Kotzebue News
The Fourth of July celebration
' in Kotzebue was a huge success
from the start of the games in the
early afternoon to the final hours
of the dance held in the A T G
Building in the evening. Dr. E. S.
Rabeau, of the ANS Hospital, who
organizes and sponsors the cele
bration each year, introduced new
features by having an Arctic Baby
of 1951 contest, won by May Reich,
of Kotzebue; muktuk-eating con
tests, won by Irene Kenworthy,
Eddie Towksjhea and Elizabeth
Driggs; a motorboat race, won by
Loy Wilson; a kyak race, won by
Ivan Booth and partner; and a
race for women, carrying their
babies on their backs.
One of the most popular events
was the Beauty Queen Contest,
organized and sponsored by Gene
Joiner. This year twenty contes
tants participated, with Freder
icks Anderson of Candle winning
the coveted title of Miss Arctic
Queen of 1951, with Bertha Hen
sley and Marjorie Rotman, both of
Kotzebue, taking second and third
places. Girls came from the sur
rounding area as well ns from
Kotzebue itself, the participants
arriving by plane and boat. Sally
Rotman, sponsored by Lytle Green,
arrived at the scene of the contest
in what was probably the most
expensive piece of equipment ever
available to a contestant — an
HD-19 tractor, which was soon
completely out of sight as specta
tors quickly swarmed over it for
grandstand seats. Intense inter
est was shown in the costumes
worn. They included such unusual
sights as old-style tight-fitting fur
pants, strings of trading beads,
money belts, and other features
seldom seen in casual Native
dress.
During the afternoon ice cream
cones were sold by the Kotzebue
chapter of the Crippled Children’s
Association. A group of children
threatened to mob the dispensers
of free cones, part of twenty dol
Jars worth contributed by a kindly
^'Ttxan gentleman touring Alaska.
During the Queen contest boxes
of crackerjack and bubble-gum
were thrown to the crowd, and
later firewarks were provided for
a group of excited kids.
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The Arctic Aero-Medical Lab
oratory from Ladd Field, Fair
banks, has a research team i n
Kotzebue under the leadership of
Dr. K. Rodahl, completing stud
„sies started during December of
the past year. The present group
is composed of Dr. Rodahl. his
wife, who serves as laboratory
technician, Captain Drury, head
of the bio-chemistry department
and who replaces Captain Shaw,
originally with the team into Kot
zebue, Tech. Sgt. James Edwards,
and Staff Sgt. Loy Wilson. Dr.
and Mrs. Rodahl and Sgt. Ed
wards started the series of Kotze
bue studies last winter.
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This is an Air Force project to
determine how the Eskimos are
meeting the rigors of Arctic en
vironment as compared to white
reactions- to northern conditions,
with special emphasis on physio
logical phenomena that can be
called evidence of acclimatization
or adaptation to Arctic environ
ment. This includes changes that
may occur in man during the dif
ferent seasons of the year in re
spect to body heat production,
ipetabolism, blood changes, etc.
Nutritional requirements and body
heat production, especially when
exposed to chill, have had partic
ular attention.
In order to have groups which
represented, to some extent, dif
ferent environmental conditions
and different stages of the effects
of civilization, groups . of white
people have been examined peri
odically, The team has covered
Eskimo units located at Barter Is
land, in the Brooks Range at An
aktuvuk Pass, at Kotzebue, and at
Gam-bell, St. Lawrence Island. On
this most recent work a final
group of Selawik Natives has been
under observation. With the ex
ception of the last, the initial
i work of the team was accom
• plished in mid-winter at all of
| these locations.
The team carries complete med
jical apparatus for examining all
j individuals in the various groups.
| Every person included in the pro
I gram has a complete medical ex
; amination. The laboratory equip
ment includes X-ray apparatus
for chest examinations, and com
| plete physiological and bio-chemi
; cal tests are carried out. The team
I is in the final stage of the studies,
jand anticipates completion of the
| work by September, when a re
port will be issued of the findings.
From Kotzebue the research
team goes into Anaktuvuk Pass
for a second time, and from there
to St. Lawrence Island to com
plete the program, which may
contribute substantially to the un
derstanding of the body processes
that occur when man is exposed
to Arctic conditions.
Dr. Rodahl, when questioned,
was not ready to make any posi
J tive statements, but said it has
been found that the Eskimo has a
higher heat production than the
white man, and one of the prob
lems of the study has been to find
out why this is so. Dr. Rodahl ex
pressed his appreciation of the
help and cooperation from all of
the subjects in the Kotzebue area,
and particularly mentioned the
valuable assistance given the team
by Dr. E. S. Rabeau and his staff
at the Alaska Native Service Hos
pital, without whose aid it would
have been impossible to carry out
the program.
• * *
Mr. and Mrs. Nat Brown, of
Bethel, are in Kotzebue with Mr.
Brown’s partner, Parry Hutton.
The two partners are in the vill
age on business connected with
the U.S. Coast and Geodetic work,
for which they are supplying fif
teen planes this season. Mr. and
Mrs. Brown are staying at N. G.
Hanson Hotel during their stay in
the North.
* * *
Colonel John Webster, deputy
commander, ACS, stationed at An
chorage, was in Kotzebue recently
on an inspection tour.
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The ship, with the latest oceano
graphic equipment, will survey
the virtually uncharted area at
the North Pacific between the
Aleutian Islands and the San
Francisco-Hawaii steamer lanes.
It is being sent out by the Uni
versity of California’s Scripps In
stitution of Oceanography here, in
cooperation with the U. S. Navy
Electronics Laboratory, San Diego.
Scripps’ scientists explained the
Horizon’s new voyage will be an
extension of expeditions which last
year discovered and surveyed the
submerged Mid-Pacific mountain
range west of Hawaii, and the
Mendocino Escarpment — great
submarine cliff that extends for
hundreds of miles off the North
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