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CLOSING DATE. SET
The State Department of Highways
has received word from the Northwest
. Highway System, Yukon Territory, that
ihe closing date for the Haines Road
has been extended until November 15o
The Canadians earlier had 'announced a
closing date of October 31c
In a telegram to the Department of
Highways, the maintenance station re
ported the road to be in good driving
condition presently*
That portion of the Haines Road
;thatvlies within Alaska will not be
closed, Highways Commissioner D0 A„
McK inhen said0 This section is kept
open all winter for maintenance of a
^ Ho .Army pumping station, at Mile 50.
PRESS RELEASE
The contracting firm of Rivers and
Frestwood, Spenard, has entered the appar
ent low bid of $334*656 for grading and
'drainage of 3^3 miles, of the Copper River
‘'Highway east ,.of ' C.ordova«■
Highways Commissioner Dn A0 McKinnon
said the work is to be completed within
120 working days after the contractor re-'
ceives a notice to proceedo All bids are
held under advisement by the Highway De
partment pending tabulation of bidsc
Other bidders for the . pro ject were f '
a joint venture of Chris Berg Inc* and
Ac & G« Excavating Go0, Anchorage,
$897,628; M/cRaughLin::Br-E-G~K, Seattle,. ^
$900,696; Stock <5; Grove Inc*, Anchorage,, *'•
$999,295; Green Construction Go0^ Des
Moines, Iowa, $1,066,901; and Ben Gintner
Construction Co* Ltdu, Prince George,
B,Gn, Canada, $1,227,437*.
■f o KENNY LAKE NOTES
The school house was the scene of
another rollicking and beautiful get
; tQgether for the Kenny Lakers Saturday
if.tnight,. October 270
y-.K People have in sight with pans of
■ doughnuts, popcorn balls, jugs of cider,
gallons of coffee$ arid a wierd assort
ment of ingenius costumes,* all of which
had small hands and feet protruding from
themP Two of the prizevjinners /most note
worthy were Kathy Lincoln, gotten up as
a pickaninny^ and a Luge egg on the out
side of which was lettered MHumpty
Dumpty1 and on the inside of which,
after some searching, was little Mickey
Abshero ,
The light plant is being repaired
so an assortment of homesteader-gas
lanterns gave cm appropriately ghostly
effect to the orange and black decorated
. old school .room where sixty-eight- people
bounced on their chairs.' and' hollered for
their favorites in.the games of ** scavenge 2
hunt*1 and 11 bust the balloon'1 that follow
ed the costume judging*
"’Afterward quiet groups stoked up on
edibles and sat around in a sea of scamp
ering youngins, catching up on the local
chit-chat and-items from the uhomesteader
telegraph'* e
I hear, off in: the distance, a
‘ ' chain saw over there and maybe another
down the road, these rnornings as I
journey out to the Blazo barrel to fill
my lanterns for the next evenings ses
sion with a favorite book* It portends
of long, even, cords of wood1 stacked
here and there in the tumber tb be left
for a mantle of silent snow until the
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