Girl Scouting
In Nome
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This week the Girl Scouts are
celebrating their 37th Anniversary
of Scouting. Girl Scouts were just
organized in Nome, January, 1944,
when Mrs. Vernon Booker, wife of
Rev. Booker, pastor of the Feder
ated Church, organized a group of j
girls for the purpose of forming
the first Girl Scout troop in Nome.
It was in May of ’44 that the
girls were recognized as Girl
Scouts. A dedication service was
held in the social room of the Fed
erated Church where the girls
wishig to become scouts, held a
part in the service. Many of the
townspeople were present to wit
ness the initiation. The first Girl
Scout committee was composed of
Mrs. Luther Dunbar, Mr. William
Angell and Mrs. Wilfred Boucher.
After Mrs. Booker’s departure,
Mrs. Glen Muncy was the first of- j
ficial leader. She did not have an
assistant, and held the position
for two years after which Mrs.
Millard had charge during Mrs.
Muncy’s vacation to the States.
Upon her return. Mrs. Muncy as- !
sisted by Mrs. Bud Richter again
resumed the position. Succeeding
her was Mrs. Paul Mandeville,
leader for a year. After her resig
nation, Miss Marie Reedy was ap
pointed leader and Miss Lois Mor
gan as assistant. In 1948 Mrs. M.
Staudemeyer took over aided by
Mrs. T. Peterson.
It was very fortunate in 1948
that the Girl Scouts bad for their
first Sponsors, the Officer’s Wives
of Marks Air Force Base.
Due to the transferring of Mrs.
Staudemeyer and Mrs. Peterson,
they have some new leaders taking
over the different groups of Scouts
according to ages. Mrs. Gallagher
has charge of the Senior Scouts,
Mrs. Carl Glavinovich the older
intermediate group and Mrs. Paul
Galloway the Junior Intermediate
girls. A Brownie Troop has been
recently organized by Mrs. Urich,
teacher of the third grade. They are
very grateful to Mrs. Browning,
Girl Scout executive, for helping
us to better organize the troop and
for giving us ideas.
The first enrollment of girls was
14 members, but now enrolled are
forty-two members.
Every summer since the Scouts
have been organized, they have
Rescue Tiny Tot
Unhurt From Deep
Cistern Pipe
AUSTIN. Tex. (/P> — Slight
scratches on the face and side j
were the only physical reminders
Saturday that Bobby Andrew Gow,
a tiny 3-year-old, was imprisoned
three hours Friday deep in a cis
tern pipe.
Bobby, whose 26-pound body
dropped from view at 2:48 p.m.
just 50 feet from his back door
step, was reported in good shape
at Brackenridge hospital.
Maybe he owed his life to
quick-thinking 12-year-old John
ny Schneider. It was Johnny who j
shouted the alarm when Bobby |
slipped feet first into the aban- :
doned pipe.
Firemen and policemen were on
the scene in 10 minutes. Civilian
volunteers rolled in.
A steam shovel went into action
and less than three hours later
Bobby was removed after the pipe
had been cut. When rescuers;
reached him, Bobby was standing
on dry ground at • a depth of 18
feet.
Bobby is one of three children
of Mr. and Mrs. James Gow, both
35. The father said he had covered
the pipe and did not understand
how the children had loosened the
heavy cover.
gone camping at Dexter for two
weeks at a time. Their first camp
site was the Dexter roadhouse, but
for the last two years they have
stayed at their camp which con
sists of three Quonset huts.
They have had several cookie
sales and in 1949 they held a ba
za rre for the public which was
very well attended. They made
$511.90, most of which went tow
ards fixing their camp. They also
have many good times together at
they various parties.
The Girl Scouts wish to thank
one and all of those who helped to
make them what they are today.
They especially want to thank the
Girl Scout committee for their
fine work in keeping the Scouts
going. The Girl Scout committee
pu to date is composed of Mrs.
Hudert, Mrs. Fricke, Mrs. Dunbar
and Mrs. Steinwandel.
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NOME GRILL
Arctric Indoctrina-1
lion School Starts
Third Year !
The Arctic Indoctrin ation
School opened for the third con
secutive year on October 29, 1949.
The school was first founded in
August, 1947 at Marks Air Force
Base under the supervision of Mr.
(then Capt.) Harry E. Strong. Dur- j
ing, and immediately after the
war, the Air Force realized the
need for some sort of a school to i
teach survival techniques to its
men. The small percentage of air
crew members that were surviv-1
ing crashes became a serious mat- ,
ter to the Air Force. It wasn’t the !
crash casualties, they were un
avoidable, it was the men who
froze, or starved to death after
they had survived the initial acci- I
dent. The most glaring incident of
all was the case o fthe “Clobbered
Turkey,” a B-29 that crashed
some time ago and whose entire
crew perished. Crew members
used the bed rolls dropped to them
as back rests, never attempted to
get inside and keep warm, and
they froze to death.
