Alaska, Feb. 19, 1947 No. 27
SEARCH PARTY RESCUES LOST CHILDREN
HELEN YUTH LEADS
BY SMALL MARGIN
* IN QUEEN CONTEST
As the race for
the title of Seldo
via!s Popularity
Queen drew into the
last auarter, today, a
whirlwind finish
seemed certain, for
the two top contes
tants are battling on
almost even terms.
At a late hour
yesterday, Helen Yuth
was leading Norma
Swain by a very nar
row margin, but mem
bers of the faculty
planning committee
say that the lead
switches between the
two almost hourly. No
figures were yet av
ailable on the actual
ballot sale of the
c on t e s t an t s .
No announcement of
the contest winner
will be made until
the coronation cere
mony at the semi-for
mal ball next Satur
day evening. The
ceremony is scheduled
' for 9:30, immediately
following the Grand
March in the school
gymnasium.
At the planned
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PAIR WANDERED AWAY FROM HOME,
SPENT STORMY NIGHT IN WOODS;
DISCOVERED EARLY MONDAY MORNING
From midnight last Monday until the early
hours of the morning, during a wild and
windy night of rain, 14 Seldovia men under
the direction of Marshall Andy Anderson heat
through tangled undergrowth and brush along
the shores of Seldovia Bay in search of two
lost children. Rettv and ,!TinvM Reese.
DENALI DELAYS
n late wire from
the Seattle office of
the ^laska Steamship
Co., yesterday said
that the Denali was
not expected to be
scheduled out of Se
attle until about
March 2,
On that date the
steamer is slated to
start north, with
ports of call planned
at Ketchikan, Wran
gell, Petersberg, Ju
neau, Sitka, Kodiak
and Seldovia.
On the return to
Seattle the Denali
will stop at Seward,
Sitka, Juneau, Peter
sberg and Ketchikan.
(The above inform
ation reached The
Frontiersman after
the earlier story on
the Denali schedule
had been printed.)
The pair, aged 8
and 6, had gone walk
ing up the trail near
their home in company
with an older brother
last Sunday, . and had
lost their way. Ap
parently the older
child had run on
ahead to let the
children make their
way home alone. They
became confused and
turned up the trail
in the opposite di
rection from home.
The children were
not reported missing
by their father, Oren
Reese, who homesteads
on the shores of Sel
dovia Bay, until late
in the evening. At
11 ofclock Sunday
night, Mr. Reese rou
sed Marshall Anderson
to ask for help.
Mr. nnderson quick
ly gathered a group
of 14 men, who met at
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