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* Army Uses
Dogs At
Nome Post
By SGT. ALLAN MERRIT
(Army Correspondent)
NOME, Alaska — Forty-three
yelping dogs staked near individ
ual dog houses, each with its own
service record and serial number
like every other G. I.—this is the
~ mid-winter motor pool of the
army post near Nome.
In addition to this canine mo
tor pool, known officially as the
Post (Quartermaster) Kennels,
most army units here have i'neir
own dog teams. The station hos
pital has one with an especially
constructed stretcher-clad for sick
or injured soldiers.
Bosses of the kennels are Cpl
Albert L. Warner of White Cloud
Mich., who has worked with dog
teams for more than two years,
and Black ie, a veteran lead dog
who probably will be retired this
winter to the position of a vener
able professor to teach the young
er dogs the ways of the trail.
Baittle-scarred and his face dis
figured by a tumor., the eight
year-old Blackie, a husky, came
from the Arctic area around Kot
zebue Sound, north of Nome. The
soldiers around here swear by
' him as the smartest lead dog in
Alaska. •
TWo qther corporals, brothers,
also are assigned to the kennels.
They are Joel J, Thrasher, 27. and
gfrr Rex Thrasher. 24, of Gravette,
Ark. The three corporals care for
the dogs, train them, and “mush”
the teams when they are sent out
on various missions.
The dogs usually are worked in
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^ Odd Fellow HaU
a :eam of seven, consisting of the
| lead dog and—"paired off behin
him—two swing dogs, two inter
mediates, and two wheel dogs, th
latter pair haTnessed directly ir
-J front of the fled. Sometime ;
j team of nine is used, with an ex
! tra pair of intermediate flogs,
i Most of ihe. Eskimos in thi;
| area use what is termed a “free
lead dog, which is unharnessed t
the rest of the‘team, but the army
! hitches the lefrd dog up too an
•makes him work right along with
the rest of them.
Fastest team in the kennels i
! called the “Cajev Team", because
! it was purchased from A! Carey
| a sourdough lip carpe to Alaska
in the Gold flush of '93 and later
came to be -'Mg* tfaP'Specri"
ting of the Seward Peninsula for
hi.s swift dog- teams. Member's of
I this team, of doubtful ancei i'.i‘
| and from a strain bred by Carey, •
are somewhat similar to Germari
I Shepherds irx. appearance. One ex
ception to this is the lead dog
• :
Silly, small black and white ken-’
nel-trained bilph, .that w§s broker
in when Cafey refused to part*
with his lea^ dog. ‘" l,'i’> J"i" *" *
Biggest whirry of the corporals
are dog fights, which leave sled
’ dogs in the $ck bay. Chief trouble
maker is Mote, a big shaggy brute
who almost* always starts a row’
before he g<jts harnessed to a sled.
The corporifls tolerate w'heel dog
Mike’s failing for arguments, as
Corporal Jq£l Thrasher put. it, |
“because hejs a Earned good work
dog.” ;f
Other le^l dogs in the kenneis
are Bolo, jjskiiiao^Eained husks’-' ;
Pat, kennel-raised Chow and
Husky, and--Keller, 65-pound mon
' ’" y s ’y »• p r
grel bought from the natives!
Most prohniising of the" you tig
dogs is Kidg, beautiful 13-month
old Siberian Husky, with prick
ears and of almost pure white
color. Already in trainirtg as a
lead dog, King is full of vim and
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vigor and shows quick response to
commands. There are several Si
berian Huskies in the kennels anc
they are smaller than the other
dogs, weighing only about 40 or
50 pounds.
Biggest dogs in the kennels are
Ynyuk and Buckland., two 80
pound McKenzie hounds bought
l'rom the Eskimos Big-framed and
sh- rt-haired these two fierce
looking canines are both wheel
dogs. •
When the musher starts the dog
team, the command is. “All right.
