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DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF MOOSE PASS AND KENAI PENINSULA
Vol. 1,
Moose Pas8» Alaska - February 24t 1940
No. 45
ICE POOL WILL CLOSE THIS YEAR
ON APRIL 6th.
All guesses as to the day, hour and min
ute* when the ice will move at Nenana in
1940 will have to be entered by April 6.
Tickets are on sale at Moose Pass store and
a pool is open at Hielo's Roadhouse. For
your cenvenience the following historical
data is reprintedi
1917- April
1918- May
1919- May
1920- May
1921- May
1922- May
1923- May
1924- May
1925- May
1926- April
1927- May
1928- May
1929- May
1930- May
1931- May
1932- May
1933- May
1934- April
1935- May
1936- April
1937- May
1938- May
193^-April
1940- ?
30
11
3
11
11
12
9
11
7
26
13
6
5
8
10
1
8
30
15
30
12
6
29
Tim*
11>30 a.m
9s33 a.m
2:33 p.m
10>46 a.m
6:42 a.m
1>20 p.m
2:00 p.m
3L10 p.m
6:32 p.m
4>03 p.m
5:42 a.m
4:25 p.m
3:41 p.m
7:03 p.m
9:23 a.m
10:15 a.m
7:20 p.m
2:07 p.m
1:32 p.m
12:58 p.m
8:04 p.m
8:14 p.m
1:26 p.m
Purse
500
1.500
3.500
5.900
9.900
20,400
34.600
40,900
45,750
51,690
57.600
59.000
62.000
64.000
60.000
59.000
56.000
56.000
61.000
70.000
75.000
87.000
90.000
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Lord Tweedsmuir, Governor General of
Canada, died at the age of 64, less than a
week after he suffered a concussion in a
fall at his official residence in Ottawa.
He had served as Governor General since
1935.
Fairbanks is afflicted with a fire bug.
Five fires during the last year have been
traced to incendiarism. The latest fire
occurred last Tuesday at the Northern Com
mercial Company’s No 6 warehouse but was
discovered before great damage had resulted.
The firebug poured turpentirie between the
sheet iron and board of the wall and then
ignited it.
To testify at a hearing on the proposal
to establish airplane service between Seat
tle and Juneau which will be held in Wash
ington, D.C.by the Civil Aeronautics Auth
ority, Joe E. Crosson, general manager of
the Pacific Alaska Airways, has gone to the
national capital.
Mrs. Hans Mirow will operate the Mirow
Air Service established by her husband who
lost his life recently when his plan#
crashed near Nulato.
MRS. LA1,TING IS HONOR GUEST AT
NUMEROUS SOCIAL AFFAIRS
From the (Phoenix)Arizona Republic:
"Notable among Phoenix guests is Mrs.
Nellie Neal-Lawing - "Alaska Nellie' of
Lawing, Kenai Peninsula, Alaska - who has
been much feted since her arrival for a
visit with her sister-in-law, Mrs. Lillian
Trosper. Mrs. Lawing, recognized as a
radio script writer and biographer as well
as for her management of an Alaskan hunt
ing lodge visited by many of the world's
great, will be honored at numerous dinners,
luncheons, and teas planned for her before
she leaves for the coast. She has been
asked to 3peak before several Phoenix
groups.
1Shen she returns to Hollywood, she plans
to confer with George Putnam on the publi
cation of her autobiography."
The Sunday morning, February 4,Republic
carried a two column picture of Mrs. Law
ing.
Outlook for early inauguration of air
mail service from the States to Alaska is
favorable according to Delegate Dimond,
The service would link Seattle with Ketch
ikan and Juneau and there connect with the
existing air mail route to Fairbanks.
The Delegate says*"It seems certain that
the European war will turn more tourists
to Alaska than ever before. One of the
Canadian steamship companies operating to
southeast Alaska has already taken one
vessel off the Alaska run and other Canad
ian ships may follow. Consequently, it
appears that for the summer months at least
a daily air schedule between Seattle and
Juneau would not only be justified, but
that ships of the air, as well as those
operating on the sea lanes, would probably
be loaded to capacity at all times."
The war has increased the demand for
American canned products to an extent that
Sears Roebuck are going to increase the
output of their Del Monte brand canned
goods and employ thousands of additional
workers.
Statistics furnished a Congressional
committee show that during 1939 there were
116 times as many commercial planes in
Alaska-population considered or per capita,
as in the United States; 23 times as many
passengers flying; 1,034 times as many
pounds of freight and express carried by
air; 48 times as many pounds of mail car
ried by air; 70 times as many air miles
flown.
Do Alaskans fly?