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A REMARKABLE STORY
A touching story comes from the Tennessee Valley
where the Tennesse Valley Authority is building its bb,
dam. An old log house will be inundated. The government
has built the owner a new house on higher ground.
The owner is a venerable man, a true son ol the soil, lie
was born more than 70 years ago in the cabin. So far the
story is not unusual. But the fire that blazed on the open
hearth the day he was born has never gone out. Year-after
year that fire has been tended, until it became to the old man
a sacred rite. He saw to it that he had back logs of oak or
post locust that would hold fire overnight. In the morning,
from the glowing coals, the fire was revived.
He asked that in the new house just such an open fire
place as there was in the old cabin should be constructed.
This has been done, and when the time comes to move, this
descendant of the fire worshippers will himself carry the
living fire from the old house to the new.
Thus the continuity of that fire will not be broken. The
friends and neighbors will gather to see the simple cere
mony, probably a handful of coals put in an old iron kettle.
To tiie old man that fire, started by his father and mother
before he was born, was a part of his life. Probably it spoke
to him. As the flames crackled in the winter evenings, they
were pleasant voices telling him of the happy past or pre
dicting delightful things to come. He remembered his pio
neer mother as she cooked the meals on the fire, his wife
who did the same thing, and his children who had gathered
about it.
To the old man it is a great and consoling thing that,
though the old cabin must go, yet the fire on its hearth will
not go, but on another hearth the same fire will glow and
will send out its grateful light and warmth.—Cincinnati En
quirer
MERCY FLIGHTS BY ALASKA PILOTS
Outsiders who read of Pilot Barnhill’s heroic mercy
flight, a distance of over 700 miles, made at night to the aid
of a woman critically ill, will probably get a passing thrill at
the courage shown by the pilot, but to the residents of Inter
ior Alaska a far deeper feeling is involved. With expert
medical attention obtainable in only the large towns, the
closest to us being Anchorage, Fairbanks or Seward, the
question of transporting an ill person must be entirely by
plane. To know that the pilots are not only eager to serve
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but will risk their lives to answer the call of mercy gives a
sense of security and gratitude.
One reads daily in the Alaskan newspapers of injured,
ill or frost-bitten people being rushed by plane to the near
est hospital. The amount of suffering or of lives saved mak
es a notable record, but it is all in the day's work for the pil
ot, who is concerned with landing his patient quickly and
safely.
Although planes are a common sight in most Alaskan
towns, more so, perhaps, than in many sections of the States,
pilots of the North fly under much more hazardous condi
tions. Night flying is not the beacon lighted trail of the out
side nor are the landing fields lighted and runways marked.
It is wholly up to the skill of the pilot and his knowledge of
the country.
Flying under such difficult conditions with landing fields
hundreds of miles apart and often little better than a forced
landing in a rural pasture in the States might be. is it any
wonder that the recipients of the services extend apprecia
tion and gratitude to the fliers—Kusko Times
The Washington
News-Letter
A J DIMOND.
Delegate from Alaska
Washington, D C March 2
The Rivers and Harbors Commit
tee has voted to report out all of
the Alaska rivers and harbors pro
jeets introduced last year and re
■mmend their passage by includ
ing them in a general rivers and
harbors bill
Thursday morning the Committee
listened to James L Galen and Dele
gate Dimond in support of the Cor
dova Harbor project, and it also
heard Don Carlos Brownell, mayor
of Seward and the Delegate in favor
of the Seward Harbor of Refuge
The Nome Harbor project was
pre-ented to the Committee by Carl
J. Lumen and the Delegate, to pro
's. de an extension to both jetties at
an estimated cost of $253,000 and to
make an inner basin at a cost of
$10,000 at the mouth of Dry Creek
The Committee has not held an
executive session yet but it appears
probable that all of the projects
mentioned will be included in the
bill
II R 6084, a bill to authorize the
city of Ketchikan to issue bonds in
any sum not to exceed $1,000,000 for
the purpose of acquiring the electric
light and power, water and tele
phone properties of the Citizens’
Light, Power and Water Company,
and to operate the same was favor
ably reported on by the Committee
on Territories to which it had been
referred.. The excellent financial
status "f Ketchikan was noted in
the report and was an obvious fac
tor in securing the clear recommen
dation made
Generally statistics are not inter
esting, but most of us will be sur
prised to learn that we, in Alaska,
used chemical products during 1934
amounting to $1,0.37, 000 an increase
of thirty-one percent over 1933
Toilet requisites totalled $79,500;
Medicinal purchases $181,000; ex
plosives $354,000; and the balance
was distributed in paints, matches,
pyroxylin products, and naval stor
es,. The Chemical Division of the
Department of Commerce empha
sizes the fact that this is not a for
eign market but entirely domestic
and should be approached accord
ingly This is only one of the indus
tries that is beginning to realize the
potential value of the Alaska
market.
Oliver Jones of Anchorage, who
probably has the longest service re
cord of anyone in the employ of the
Alaska Railroad has been in Wash
ington ten days . Mr Jones is leav
ing today on his return to Alaska
The bill authorizing the survey
and construction of the Pacific
Yukon Highway introduced in the
Senate by Hon. Charles L McNarv
of Oregon was reported out by the
Committtee on Foreign Relations,
and passed the Senate by unanim
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