EKLUTnfl BOflRDine SCHOOL .GLOSKIG.
juneau.
Eklutna Boarding School near Seward will
be closed down completely at the end of
the current school term in compliance wit!
official authorization just received from
headquarters office of the'Bureau of
Indian Affairs, Asst. Supt. Fred R.Geeslix
of the Alaska Native Service has announced
Removal of the children and staff person
nel is ejected to be completed before
the end of May, with considerable equip
ment to be salvaged such as school seating
furnishings for nuartefs and ness and a
certain amount of food, suerlies which
will be transported later on the Ah'S ship
NORTH STAR.
Cf the tothl 106 children now remaining
at Eklutna, twenty-two are scheduled for
departure to Kt. Edgecumbe school near
Sitka, and another group proceed on the
SS Alaska, while an additional thirty dan
to spend the summer vacation at homo'be
fore ’-roceeding to Sitka in the fall.
Remaining youngsters whoso hones arc in
the immediate vicinity of Seward may' or
may net transfer, it was pointed out,since
many of the parent s arc reluctant to have
tbsir children so far from home.
"In addition, since facilities at Mt.Edge
cumber are spec ifically des igned to meet
the vocational and academic nced3 of more
advanced students, children of the ele
mentary school level will be accepted there
only whon home placement is not possible
because of illness or broken homes."; the
ANS official pointed out. "Even then," he
added, "allocation of grade children will*
customarily be made to VTrangell Institute,
in order to reserve the limited additional
quarters at Edgecumbe for students of
High School age."
Also being transferred from the Seward
Ares are all student patients at the Home
in-the-'7oods Sanitorium who can be moved.
These will'be brought to the Alice Island
Sanitorium, Sitka, as soon as transporta
tion can be arranged, according to the AITS
Medical Director Dr. Howard C. Rufus.
Closure of the Tklutna school is the init
ial action of a general entrenchment pro
gram for the Alaska Native Service which
is deemed essential in view of the antici
pated cr.it in budget appropriation for the
coming fiscal year.
AL KIN(j GUILD IN (3
A1 King has started excavating for a ne"
building'just south of the Shamrock 3akcry
Building. The new building will be at
tached to the Bakery Building and will be
used as headquarters for "Al*s Taxi Ser
vice".
Louis Ungaro, who left On a trip to the
States about a ’week ago, returned to the
Valley this week. He vacationed in Colo
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