Jesse Stubbs Off To
Finish Monument
To Will Rogers
FAIRBANKS, (£1 — Rugged old
Jesse Stubbs is setting out again
to finish the monument he erected
to Will Rogers near Point Barrow
last year.
Stubbs, you will recall, is the
74-year-old boyhood friend of the
famed humorist. He vowed last
year he would hike all the way
from Anchorage to Barrow to
erect the monument to his old
friend. He actually made it to
Fairbanks where he finally agreed
to fly the rest of the way.
Stubbs had just ended more
than six months in a Fairbanks
• hospital as a result of frozen feet
and other effects of cruel expo
sure in an Arctic storm.
Stubbs, as sentimental as he is
sturdy, suffered his frostbite on
a trip with a native after wild
game for a destitute Eskimo fam
ily. They were trapped in a blind
ing blizzard on the way home. His
native companion became ill so
Stubbs insisted on the man tying
himself in the sled and letting the
dogs take him home by instinct.
Stubbs remained behind with
only a tarpaulin cover for shelter
and a kerosene lantern for heat.
His food ran out before the wea
ther allowed the native to return
for him two weeks later.
Stubbs was unable to walk when
the native returned. He was taken
to a hospital at Barrow, where
attendants did not expect him to
si \ h e. Three weeks later he was
transferred lu a hospital here.
The sturdy Stubbs heart pulled
him through and he is ready to
hit the trail again.
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Rev. Hegland Item And Series By
Bachelder Featured in ‘Alaska Record’
Everett Bachelder is responsible ;
for a fine series of articles run- j
ning in the Alaska Record, pub
lished monthly at Palmer. The ar
ticles are entitled “No Place Like
Nome.”
The magazine furnishes a vari
ety of news from all Alaska.
One interesting item this month
is about Rev. N. Hegland of Teller.
We reprint it here, in part:
The Rev. Norval Hegland is a
Nome pastor who made church
history last fall when he attended
the Pacific District Convention of
Evangelical Lutheran Church, at
Tacoma, Wash., and travelled the
farthest of any member of the
group.
He went to the meeting as a
passenger on a commercial airliner
but on the Seward Peninsula he
flies his own Piper family cruiser.
Rev. Hegland’s pastorate con
sists of five Seward Peninsula
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communities, with Teller as his
home base. Other communities in
his circuit and their distances from
Teller are:
Teller Mission, 7 miles; Shish
maref, 75 miles; Lost River, 35
miles; and Nome, 75 miles. Exclu
sive of Nome, the parish totals
500 Eskimos.
Of special interest is the church
at Lost River, which was moved
by a construction company from
Mary’s Igloo, a ghost town, a dis
tance of 88 miles over the tundra.
Lost River is a village that has
sprung up as the result of the acti
vation of a large tin mine.
There are no roads in the parish.
Prior to the coming of the airplane
travel was made by dog sled in
winter and by boat in summer.
The use of the airplane on this
large field has enabled mission
aries to do more effective work
and has helped to unify the parish.
Prior to the advent of the plane,
people saw little of each other.
The Rev. Hegland, his wife and
three children flew from South
Dakota to Teller in September,
1951, guided only by the Alaska
Highway.
Storms aj'e especially bad in the
Lost River area. They prove to be
the biggest obstacle to the work,
as services often have to be can
celled due to' the bad weather.
Hegland has his commercial fly
ing license and has over 2,000 fly
ing hours to his credit.
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Increasing cloudiness tonight
with snow Thursday. Warmer to
night and Thursday. Light easterly
winds tonight increasing to 25-35
mph Thursday. Lowest tempera
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Thursday 18.
Nome data last 24 hours as of
7 a.m. today: Snowfall 1.3 inches.
High temperature 20, low -12.
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date since 1907: high 33 in 1924,
low -27 in 1930.
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