FAIR NOTES
The gala Arctic Club carnival
and queen contest has now been
held. The next big even on Nome’s
busy calendar is the forthcoming
Ninth Annual Fair, which starts
on the night of April 16 with the
Eskimo potlatch to be held in the
native clubhouse.
The Fair’s grand opening will be
on April 17 in the Nome Territor
ial school gym with exhibits, en
tertainment, and merry good times
running through the night of April
19. Sunday, April 20, will mark
tihe close of the Fair with reindeer
events and dog racing.
The dog races, which are under
the auspices of the Arctic club,
vvith prize money given by both
Arctic club and Fair Ass’n, will
be run off on the ice of the Bering
Sea, with one race to Cape Nome
and return with a first prize offer
ed of $150.00, second prize of $50,
and a third prize of $25.00. The
other race will be a short speed
race with a first prize of $50, and
a second prize of $25. Entrants for
these races must file their entry at
the Nome Nugget office between
10:00 a.m. and 12 noon, Friday,
April 18.
There will be entertaining rein
deer events daily under the gener
al supervision of Herbert C. Mc
Clellan of the Alaska Native Serv
ice, with races, contests, and sled
rides. The reindeer camps will also
be open to the public where all
phases of the life of the herder and
his family will be demonstrated, i
So, with a merry hi ho, ’tis off
to the Ninth Fair we go!
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Regular air mail service was in
augurated in 1918 between New
York, Philadelphia and Washing
ton. i
j Many Questions
Asked About
Public Lands
WASHINGTON. (/P) — Uncle
Sam has 419,506,842 acres of va
cant public land, 250,000,000 acres
of it in Alaska.
Vacant public land, the bureau
of land management said today, is
public domain lying idle or devot
ed to grazing purposes.
It can be obtained by individuals
by compliance with federal laws,
the first requirement being that
the land cannot be ordered by
mail but must have been visited
and inspected by the applicant be
fore he starts his legal papers
through.
And now, with thousands of vet- j
erans seeking home sites, the bur
eau of land management says most
of the questions it gets about the
public domain deal with the possi-!
bilities that veterans can get
some.
A large part of the vacant pub
lic land in the continental United
States is used for grazing—132,
266.141 acres of the 169,506,842
held—but none of that in Alaska
is so classified. Most of the re
mainder, the bureau said, is of
such type that it is doubtful that
much of it could rightfully be clas
sified as for homestead or settle
ment use from an economic view
point.
It might be surprising to some!
people, but the vacant public lands'
range from 11 acres in Indiana and
528 in Missouri to the Alaskan to
tal.
The biggest continental holdings
are in the west and mid-western
states, in addition to the 250,000,
000 acres of Alaskan land classi
Sackett Group
Buys Seattle Star
SEATTLE (vP)—'The Seattle Star
was sold today to Sheldon F. Sack
ett, of Coos Bay, Ore., heading a
group known as the Sackett Ra
dios and Newspapers.
The transfer of the paper awaits
certain legal work which will be
completed promptly and Howard
W. Parish, present publisher, will
remain as general manager, a
statement said. No changes in the
present staff are planned.
Sackett, who also recently ac
quired the Vancouver, Wash., Sun,
announced that under his plans all
stock of Hie newspaper will be
owned exclusively by men active
in the conduct of the paper. The
new masthead will carry addition
al wording: “The Peoples’ News
paper” and the phrase “Owned by
the men who run it, and run by
the men who own it.”
COMBINED CHOIRS SING AT
PALM SUNDAY SERVICES
Yesterday the choir from the
Air Base joined with local singers
in special music which was sung
at the Rase, chapel in the morning
service and at the Federated
Church in the evening.
They are also planning to sing
together with specially prepared
music for Easter Sunday service,
both at the Chapel and the Feder
ated Church.
lied as vacant public land.
Public lands and its use and dis
position regularly comes before
Congress and a committee now
considering legislation to give Ha
waii statehood faces a decision on
whether to declare its 1,600,000
acres of territorial land a part of
the public domain or permit all or
part to become state poperty.
Continuous Fixed Price Sale of
S rplus Drums
(55 gallon steell)
PRICE-$1.00 each CONDITION-Used-Good
LOCATION OF DRUMS
6497 drums at Whittier \
2281 drums at Yakutat /
2111 drums at Kodiak (.Drums at these locations
900 drums at Cold Bay ( may be purchased at the
1000 drums at Adak J Anchorage office....Box 2466
1700 drums at Dutch Harbor/ Army Recreational Hall
413 drums at Metlakatla.may be purchased at the
Juneau office.Box 2538
Area Engineer’s Bldg.
21009 drums at Fairbanks..may be purchased at the
Fairbanks office.Box 1029
Old Engineer’s Bldg, on
Garden Island
35823 drums at Nome at 85c each.REPAIRS REQUIRED....may
be purchased at Nome until
April 15th; from the
Anchorage office thereafter
These 55 gallon steel drums may be purchased in minimum lots
of fifty (50) from the above offices and the locations from which
the buyers wish to purchase should be specified.
All sales are on a cash basis and property is
to be removed at the purchaser’s expense.
Opportunists Hike
Plywood Prices
TACOMA, (/P)—'“Opportunists”
who take advantage of desperate
buyers have caused the recent sky*
| rocketing of plywood prices at
consumer levels, particularly in
eastern markets, it was charged
today by N. O. Cruver, president
of the Wheeler, Osgood company,
local plywood manufacturers.
He advised prospective plywood
purchasers here and elsewhere to
question the price of plywood of
fered by obscure suppliers. “The
ridiculous prices being asked—and
paid—in certain centers are caused
by speculators who obtain ply
wood by devious means and take
advantage of the current tremen
dous demand to reap huge profits,”
Cruver said.
Cruver said he spoke only for
his company, but the heads of Ta
coma’s four other plywood manu
facturing firms voiced their ap
proval of his remarks, which fol
lowed a similar warning in New
York by Lawrence Ottinger, the
president of the United States Ply
wood Corp.
DR. J. B. TUCKER
VACATIONS IN STATES
Dr. J. B. Tucker left today with
the Alaska Airlines on a short va
cation to the States. During his ab
sence Capt. Frank Wheelock will
take over his practice.
NEW SHOW ROOM
FOR LARRY GALVIN
Carpenters are busy working on
a new building between the Nome
Hardware and Nevada Bldg., which
it is reported is to be used for a
show room and sample room for
Larry Galvin.
OGDEN, Utah, (/P)—Policemen
Wilson A. Allen and A. M. Gard
side parked their car outside a
grocery store and went in to sell
tickets to a policemen’s ball. They
sold two tickets and returned hap
pily to their car—to find it tagged
for parking near a hydrant.
CLARA CITY. Minn. <£*)—A re
porter for the Clara City Herald, a
weekly newspaper, telepho n e d
mayor John Barney and asked,
“Any news today, Mayor?”
“Yes,” shouted Barney. "Hurry!
Call the fire department! My house
is on fire!”
The reporter relayed the report ^
to the fire department and firemen
raced to Barney’s home and extin
guishd a blaze on the roof.
For
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