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Nobody Studies But The Bureau!
vVe’re burned!
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Bureaucracy) sets the pace agajn.
Children from outlying points
on the Island and Westward, will
not be able to go to school here
this fail, as o-rigmaiiy planned, be
cause the Washington office of
the Bureau of Indian Affairs
needs more time to study the feasi
bility o', boarding the native chil
dren in private homes.
•What is there to study? They
have a regional office in Jun
eau that should be capable of
conducting such a study, and do
it more effectively and quickly
than an office thousands of miles
away.
The irony o; the situation is
that there is room in the school
. here for the additional students.
Too, there is ample housing avail
able for therm After going this
far in the arrangements, what fur
ther study is necessary. The suit
ability of the homes can be quickly
vouched for. What more?
The children without a doubt
need the education—not next year
or the years to come, but right
—, , i_
now. Time lost is gaining an educa
tion is never regained. They can’t
begin too young.
The plan to have native boys
and girls from outlying points at
tend h'^re is no fly-by-night
scheme. It had -been thought of
years ago. It seemed possible of
fulfillment this year. We now have
the physical plant to care for them,
and the housing needed. What’s
back of the delay?
This same Bureau has spent
thousands of dollars to transport
whole native families, away from
their native soil, to orient them
in totally different environments,
into big cities, finding employment
for them—only to find the people
couldn’t or didn’t want to assimi
late. Home to them was back from
whense they came.
That sort of thing never did
make much sense to us. This school
idea did, and still does. It must
have been too simple and sensible
— That’s why it was nipped in
the bud, delayed or whatever it
is that’s going to happen to it.
An Irony Of The Century
This has 'been a century of medi
cal milestones.
Since 1900, life expectancy has
risen from 47 years to nearly 70
yeai*s. Since 1900, the nation’s
population has doubled. But the
number of Americans 65 years
old md over has more than quad
rupled—from 3,000,000 to 14,000
000.
Among Americans 65 and over,
most killing diseases of the past
have been effectively controlled.
Since 1900 influenza and pneu
monia deaths have declined near
ly 60 per cent in persons over 65
while tuberculosis deaths have
been educed by 85 per cent. The
cancer death rate, on the- other
hand, has risen 91 per ct.-i
1900. A no unless this rate is
Checked, the annual death toll
from cancer will double within
the next 50 years. The disease
already claims 255,000 Americans
a year, ,half of them 65 and over.
The problem of cancer has a
solution. This disease will be over
come as other dread afflictions
have been overcome.
More research is needed. That
means more scientists, more equip
ment, more centers for training
and instruction.
Cur doctors need more informa
tion on the best means of diagno
sis and treatment of cancer.
To achieve these objectives, the
fight against cancer needs more
money.
money. How much more? As much
The goal of the 1959 Cancer
Crusade is a vital one. The goal is
unlimited.
Let all of us give all-out support
to -he American Cancer Society
for its unlimited drive against
cancer.
The local campaign ends Aug
ust 22. Assist in this great cause.
Here, There and Everywhere
By SIG DIGREE
A deluge of printed words will
be flooding the midwest and east
ern states* even as the rain that
has poured down this week, when
the visiting newsmen, who con
cluded a Statewide visit here Tues
day. tr e t u tr n to their respec
tive lomes and communities.
These newsmen were editors
ami publishers of small and large
weeklies ami dailies in the states
of Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Ohio
and Michigan to mention just a
few The r mission was primari-y
a fact-finding one, out they man
aged a iitUe lun, too. Many of;
them expressed the trip as “an
eye-opener/ clearing up a lot ’of
misconceptions of Alaska held by
people in the other 48.
Several of them told me they
had already sent in stories to their
various news media giving their
impressions of what they had seen.
They made stops in Juneau, An
chorage, Fairbanks, Kotzebue,
Nome and Kodiak.
Alaska as a land of ice and snow
is still the popular belief in the
midwest states, according to the
visiting editors. Ti 3y said they
saw' little snow on the trip, and
of course, very little ice. We got
the feeling that they realized that
weatherwise, much of Alaska is
not as cold in the winter as in
their own states. Alaska’s vastness
was particularly impressive.
