Kotzebue News
Activities throughout the holi
day season in Kotzebue centered
around the gaily decorated com
munity building from the time of
the ANS Hospital staff party for
over 60 employees and friends on
December 21 to the early morning
•hours of January 1, when the New
Year’s dancers reluctantly closed
the season amid a mass of serpen
tine, confetti, paper hats, noise
makers and fun.
Churches of the village had com
munity dinners and Christmas
trees; Eskimo games of skill, dog
races for men, women and chil
dren continued through the week.
On Christmas Day, Santa in
person visited the crippled chil
dren of the ANS Hospital, contin
uing to the community building,
where every kid in the village
waited in wide-eyed anticipation
for the distribution of candy, pop
corn and gifts. This was made
-possible by the generosity and
thoughtfulness of the Lions Club
and Salvation Army groups of
Anchorage and the Elks Club of
Fairbanks.
* * *
At the first meeting of the Arc
tic Circle Chamber of Commerce
in the new year it was decided to
make public announcement of the
resolution of the members against
a special session of the legislators.
It is felt that the wide differ
ences of opinions concerning the
need for a special session would
he reflected in legislative ap
proach to the reasons cited by
those favoring a special call, with
little resulting to justify the ex
pense of such a session.
The members also concurred in
a resolution that with the help
now made available to each mem
ber of the legislature through
compilation of data and reports of
the legislative council which elim
inates many hours of research by
individual members it will not be
necessary to extend the present
60-day limitation on the legisla
ture, with all the attendant costs.
* * *
Seymour Rotman, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Louis Rotman, pioneer
traders of the area, returned to
Tacoma where he attends the pub
lic high school, immediately after
New Year’s Day. He was accom
: panied by his father as far as Fair
j banks.
June Rotman, Seymour’s sister,
who is a student at the University
of Alaska, was also home for a
holiday visit with her family.
* * *
The Rev. and Mrs. Rowland Cox
of Point Hope visited Kotzebue
for several days when they were
delayed on their return trip home
by weather.
They reported nine polar bear
had been killed at Point Hope as
of December 30. The peak of polar
bear hunting comes usually in
February and it is most unusual
to get so many of the beasts this
early in the year.
* * *
Father Tom Cunningham, after
one of his many trips to the Bar
row area, was able to spend the
holidays with his Kotzebue parish.
He left immediately after New
Year’s for Fairbanks.
* * *
Kotzebue’s worst wind storm of
the winter started at midnight on
New Year’s Eve. It continued un
til late in the afternoon of New
Year’s Day and resulted in the
only drifts of the year. The roads
were soon cleared and the village
is again open to all traffic with
the road free to the CAA as well.
The word “cemetery” literally
means “sleeping place.”
Airman Drops In On
Colorado Springs—*<Vnm
20,000 Feet Straight Up
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.,
UP)—A tourist literally dropped in
on Colorado Springs Thursday—
from 20,000 feet straight up.
It happened because M/Sgt.
James Ayres, crew member of a
B-50 bomber from Walker Air
Force Base at Roswell, N.M., mis
took an airplane alert for the
bail-out signal.
Ayres hopped out of the plane,
pulled the ripcord and landed
safely in a field east of Colorado
Springs. He then hitchhiked here.
Maj. C. W. Simonson, com
mander of the big bomber, said
he pressed the alert signal after
one of the B-50s four propellor
driven engines acted up.
He landed the plane at Lowry
Air Force Base in Denver after
learning Ayres had reached safety
on the ground.
California Deer Starving
MONROVIA, Calif., Iff)—Starv
ing deer in Angeles National For
est blackened in the recent Mt.
Wilson forest fire, are being fed
with bales of hay until grasses
sown by plane have a chance to
sprout.
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Alaska Steamship
Promotes Dillon
To Traffic Manager
Five Alaska Steamship Com
pany traffic department promo
tions were announced last Satur
d a y effective
Jan. by W. J.
Manahan, com
pany general
traffic manager.
Two assistant
general traffic
managers have
been named:
D. R. Rengarger
from general freight agent and
J. J. Dillon from special assistant
to the general traffic manager.
W. B. Thompson, traffic repre
sentative, has been advanced to
general freight agent, R. E. Ban
croft, assistant to chief clerk,
freight traffic, to assistant general
freight agent, and H. M. Griffiths,
freight booking clerk, to chief
clerk, freight traffic.
These promotions resulted from
the retirement Jan. 1 of H. N.
Peterson and J. D. Nelson, general,
and assistant general traffic man
agers, respectively, of The Alaska
Line.
Dillon joined The Alaska Line
freight booking section in 1949
after six years with Northland
Transportation Company. He was
appointed Nome agent in 1950
and special assistant to the assis
tant general traffic manager in
May, 1952.
He has recently been admitted
to practice before the Interstate
Commerce Commission and the
Federal Maritime Board.
He was notified last month that
he had been granted admission
to practice before the Federal
Maritime Board. The previous
month he was admitted to prac
tice before- the Interstate Com
merce Commission.
Dillon completed a ten moritlrs
course in Interstate Commerce
and Traffic Law at the University
of Washington last June and took
the- difficult examination of the
Interstate Commerce Commission
in July.
Legal Blanks at The Nome Nuggei
Nome Directory
ROTARY CLUB
OF NOME
James Walsh, Pres.
George Bayer, Secty.
Thursday Luncheon
Northwestern Alaska
Chamber of Commerce
MEETS
EVERY TUESDAY NOON
Dewey Goodrich, President
ALASKA CHAPTER NO. 1
Order of Eastern Star
Meets the third Monday of each month.
Jane Perkins
Worthy Matron
Evelyn Branson
Secretary
LESLIE A. STEVENS
PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT
—486 First Ave. West, Nome, Alaska
10 to 12 A.M. - 1 to 5 P.M.
Phone Main 82 — P.O. Box 208
Room 202, Lavery Bldg., Fairbanks
ANVIL LODGE
No. 140
John Cooley, W.M.
Norvin W. Lewis, Secy.
Meets 1st and 3rd Thursday each Month