(Special to the Gateway)
The Fraternal Order of Eagles
of Valdez is preparing plans for
a basketball team to go into ac
t on in the very near future. The
main hall of the lodge building
h:\s been prepared for a court
and the team members are anx
iously awaiting the arrival of
equipment which is expected at
any time.
A city team and a quintet from
';he high school are planning to
meet the Eagles in practice games
for the duration of the winter.
By the following winter it is the
hope of the town to be able to
pick five men from this winter’s
I playing that a squad represent
ing the town may be formed and
other teams in this section to
enter into inter-city games with
Alaska.
! Valdez has so far been enjoy
ing a comfortable winter. The av
erage temperature since the first
| of November has been about 31
| degrees. This is much warmer
| than during the same interval a
year ago. The snow is three and
one half feet deep on the level
and as there has been little wind
the snow has not piled into
drifts. Looking back over a period
of years there seems to be a ten
dency towards warmer weather
in this section.
What is considered unusual
weather conditions for that sec
tion comes in a report from the
Copper Center district, 100 miles
north of Valdez, which says that
the sun has been obscured by
■ clouds for nearly a month. Copper
Center usually experiences cry
stal clear interior weather.
John Hanson, motor boat own
er and operator of Valdez, suf
fered a broken arm caused by
back fire while cranking his mo
tor. The accident occurred while
Hanson was working near his fox
island in Prince William Sound
and he was obliged to remain
there for eight days before help
arrived. He was picked up by A.
S. Day on his monthly mail run
and brought into Valdez where
upon examination the arm was
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found to be broken in two places.
Due to the long interim before
medical assistance could be given.
Mr. Hanson’s condition was said
to be quite serious. He was taken'
to Cordova for further treatment.
Miss Alverra Anderson and Mr j
Russel Keith, both of Valdez, were
united in marriage .January 1*
1921. Mrs. Keith is a primary
teacher in the Valdez public
schools and Mr. Keith is employ*
ed by the Alaska Road Commis- ■
sion at Chitina. Mr. and Mrs.
Keith will remain in Valdez this
winter.
Harold Gillam, of the Gillam
Airways, and Pilot A. Dieterle
were unable to take off from the,
flying field at Valdez due to se
vere snow storm on Thursday, j
As soon as the weather clears
they expect to leave for the in
terior where Mr. Gillam has a
contract to transport several tons
of supplies into the Nebesna
country.
Gillam has recently returned
from the Outside where he ne-1
gotiated for the purchase of a
Sikorski amphibian to be used in
the furtherance of his company’s
flying business. Pat Ried, one of
the Eielson searchers, will bring
the new plane north this spring,
or accompany it by steamer. Since
their arrival in Valdez Mr. Gil
lam and Mr. Dieterle have been
busy overhauling the motor of the
plane which has reposed in the
municipal hangar since Gillam
left for the States some time ago. i
Adolph Dieterle, who will be:
connected with the Gillam Air-j
ways, is an experienced transport i
pilot with nearly 800 flying hours!
to his credit. He was previously
employed by the Western Air Ex
press and prior to his connec
tion with the Gillam Airways was'
flying between Los Angeles and
points in Mexico for the Pacific
Airways, Mr. Dieterle is 30 years
old and for a year was in the
army flying corps reserve at San
Diego. Mr. Dieterle will also give
flying instructions and he has
with him a parachute which wall
be used in his flying course.
A library of approximately 500!
volumes in now in existence at j
Valdez. It is located in the office
building of the Alaska Road Com
mission and voluntary librarians
issue books twice a week.
The library was made possible
by a fund set aside by the Ter
ritory which matches to the max
imum of $150 a year money raised
by an incorporated organization
for the purpose of buying books
for library use. Interested per
sons in the town formed them
selves into such a corporation
and became known as the Valdez
Library. Civic interest in the pro
ject was such that the Valdez
Dramatic Club, the Campfire
Girls’ rogamzation and the city
all contributed generous sums and
it was found that the goal of $150
was more than 100 per cent over
subscribed.
An approximate segregation of
the books in the Valdez Library
shows there to be 189 fiction
books, 173 non-fiction, 50 child
ren’s books and 150 miscellaneous
volumes from the Everyman’s
club, now non-existent.
The library is public inasmuch
as anyone may borrow books up
on payment of a small yearly fee.
The library is well patronized and
seems to fill a long felt want.
only thing to do was to bundle
the mother and babe up and
take them in the Diane. You see
the young son was only four
days and six hours old.
The mother was carried to the
plane on a stretcher, tucked in,
and in one hour and 20 minutes
later placed on a cot at Point
Hope. The distance traveled was
150 miles. Wife and son were
greeted by a surprised and proud
Daddy. When Manager Allyn
stepped from the plane and ask
ed for Mr. Wastrous, and then
informed him that hia (family
had arrived, he said: “You are
not joking?” To which Allyn re
plied, “Far from it, take a look
in the plane for yourself.” His
surprised remark was, “ I always
had an idea the Stork looked dif
ferent.” The mother and son were
removed to their home and next
morning were just fine.
SOUTHBOUND JAN. 21
The SS Admiral Farragut, of
the Pacific Steamship Company,
due in port from the south, will
return to Seward from the West
ward Monday, Jan. 26, remain
over until the following evening,
I Tuesday, Jan., 27, leaving then
for the south following the arri
!va* of the regular passenger
train from the Interior.
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luck’s Danish Ice Cream. Candy
Cottage, sole agent.
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Steam Laundry. Phone .us .or
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PROUD NORTHERN Pffl
An excellent account of ati air
plane trip from Nome to Point
Barrow last fall was written for
the Nome Nugget by W. E. H.
Cremer, deputy U. S. marshal at
Nome who went north to get a
prisoner. A portion of his ar
ticle tells of an incident after he
arrived at Kotzebue on their way j
north. He says:
“While waiting for the weather I
report the next morning, Mrs. i
Watrous, proud mother with
her first born son. expressed a j
wish to return to Point Hope
where she is a school teacher.
As navigation had closed for the
northern points and the only
means of transportation would be j
by dog-team a month later, the'
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