Nome Reindeer Herds
Increase In 12 Years
JUNEAU — Reindeer herds,
established by the Alaska Native
Service in 1940 to restore the in
dustry, now number 23, totaling
about 25,000 head, according to
Dale Belcher, ANS reindeer in
spector who returned from the
Nome area.
Belcher inspected three herds
and reported those at St. Michael
and White Mountain prospering,
but Johnny Kakakruk’s herd at
Igloo has been hard hit by wolves.
The St. Michael herd, about
1,700 reindeer, belongs to the
Bureau of Indian Affairs and to
private owners. Three herdsmen
are paid by the Eskimo owners
and the government, the govern*
ment in cash.
The Eskimos allow the herders
to keep the increase from their
herds.
Sigfried Aukongak, owner of
the White Mountain herd, borrow*
ed 500 head of reindeer from the
ANS in 1940 and repaid them
10 years later. He now has 1200
in his herd, Belcher said.
Kakakaruk blamed wolves for
cutting his herd from 500 to 350.
He told Belcher that the maraud
ers would strike at an unguarded
point and disappear into the
mountains before the herders
could get on their trails.
Because forage is sparse in the
area, herds have to be moved fre
quently, Belcher reported. Herds
man follow the reindeer by dog
team, living in tents along the
trail.
Added to the hazards of wea
ther, wolves and graze scarcity,
Belcher said, are caribou. Herds
erf caribou on a reindeer range
will move into a herd and carry
many of the reindeer of with them
when they move.
It is almost impossible to sep
arate the reindeer from caribou
once they are intermingled, he
said.
Butchering "of the animals us
ually occurs in November or De
cember, the meat and skins sold
to other natives for cash or kind.
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New Class For School
Of Practical Nursing
At Mt. Edgecumbe
On June 16 a new class will be
admitted to the Mt. Edgecumbe
School of Practical Nursing. This
will be the second group to en
ter the Practical Nursing School
since its opening on February 25
of this year.
The requirements for admission
include completion of elementary
school through eighth grade, age
from 18 to 35 years, good health
and recommendations from re
sponsible persons as to moral
character of applicant and inter
est in nursing. Applications will
be received from boys as well as
girls and women.
Each student in the Practical
Nursing School receives a sti
pend of $30 per month through
out the 12 month period of train
ing. This enables the student to
purchase of certain essentials re
quired for personal use in the
program, such as, watch with sec
ond hand and white shoes. Stu
dent uniforms are furnished.
There is a separate dormitory for
the Practical Nursing students.
Meals are provided in the Central
j Mess. There is no charge for
either room or board.
On satisfactory completion of
the course the graduates are eli
gible for Federal Government em
ployment as Practical Nurses with
a civil service rating of GS-3 at
a salary of $3600 per year. There
is great need for the services of
Practical Nurses throughout Al
aska in all health programs.
Requests for application forms
and inquiry concerning admission
to the School of Practical Nursing
should be sent or made person
ally to the Director of the School
of Practical Nursing, or to the
Principal of the Mt. Edgecumbe
School. Anyone planning to enter
in June should make their wishes
known at once.
Classes are admitted three times
a year, in February, June and
October.
Men breathe about 425 cubic
feet of air in 24 hours.
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GAMBELL NEWS
April 29, 1952
Good, clear weather which
lasted about two weeks caused
whale hunters to put up their
canvas sails when they sighted
whales in the lee of a big cake
cft ice. Lloyd Oovi’s and John
Apangalook’s boats missed the
whales they come to, it was re
ported. The striker of one boat,
and the crew of the other boat
were to blame for missing the
whales. There was an Army plane
flying right over the whaling
scene at the time. The Air Force
plane may have been taking pic
tures of the boats with sails up,
not knowing • that the drone of
their engines were chasing away
the whales in the area, it was re
ported. The hunters said, if the
planes would fly over the land,
and not over the hunters, would
help a lot.
Lloyd Oovi’s boat crew sighted
a polar bear from the top of their
biulding with field glasses, but it
turned out to be an oogruk with
its young.
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David Tatoowi, Marcella Oyag
hok, and Daniel Echak are going
to Mt. Edgecumbe Sanitorium.
The fourth patient, Mark Nupow
hotuk could not make up his mind.
Reason: the family did not agree.
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Gambell Native Store is com
pletely out of man’s best friend,
“matches.” Kerosene is also run
ning very short, because the Sa
voonga Native Store ran out of
it, and their natives are coming
in every good day for kerosene.
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Adelinda Womkon who is here
to be with her dad, who is now
deceased, is teaching the little
folks Mary Silook used to teach.
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Alice Green will be going back
to Savoonga this week. She was
here to go to Yukon Presbytery
which met in Fairbanks on the
16th. She did no go because the
plane she going on did not prom
ise to take her to Fairbanks.
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Mr. and Mrs. Frank Oktookiyuk
are the parents of a newly born
baby boy, their fifth.
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Msny thanks to all who greeted
my recent visit. I only wished I'd
be there for several more days,
but due to the fact that I was
on an official trip, I had to return
immediately. Many of you were
very friendly, especially the Com
missioner, District Attorney, and,
of course, Chief Laws.
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Thief Runt Off With Safe
Containing 6,000 Pinhalls
TOKYO, (JP)—A 27-year-aid ex
convict Monday held up the# pro
prietor of a downtown pinball
parlor at dagger point and made
off with a 100-pound strong box.
He walked only about 100 yarda
with his heavy loot before police
nabbed him.
Inside the stong box were some
6,000 pinballs.
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