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Nurse Keaton Ends
Quarter Century
I In Alaska
—
SEATTLE, (&) — Mildred Kea
; ton,, veteran of 25 years as a nurse
[ of the northland, has turned in
her resignation — but with the
' promise that ‘‘I’ll be back.”
! Personal affairs, she said, forced
her to quit the Office of Indian
Affairs—‘‘My father’s estate at
Snohomish and another estate in
Oklahoma. I couldn’t be in Point
Barrow and Snohomish at the
' same time. So I’m giving up the
north.” Then she added, “for the
time being.”
j Miss Keaton started her civil
service career as a nurse Jan. 1,
1922, with an assignment to the
Thlingit Indians at Kake, in
: Southeastern Alaska. Recently she
I has been ship’s nurse on the scar
, red old government motorship,
North Star.
To the reporter who called as
she was sipping a last cup of cof
fee aboard the North Star, Miss
Keaton said there wasn’t much for
her to say about the north, ex
plaining:
“The north has been misrepre
i sented so long by writers who
j come and stay a week and go
home and write five books that
what I’d have to say would seem
uninteresting. I will say that the
north as it is, told without any
varnish, would make a thousand
times better story than I’ve yet
! read.”
—
Adm. Osami Dies
Of Pneumonia
TOKYO, (/P)—Fleet Adm. Osa
mi Nagano is the second key war
figure in Japan to escape a verdict
of the international war crimes
court through death.
A vain, sentimental man with a
stubborn faith in what other Jap
anese termed his crowning mis
take—the Pearl Harbor attack—
Nagano died Sunday of pneumo
nia and a heart attack at the age
of 65.
Nagano had cast the deciding
vote for an assault on Hawaii, and
in November, 1941, issued the fi
nal order that started the Pacific
war early the following month.
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To Bar Portal
To Portal Suits
WASHINGTON, (/P) — Senator
Wiley (R.-Wis.) introduced legisla
tion today to bar all pending por
tal-to-portal pay suits.
Another bill introduced by Sen
ator Capehart (R.-Ind.), would re
fine the terms under which work
ers could qualify for portal pay.
There had been a flood of suits
since the Supreme Court recently
ruled that workers are entitled to
pay for time spent on company
property changing clothes or other
wise preparing for work.
The total asked now exceeds
three billion dollars.
Veterans Administration estim
ates the veteran population in the
Pacific Northwest and Alaska at
728,000.
1 Whiskey Gurgles
—Down Sewer
CLINTON, Okla, UP) — Everett
Stambaugh is retiring as Custer
County sheriff in dry Oklahoma to
the gurgle of 3,000 pints of whis
i key. The whiskey, confiscated dur
ing the past several years, isn’t for
consumption, the 3,000 pints are
being smashed under a state law
requiring that all confiscated
liquor be destroyed before the
sheriff goes out of office.
Stambaugh, who was defeated in
the last election after 33 years in
office, said the liquor-destroying
job, would be completed today.
Approximately 85 per cent of
the veterans receiving self-em
ployment allowances from the
Veterans Administration are farm
ers.
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NEGOTIATED BID SALE ON $
|
Surplus Boats
AT KODIAK, ALASKA |
% Two 38’ BUOY BOATS Four 30’ TUG BOATS |
£ With boom and power winch (tunnel type) $
! Five PICKET BOATS One 50’ TANK LIGHTER BOAT I
| (From 36’ 6” to 45’) (LCM) |
I One 35’ PLANE REARMER Two TORPEDO CRANE BARGES f
| (90 HP) With powered hoisting unit f
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