Elim Dog Races
Feature Two-Day,
50 - Mile Event
By HANS JEMEWOUK
(Member, Dog Racing Committee)
Twenty-one teams entered the
dog team races held at Elim, Feb
ruary 22 and 23. There were teams
from all the outlying villages, in
cluding a team from Nome. The
course was approximately 50 miles
for the two-day race. The first
day’s heat (20 miles) was won by
Kenneth Dewey of Koyuk, with
a time of 2:01.01, followed by
Charlie Auliye, of Elim, with 2:
03.16; Nathan Nagaruk, Elim,
2:06.12; Willie Iakak, Shaktoolik,
2:07.55. The second day’s heat,
on February 23, was won by Willie
Takak, in 2:51.31; paced by Char
lie Auliye, 2:54.52; Nathan Naga
ruk, 2:55.23, and Kenneth Dewey,
2:57.49.
The total elapsed time winners:
<1> Charlie Auliye, 4:58.09; (2)
Kenneth Dewey, 4:58.50; (3) Wil
lie Takak, 4:49.26; (4) Nathan Na
garuk, 5:01.35.
The follow-ups: Steven Agloin
ga, White Mountain, Raymond
Pungak, White Mountain; Herbie
James Jr., Nome; Charles Sac
cheus, Elim'; Alfred Adams, Koy
uk; Albert Kimoktoak, Koyuk;
Isaac Nylin, Elim; David Amuk
toolik, Golovin; Fred Daniels,
Elim; Archie Henry, Koyuk,
and James Murray, Elim.
Bigger and better races for 1960
are in the planning. Some of the
top teams are expected to go to
Nome to participate in the Arctic
Club Race on Sunday, March 22.
HEIR RAGES AFTER
GETTING 'ONLY $500'
MONTGOMERY, Ala., M — A
disgruntled heir cooled off in jail
today after damaging three houses
which his grandmother willed to
other members of the family.
Police Capt. Lewis Miller said
Nayef Kasen of Montgomery was
being held for a hearing in city
court on charges of disorderly con
duct and destruction of property.
About 50 smashed windows,
kicked-out screens, two broken
beds and shredded curtains lay in
the wake of the rampage after
Kasen learned he had inherited
only $500, Miller said.
Fine Job Printing At The Nugget.
lee Pool Dates
Since 1917, when the Pool
was started, the ice has gone
out at Nenana as follows:
1917— April 30 .11:30 a.m.
1918— May 11. 9:33 a.m.
1919— May 3. 2:33 p.m.
1920— May 11.10:45 a.m.
1921— May 11. 6:42 a.m.
1922— May 12. 1:20 p.m.
1923— May 9. 2:00 p.m.
1924— May 11. 3:10 p.m.
1925— May 7. 6:32 p.m.
1926— April 26 . 4:03 p.m.
1927— May 13. 5:42 a.m.
1928— May 6. 4:25 p.m.
1929— May 5. 3:41 p.m.
1930— May 8. 7:03 p.m.
1931— May 10. 9:23 a.m.
1932— May 1.10:15 a.m.
1933— May 8. 7:30 p.m.
1934— April 30 . 2:07 p.m.
1935— May 15. 1:32 p.m.
1936— April 30.12:58 p.m.
1937— May 12. 8:04 p.m.
1938— May 6. 8:14 p.m.
1939— April 29 . 1:26 p.m.
1940— April 20 . 3:27 p.m.
1941— Ma) 3. 1:50 a.m
1942— April 30. ?:28 p.m
1943— April 28 . 7:22 p.m
1944— May 4. 2:08 p.m
1945— May 16. 9:41 a.m.
1946— May 5. 4:40 p.m.
1947— May 3. 5:53 p.m.
ig48—May 13.11:13 p.m.
1949— May 14.12:39 p.m,
1950— May 6. 4:14 p.m.
951—April 30 . 5:54 p.m.
1952—M?v -12. 5:04 p.m.
lfl«;3_»T>r:l 29 . 3:54 p.m.
1954— May 6. 6:01 p.m.
1955— May 9. 2:13 p.m.
1956— May 1.11:24 a.m.
1957— May 5. 9:30 a.m.
1958— April 29 . 2:56 p.m.
I GAMBELL NEWS LETTER
By CLARENCE IRRIGOO
Feb. 25. 1959
Angry Seas
High winds and high seas
threaten the people of Gambell
early in February this year. This
is the second time the high seas
of the Bering Sea alerted the
Gambellites this winter.
This is not the first time that
happened. Last bad storm was be
fore 1950 when the high seas went
up on top of the beach in front
of the Village just about reaching
the front rows of the houses. It
was some years back, in 1914 or
later, that a real bad one really
caused trouble and damage in the
summer or fall time. What this
writer gathered from people who
knew it reported—2 houses washed
away possibly a third one and
some damage to property, but no
loss of life. It was told that all
residents took to the hill-side in a
pitch-black night for dear life,
which include government school
teachers. If the time of the year
is correct, it is about 40 years or
so now, and the VILLAGE SITE
THEN is now in the water. Within
this time, enough gravel had been
carried away, each storm taking
away enough piece of land to make
one worry.
The recent storm was bad
enough and we almost lose our
air-strip, hadn’t the ice come to
our rescue. It was about dark
when the current changed to high
tide bringing in almost all of the
Bering Sea in front of us. All the
skin boats were still on the racks
but had to moved away when the
water reached to the danger point.
