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Few citizens of Alaska have de
voted more energy to the public
good than has Andrew Nerland,
president of the Board of Regents (
of the University of Alaska. Mr.1
Nerland was elected to the Board
of Regents of the college in 1928,
and has been
president of the
Board for the
past 16 years.
In fact, had it
not been for Mr.
Nerland’s persis
tence, the lUnit
versity might
still be in the
“talking stage.”
. , AT , , He believed so
Andrew Nerland #. _ 1
firmly in a
school of higher learning for
Alaska that he ran for the Terri
torial Legislature back in 1917 on
the platform “An Agricultural
College and School of Mines for
the Territory.”
On this ticket he was elected by
the voters of the Fourth Division,
and went to Juneau to battle for
an appropriation for his ideal. He
talked long and hard, and, with
the help of others, the 1917 Legis
alture passed an appropriation
bill of S60,000, which gave birth
to the school.
It looked as if the college would'
have fine sailing. But the 1919 leg-j
islature <minus Mr. Nerland, who|
had decided not to run- failed to
appropriate funds necessary to
open the college.
So Mr. Nerland ran again in
1921, was elected, and persuaded
the legislature to make $42,000
available to complete the college
buildings, hire a president and
faculty, and open the doors to stu
dents. Mr. Nerland has kept his
hand in ever since.
Andrew Nerland was born in |
Norway 79 years ago, and came to1
the United States as a boy. He
stampeded to Dawson in 1898, as
a member of the firm of Ander
son Bros, and Nerland. He was
prominent in civic activities in the
Yukon Territory before coming to
the Fairbanks gold camp in 1904.
In Alaska, Andrew Nerland has
held practically every public of
fice to which his fellow citizens
could elect him. He has been a
member of the Territorial Senate
five times, including a term as
President, and was seven times a
member of the Territorial House
of Representatives, including a
term as Speaker of the House. He
has served as Fairbanks mayor
and councilman, and has partici
pated in nearly every civic organ
ization and activity since Fair
banks started. He is a Past Grand
President of the Pioneers of Alas
ka and a 33rd degree Mason.
Mr. Nerland is still, active in the
management of Nerland’s Furni
ture store, a pioneer Fairbanks in
stitution which has expanded and
modernized with the times. He is
extremely proud of the fact that
three geenrations of Nerlands are
now associated with the store,
prouder of the fact that there is
now a fourth generation to carry
on the Nerland name.
For today Andrew Nerland s
name is known throughout the en
tire Northland. Few Alaskans have
contributed so much to the growth
and development of the Territory
as has “The Legislative Father of
the University of Alaska.”
WARM WEATHER AIDS
SUMMER SPORTS
Many of the young people are
taking advantage of the mild wea
ther and are enjoying swimming
in the Bering Sea during the last
week, as well as in Hastings La
good. Beach parties are seen all
along the beach.
Many of the local native famil
ies are at summer camps and are
reported to have gathered an un
usually large quantity of salmon
berries for the winter. Blueberries
are not too plentiful but cranber
ries are in abundance this season.
Young Eskimo
Sergeant On First
Trip To Juneau
i -
(Juneau Empire)
William / Anaruk of Bethel
knows Anchorage and Fairbanks
well, besides scores of places to
the north and west, he has been
| Outside too. But he came to Jun
eau for the first time last week,
! and thoroughly enjoyed a six-day
stay in the capital, stopping at the
Baranof Hotel.
Now the handsome young Eski
mo is a sergeant in the Alaska Na
tional Guard and in charge of all
the Guard equipment at this key
point near the mouth of the Kus
kokwim River.
Sergeant Anaruk came here to
confer with National Guard offi
cials and see at first-hand the op
erations of Headquarters and
Headquarters Service Company.
With Col. J. D. Alexander, Acting
A. N. G. Adjutant, he was a pas
senger to Anchorage yesterday
aboard the B-17 of Maj. Gen.
Frank A. Armstrong, Jr., com
manding general, Alaskan Air
; Command.
Although Bill, who was born in
j Selawik on the Arctic Circle, has
j lived in Unalakleet, Little Dio
| mede Island, Kotzebue and Can
dle, he is having to study the Es
kimo language. His parents were
■ teachers in those places for some
38 years. Since his father’s death
a year ago, he and’ his mother
have made their home in Bethel,
where she is an interpreter in the
hospital.
What does Anaruk remember of
> the five years he spent on Little
Diomed as a youngster? “Rocks,”
he says. “Rocks and these scratch
j es I still have on my knees.”
Mr. and Mrs. H. Bingham and
son, teachers from Shishmaref,
have been here for a few days on
their first vacation in five years.
