AIRLINES
WIEN ALASKA AIRLINES
The first flight of the winter
was made to St. Lawrence Island
on Monday with Bill Smith and
Dick King as pilots. After landing
at Gambell the plane went to Sa
voonga and is now unable to take
off the field which is too soft.
Pilot Frank Stinton made a trip
yesterday to Teller and Agiapuk
taking a load of supplies for the
Bob Cannon camp.
Pilot Jack Whaley made a trip
to Kotzebue yesterday taking
freight and no passengers.
PAN AMERICAN AIRLINES
The Pan American airrived last
evening with the following pas
sengers: Mr. and Mrs. Frank
Bingham, Fred Vanderboch and |
Harry Hurt.
Departing last evening were
Jimmy Williams, Margaret Seals,
Karl Hill, Fritz Makela, Ralph
Lomen, Frank Niemi, Joe Felder,!
Jim Panos, Joe Bellevue, Earling
Browning, Mrs. C. A. Kraus and
Stan Bartlett for Fairbanks.
ALASKA AIRLINES
Arriving from Anchorage on to
day’s Alaska Airlines plane were
Agnes Cavanaugh, Blanche O’Con
nor, Lars Williya.
Passengers leaving on the return
flight today were: C. L. Dempsey,
Mrs. C. L. Dempsey, R. P. Demp
sey, Robert Jahnke, J. T. Mar
shall, F. L. Kerr, Margaret Fish,
Kathleen Jordan, Wm. Brookins.
Virginia Lee.
Mr. Earling Browning was
brought in from Candle yesterday.
Pilot Parsons will make a trip
to Moses Point tomorrow.
An employer is a person who
exploits other people by paying
them to work for him after pro
viding them with a place to work,
tools with which to work—assem
bling the materials on which to
work—and taking a chance on
selling the product of that work
for more than it has cost to pro
duce.
At The Hotels
WALLACE HOTEL
F. L. Kerr, Margaret Fish, Dr.
J. Marshall, Juneau. . Ed Fulp
Moses Point. Kathleen Jordan, F.
B. Kirby, B. L. Knudson. Anchor
age. Don Travis, Nome.
PATERSON HOTEL
Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Dempsey,
Casa de Paga. Aspim Pedro, Kou
garok.
WALLACE MERRILL. VISITS
FATHER HERE
Wallace Merrill, younger son of
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Merrill, who
is attached to one of the U. S.
army vessels in port is visiting his
father and friends here.
It will be remembered that the
older brother, Walter Merrill, Jr.,
was lost at sea during the war.
DEVILS HOOFPRINTS
OUTLAST 125 YEARS
BATH, N. C. (/P) — The fence
which property owners put
around the famous hoofprints of
i Bath has been removed, and at
1 tempts to capitalize on the legend
given up. But the hoofprints are
there, just as they have been for
over 125 years, and belief in North
Carolina’s most persistent ghost
story is still strong in the neigh
borhood.
In 1813, the story goes, a rather
profane gentleman named Jesse
Elliott was in a horse race one
Sabbath morning when he should
have been in church. He shouted
to his steed either to take him in
a winner or take him to Hell.
Whereupon the obliging horse is
reported to have dug its hooves i
into the soft earth and hurled the!
rider against a tree, killing him
instantly.
Ever since then the prints made
by the horse’s hooves have resist-1
ed eradication and awed natives
think Elliott was astride Old
Harry himself.
Execute Forty-One
Persons In Greece
ATHENS, <i*P)—Forty-one per
sons were reported yesterday to
have been executed by firing
squads throughout Greece in the
previous 24 hours.
The press ministry said 13 died
at dawn yesterday at Salonika as
convicted members of a commun
ist “execution squad.”
Earlier press reports said 28
other persons, two of them wo
men, were executed Monday.
These included 12 in Drama for
concealing arms and helping guer
rillas, nine for similar reasons in
Serrai, three guerrillas in Xanthe
and four guerrillas in Larisa.
An official announcement said
more than 1,000 guerrillas Satur
day night and Sunday morning at
tacked Metsovon, 20 miles east of
Ioannina in northwestern Greece,
and burned the city hall, police
station and school. They were
driven off, the account added, af
ter losing 45 killed.
Fish Can Be Raised
Ih farmyard Pond
ALBUQUERQUE, N. M., (/P)—
The dust bowl finally has pro
duced a fish story—but not the
kind you expect.
It’s a story entitled ‘Techniques
of Fishpond Management” and it
was written by Lt. Lawrence V.
Compton, former associate biolo
gist of the Soil Conservation Serv
ice in Albuquerque. It tells how
to raise fish in a farmyard fish
pond and says a one-half acre
pond will produce 100 pounds of
fish a year, supplementing meat
shortage.
The farmyard fish study was
started after the soil conservation
service advocated the construction
of small rain-catching resrvoirs
as one means of combatting the
old dust bowl conditions. Then it
was discovered the ponds were
capable of raising fish as well as
storing water.
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BULLETIN OF THE
ALASKA CRIPPLED
CHILDREN’S ASSN.
At. a recent visit Dr. Albrecht
informed the trustees of the Alas
ka Crippled Children’s Associa
tion that Mt. Edgecumbe Hospital
at Sitka now had reached its bud
geted capacity of 50 children. This
means that the budget of the Ter
1 ritorial Department of Health
was set up to keep 50 beds occu
pied for a year at a cost of $5.75
a day per bed.
