Sgt. William Slwooko Left Comforts
Of Nome to Bring Gospel to Eskimos
On Nunivak, But Stayed W ith ANG
By sgt. Haul E. Morrill
To give up his car, a comfort
able home and life in the city of
Nome, Alaska, for the rugged life
of preaching the Gospel and
teaching army subjects to fellow
Eskimos was the decision of Mas
ter Sergeant William Slwooko,
currently attending a National
Guard noncommissioned officers
school at Fort Richardson, Alaska.
Born on St. Lawrence Island,
Sgt. Slwooko was a reindeer herd
er at the age of 14. It was during
this period he started seriously to
think about God. Alone with the
deer at night on the isolated tun
dra he often became frightened,
sometimes by wild animals, other
times by imaginary demons.
Drafted in 1942, he served in
the Air Force in the Aleutian Is
lands. He was discharged in 1945
and secured a job as a civil ser
vice mechanic aqd welder with
the army in Nome. These service
learned trades afforded him the
opportunity of obtaining a job as
foreman in the Alaska Communi
cation System’s motor pool in
Nome.
In 1949 he joined the National
Guard and became a member of
the 1st Scout Battalion. At this
time, he said, “1 looked around
and saw how much I had . . . and
I knew I had to do something to
show my thankfulness.”
During the evenings and in!
spare hours he started studying
theological books. He secured a
course from the Swedish Cove
nant Church in Nome and devoted
more evenings and spare time to
pursuing the course. Two years
ago he completed his study and
was accepted by the Church as a
missionary. He then accepted a
call which would take him to Nu
nivak Island.
Sgt. Slwooko said he thought he
would have a difficult time trying
to pursuade his wife to agree to
his plan and give up the luxuries
they had become accustomed to.
But his wife’s reply was, “I have
known for a long time this would
happen . . . when can we leave?”
Wanting to remain with the Na
tional Guard, he transferred to
the 2nd Scout Battalion. Traveling
by native skin boat across the
Etolin Strait from Alaska to Nuni-1
vak Island, Slwodko met his first j
V
difficulty when he went to speak
to the natives there. They couldn’t
understand him. Strange as it
seems, all Eskimos do not speak
the same language. Dialects differ
from village to village and in var
ious sections of Alaska. After
mastering the language came the
task of interpreting the Bible
from English.
Slwooko claims the natives be
lieved in some sort of a God, but
their religion was based mostly on
age old superstitions. These he
had to disprove, “for that is what
really shackled these people and
kept them from seeing the true
God.’’
Traveling by dog sled in winter
and skin boat in summer, he min
isters to the villages of Mekoryuk
and Nash Harbor. During these
tours he holds drill periods, usual
ly in the school house, for the
young ’men of the village.
This missionary-soldier is also
an expert hunter and fisherman,
for he supplies his family, which
includes three children, with fish
and game for the long Alaskan
winters. An additional duty is
acting as island commissioner, is
suing marriage certificates and
performing wedding ceremonies.
Sgt. Slwooko is now attending
the National Guard Army Area
noncommissioned officers school
at Fort Richardson, instructing
and acting as student company
commander of the 55 Eskimo
Scouts attending the school. He
will return to Nunivak Island
next week.
GOLD RUSH PHOTOGRAPHER
DIES IN TACOMA AT 84
TACOMA, Wash. UPV—A photog
rapher of Gold Rush *days in the
Yukon, Clarence E. Kinsey, 84,
died here Thursday. In 1897 he
joined the Gold Rush to the Yu
• kon, spending 20 years there as a
photographer and miner. He re
tired in 1949.
SNOW DRIFTS DEEP
EXCEPT ON SKI SLOPES
QUINCY, MASS., <4V-Although
snow was piled deep almost ev
erywhere else from a blizzard
Friday, there was no skiing today
on the ski slopes of the Furnace
Brook Club.
Winds that blew in gusts of 70
miles an hour swept the ski
slopes bare of all snow.
Nome Laundry
& Cleaners
CALL MAIN 29
FOR PICKUP
Joe Amarok, Proprietor
Fred Allen Dies...
(Continued from Page One)
tuted for Fred.
Allen had had a heart condition
over the years. Ill health and
sponsor trouble put Allen on part
time work on the airwaves in
1949. He gave up his struggle
against TV about he same time.
“Let someone else pioneer it,”
he once said of the new medium.
But 2Vfe years ago he became a
regular on “What’s My Line?”
Allen was bom John Florence
Sullivan in Cambridge, Mass. He
changed his name early in his
career at the suggestion of his
agent, a man named Allen.
Allen’s cutting wit held few
subjects sacred. He liked to com
ment on the passing scene thru
the mouths of characters like
“Senator Claghom,” one of the
inhabitants of “Allen's Alley.”
Giveaway programs and net
work officials became particular
targets of his thrusts. He offered
to bond his listeners up to $5,000
against any prize they might lose
by not tuning in some other pro
gram.
Another time he offered his own
“giveaway”—a TV set complete
with saloon and bartender, the
gangplank of the Queen Mary and
800 pounds of putty to each mem
ber of the winner’s family.
