims of
a submarine.
It took nearly six months more
to assemble another collection
and get it over here. It is the only
such exhibition in the United
States.
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L IN C T HE P O L I C E—.1. Edgar Hoover, head of the
I ederal Bureau of Investigation, looks over a model policeman's
oilskin uniform, part of an air-raid exhibit in Washington. Cop
carries a radiophone. On belt is a "blackout” lamp.