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PIONEERS
OF
ALASKA t
THIRTY-SIXTH ANNUAL j
ROOF
GARDEN
SCHOOL AUDITORIUM
Saturday, December 21>, 1940
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Doors Open 8 p.rn. — Program Begins 9 p m.
Medley of Stage Acts
Refreshments - - ■ Dancing
I Fun For The \\ hole Family
Admission, Adults $1.00
Children (school age) 23c
$10.00 DOOR PRIZE
TO WINNING NUMBER
$3.00 Worth of Food and Fun
I NOME MOTOR COMPANY
Dealers In
CHEVROLET CARS & TRUCKS
and FIRESTONE PRODUCTS
Lyons <£: Orton
Attorneys At Lr.v
Rooms 918-921 Alaska ilniirtn
Seattle, Washington
Thos. R. Lyons ira D Ors
CHAS. CAYE>
Carrying an Assorting)
ol Fine Liquors. Win
os, ami Be. ^
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Pioneer Water Co
Arrange Now For Your Winter
Delivery o'- Fresh, Sparkling
Spring Water
ALWAYS AT YOUR SERVICE
NELSON and BULLOCK
Phone Baek tl or Main 15
PRINTING BLANKS CARRIE I
V ;■ Nome 'Ta:ly Nugget came,
uveral forms of printing blank:
•or your conven nee — Dredg*
Logs, ‘hawing a d drill repul is
Mining Deed' lacer and Lode
Loratio~ *'•' Vutiwho
Swollen by torrents cf rain, Rabbit Creek, at Long !ew. Texas spread through the oil field area be
tween Longview and Kilgore. Many other streams In Last and South-central Texas were over their
banks. In some sections ice disrupted travel and rippled communication lines.
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/VVELLSIR_N080DV‘S VET FOUND OUT \
HOW TO KEEP SALMON RUNNIN’ THE
TEAR'ROUND... BUT EVEN DURIN’THE /
\ OFF SEASON WE GIVE JOBS TO / ,
V HUNDREDS OF ALASKA FOLIOS ! J
Yes, Salmon fishing and canning is a seasonal business
—but in off seasons there are jobs for hundreds making
ready for the next fishing season. Even in winter men
are kept at work modernizing and rebuilding canneries,
repairing boats and other floating equipment. Others find
employment cutting piling and lumber for construction
and box shook—manufacturing wire netting—mining
coal and providing other supplies for the Industry.
Not only does the Canned Salmon Industry provide
the Territory’s greatest employment during the fishing
season—these additional Industry-created jobs give
Alaskans thousands of days work during off-seasons.
And this means greater year-round security for Alaska
families!
National Canned
Salmon Week
Fell. 28 - Mar. 7
Alaska’s salmon will be honor
ed nationally next spring, the ad
vertising office of the Canned
Salmon Industry reports in an
nouncing that National Canned
Salmon Week will be observed
throughout the country from Feb
ruary 28 to March 7, 1941.
Pans are now und-r way to
secure cooperation from lead:ng
transportation companies. tele
graph firms, newspapers, radio
stations and others to secure max
imum publicity for canned sal
mon and for the industry in Al
aska during this period.
Groc rs in all sections will be
supplied with attractiv store
banners showing salmon dishes
i through color photographs t
whet the nation's Lenten appet
ite- for canned salmon.
Canned Salmon Week has beer
ab erved annually for more than
fifte n y ars. Always starting or
( first Friday in Lent, it gain
wide publicity f r Alaska’s can
iv d salmon at the time of year
•rVn interest in fish and sea
’ b> Is is. at its peak.
I i addition to the attention giv
i canned salmon at the time Iv
end diiors of magazines and
rwspapors and on home ecap
'mic radio programs, the week is
observed by thousands of retail
gi cers and by many firms th
share in the job of supplying th
salmon canning industry. Mnnv
of these firms serve canned sal
mon dishes in their employees
cafeterias, display canned salmon
in their street traffic window s
and cooperate in publicizing cat
ncd salmon in other ways.
New System
Is Developed
By U. S. Army
OCEANPORT, N. J„—Climax
ing months of effort, Army of
ficers at Fort Monmouth have de
veloped a unique strain of night
flying carrier pidgeons.
Experiments with night fliers
w re started shortly after World
War I. But only during the last
10 years lias there been emphas
is on their training.
When the first experiments
were started at Fort Monmouth,
the training weer working again
st the ace pted theory that hom
ing pigeons will roost upon the
approach of darkness and will
not fly if released after dark.
Some Were Confused
One of the white lofts was set
aside for the night fliers. At
dusk ev ry day, the birds taken
short distances from the loft in
'complete darkness. Some shot
straight for home. Others were
bewildered. The weak were weed
d from the strong and the lat
ter bred more night birds.
Success
By 1930, successes were more
frequent than failures. The birds
were actually homing from 20
to 60 miles away.
Today night fliers released in
complete darkness will shoot un
erringly for their home loft. II
luminated at first by the soft
glow of red lights the lofts now
are in total darkness.
Instinct alone guides the birds,
Capt. I. L. Kaufmann signal offic
er says.
Night Life
Here is a typical night's tram
mg:
Late in the afternoon 10 or 15
birds will be tak n in a mobile
loft to some point on the Jersey
coast.
After dark the birds are turn
ed loose.
The trainer carefully notes the
time the birds are releas d to the
minute so that by checking on
their arrive] time at the home
loft he is able to determine the
speed of th pigeon's flight.
Some have been known to fly
60 miles an hour. In fact signal
officers say night ti ers suppos
edly because of their fear of the
darkness are faster than day mes
sengErs.
The Greeks had a word for it
and the Italians haven’t figur d
it out.
LEO CLIFFORD PASSES
AWAY. HEART FAILURE
On October 14 at his home at
4032 8th NE in Seattle, E. Leo
Clifford passed away as the re
sult of a heart attack.
Leo Clifford was a pioneer
newspaper man not only in Seat
t' but in Alaska as well. For a
time he worked on the Seattle
Times but early in 1909 left for
Fairbanks where for a time he
was on the staff of the Fairbanks
Times. At the time of the Idita
r: d strike he took in the stamp
ede and was fortunate in getting
ground on Cripple Creek. Toge
ther with his partner he pros
pected tlie ground stopping only
long enough to get a few dollars
ahead by working on th Idita
rod Pioneer a newspaper that
had been started there by
George Arbuck'e.
In 1009 at Cordova, he was
marric.t to Miss Jessie Smith, a
pioneer school t ‘acher who
taught in the Nome High School
for a number of years. Mrs.
Clifford accompanied her hus
band to the Idit■ rod and for a
t me worked on the Pioneer with
him.
The deceased is survived by
his widow and on: daughter,
P lily Clifford now fa<t gaining
a name for herself in radio pro
grams in Seattle.
Hitler s ems to find the islar I
pinnire hard to take.
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The Texas Panhandle and eastern New Mexco (1) were crippled by an ice storm and Amarillo, Bor
der and Pa in pa were isolated. Rains swelled east Texas rivers (2) and the floods spilled over into
Louisiana. Vice President Henry Wallace, Mexico-bound, was traveling by auto through the flood
area. lie was to cross the border at Laredo (3).