4-H WEEK. MARCH 5-12 — The
four H’s on the 4-H cloverleaf
emblem stand for Head, Heart,
Hands and Health, which are em
phasized in the club program.
They imply these goals: Head—
to learn the value of science by
applying the latest scientific
knowledge to agriculture, home
making and other projects; Heart
— to develop wholesome char
acter and personality and the
qualities of good citizenship;
Hands — to acquire useful skills
in 'homemaking, agriculture and
other vocations; Health — to cul
tivate good health habits which
lead to satisfying, happy living.
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Nanooks’ Sportsmanship
Trophy On Display
At Polet’s Store
The Nome High basketball team
returned from the Western Alas
ka Class B tournament, held at
Seward, with the Sportsmanship
Trophy. This trophy is awarded
to the team that not only displays
good sportsmanship on the bas
ketball court, but for their con
duct in the school, on the streets,
in the cafeteria, and in general,
throughout the tournament parti
cipation. Mr. Rauch and Mr. Ull
rich, as well as the rest of the
community, are proud of the
team members, and cheerleaders’
behavior, as there was not one
case of misconduct.
The trophy will be on display
in Polet’s window for one week.
Those people on the team and ac
companying, were Ray Arnold,
Rod Boucher, Clifford Steele, Bob
Oman, Fred Kungesuk, James
Bell, John Herman, Langford
Adams, Ronald Locke, Gabe Wil
kalkia, Ernie Ailak, Cheerleaders
Betty Rose Woodcock and Carolyn
Johnson, and Mr. Ullrich and Mr.
Rauch.
NOME SANITARY
SERVICE
Phone Main 1
P. O. Box 460
Hunters Aid In
Compiling Figures
On Polar Bears
The quest for a highly-prized
Arctic game trophy, polar bear,
is reaching full swing for this
season. During March and April
many sportsmen, both resident
and nonresident, will journey
to Barrow, Kotzebue, Pt. Hope,
Teller and a few other northwest
coast villages to tje guided on bear
hunts over the Chukchi Sea and
Arctic Ocean ice packs. To ensure
adequate protection and perpetua
tion of this increasingly valuable
animal, the Alaska Department of
Fish and Game is undertaking a
study of the polar bear.
Departmental personnel are en
listing the aid of polar bear hun
ers and guides in obtaining in
formation about polar bear. The
hunters and guides are furnished
printed forms which facilitate the
recording of such information as
the number, size and sex of polar
bears seen, the sex and size of
bear taken, and the total number
of hours spent flying in search of
bear, in addition to other perti
nent observations of bear such as
breeding activity, movements and
feeding habits. Only through the
cooperation of hunters and guides
can this information be gathered,
for the cost of duplicating those
hours of bear observations would
be prohibitive. In addition to ac
quiring information from sport
hunters and guides, the number
of polar bear harvested by native
hunters is determined.
At the conclusion of the hunt
ing season the total harvest of
polar bear will be computed. By
comparing yearly changes of such
indices as the number of bear seen
per hour of observation and the
average size of bear taken, Fish
and Game personnel gain insight
into the effects of hunting and
the welfare of polar bear. The
setting of proper hunting seasons
and bag limits essentially depends
on that information.
Bad Cold Forces Seaton
Cut Public Appearances
In Juneau Saturday
JUNEAiU, Ut) — Interior Secre
tary Fred A. Seaton was forced
to cancel three appearances Sat
urday because of a bad cold, the
result of a recent bout with the
flu.
Seaton, however, met with Gov.
Egan for about an hour. The Gov
ernor gave no details of the dis
cussion but said it concerned mat
ters of interest to the state and
the Interior Department.
The Secretary canceled his ap
pearance before a Republican
Club luncheon, a news conference
and turned down an invitation to
attend a banquet reunion of dele
gates to Alaska’s Constitutional
Convention.
Seaton left yesterday and is due
back in Washington tonight.
SCORCHY SMITH
WHILE SCOPCHYAND BABS'FATHER WERE
TALKING, CARSON BAILEY LEAPED FROM
THE JEEP, GRABBED BUCK'S CAR AND
TOOK OFF BEFORE ANYONE NOTICED HIM /
OAKY DOAKS
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Lost Pair Hike,
Jump, Paddle In
Off Chukchi Floe
FAIRBANKS, (if) — Two men
who lived on moose meat sausage
and dry biscuits, who slept in
ice igloos and drank snow water
for a week, were safe in Kot
zebue for the weekend.
George Baumann, 58, polar
bear hunter from Nevada, Mo.,
and Lee Holen, 43, Anchorage
pilot, were rescued Friday, a week
after their light plane was forced
to land on an ice floe in Chukchi
Sea.
Holen described their ordeal in
a telephone interview from Kot
zebue.
He said they spent their first
night sleeping on the wings of
the plane, which partially sank
through the top layers of the floe.
After two days, Holen said, they
left because of the ice’s instability.
Using a raft fashioned from
the plane’s gas tanks and often
leaping from one rotting ice cake
to another, the two made it some
30 miles to shore.
Only their sleeping bags and
the snow igloos that protected
them at night kept them from
freezing in the near-zero temper
atures, Holen said.
Holen said they hiked down the
coast toward Kivalina for four
days. Thursday night they met a
party of Eskimos who took them
into Kivalina.
“We never were discouraged or
lost hope,” Holen said. “We
knew we’d make it, but we were
awfully happy to see those Es
kimos and their dog teams.”
It was the second rescue of the
week. Max Eastman, hunter from
Omak, Wash., and his pilot, War
ren Johnson of Anchorage, had
accompanied Holen and Baumann
in a separte plane. They, too,
were forced to land on an ice floe,
and were rescued by Air Force
helicopter Monday.
The two hunters, .pilot Ward
Carroll and G. Stanley Gordon of
Anchorage, were killed in the
crash of a light plane Feb. 19.
Their bodies were seen on an ice
floe which drifted away. A search
for the bodies has been aban
doned.
The Navy first used the Pana
ma Canal on Oct. 12, 1914, when
the USS Jupiter crossed the “Big
Ditch” from the Pacific to the
Atlantic.
Nome Directory
Northwestern Alaska
Chamber of Commerce
Meets Every Monday Noon at
North Star Dining Room
Pearse Walsh, President
ALASKA CHAPTER NO. 1
Order of Eastern Star
Ruth Reed
Worthy Matron
Verna Mickelson
Secretary
Meets first and third Mondays
ANVIL LODGE
No. 140
BYRON G. REED. W.M.
Norvin W. Lewis. Sec.
Meets First and Third Thursday
of Each Month
NOME ROTARY CLUB
Ash Craft
President
Herb Jenks
Secretary
Wednesday Luncheon
Parent-Teachers Assn.
Meets last Tuesday of ovary
month at School.
WERNER BOHRER. President
VESTA SUNDSTROM, Seely.
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