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ct7 'Mush) Moore was to pull out
yesterday for Dawson Creek, B. C.
—another 900 miles farther along
the trail on his dogsled jaunt from
Fairbanks, to Lewiston, Me.
Moore expects to reach Dawson
Creek Jan. 15. He has been on the
trail since No. 14 covering the 600
miles here from Fairbanks.
Dirty, tired, hungry and cold,
Moore arrived here Sunday after
noon after a 40-mile trek in 43-de
gree-below-zero weather. He had
nothing but praise for his dogs,
despite having to keep a constant
watch over the high-strung Hus
kies.
“Once a coyote jumped out in
front of them about 100 feet
away,” Moore recalled. “They
took off after him and if I had
let them go they would have
wrecked the sled. All I could do
was to throw the sled on its side
and they couldn’t drag any more.
“I shot a willow grouse one eve
ning and when it fell out of the
tree all 10 dogs got there before
me. I had no gx*ouse for dinner
AACS BESTS NOME HIGH
SCORE 52 TO 51
Monday evening the Nome High
School played the A.A.C.S. in the
second of a series of Benefit Bas
ketball games being played to fi
nance the sending of the High
School team to Anchorage.
It was a hard fought game end
ing in favor of the A.A.C.S. with
a score of 52 to 51.
Playing on the Signal Corps
team were Davison g, Steve g,
Bradley c, Carroll and Jantz f. On
the Nome team Willoya g, Ahko
lik g. Hudert f, Bell f, Felder c.
and had trouble breaking up a
dog ffght and untangling the har
ness.”
The Far North trekker said he
made camp one night with the
temperature at 10 degrees below
zero.
‘It was 38 below the next morn
ing and my hair was frozen to the
edge of the sleeping bag because
of the vapor from my breath.
Maybe I should be drinking anti
freeze.”
Moore is making the grueling
trip with a large cargo of mail
with special stamps to raise money
for a children’s fund of his home
town Lions Club.
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SCHOOL NEWS
SECOND GRADE
The Christmas program is keep
ing many grade school pupils
busy these days. Nearly half of
the second graders are taking part.
Because of the huge enrollment in
the first four grades, it is impossi
ble to give all children parts, but
the others are getting extra school
work done.
Second graders having perfect
attendance during the last six
weeks period were: Christine
Baldwin, Gary Bingham, Angelo
Buffas, Franklin Okleasik, Roy
Piscoya, Judith Leise, Bonnie
Rice, Danny Aukon, and Donald
Munz.
SEVENTH GRADE
The Seventh Grade have been
very busy this past week. With
the Christmas rush on we have
been trying very hard to keep up
with our daily lessons. In our
English class we are being taught
the parts of speech which has us
! studying very hard.
We have just completed a map
in history. The map “America af
ter the Treaty of Paris in 1763”
clearly indicates the territory held
by the English and Spanish.
France lost her vast holdings to
! the English after the French and
Indian war.
i Spelling bees are taking the
place of our regular spelling les
sons. It is really fun! We also
have done some neat work in art
which is on display in our room.
Our music class is somewhat in
terrupted at present because oi
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, the Christmas program. In arith
• metic we are studying percentage
EIGHTH GRADE
Our history, English, science,
! arithmetic, spelling, art, music
and reading classes are making
steady progress. We all seem to
keep up with assignments but at
times we have to review in ordei
to grasp the material. Our Eng
lish call is more disturbing be
cause Mr. Urich has us reviewing
the nominative and objective
cases. Rather than to put a certain
word in a sentence because it
sounds alright, Mr. Urich states
our Engli:-h could be improved by
inserting that certain word for a
reason. If one listens to incorrect
English constantly, the tendency
is to learn it so, but if he speaks
and understands correct English it
can stay with one for the rest of
his life.
ASTRONOMY
Tliis is the season of the year
when the starry heavens are most
beautiful. The long, dark winter
nights make the jeweled celestial
realm twinkle with beauty'. While
we gaze upon the constellations of
old, it is possible for us to behold
the very same stars observed by
men of all ages. Yes, the stars are
■ far older than the mountains of
our earth.
Shepherds on the Judean hill
, sides, “keeping watch over their
flocks by night,” spent much time
in observing the starry hosts
above. They called the maving
starts wanderers or planets.
The planet Jupiter which shines
so brightly in the early evening
skv reminds us this year of the
“Wise Men" who beheld the “Star
of Bethlehem.”
Olaf Halverson
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i The United States oil industry
is now refining more than 5,200,
000 barrels of crude oil per day
i compared to the average of the
i oeak wartime year of 1945 of
4.711.000 barrels per day, and to
the prewar average of 3,861,000
barrels per day in 1941.
Stalin, 70. Deluged
With Tons Of
liirlliday Gifts
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(By Alvin J. Sieinkopf)
LONDON, </P) — The greatest
giveaway jackpot program in his
tory was on yesterday, with Rus
sia’s Joseph Stalin on the receiv
ing end.
Stalin, overlord of world com
munism, hit the jackpot today
when he reached the age of 70.
How*much the take in birthday
1 presents is worth is anybody’s
guess. Tons and Tons of gifts—so
many that not in centuries could
1 one man use them up—have de- !
scended no Moscow from the com- j
munist world.
Reports reachi ng London
through the Soviet monitor and
other channels, indicate that there
will be more than 1,000,000 par
cels bearing the tag: “Happy
birthday dear Comrade.”
Besides, there are a veritable
flood of big crates containing the
more unwieldy gifts—all the way
from motorcycles to airplanes,
i Take an average figure of S5
per gift—that woud be cheap for
a birthday gift for Stalin—and the
, Jack Peck, head of bus! High*
'operaitons for the Alaska Airline
arrived todav to confer with Dis
trict Manager Paul Spurlock who
is now in charge of this station,
replacing Tex Zeigler.
Mr. Spurlock, who wa- joined
by his wife yesterday who arrived
to make her home here, has been
stationed for the past four year
at Point Barrow with Alaska Air
lines. He has been in the Territory
since 1929, having worked in Jun
eau and Fairbanks.
jackpot is worth more than five
million dollars.
Shoes, socks, neckties, choice
foods, wines, spirits, toys, dolls,
books, automobiles, horses, motor
cycles, airplanes, locomotives and
ever whole factories are among
the many carloads of presents con
verging upon the Kremlin from
the satellite areas and territories
of the U. S. S. R.
With the gifts come all sorts of
honors, pledges of special work,
affirmations of loyalty and devo
tion, endearing greetings in the
familiar communist pattern
Long freight trains hauled the
gifts into Moscow. There were 70
cars—one for each birthcUo—from
; communist East Germany
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