MOOSE PASS MINER
Bv L. H. Allen
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From Collier's we glean the following
data on the accomplishment of the Civilian
Conservation Corps - CCC - over a period
of six years:
1,741,000,000 trees planted . .104,000
miles of truck trails or minor roads
built . . . 71,692 miles of telephone ..
lines strung . . . 45,000 bridges built .
40,000 buildings put up . . . 5,000,000
flood-control check dams and other types
of dams installed . . . 16,000,000 rods
of fence constructed . . . 20,084 springs,
wells, water holes and small reservoirs
developed . . . fire hazards reduced on a
bout 2,000,000 acres of land . . . soil
conservation work of various kinds per
formed under Federal Soil Conservation
Service supervision on 13,000,000 acres
of farm and grazing land6 . . .help to
farmers all over the country in gully con
trol, terrace construction, tree planting
and other kinds of soil-binding work.
About all this the editor of Collier's
says: "These figures - we see no point in
making restrained, dignified remarks about
them - are colossal, stupendous, sensa
tional; a splendid record of conservation
and improvement of the land that supports
us all, whether we realize it or not.
It was a work that had to be begun on
a nationwide scale larger than anything
previously attempted if our basic national
resources weren't to be leeched away under
our feet. It is work that has to be kept
up. The CCC is the one New Deal mechan
ism to which we have never heard an objec
tion that sounded sensible.
Add to all this the facts that the CCC
has saved 2,500,000 young Americans from
the worst corrosions of the Great Depres
sion, and that it has nicked more than
$500,000,000 out of their pay to send to
their families - and we have a notion
you'll agree that the CCC comes as near
to being indispensable to the welfare of
the United States as anything we've ever
tried."
Alaska has benefitted vastly thru CCC
work and can look forward to more accom
pli shnent. The work that has been done
by the CCC would not otherwise have been
done in years and years to come. Work
on air fields, building of landing stages,
snail docks, side roads, trails, shelter
cabins, bridging small streams add up all
to the good in Alaska's present state of
few roads to get around. Alaska CCC
camps seldom, if ever, have their full
quota of Alaska boys and it is short eighty
ed to resent CCC boys being sent in from j
the States. We weed them.
SEWING CLUB MEETS
A regular meeting of the Sewing club
was held with Mrs. Ralph Reid on Wednes
day afternoon. Those in attendance were
Mrs. E.L.Robbins, Mrs. Fred Laubscher, Mrs.
Roy Thurston, Mrs. Will Estes and Mrs. Paul
Williams. When the sewing was laid aside
the hostess served strawberry shortcake
with whipped cream and coffee.
The club will meet August 30 with Mrs.
Roy Thurston.
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Luckie and Mr. and Mrs.
Ray Stafford spent Sunday with the Jake
Laubschers and "Bud" Tolson at Quartz
creek.
A jolly berrying party that spent Sun
day in the mountains included Mrs. Nellie
Neal-Lawing, Mrs. Irene Holden, Mel. Hor
ner and Melvin Curtis.
Mrs. Ralph Reid had Dr. Dow V. Baxter
of the University of Michigan and his
aides, Charles Allen of Huntington, W.Va.,
and Gordon Watts of Port]and,Ore., in for
luncheon on Tuesday.
The El Paso (Tex.)Herald Post made
note of the new Moose Pass baby as fol
lows j "Mr. and Mrs. Sam Estes of Moose
Pass, Alaska, are parents of a daughter
born July 15. The baby weighed seven
pounds and 11 ounces.
Mrs. Estes is the former Edith Joy
Luckie of El Paso. The baby is the great
grandchild of Mr. and Mrs. A.E.Smith and
the great great grandchild of Mrs. Mary
Smith of this city."
Mrs. Leora Roycroft has spent the last
two weeks in Seward receiving chiroprac
tic treatment.
Mrs. L.E.Ely of Wasilla and two sons
visited over the weekend with Mr. and Mrs.
Clarence Scheiber; Mrs. Gordon Kennedy
and daughter, Bonnie Mae, spent two weeks
with Mr. and Mrs. Scheiber, returning to
her hone at Anchorage Tuesday night.
Mrs. W.G.Culver of Anchorage and her
daughter, Miss Margaret Culver, arrived
Thursday evening for a week’s visit with
Mrs. Ralph Reid.
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other hunters in the Duke's party, on a
big game hunt in the Mt. McKinley park
region around the 20th. Whether the
Duchess is one of the three other hunters
Mr. Bolam does not know. The Duke is
traveling in his own yacht and expects
to spend two weeks or more on this hunt
ing trip with Mr. Bolam,
If the Duke and his companions survive
Mr. Bolam'# sourdough flapjacks while on
this safari, the Moose Pass Miner will
get the recipe and publish it for the
benefit of its readers.