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•u.11 twenty-nine of the recreational tracts
in the KeCarth y area which were offered
for sale by the Division of Lands were
sold at the pub lie auction in Copper Cen -
ter on Thursday, February 28.
Con sidcrablc interest was shown in this
sale, and on most tracts bidding was spir
ited, with the sellin g price being well
above the appriased minimum figure on a
number of the tracts•
The total appraised value of the tracts,
which ranged in size from 37 acres to 291
acres, was $11;, 675. The total selling price
was $31,600.00
The Division of Lands is planning another
sale of recreational tracts and possibly
some foreclosed lands in the same area,
which is about 50 miles east of Chitina,
sometime this summer, probably in June.
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Paul and "Cookie*' ?/olfe are the owners of
a home at Pippin Lake, and divide their
time between this lovely refuge from
care and the more work-a-day world of
Fairbanks. This fall the Jolfc’s drove
Outside for a -look and a visit with
relatives. 17c received a card from them
which had been mailed from Topeka, Indiana
on harch 8. They were getting ready for
their return trio to ^FLaksa.. .checkin g the
truck over, and making plans to pick up a
new John Deere crawler tractor for their
homestead. The Jolfc’s were having a nice
trip but encountering terrible weather.
snow, foggy, warm, damp, cold, windy, raining
hard...ponds of water everywhere, ":7c arc
anxious to get back to good old *FLaska. Tell
all the good people in the Copper Valley we
said hello." tf
The first annual oratorical contest is now
a part of local history, and all the little
"butterflies” felt by the participants
can be laid to rest. Every youngster wh o
had a pi rt in the program has reason to
feel proud; their teachers too, must be
gratified at the response shown by friends
and neighbors, '.Jo in Copper Center are es
pecially proud of our first place winner,
Miss Patsy Johns, of Copper Center School,
who took a "first” in the 5, 6th grade
division. We arc also very appreciative
of the other local children who gav c th cir
very best to the contest. It was hard for
the judges to pick among such outstanding
talent. Th ose from our area who were fin
alists included Debbie and Diana Donnelly,
Teddy Roach, Sandra Goble, Kenny Johns,
Barbara Goddard, Patsy Johns, Warren John s,
Laurie Ash by, Mark and James Morgan. Each
child was given a certificate with an in
dividual rating. Contestants came from h
schools in the Copper'Basin area, y
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The .ELaska Native Brotherhood announces the
following winners of the raffle held for
the ben ofit of the dog-races; Winner of
the 30-06 rifle was Roy McCrary of Glenn
alien; winner of the portable hi-fi was
“Butch” Tibbets, also of Glcnnallcn. The
100 silver dollars which were also raffled
off went to Jack Larson, son-in-law of Jim
HeFinley of Copper Center* ** $20 first
place in th c twist contest went to Fred
John, jr and Laura Charley; $10 second place
went to Diane Gurtlcr and Russ Branham. The
judges for this contest were Roy Ewan of
Gakona, Mrs Van Wyhc of Glcnnallen, and
Babe Kosloskey of Palmer.
The big money winner of the three day
dog races held at Gulkana was Bill Ewan;
second best time was posted by Danny Ewan,
and the others finished as follows: Jerry
Charley, Roy Ewan, Jack Craig and Harding
Ewan ( winner of the green lantern!) Dick
Donnelly was forced to drop out of the race
mn the last day when one of his dogs slipped
a harness. The men’s snowsh oe race was won
by Fred John, jr., followed, by Gillam Joe,
Hector Ewan , and Herbie Joe. These men
went a distance of approximately 3A wile •
T.Jomcn’*s races were won by Jenny Dayton,
followed by Len a Charley and hary Sen ford.
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Physical fitness seemed to be the keynote
of th e past two weeks, and 2 diffrent 50
mile hik: s were attempted. The Monday
hike found only two survivors..»Donald Johns.,
age 16, who made the route in 12 hoyrs, 17
min utes, and Hector Ewan who wasn’t too
far behind with 12 hours and U0 minutes.
Saturday a large group started out, but
only Johnny Craig completed the full 50 mi.
course, in the fast time of 11 hours and 26
minutes. Carl Pete gave up just a few miles
short of the goal..he says he was just too
hungry to go on! a strong southwind was
b lowing both days, mk ing the return trip
from Gulkana fairly miserable
Jc can't seem to make much headway in the
population department his month. Leaving
Copper Center arc the Les Hunters who will
be moving to VdLd:z. Les will be fishing
this season out of Cordova. I-xrs Rose Kronk
is returnin g to .jachoragc. However, Roy
Hooper is back at the V/illow Lake homestead
and we arc looking for Beth to follow the
middle of this month; Home from an Arizona
vacation arc Guy a d Nettie Hargroves, now
back at th eir Tonsina cabin.
Good weather and a few days off from the
job brought the Ralph Laics to Copper,
where" they used the time to good advantage
working on their big new log home.
Debbie Domed/ hold a birthday celebration
for. her classmates aid neighbors on the
occasion of her 8th birthday.
H avc yon seen the new dresses for
little girls? Lovely spring stylos
and colors. From 2*95 to 5.95
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