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An Occasion and a Turning Point
As Road Board Meets Here
The Board of Road Commissioners, which meets
in Nome today, has chosen an ideal time to have this
meeting as well as the ideal place in which to hold it.
This week marks the turning point in road con
struction in the territory, as the Alaska Road Commis
sion, which has guided road building since 1905, turns
over its work to the Federal Highway System. It is
the end of a year-to-year program and the beginning
of long-range plans which will mean more to the future
State of Alaska than we fully realize.
The place the Board has chosen is also the end
of the mighty Highway 97 which links North and South
America. The 30 miles leading out of Nome on this
famous road marks the beginning of the most important
section in that highway ,as it opens up mineral and oil
potentials as yet not even prospected and unites a part
of Alaska that has no other means of transportation,
and it will encourage settlement, exploration and ex
pansion of industry.
Our territorial highway engineer, who meets with
the Board knows this part of Alaska well and, with the
Board, has shown vision and foresight in laying the
plans to give priority in new road construction all along
the route from Fairbanks to Nome.
Sylacauga (Ala.) News: “We suppose that remain
ing calm and being unexcitable was one of the topics
discussed at the National Traffic Safety Conference in
. Miami. Anyhow, Leon Archer, one of our local repre
sentatives, brought this story back. It seems that a
fellow, sleeping out m the open, awoke one morning to
find a huge rattlesnake coiled up on hs chest. After
taking a good look.to make sure that’s what it was, he
went back to sleep.”
Sourdough Convention
Hailed as Successful
(From The Alaska Weekly*
On every tongue is praise for
the well planned and successful
convention of the Sourdoughs
held last month in Portland, Ore.
Newly elected President Sarah
Berthelsen has received many
letters from returning guests ex
pressing deep appreciation of the
excellent entertainment provided.
Past President Bessie E. Thayer
was delighted to see so many of
the oldtimers present and is al
ready making plans to come to
Seattle in 1957. She has attended
24 of the 25 conventions held
since the organization began in
1931.
Ellen Lyle Smith, breezing in
from Nome, with a “gold pan” in
behalf of the new Nome Youth
Center building, found many nug
gets among oldtimers present for
the “kids” and has already for
warded the equivalent of an ounce
of gold to swell the coffers of this
fine project.
A special bouquet is due Hazel
Lindberg for arranging fine pub
licity for the reunion and excel
lent cooperation of the press of
Portland. There were feature
articles and piotures galore each
day.
The retina of the eye is the
only portion of the human brain
which is readily available to in
spection during life. The eye it
self acts as a low-.power micro
scope, providing a magnification
of about 15 diameters for the
examination of the retina and its
arteries and veins.
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INVITATION TO BID
The undersigned Executor of the Estate of
M.R. Kennedy, deceased, will receive sealed bids,
until midnight, Sept. 21, 1956, upon the following
described airplane:
One (1) Piper Super Cub 105, Lycoming,
together with all instruments Number
NT^OR, now located at Nome, Alaska,
as is, where is.
Bids must be sealed and may be delivered to
the office of the undersigned on Front St., Nome, j
Alaska, or addressed to his care, P.O. Box 156,
Nome, Alaska. Bids will be opened on Sept. 22,
1956. Upon acceptance of bid, payment must be
made in cash in full. The Executor reserve the
right to refuse any or all bids.
James A. von der Heydt,
Executor of the Estate of
M. R. Kennedy, deceased
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