HOME LONGINGS
By CHARLES D. JONES
(Submitted by Myrle Roberts)
I want to go back to Alaska,
To her tundras, her mountains and streams,
Full of salmon, trout, and grayling
To add zest to your pork and beans.
I want to go back to Nome,
And land on that desolate shore,
A^id see an Aurora Bora,
And hear a blizzard roar.
I want to go back in the mountains,
With a shovel, pick, and pan,
And mine in the river bottoms,
And stand on my own as a man.
I want to see the daylight,
Follow the clock around,
And winter’s steel-like moonlight
Bluing the snow-covered ground.
I want to drive a dog team,
At forty degrees below,
And see in the darkening twilight
The lights from a roadhouse show;
And to know again the welcome
From boys who have- lived as I,
And when I’m through with life’s journey,
’Tis there that I want to die.
Alaska Bush Pilots
Asked to Bid
For Charter Service
ANCHORAGE (#>—Alaska bush
pilots and flying services equipped |
to carry passengers and cargo
throughout the territory during j
the coming construction season I
were asked by the Alaska District
Corps of Engineers yesterday to
submit bids for supplying char
tered aircraft.
The service to be furnished in
cludes a two-engine wheeled plane
with pilot, 6-passenger capacity,
for flights from site to site and |
stand-by, time if requested.
The charter service must meet
all CAB and CAA requirements,
be equipped for instrument fly
ing, de-icing and cold weather
gear, with a qualified pilot who is
familiar with flight conditions to
such sites as Kotzebue, Unala
kleet, Fort Yukon, Galena, Bethel,
Gulkana, Chiniak, Sitkinak, Mid
dleton Island, Naknek and other
locations.
Marilyn Monroe's Fall
Brings Gasp From Crowd
PHOENIX, Ariz., UP)—Shapely
film star Marilyn Monroe tumbled
from a five-foot ramp while film
ing a movie here Friday, skinning
both knees while a rodeo crowd
of more than 10,000 gasped.
Joshua Logan, directing the film
“Bus Stop,’’ had asked the crowd
to watch Miss Monroe as the cam
eras filmed the rodeo scene. Na
turally, they did.
Logan said the crowd’s reaction
was so natural he plans to keep
the scene in the picture.
Miss Monroe continued her
work after the fall.
LIVE SHOW
NEW ORLEANS, UP)—A French
Quarter .bar frequented by seamen
posted this sign in its window,
proclaiming as an added attrac
tion:
“We don’t have a television set,
but we guarantee a fight every
night.”
fy J/aity 7/jifal, Director, GAINES DOG RESEARCH CENTER
THE FIRST DOG TO WIN 100BEST-1N'SHOW
AWARDS IS THE BOXER. CHAMPION
DOCS ARE PERMITTED TO BANC AWAY OF SIRRAH CREST
ACCOMPANY THEIR OWNERS IN r U
NEW YORK CITY'S PUBLIC LIBRARIES
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"WLL/NC DOCS WERE SO NAMED BECAUSE THEY RUN BACK --
AND FORTH ON SHORE TO ATTRACT WATERFOWL FOR HUNTERS
© 1956, Gaines Dog Research Center, N. Y. C.__
! 50 Midshipmen From
Washington University
Sail North to Alaska
SEATTLE, LP)—Fifty University
of Washington midshipmen sailed
north on the good ship Charles E.
Brannon Friday to get their feet
wet in the Navy without, they
hope, getting them frozen off.
Lt. Comdr. George Fairbanks,
who skippers the destroyer escort
Bramnon, has this encouragement:
He doesn’t think it’ll get much
colder up in Alaska than it will
in Seattle.
On the 10-day training cruise,
the middies will go up the Inside
Passage and come back south
“outside,” with five ports visited
along the way.
$250,000 in Improvements
At Ft. Richardson
ANCHORAGE, UP)—Improve
ments at Fort Richardson, near
Anchorage, which will cost in the
half-million-dollar bracket, will
start during this coming construc
tion season on the big central heat
and power plant, the Alaska Dis
trict Corps of Engineers said yes
terday.
Letter-Size File Folders For
Sale At The Nome Nugget Office.
