BOB LEDGERWOOD
90 YEARS YOUNG
Robert W. Ledgerwood, yester
day, on March 17th, celebrated his
90th anniversary at a dinner given
in his honor by Mrs, A. Polet.
Bob was born in Paisley On
tario, Canada, March 17, 1956. He
came to Alaska in 1895, landing in
Skagway. His first pob was the
building of a#wharf at Skagway.
for a Seattle contracting firm.
Later he came to Nome where he
was employed as a harbor and
wharf engineer, in charge of dock
repair and pile driver gangs.
“Bob'* as he is known affec
tionately by everyone, is very ac
tive for a man his age and gets
around to all the Pioneer gather
ings and card parties, and in gen
eral doesn’t miss much of any
thing that goes on in town.
Starts On Wrong Leg
SALT LAKE CITY, (JP) — Dee
Fullmer, 17, of Rexburg, Idaho,
began the first few weeks of his
naval career on crutches. As he
left the federal building after be
ing sworn in, he slipped on the
SURPLUS PROPERTY
ANNOUNCES SALES
ANCHORAGE, Mar./18 — The
Territorial Surplus Property of
fice announces the sale of 13 sur
plus Coast Guard cruisers at
Ketchikan on Friday, March 22.
The sale will be on a spot bid ba
sis and veterans may make a pur
chase on March 21 at the Ketchi
kan Coast Guard office in the
federal building. Prospective cus
tomers, other than veterans, will
place their bids in person or tnru
an agent, at Ketchikan, March 22.
Bids will be opened at 3 p.m.,
at the Ketchikan Coast Guard of
fice on the day of the sale, in or
der to expedite the disposal of
floating equipment in time for the
1946 fishing season. 12 of the 13
cruisers are 50 foot four inch: one
is 85 foot. All have been used oy
t e Coast Guard in Alaskan wa
ters.
Major James H. Wakefield,
head of the marine division of the
Territorial surplus property of
fice, will be in charge of the sale.
steps and broke a leg.
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Phone MAIN 22
Post Personalities
Captain Ted Lafferty entered
the service as a private in May,
1942, and took his basic training
at Fort Leonard Wood, Mo. After
graduating from Engineer OCS at
Fort Belvoir, Va., in January,
1943, he taught Engineer basic
training there until leaving for
overseas in December, 1944.
During the following year Cap
tain Lafferty was Personnel Ad
jutant with the 331st Engineer
Construction Battalion at Adak
and later at Point Spencer. Last
October he came to Nome and
was assigned Post Adjutant.
After 46 months in the service,
Captain Lafferty wall soon be on
his way to the States to return to
civ lian life and the sunny golf
courses around Cleveland, Ohio.
His leaving will be regretted by
all save his opponents in the Post
Bowling League, and even they
will miss his cheerful personality.
OUR KINGDOM
FOR A “HORSE”
There’s another horse in Nome.
He looks like a dog and acts like a
dog, but he’s too big. We’ve de
cided he must be a horse. His
name is “Rotation,” and for a
year and a half he was assigned j
to Quartermaster at the base. He
was transferred to Weather the
other day and we miss’ him, for j
we have little to stumble over I
now.
That big white hound has the
knack of being absolutely invisi
ble in a quonset hut after the
lights are out. We have stumbled
over him every time we walked
around the stove after eleven j
o’clock. Yes, we miss him.
Technical Sergeant William H.
Robbins, Hq & Hq Det, Post Ser
geant Major, the senior non-com
missioned officer on the post was
inducted into the army at Ft.
Leavenworth, Kans., on August
18„ 1944, from his home in Chari
ton, Iowa. He took basic training
in the Engineer Training Section
at North Fort Lewis, Washington, j
Leav:ng the States of March 17,:
1945, for his first assignment with
the 331st Engr Const Bn, he ar-1
rived at Adak the following
month. Sgt. Robbins arrived in i
Nome on Oct. 15, 1945, from Point
Spencer, and assumed the duties
of Post. Sgt. Major on Dec. 12,
1945. His present rank dates from
March 8, 1946.
Prior to his entry in the service
he was employed by the Scott
Burr Stores Corp., in Chicago, as
manager of their chain of 5c to
$1.00 stores. He is married and
has a 4-year-old daughter, Judith
Ann.
Most of the AACS men on the
post have been in the Army about
two years, with six or eight
months of Army Technical School
and a year of foreign service. A
few are married and have chil
dren.
Take Jim Rayfield, for instance,
Cpl. James D. Rayfield; military
occupational speciality, Radio Op
erator. He is tall, blond, 20 years
old, in the Army 25 months and
comes from Virginia.
He completed his basic training
at Miami Beach, Florida, then at
tended the AACS Radio Opera
tors’ School at Scott Field, Illin
ois for six months. He entered
foreign service on March 4, 1945.
Tanacross was his first assign
James M. Curley And Son
WASHINGTON, D. C.—Soundphoto—Mayor Curley, Rep. James
M. Curley, (D) Mass., and two other defendants were found guilty by
a federal district court jury of conspiracy and of using the U.S. mails
to defraud prospective war contractors. Photo shows, left to right,
James M. Curley and his son Leo as they left the court house.
ment, then Northway. He came to
Nome last September.
Jim figures to be out of the
Army pretty soon and the thing
he wants most is to get back to
, the University of Virginia and his
journalism course. After he’s set
! tied at home he may try to get a
' "Radio Ham” license and keep up
what he learned in the Army.
MOVING
HEAVY HAULING - FREIGHTING
Done by
JACK BULLOCK and CHARLES O LEARY
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