COPPER NUGGETS
Joy Morgan
This past fortnight found two of the
younger set celebrating birthdays.
Tommy Huddleston entertained the local
small fry on his third birthday, and
little Shirley Ann Miller invited guests
to share her one-candle cake. We also
understand that Miss Linda Spencer will
be having a twelfth birthday today (Fri
day) with a small party honoring the
occasion.
The new leg home of Mary and Jack Wallace
is making rapid progress, with both Tenas
Jack and Nick .Jackson of Copper Center
helping with the carpentry. The Wallace's
have had a trailer home on their Pippin
Lake property for s^me time, but are now
working fast and furious trying to get
the reef on the cabin before the snows
begin. Somehow, this seems typical of
Alaska...the summers are too precious to
waste , and there always seems to be time
to spare...until one day the first little
snowflake sneaks its way downward, and we
are faced with the unalterable fact of
winter!
Bill Mcllroy has been awarded the con
tract for the Copper Center, Lower Ton
sina and Chitina mail haul. Bill is the
owner of the Copper Center, Valdez Bus
Lines and a resident of Valdez.
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Beth and R6y Hooper and the two
little ones are finally back at home
after Roy1s harrowing experience
with a faulty trailer jack. When
Roy was first caught under the edge
of the trailer, it seemed to be his
eye that was most seriously injured.
However, later medical treatment
indicated a skull fracture, so the
Hoopers have been in town for sev
eral weeks! Roy is till having a
little trouble with "double vision"
but says that otherwise he feels
fine and is anxious to get back to
work.
It was with some sadness that we
said our good-byes to Dr. Hirshfield
and his charming wife. They left
last Monday for their home in Okla
homa. It is the hope of the Doctor 5
that he and Mrs Hirshfield will be
able to return in the late spring or
early summer. A great big thank
you from the community for the
services that Doctor rendered.
LeA and Irene Janes have thrown away
the.Swede sawn for good, and are
enjoying the luxury of oil heat,
provided by a big new furnace in
their big, new concret basement I
During the excavations, Leo found that
he had several bats on the property.
This was a new one to most of us, as
we had always understood that bats
were uncommon in this part of the
world.
Nicholas and Rose Zerbinos are new
members of the Tazlina area, and have
a homestead in back of the Dimonde's.
There are two children in the fam
ily, Alex and Cathy, both students
at Copper Valley,
Mr* Helen March was an overnight guest
of her parents, the Nels McCrary s,
Mrs March is employed in Anchorage
by the Employment Security Division.
Another story told by Billy Mitchell rf
the early days ( 1902) concerns the
Mentasta area. Mitchell was on the
trail expecting to meet the mail carrier
coming north from Valdez. RiAnning along
the base of a steep bank he noticed a
place where a sled had broken thru the
ice. Peering over the bank, he saw the
top of a tent. In front of the tent was
a sled with a man sitting, leaning drer
on his hands. A large black dog sat in
front of him. Getting no response to his
calls, Mitchell found the man frozen to
death, with a match between his teeth,
and the striking box between his knees.
Pieces of harness showed where 4 of his
dogs had bitten oat, and the one remain
ing had all 4 feet frozen. The mail was in
the sled under him. Apparently even
then "The mail must go through'1,