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FEDERATED CHURCH
Rev. Vernon L. Booker, Pastor
Tuesday, 7:30 P. M.—Young
Peoples’ meeting.
p Wednesday, 2 to 4 P. M.—Per
sonal Counseling; 8 to 10 P M.—
Personal counseling.
Thursday, 7:30—P. M—Choir
rehearsal: 7:30 P. M. Hobby clubs.
Sunday—
10:45-A. M.—Sunday school.
7:00 P. M.—Choir Rehearsal.
9:00 I*. M.“Social Hour
St Joseph’s Roman Catholic
Church
Edmund A Anable, S. J
Pastor
1 SuhcUty Masses, 8 and 10 a. m.
Weekday Mass’ 7:00 a. m.
Religious. instruction lor the
children! Monday afternoon, pri
mer claas; Tuesday afternoon,
advanced class.
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LAVINIA WALLACE YOUNG
MISSION
Minister and Director-^C. W.
t- Erickson
Sunday; February 20th.
11:00—The Young Peoples’ De
partment Worship Service.
7:00 P.! M.—Regular evening
service.
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Prayer meeting Thursday eve
ning.
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Nome Directory
HENRY JOSEPH
LALLEY ...
ACCOUNTING, INCOME TAX
AND SOCIAL SECURITY
P. O. Box 156 Nome, Alaska
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IRA D. ORTON
1 Attorney At Law
Been 1—Nevada Bonding
Nome, Alaska
Seattle Office:
1912-13 Smith Tower
Telephone Elliot 3391
O. D. COCHRAN
Attorney At Law
Phene Mala 1S1
Nome, Alaaha
N. STRAND
MXW YORK LIFE INSURANCE
COMPANY
Phone Black 189
j NOME, ALASKA j
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JEWELER AND OFTfCRA*
Oenrt House Is Opposite Ife
Phone Mala €9
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NOME, ALASKA
Meets Every Friday—8:00 P. M.
Odd Fellow Hall
Highway
Trips Proved
Hazardous
By Sgl. Allan Merrill
<Army Correspondent)
FORT RICHARDSON, Alaska
Civil authorities at Valdez com
plained bitterly when a mud-splat
tered convoy of 35 army trucks
rolled in from Gulkana over the
Richardson highway.
They knew the road between the
two towrns was impassable and
had issued warnings. Now they
were being embarrassed by in
quires from people who had no
ticed the arrival of the army
trucks. What’s more, the soldiers
Were loading their trucks for a
return trip.
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The amazed authorities learned
from 1st I*t. Allen S. Glikbarg, of
Salinas, Calif., in charge of the
convoy, that the soldiers had left
the highway entirely, coaxed their
2Vfe-ton vehicles through the
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woods fpr atjout g mile, forded a
small stream and returned to the
highway on the other side of the
washout.
Take it from the drivers of this
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OR OSHAUGHMCSSy OR WHAT?
AN' WHAT*S ALL THIS
MYSTERY STUFF ANY WAV ??
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Ya Can’t Dodger
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same quar.errr.ar ter truck com
pany: You can't honestly fay you
know how to drive a truck until
you’ve herded one over Alaska's
Richardson and Glenn highways.
Eighty per cen of these soldiers
were experienced truck drivers
before they came to Alaska, but
they learned they were amateurs
when they first started their long
hauls from the port town tf Val
dez to points nqrth.
That was in June. 1&42. only a
few days after the Japanese ha;
oumbed Dutch Harbor and at ;
time when the army, bracing itself
for a possible ivasion of Alaska
was rushing supplies to military
construction sites.
The Richardson highway, th
longest and one of the most im
portant intra-Alaska reads, wa
little more than a wagon trail in
some places at that time. S; me
sections were only single-lane.
The highway climbs the Cnu
gach Range, through the Wrr.n
gel Mountains, and then over the
Alaska Range, one of the most
scenic and little-known areas of
Alaska. Bear, moose and game
birds were common sights for the
t truck drivers.
i These truck drivers and others
like them are among the army’s
forgotten men. They seldom fig
ure in news commentaries, but
those depending on them to de
liver supplies and equipment
know the part they played in the
military development of Alaska
was an important one—and a
tough one. They often worked
for more than 24 hours at a time
without relief.