With winds blowing 50 to 60 miles
that night, it would be terrible
for the residents to flee. The next
morning found us with the na
ture’s sea-wall of ice front of the
village. The ice had come in —
in time to built up a wall itself
with the height of 60 ft. some
places. This ice sea-wall prevented
the high seas from coming any
further that night. But that was
not all. To our surprise we found
out that the landing field for air
planes was buried with gravel
and ice almost half way from one
end. But local hard working men,
about dozen of ’em, with the help
of an old weasel managed to clear
it in two days. Several place along
the runway, the water had run
over to the lake. Few hundred
feet from one last house to the
! south, water had flowed clear
■ across the old igloos. If this hap
! pens every year, there is no place
I where houses can be moved far
j ther back because it is low behind
I the village except the hillside
| which would be unfavorable to
all.
« * *
i Nothing by Mouth
A little boy returned home from
ANS Hospital in Anchorage along
with others who went with the
third group. When asked what
things he saw and remembered
during his 11 day confinement for
tonsillectomy and removal of ade
noids had this to say — “Nothing
by mouth after midnight.”
One half of the last group re
turned home promptly but the
other half were held because some
were running a fever so were not
given treatments then. They are
still being held for unknown rea
son to date. Several inquiries
failed to receive reply from the
hospital. Unexplained silence
made parents restless these 4Vi
weeks.
Wrong Guess
Unsettled winter made summer
birds guessing when to migrate
up north. While the radios and
newspapers tell the world that the
United States in the torrid zone
experience below zero tempera
tures and snow, unusually very
warm winter was enjoyed by both
people and warm climate birds.
Crested auklets which usually
come in June are in the vicinity
this month.
* * *
Propaganda
Soviet Eskimo radio broadcast
which was usually heard Wednes
day and Sunday evenings discon
tinued for a time, but they were
heard on the air again recently.
The Eskimo speaker calling him
self by one well known Eskimo
name reported that they the So
viet people are “far ahead of the
Americans in many ways.” Eskimo
speaking conversations between
NG radios may have prompted
them in the first place, but it may
not be true.
The .Safety merit badge has
been earned by 269,756 Boy Scouts
and Explorers.
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Michigan 459ers’
Enroute To New
Wilderness Home
DETROIT, OPt — Shivering from
excitement and cold, 38 Michigan
ders, bent on carving new liv^s
in an Alaskan wilderness, began
the long trek yesterday in a traf
fic jam generated by relatives,
well wishers and the curious.
The modern-day wagon train,
utilizing everything from a 1936
moving van to new station wag
ons, got under way at 7:20 a.m.
The caravan included 13 men,
11 women and 14 children. There
are 10 married couples, three
single men and Miss Yvonne Ste
vens, 22. ^
The men and Miss Stevens, who
quit her job as a business machine
operator, and struck out with the
others, plan to homestead 160
acres each in the virgin Kenai
Peninsula.
The homesteaders, who call
themselves “The 59ers,” began
gathering at 5:30 a.m. in pickup
trucks, hitched to house trailers
and station wagons, and a 1936
Reo moving van.
The moving van, with a 1946
engine, was described as “our
hope chest.” On its ancient sides
it carried placards: “Alaska or
bust.”
The van load included a tractor,
two deep freezes, two washing
machines and two sewing ma
chines. The van was donated by a
mover.
The tractor will be used by the
59ers to help clear the 20 acres
they must have carved from each
160 acres in three years.
Undisturbed by it all was Laurie
Beth Wills, who lay on the front
seat of father Jerre’s station wa
gon, eating breakfast. Laurie Beth
is 10 months old. Breakfast was
in a bottle.
Many homesteaders already had
sprouted beards, the most luxuri
ous of which belonged to Michael
Welch, 21, an unemployed tool
maker who saw “nothing to lose
and a lot to gain, like experience
and adventure, in Alaska.”
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Britain’s Roval
Guards Fight for
Furry Plumage
By DENNIS NEELD
LONDON, HPI — Britain’s famed
Brigades of Guards today fought
grimly for the honor of their bear
skins.
The tall, furry hats guardsmen
have worn on state occasions
since before Waterloo were under
fire.
Ex-RAF man Peter Page, in a
letter to the London Times, wrote
that the bearskins on guardsmen
outside Buckingham Palace were
in disturbing variety.
“Some have fierce looking
fringes and look magnificent,” he
wrote. “Some have no fringes at
all and look curiously bald. Others
have a slightly tattered, almost
mangy, look about them.
He suggested some of the head
pieces might even be veterans of
the Napoleonic wars.
Well-trimmed mustaches bristled
angrily in barracks throughout
Britain. The Grenadiers, Cold
streams, Scots, Irish and Welsh
Brigades instinctively closed
ranks.
“Whenever a bearskin becomes
unserviceable, it is replaced,”
reported the War Office curtly.
“Exaggerated,” snapped Lt.
Col. Michael O’Cock, brigade ma
jor of the household brigade which
supplies the Queen’s sentries.
But after a moment of reflec
tion he added apologetically: “We
are sorry to have to agree that
some caps are a little scruffy.”
At the Ministry of Supply a
spokesman admitted a shortage.
The ministry is experimenting
with nylon, he said.
HONOR ROLL
Mr. Stenback’s 8th Grade
Ivan Sundstrom, Pamela Mul
vihill, Ferris Gillespie, Carol
Doyle, Judy Bixby, Dick Arnold.
Perfect Attendance
Diane Wilke, Sally Walker,
Ivan Sundstrom, Kenneth Okit
kon, Billy Nuipok, Pamela Mul
vihill, Carol Miller, Mary Komak
huk, Carol Doyle, Dick Arnold.
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