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Mountains of Mail
Wait for Baranoff
Sailing to Alaska
SEATTLE, OP) — Mountains of
holiday mail are towering high at
Pier 42 awaiting the last Christ
mas ship to Alaska.
Several hundred tons of mail
bags and parcels, Alaska Steam
ship Co. officials estimated, lay
about the pier in huge mounds, a
separate mound for each of five
Alaska ports which will unload
Christmas mail from the relief
ship^SS Baranof.
Not counting parcels too big for
the mailbags, the mounds com
prise almost 4.000 bags of Christ
mas letters and greeting cards,
packages from friends, relatives,
mail order houses and other deal
ers.
When this shipment sails north
to Ketchikan, Wrangell, Peters
burg, Juneau and Seward, Super
intendent R. J. Alexander of the
Postal Transportation Service says,
it will result in “almost normal”
delivery of holiday mail to the
North.
GAMBELL NEWS
October News
October brought very little
cheer this fall. Mail, as usual, did
not come when most expected.
High winds blowing from the
southeast caused heavy surf to
pound the west beach furiously,
excavating a meat rack, buried
during a tidal wave some 37 years
ago. Approximate time when this
took place was 1913-14, when M$.
and Mrs. Coffin (school teachers)
with their son Gordon fled to the
hillside to escape rising tide.
This recent storm lasted only a
day and a night.
* * *
Mrs. Sam Bell Nupokohok passed
away after a long illness. She is
survived by her husband and by
three grown children. Ellis Kan
ingok also passed away after a
long illness.
* * ❖
To make the picture a little
brighter, one bull walrus lighted
on the north beach. In less than
an hour, the skin and meat were
divided among the people of the
village.
A few seal are killed now and
then.-'
* * *
Campers are still camping. They
may stay as long as they can
stand the cold, or until the ice
starts coming in.
November News
Two dead whales drifted on the
shores in the vicinity of Gambell
in November and that’s the only
big news for this month. Meat
•and blubber from these whales
provided food for the people,
dogs and white foxes. Trappers
have already trapped a number
of these fur-bearing animals.
* * *
A delicacy of the natives, called
“opa” in their own dialect, is
found in quantities on the beach
east of Gambell. This underwater
plant drifted on the beaches when
storms beat against the land fur
iously. The plant clings to the
bottom securely, and only a ter- j
rific force of underwater current i
disengages it.
* * *
Once again, the people of the j
village of Gambell assembled in j
the two classrooms of the school, j
Thanksgiving dinner was eaten !
and as usual, all were present ex- j
cept the turkey! Nevertheless, ev- j
eryone enjoyed feasting together, i
which was followed by a big I
“show.”
* * *
Charlie Iyapana, who accom- I
panied Mrs. Koonooku from Lit
tle Diomede Island, is enjoying
his stay on a bigger island. Ivory
carvers praised Charlie’s good |
work on fancy bracelets and other j
things.
When you hear Sergeant Mc
Leod sing "OT Man River" at ihe
Roof Garden you will say "Oh, ;
boy! I got my money's worth<
now. What a baritone."
ALASKA POLIO CASES
TOTALED 77 AS OF DEC 1
Cases of poliomyelitis in the
territory as of December 1 to
talled 77 of which 51 occurred in
the Ketchikan area, according to
reports of the current outbreak of
the disease made to the Alaska
Department of Health. Five new
cases were reported from Ketchi
kan during the last week of Nov
ember, one of which occurred in
Hydaburg. 1
Polio cases reported from other
Alaska towns since May, 1952,
are: Anchorage, 4; Fairbanks, 1;
Haines, 1; Hydaburg, 1; Metla
katla, 15; Mountain View, 1; and
Sitka, 3:
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