COUNCIL NEWS
There has been little relief from
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the strong winds that started in
early December and seem to have
forgotten to let up. Local resi
dents who have had years of ex
perience in predicting the weather
•around this vicinity, are at a loss
this year in coming up with any
accurate forecasts as to what’s
next. We have been getting plenty
of everything except sunshine.
Strongest winds in years (and the
most frequent, so I am told) more
snow, less planes than last year,
less money, and less optimism
about an early breakup and
spring, which, in general, makes
life tough. About the only thing
that can be said is . . . when there
is a sun dog, or ring around the
moon, something is going to hap
pen—and something always does.
David Henry says that he is
going to get away from it all and
move his family of five to White
Montain this summer. Others will
probably follow suit.
Peter Lee has caught three
lovely foxes so far this winter,
and believe it or not, half of
another. He visited his traps re
cently and found the front half
of a fox in a No. 3 trap. Other
foxes had been all around the
less fortunate one and eaten a
large portion of it. They have
been plentiful this year and must
be extremely hungry to pull such
an act. It has been said that when
such a thing occurs around here,
many of them go crazy. Not from
eating one another, necessarily,
but from starvation. The words
“crazy fox’’ draws about as many
attentive ears as “fire,” “airplane”
or “Joe Stalin is on the march.”
The mail order houses have
been having a surge of business
from Council. Purchases have
mostly been musical instruments.
The hours of music we now hear
over AFRS in Nome has aroused
our talents and a solution to fill
our idle time has been found. To
date, there are several harmon
icas, two banjos, two accordions,
one guitar, one mandolin and a
ukelele hanging on the walls or
gathering dust in the closets. The
children cry and the dogs howl
when any attempt is made to get
in a little practice. One local citi
zen mentioned that he should
build a woodshed near his house.
When asked why, he said, “So I
can go out and practice, or put
the kids in it while I practice.”
The day is being looked forward
to when all of us get the “hang”
of these eerie sounding devices
and have a recital in the school
house. From all indications and
assurances it will be years be
fore this event takes place. Be
sides there aren’t enough people
in town to form an audience.
Don Perkins
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AT PALMER APRIL 12-13
The Matanuska Valley Sports
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registered shoot at Palmer,
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are from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. each
day.
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at 50 feet, with any .22 caliber
rim fire rifle. Sights may be iron
or ’scope.
Entry fees total $7.00 for all
matches. Anyone wishing to enter
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ing Chief Statistical Officer,
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A woodcutter goes into a for
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there’s no integration. Each has performed only
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