and on Achievement Day won 7
first prizes, 5 seconds, and 2 thirds
on articles she made in her cloth
ing and room improvement pro
jects. She was awarded the trip
as winner of the clothing achieve
ment contest sponsored by Spool
% Cotton Company, who will finance
her trip from Seattle to Chicago,
the round trip ticket from Anchor
age to Seattle being donated by
Alaska Airlines.
uonaia uinKel, whose sister Flo
Alice, was another trip winner
last year, lives on a farm near Wa
silla and is a junior in high school.
He won the trip in the poultry
contest but has spent most of his
eight years in club work as a gar
den club member. Donald won sec
ond prize on his 4-H poultry ex
hibit this year and has taken an
active part in 4-H club meetings
and community activities. A true
pioneer, his poultry project in
volved raising chicks by setting
f hens. Like most pioneers he had to
shoot it out with a hawk and has a
picture of himself, his gun, the
dead hawk, and the unlucky chick
en to prove it. The poultry contest
is sponsored by Dearborn Motors
Corporation who will take care of
his trip from Seattle to Chicago.
He will fly free with Alaska Air
lines to Seattle.
There are 45,000 retail butcher
♦ shops in the United States.
To Op en Bids Dec.
15 On Construction
In Alaska
I .
ANCHORAGE, UP)—First bids
on the U. S. air force construction
program in Alaska, estimated to
cost around $65,000,000 during the
next two years, will be opened
Dec. 15 and 16 in Seattle,
j Col. W. E. Potter, the army’s
Alaska district engineer, in an
nouncing the openings, said the
first call was for completion of
four 500-man permanent type bar
racks buildings and cons ruction
of two new barracks of the same
j type.
' Three of the unfinished barracks
to be completed are at Fort Rich
ardson and one at Ladd Field at
Fairbanks.
Among the new facilities to be !
built are warehouses, housing,
utilities, air field facilities and oil
storage and power facilities.
Bids will be let intermittently
through January and February.
Additional information on plans
and specifications will be avail- ;
able after Nov. 10 to interested
bidders at Army Corps of Engin- i
eers offices in the following cities: i
Portland, Ore., Chicago, Vicks
burg. Miss.; Omaha, Boston, New
York, Cincinnati, Atlanta, Oak
Two Romanian
DPs Leave Bremen
For Anchorage
BREMEN, Germany, </P)—A 24
year-old girl and her mother will
be the first displaced persons to
enter Alaska under the new D.P.
bill, officials said today.
Austrian-liorn Roxolana Sko
belska and her 60-year-old moth
er, a native Romanian, are pas
sengers aboard the U. S. army
transport General Bundy, enroute
to the United States. Both now are
stateless.
An official said Roxolana can
speak eight languages and has
studied law.
The girl and her mother are
bound for Anchorage, where they
are to join friends, officials said.
Their sponsor is listed as Mary
Glennan of Anchorage.
Officials said they did not know
whether any more DP’s are head
ed for Alaska.
There are 802 DP’s aboard the
General Bundy—the second such
group to go under a U. S. act pro
viding for admission of 205,000
refugees.
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“Overconfidence
Defeated GOP”
ALBANY, N. Y.(/P)—Gov. Tho
mas E. Dewey, conducting a post
mortem of last Tuesday’s election,
said Saturday Republican over
confidence was a material factor
in his defeat for the Presidency.
“It looks as if two or three mil
lion Republicans stayed at home
out of overconfidence,” the defeat
ed GOP Presidential nominee
said.
“I was quite surprised by the
very low vote” in Tuesday’s elec
tion, the governor told a news
conference.
Dewey and his family will take
a vacation in Arizona, he announc
ed. They flew there yesterday.
The governor was asked whe
ther he had come to the conclu
sion that overconfidence was the
major reason for his defeat.
“It’s one factor that stands out
in the returns so far,” he replied.
Dewey said he had no intention
of renouncing his role as titular
head of the Republican party dur
ing the next four years.
Alaska Reindeer
May Slock
Greenland
NEW YORK 1/Pt—Alaskan tame
reindeer soon may be flown to
Greenland to found herds and es
tablish a new meat industry there,
an Arctic explorer disclosed today.
The explorer, 62-year-old Peter
Freuchen, said planj are being
completed for an exchange of
tame reindeer from Alaska for the
long-protected Greenland musk
oxen.
Freuchen, a Dane, said the pro
posal already had been approved
by the Danish parliament. Nego
tiations for the reindeer, which
would come from herds at Nuni
vak and St. Lawrence islands,
still have to be completed with
the United States government, he
said.
A receding icecap, with Green
land becoming wanner each year,
has caused the islands’ large seal
ing industry to decline, Frenchen
said. But the milder climate has
resulted in an upsurge in its fish
packing industry .
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