LI 0 0 S E PASS MINER
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By L. H. Allen
Visiting editors and their wives(if any
and other members of their fa.milies, who
came to Alaska in the National Editorial
Association group to hold their 1939 nat
ional convention, were handsomely enter
tained in Seward and expressed themselves
as delighted with this section of Alaska.
This was the 54th annual convention of
the organization which is composed of ed
itors of non-metropolitan daily and weekly
papers. The organization has 4,000 mem
bers and represents 12,000 newspapers.
W. H. Conrad, 1938-1939 president,head
ed the touring conventioners accompanied
by Mrs. Conrad and their two sons, Brooks
and Collins Conrad. W.H.Conrad is editor
of the Star News at Medford, Wis.
Howarc U, Palmer,editor of the Green
wich (Conn).Press is slated to be the next
president and will be elected while on the
tour, the association holding its official
sessions on shipboard. Mrs. Palmer accom
panied Mr. Palmer to Alaska.
Alaska will profit greatly from the
visit of the editors. Almost every state
in the Union was represented and the edi
tors will devote columns upon columns in
their newspapers to telling of what they
saw and learned about fishing, mining,trap
ping, scenery and hospitality in Alaska.
Tony Galento proved, to be no "white
hope." Not many fight fans entertained
any hope that he would knock out Joe Louis
but almost everybody hoped he would.
An aerial survey of routes north from
Hazleton,British Columbia,will be initia
ted July 8 by the international joint com
mission the proposed U.S. to Alaska high
way. It is expected that the trip will
require six days and the findings of the
fliers will be discussed when the commis
sion meets July 20. Routes v/ill be con
sidered and financing of the project.
Oldest and most deadly home brew is
scandal.
-Houghton (Texas) Line.
Friends are like commodities - they
last longer when not used too often.
-Denver Post.
M. P. Butler, Seattle contractor, sub
mitted a bid of $214,884 for construction
of the 2058-foot Lowell Creek tunnel at
Seward. That figure being almost $25,000
less than the engineer's estimate, Butler
will probably get the contract.The tunnel
is to protect Seward property against
floods on the creek*
THE OLD STOVE
By I.I • R. S •
Old Stove, where did you come from?
How many people have you fed?
■Where are the cooks who have labored over
you,
Planning the workers' daily bread?
Tell of the early days you witnessed;
Days of the rush, the hurry, the boom,
Time of a great enthusiasm,
Driving toward a certain doom.
Time is stamped in your title, Old Stove,
Spelled in capitals, "CHARTER OAK,"
Gone are the lids, the oven rusted,
Bare as the early miner’s poke.
Stay in your place, forsaken Old Stove,
Grim and defiant, though left to decay.
Far in the future a scrap of iron
Points to the cause of that early day.
Hoatesites to a total of 108.9 acres,
ranging in size from less than one-half
acre to 18 acres in both the Chugach and
Tongass National Forests in Alaska, will be
opened for entry by signature of President
Roosevelt. Officials of the National For
est Service state that persons now living
on homesites will have prior claims to the
land.
Of the 2500 pheasant eggs and 100 Chuck
ar eggs shipped into the Matanuska Valley
to be incubator-hatched, 528 pheasants were
hatched and 67 of the 100 chuckar eggs.It
is thought that these birds can survive the
winter feeding on what is left in the grain
fields and the farmers hope to have their
aid in keeping down cutworms and insects,
Lou Gehrig, New York Yankees first base
man, will never play baseball again. He
had a check-up at the Mayo Clinic, follows
ing an illness, and it was found that he is
suffering from chronic infantile paralysis.
As many as 100 new residents are said
to have moved to Kodiak since the construc
tion of the naval base became a certainty.
Many are living in tents while homes and
store buildings are being erected.
Walt Masort, humorist-poet, died in San
Diego recently at the age of 77, He is
survived by one daughter.
A tornado in Minnesota jumped 25 miles
of countryside but on either side of its
jump killed 10 persons and injured more
than 60 people last Sunday. Anoka,a town
of 5,000 suffered, the most, five persons
losing their lives and around 50 buildings
being demolished. Other towns in the
path of thje torrjado were Corcoran, Maple
ville, Choraplin, Cedar, St. Francis and
Bethel. Estimated damage in these six
towns near Minneapolis, was $500,000.