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Vol. lU. Falmer, Alaska. January 26, 19cl. _No* U
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Miss Grace Crosson, Episcopalian
Mission Nurse in interior Alaska
since I9I4.I1. is en route to her form
er home in New York—hut just for
vacation and school. Despite
spring floods that threatened to
wash patients from their beds in
the small Ft. Yukon hospital and
the often ru-red day to day routine
of her duties, she is coming hack
to continue her nursing work in A
laska.
First she plans to take a year's
training in public health nursin^
under the Alaska Department of
Health scholarship pror-ram for nur
ses. Already a certified nurse-mid
wife, she is to be reassigned in
Alaska to a locality where her nur
se-midw1fery experience and public
health nursinc- training will he
most useful, according to Dorothy
Whitney, director of the Health de
partment's nursin^ division.
Miss Cross on plains to complete
work for her Master's derree In add
ition to her public health nurslne;
training at the University of Wash
ington Nursinr School. She receiv
ed her P.S. decree from Columbia
university and her midwifery train
lnr at the Lohestone Maternity Cen
ter in Mew York.
During her nearly seven years as
a nurse in the Episcopal Missionary
district of Alaska, she has been
stationed at Ft. Yukon, Allakaket,
and most recently at Eac-le where
her father, Lawrence A. Cross on, is
lav reader at St. Paul's Mission.
She told of the sprlnr breakup in
19U5 ’when the floodin'’- vukon river
waters came into the first floor of
the Hudson Stuck Memorial hospital
at Ft. Yukon. Mattresses were carr
led to the staff's quarters on the.
second floor to be followed by the
movin'1- of the- patients themselves.
Complicatin'* the matter of fitting
27 patients into small space was
the fact that amon1* them were act
ive tuberculosis cases which must
remain se^rec-ated from the others,
Miss Crosson explained. .
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Iiflvy JOBS OP Ed
The Navy announced today that
several hierh-pay jobs are now open
at Kodiak, Alaska. The vacancies
can be filled by qualified personn
el v/ith or without Civil Service
Status. The following positions
are included:
Real Property Officer, OS-12,
^8,000 per year,
Structural Engineer, OS-11,
*6,7cO per year,
Mechanical Engineer, OS-11,
*>6,7C0 per year,
Architect, OS-11,
■^6,75° Per year,
Real Property Officer OS-10,
$6,2S0 per year,
Electrical Engineer os-9,
^^*750 per year,
I Enn. Draftsman Elec. GS-6,
,312 per rear,
Eng. Draftsman Mech. OS-6,
$lj.,312 per year,
Eng. Draftsman Oen. OS-6,
$U,312 per year.
A 2S/' cost of living allowance is
included in the above salaries. De
tailed Information concernin'’ these
jobs can be obtained by writ in? to
the District Public Works Officer,
jSeventeenth Naval District, Pox ^8,
[Navy 127, c/o Postmaster, Seattle,
[Washington.
blFT 10 flCCfi
Turning the tables on traditional
birthday procedure, the Alaska Crip
[pled Children's Association observ
jed its fifth anniversary by bein?
the pift priver instead of receiver
this vear. This energetic volun
teer orranization which berrlns its
sixth year th’s month sent a rrift
*of ^5»OCO for the hospitalization
[program of Alaska's crippled child
ren. Contributed through the A
llaska Department of Health, the sum
iis eligible for doublinr in Federal
imatchinc* funds for the program.
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"Needless to say, this contribu
tion is very much appreciated by
the Health department and will be
a. sreat help tbward our hospital
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