Joy M. PAGE
conr td CQj^iJR NUGGETS
ears in office. Jan is the daughter if Mrs
athryn Fawcett of Copper Center* and the
dstefe^f George Ashby. She has two children*
at* now employed in Valdez* and son Mike* a
reshman at Valdez High. Husband Bill is owner
f the Valdez-Copper Valley Bus Lines. Jan
attended school in Valdez* and also at the
University of Washington.
,an Benito* Texas will be the winter address
>f former postmaster Carl Edin. Carl has
een living with his sister in Hinckley,
-linnesota, but was "talked into" spending
hfe 6 winter months near Corpus Christi. Carl
asses all the local folks.."pretty hard U
■et Alaska out of the blood" he writes.
ose and Gq#rge Lowy of fiekel Roadhouse will
e closing the shutters about the middle of
>ctober and heading south to Arizona for the
old weather* They will be back in time for
he tourist ’’rush" next summer*
Its Vera Harshman of Pippin Lake has buttoned
Lp her homestead and is now in Anchorage
working at the new mental hospital*
fr and Mrs Dick Donnelly have purchased a
.ovely new mobile home and installed it in
3unsek!s Trailer Court* ;;.L
lave any of you seen two recent articles in
i^tional publications about Alaska? "Birding
In the 49th State” was published in the last
Audubon Club magazine, and the most recent
[ssue of "Atlantic Monthly” has a superb
article by Paul Brooks, entitled ’’Alaska:
-■ast Frontier” j» • Mr Brooks is particularly
concerned with saving some of the wilderness
areas, feeling that in Alaska, we may see the
sins and omissions of the -south and profi
thereby* This article was mainly about the ^
tfcKihley Park area, and, for once, there.is .
ao complaining about roads, mosquitoes, etc.
Frank, and Martha- Carlquist, owners of the ,,
Anchorage Jeikelers,\ spent tke.;long Labor ay
weekend in the Copper River area. They were ;.
celebrating a wedding anniversary and just
taking a much needed holiday* Mr *, Carlquist. ..
is the father-in-law of Najeeb. Halaby, ^
National Administrator of the F A A, ,, r
Mrs Katherine Goddard was the substitute
teacher at Copper Center School during the
absence of Donna Donnelly*,. . .
Our produce is riow trucked over
the highway via Ghezzi Trucking*
and reaches us just k days later*,
Arrival time is Tuesday evening*
TASTE THE DIFFERENCE.
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Ever tried seaweed soup? Neil F:mnesend h$.s,
and swears it is deliciousl Six Japanese
geologists spent some time in the Chitna
area looking over nickel prospects, and Neil
was their guide* The Japanese brought their
own cook arid the makings for their rational
dishes* the soup in question is made with
wafer thin pieces of dried seaweed and
served as a broth*
Harry Hobson* Mile 47* is back on the mend
after hospitilization for an ear infec&on#
The Louie Lincoln family is celebrating
the drilling of a new. well, and hope to get
a pump in operation in the next few weeks.
Hoy Hooper of Willow Lake suffered a seriius
eye injury in an accident that occurred at
his Willow Lake homestead, ROy was under his
trailer applying a jack when the trailer
slipped and caught him On the side of the
head. Apparently without realizing.it> Ho6pe:t
freed his head and called his wife, Bethi
Neighbor Frank Carroll drove‘the Hoopers to
Faith Hospital. Last reports indicate that
Roy will not loose the sight of his eye. .as
had first been feared. At this time he is
unable to move the eye though, and an •per
ation is planned in Anchorage. . .
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Get your scissors sharpened ladiesl. Myrtle
•Bangs of the Extension • Service in. MlmOr
is planning a-sewing coursb for interested
Copper Center.woir^nl'The exact dates have,
not been decided, !butvit looks now as though
two'classes will be; held.. .1 .afternoons and
evenings. The-classes will be held in the
dining room of Copper Center Lodge. More ■
details in the next issue.
Mrs Rose Kronk is the new tenant of the snail
cabin #wned by Webb*s and located on the old
Stewart property. Rose is the sister of Mrs
Mary Huddleston, and has a son Jinsny
How1 many people< today are aware thas famed
General Billy J^tchell dilce spent a part of
his early career in Alaska?'Mitchell was
sent to Alaska in- the'summer of 19^1/ by
Brig. General A W Greely,* who' was then head
•f the old U S Signal Corps. Mitchell was only
21 at the time, but: he hhd’ served in the Span
ish American wan and the* Phillipine insurecctio.
Mitchell and: his crew worked out of Eagle*
City setting poles for the first telegraph
line to span Alaska. Another; crew worked out
of Valdez. The line eventually reached the
Bering Sea at St. Michael. During the course
of his travels, Mitchell tells of reaching
Copper Center where there was a settlement of
Indians. One particularly handsome large .
Indian with red hair and blue eyes caught’
Mitchell’s attention. This fellow answered
to the-name 1 of "Cross River Joe”• They asked
Joe where his poppa was and Joe replied,
"Long time ago big soldier chief, he come
here. He iry poppa. N*w me chief of tribe”.
Joe’s mother was in beautiflluy beaded cari
bou clothes, and carried a large aneroid
barometer around her neck, carefully polished.
The barometer was a magic talisman given her
by the "soldier chief" who was Joe’s father.
According to Mitchell each Indian tribe had its
own hunting grounds and boundaries and each
tribe cordially hated the others