AIR SERVICE AUTHOR!
An order granting temporary authority
to Cordova Airlines to fly persons, prop
erty and mail to Tok and the Fort Greely -
Delta Junction area as an extBnsion of its
route already reaching from Aichorage as
far as Gulkana and Northway was issued this
week by the Civil AeronauticslBoard. The
authority, which is for three praps a week,
will expire March 22, 196iu
THOSE EDUCATED ALASKANS^
Educational attainment of theYpeople of
Alaska remains high, it was reported to
Senator Gruening this week by Richard M.
Scammbn, director of the Bureau of^he Cen
sus;" •
The median number of years of schdol com
pleted by Alaskans 25 years of age anoyold
er was 12.0 in I960, a figure exceeded only
by the 12.1 years median schooling by th*
population of Utah. Nevada tied Alaska.
The United States average was 10.6 years of
school completed. Low state was Kentucky
with 8.9.
NATIONAL LIBRARY WEEK IN ALASKA
Wm. A, Egan, Governor of Alaska, desig
nates the we*ik of April 21 - 27, 1963, as
National Library Week in Alaska and calls
upon Alaskans to join with their fellow Amer
. icans everywhere to participate in those
programs which emphasize the importance of
the printed word in this age of progress.
National Library Week is both the climax
and the starting point of many year-around
activities to spur Americans to read more
and to make reading opportunities more easi
ly, available to others.
Reading and the facilities of the public
library open the door* to many Americans to
explore, through the written word, the worlds
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KENNY lixKE NEWS - Ginny Helkerin
April is
Those old'
us. Course,
really been
and I kno^
er.
Things
lately.
fere but where are the showers?
fch winds are.still plaguing
shouldn’t complain. It’s
ipringlike the last few days
've got the fever. Spring fev
h^ve been pretty quiet out here
hink just about everyone has
finally stioDk off that old flu bug .so. may
be things
Helkenn di
his homeste
and he was
help at such
the weather s
can start the
Pa
to\s
pr
ment)
at
'
11 start moving again. GLenn
get a good sized crew over at
this.week to peel house logs
re thankful to get so much
back-breaking job. Sure hopi
s nice and warms, up ..so they
dation soon.
feting was held April 1.
t^spacemobil was
Id some swings
school was dis
eague meeting,
m
and
man has
18§. Soo
out here o:
I must
ck drivers
rom Chitina.
1 tanker and an
helped when he
that' hauled
Roy Hooper
accident t:
lost his Germ;
I hear by the ^gifapevine that Bob Abcher
finally finished Roy Ally’s garage - all
but the windows and doors. Looks like Bill
Weaver should get Bob to come down his wdy.
The Kontona Club met April b at the home
of Pat Helkenn witjh Ruth Grimm as hostess,
Easter bonnets weije made by the gals to
be worn at the Easter Party on Sat., April
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