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Copper Nuggets Joy Morgan
4-H Club News
xi lively little group was on hand
for the 4-H Halloween party, held
last Wednesday at the Copper Center
School. First on the program was the
grand march, with judges Chet Bun
sek and Josephine Roach awarding
prizes to Debbie Donnelly, as the
miner who struck it rich, and Donald
Morgan, fetchingly attired in the
latest carrot sack creation.. A movie,
"The Atomic Kid”, with Mickey Rooney
was shown..much to the amusement of
the entire group9 Refreshments were
served..ice cream, cake and Kooiaid.
Mrs Katie Goddard was group leader.
Ethel and Herman Brenden are back in
Copper after spending some time with
their daughter, Joyce Holman, re
cently the mother of twins, ^ccom
paning the Brenden?s was their 8
year old grandson, Bruce Holman, whc
will stay until the end of the schoc
year. Bruce is no stranger to the
country, having been here for a vis
it several years ago.
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. More new residents of this area...
the Castleberry family, who have
moved in the Webb cabin located up
the Klutina River at the sawmill.
The.CastleberryTs have 5 children,
four of them enrolled at Copper Cen
ter School. MrCastieberry was em
ployed by MB last summer.
Copper Center School is really bulg
ing at the seams now, with nine new
children entering in the past two
weeks. These include the Sharon
children ( four of them) as well as
the four Castleberry! s and Bruce..
The. first string basketball team has
been announced as follows: Captain,
Howard Helkenn; James ( Speedy) Mor
gan, Gorson Phillips, Gary Sharon,
and-Donaldo Morgan. First gane
" should be played next week.
another meeting of the Alaska Carrierjs
Association was held at the Copper
Center Lodge last week, with repre
sentatives from Juneau, Copper Centei,
anchorage and Fairbanks in attendance•
.imong those we noticed were Bill San
ders of anchorage, Howard Bayless of
Copper, and Gene Rogge and Leo Sch
lotfeldt of Fairbanks, another meet
ing is scheduled for January.
The village has asked that 'all child
ren be in their homes and off the
streets by 9 FM, unless accompanied
by their parents or guardian. The
school goes along with this verdict.
Bacille George is village chief.
The George ..shbyTs became grandparents
again when their daughter Judy, now
Mrs Jack Armstrong of California, be
came the mother of a nine pound boy,
•named Christopher ^llen Armstrong. He
was born a few days before the birth
of her sister Jean Huddleston*s twins.
We never did get around to wel
coming homesteaders Jerry Leubke and
Jd Church to our community. That
twinkling light far back of the gra
vel pit across the DitmanTs belongs
to the Leubke?s I
The Buck Roaches nad the Mick Zer
bino?s both made weekend business
trips to anchorage.
Pete Stickwan is now living back
home, moving up from Chitina last week.
Newly elected heads of the ANB
are Markle Awan, who replaces Oscar
Craig as head of the Brotherhood, and
Beth Jackson, who was elected presi
dent of the Sisterhood.
Warren Johns and Donald Morgan
were winners of the Good Citizenship
inwards at the Copper School. They
were the two students showing the
most improvement in their schoolwork
and conduct in the first few months
of school. It was just a few days
after this that one of the winners,
initial D.M., hid a mouse in the
desk drawer of Mrs. Roachl It could
nt last forever ( -the good behaviour
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