FAIR ASSOCIATION
HOLDS ELECTION
The stockholders of the North
western Alaska Fair Association
met at the City Hall at 8:00 p.m.,
January 29, 1946. Twenty-eight
stockholders were represented.
The meeting was called to order
and the following directors were
elected: George Marshall, John W.
Fults, Fred Rohn, Ole Hay, A. D.
Johnson, Luther Dunbar, A. Polet.
Secretary Polet reported that
the organization has in the Miners
and Merchants Bank, three certif
icates of deposit bearing interest,
amounting to $2,366.70, and an
other certificate of deposit in the
amount of $374.32, which makes a
total of $2,741.02.
Secretary Polet also reported
that there are considerable sup
plies and material on hand to hold
the next fair. A considerable
amount of the supplies and mate
rial was destroyed in the old fair
building which was the Oddfel
lows’ Hall, but owing to the Army
taking over this hall the equip
ment was in their way and had
been moved to another building
opposite the Sommer’s Machine
Shop.
A motion was made and unani
mously carried that the directors
be instructed to look into the pos
sibility of holding a Spring fair,
and if found feasible to proceed
with same.
On motion the :srtockhdlders
meeting was adjourned and a
meeting of the directors was called
to order, whereupon the following
officers were elected:
President, A. D. Johnson; Vice
President, Luther Dunbar; Secre
tary, A. Polet; Treasurer, 'QleHay;
Long Range Barrow i
Oil Exploration I
Program Slated
BARROW, Jan. 30 — (/P) — A
longrange program for continua-;
tion of the Navy’s exploratory oil
drilling project on the naval pe
troleum reserve near here was
outlined with the arrival of Rear
Admiral C. A. Trexal, director of
the Alaska Division of the bureau
of yards and docks, and other
high ranking officers.
The project is being turned over |
to civilian contractors who were
recently awarded a million dollar
contract to continue the explora
tion started by Navy Seabees. The
contractors will be known as the
Arctic Contractors.
Commodore W. G. Greenman,
vhief of naval petroleum reserves,
said the department believes the
evidence established that large ac
cumulations will be found on the
Navy’s thirty-five thousand square
mile reserve.
| Hospital Notes
i New patients at the Maynard
Columbus hospital are Father
Anabel, Mrs. Ken Rank, Rev. Paul
Carlson and James Price of Nome,
Betty Anagik of TJnalakleet and
Margaret Tocktoo of Teller.
Directors, George Marshall, John
W. Fults and Fred J. Rohn.
I On motion the date for the fair
! will be set at the next meeting.
I Vice-President Dunbar was in
structed to look into the matter of
selecting a manager for the fair
ar\d submit as soon as practical
the names of possible candidates.
' The meeting was adjourned at
the call of the vice president.
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Florida Girl Wins
Five-Year Struggle
Her stricken body lay in an iron
lung. Her hands and feet were
useless. She was almost complete
ly paralyzed by poliomyelitis, but
14-year-old Jean Parker of St.'
Petersburg, Florida, firmly deter- j
mined that she would get well.
It was September of 1940. Week
after week Jean lay prostrate, grit-!
ting her teeth and telling herself
over and over that she would get
out—that she would walk again.
After five weeks, Jean passed;
the first milestone. She was able
to leave the iron lung. The local
Rotary Club sent her to the Amer
ican Legion Hospital. For seven
long months physiotherapists skill- ,
fully massaged her.
To Warm Springs
Then Jean was taken to Warm
Springs Foundation where many (
years ago a man named Franklin
D. Roosevelt had fought for
strength. Seventy-five days later,
she returned home, wearing a;
supporting corset and a brace on j
each leg.
She made up for lost school
time by studying for two years at
home with a tutor, but she went
to high school in a wheelchair her
senior year. She was graduated
with a 90 per cent average for
her four years and was made a
member of the National Honor So
ciety.
Jean was determined to get out
of that wheelchair and find a job
as her classmates were doing.
Somewhere she heard of the Insti
tute for the Crippled and Disabled
in New York and the remarkable
things accomplished there.
In September, 1944, Jean went
to New York and enrolled at the
Institute. With patience and per
sistence, she learned to balance
her body and use crutches. By the
spring of 1945, Jean — then 19
years old—no longer needed her
wheelchair.
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Became Stenographer
Along with physical training at
the Institute, Jean prepared for a
secretarial job that had been
promised to her. In July, she went
back to her home in Florida,
where streets in winter are clear
of ice and snow, and walking is
easier.
The job that was Jean’s goal is
hers. In the lobby of the Suwan
nee Hotel, in St. Petersburg, there
is a neatly-lettered sign: Public
Stenographer.
Equipped with note book and
typewriter, Miss Jean Parker
works all day at a big desk. She’s
the girl who didn’t give up.
Congress Objects
To Sharing
Atomic Secrets
WASHINGTON, Jan. 30—OP)—1
Demands for a law to forbid cut-'
ting other nations in on the results
of the coming atomic bomb tests
gathered steam on Capitol Hill.;
Members of the House Naval com
mittee said they intend to write
a top secret idea into the pending
bill by Chairman Vinson and send
the measure to the House floor.
A quick vote on Vinson’s bill to
make tests fully legal by provid
ing specific Congressional permis
sion to destroy the ships chosen
for the experiment, is expected.
Gl Ingenuity Pays Dividends in Europe
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Sergeant Theodore L. Fatland, left, of New Orleans, Louisiana, ond
Sergeant Arthur Huett, Jr., of Fort Madison, Iowa, soil down the Vesle
Lateral canal in France in a boat they made from salvaged P-47 gasoline
tanks and a one-cylinder engine. There is adventure and comradeship in
the Regular Army, which is now accepting enlistments from qualified
civilians 18 to 34 years of age, inclusive.
TO RUN IN
1946 PRIMARIES
The following is a list of names
of persons who have declared
their intentions for candidacy to
run in the Primary election to be
held April 30, 1946:
For Delegate ot Congress: Dem
ocrat, E. L. Bartlett; Republican,
Aimer J. Peterson, and George J.
Grigsby.
For Territorial Treasurer: Dem
ocat, Oscar G. Olson.
For Commissioner of Labor: Re
publican, Harry A. Benson.
For Territorial Senator <2):
Democrat, Howard Lyng; Repub
lican, Chas. D. Jones; and M. S.
“Duke” Mitrovich.
For Territorial Representative
<4); Democrat, Wallace Porter,
and Mrs. Esther Wallace; Republi
can, Chester Milligan, W. W.
Laws, and Carl D. Anderson.
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