COPPER NUGGETS Jo.y Morgan
A sweet little bundle' of jo.y is Miss
Susie Larsen, first grandchild of
Jim McKinley. She was in Copper over
the week-end with her parents, the
Jack Larsen's of anchorage. The baby'f
great-grandmother is known locally
as "Grandma" McKinley, and is said
to be the oldest person in the vill
age. She can even remember when the
Russians first marked up the Copper.
The Alaska Native Brotherhood held
its regular meeting, the 28th. v
spirited discussion period concerned
the subject of the native economy in
general, and the local economy in
particular. The aNB is working closely
with the state and federal agencies
in their attempt to find a solution
to the distressed condition of many
of the villagers, /ill angles are
being explored in an effort to make
more of the communities self- support
ing. Some of the natives in South
eastern ala ka have been able to re
vive many of the old crafts, and are
working for a steadily growing tour
ist market. hy should the stores be
selling souvenirs " made in Japan”
when the real McCoy is available?
LLth this in mind we applaud the
plans of Fred Lippi, who is planning
a Curio shop stocked with only the
authentic Alaskan article.
Three skiers who plan to ski all the
way to the States in 80 days ( start
ing from Anchorage) were seen at Mile
21 on the Tok cutoff, Monday, the
28th, by Oscar Craig. The next day
he saw them almost at Mile 31» The
original , , . .
plans called for the skiers
to go by way of Chitina and McCarthy,
but according to Oscar, the trio
now plan on taking off through the
Nabesna country and making their way
to Burwash, in the Yukon Territory.
From there they will go to Juneau
and then back-track to the Alaska
Highway ... Jell, to each his own!
And have you heard about the early
days when the warlike Aleuts crossed
the Valdez glacier in the summer, only
to raid the villages on Tonsina Lake
and run off with some of the women ?
Caches of fish were also robbed, and
then often maliciously burned. There
were no rifles available, but spears,
arrows, and rocks were used to good
purpose by both sides.
Lynn Craig passed his l4th milestone
with an exuberant party held at the
__home_of his parents. _ _
HSINTZ fS ATTEND INAUGURATION
To longtime residents;, /what could be
nicer than to make a trip to Juneau
for the first Inauguration in the State
of Alaskao Well, this was done last
week by Harry and Gladys Heintz0
History is a long road that mankind
travels; years are as grains of sand
dripping from the slowly turning wagon
wheels. It's good to stop occasionally
and review the way already travelled. The
year I96R was notable for the number of
scientific gains made in all fields, and
we thought you might enjoy reading a few
of the highlights of '62.
The number of men who have spent time
outside the earth's major influence rose
to 7, three of them Americans and 4 of
them Russians. The 95 hrs. spent in orbit
by one of the Russian astronauts showed
that weightlessness was not a barrier to
space travel**** Less spectacular, but
still significant, was the launching of
the Telestar communications satellite
by the efforts of private industry and
government agencies*** Probes to other
planets were launched, the Russians rush
ing toward Mars and the U.S. Mariner 11
passing relatively close to Venus** One
of the top medical stories was the dev
elopment of a method of immunization
against malaria. A vaccine against meas
les came closer to availability to the
public and the discovery of the German
measle virus may lead to a preventative
vaccine in the future***The first nuclear
powered surface ships, the Savannah and
the Bainbridge, completed a successful
trial run and joined our fleet of nuclear
submarines**** Enough advancement was
made in the conversion of brackish water
or salt seawater to fresh water, to for
see a competitive cost for such water
scarce areas as California***Daring ex
periments in human heredity were forecast
as a result of partially breaking the
genetic code of life-building chemicals
DNA and RNA* * * Two kinds of bacteria were
found to be capable of surviving in a
mock Martian atmosphere*** Pollen spores
of 56 new varieties were found in rocks
up to two billion years old in the Soviet
Union and Europe*** Bacteria left in the
Arctic at the beginning of the century
were found still alive***A machine was
found to read actual handwriting with
93% accuracy, and the letters it had the
most trouble with were the same ones that
bother humans***A new underseas research
ves e'1 that can work on the ocean bottom
more than 2 miles below the surface
collecting samples with 2 remote-control.
exterior arms, w as invented*** The earth
was found to vibrate for several weeks,
moving up and down about .001 inch every
20 minutes after an earthquake***Scient
ists discovered that an ancient leg of the
sea was cut off when part of Canada tilted
upward some 10,000 years ago. The area
is now a land-locked lake**AND, most North
American fish have been found to secrete
a substance when they are attacked or
wounded that warns the rest of the fishes.
( That's why we had such rotten luck!)
The flying weather was real good and the
People of Juneau were all enmasse to meet
the many planes that were (See pg 11 please)