AGED PIONEER IS A SUICIDE
IN HIS‘ LONELY HOMER CABIN -
August . '"Gus" Nas
lund, 83-y^ar-old pi**
primer- Alaskan "and a
resident "of tKe Sel
dovia-Hom^r area ' for
the past 35 y*ars,
was found d°ad in his
cabin at Honur last
Thursday.
• Caus^ of, de£th was
a "selfrinfliqted bul
_let wound* Mr. Nas*
lund had be*n in poor
health7 and had been
confined to"his home
most of the time.
Children brought his
mail to him from the
Homer postoffice sev~
eral times each week,
and it; vfas they who
discovered the body.
fir. Naslund" was a
veteran of the 'Alas
kan gold rushes 'at
the turn ' of the cen
tury. He panned fo'r
gold on 'the beaches
at Nome and later
prospected on the
creaks at Fairbanks.
He had been both .mi-’
ner and" fisherman in
this area.
Formerly ' a Seldo
via resident, ’Mr 4
Na'slund lived 'at Ho
mer during the last
years of his life. He
will * be interred
there.
ONLY TWO
FILE FOR
SCHOOL JOB
School- board fi
lings were closed
with only two candi
dates, Mrs. John
Groothof and Mrs. T2v
erd Jones, applying
for the vacant seat.
'The school board
election will' coinc
ide with‘the city el
ec ti on next_Tuesday.
OUT Of HOSPITAL
Mrs. Martin-Peter
son was released from
Seldovia - hospital
last Wednesday morn
ing*
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LYNN RASMUSSEN
For
City Council
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Veteran Of. World
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Four 0e ars Experience In £iv.'ll;
And 01i lit ary Government' v.'-.: •
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LET’S CLEAN UP THE POL ITI C $ IN CITY HA LL