GAMBELL NEWS
First Quarter of 1956
Brings Hope of Good Spring
Fair weather in March. First
two weeks better than many
months this winter. Nineteen wal
rus were killed—all the meat
brought home. Several more wal
rus were killed earlier last month.
Some of the meat has already
gone to Savoonga. They are re
ported to have been running low
on meat.
One lady wrote from Savoonga
to her friend at Gambell recently.
She wrote about the shortage of
meat in her village. She wrote:
“Before the end of March we
will all be Chinese because we eat
nothing but rice!”
Readers of this report can rest
assured that our fellow Eskimos
are far from being a Chinese, be
cause more walrus meat will be
taken over by dog teams.
Bear Steaks and Bearburgers
Eight polar bears were killed
on St. Lawrence Island this win
ter. Four were killed here in
Gambell and four at Savoonga.
More were seen and many more
tracks were seen. Some of these
bears were killed inland and some
on the ice. Three of them were
killed at one time.
German or Japanese Measles
Mostly those children and a few
adults who did not get the red
measles two years ago got it this
winter.
There wasn’t a definite name |
for the measles when it first broke
out. One little boy—a beginner in
school—:old his mother when he
came home one day that the sick
ness in town is called “Japanese j
measles.” His mother asked him j
where he learned it. The boy said j
his teacher told them. But he had!
just forgotten the correct name— |
German measles—and used a,
name he could remember that day. i
Church services were discon- j
tinued on account of the measles.
The school teacher took over the
nurse’s job, making sick calls day
and night, oftentimes on stormy
nights. He gave penicillin shots
to those who were very sick and
sulfa drugs to those who were not
too sick.
Church Bell Under ihe Snow
You won’t see the church bell
on top of the building in Gambell.
It was built on a wooden stand
just outside the church.
In the summer the bell-ringer
uses a ‘rope to ring it, but not this
winter. So much snow has piled
up that one needs only to stand
on it and swing it back and forth.
A second bell, also on the
stand, is buried deep under the
snow. If the snow keeps on falling
for another month, we will have
no bells .until next summer.
The oldest senator in the 84th ;
Congress is 87 year old Democrat
Senator^ Theodore Francis Green
of Rhode Island.
Lugged in pail
Or Pumped by hose,
A bronson saie
Has Never Froze!
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Russian Army Magazine, Bible Of
Bible of World Communism, Joins
Chorus of Criticism Of Stalin
U of A Summer Session
Will Be June 15 to Aug. 3
The 1956 University of Alaska
summer session, June 15-Aug. 3,
will offer to students courses
which the Territorial Board of
Education recently ruled must be
taken by applicants for admin
istrative and principal certificates.
Dean William R. Cashen, direc
tor of summer sessions, said that
two summer faculty members
who will help teach these courses
will' be J.E. Danielson, superin
tendent of schools at Ketchikan,
and Dr. LeRoy V. Good, director
of Anchorage Community College.
Another visiting professor of edu
cation will be Jesse W. Williams
of Chico State College, Chico,
Calif. She has taught the last six
summer sessions at the University
of Alaska.
There will be a post - session
workshop on Alaska from Aug.
6-10. It will cover anthropology,
education, history, literature and
art and wildlife of Alaska. One
semester hour of credit may be
gained by those students who
meet education requirements for
college work.
Additional information may be
obtained from the Director of
Summer Sessions, University of
Alaska, College, Alaska.
Tomadic Winds Cause
Death and Destruction
In Southwestern States
Rv THE Assof IATED PRESS
Tornadic winds whipped ac
ross wide areas of the Southwest
Monday and early Tuesday, kill
ing at least 10 persons, injuring
more than 50 and causing exten
sive property damage.
Oklahoma, Texas and Kansas
appeared the hardest hit by the
spring storms. Tornadoes killed
at least five in Oklahoma and two
in Kansas. Some 50 persons were
injured in the twisters in Okla
homa.
Dust storms, with winds rang
ing up to 80 mph, extended over
parts of New Mexico, Colorado
and Oklahoma but the main force
was in west Texas. Three deaths
in traffic accidents in Texas were
blamed on the blinding dust.
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♦ By STANLEY JOHNSON
MOSCOW, (jT>—Kommunist, the
bible of World Communism, Tues
; day charged that Stalin destroyed
! the principle of democracy in the
j Soviet Union.