Blackie’’, using jn.ame of the
lead- Wa§ r ajj. jefle to be at the
head 'bl'-Wh “GSee" is the
command for a right turn, and
"Hnw” calls for a left t rn. To
V’ng the team to a halt, the
musher merely says “Whoa "
“Come Gee." of “Come Haw."
means a hairpin turn, but these
■ -mmands are used only when the
team has a thoroughly-trained
lead dog.
The dogs, like other G. I.'s, get
-hots from the medics regularly—
■r rabies and distemper. When
the dogs get their shots, it is en
tered on their service records.
>.lso entered on the records are
heir age. weight, coloring and
.larkihgfe. and whether they are
tennel-raised or purchased from
■ivilians. If they are lead or
swing dogs, that is specified.
One advantage they have over
•ther soldiers is that they do not
nve to listen to the Articles of
'.Var but. on the other hand, they
,re fed only once a day.
The dog food has a cereal base
made from rice, oatmeal or corn
meal; and mqat is adned when it
is available. -' Whale blubber was
used for fat during peacetime but
it is no longer available, and tal
low is substituted.
“The dogs like tn worn and the
ones that are not used nearly go
crazy when a team is being hitch
ed up, but a few of them are
downrignt lazy.v isaid- Joel Thrash
er.
Only dog that has free run of
the kennels is the three-month
old ‘ son of Bolo the -lead dog. and
a -bitch of similar color. The cor
porals are expecting great things
ef him.
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Sons Do Bit
In Struggle
For Peace
For once, we’ve met a man who
had NOTHING (?) £o say
He says it from an atoll some
where in the South Pacific!
Civilians and laymen alike are
cognizant with the faet there are
atolls—there are the many fronts
to protect and it takes our boys
to doit. ' ■ ■ • - V •
The following letter gives us a.
good insight on the feelings of one
G-! for another
It reads thus:
December 21, 1943.
“Dear Junior Kostenbader:
"Well, I got a little time fit last,
so 1 will try to think of something
to say.
I got four letters from you to
day. It was the first mail we have
had :n a long time.
“We were at New Zealand and
Tarawa atoll. Well, if mother does
go to Alaska, I hope she like it
as well as home—don’t you?
Are you and Lyle together or
just in the same camp?
“I’m sorry 1 can't send you any
thing for your birthday. 1 might
send you a cocoanut if you would
like me to.
“I don’t know anything about
classification, but I would bet you
will make it and I would be will
ing to bet you get your wings,
too. I dam near got mine the hard
way.
I'm glad to hear you’re not scar
’ ed of the water any more.
i
, I remember Bill Houghton and
| Mr. Connor too, and 1 hope they
like Africa.
“I wish you were here We are
having fried chicken, hot rolls and
jpie.
I When, 1 get home if anybody
| say. anything about food ration
‘ ing 1 am going to get some C
; rations and let them try that for
a while-and see how they like
“Well, 1 had a lot of Jap money
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!for you but I had better keep it
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• till I get home. You will have to
excuse the typing. I am learning
a little.
[, ‘ Well, I had better close lor
now. Write soon and from now or.
i w:ll be able to answer your let
ters rjght back.
Love,
BILL KOSTENBADER.
P. S.—1 liked the little poem yoi
sent me. I will send you a picture
of myself soon.
Airica is a far-off place.
It doesn’t make any difference
whether you, Mr. Jones or you.
Mr. Smith have ever been there.
It’s still Africa!
And Africa is one of the places
our boys have gone.
A war—obviously, that’s the
deal!
But does the “deal” assauge
the ones at home?
To the mother, the father, the
sister, the brother—what does it
all mean to them?
Naturally, it means heartaches.
And something else!
To the ones left at home it
leaves the everyday yearning for
the boy—their son or brother.
The letter above defines per
sonalities we are. not acquainted
with. They belong in the category
of human nature, and they belong
also to the parent who submitted
this message.
(Editor's note: The above letter
come from Bill Kostenbader —son
of Mr. and Mrs. “Dutch” Kosten
bader of Nome—another mother
and dad—whose boys are doing
their bit to stamp out the tide of
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factory has an easier time hear
ing an instructor’s orders above,
the roar of a Navy plane’s motor,
since his skill at picking up the hu
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