Ahgupuk Makes
Many Sales On
Baranof Trip
SEATTLE, (/P)—Ahgupuk, the
Eskimo artist, stepped ashore
from the steamer Baranof in Seat
tle yesterday. His wallet was
bulging, and he was convinced of
the artistic appreciation of the
average Alaskan tourist.
“Very kind people,” he smiled.
“They bought much of my work.
Where do I buy money orders?”
George Ahgupuk, 39, is renown
ed throughout the northland for
his India ink sketches of native
life. He does them on tanned
hides of Alaska animals, mostly
reindeer. Tourist and curio shops
in Alaska carry his work, but
sales haven’t been too satisfying
lately. Ahgupuk was delighted
with his success aboard the Ba
ranof.
“I think I need a new wallet,”
he explained. “I tried to put too
much money in this one and it
broke.”
The artist plans to exhibit some
of his work at the inter-tribal cer
emonies which will be held in
Gallup, N. M., next week before
returning to Alaska.
Record Summer
Session At U. of A.
Registration for the 1950 sum
mer session of the University of
Alaska showed an increase of
85% over the number of students
registered in 1948. ^here was no
summer session in 1949. This
year’s enrollment has hit a high
of 65 as compared with 35 for
1948, according to William R.
Cashen, director of this year’s
summer activities.
Students from 14 States and the
District of Columbia, totaling 28
persons, are registered at the sum
mer session as well as 37 from
Alaskan communities.
“We are very much pleased
with the response to our summer
session offerings,” said Mr. Cash
en. “The 28 students from the
States will be ambassadors of
good will for the Territory when
they return to their homes. In ad
dition to their instruction at the
University, we have arranged
many social engagements and
sightseeing tours in the Fairbanks
area,” Cashen said. “They will be
indoctrinated with the Sourdough
spirit when they leave Alaska to
retur nto their schools.”
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Propose Alaska
Fur Regulations
________
(By Mary Lee Council)
WASHINGTON — Proposed
regulations for the control of the
fur farming industry in Alaska
have been issued by the Secretary
of Agriculture with the request
that any interested person who
wishes to submit his views or ar
guments may do so by filing state
ments with the Chief, Bureau of
Animal Husbandry, Agricultural
Research Administration, Depart
ment of Agriculture, Washington,
D. C., by August 29.
The proposed regulations are
set forth below:
“Every person engaged m fur
farming shall procure a license
annually, and upon request shall
produce said license for inspec
1 tion byr all authorized agents of
the United States or the Alaska
Game Commission. The cost of the
license shall be $2.00. Each appli
j cation for a license shall be ad
dressed to the Alaska Game Com
mission at Juneau, Alaska, and
shall be made on a form prescrib
ed by the Commission and accom
panied by a bank draft or an ex
press or postal money order pay
able to the Treasurer of the
United States for the amount of
the license fee. The license shall
be issued pursuant to subdivision
I, section 10 of the Alaska Game
Law by the executive officer of
the Commission through wildlife
agents and other persons author
ized by him in writing to sell such
licenses.
BETA SIGMA PHI ORGANIZER
VISITS NOME
Mrs. Elisie Guenther arrived
from Fairbanks where she has
been visiting the three chapters of
Beta Sigma Phi, the first of which
she instituted seven years ago.
She stated that since her visit
! seven years ago fourteen chapters
have been started in the Terri
tory: Faribanks, Anchorage, Jun
eau, Ketchikan, Sitka and most re
cently Palmer and Seward.
This organization, Mrs. Guen
ther explained, has been in exist
ence for 19 years and is the larg
est non-academic sorority in the
world with chapters totaling 3500.
It is an organization for educa
tional, social and service of young
women out o fschool.
Mrs. Guenther is planning to
meet with some of those interest
ed over the week-end.
A large attendance is expected
this evening at the Nome School
Auditorium, wheer Father Hub
bard will lecture and show pic
tures at 8:30 p.m.
The pictures planned for this
evenuing include those taken at
the North Pole and at Japan.
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GRAVESIDE SERVICE FOR
FRANCES NOONGWOOK
A graveside service was held
yesterday afternoon for the little
girl Frances Noongwook, who was
flown from Gambell in a critical
condition from burns, and who
died during the week.
The service was conducted by
Rev. Paul Carlson with friends
in attendance and the father of the
child. •
U.S. Commissioner’s Court
Two men, Kenneth D. Courson,
and Stanley Osborne Knudson,
were released from the Federal
Jail on a poor convicts oath. These
men were held in regards to tak
ing a plane off the local field
without permission.
Walter E. Leslie and Anne V.
Denberger have applied for a
marriage license. Both are of
Nome.
SMALL FIRE AT
FIX-IT SHOP
The fire department was called
out Wednesday evening to put out
a fire in the Fix-It Shop, which
had started from an over-heated
stove, it is reported. Theer was
little damage.
TOURIST COMMITTEE TO . i
PUBLISH NOME BOOKLET
The tourist committee of the
Chamber of Commerce met today
to make definite plans for a pam
phlet publicizing Nome. “Selling
Nome” is to be the theme of the
enterprise, which is to put Nome
forward on tourists attractions,
both winter and summer.
Plans were also made at the
meeting to greet a group of 25
lawyers who were scheduled to
arrived tomorrow from Anchor
age.
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was here to see that the safety
program of his department was
carried out.
The main speaker of the meet
ing was Father Hubbard, well
known “Glacier Priest,” who ex
plained his stand on Statehood.
He stated that he was a strong ad
vocate for State and has always
been, but was definitely opposed
to HB. 331, as he did not consider
it as good as “prohibition beer.”
“Did you know,” he said, “that
HB. 331 would give Alaska six
tenths of one per cent of its lands
for State control, and 99.4%
would be federally controlled?” ^
As it is, }ie explained, Califor
nia is now 51V& federally-control
led and Idaho 84%, which is bad
.enough, and he is glad that he
was able to defeat this bill.
The new bill, he states, is much
better and he does not expect it
to pass this session, which he
thinks is all for the good as still
more and better provisions can be
added before the next session of
Congress.
When Alaska becomes a state, he
added, “I want it to hold its head
high in the air and be proud of its
statehood, rather than be a politi
cal slave state, as it would have
been had HB. 331 not been shelv
ed.”
High class altruistic men such
as Anthony Diamond and Bob
Bartlett, he explained wanted to
see statehood of any kind, just so
that Alaska could make a start,
but Father Hubbard felt that in
his opinion this is contrary to the
way the Federal Government
works and once it has taken the
land it would be hard to get it
I back again.
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