I They state that they like their
| school and the people of Shish
| maref and enjoy working there.
; Mrs. Bingham stated that they
feel very safe on the island as “it
is too small for invaders to bother
with.”
As a hobby Mrs. Bingham is col
lecting fossil specimens for a chil-j
dren’s museum.
Giant Quake
Believed In
Far East Area
(Continued from Page One)
| institute of the University of Geot
tinger supported the view it might
have originated in Burma or Tib
et. It was described as the strong
est in the institutee’s 50-year his
tory and more violent than the
one which flattened Messina,
Italy, in 1908, killing more than
80,000 persons.
The Philippines weather bur
eau, which recorded three heavy
quakes over a four-hour period,
tentatively placed the center of
the disturbance about 658 miles
south of Manila in the South China
Sea.
Seismologists — the men who
| study quakes—said such a shock
striking in any inhabited area
would have caused devastating
| destruction.
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CALCUTTA, India, (£>)—-Earth
tremors shook Calcutta last night,
throwing much of the city into
panic, but no casualties or damage
have been reported here. Crowds
ran shrieking into the streets to
pray.
The official Calcutta seismolo
gist said the center of the quake
appeared to have been a point in
the eastern Himalayas in China,
about 50 miles from the eastern
border of Assam.
The shocks felt locally were de
scribed as of great intensity, so
sharp that seismograph needles
were thrown out of whack.
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
Received, U.S. Land Office, Nome,
Alaska Date: Aug. 1, 1944. Hour:
11:55 a.m. Mineral Entry No.0972.
IN THE UNITED STATES
LAND OFFICE FOR THE NOME
LAND DISTRICT. NOME, AL
ASKA.
NOTICE OF APPLICATION
FOR PATENT
Mineral Surrey No. 1890
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
that Ralph Lomen by and through
his attorney-in-fact, Ira D. Orton,
whose post office address is Nome,
Alaska, has made application for!
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a United States Patent lor thfe
No. 3 Below Discovery placer min
ing claim situated on Newton
Creek, No. 1 a tributary of Dry
Creek, a tributary of Snake River,
in the Cape Nome Mining and Re
cording Precinct, Territory of Al
aska, and designated as United
States Mineral Survey No. 1890
and particularly described in the
official plat and field notes now
on file in the said Land Office
with magnetic variation at each
corner of the survey of mean val
ue of 17 degrees 12 min. E., as
follows:
Beginning at Cor. No. 1 ident
ical with Cor. No. 2, Survey No.
1166, No. 4 Below placer and Cor.
No. 17, Survey No 1310, Great
Western Group Claim Placer from
whence U.SX..M. No. 11, bears S.
86 deg. 33 min. W., 7290.75 ft.; E.
edge Anvil Rock bears N. 40 deg.
24 min. W.; Newton Rock bears
N. 1 deg. 35 min. W.; Radio Tower
at Nome bears b. 43 deg. 24 min.
W.; U.S.L.M. No. j.399 bears S. 23
deg. 44 min. W.; thence N. 17 deg.
17 min. E., 1041.66 ft. to Cor. No.
2; thence N. 81 deg. 08 min. E^
661.90 ft. to Cor. No. 3; thence S.
16 deg. 01 min. W., 1587.19 ft. to
Cor. No. 4; thence N. 45 deg. 37
min. W., 333.0 ft. to Cor. No, 5;
thence N. 55 deg. 33 min. W.,
347.52 ft. to Cor. No. 1 and place
of beginning, containing an area
of 18.223 acres.
There are no conflicting claims.
The adjoining claims are:
| On the N., Survey No. 1335,
|“Doyle Fraction”.
On the E., Survey No. 1182, No.
7 Below Discovery.
On the S., Survey No. 1166, No.
4 Below Placer.
On the W., Survey No. 1318,
Great Western Group Claim Pla
cer.
The original certificate of loca
tion of said placer mining claim
is recorded in the office of the Re
corder of said Mining District and
Precinct in Vol. 216, Page 79 of
the records of locations of said
District.
The mineral monument to
which this claim is tied is de
scribed as follows:
U.S.L.M. No. 11 is a fir post,
6 in. sq. 5 ft. above ground in
stone mound. It is situated about
70 ft. east of the Bessie Road from
Nome and about 2.7 miles N.E. of
the mouth of Snake River, and is
in Lat. 64 deg. 32 min. N., Long.
165 deg. 22 min. W.
Dated the 1st day of August,
1944.
Mrs. Helen M. Bockman
Acting Register
Pub. June 7, 14, 21, 28, July 5,
12, 19, 26, Aug. 2, 9, 16.
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