SCHOOL NOTES
FIRST GRADE
The enrollment of three new
pupils makes a total of sixty-five
children in the two first grades.
This makes quite a problem to
find enough desks and seats of the
right size for this age group.
Both sections of first grade are
reading in their third book ::We
Come and Qo.”
All of the first graders meet to
gether three times a week for mu
sic which they enjoy very much.
FIFTH GRADE
There are twenty-four enrolled
in the tilth grade—fifteen girls'
and nine boys.
In geography class we are study
ing the United States. To aid us in
our study, we wrote letters to the
Chambers of Commerce in the
capital of each state. We have re
ceived some very interesting ma
terial.
For the past week our history
class has ben devoted to reports
on the lives of important men of
or nation during the period 1789
to 1848.
HIGH SCHOOL
Today is Armistice Day which
marked the termination of Wortd
War I. On the eleventh hour of
the eleventh day of the eleventh
month in 1918. the Allied generals
met in Marshal Foch’s private
railway car in the forest of Com
piegne and agreed to an armistice.
Homesick soldiers shouted for joy.
From the tomb of Napoleon in
Paris, the cannons announced that
the war was over.
Last Friday, the High School
held their skating party beneath
the light of the hunter’s moon.
Beach wood transported to the re
mote tondra lake gave cheerful
light and warmth to the occasion.
A canvas shelter and a convenient
bench made the conditions more
comfortable. The ice was perfect
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SCOTTY’S
Saturday, November 12
COME ONE AND ALL
Were Staking You!!
••Red** Danger If
Hawaii Becomes
PORTLAND </P)—Statehood for
Hawaii should be deferred be
cause of the threat of communism,
Judge James L. Coke, chairman of
the Hawaii longshore strike fact
finding board, said in an interview
here.
“We are getting along all right
now as a Territory,” he told a re
porter, and statehood now would
be “a serious mistake because of
the danger that the subversive ele
ment might take over.”
“We should not take chances at
this time,” he continued. “We
should ferret out the underground
before statehood. The communist
party has said Hawaii is consid
ered the most fertile ground for
its seed and it may be that they
are using it as a testing ground."
Coke said one labor leader said
i na speech, that unions wanted
statehood so they could elect their
own judges, take over the govern
ment and control the police.
Statehod will be proper “some
time, yes, but not now,” said COke,
one-time chief justice of the Su
preme Court of Hawaii.
and the entire lake was free of
snow. Roasting wieners and
marshmallows together with hot
chocolate refreshed the skaters.
Christmas seals and pledges
have been sold this week by the
students. The project is a very
worthy one because it gives aid to
those who suffer from tuberculo
sis. Twenty per cent of the pro
ceeds is retained locally for health
purposes.
The world history students are
studying about the German tribes
and German kingdom on th soil of
the Roman Empire.
Algebra students are studying
graphs both the straight line and
curved.
The basketball team defeated
the Officers by a score of 5 to 3
and thus the High School became
the champions of the Jamboree.
The moon has an influence on
the motion of the earth. When the
moon is in advance, or at the
third quarter its attraction quick
ens our motion around the sun as
much as possible. When behind
the earth in its orbit, or at first
quarter, our satellite retards our
orbital motion round the sun by
the greatest possible amount.
(Continued on Page Three)
Find Scribbled
Note From Long
Missing Flier
ANCHORAGE i/P)—A scribbled
note found in a lonely Susitna
cabin kindled new hope today for
the safety of Francis "Dizzy”
Brownfield, airplane pilot missing
since Sept. 5.
The air force’s 10th rescue
squadron today disclosed finding
of the note after a helicopter
flight to the cabin, one of a string
owned by Oscar Vogel, well
known trapper in the area, some
50 miles northwest of here. The
note, undated, read:
“God bless the man who built
this cabin and left food in it. I,
Francis Brownfield, was lost and
sick and I opened the cabin. If I
make it back I will pay the man
for the food and shelter.”
Hurl Brownfield, the missing
flyer’s father, immediately recog
nized it as being in his son’s hand
' writing.
Search of the cabin was made
after the pilot’s mother, in Se
quim. Wash., reported hearing
from crew members of a fishing
vessel that they received a radio
message at sea that Brownfield
was safe in a cabin in the Susitna
area. Tenth Rescue, notified, con
, tacted Vogel.
He said none of his cabins, to
his knowledge, had a radio, but he
suggested they be checked. When
air force pilots flew Vogel over
the area, he noticed a chimney
, pipe on a cabin which previously
had no chimney.
So yesterday Lt. William A.
Weed and Vogel landed in a heli
j copted, found the note and rushed
it back to Anchorage.
More planes then were sent
aloft in the hope of finding the
lost father of six children. He had
! left no word as to the course he
intended to follow, nor how long
he had occupied the cabin.
Brownfield was to have made
rendezvous with a hunting party
Labor Day. His plane clashed and
was found Sept. 11.
Meanwhile, Mrs. Pat O’Donnell
andiEarl Bogey walked back into
I the Sheep Mountain civil aeronau
tics administration station a few
days later. O’Donnell, who re
i mained on a river bar awaiting
Brownfield, battled the elements
for 24 days before finally emerg
ing from the wilds at Talkeetna.
O’Donnell had used some of V9
Canada Iluildiii"
IIii<£<* RadarScrren
OTTAWA (^—Canada is build
ing a huge radar system which
would give warning against pos
sible air attack on her big c.ties
and other vital targets, a govern
ment white paper revealed today.
The defense paper, outlining
Canada’s preparedness program,
said the radar system is being de
veloped to cover “certain vita! ap
proaches and areas.”
Radar stations costing from be
tween $2,500,000 and $3,500,000
each yeer planned, the paper -;a:d.
to give early warning of the ap
proach of enemy aircraft so that
jet fighters and ant-iaircraft guns
could be alerted to ward off an
attack.
The paper said the fear of a
world war between east and west
had been moderated during the
past 10 months, but said Canada
was continuing a full-scale de
fense program. The nation’s po
tential industrial capacity for war,
it revealed, is twice that of 1939.
Heavy emphasis was being
placed on air power the paper
i said and orders worth $75,000,000
had been placed for this yea;- for
planes and parts — almost four
times the value of orders last year.
Speaking of the paper, which was
submitted to the House of Com
mons by defense minister Brooke
Claxton, he said Canada’s plans
did not envisage a dense curtain
of radar such as Britain and Ger
many had during the last war.
But there would be some sta
tions in the vast northern terri
, tory. Most will be situated to pro
tect big cities and key targets.
Other preparations for possible
fighting in the Arctic were report
ed. The paper said the army had
j developed new snow-travel i n g
sleds and vehicles, new anti-freeze
and heated caboose-like huts
mounted on sleds and drawn by
, tractors for taking men and equip
ment into areas of extreme cold.
George Scott, radio operator
for C. A. A., has been trensferred
ot Bethel. Both he and his wife
, are leaving immediately for their
new assignment. Mrs. Scott has
been a nur^e in the local hospital.
gel’s cabins while tramping his
way back to civilization.
Vogel said later none of his
| cabins had radios and none was
found in the cabin with the note.
ALASKA A.KUNES./«
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