M.V. Garland Replaces Reindeer
For Santa's Christmas Trek Out
To Remote Aleutian Chain Villages
Ferguson Tugs and Barge
Reported Frozen In Ice
Of Kotzebue Sound
Bert Beltz, who returned re
cently from a trip to Kotzebue in
his own plane, reported that he
ferried seven men from the tug
MS Kotzebue to Kotzebue. The
tug, owned by Archie Ferguson,
is reported frozen fast in the ice
about 40 miles out in Kotezbue
Sound. A barge, reported to be
loaded with gas, oil and merchan
dise is supposed to have broken
free of the tug and is also re
ported adrift in the ice.
The tug and barge were blown
out to sea in the last storm be
fore the freezeup in that area.
Another tug belonging to Fer
guson is reported to' be aground
but frozen in about 12 miles from
Kotzebue at Sadie Creek.
Juneau Voters Approve
$1,000,000 School Bonding
JUNEAU, (if)—Voters of the Ju
neau Independent School District
have approved a $1,600,000 bond
issue for a new high school, $250,
000 for school repairs and a one
per cent sales tax to finance the
improvements.
Both the bond issues and the
tax, approved in Tuesday’s elec
tion, are dependent upon avail
ability of matching Alaska Public
Works funds.
Training Secrets Revealed
Senator Howard Lyng was ask
ed yesterday to tell how he train
ed for tonight’s basketball epic at
the school gym. The senator said,
and we quote:
“ Well, I quit smoking cigarets
—eight years ago. I’ve been on
a Pablum diet which should help
me compete with these 7th and
8th graders, and I took a hot
bath—took off my heavy winter
underwear — took off four
pounds.”
Mayor Andersen has given in
structions to the police depart
ment to direct and regulate traf
fic so as to avoid congestion in
the vicinity of the school build
ing during the rush hours at the
opening of the Pioneer Roof Gar
den tomorrow night. —Pd. Advt.
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> SEATTLE, UP)—Jingle bells will
ring out over the bleak Aleutians.
Like young Lochinvar out of the
west, Santa Claus is heading out
of Seattle and Seward bearing
early Christmas for the Alaska
Peninsula and the Aleutian Is
lands.
Santa’s seagoing pack carries
400 tons of Yuletide cheer for
remote villages along The Chain.
It has presents from mainland
Alaska and stateside; personal
orders from catalogs; turkeys, or
anges, fruitcake and nuts for holi
day tables, as well as general
foodstuffs; candy for the kids and
real evergreen Christmas trees for
a land where trees don’t grow
quite so thick as in Brooklyn.
The Aleutian Santa is a noisy,
jovial old bird with loudspeakers
to blast Christmas carols 5 miles
across the December-chilled tun
dra.
Up close to the land of rein
deer, Santa still doesn’t pilot a
reindeer sleigh. Instead, he’s toss
ing and bouncing out to' the Aleu
tians in the 160-foot Seattle motor
vessel Garland.
For the little Berger Trans
portation Co. boat this is the third
year on the Aleutian Santa Claus
run.
The Garland took most of her
400 tons out of Seattle a week
and a half ago and left Seward
Thursday with Christmas mail
which had been gathered there
from the states and Alaska. Be
fore she comes home to Seattle
she’ll have put in at 22 ports on
her 5,200-mile Santa Claus jaunt.
Her Aleutian route will stretch
from Seward through Kodiak and
out as far as Nikolski at the tip
of Umnak Island.
Tax Court Affirms $11,000
Income Tax Deficiency
By Fairbanks Club Owner
WASHINGTON, to—The U. S.
Tax Court has affirmed an $11,616
tax deficiency, plus $349 penalty,
against A. C. Muldoon, Fairbanks
club operator.
The figure was agreed upon by
attorneys for the government and
Muldoon after a court hearing had
disallowed certain government
contentions.
The government originally al
leged Muldoon had income tax de
ficiencies totaling $37,309 plus
$20,829 in penalties for the period
1944 through 1947.
The government claim was
based primarily on alleged under
statement of earnings of a _ part
nership between Muldoon and
Victor H. Sinner, also of Fair
banks. The two men operated the
Wonder Bar in the Alaska city.
It is estimated that in the
United States, more motor ve
hicles are used for distributing
milk than for any other com
modity.
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Construction Worker Falls
To Death While Posing
For Xmas Card Picture
DALLAS, Tex., UR—A 46-year
old construction worker plunged
to his death Thursday while pos
ing before a giant Santa Claus.
Roy V. Davis toppled from a
crane cable 35 feet to a sidewalk
shortly after photographers snap
ped his picture hanging in front
of the giant advertising manne
quin at an automobile agency
here.
He had suggested a picture of
him dangling-before Santa’s face
on a slim cable would make a
good Christmas card.
The photographers said Davis
seemed to relax just before he
fell.
Police said Davis had been suf
fered with a heart ailment for
four years and may have suf
fered an attack.
BOMB GO BOOM
SALT LAKE CITY, UR — Dr.
Richard P. Smith was telling his
class on the atom and hydrogen
bombs what the weapons will do.
Just as he was emphasizing the
tremendous explosive power of
the two bombs, a window-shatter
ing blast rocked the lecture room.
The explosion, it was learned
later, resulted from a freshman
student’s experiment in a chem
istry laboratory upstairs.
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