THE FRONTIERSMAN
as second class matter on Oct. 21. 1JM7, at the post office v
Palmer. Alaska, under the Act of March 3, 1870.
A. J. DeJulio _
Editor __
Publisher-Manager I
_Virginia Gallant
•obecription Rates 50c a month, $5 a year In Valley Area
Mailed to all points in Alaska and the United States
S6 per year
Alaska Game Ageats
Patrol Half MilHoa
Miles of Wildereess
Alaska wildlife officials point
■out that few people living in or
■outside of Alaska realize the vast
area it encompasses. It is diffi
cult to visualize an area one-fifth
■the size of the United States, con
taining 586,400 square miles.
Neither the abundance or var
iety of the Alaskan game species
are equalled in any other area
under the American flag; nor Has
the Fish and Wildlife Service,
charged with the protection of
wilflife, a greater or more com
plex responsibility.
Missing are me usual racumes
Int surface transportation. Only
3,174 miles of improved roads are
open to year around travel. The
one railroad in the Territory is
but 470 miles in length and cross
es two mountain ranges between
1he sea coast town of Seward and
the largest city of the Interior,
Fairbanks. Contributing to the
complexity of the conservation
problem is a rapidly increasing
permanent and transient popula
tion near the larger defense cen
ters where th primary interest in
•wildlife is recreational as oppos
ed to the small inaccessible vil
lages where wildlife is the basis
«f local economics.
Alaska’s present protection
staff consists of twenty game
management agents located at
nine wildlife district headquart
ers. These districts vary in size
from 19.000 to 292,000 square
miles—the last being Fairbanks,
which is unquestionably the larg
est. of its kind under the Amefi- J
can flag. The smallest district in j
Alaska is larger individually
than several of the States, yet
even the smallest State maintains
9 greater protective staff than is
provided for all of Alaska.
During the past year Alaska
■agents traveled a total of 519,783
miles by aircraft, vessel, out*
board motorboat, auto, foot and
dog team, while enforcing con
servation regulations, conducting
Tame surveys, sealing beaver,
ttianfiitig birds, holding public
hearings, ■participating in search
*6Wf rescue missions and other ac
itivities.
Ha&dl mileages and methods
reject changes to meet the pres
ent day challenge of wildlife
management. In 1931 the Fish
•and Wildlife Service owned and
^operated four dog teams with a
piTafl of forty-eight dogs. In that
sim.F year those teams traveled
*1*0.000 miles while travel by plane
was but 5,000 miles. Since then,
travel by dog team has declined
to a 50 mile yearly average while
the use of aircraft has steadily
"increased. The first airplane for
wildlife protection was acquired
an 1939. Today the Service oper
ates a fleet of nine planes in that
program. Aircraft patrol mileage
alone during the past year was
over 350.000 miles.
“The Alaska agents are one
group who do not have to vis
ualize the immensity of the area
,<nd the responsibility involved
for they have to cover it", re
marked Wildlife Administrator
(Clarence Rhode. During the past
:yr at Rhode logged nearly 4*1,000
*r.'.ie« of travel while on general
••administrative duties and assist
ing field men.
“OFFER ALASKA GRADUATE
HUHSES SCHOLARSHIPS
DURING 1958 - 1957
Alaska graduate nurses may j
apply for one of the $250 scholar
ship? available through the As
sociation of Western Hospitals for
'western states nurses who wish
to add to their education. The
announcement was received by
Dorothy K Whitney, ADH nurs
ing chief, from Melvin C Schef
lin. executive secretary of Asso
ciation of Western Hospitals.
For the second consecutive
year, the Crown Zellerbach Foun
dation gave the hospital associa
tion a grant of $2,500 for the pur
pose of providing 10 or more
scholarships up to the amount at
$.250 each, the announcement sUt
'ed Graduate nurses interested in
the scholarship should write to
Mr. Scheflin at 26 OTarrell
Street. San Francisco 8, Caiif , for
detailed information. Applica
tions should be made as early as
possible, he said, but training
imay be taken in 1956 or early
1957.
Health Team
Begins Five-Week
Research Tour
A team of specialist? in eye,
ear, nose and throat illnesses be
gan work in southeastern Alas
ka this week on a study to deter -
i mine prevalence of those health
i problems in the territory and
extent of vision and hearing
losses they cause. The health
team is from the Washington
State Health department, Alaska
Native Health Service and Alas
ka Department of Health. They
will work for five weeks from
southeastern to northern Alaska
on the EENT study, according to
Dr. Charles R. Hayman, acting
commissioner of Health.
Members of the Washington,
team are Drs. James W. Phillips
and Frank Wannamaker, ENT
consultants; and Messrs. Waring 1
J Fitch and Clyde Mott, hearing
consultants.
Alaska physicians traveling on
the survey will be Dr David L
Sparling, Alaska Native Health
Service pediatrician, and Dr. John
Tower, Anchorage pediatrician
and ADH consultant. Dr. Harrison
Leer of Juneau and Dr. J. H
Shelton of Anchorage, eye spec
is lists; in addition, Drs. Hugh \
Fate of Fairbanks and Milo Fritz ‘
of Anchorage. EENT consultants
for the Alaska Health depart- j
ment, have been asked to serve
in an advisory capacity for the
team in their communities, Dr.
Hayman said. Public health nurs
es will assist them in the villages.
Alaska Health department and
Arctic Health Research Center
laboratories are examining speci
mens taken by the team. Data
gathered during the survey are to
be analyzed by the University of
Washington,
ECONOMICS TO BE
SEMINAR TOPIC
AT FINAL SESSION
H. P. Gazaway will speak on ;
economics during the final ses- |
sion of the seminar that has been !
presented at the Alaska Agricul- I
ture Experiment Station this j
winter. The economist will pre- ,
sent his topic at 4 p.m. Friday
afternoon, March 30. All interest
ed persons are invited to attend. |
Airmen to Hear
Search and Rescue
Air Force Officers
Officers of the 71st Air Rescue ;
Squadron of the 10th Air Rescue !
Group will be guests at the Ma
tanuska Valley Airmen’s Asso
ciation meeting which will be
held this evening, 7:30 p_m., at
the Co-Op club room.
The visitors will bring a movie
on search and rescue, and will
discuss and lay out a training
program for the atssociation’s
Civil Defense Air Unit- The pro
posed program will be a com- j
plete training course in air search
and rescue, according to Ralph B.
Farnsworth, president of the j
board of directors. The officers ;
of the 71st Air Rescue Squadron
will conduct the course.
CO-OP VEG. GROWERS
TO MEET APRIL 2
All M.V.F.C.A. vegetable grow
ers were this week reminded of
a meeting scheduled for Monday
evening, April 2 in the meeting
room at the Co-Op general of
fice. Prospective production for
the coming season will be discus
sed, according to Stewart Dur
rant, Co-Op general manager.
Who is Lightning, Snowflake.
Zebadiah. and Hambone?
PUBLIC DINNER
APRIL 5 PLANNED
BY BAND AND CHORUS
Posters are up all around the
city advertising the coming pub
lic dinner which members of the
Palmer Band and Chorus are
sponsoring with the assistance of
their parents. The dinner will be
held at the new high school cafe
ter?a on Thursday night, April
5. The menu will consist of
home-made beef stew, salads,
rolls, and will be topped off by
home-baked apple pie. Prices
have ben set to permit atten
dance of the whole family: $1 25
for adults and 75 cents for chil
dren's servings.
Profits from the jointly-spon
sored dinner will go toward the
travel funds of the music depart
ment who are going to Fairbanks
in mid-April to participate in the
1956 Music Festival.
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