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Kotzebue News
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Mr. and Mrs. Albert I. Reed
and son, Gerald, have just re
turned from a boat trip 200 miles
up the Noatak River, getting into
the foothills of the Brooks Range
before turning back due to fuel
shortage. Mr. Reed says he be
lieves they could have gone an
other 100 miles up the river by
boat had they had sufficient fuel.
Mr. Reed has been with the Al
aska Native Service for the past
eight years, his first station being
Kokrines, on the Yukon. From
there the Reeds went to Hooper j
Bay, where Mrs. Reed was field ,
nurse. They then transferred to
St. Lawrence Island, where they
stayed for three years. At the end j
of that period, Mrs. Reed resigned
her nursing work due to ill
health, and the family moved to i
Kotzebue, where Mr. Reed was
principal of the Kotzebue Native
School for two years. For the
past year Mr. Reed has acted as
principal for the Alaska Native
Service School at Noatak.
Mr. and Mrs. Reed and Gerald
are going to the States where Mr.
Reed will go into lecture work. His
first assignments will be in Ore
gon, then in California. From
there they will tour the middle
western states, filling engage
ments. In October the Reeds will
go to Florida for speaking assign
ments. They expect to eventually
include the Hawaiian Islands in
their itineraries.
Some of Mr. Reed’s black and
white pictures of St. Lawrence
Island natives are being used in
visual education work in the Berk
ley Public School system. The
April, 1950, issue of the Juneau
Red Cross Magazine carried three
pages of his St. Lawrence pic
tures. In addition to the black
and white pictures, Mr. Reed has
a large collection of slides and
movies which will be used in his
work.
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Mr. Amundson of Nome brought
Mr. -and Mrs. Hamilton and chil
dren of Unalakleet into Kotzebue
recently, where they were house
guests of Mr. and Mrs. Delos
Westbrook for several days before
continuing their juorney to Bar
row in Mr. Amundson’s Stinson.
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Twenty-five men from Selawik
and Kotzebue were flown during
the past week direct from Kotze
bue to the Bristol Bay area for the
Libby Canneries.
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Lytle, Green and Mathis Con
struction Company heavy equip
ment has been busy in evening
Alaska Schools Get
Share Territorial
Tobacco Tax
(Juneau Empire, June 23)
Juneau school system will re
ceive $35,633.29 as its share of the
Territorial Tobacco Tax money
for the period from June 20, I960
to June 19, 1951, it was announced
by Commissioner of Education Dr.
James Ryan.
Of this amount, $3,000 is a basic
allotment given all schools in the
Territory; $17,125.93 is for ratio of
daily attendance and $15,507.36 is
figured on the number of profes
sional employes of the schools.
Total amount of money turned
over to the Department of Educa
tion from the Tobacco Tax was
$488,817.95. Rural schools received
$69,069.98, which, Ryan explained
is allotted to them on a percentage
basis of average daily attendance,
which was 14.13.
A sum of $419,703.86 was left to
be divided between 24 schools of
the Territory, not including mili*
tary schools. Ryan said the Nome
and Engle schools did not apply
for funds as they have no new
construction program planned for
the coming year.
Allotments are determined on
the average daily attendance and
on the number of employes hired
by each school.
Anchorage led the field by hav
ing the greatest percentage of em
ployes, 137.5 and highest average
daily attendance,' 3,036.12 and re
ceived $107,871.61. Fairbanks was
next with $47465.35. Ketchikan
received $35,739.34; Sitka,
$20,562.48; Palmer, $20,221.65; and
Seward, $16,347.42.
hours of the past week on Stand
ard Oil work which has started
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for the installation of storage
tanks in Kotzebue, and in excava
tion erf Rotman’s lot for the base
ment of the new Rotman Store
on which construction is to be
started immediately.
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Mr. Howard Burkher, radio en
gineer for the ANS, arrived in
Kotzebue to accompany Mr.
George S. Wilson, administrative
assistant for the ANS based in
Kotzebue, on a tour of the Arctic
stations.
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Wiring Materials
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Washington News - Letter
By Mary Lee Council
Secretary to E. L. (Bob) Bartlett
Delegate in Congress from Alaska
Indian Hospital Services—
Legislation designed to provide
the maximum use of hospitals ad
ministered by the Bureau of In
dian Affairs by making them
available to non-Indians in areas
where there are no other hospital
facilities and where they are not
being fully utilized by the Indians
was reported favorably to the
House this week.
Similar legislation was passed
by the House in 1949 but the Sen
ate failed to take action on the
measure.
The fees collected from the non
Indians would be deposited in the
Treasury of the United States to
the credit of the appropriation
from which the hospitalization or
medical services are provided.
In reporting the bill to the
House, the Committee on Interior
and Insular Affairs stated that the
enactment of the measure “would
reduce the net cost to the govern
ment of maintaining Indian hos
pitals and would provide a badly
needed sedvice to the non-Indian
population in isolated areas served
only by Indian hospitals. It also
would result in better medical
care for the Indians, since the
limited number of Indian patients
is not conducive to obtaining the
best doctors.”
PITTSBURGH, (/P) — Elmer P.
Richie, is a man who is bothered
by rattles in his auto.
Ritchie, who lives near Pitts
burgh, heard a rattle as a backed
his car out of his garage last night.
He investigated—and found some
one had wired three sticks of dy
namite to the car’s frame.
Firemen doused the dynamite
before removing it from the ma
chine. Now police are trying to
learn who put the explosives on
the car.
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