ARCTIC DRIVE
OF REINDEER
EPIC MEMORY
AP Newsfeatures
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. The
great Alaskan reindeer drive— a
dramatic five-year trek of 11 men
and 3,000 animals across 1,000
miles of frozen polar wilderness—
is today an almost forgotten chap
ter in Arctic history.
But its perils and hardships are
still fresh in the mind of Dan
Crowley, the man who led it.
It was just 16 years ago that
Crowley herded his flock into a
small Eskimo village on the Arctic
sea and turned it over to the Can
adian government, mission com
pleted.
After a lifetime in the far north,
Crowley has retired to a pleasant
redwood cottage here. He likes to
talk about his epic adventure, but
‘ I’d never do it over again. I’ve
had enough of gales and ice.”
The drive across the lid of the
world was supposed to last 18
months but actually took five
years.
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DAN CROWLEY with model
Eskimo kayak, souvenir of the
Arctic.
They had to halt to “break in”
deer from the herd, no mean feat.
An untrained animal, hitched to a
sled, will bolt and head for the
hills, trying to shake loose the
contraption which it thinks is
chasing it. When 100 deer were
trained, the trek resumed.
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Next obstacle was the Baird
Mountains. There was no way to
skirt them. They had to be
, climbed. Crowley settled on a
route through the Redstone River
canyon, but because the ground
was boggy they had to wait for
the fall freeze to nrm it up.
Before they left 1,000 deer es
caped, driven to flight by mosqui
tos.
The area on the other side was
not timbered. The party ran out
of fuel for tents and stoves. They
pushed on through temperatures
* of 50 degrees below zero.
The deer were hard to drive be
cause they were blinded by clouds
of steam that hovered over the
herd. Vapor from animals’ nos
tris froze and ice spread over
their eyes.
Driving over mountains and tun
dra, halting during fawning sea
sons, they trekked for three years
before reaching the delta of the
Mack?nzie.
The first crossing of an 80-mile
stretch of Arctic ocean ice that
blocked their way was attempted
in January, 1934. The great dan
ger was from storms. In addition,
the stretch offered the reindeer
nothing to eat. The deer stam
peded, racing for the mainland.1
Sixty Attorney's Attend
Special OPS Training
Territorial OPA, Juneau— Six
ty special assistant U. S. attorneys
and Office of Price Stabilization
enforcement officials attended an
OPS training school in Washing
ton, D.C., the last week in August.
This was the fourth such train
ing session.
Edward P. Morgan, OPS direc
tor of enforcement, said the train
ing schools were part of the pro
gram to step up enforcement of
price control regulations.
Prosecutions of all OPS viola
tions are being handled by the
Department of Justice through
various United States attorneys
offices. Each OPS office through
out the nation has a special attor
ney working with the U.S. attor
ney to facilitate the handling of
OPS cases.
The basic goal of enforcement,
however, Morgan said, will be the
maximum of compliance with a
minimum of court action.
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The herd had to be reconditioned
for another attempt.
It was not until March, 1935,
I more than a year later, that a suc
cessful crossing was made. The
following month, five years and
four months after it started, the
herd was delivered to the Cana
dian government.
Anchorage Teacher Is
Appointed To Territorial
Textbook Commission
JUNEAU, (£>)—Miss Edna Ale
shire, elementary school teacher
at Anchorage, has been appointed
by the board of education to the
territorial text book commission.
The commission meets every
four years to decide on books and
study courses.
Miss Aleshire has been at An
chorage since 1944. Her commis
sion appointment expires in 1953.
The 1951 legislature increased
the commission from two to four
members. Holdovers are Sterling
S. Sears, superintendent of schools,
and J. E. Danielson, Ketchikan
superintendent. The fourth com
mission member, a high school
teacher, will be named soon, Ev
erett R. Erickson, commissioner of
education, said.
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