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Vol.l.
DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF MOOSE PASS AND KENAI PENINSULA
Moose Pass. Alaska. - January 14,1939
No. 8.
LB3ISLATURE-HOW IN SESSION
Alaska Territorial legislature opened
in Juneau last Monday.All of the Senators
and Representatives with the exception of
Jesse Landers of the Fourth Division were
in attendance. The liquor control ques
tion and the proposed change in gold tax
are admittedly the paramount issues of thi
session.
Fred Woodeman of Hope* is recovering
under treatment of his foot injury,at Sew
ard General hospital. He is 83 years old
and a genuine sourdough, having come to
Hope in 1895.
Leonard Kepler of Fairbanks, who spent
a month in Roland Paul’s cabin at Mile 11,
while hunting moose, returned to Fairbanks
at Christmas time,with his moose, and glow
ing tales of life in the Moose Pass region
Gold production in the region of Flat,
Alaska, amounted to $700,000 this season.
Alaska's mineral yield for 1938 amount
ed to $27,036,000 of which $21,917,000 was
in gold. The total mineral yield since
the Territory was purchased from Russia in
1867 for $7,200,000 is more than $776,000,
000, or nearly 111 times more than the
Territory originally cost.
President Roosevelt has recommended an
appropriation of $25,970 for Mount MwKinle
Park.
Leon Urbach has been elected president
of the Seward Chamber of Commerce for the
16th consecutive year he has held that of
fice.
President Roosevelt has sent to the
House of Representatives* a recommendatioi
of an appropriation of $200*000 for the
Alaska Railroad, the first deficiency bil]
After surviving nine days of pounding
on an ice-packed Copper River bar, the
fishing boat Ya-Sure was towed 200 miles
from the scene and arrived at a point 200
yards from the Cordova city dock, where
it sank.
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Pilot Ray Dickson made a forced land
ing about 15 miles from McGrath when the
landing gear of his Star airplane broke.
He radioed his plight and within an hour
dog teams were en route to take the pilot
and his passengers to McGrath. The new,
the old.
territorial secretary dies
Alaska suffered a great loss in the
death on New Years Eve in Juneau of Ter
ritorial Secretary, E» W. JFriffin. He
was preparing to join some friends for a
holiday dinner when his death occurred
suddenly in his apartment.
The body of Ur. Griffin's wife rests
in the Seward cemetery and as he had re
quested to be buried beside her when he
died, his body was sent to Seward where
f\meral services were held last Sunday.
Acting as pallbearers were Elwyn Swetmann,
C. M. Brosius, Leon Urbach, Charles Shel
do^W. C. Erwin and Carl Orlander, Hon
orary pallbearers were A. D. Balderston,
T. W. Hawkins and Wayne Blue.
Mr. Griffin was serving his second term
.as Territorial Secretary. He came to
Alaska around 40 years ago as auditor for
’the North American Trading and Transporta
tion Company, later becoming superintend
ent. He is said to have grubstaked more
prospectors than any other Alaskan. %
Mr*. Nelli* Ne&l-Lawing finds much plea
sure in the cosmopolitan nature of the
friendships she acquires among the tour
ists by the thousands who visit her res
ort at Lawing. This was brought home to
her at Christmas time when she received a
pint of strawberry preserves from Volcano
House, Hawaii and two pounds of tea from
Tanganyika Territory, East Africa. Both
were sent her by Mrs. Dr. Jagger, well
known in this region.
Mrs. Lawing received 120 Christmas cards
from far and near, one from Charles Burns
having traveled more than 10,000 miles
from Riga,Latvia.
I. M. C. Anderson, district agricultu
ral agent in the Matanuska Valley, is in
the States to purchase 110 milk cows for
the Matanuska Colonist®.
N. M. Norgard, government lighthouse
keeper at Cape Spencer, Alaska, was struck
by an automobile aftd killed in Seattle on
the day before New Years day. He was in
the States on a vacation trip.
Jack English, now with the Sewarc Machine
Shop, spent the Christmas holidays with
his family at Seldovia.
Tom Williams, formerly of Moose Pass has
located at Kediak. He is building a house
at Kodiak and has become a successful fish
erman .