WATCH NIGHT SERVICE AT
COMMUNITY METHODIST
This Sunday evening will be
New Year’s Eve, and the Com
I munity (Federated) Church will
observe the occasion with a Watch
Night Candle Light Service. The
regular Sunday evening service
will be held at the Mission Church
at 7:30. Following that service, at
9:00 there will be a showing of the
very excellent sildes taken by
Miss Ruth Gumbinsky in Korea,
during her recent stay there while
she worked under the auspices of
the United Nations. Anyone is
welcome to see these exceptional
pictures taken just before the
present Korean “police action” by
United Nations forces.
On New Year’s Day, Miss Mc
Coy, director of the Lavinia Wal
lace Young Community Center,
announces that there will be the
traditional pcft latch. Following;
the meal, which will be partly na-!
r tive foods, Miss Mary Goff, of the j
Alaska Native Service will show j
colored slides of Nome, and of
South America, taken which she
worked there several years ago.
Miss Goff’s South American pic-1
tures should be of special interest
because on that continent south of
the equator they have summer
while we have winter.
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Word has been received from
Mrs. Jim Frye, who rushed to Cal
ifornia last week to be with her
* mother, who was seriously ill, that
she passed away on Christmas
Day. Mrs. Frye, her father and sis
ter were with her.
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HOLIDAY WEEK-END DRAWS
SEVERAL SENTENCES
The Christmas holiday resulted
in several jail sentences over the
week-end.
Paul Am a r ok was given a sen
tence of 6 months and $500 fine
for assault on his wife Alice. An
other more serious charge is held
pending his serving of this sen
tence.
Leo Nagarok was given 30 days
for being drunk in a public place.
Willie Mitchell was given a fif
teen day suspended sentence for
being drunk.
Vera Elam fifteen days suspend
ed for drunkenness. j
Winfred Adloat and Harry Bil
liken Kamansasuk were to be sen
tenced this afternoon for drunken
ness.
In the city jail three natives
were sentenced for being drunk
and have been shoveling the snow
from the sidewalks. i
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NEW YEARS GREETINGS
FROM THE SHUT-INS AT
M-M-M HOSPITAL
We wish to thank all those who
took part in sharing with us this
Christmas.
This also goes to the AFRS Staff j
and we wish you all the best of |
happiness and good luck for the
coming year.
Signed
Katherine and Lilly
Happy New Year everyone. We
wish to thunk all our relatives
and triends for remembering us
at Christmas. Their gifts and mes
sages were deeply appreciated.
Special thanks to the boys of
MAFB and Mrs. K. Hedreen.
Signed
Flora Delilak.
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A big Thank You to everyone
for everything.
Signed
Donald and Glen j
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The blind-worm of Europe is
neither blind nor a worm—it’s a ’
legless lizard.
Hospital News
Edna Aggnaboogok, of Wales,
was admitted to ithe hospital and
has now gone home.
Micheal Payenna, son of Fran
ces Payenna, has been admitted
to the hospital, also Clara Omed
lena and Paul Amarok, Jr., and
John Bahnke.
Discharged were Andrew Naka
rek of Shaktoolik, Lillian Daniels
and Fanny Iokienna.
Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Tweet of
Teller are the parenst of a daugh
ter, Susan Elizabeth, born on De
cember 23rd.
Mr. and Mrs. Oroville Dickman
are the parents of a son Allen
John, born on December 27th.
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Christmas Death
Toll Sets Record
(By The Associated Press)
The nation counted a staggering
death toll of 664 yesterday from
violent accidents over the three
day Christmas holioay.
Traffic fatalities soared to above
500, the highest since the all-time
record of 555 in 1936. Mishaps of
the highways — many ice-coated
and others made slippery by
freshly fallen snow—killed 515
persons. That was more than 100
above the 1949 Christmas holiday
toll.
Accidents from miscellaneous
causes—fires, drownings, falls,
m 1 . ...
etc.,—took an additional 149 lives.
The grim total, one of the largest
for any three day holiday period,
covered the 79 hours fTZZD. 6 p.m.
Friday to Monday midnight. Last
year’s to tail for the Christmas hol
iday was 580, including 167 in a
variety of accidents.
The traffic toll was far above
the National Safety Council’s es
timate of 440, which was the
highest it ever had predicted for i
the extended Christmas holiday.
It more than doubled the number j
killed in motor accidents over a
similar period Dec. 8 to 11.
New York’s first elevated rail
way was opened in 1868.
ALASKA POPULATION SHOWS
GREATEST INCREASE
(By Mary Lee Council)
Final figures for the popula
tion of Alasa' as of April 1 of this
year reveal an increase greater
than any state in the Union for
the 1940-1950 period.
California with a 53.3 percent
increase is the closest to Alaska
but even then is 24.1 percent/be
low Alaska’s growth of 77.4 per
cent from 72,524 to 128,643. Ari
zona, Florida and Nevada ranked
below California with 50.1 per
cent, 46.1 percent and 45.2 per
cent increases respectively.
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