The newsmen were particularly
impressed with the friendliness of
the people in Alaska and the hos
pitality they received at the hands
of people generally and organiza
tions in Alaska, including the
military.
Kodiak came in for high praise
for. its beautiful setting and scen
ery, and for the hospitality of the
people. One of them stated Kodiak
was the most beautiful of any city
visited on the tour. Many of them
thought we were not exploiting
Kodiak’s charms enough.
One of the factors that contri
buted to Kodiak putting it’s best
foot forward, was the coopera
tion of individuals from the May
or on down, and the Navy offici
als, all of whom went all-out to
entertain and brief the visitors.
The weather, too, played its part.
Though we have enjoyed much
sunshine and good weather all
summer, the sun really beat down,
giving Kodiak a sparkle of glamour
that’s impressive.
You can be sure Kodiak and the
rest of Alaska will receive just
treatment from these visiting edi
tors, many of whom will be writ
ing about Alaska for people who
have probably never travelled
more than a few hundred miles
from home.
The Kodiak Little Leagii base
ball team may have suffered a 11
0 defeat at the hands of a strdhg
all-star team from Fort Richard
son, but they can take consolation
in the fact that another team,
from*Palmer. went down to defeat
by an even bigger score, when the
Elmendorf team romped over
them 44-1.
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The 18th amendment has long
been repealed, and bootlegging is
no longer thought necessary one
would think, especially in Alaska,
but it happened here.
A Filippino cannery worker
from Seattle did a flourishing
business selling liquor at one of
the Island canneries recently—in
fact so well did he exhibit his own
brand of salesmanship as a liquid
dispenser that the cannery had to
shut down one day because the
crew was so well lubricated they
couldn’t work.
The superintendent knew you
could get the best performance
out of well-lubricated machinery,
but the same didn’t hold true of
the men. As a consequence, he
did a little investigating, and found
the dispensing agent, and with the
aid of the U.S. Marshall, hustled
him, his suitcase of bottled goods,
besides a cache of the company’s
salmon, and other sundries, to Ko
diak, where he appeared before
the U.S. Commissioner.
Ironically, the tipplers received
all the benefits, for the man had
more than $300 in I.O.U.’s from
them in his possession. He also
had a quantity oi shirts which the
men pi: :ha -ed croin the Cannery
store r edit) then traded for
the whirht;
And fc ■ 'v children let me add
—crime 'oes not pay; or to put
it another way: The way of the
transgressor is hard.
The fo'ly of over-imbibing: Two
men in t^e wee hours and in their
cups took to arguing. They chose
the spot just outside the south
door of the Federal building to
prove a point with physical vio
lence as the criterion, when one
of them landed into the plate
glass door. Result: broken glass,
$25 fine and $100 for the new
glass.
Griffin Memorial
Hospital Notes
ADMISSIONS
Patients admitted to Griffi®
Memorial Hospital the past week
were Mrs. Marilyn Nelson; Bert
Haverfield; Mrs. Grace Kerr; Her
man Kahutak, Old Harbor; Robert
Morton; Mrs. Alice Anderson,
Ouzinki; Dayton Sawyer; William
Berlin, Kennewick, Washington:
Alex Fadeoff, Jr. and Theodore
Schwartz.
DISCHARGED
Those discharged were Donald
Engblom; Mrs. Genevieve Ken
nedy; Sebastion Bactad; Mrs.
Marilyn Nelson; Bert Haverfield;
Mrs. Maude Davis; Herman Kn
hutak and Robert Morton.
BIRTHS
June Ellen, weighing 7 lbs. 12
ozs., was born on August 11 In
Alice and Emil Anderson of Ouz
inkie.
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Record Marriages
Recent marriages and applica
tions for marriage licenses as re
corded in the U.S. Commissioner's
office are as follows:
The marriage of Kay Lawson, of
Bell view, Washington and Russell
Gallagher, wa^ solemnized July 29,
before the U.S. Commissioner.
Applications for marriage licen
ses were issued to Odena Louise
Springer and Walter Gresko on
August 7. Also to Lola Ann Tullis,
of Corpus Christi, and Daniel Wie
be from Chico, Calif, on August !L
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