A crumbling shoulder on the
narrow road where it is carved in
the perpendicular wall of Keystone
Canyon could send a truck plung
ing over a precipice of several
hundred feet. The road rises 2.800
feet in four miles near Thompson
Pass, in the Chugaeh Range, where
the highway is closed every win
ter by 'snowdrifts of 20 and 30
feet. It has numerous sharp
i curves, is often covered with gla
, ciating ice in which the drivers
chop tire ruts in order to keep on
the road. The drivers told of
seeing stalled automobiles, around
which the ice had glaciated until
only a few inches of the top of the
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cars coujO be seen.
The company Kept at it night
arm day to move supplies 128
miles north to Gulkana before
snow clogged the road to Thomp
son Pass Then, plans were to
haul from Gulkana to the airfield
-r.es between Fairoanks: and the
Canadian border during the win
der. With dense fogs and heavy
new, some of the night driving
ailed lor “instrument flying”,
ey said, but no member of the
ompany has been fatally injured.
To avoid delays, the usual con
ey system was not used during
he first urgent weeks, and a driv
er was on his own when he start
ed out. The company established
relief station half-way between
.’alder and Gulkana, where hot
neals were available. The driv
ers often ate canned rations and
slept in their trucks.
A soldier from another outfit
was sent from Valdez to Gulkana
as a passenger in a truck. He was
to return another machine1 to Val
dez. He not only refused to drive
the truck back, but was so im
pressed with the dangers of the
road that he didn’t want to make
the trip back even as a passen
ger. He was assigned to Gul
kana.
The 60 two and one-half ton
trucks of the company, well-worn
before tne outfit arrived in Alas
ka, took a terrific beating from
the rough roads. After a few
months, almost half of the trucks
were “on the deadline” because
of a dearth of repair parts. The
company mechanics, working un
der Tech. Sgt. Wilfred J. Irber,
Minneapolis, Minn., and Staff
Sgt. Paul G. Boaka, Lincoln,
Neb., made the most of what they
had and improvised replacement
parts.
The truck company later moved
its headquarters to Dry Creek,
near Gulkana, and hauled sup
plies over the Glenn or Chicka
loon highway which, like the
Richardson highway, required
constant gear shifting. At Dry
| Creek, they weathered one of the
most severe winters in several
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years, aften awakening in the
; mornings to find their sleeping
bags and blankets frozen to the
I walls of their Quonset huts. Fuel
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'oil stiffened like butter, and drums
had to be heated so that oil would
pour from them. Truck motors
often refused to start, and lubri
cants in the working parts of the
truck wheels froze solid.
The outfit is. now stationed at
Fort Richardson doing post duty.
It’s an es*- job comparecf to their
old one. the drivers say, but not
nearly So interesting as the days
of the rugged hauls over the
Richardson Trail, when they had
few inspections and no M. P. reg
ulations to w'orry them.
ATG EVENTS
Baseball game tonight at the
High School Gym. A. T. G. vs.
A. T. C. Game starts at 7:00
sharp. Admission free.
Saturday night, dance at the
Native school gym for old mem
bers and prospective new mem
bers. Orchestra. No admission
charge for members:
Tuesday, regular meeting at
High School gym.
CAPT. BRONSON. Adj.
RALPH KITZMILLER
CONFINED TO HOME
Ralph Kitzmiller has been con
fined to his home for the past
several days by severe illness, but
is now on the road to recovery.
Advertise what you have to sell
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PASSES THROUGH
ON FURLOUGH
Tommy Goodwin passed through
Nome on his way home to
Kotzebue. He has been grafted
a 30-day furlough.
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
IN THE COMMISSIONER'S
COURT, CAPE NOME PRE
CINCT. TERRITORY OF ALAS
KA. SECOND DIVISION. IN
PROBATE.
In ihe Matter of the Estate of
CHARLES PHILLIP LEVIEN,
Deceased.
No. 696
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
that by order of the Probate
Court in and for the Cape Nome
Precinct, Second Division, Alaska,
the undersigned has been appoint
ed Administrator of the estate of
Charles Phillip Levien, deceased.
All persons having claims against
said estate shall present them
with proper vouchers attached
within six months from the date
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of this notice to the undersigned
at Nome, Alaska or to his attor
ney.
Dated at Nome, Alaska, this
17th day of February 1944.
CARL, HANSEN,
Administrator,
Nome, Alaska
C. C TANNER.
Attorney for Administrator,
Nome, Alaska.
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