Nome His News
For Last Week
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again next summer, and almost
all the boys are eager to go.
Summer seems a long way off.
There are four new Scouts on
the roster who will receive their
tenderfoot badges at the next
Court of Honor.
George Martin, Scribe.
7th ft 8th Grade News
At the meeting of the Icy
Breeze Thursday the following
officers were elected for the next
two months:
Ed Simms president, Kathleen
Walsh vice president, Roger Bock
man secretary.
A new baseball team was chos_
en, Floyd Wheefler selected to
serve as coach, and Frank O’Far
rell and Roger Bockman captains.
Tests for the semester were
given throughout the week. The
seventh grade geography class
set up a bulletin board of the con
tinent of Europe as a review of
present events. The new cur
rent events papers were receiv.
ed this week and are being used
in reading. The seventh and
eighth manual training class has
completed a library table for the
room.
Roger Bockman
The fifth and sixth graders
have made hygiene posters illus
trating perfect menus. Calendars
of 1937 were their art project
this week. They are also having
a try at story writing and some
really hair-raising thrillers are
the result.
The fourth grade history class
is studying the colonization of
America. In geography the third
grade is learning about how the
different sections of the world
are dressed. A complete review
of arithmetic is in progress, the
fourth grade working on addi
The title ot “corn king" at tne i.itcinational Grain and Hay Show at
Chicago went to W. H. Curry of Tipton, Ind., shown here with his
prize-winning sample of Reid’s yellow dent corn. Curry had competed
for 10 years and in 1934 was reserve tltlist. (Associated Press Photo)
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tion, and the third on addition
and subtraction. Creative art
work, the drawing of one’s own
interpretation of poems, stories
and music appreciation classes
also part of the week’s work.
The second grade has spent the
week on a Fairyland unit, read
ing fairy stories, drawing their
own interpretations of fairies and
Fairyland. Inside a brick wall
and in the shadow of a beautiful
rainbow is a fairy castle with
tall turrets, and clustered about
it are the Elve’s Shop, the fairy
ring of toadstools, and all the
other things always associated
with the land of the fairies. The
whole project is done in clay, &
is the first work the children
have ever done along that line.
The first grade has made mats
woven from construction paper
and is working on paper furni
ture. They have been working
very hard this week to improve
their writing. The class, which
has been much disrupted by the
recent epidemic of whooping
cough, is once more complete,
Victor Page and Junior Jacobs,
having come back this week.
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Alaska J uneau Had
Best Year History
Mine, During 1936
(By The Associated Press)
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 27, —
With a yellow metal net produc
tion of income of $2,625,700 in
1936, the Alaska-Juneau Gold
Mining Company, which has its
operations at Juneau, Alaska, had
the best year in its history last
year, company’s headquarters of
fices in San Francisco announc
ed today.
The preliminary report for Dec
ember shows a net income for the
month of $210,700 before taxes or
I
depletion. This December net in
come is a decline of 346,900 from
November’s returns, but is well
above the net income of $156,000 i
for December 1935.
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LOCAL ITEMS
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Dennis Comer, one year old son
of Mr. and Mrs. Gene Comer,who
passed away at the hospital Fri
day morning of whooping cough
follow'ed by pneumonia, will be
buried Wednesday, following ser
vices at the native church at two
o'clock in the afternoon.
Mrs. Carrie Wheeler, wife of
Leo Wheeler, passed away last
Monday after a lingering illness,
aged 41. She is survived by five
sons, two daughters and her aged
mother. Funeral arrangements
will be announced later.
A pair of skiis were brought to
town by natives who reported to
the United States Commissioner j
C. C. Tanner, that they had found
them in the vicinity of the spot J
where Lloyd Kindler was lost
shortly after Christmas, when he
and his partners were returning
to the Jannesen quartz mine at
the head of Snake river. No fur_
ther details are available, altho
that section has been hunted over
several times for his remains.
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A program of comedy pictures
featured the Roosevelt-Children’s
Benefit held at the Dream Thea
tre on the Birthday of President
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Saturday,
January 30th.
Judge J. H. S. Morison of the
District Court at Nome, who is
Chairman of the Second Division
Committee for the purpose of
raising funds with which to assist
in the fight against infantile par.
alysis. gave a short explanation
of the manner in which the funds
raised is handled and the good
work being done by science thru
the United States.
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He thanked the public of Nome
for their kind subscriptions to
this fund and voiced the apprecia
tion and feeling, that children in
this district will now have addi
tional opportunities for medical
attention during the next year.
Seventy percent of the fund re.
mains in Nome and thirty per .
cent is dispatched to the national
committee.
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