Been in Alaska going on four-years and
j when asked if he liked the state his reply
was M Oh difinitely”. He spent most of the
summer working and loafing. His pet peeve
are- wpeople who pretend to be something
i that they aren’t” . Mr. Hendericks plans to
I teach in Alaska for the rest of his career
; homestead sometime in the future. To
! round out our teaching staff. Mr. Nipps is
the principal and Mr. Heaton , who has been
with Glenn Hi since it began.it began with
Miss Joy gradusting from correspondence.
My how-it has grown and makes a lot of us
proud to see it so.
! An old friend of the G lenn Highway, John
| Luther McGorkel passed away while a cock
at Pt. Barrow. has cooked at many places
along the Glenn Hwy. mainly at the Gateway
lodge, a ording to a writup in an Alaska
paper he was taken to Florence, Ala, for
burial. Surviving McCorked is one borther
in ^embhis, Tenn. and a Sister Eloise McCor
j kedof Florence, Ala. Mr. McSorkel was
| working for the Vinnell Gorp. until his
| death August 26,
I
Garol Neely of ^histochina is g student in
| the Glenn Grade School she stays in the
| Engerbretson home and goes home with her
j dad on weekends.
ANNOUNCEMENT
X
ho Glennallen United States Post Office
will move to its new location at the
I new residence building of Mr* Harry Heintz
! on the Glennallen High School Road the
weekend of September 14-15* 1963.
The Post tffice window and lobby will
be closed Saturday, September 14* 1963*
at noon.
The Post Office will be o^en for Busin
ess as usual on Monday, September 16, 1963
j at-its new location*
Maxine Millard
Acting Postmanter*
! F0R-.SALE
If you need a small dozer sec Les Houghton
Oliver 0-C4 with Angle Blade, Hydraulic
lift and tilt for Sale. Less than 200 Hours
NEWS RELEASE
The time of year vje are onjoyinghas
again brought troubles to our local ACS
Gommander, Possible some telephone sub
scribers in the Glennallen Talbot exchange
area have shared the Commander!s difficulties
when their dial telephones have been out of
order just when they were trying to place
or receive important calls.
At this time of year the telephone troub
les are usually traced -to broken glass insu
lators on the pole line, and in an actual
case t is year, a wire broken by rifle, shot.
Explaining a bit about what happens in brok
en insulator or wire separation, the tele
phone wires on the local dial system must
travel over several hundred miles completely
suspended on glass insulators in order to
conduct the small electrical charge necessar;
to carry conversations. When an insulator
or wire is broken the telephone circuit is
immediately grounded or shorted on the pole ;
and the teelphones on that pair of wir§s
cease to work. At that time the troubles for
both the telephone subscribers and the Commad"*
or begin.
If you are a telephone user in all probilip.
ythe time you vjant to make a call, and your j
| phone won’t work, is that time when youate
calling about business that is important
right now, you are calling for a doctor or
! you may be just wanting to phone- to see why j
Suzy is late getting home- from school, when
! your phone isn’t working your are naturally j
a little mad and the Commander gets a ompla-j
i int. So you see our telephone system i a
joint responsibility betweent ose who trt
;
to provide the best service possible, and
the persons who pay for and expect the best
in telephone service, 1t is very important j
to all of us in a wide spread community
Now to get to the source of the trouble
makers. Usually it is the hunters who accid- ;
entally and sometimes unthinkingly looking
for a target, shoot at insulators, also the
rock throwers who cause the trouble, We havei
experienced also the type of person who is
no second to Wyat Erp and believes he can j
hit a small target like and insulator from
a fast moving 8 cylinder pony. Well he does 1
hit a few, and we all pay for his pranks as j
technicians, telephone users, and taxpayers. !
Federal Law imposes both prison sentences |
and heavy fines for willful! destruction of j
United States Government property. Those
wayward hunters and rock throwers only have j
to be caught and the penalties begin.
As users, parents, guides, business and
telephone people, we can all assist by
warning hunters, children and pranksters to
select better targets for their practice *
Report quickly to the local ACS Commander the j
name or even the auto license plate number
of nay person seen destroying the U.3.
Government, property we use.
One precaution we should all take isto be '
sure that none of us' contribute to those
disturbing costly and destructive troubles.
INVITATION FOR Bj.s STATE 0FALA3KA
DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS
Sealed bids in single copy for furnishing
[ all labor, equipment and materials and
performing all work for Project F-046-l(9)
| Copper River Riprap and Bank protection,
described herein, will br received until j
' 10:00 a.m., PST, September 26, 1963 in the
| Commissioner’s Office, Department of Highwaysj
| Island Center Building, Douglas, Alaska
| This project consists of constructing 0*72
| miles of dike and furnishing and placing
\ rock slope protection along the Copper. River
adjacent to the Glenn Highway near Gakona,
State of Alaska, Principal items of work
consist of the following: Unclassified
excavation, $3,000 cubic yards and Rock
slope protection, 50,895 tons.- All work
j .shall be completed by September-' 30, 1964.
I Plans and specifications may be obtained'
i by all who have a bona fide need for them
| for bidding purposes from the Commissioner
| .of Highways. Plans may be examined at
department of Highways District offices in
Anchorage, Fairbanks, Juneau and Valdez.
rA bid guaranty is required with each bid