Ice Pool Dates
Since 1917, when the Pool
was started, the ice hns 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. j
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— May 3. 1:50 a.m.
1942— April 30 . 1:28 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.
1948— May 13.11:13 p.m.
1949— May 14.12:39 p.m.
1950— May 6. 4:14 p.m.
1951— April 30 . 5:54 p.m.
1952— May 12. 5:04 p.m.
1953— April 29. 3:51 p.m.
1954— May 6. 6:01 p.m.
1955— May 9 2:13 p.m
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Hunt for Seal Pups Starts With
Breakup of Ice in North Atlantic
ST. JOHNS, Nfld., Iff)—Along *
the ice-crusted top of the North
Atlantic, from Baffin Island to
eastern Greenland, the yapping of J
seal pups has swelled in a throaty
chorus marking the end of the
long arctic night.
.The vast ice fields are breaking
free to become creaking rafts,
drifting southward and carrying
their colonies of seals into reach
of the seal harvesters—out of St.
Johns and Halifax. The seal har
vest once was one of the most
lucrative of North Atlantic enter
prises. But only 11 ships went out
for the 1956 season, which opened
this week.
Two main types of seals are
sought—harp seals with lyre-like
back markings, and hood seals
with skin folds around the head.
When ships crunch into the
floes, men scramble on' the ice
and stun the pups with clubs,
finishing them off with knives.
The pelt and underlying fat is
taken.
The season is short. Baby seals
are born in late February and late
March. By mid-April they have
lost the thick, soft fur that makes
them valuable.
With the dwindling in size of
the seal harvest has gone much of
the color. A century ago tall
masted ships marched out of the
northern harbors in stately pro
cession. The hunters wore beaver
hats, and crowds on the wharves
gaily waved them Godspeed. The
gaiety of the women ashore was
forced—the seal harvest has a
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long reputation as a widow-maker.
The most recent mass loss of
life was in 1931, when the South
ern Cross went down with 36 rften.
Fifteen others died later of injur
ies. There have been no ships lost
since li)53, when three went down.
The industry has been dwin
dling for a century. Tn 1857, for
instance, 400 ships carried 13,500
men to the harvest. Iviam reason
for the decline is that dwindling
prices for the oil and pelts dis
courage owners from replacing
ships' crushed in the ice.
Mme. Irene Curie Dies
PARIS, W—Mme. Irene Joliot
Curie, Nobel Prize winning phys
icist and daughter of the discovers
of radium, died Saturday. She
was 58.
She and her husband, Frederic
Joliot, were awarded the Nobel
Prize in chemistry in 1935 for the
discovery of artificial radioactiv
ity. After the war both she and
her husband were widely criti
cized for alleged pro-Communist
activities.
SKUNK NOT SO DEAD
GOUVERNEUR, N.Y. (if)—Buddy
Graves and John Norton walked
into Gouverneur Junior High
School yesterday and suggested
they be separated from their
classmates.
Last night, they explained, they
stopped to remove a dead skunk
from a trap.
But he wasn’t.
MINERS & RCHANTS
BANK OF ALASKA
NOME ALASKA
WINTER SCHEDULE
MONDAY and FRIDAY
Leave Arrive
Fairbanks 6:00 a.m. AST Nome 10:10 a.m. BST
Nome 10:30 a.m. BST Fairbanks 3:30 p.m. AST
WEDNESDAY
Leave Arrive
Fairbanks 6:00 a.m. AST Nome 12:40 p.m. BST
Tanana, Hughes, traffic warranting. Scheduled stop Kotzebue
Nome 1:00 p.m. BST Fairbanks 6:30 p.m. AST
Stopping at Galena and Tanana, traffic warranting
THURSDAY and SATURDAY
Leave Arrive
Fairbanks 6:00 a.m. AST Nome 9:00 a.m. BST
Stopping at Galena, traffic warranting
Nome 9:20 a.m. BST Fairbanks 3:40 p.m. AST
Scheduled stop Kotzebue. Hughes, Tanana. traffic warranting
Connection PAA 904 Monday, Wednesday, Friday
BUSH FLIGHT TUESDAYS
Deering, Candle, Buckland, Kotzebue
Arrive Nome 11:40 a.m. Depart Nome 12:45 p.m.