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SCHOOL NOTES
SECOND GRADE
Cecelia Cook left for the States
March 30. Her father was station-1
ed at Marks Field.
Donnie Munz is a new second
grade pupil, entering from Seattle
and Juneau schools.
All second graders were given ,
physical examinations last Tues
day morning.
FOURTH GRADE
Each boy and girl in the fourth
grade has chosen a book from the
school library.
The book is to be read and given
before the class in the form of a
book report.
This work will be done in con
nection with the unit on book re
views which appears in the fourth
grade lauguage manual.
HIGH SCHOOL
Most wars that United States
has been engaged in have com
menced in the month of April.
That was quite natural because
spring operations would begin at
that season of the year. We find in
history that United States entered
the World War I on April 16. 1917.
i Woodrow Wilson, the President of
the United States, tried to avoid
war but the ruthless submarine
warfare brought us into it. The
sinking of the Lusitania was one
of the reasons for entering the
war. German officers tried to
make trouble in Mexico. Mexico
had been promised Texas. Arizona
and New Mexico if she would join
Japan in an attack on the U. S.
Propagandists and spies had been
! stationed in the U. S. They tried to
j stir uo labor trouble in American
industry.
April 5th will be long remem
bered at Nome High School. At
three o’clock, books were put
aside. There was a period of si
lence broken by the approach of
a huge birthday cake all aglow
with candies and bearing the name
June Dunbar, fifteen. Happy
birthday was sung and delicious
ice cream of two varieties was
served with the cake. Games com
pleted the hour of pleasant re
freshments.
The seniors have received their
graduation announcements.
Members the the school play
are rehearsing at eight o’clock in
the. morning. The play will be
held on April 21st.
Word from George Bourdon,
who is attending Dunwoody Insti
tute in Minneapolis states that he
has seen his first electric storm.
The first bolt of lightning he saw
scared him. Heavy rains followed
the electric storm.
Because the direction of the
earth’s axis in space in changing,
the north celestial pole is slowly
moving amongst the stars in a
small circle. It will complete the
circle in 25,900 years. About B. C.
3000, Alpha Draconis was the pole
star; and 12,000 years from now,
Vega, Alpha Lyrae will have the
distinction of being the pole star.
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TUG REACHES SEATTLE
AFTER STpRMY TRIP
SfiA'TfLE, '(£*) — The tug Jim
was back m Seattle yesterday af
ter a stormy trip from San Fran
cisco during which a dredge sank
under tow. The tug was towing
the dredge from the south for the
Puget Sound Bridge and Dredging
company.
It was to be repaired here for
use in dredging Wrangell Nar
rows, according to Tom Boyd, as
sistant manager of the company's
towboat division.
Another dredge, used in the
Wrangell Narftws project burned
last Christmas Eve and was a to
tal loss.
Tropical Island
Life Cannot Beat
Life In Alaska
SPOKANE. — People have
long dreamed of life on a tropical
island. Mrs. Daniel Armstrong, 23.
says life on an Alaska island is
worth dreaming about, too.
Mrs. Armstrong and her hus
band and year-old son have been
living on Mary Island, 18 miles
south of Ketchikan, for six
months. Armstrong, a coast guards
man, is one of three lighthouse
tenders on the 28 square miles of
land.
The Armstrong’s neighbors on
the island consisted of one other
couple, a single enlisted man, a
pack of wolves, a few deer and
“millions of gnats.” $
The only time-marker in the is
land life was the mail-boat which
arrived once a week with fresh
meat, milk and vegetables.
“Time seemed all in one piece.
There were no distractions,” said
Mrs. Armstrong.
What can you do on a northern
island? Mrs. Armstrong found
amusement enough in fishing,
clam digging, sewing, watching
the boats go by, reading, listening
to the radio and playing cards. If
she wanted to go to town, she’d
just hitch a ride on a boat.
Coldest temperature last winter
was 28 above zero, but “the wind
made it seem colder.”
Mrs. Armstrong said her baby
didn’t get a cold all winter.
She hopes Armstrong, who is a
U. S. coast Guardsman will have
isolated duty for several years
more. After the baby reaches
school age “we will have to be
near a school.”
Mrs. Armstrong says it’s only
the single men who don't like
such an island existence.
“They like to .be doing things
and going places. They don't ap
preciate the peace of living with
out distinctions.” she said.
Mrs. Armstrong is in Spokane
visiting Armstrong’s parents, Dr.
and Mrs. Fred V. Armstrong. Af
ter. Easter, she and her husband
will go to Point Retreat, another
lonely island in the inside passage
to Alaska where Armstrong has
been transferred.
Suggest “Mounted
Police" For Use
In Alaska
(By Charles D. Walk.ns)
• i/piSpecial Washington Service)
WASHINGTON I/P)—A constat
ulary for Alaska, along :he line*
of Canada’s Northwest Mounted
Police, has been recommended t<
Congress to meet the Territory •
need for law enforcement.
The recommendation, oy S .A
Andretta, administrative assistant,
to the attorney general, was re-'
vealed when testimony on the ju:
tice departmeifc appropriation:
bill for the year starting July .t
was made public.
“Two of the larger communities.
Fairbanks and Anchorage, have
local police, but their jurisdiction
is confined only to the city limit: ’
Andretta told the committee.
“The result is that houses of
prostitution, gambling and liquoi
joints located in the environ- ol
the city, are out of the jurisdic
tion of the city police and com*
under the marshal’s jurisdiction.
“There has been developed, ni
ter considerable study, a long
term program relative to expand
ing not only the highway police
and the marshal’s staff, but creat
ing a Territorial police force akin
to the Royal Mounted Police oi
Canada.”
Andretta said the plan had been
worked up with the interior de
partment and that it would “re
quire money—a lot of money.”
He said that as a temporary so
lution it had been suggested that
marshal’s staff in Alaska be in
creased and they be provided with
automobiles, but the budget bur
eau had refused to sanction the
proposal.
“There is a feeling." he said,
“that things have been out of hand
in Alaska for a long time and they
look to the marshals ns chief la.v
enforcement officers in the Terri
tory."
Andretta said there are 40 mar
shals in Alaska and they arc not
able to handle those matters that
should be handled by the local po
lice forces.
“A state constabulary is the ans
wer,” he said.
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