(0(0*51? PASS MDNIER
DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF MOOSE PASS AND KENAI PENINSULA
Vol» 2
Moose Fags. Alaska - June 10. 1940
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No. 2
SEWARD PROMISES GOOD 24-HOURS’
PROGRAM ON THE FOURTH OF JULY.
With Myron Polk chairman of the program
committee for the annual Fourth of July
celebration in Seward, a rousing big day
of contests, sports, frolic and fireworks
is promised. The usual Marathon mountain
race will be held, there will be races
for cash prizes for both adults and Steens
the most thrilling and interesting event
for patriotic and gambling Alaskans will
be the Fourth of July lucky number pool,
second only to the Nenana Ice Pool so far
as Kenai Peninsula residents are concerned
Tickets will be sold for 75<f, and the in
vestor in the ticket will run a risk of
getting from $800 to $1,000, as the case
may be. Better still, two drawings will
be held, the winner of the first drawing
to get 75J of the pool, the winner of the
second drawing to get 25/£. Hot diggityl
The rotogravure section of The Seattle
Times on Sunday, April 14,carried five
pictures and a story about 11-year old
Dorothy Anne Hobson who is editor of the
Valsetz Star at Valsetz, Ore., a town of
800 people. Young Miss Hobsoh is a niece
cf Ray Stafford of Moose Pass, daughter of
Mr. Stafford's sister.
Editorial and news matter fills one
aide of a sheet the same size as the MINER
The paper is published in Portland by"a
Mr. Templeton," quoting the editor,"who
buys 250 copies of The Star and sends them
free to lumber companies and other places.1
The enterprising editor has had much
publicity and gets fan mail from A1 Smith,
Jim Farley and like notables tho the pol
icy of her paper is violently Republican.
Following are some items from The Valsetz
Star* "Grandma Hobson wants to live long
enough to see the Republice^ns in charge
again."
"Mrs. Denno has six tog* on one foot,
and we've stopped taking cod liver oil."
"Our teachers haven't had any pay yet.
Some of them are gathering dandelions for
greens."
"Daddy is trying to find a place for
,his vacation this summer where his stomach
wont get any bigger."
"Russia and Finland stopped fighting bul
the cats are still fighting under our hous<
something fierce."
"Daddy said Hitler is drunk with power,
and two loggers drank sons# raisin juice."
The young editor ha# b«»n offered $100
in cash and a free trip to New York to ap
pear on a radio program. The MOOSE PASS
MINER is absolutely pie-#y*4 with jealousy,
Why all the Spanish o#er NBC?
The liner President Roosevelt docked in
New York Sunday night with 2300 refugees
aboard. In view of the energy with which
the United States rolled up its sleeves
and spat fire after the Lusitania was sunk
by the Germans in 1915, anybody's money
was good that the President Roosevelt
would make a safe round trip,
Italy announced on Sunday that "when
France is conquered, Italy will join Ger
many against England." On Monday Italy
jumps into the war. Which is a very
good sign that Germany is gasping.
Italy has more than 2,000 planes to
throw into the war on the side of the na
zis but when one Frenchman can bring down
19 German planes as one Frenchman did -
all is not lost.
Mrs. Lillian Trosper of Phoenix, Ariz.,
is visiting her sister-in-law, Mrs. Nellie
Neal-Lawing. Mrs. Trosper will spend
two weeks at Lawing. She is employed in
the Arizona Land Office and is prominent
in Phoenix women's clubs. Mrs. Lawing
visited Mrs. Trosper in Phoenix last win
ter and was widely entertained. A niece
of Mrs. Trosper's, another Lillian Tros
per, visited Lawing last summer,
Peter Larionoff, brother of Mrs. Anton
Velanis, arrived at Seward Thursday on
the ms. Fern. He entered Seward General
hospital for treatment for a stomach ail
ment. Mrs. Velanis hurried to Seward to
see her brother, not having seen him for
12 years. Mr. Larionoff lives at Carmel,
on Kodiak Island. Carmel was formerly
called Halibut Bay.
Brannon Casler is caring for two tiny*
twin moose calves at the Warren Neil home
at Lawing. They were found near Snow
River bridge, without their mother and as
searchers failed to find the mother, it is
supposed that she was killed and eaten by
wolves or coyotes. Tho Mr. Casler is a
Forest Ranger, he had to secure permission
from the Game Commission at Anchorage, to
pen up and feed the motherless calves.
On Sunday the left wing of the German
forces, was 52 miles from Paris.
Buster Keaton, dead pan movie comedian,
was married for the third time, in San
Francisco last week to Eleanor Norris, a
dancer.
Garden fanciers would appreciate a dol
lop of rain.