He also told us that Dr. Moore
the orthopedic surgeon, who is
very anxious to take care of a.»
many crippled children as he pos
sibly can, felt that he could find
room for 10 more beds, if the
ACCA could finance this, and at
our recent trustees meet'ng we
pledged ourselves to do thic.
We now have the following let
ter from Dr. Albrecht:
“We have estimated a budget
of $140,000 as the necessary
amount for hospitalization of crip
pled children. This does not in
clude the salaries of Dr Mooie,
the orthopedic surgeon; Mrs. D!*
ton, the orthopedic nurse; Miss
Mendel, the medical social con
sultant, and part of the salary of
Dr. Sherwood. The $140,000 lor
hospitalization is broken down as
follows: $23,735.90, Territorial ap
propriation; $80,064.10, Children’s
Bureau—$60,000 of which .is still
to be received; $1,200, Alaska Tu
berculosis Association and $35,000,
Alaska’s Crippled Children’s As
sociation—$25,000 of which has
not yet been received. This letter
is the official request on the part
of the department of health for
receipt of $25,000 in addition to
the $10,000 already received. You
might be interested to know that
the remainder of the crippled chil
dren’s budget is for salaries of
specialiSed personnel, amounting
to $28,438.50, part of which is
paid by Territorial appropriations
and the rest by the Federal gov
ynment. Other personal services:
$2,250, which is payment for or
thopedic surgeons in Seattle; an
item of travel of $400; appliances,
$500; an item for travel for crip
pled children to the sanatorium,
$750. This is the entire budget
picture, which may be of interest
to you.
“The rate for the hospital care
of crippled children at the ortho
pedic section of the Mt. Edge
cumbe hospital will be $7.50 per
day, effective September 1. This
is an unanticipated additional ex
penditure. .This, of course, means
that our anticipated budget for
this year will be inadequate. At
this time I cannot state for cer
tain whether our estimated
amount of $140,000 will be entire
ly utilized for the care of crippled
children. If, however, toward the
close of the fiscal year, we have
reached our maximum, it will be
come necessary for us to raise ad
ditional funds above those refer
red to in the first part of this let
ter or to cut down on the number
of cases treated, either by dis
charging those under treatment
or not admitting additional' pa
tients. I mention this fact because
I think it highly desirable for you
to indicate in your publicity that
the cost per day has gone up con
siderably. This might spur indi
viduals on to greater contribu
tions.”
You will note that the cost per
child has been raised from $5.-75
per day to $7.50, so that in order
to keep 50 beds full, the Alaska
Crippled Children’s Association
will have to step into the breach.
This I think can be done if all
Forecast And
! Weather Report
Nome and Vicinity
Compiled by the U. S. Dept, of
1 Commerce, Weather Bureau.
Wednesday, October, 1947
Forecast Nome: Clear and con
i' tinued cold tonight and Thursday
| with occasional fresh northerly
i wind. Lowest temperature tonight
8, highest temperature tomorrow
22.
Nome data as of 7:30 a.m. today:
Precipitation last 24 hours none.
Total precipitation this month 1.04
inches.
Temperatures last 24 hours:
higrest 24, lowest 10.
Maximum wind last 24 hours
24 miles per hour from the N.N.W.
Sunrise at 7:15 a.m., sunset at
4:18 p.m.
Comparative data: Tempera
tures on year ago today: highest t
37, lowest 24.
Extreme temperatures on this
! day since 1907: lowest 8 in 1918,
highest 48 in 1926.
Data for other selected stations
as of 7:30 a.m. today:
Station Temp. Weather
Barrow 15 Cloudy
Point Hope 10 Cloudy
Kotzebue 2 Partly Cloudy
Shishmaref 23 Partly Cloudy
Wales 22 Partly Cloudy
Gambell 21 Partly Cloudy <
Nome 10 Partly Cloudy
! Unalakleet 18 Cloudy
Bethel 21 Cloudy
1 McGrath 13 Cloudy
Anchorage 32 Partly Cloudy
Fairbanks 12 Partly Cloudy
Juneau 43 Rain
Whitehorse 34 Cloudy
Ketchikan 47 Rain
Edmonton 39 Cloudy
Seattle 47 Rain
San Francisco 58 Partly Cloudy
BRAVE HUNTER
Five Kansas City men went on
a hunting trip. Coming to a likely
looking farm, one,member of the
party, carefully omitting mention
that he knew the farmer, colun
i teered to ask permission to hunt.
! Warmly greeted by his old
friend, the hunter was told that
they could shoot to their heart’s *
content. “Oh, wait a minute,
Fred,” said the farmer. “I’ve got
an old horse out by the barn that
I have to do away with, but I’m
too much attached to the old mare
to shoot her. Will you do the job?”
“Sure,” answered Fred.
Returning to the car, Fred be
gan to growl angrily as he ap
proached his friends, and hurried
ly loaded his gun.
“Won’t he let us hunt, Fred?”
they asked.
“No,” snapped Fred. “I’ll show
the old so-and-so that he can’t get
away with that.” Walking over to
the barn, Fred plugged the old
mare in her tracks.
The other four took one look,
climbed back into the car and
wheeled down the road with vi
sions of law in hot pursuit.
The foursome was twenty miles
on their way home before the
practical joker could head them
off by telephone.
The U. S. has only 7 per cent of
the world’s population, but has 50
per cent of all telephones, 80 per
cent of all automobiles, and uses
75 per cent of the world’s silk
production. *
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year. I know that the children can
depend upon our members.
Mrs. Marshall Hoppin,
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