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Joy Lorgan
COPP GR NUGGETS (continued)
WILDERNESS SOCIETY TO LETT IN -EUSIO,
The ^laska Conservation oociety of College,
|jas just received word from Dr. Olaus J.
Murie, Chairman of the /ilderncss Society
Council, that the Council will hold its
annual meeting in Alaska this year. Present
plans are to hold the business meeting and
field trips at Camp Denali, on the border of
Mount McKinley National Fark, in the first
week of July. On June 30 the Council will
meet with local members and other interested
people in the Fairbanks area at the Univer
sity of Alaska. ,1 meeting also will be held
in Anchorage on July 7. .ELI of these meetings
are open to-the public. Dr. Lurie has indic
ated his great desire to discuss and become
more familiar with all phases of conservation
in .*laska.
HERE AND THERE .AID EVERYWHERE
Pearl and Larry Parker of Valdez were recent
overnight guests of Jack and Mary 7allace
of Pippin Lake. The Parkers -are owners of
the "Club" cafe and bar in the bay city....
■ Also taking a jaunt up our- way from Valdez
were the Monte Old’s and firs LaRue Lawrence.
haRue and "Shiny" Olds are the owners of
Monte’s Variety...and yet another visiting
family from Valdez were the Herman Sontag's
who were on their way to pick up Ellen
Baldwin who is to cook in their "Dolphin
Cafe" this summer. Mary Jo Clark was down
from Paxson for an afternoon of shopping
and visiting.... Danny Brendan is now at
Tok, working for Green Construction.
Fred Runge 'of Fire Control §1 owed up for a
| few days ai d then took off for the Kenai
! where he expected to spend about 10 days
j
setting "practice" fires I...David Pete, son
of Meritasta Pete, has left to do his duty for
Uncle darn.. Cecelia Larsen is now staying
with her grandmother, "Grandma McKinley",
oldest member of the Copper Center village..
Jean and Pete Huddleston have been spending
their spare time working on their house,
located across the road from the trailer
court, and hope to be able to move into it
sometime this week...,T.Je sec Marty and Nancy
Nelson and the Guldi’s back again, but this
time they are living in Glenndllen.. The
Hoepheners, now staying in Goble's cabin,
will be moving the middle of the month to
the cabin on the old Gtewart property....
The Paul Radasch’s are having Tenas Jack
rebuild.their fence lines after they had a
little trouble with sightseers taking over
their property. Their cabin is located on
the banks of the Klutina xiiver and apparently
many tourists seem to feel that this is
public camping space.
! ^avid Green made a quick trip through the
j area hoping to buy furs, but found little
; available.
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I : RElOD i >'
I For information loading to the return of ah/
Ladies blue bike, seat blue and white;' has a
; basket and damaged reflector. Lost, strayed,
or stolen last week, May 3 or k» Please call
! Joy Morgan at . Qli.2 -3266. .;
u-H Club News
The Copper Center U—H
girls held a combined
bake•sale and rummage sale
on Saturday,kay kth. Thils
was their first fund rais-,
ing project and was an un- i
qualified success, *». total
of $ 27.20 was netted;
this money will eventual ^
be used for craft supplied
but in the meantime the
girls will learn something of banking pro
cedures and the proper handling of money.
The girls and their leader, Katie Goddard,
| wish to thank everyone who helped make the
j sale such a success. Certainly the commun
ity can be grateful to Mrs Goddard for her
continued support and leadership of this
group. Go often these clubs are formed, only
to die a slow, lingering-death. The Ii-H is
proving that this trend can be reversedi
FurmL DIMER
hr Gee and hr. R. Weber of Tippet and Gee
were honored at a farewell dinner held at
the Copper Center Lodge on .ipril 2lyth.
j Guests were board members of the CVEA and
1 their wives.
HOSPITAL BIDS
i hay 7th was the first publishing of the
! asked for bids for the addition to the
i Faith Hospital in Glennallen. Last date for
i the sealed bids to be received is June 5th.
I Several of the women now living in Glenn
| alien can remember back to 1950 and 15l
, when Chet Schneider had to use the kitchen
1 table as a delivery table...a little later
! it was possible to use what is now the
j waiting room of the hospital. ,uid now, we
; are to begin work on the much needed additior
! This is truly progress of the .most construct
i ive kind.
j taul aid Cookie Wolfe have been keeping the
; tractor going night and day clearing on their
! homestead at Willow Lake. -The gardening bug
j has bitten a number of future farmers, a6cl
j the talk now is all of jrenhouses, tomato
| plants and the like . ^1 blemsick, Katie
: Goddard, the Hooper's and the Morgan's are
j all sporting "green thumbs."
Harry hobson taken ill
I Harry Hobson of Rile 1|7 suffered a severe
| gall-stone attack c.^rly this week and is
: now hospitalized in anchorage. He was visit
irig his niece, firs Label Hash of anchorage
at the tirne, and at first it was thought
• that he had suffered a stroke . according to
relatives, Harry is to undergo surgery.
Earl Bell of Chitina is aL so a patient in
anchorage; he received a fractured leg when
struck by a hit and run driver at about Mil e
1 4 on the Seward Highway•