SAVOONGA NEWS
Clams Wash Up on Beach; Big
Storm Piles Them 4 Feet Deep
By John Kulowyiyi
Savoonga Correspondent
SAVOONGA, (Special) -—Wiei>s !
made a bush field west of Savoonga.
About a five-mile hike, or skin
boat when you want to travel by
plane. Wiens bush plane is stationed
at Gambell and running our mail
three times a week, Mon., Wed.,
and Friday.
Will move soon as winters here,
behind the village with skis. That
sounds good, "Boy.”
We had bad weather for several
■days in early October with winds
up to 35-50 rn.itqs per hour gale wind,
After the wind decreased we went
. i
Fur Seal Pact
Still Pending
The Interior Department has an
nounced that it will soon call for
new proposals for a long term con
tract for the processing and sale of
government owned fur sealskins
harvested on the Pribilof Islands,
according to Sen. Ernest Gruening.
The office of the Comptroller
General recently announced that a
contract between the Interior De
partment and the Supara Fur Co.
of Chicago, to process the skins, was
invalid.
It was also announced that an
Interim contract, to take care of
the 1903 fur seal harvest will not
have to be negotiated, because the
existing contract will handle this
year’s catch.
The Fouke Fur Co. formerly of
St. Louis, Mo., held the contract
but lost it because it moved to
South Carolina.
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down to the beach and saw tons
and tons of clams on the beach. It’s
just like sand now.
This is the first time we saw that
much clams beached in.
No wonder when we dig for
ivory at the old vilage site we find
lot of clam shells. Before we saw
so many clams we wondered where
they got the clams from. Now we
found out they washed in from the
ocean. Clams washed in is about
100-150 yards long and about three
four feet deep. Nothing but clams.
Relief fund work project just
started this week at Savoonga. Men
working on drainage ditch, play
ground. That is already accomp
lished. Men worked hard through
the frozen ground for the drainage
ditch.
We worked on some part of water
well, not the one we worked sev
eral years back. It's frozen hard
by this time of year. We dug down
where we get water summer only.
We still have more to do like
water tank. Work this year is hard
because of frozen ground. But we
did all we can.
I have taken some pictures when
work began.
Savoonga is a wet tundra but
since we constructed drainage every
year it's getting drier and more
places to walk on ground. We have
board walks since 1931-32. Boards
are pretty well warped now. We
need newer ones, I guess. But we
just don't know where to get
rough lumber and make new walks,
(editor’s note: St. Lawrence Island
is treeless.)
I have nothing else to say but I
hope to write soon again if I
catch up with my odds and ends.
That's all. ‘Bye Mr. Rock. God
Bless you.
, : -w—.......
'Blanket Toss' Wins Talent Contest
School girl Mynita Harris, Kot
zebue Day School, Kotzebue, Al
aska, won first prize in the Tun
dra Times Native Talent Contest.
Her entry entitled, “Blanket Toss”
was chosen from over 200 entries.
Mynita won the S50 first prize
money.
Her entry was picked because
of her perception of the blanket
toss. She may have performed in
one because the happy people
around the blanket look very
much the way she portrayed them
when one is tossed up in the air.
The position of the performer
seemed to suggest that Mynita
might have landed on the blan
ket in another position then her
! feet.
Second prize of S35 was award
ed to Joseph L. Chikoyak of Tu
: nunak, Alaska, for his entry
titled, “Tundra At Spring Time.”
Chikoyak is attending the Insti
tute of American Indian Arts in
Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Third prize of S25 went to Fred
Swan of Kivalina, Alaska, for his
work titled, “Polar Bear Hunter
in Olden Days.” There was a tie
for fourth prize between Edison
Peter of Fort Yukon, for his en
try, “Unpleasant Surprise," and
Theodore E. Frankson of Point
1 Hope, for his work, "The Great
Yukon Power Group to Spend $100,000;
Name Irene Ryan Executive Secretary
Yukon Power for America. Tnc.
the promotional goup for the Ram
part Dam hydroelectric project on
the Yukon River, adopted a $100,000
first year budget during an Anchor
age meeting Oct. 27.
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Following the adoption of the
budget. Jack White, Anchorage real
estate man, and finance chairman
for the Yukon group noted that the j
amount, “probably won't be enough.
We’ll probably have to go to $100,
000 or $200,000,” he is reported to
have said. I
At the same meeting the group |
named Irene Ryan, Anchorage geo
logical engineer to the $9,000 a year
position of executive secretary. She
has been a leading force behind the
promotion of the project for several
years. She was a member of the
Corps of Engineers Rampart Ad
visory Group that originally stud
ied the proposal.
The $100,000 is expected to be
raised in several ways, including a
request to the upcoming state Legis
lature for public funds.
Several municipal groups, includ
ing the Anchorage City Council, the
Fairbanks Municipal Utilities Sys
tem, and also the Golden Valley
Electrical Assn, have pledged funds
to date.
In addition, Alaska Airlines has
pledged an $18,000 charter flight to
Washington, D C. next year so that
100 Alaskans can converge on Con
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gress when the issue is being taken j
up.
Money is also being raised from j
private sources interested in the j
construction of the project.
The $100,000 Yukon Power For !
America, Inc. budget adopted at
Anchorage includes: $20,000 for con- i
tingencies; $25,000 for a Washing
ton. D.C. representative; $9,000 an
nual salary for the executive sec
retary; $10,000 for supplies; $10,000
for the preparation and printing of
a brochure; S6.000 for clerical help
in the group’s Fairbanks office;
$10,000 for participation in the New
Will of Men." Each of the two
men will receive $5.
Honorable mention was given
to the following contestants; Nora
Woods, Kotzebue, for her "Dog
Team;” Lizzie Reich, Kotzebue,
for "A Man Going Hunting;”
Patrick Minock, Nome, for "Fish
ing By Net Under the Ice;”;’*
Charles Schaefer, Kotzebue, for
“Christmas Night;” Sharon Clark,
Clark's Point, for "Big Whale In
the Sea.”
Another honorable mention was
given to an entry with no name
or place. It showed an Eskimo
spearing a bird in the air.
The winning entries will bo
made into greeting cards that will
be used to help finance tile Tun
dra Times.
The prize winning pictures and
those that were given honorable
mention, will be exhibited in the
Alaska Art Gallery in Fairbanks.
No date for the showing has been
announced.
All the entries were charming
and many artists showed definite
talent. We want to thank each
and everyone that participated in
our Native Talent Contest.
York World's Fair; $5,000 for mem
bership in the Inland Empire Water
ways Assn., and $5,000 for th®
group's public information com
mittee.
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