Alaskagram
Winner
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MONEY PRIZES FOR ALASKANS
First Prixe .$1,000.00
Second Prize .$500.00
Third Prize .$250.00
Fourth Prize .$100.00
Fifth, Sixth and Seventh Prizes .$50.00
TOTAL PRIZES .$2,000.00
And to every contestant who takes part 10 weeks,
a copy of the ALASKA ALMANAC.
ALASKAGRAM No. 41
CLUE: The town, named for the sound, is some
,‘i50 miles by boat from Nome, and boasts a
Friend’s Mission.
Oh, but Zeke ..—|-.
(Place) (Extra Letter)
*
Your Name..
P. 0. Box.Town.
SAVE THIS PUZZLE AND SUBMIT IT WITH THE
WEEKLY SET OF ALASKAGHAMS 37 TO 42
ALASKAGRAM No. 42
CLUE: On Chichagof Island, southwest of Juneau,
this village has three general stores and
wharves for Native fishermen.
0 No, Ha-Ha! . .-|-.
(Place) (Extra Letter)
Your Name...
P. O. Box.Town.....
SAVE THIS PUZZLE AND SUBMIT IT WITH THE
WEEKLY SET OF ALASKAGRAMS 37 TO 42
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WEEKLY ALASKAGRAM
ANSWER BLANK
7th Week’s Set, Nos. 37 to 42
Editor
Alaskagram Contest
P. O. Box 763
Anchorage, Alaska
Listed below are my answers to Alaskagrams
37 to 42 of the Alaskagram Contest, I also enclose
each of the six Alaskagrams for the week.
Wrapped in a small piece of paper is enclosed
25 cents in coin to make by answers eligible under
the rules.
Puzzle Name of Place Extra Latiar
No. 37 .•.
No. 38 .
No. 39 .x.
No. 40 .
No. 41 .
No. 42 .
My Name is .
P. O. Box is.Town.
(Remember to enclose 25c in coin with each
week's set of six puzzles to be eligible for a
cash prize).
Pilot Of Crashed
B-36 Tells Story
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with slush and ice. I came up
pretty good, then waded through
the water, dragging my parachute
behind me. That got the chute wet,
and it didn’t do me any good dur
ing that first night.
I tried to start a fire but it was
raining in torrents and the wood
was wet. It wouldn’t start.
Early Tuesday morning I start
ed off for the coast. I saw a
ground squirrel and shot at a cou
ple of times with by .38 service re
volver, bul I didn’t hit it.
Then I heard Whitfield (1st Lt.
Raymond P. Whitfield, Jr., 25, of
San Antonio, Tex.) blowing on his
whistle. He was about a mile
away.
It was about noon. He was the
first of the crew that I saw. The
island was hilly and brush-cover
ed and it was hard to make prog
ress.
Whitfield and I could only
1 make about a half a mile per hour
on foot. Then we heard S/Sgt. Vi
tale Trippodi (of Brooklyn, N. Y.)
j yelling for help.
He was hung up in his chute
; on a tree and had been there all
i night. It took all our efforts to
; bring him down. He was in pretty
I bad shape. We did everything we
could to make him comfortable,
and made him a sort of bed out of
pine boughs. After we’d cut him
down from the tree and moved
him down from the cliff where the
tree was.
Later the Canadian destroyer
Cayuga sent in 25 men to pick
him up and search for the others.
Meanwhile, however, Whitfield
and I scrambled down to the
beach, where we stomped out an
S.O.S. in the snow. Then we wait
eo for the others, who showed up
shortly.
A little while later ths fishing
boat picked us up.
We were all anxious that our
wives and families knew we sur
vived akoy.
A JOINT RETURN is cheap
er for most married couples. You
can file one even if you were
married on the last day of 1949.
Both must sign it.
i
Send in This
ANSWER BLANK
WITH
ALASKAGRAMS 37 to 42
Completely
Filled Out
Fill out the Answer Blank at
right and mail it with this week's
set of six Alaskagrams.
Be sure the Answer Blank and
each of the six Alaskagrams are
filled out to the best of your abil
ity.
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Many Alaskans
Working On
Alaskagrams
Nearly 2000 persons through
out the Territory of Alaska are
taking part in the Alaskagram
Contest featured in several lead
ing Alaska newspapers. Half way
through the contest its sponsors
have made this announcement and
have requested that questions
about the contest be clarified.
Typographical errors and mail
delays have worried many con
testants and the sponsors point
out that no contestant will be
eliminated from the contest ex
cept for mistakes or failure to ob
serve the instructions which are
printed in the Official Rules
which every Alaskagram contest
ant should have received by this
time.
No trickery is being employed
“to catch’’ any contestant. Those
who answer each Alaskagram cor
rectly will have an equal chance
to share in the $2,000.00 cash
prizes.
Two weeks are allowed for post
marking a set of puzzles. In case
of an unavoidable mail delay in
any community, no contestant in
i that area would be penalized. In
quiries received by the contest
sponsors relative to submitting a 11
I solutions can be answered in Rule
6 of the Official Rules. Each indi
j vidual Alaskagram is worth two
i points and the weekly summary,
! the Answer Blank, is worth 12
j points. Judges will deduct for so
{lutions not submitted,
j Alaskagrams will become in
creasingly difficut as the contest
progresses, but it appears that
there will be ties. If there are, a
tie-breaking puzzle will be mailed
to tieing contestants. It is unlike
WORLD DAY OF PRAYER
TO BE OBSERVED HERE
World Day of Prayer will be
observed this year in ninety coun
tries. As customary, the date of
observance will be the first Fri
day of Lent, which is February
24.
The chain of prayer will be
made by millions of people wor
shipping in all comers and cen
ters of the earth and praying in
sixty different languages.
Following the sun it will be
started in the Fiji Islands at dawn
and continue westward from the
crowded ports of Singapore and
Shanghai into isolated villages of
China and Pakistan; from the Af
rican jungles to the Arctic wilder
nesses.
World Day of Prayer is inter
denominational, inter-racial and
international in scope, and offer
ings are divided between mis
sionary work at home and abroad
to supply their spiritual, educa
tional and recreational needs.
All churches, fraternal, chari
table, youth, civic, and social
groups are invited to join in mak
ing this day a community-wide,
as well as world-wide symbol of
| fellowship.
Special programs are being
; planned for all adults and chil
dren of Nome and vicinity.
I yl that a contestant will tie for
I first place unless he scores 288
i points in the original series of 72
puzzles.
A contestant who has lost points
1 may regain them by re-entering
the contest prior to midnight Mar.
1 11, 1950, and observing the Offi
, cial Rules.
Any Alaskan may enter the
contest by submitting back puz
zles in accordance with the In
structions published each Friday.
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