Survival in the Arctic isn t as
hard as most people think. It is
mostly a case of keeping your wits
about you and making #use of ev
erything that comes to hand and in
keeping warm and dry. The
School teaches these life-saving
techniques, both in class room and
in the field.
Class room work consists of lec
tures, movies, Arctic travel, con
struction of shelters and the im
portance of clothing and how to
wear it.
Barren land survival is reckon
ed to be the most difficult of all,
because of the almost total lack of
natural aids. As in the bush coun
try, there aren’t any trees or bush
es to use in making shelters and
fires. Everything must come from
the emergency kits of the downed
men. All shelters must be built
either with snow or material
taken from the crashed plane, or a
cobination of both. Snow shelters
are of several types; snow houses,
snow hole, snow cave and snow
trench. Each is best suited to a
specific situation and the students
of the School are taught how to
build all types. They are sufficient
for warmth and shelter against
the elements.
At present there are 34 person
nel attached to the School, 25 of
which are instructors, the remain
ing 9 being administrative per
sonnel. Major Robert N. Pash, is
C.O. of the School.
Clothing, however, is the most
I important item of all. It’s not the
amount of clothing that matters,
but how you wear it. The layer
system, providing insu 1 a t i o n
through trapped layers of air be
tween the clothing, has been
proven best over year sof experi
ence.
By teaching and training air
men how to care for themselves—
and their equipment—after a
forcer landing, the Arctic Indoc
trination School has fostered a mo
rale in Alaskan air crews that is
both unique and essential.
Mrs. A. Hirschberg. mother of
Mrs. Ted Duffield arrived yester
day with Pan American to spend
the winter with her daughter
whom she has not seen for two
years.
Marion Sanford, public health
nurse who has been in the Ha
waiian Islands for 12 years will be
the ANS nurse for St. Lawrence
Island this winter.
COLLEGE
FOOTBALL
<By The Associated Press*
It’s no longer sufficient to say
those gridiron gargantuas—Notre
Dame, Army and Oklahoma—won
again. The pertinent point is: by
how much?
As if jealously watching the
scoreboard in their drive for na- ;
tional honors, these three top
ranking elevens are gorging them
selves on touchdowns and punch
ing the modern record for scoring.
Army’s Black Knights of the
Hudson, second to Notre Dame in
the current standings, are setting
the point-production pace among
the leaders with a total of 267 in
six games, an average of 44>/4
per Saturday.
The Fighing Irish have regis
tered 197 in five games, an aver
age of 39 plus, while the third
ranked Sooners have 229 in six
games, a bit over 38 for each af
ternoon's sport.
All three of the titans won
games Saturday by robust mar
gins N.otre Dame crushed Navy.
40-0. at Baltimore. Army over
whelmed Virginia Military. 40-14.
Oklahoma smashed Iowa State,
‘34-7.
These are developments of the
last October week-end:
1. Pennsylvania, ninth ranked
nationally, was tumbled from the
unbeaten ranks by Pttsburgh,
which scored a last minute safety
to prevail, 22-21.
2. Perfect records were main
tained by 11 other major teams—
Notre Dame. Army Oklahoma,
California, Cornell, Baylor, Bos
I ton U., Virginia, Fordham, Wyo
ming, and College of the Pacific,
i 3. Bowl hopes rocketed for Cal
! ifornia, Baylor. Pitt and Boston
' Unnversity.
4. Bowl hopes were shattered
CIO To Rid
Unions Of All
IVo-( Communists
CLEVELAND, f/P)—CIO Presi
dent Philip Murray indicated Sat
urday he was ready to rid his la
bor union federation of all pro
communist groups.
Murray said so in a report pre
pared for the annual convention
here today.
He used the most vigorous lan
guage in CIO record to describe
his feelings toward communist
and pro-communist unions in the
CIO.
The CTO leader was reported
ready to tell the 11th annual con
vention there is no room in his
organization for pro-communist
unions.
‘The CIO wants none of the
communist program,” Mu r r a y
aides said the president report
would declare.
Murray and other top CIO lead
ers have threatened to toss all left
wingers off the powerful execu
tive board.
They also have laid plans to
I throw at least three unions led by
1 leftists out of the organization.
The left-wing union-; scheduled to
get the boot are the United Elec
trical Workers, the Mine, Mill and
Smelter Workers, and the Farm
Equipment Workers. The three
have a combined membership of
about a half million.
Mrs. Harry Goltschalk of the
Breakers Bar left yesterday for
the States for medical attention
and plans to be gone several
weeks.
for North Carolina, Minnesota and
U. C. L. A.
5. Fordham, once an eastern
giant, came back to the big leagues
with a 42-0 triumph over George
town.
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