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NORTH STAR GRILL
ERNIE — BETTY — BOB
Science Confirms
Eskimo Belief on
Polar Bear Liver
i
(Jessen’s Weekly )
Sally Carrighar, well-known
writer on Alaska subjects, has
contributed to information on the
refusal of Eskimos to eat polar
bear liver.
“In your issue of December 13
you quote Northwest Airlines’
“Alaska Adventures” to the ef
fect that, due to a ‘strange old be
lief Eskimos discard polar bear
liver, fearing that if they eat it
they will lose their hair,” she
writes.
“Rather than being a strange
! old belief, that practice showed
j perceptiveness on the part of the
j Eskimos,” she says “For polar
bear liver usually contains a tox
ic amount of vitamin A. Even
wild animals lose their hair, as
do men, if they eat an excess
amount of the liver. That is only
one of the symptoms.
“That most medical men now
know these facts is the result of
I research done in the arctic and in
! Europe by Dr. Kaare Rodahl, who
f at present is director of the Arc
1 tic Aero-Medical Laboratory at
1 Ladd Air Force Base.”
Astronomy Notes
For New Year
By OLAF HALVERSON
In our New Year of 1957 there
will be an annular eclipse of the
sun on April 29th. The path from
which the eclipse can be seen will
be in the arctic and will be visible
in northern North America.
Because the moon will be at a
position called apogee or farthest
away from the earth, the moon’s
conical shadow will not quite
reach the surface of the earth. A
ring of sunlight .will be left sur
rounding the dark moon. This is
called an annular eclipse because
of the annulus, or bright ring of
sunlight still left shining.
There will be a transit of Mer
cury on May 5th. The planet will
cross the northwest quadrant of
the sun’s disc. There are about 13
transits of Mercury in a century.
A transit of Mercury occurred on
Nov. 11, 1940, and was partly vis
ible in the United States and
Canada. Another transit occurred
on Nov. 14, 1953. Only the plan
ets Mercury and Venus, which lie
inside the earth’s orbit, make
transits or crossings over the sur
face of the sun.
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Pribilov Native
Loses at Checkers,
Goes to Church
SEATTLE—“God moves in
strange and mysterious ways,”
the Good Book says, and there is
a new face in the chapel at Alas
ka’s Port of Whittier to prove it.
PFC Cimeon Nelobidev, an Es
kimo soldier at the Army’s Alas
kan port, will be at church each
Sunday for at least a month be
cause he lost a checker game. His
opponent was Dr. Eugene Carson
Blake, president of the National
Council of Churches of Christ of
the U.S.A.
Dr. Blake was touring Aiaska
last week, visiting soldiers, sailors
and airmen and preaching in mil
itary chapels during the Christ
mas season. At Whittier he met
Nelobidev, a native of the Pribilof
Islands, who is the port’s checker
champion. Dr. Blake, who fancies
himself at the game, challenged
the Eskimo to a contest.
Nelobidev agreed, but said he
usually placed a small bet on his
playing. Dr. Blake, who had al
ready learned Nelobidev was a
back-sliding Presbyterian, agreed.
The wager, he said, would be this:
If Nelobidev lost he would attend
chapel services for four weeks.
The churchman won handily.
New Division Engineer
Selected to Head Road
Program in Alaska
WASHINGTON, UP>— P u b 1 i c
Ronds Commissioner Charles D.
Curtiss said today a new division
engineer for Alaska has been se
1 lected but his identity won’t be
I announced for several days.
Curtiss said an announcement
is being deferred “until the pro
motion involved is cleared thru
the Civil Service Commission.”
He declined to give any hint of
the new appointee’s identity oth
er than to say he is a bureau em
ploye from outside the Washing
ton D.C. office.
The new man would succeed
Morton Flint, who died in Cali
fornia only a few days after ac
cepting the Alaska position.
Flint’s successor would head
up the Alaska highway program,
which was transferred to the Bu
reau of Public Roads by Congress
earlier this year when for the first
time Alaska’s road building pro
gram became eligible for partici
pation in the federal aid highway
program.
Death Valley, in Inyo County,
California, 276 feet below sea
level, is the lowest point in the
United States.
Nome Directory
NOME ROTARY CLUB
Dewey Goodrich
President
W. Mecklenburg
Secretary
Wednesday Luncheon
Northwestern Alaska
Chamber of Commerce
Meets Every Tuesday Noon
STAN MORGAN, President
ALASKA CHAPTER M. 1
Ortl^r of Eastern Star
4 3rd Monaay of each month
Belly Edwards
Warthy Matron
W ^1 Helen Dilnbar
V Secretary
ANVIL LODGE
No. 140
Robt. K. Lewis, W.M.
Narvin W. Lewis, Sec.
Meets 1st and 3rd 'rhuraday each montfc