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0 THE PEOPLE OF MOOSE PASS & VICINITY -
The Friendship and Patronage you have accorded us
inspires our most Hearty and SINCERE THANKS
as well as our Best Efforts to Rightly Serve
IT you During the Coming Year.
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BANANAS.250 per pound
TOMATOES.... 250 "
HOLIDAY GOODS WHEN AND IF THEY EVER ARRIVE
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ANSWERS TO TEST
1 - No
2 - Yes
3 - No
4 - 15 to 35
5 - You have tuberculosis
germs in your body.
6 - All three combined
7 - If tuberculosis germs
have damaged the lungs
0 - Rest in bed
9 - Contact with an active
case of tuberculosis
10 - Tuberculosis
Sherry Jean Clark, new
daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
George B. Clark of Moose
Prss, was just 12 days old
when she took a long ride
on The Alaska Railroad. Loni;
as to time. Due to flood
waters her trip home from
Seward General hospital re
quired five hours to nego
tiate 29 miles.
Mrs. Clark and Sherry
Jean were both in splendid
health and eager to get
home to spend Christmas and
had some good friends mak
ing the trip to help them
along. Sherry Jean slept
peacefully on the conduc
tor's bunk. They arrived
at Moose Pass at 3 A. M.
Daddy Clark had a Christ
mas tree up, trimmed and
lighted in celebration of
the first Christmas of his
first child.
The sixth ship to be at
tacked off the California
coast by enemy submarines
was 6unk yesterday. It was
the Union Oil company tanker
Montebello.
The men who live in Moose
Pass and work on the base at
Seward > work as hard to get
to their work these days as
they work after they get to
the job. All of them are
at home to enjoy a few days
rest over the holidays.
Last Monday six Axis
transports carrying supplies
were sunk by the British in
the Mediterranean sea.
Maxim Litvinof, Soviet
Ambassador to the United
States, calls Japan "the
common enemy."
Mrs. Roy Lovett and her
children and Mrs. Gene Gar
rity and baby spent a week
or more in one of the Harry
L. Smith cabins recently.
Paul McMullen has return
ed to Seward following a
visit with Mr. and Mrs.
Ralph Reed.
Obie O’Brien brought Mrs.
Oscar Plowman to Moose Pass
from Lawing Tuesday to spend
the holidays with Mr. and
Mrs. "Bud" Schindler
The military conscrip
tion bill was settled Tues
iday with those men between
the ages of 19 and 45 to
be called for active duty
and those men between the
ages of 18 and 65» not el
igible to active war duty
to register for conscrip
tion in other fields of
defense work. Provision
was made to add to the navy
and marine sorpB.
In the office of a New
England shoe manufacturer,
Monday morning following
the Pearl Harbor outrage,
his five assi stents listen
ed to the radio account of
the sneaking attack when
144 Americans were killed
and around 350 injured and
when the broadcast was ended
as one man, the five put on
jtheir coats and reached for
their hats, headed for the
door.
'■Where are you fellows
going?’’, the boss asked
them.
They replied together,
"Tc enlist."
"I don't blame you,"the
boss said without hesita
tion. "I did the same
thing in 1916*"
Japs lost 41 planes and
three submarines at "unpre
pared" Pearl Harbor.