Floods Worry B. C.
Fishery Minister
VICTORIA, — (/P) —The B.C.
Fisheries Department is concerned j
over the possibility of great dam
age being done salmon spawning
beds by the present flooding riv- '
ers and creeks.
Because of the lateness of the
Spring it is possible that a large
part of the salmon eggs from last
year’s seeding will not yet have
been hatched. George J. Alexan
der, provincial deputy fisheries
commissionert- etaoi jjkkkkkkkk
minister, says. Scouring of the
spawning beds by flood waters
might prove to be a calamity if
such is the case.
If salmon spawning has been
damaged the effects will not be
fully felt until four years hence
when the returning cycle of fish
is completed.
PLANT SALE FOR
PLAYFIELD FUND
At N. C. Store
Saturday, 10 a.m.
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ALASKA REPRESENTED IN
WOMEN'S CLUBS CONVENTION
Ms. Doris M. Barnes, vice-pres
ident of the Federated Women’s
Clubs of Alaska, and twice mayor
of Wrangell, won the highest vote
of any candidate for the House
from the First Division, attended
the General Federation of Wo
men’s Clubs in Portland this week.
Mrs. Erwin Bellows attended the
convention as a representative of
the Home Arts Club of Nome.
Mrs. Barnes is also in charge
of arrangements for a post-con
vention Alaska tour for many of
the delegates.
MR. AND MRS. JOE WALSH
STATIONED IN NOME FOR CAA
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Walsh and
young son, arrived from Anchor
age to make their home in Nome.
Joe will be maintenance super
visor here for the CAA.
The young couple is well-known
here as both have lived in the
community before their marriage
i and have many friends to wel
! come them back.
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NW Floods Take
Great Toll In Lives
And Property
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housing.
Part of Portland’s down town ar
ea, including the Union Station,
was under water yesterday after
the Willamette River topped the
seawall. The station is Portland’s
only railroad depot, and trains
were unable to use it.
In North Portland, where more
than 18,000 persons were left
homeless in Sunday’s Vanport
I disaster, the flooded area was
! tripled by the bursting of two
more dikes. On top of these two
dikes were the approaches to the
Pacific Highway, principal north
south route.
The breaking of these dikes
1 left three square miles under
water, with houses from Vanport
plowing through big gaps. Some
of them turned end-over-end, and
all hopes of salvaging these was
| lost.
No bodies have been recovered
from Vanport. Some bodies might
be swept so far they never would
be found.
SEATTLE NO SURPRISE TO
VISITING ESKIMO PREACHER
SEATTLE,—This city offered
no surprises Tuesday to a 55-year
old Eskimo, who never before
had seen a town larger than Nome.
He is Paul Silook, who flew to
Seattle from his birthplace at
Gambell on St. Lawrence Island,
40 miles southeast of Siberia. It
took three planes: small, medium
and large. The large one was Pan
American.
It was his first flight and the
second time in his life he had
been off his home island.
Silook, here for the 160th gen
eral assembly of the Presbyterian
Church, explained:
“All this I have seen in news
papers, magazines, pictures. About
all this, I have heard on the ra
! dio.”
To Silook:
“Seattle is too big; chewing gum
too sweet; sidewalks too hard;
hotel beds too soft and St. Law
rence Island—too far away.”
The native preacher, who once
before — 30 years ago — left
his island to go to Nome, said he
came back to his treeless hunting
grounds and promptly got mar
ried.
He now has three boys and three
girls. Like their mother, the girls
keep house. Like their father, the
boys hunt.
When he returns, accompanied
by Rev. N. Rarry Champlin, of
Fairbanks, he will travel the route
of the Alaska Highway by car.
DOROTHY'S SHOP MOVES TO
NEW FRONT ST. LOCATION
Dorothy’s Shop reopened yes
terday on Front Street in its new
location next door to the Alaska
States Produce Mart, on the site
formerly occupied by the Bon
Marche Store.
The new shop is a new build
ing on the street and is an asset
to the city.
The shop was forced to move
because of increased business in
which the former location was
too small to take care of expan
sion of the business operated by
Mrs. Ben Young.
The original shop was planned
as a gift shop but it now includes
a line of children’s and adults ap
parel as well as a full line of no
tions and needlecraft supplies.
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The 1948 presidential campaign
is underway regardless of what
you read.
PATSY KENNEDY RECEIVES
HIGH AWARDS AT U. of W.
Patsy Kennedy, former student
of the Nome High School, will
graduate from the University of
Washington, where she has at
tained outstanding awards. She
is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Wesley Kennedy, who formerly
were with the U.S.Smelting Com
pany here several years ago and
have since been with the U.S.
Armry Engineers in Panama. Mr.
Kennedy is an electrical engineer
with the Caribbean forces.
Mrs. Kennedy, writing to Nome
friends, stated Patsy received the
Memorial Scholarship from the
School of Education in the Eng
lish Department; made the Edu
cational National Honorary; and
was chosen as a member of the
Matrix Table. This last award is
j limited to one hundred outstand
j ing women on the University cam
pus each year, and one of the
highest honors a senior can re
1 ceive.
Patsy plans to continue her
; studies and work toward her
MR. AND MRS. RALF REAT
HERE FOR SUMMER
Ralf Reat of the Lomen Com
mercial Company, arrived yester
day on the Pan American plane
with his bride, the former Grace
Esch of Banning, California. Mrs.
Reat is the daughter of Mrs. Laura
Esch; and sister of Charles, both
of whom are well-known Nome
ites. She has been a public ac
countant for several years, until
her marriage in December to
Ralf Reat.
EGGS1 EGGS1 EGGS!
Arriving by PAA Clipper ship
Friday morning was over a ton
of eggs,’2,190 lbs., to be exact.
To be even more exacting the
forty-one cases, each holding 30
dozen, contained 1,230 dozen or
14,760 eggs. All very fresh, too,
having left Seattle that same
morning.
Master’s Degree.
Mrs. Kennedy is driving up
from New Orleans for the gradu
ation ceremonies.
TRY OUR
DAILY ICE CREAM SPECIALS
Root Beer Floats - Sundaes - Milk Shakes
Hot Fudge Sundaes - Soft Drinks - Candies
Also Cigars - Cigarettes - Tobacco
THE GLUE POT
LADIES, ARE YOU
B sy?
Well, you can be relieved
of your
NO. 1 CHORE
You can send your
Laundry and Dry Cleaning
to the
Modern Laundry
and
Dry Cleaners
Phone Main 113
PAUL A. MANDEVILLE
“Modern Laundry and Cleanin’!
Is Clothes Insurance”