BOY SCOUTS ENJOYING
CAMP NEAR GOLOVIN
Scouts from the Nome Rotary
club’s Troop 666 are camped
about 50 miles from town on the
west fork of the Solomon River
and expect to return Sunday, John
McNees, chairman of the Rotary
Scout committee said yesterday.
McNees made a trip to the
camp Monday night to take out
additional supplies and the camp
director for the next few days,
Rev. Robert S. Treat, of the Meth
odist church. Scout executive Russ
Apple, Fairbanks, opened the
camp and returned with McNees.
Treat will be replaced Thurs
day by Frank C. Bingham, dis
trict attorney and member of the
Rotary Scout committee, who will
return with the Scouts Sunday.
Almost daily contact will be made
s with the camp as fathers and
friends of the Scouts visit the
group.
The camp is set up on the east
side of a hill, overlooking a flat
space utilized for sports and cere
monies. The Scouts erected then
tents, dug latrines and garbage
pits in less than an hour and spent
the rest of the first day orienting
themselves to he country and try
ing the streams for fish.
A swimming hole was found
nearby and the Scouts are using
Robbery On Fish
! Boats Reported
PETEItSBURG, i/Pi-Two rob
bery cases involving fishermen
aboard their boats here were dis
closed yesterday.
Police said A1 Becker reported
he was slugged Saturday night in
the cabin of his vessel, the San
Juan, by two strangers who rap
ped on the door and hit him with
out warning.
Becker, wary because of other
attacks on fishermen, had left his
money ashore.
Fish packer Eddie Williams, of
Kake, said thieves crept aboard
l his boat, the Progressive, last
Thursday night and stole $800
from him while he slept.
Free-spending suspects were
picked uy by police the following
day but released for lack of evi
dence.
Bronze or copper was the early
currency of Rome, northern Italy'
and China. i
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their air mattresses for life rafts.
Small one burner gasoline stoves
furnish heat for cooking and 1
washing. The Scouts are prepar
ing their own meals for the entire
eight day camp.
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FARE REDUCED
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* Plus Tax
21 PASSENGER DC-3 EQUIPMENT
To Kotzebue Saturdays - From Kotzebue Sundays
Daily Trips Candle - Deering - Kotzebue
UNLOADING LARGEST 1949
SALMON CARGO
SEATTLE, l/P> — The large s t
Alaska canned salmon cargo of;
the season — 320,000 cases from
Bristol Bay—was being unloaded j
yesterday from the freighter Was
hakie at Pier 24.
The cargo was valued, roughly, *
at more than eight million dol
lars, figuring at a rate of $27 a
case.
The Washakie, commanded by
Capt. V. C. “Blackie” Selig.
brought in the bulk of the Bristol \
Bay pack. The Bristol Bay pack
was small this year. The remain
der, about, 191,146 cases, will be,
brought south by the S. S. Harold 1
D. Whitehead.
The freighter Square Sinnet was,
due in Bellingham with 140,000
cases of salmon from Prince Wil- '
liam Sound, Cook Inlet and Kodi
ak areas.
BERING SEA CLUB
Announcing
“New to Nome’*
The Game of
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PRINTING - ALL KINDS - The Nugget
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Just received a
Very Large Shipment of
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Jantzen’s
SWEATERS for Men and Women
Just unpacked the most beautiful line of Sweaters that we have seen
in a long time. Sweaters that are entirely different from those shown
before. You'll find sporty types, Novelties, new pastel shades, and of
course dressy types for men and women.
Come in and look them over.
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