FRATERNAL ORDERS
L o. o. i.
NOME LODGE NO. A-5
Nome Lodge No. A-5
Will have an Annual Roll Call
November 17th, 1939
Odd Fellows Building
L. O. O. M.
No. 1413
Meets first and third Mondays
of each month
Odd Fellows Hall, 8 p. m.
Lyons & Orton
Attorneys At Lew
Rooms 913-921 Alaska Building
Seattle, Washington
Thos. R. Lyons Ira D. Ortor
U& I DANCE U & I
The Folks Who Know—Say
It’s a Better Place To Go
Jonesy says — For Ice Cream
And Pie,
Try—The U & I.
Open Every Night 7 pm to 3 am
Admission 25<‘
NO DRUNKS ALLOWED
CIIAS. CAVEY
Has Opened A Liquor Ston
Carrying an Assortment
of Fine Liquors, Win
es, and Beers.
FRONT ST. NOME
Pioneer Water Co.
Arrange Now For Your Winter
Delivery of Fresh, Sparkling
Spring Water
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Phone Black 44 or Main 15
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vance subscription ? •
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DEERING, ALASKA
I NEWS ITEMS ABOUT
Deputy U S Marshal Dowd
1 who recently made a trip to
Deering saw the folowing people
in and around that place:
Dick Hoogendorn. who has
been feling under the weather
for the past couple of weeks.
Frank Ziminisky, expects to
leave within a few days to do
some winter mining on his
ground near Deering.
Dick and Adolph Ascholt, Joe
Ferenzie, Frank Mulfiati —look
ing as young as ever despite his
76 years.
Jim Haley, Hilkey Robinson
who visited Deering and Candle
during the past week; Bill Frost,
Tlllie Oordovado.
Doc Hinckley is spending a
couple of weeks in Deering audit!
ing store books for Magids Bros.;
Boris Magids; Karl Theile who
is busy getting his property in
shape for a big seasons work i
next year. I
Un T r-'und that two ships of
the N -rthern Cross Inc. have
been bu y for some time trans
port : g reindeer from Candle to
other parts of the country: Kot
zebue, Noorvik, Selawik and pos
sibly that deer will also have to
be flown to the upper Kobuk and
Shungnak villages.
The boys at Deering were sue
cessful in making a round-up and
arrived with a good sized herd
at a point about two miles from
Deering Friday night, all the na
tives who could possible leave
towns visited the herd Saturyda.
Mark Kanyak was tried in the
U S Commissioner’s Court for
drunikness and received a 30-day j
suspended sentence.
CALL TO ARMS—Corp. R. I,. Rice of the 2nd Cavalry
Dragoons, Fort Riley, Has., had reason to blow hard at the Kansas
City livestock show. lie may have had in mind the two-week
• * furlough promised dragoons .for each new recruit
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SPRINT MAY MEAN LIKE OR DEAT H—Into the “disaster bus,” newest emergency
ambulance unit at New York’s Bellevue hospital, hurry doctors and nurses called out on an emergency.
The boxes are amply stocked with medical supplies apt to be needed on this errand of mercy. The
“disaster bus,” which carries 13 doctors a id 13 nurses, rolls at a moment's notice.
SUBWAY BURROWS INTO HALLOWED CROUND —For visitors to Rome’s |
t 1942 Exposition. Italians are building subway where marched victorious 1th century legions.
Ski Pro Writes
On Skiing On
Seward Pen.
The following articles was
contributed by Ted Coomara of
Council, Alaska.
Mr. Coomara states: “I have
been ski pro. at Timberline
Lodge, Mt. Hood, Oregon. Last
winter I coached the Juneau and
the Anchorage ski clubs. I learn
ed to ski in Switzerland, and
have skied for many years in
New England.
There is little place in Alaska
for things that are not useful,
and if the craze for skiing that
has swept across the United Stat
es has not yet done likewise in
the north, it is perhaps as it was
with the Missourian, Alaskans
have to be shown.
Skis have been used in most
parks of Alaska at one time or
another for many years; in the
case of some Aleut tribes, for
many centuries. But until recent
ly, there has always been one
drawback to their use, which
was, that once upon a hill-top,
skis could not be steered down
the hill in an uninterrupted eurv
ed descent that would make it
possible to dodge rocks, gullies,
or other obstacles. Skis were fine
for valley^plodding and still are
but their use in the mountains
was not practical.
In recent years, thru the efforts
of the Scandinavians, and espec
ially through the efforts of the
Alpine people, the Swiss, the
Austrians and the French, new
ski equipment has been devised,
and a new ski technique has
been evolved, whereby it is pos
sible to ski on any slope up to
50 degrees or so, and to control
both the downhill speed and the
direction of the skier with great
precision. It is not hard to learn
this technique.
The skis used today are short
cr than those used a generation
ago. Six and a half feet long is
long enough for most people, and
even the most expert skiers,
those to whom a descent at 70
mi es an hour is not exception
al, seldom use skies more than
seven feet long. Skis that are
longer are heavy, difficult to
handle in narrow or brushy plac
es, hard to turn, and also will
not fit into the average airplane
cabin.
All good skis today are made
of hickory, usually with a ridge
top, and usually with a steel
edged running surface. This steel
edge adds immeasurably to the
life of the ski, and also makes
it possible to ski under control
on steep hard-packed slopes
where the wood alone would not
hold. Also, the best brands of
skis on the market today are
guaranteed against breakage for
a year.
The bindings are many but the
best by far are cable bindings,
in which the boot is held in the
toe-irons by a cable with a safety
heel-spring built in. This is the
most expensive type of binding,
but it will last a (number of
years, and can be taken on or off
the boot in a second.
Ski boots are essential. Muk
luks will not do. If the weather
is extremely cold, have a lapp
boot sewed right over the ski
boot, but the stiff square sole
j of the modern ski boot is essen
j tial to skilled skiing.
The best ski poles today are
made of stainless steel. The best
of these will cost almost ten dol
lars. but again, they will out
last several pairs of cane poles,
and they carry a 12-month guar
antee against breakage. Correct
iength is armpit high.
For the last word in perform
ance, there is no question but
what a skillful application of ski
wax will make skiing easier but
: for everyday use, there is no
thing better than two or three
applications of airplane dope. It
dries hard and waterproof, and
will protect the wood. It is more
lasting than any application of
wax, and unlike linseed oil, will
not permit the wood to wear un
til the coating itself has worn
away.
A good ski outfit costs twice as
much as a cheap one. Some peo
pie may think it rvot worth the
| cost. Winter is long in the north,
| and every one cannot own a dog
team. The snow is inescapable,
and surely it is better to be able
to look forward to it’s coming
instead of awaiting it with dread.
With good ski equipment and a
reasonable ability on skis, such
as any person can aquire in a
few months, there are on Se
ward Peninsula alone, any num
ber of unclimbed peaks any mum
bcr of long steep rolling hills,
waiting for him to tackle.
Amundsen, the great Norweg
ian scientist-explorer, was only a
lad when he and a friend skied
across the Jotunheim, Norway’s
largest ice-cap, and returned al
most without food or rest. In Al
aska, it is people from the out
side who climb the mountains,
who explore our remaining un
travelled areas; it is not us.
In another articles there will
be a simple explanation of the
fundamentals of controlled dowm
hill skiing.
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PRIDE O MdKEi DOOui. I—To ndp Unde Sam observe Navy Day Oct. 27, the De
stroyer Downes leads Battleships New Mexico, Maryland, Tennessee, Oklahoma, California, Am on a,
Nevada, Pennsylvania, Idaho and Mississippi through Pacific waters with 100 planes overhead.