Mrs, Lucy Gregorioff, of
Afognak, underwent a tonsillec
tomy at the Griffin Memorial
hospital Monday.
Fem Driver
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dependence Mine reopened for a
gold rush in the Talkeetna
Mountains, she trucked supplies
for the prospectors. When she
couldn’t shovel the snow drifts,
she put on snowshoes and pack
ed medicine, magazines, and
mail on a board on her should
ers. She picked up so many half
frozen miners along her route
that she began a jitney service
in a 7- passenger car, hauled her
travellers 65 miles from mine to
town, invaded the Anchorage
saloons about 4 a.m. to round
the pas engers up for the return
trip at 7 a.m.
Rusty was married in Alaska
in 1940 to Russ Dow, former
Dartmouth ski champ who came
up on a glacier expedition and
stayed Her wedding ring is
Alaska gold, her engagement
ring, on work-worn but curious
ly gentle hands, is fossilized
ivory with a diamond. Dow is a
ski instructor at the Anchorage
base.
To own one of Rusty’s paint
ings is an honor In oils and
pastels she does Alaskan vistas
and early transportation scenes,
not that she ever studied, but
like everything else tooK it the
hard way “by doing it.” Slie
skis, in a layman’s way but
allows she is better at truck
driving. She says she keeps
house after a fashion and after
her ten-hour work days, six days
a week, starting at 7:30 a.m.
She has had no day off in the
more than three years sinoe
she's been driving for the En
gineers. She has no desire to “go
outside” when the war’s over - -
•die and her husband are going
to the mountains where he will
have his dream of a ski lodge
and she will photograph and
paint the mountains.
Rusty counts her proudest
day when she got her job with
Uncle Sam’s Army Engineers
‘because they get lots done,
when the going’s hardest, pio !
neeiing. I like action and we’ve
had it from the first Engineer
axe laid into the forest that’s
our l ase here. It’s hard to re
member sometimes now, when
W'e hunted low brush moose
(rabbits) and high brush moose
through here.”
Rusty thinks it’s romance and
adventure that brings people to
Alaska including the civilians
coming up to help the Army En
gineers. ' It’sayen to move about
to start with, and then like as
not it’s wanting to get away
from things that’ve gone wrong,
like love affairs and business.
Lots of folks have the impres
sion they’re going to find a bear
hiding back of every spruce but
I’m glad to say that’s wrong,
because I’m tired of seeing our
game butchered. To fly over/
Alaska is one thing but to stay!
and scrutinize it is another. If
people fit in Alaska, they
stay and if they can’t adapt
themselves to the big country,
they go back where they came
from." h
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