Allen expressed his scorn for
network officials by inventing
such titles as “vice president in
charge of program ends” and
"vice president in charge of wav
ing fingers at comedians.
Fine Job Printing at The Nuggel
Kremlin Shaken by Reports That
Khrushchev Denounced Stalin as
Murderer; Tiflis Riots Rumored
LONDON, (/PI—The Kremlin’s
top lieutenants in London showed
signs of being shaken Saturday by
reports leaking out of Moscow
that Nikita Khrushchev de
nounced Stalin as a blundering
murderer.
The denunciation by the first
secretary of the Communist Party
was reported to have caused riots
in Tbilisi <Tiflis», in Stalin’s home
state of Georgia, protesting the
discrediting of the one-time dic
tator.
Georgi Malenkov, for years
Stalin’s secretary and known as
his “eyes and ears,” showed up
two hours late for an appointment
on his tour of British power sta
tions. The lack of punctuality is
unusual in a Soviet official.
Malenkov, a deposed premier,
is here in his new role as Soviet
minister of power stations. One j
1 report published here said Mal
| enkov was personally mentioned
j in Khrushchev’s denunciation.
Lights blazed in Malenkov’s
I room in the Soviet Embassy until
way past midnight Friday night.
A Soviet official said that he was
busy reading translations of Brit
ish press dispatches saying that
Khrushchev had denounced Sta
lin in a secret session of the re
cent Communist Party Congress
in Moscow.
A newsman asked Malenkov to
comment on the reports today. His
usual smiling self, Malenkov re
plied: “I have had no time to
study the report in detail.”
Asked if he was still friendly
with Khrushchev, the Communist
Party boss, Malenkov replied test
ily: "Yes, of course I am still
friendly with him."
As the dominant personality in
Moscow’s new “collective leader
ship,” Khrushchev presumably
was responsible for dropping Mal
enkov out of the premiership a
year ago.
The reports of the Khrushchev
speech filtered through diplomatic
sources in Europe. So far, no di
rect dispatches have come from
Western correspondents in Mos
cow. But the diplomatic reports
from Moscow pictured the Soviet
capital as ridden with rumors
about the Khrushchev speech on
the dead dictator.
A Yugoslav diplomatic source,
in one account, said Khrushchev
confessed he himself lived in fear
of his life during Stalin’s last
years. Khrushchev was said to
have made the statement to Mar
shal Tito in Belgrade last May,
when Khrushchev and Premier
Bulganin visited the Yugoslav
cap.tal to woo Yugoslavia back
; into the Cominform bloc.
With Bronson's trade
mark*
You may be sure.
Your water's healthful,
And clean, and pure.
* The sign with ihe green W
l BRONSON
WATER
DELIVERY
PHONE MAIN 19
Utility Board To Meet Tuesday
The Nome Light and Power
Utility Board will held its regu
lar monthly meeting on Tuesday,
March 20 at 7:30 p.m. at the
City Hall. .
Nothing in a Name
To This O'Malley,
Sentenced 10 Years
LOS ANGELES OP)—This O’Mal
ley was not to be found at any St.
Patrick’s Day celebrations Satur
day. He was in jail.
A Filipino, John E. O’Malley,
58, attributes his name to an Irish
grandfather. He was sentenced
Friday to 1 to 10 years in prison
after being convicted on theft
charges.
Carrying a bug in a bottle, he
represented himself as a scientific
researcher and bilked people out
of small sums of money. Police
records showed 26 arrests under
19 aliases during the last 35 years.
VANDALS , INVADE
PATROLMAN'S APARTMENT
LOUISVILLE, Ky., WV—Patrol
man John R. Thomas Jr. had a
report for police yesterday. He
said vandals raided his apartment,
shredded one of his uniforms, tak
ing $462 in loot, plus his service
pistol and handcuffs, scattering
garbage over his kitchen and
breaking out three windows.
ARCTIC SANITARY
SERVICE
PHONE RED 181
CAB Official Reconfmends
Wien Purchase of Byers
WASHINGTON UP—Civil Aero
nautics Board Examiner Joseph
L. Fitzmaurice has recommended
approval of the purchase of Byers
Airways Inc. by Wien Alaska Air
lines for $25,000.
Both firms are based at Fair
banks;__
This man can give you
, i dependable
delivery of
THE
CHRISTIAN
SCIENCE
MONITOR
an
Intetiat tonal
dally
nurswew
Housewives, businessmen,
teachers, and students all over
the world reod and enjoy this
international newspaper, pub
lished daily in Boston. World
famous for constructive news
stories and penetrating editoriols.
Special features for the whole
fami'
The istion Science Monitor
One Norway St., Boston 15, Moss.
Send your newspaper for the time
checked. Enclosed find my check or
money order.
1 year $16 0 6 months $8 □
3 months $4 □
Nome
Address
City Zone Stote
PB-15
BERING SEA CLUB 1
COFFEE SHOP I
THE BEST FOOD IN TOWN
Now Open Every Day ■
6:30 A.M. to 10:39 PE |
BASKETS
★ ★ ★
BIG & LITTLE
OPEN & CLOSED
★ ★ ★
Mats, Bread Trays, Waste Baskets
Table Lamps, Book Ends
Specially Priced This Week
V3 OFF
i