News Of
Alaska Towns
(From Alaska Exchanges)
A woman, a visitor from the
Middle West, made reservations
at the Alaska Steamship Company
offices in Seattle, for a trip to Al
aska and decided to inspect her,
stateroom before the sailing. She
went back to the ticket office in
a flurry of indignation. "You'll
have to change my stateroom,”
she told the bewildered ticket
clerk. "You gave me a stateroom
on the port side. I don’t want to
be on the 'port' side and be right
next to all the noise of cargo
handling at every port we enter.”
The ticket salesman explained
that "port” merely is the nautical
term for the left side of the ship,
and the woman is now seeing Al
aska from the port side.
Picking strawberries in Fair
banks on September 18 may seem
an impossibility—but was actual
ly accomplished by Mrs. Peter
Despot, wife of the proprietor of
the Model Cafe. Mrs. Despot got
a bowl of luscious strawberries
from the vines in her yard, and
Peter the Second—affectionately
known as “Re-Pete’’—ate the ber
ries with cream. While in the
garden, young Pete also helped
to gather the berries. So far as
known, this is the latest in his
tory in which strawberries have
been gathered from a Fairbanks
garden. Many fine patches of
strawberries were cultivated in
Fairbanks this season, and Harry
Badger, strawberry king of the
realm, raised an extra fine crop
at his ranch. 11 miles up the
Chena from the city. Heavy
rains which began late in July
ruined many of the berries, but
a large supply was picked for the
market before the rainy season.
Of interest to many Alaska res
idents was the announcement of
the marriage of Harry V. Grant,
Treasury Department inspector
in Seattle, to Miss Harriet Wilson
of Loup City, Nebraska, on Sept.
4. Grant came to Seattle from
Hilo, Hawaii, and is acquainted
with many Alaskans.
Run over by a tractor, Cleto W.
Boldrin, 21 years old. is a patient
in St. Joseph’s hospital at Fair
banks, suffering with a bruised
leg, cut hand, and head injuries.
Boldrin had been employted to
help with the hay harvest at the
experiment farm. He and the
tractor driver, Lloyd Peterson,
unhooked the mowing machine,
and started the tractor down to
get water for the radiator. The
tractor hit a rut. throwing Bold
rin under the rear wheel. He
was gashed in the head by the
heavy lugs on the Fordson wheel.
A mechanical shrimp peeler
which fisheries bureau officials
said is the newest wrinkle in the
seafood business was revealed re
cently at Washington, D. C. De
puty Commissioner Charles Jack
son said the device is being suc
cessfully operated in the Peters
burg plant of its inventor, Earl
Ohmer. He said Ohmer did not
intend to market it but will keep
it for his own use. The shrimpr
enter the machine head first on a
conveyor belt. A mechanism cuts
the shrimp from end to end,turns
it over, lifts off the shell, cuts off
the head and tail and drops the
meat into a container.
Meyers Chuck. Alaska, has nev
er been on relief. Inhabitants of
this tiny breakwater-cove settle
ment 35 miles north of Ketchikan
on the Cleveland Peninsula, are
proud of the fact that the Presi
dent has never spent a penny of
relieif money there. Some of the
hand trailers are over 80 years
old. Two sitores comprise the
main ‘downtown” business sec- j
tion of Meyers Chuck. In the
summer the inhabitants come and
go, but in the winter as many as
a hundred trolling boats make
their headquarters in the snug
harbor there, fishing Clarence
Straits and nearby waters. Mey
ers Chuck recently asked for a
breakwater to protect its natural
harbor during the winter months.
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SPRING S COMING HERE. Down under in Australia they're waiting fur the robins and
crocuses as snow blankets much of the landseape. It's winter in New South Wales. This cooling scene
is on the slopes of Mt. Kosciusko where they're skiing while the northern hemisphere swelters under
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ky to be piloted by Frank W.
Fuller (above) of San Francisco.
PAUL THE PIRATE is a buccaneer of base-hits. It's Paul
Waner of Pittsburgh’s Pirates whose batting average is second high*
est in major league baseball. Only Ducky Med wick of St. Louis has
wielded a heavier willow this season. Buccaneer Paul and his
younger brother Lloyd are known throughout the sporting world an
the “Poison Twins.” He has been a topnotch player in the National
League for a number of years.
A TOOTHACHE THAT HALTED INDUSTRY was reported by Buffalo’s Police
Lieutenant William Marnon. As Halbert L DeFreest drove home after having uis teeth extracted, he
felt faint, pulled his car to the curb, hit a power pole. Eleven other pole- were pulled down, street and
bouse lights went oat, a standard exploded, 4,000 men in eight factories were made idle and 200 line
men worked 12 hoars to straighten things rat
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