The monthly magazine, official
i organ of the central committee of
the Communist party, added its
thunder to the chorus of criticism
against the late dictator in its
April issue.
It was the first direct discus
sion in this leading organ of
Communist theory on Stalin’s
“cult of the individual” de
nounced by Nikita Khrushchev
and other top Soviet leaders last
month at the Communist party
congress.
Taking a new public tack in the
current campaign to demolish the
Stalin myth, the army paper
charged the late dictator under
estimated Lenin’s role as a mili
tary genius.
It was the first time the Soviet
press has accused Stalin of going
against Lenin in any specific field
other than the basic charge
against him that he developed an
anti-Leninist cult of self glori
fication.
During and after World War II
all Soviet publications painted a
picture of Stalin as a supreme
genius who won the war practic
ally single-handed. The role of
such field commanders as Mar
I shals Georgi K. Zhukov, now the J
Soviet defense minister, and Vas
sily D. Sokolovsky, the present
arm chief of staff, was played
down.
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• THE TRADING POST •
Navy Unveils New
Anti-Submarine
Missile, The Petrel
By VERN HAUGLAND
WASHINGTON, UP)—The Navy
yesterday lifted some of the sec
recy around the “Petrel” guided
missile and said it has performed
with an “exceptionally high” de
gree of reliability.
The Navy and Fairchild Engine
and Airplane Corp., Hagerstown,
Md., indicated in a joint an
nouncement that the Petrel air
to-surface missile is “one of the
more complex” types now in pro
duction.
The Petrel was described as
having an intricate “electronic
hrain” which virtually thinks for
itself and guides the missile to
its target at high speed.
The weapon was described as
an air-to-surface missile “primar
ily for use against enemy ships
at sea.”
However, in the Fairchild an
nual report this week the Petrel
was referred to as an air-to
underwater missile, meaning it
was designed primarily for anti
submarine activity. The Navy said
a number of patrol craft already
are equipped with the Petrel.
“Launched by patrol aircraft
well outside the range of the tar
get’s air defense, the missile at
tacks at high speed and with
devastating effect,” the joint an
nouncement said.
“Use of the new missile thus
will save the plane pilot from the
! antiaircraft hazards which attack
plane aviators met in World War
II when they closed on the tar
get.”
New Rose and Carnation
Named For Grace Kelly
MONTE CARLO, UP) — A new
rose and a new carnation will
greet Grace Kelly on her wedding
day. Both are being named for
her.
The “Grace of Monaco” rqge
was developed by Francis Meil
f land, internationally known grow
er of Cap d’Antibes. The first
bouquet of five or six will be
handed to Miss Kelly April 19,
the day she weds Prince Rainier.
The carnation—Princess Grace
— was grown by two Italians,
Pietro Farina and Henri Billo of
San Remo. It will be used in
decorating the Monaco cathedral
for the ceremony.
Meilland says his rose is the
result of 11 years work. He de*
scribes it as having a purplish
tint, shading into silver on the
petals, and with an exceptionally
clinging perfume.
Details of the carnation were
not announced.
Mother Is Killed In
Headon Collision With
Car Driven By Her Son
OUT BANK, Mont., UP) — Mrs.
Viola Franz Eastlick, 38, of Shel
by, Mont., was killed yesterday
when the car she was driving col
lided headon with one driven by
her son east of this northern Mon
tana city.
The son, Anton Eastlick, 21, of
Havre, Mont., received a broken
ankle and cuts.
Highway Patrolman Jim Per
sling said there was no apparent
j cause lor the collision, which oc
; curred on an open stretch of
! highway. Eastlick was unable to
I give a statement on the accident.
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A Night in Sitka.Thomas
Our Summer With the Eskimos Helmrick
Cinderella Takes a Holiday . Harrington
Lost Empire . . .' . . . Chevigny
Connie Morgan in the Arctic .* . Hendyx
Opportunity in Alaska . . . Sundborg
Doom in the Midnight Sun . . . Boyd
Dog Team Apostles .... Savage
Sourdough Pot ... . . Chase
Reminiscences of Capt. Bille Moore Chase
I Reached for a Star .... Dawes
Arctic Mood.Richards
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