CONSTRUCTION SET-UP DUE
FOR MANY CHANGES SOON
According to present plans of Lt.
Col. LeRoy p. Hunt the first contin
gent of transient workers will re
turn to the States October 11, res
ervations having been made for them
on the '’Yukon, ’ sailing that date.
This group will be followed by an
other within a week, and the third
and last shipment of men will be made
from Seward on the 25th.
Captain Alan Perkins, who has been
in charge of construetion, will leave
with the last group and it is expected
that Colonel Hunt and other members of
the administrative staff will he re
turning about the first of November,
Construction of homes, main build
ings, wp. 11s and harns vill rantinue
with Alaskan labor, but under a dif
ferent wage scale.
As officials here point out, this
is primarily a relief project and with
y the m a j or eons tun; otic n ph .• x s e c o mp 1 e t e d
the emergency which made it possible
to employ Alaskans at wages f ir in -ex
cess of those set by the C/rA has been
passed. A wage adjustment will go
into effect about October lb, but at
oresent it Is impossible to state just
:/vhat the scale will he ♦
7/1 thin the next month .'‘amp perkins
will he leveled to the ground, and all
aands will be housed at palmer. Two
barracks, each accomodating twenty
nen, have been bxii11 an i throe more
ere scheduled for immediate construc
tion.
SEASON’S FI'iST CHINOOK
S7/EEPS UP THE VALLEY
That b a 1 my, s p r i n g -1 i k e v, i n d t h a t
we have had for two days has caused
much comment among those not 1* ami liar
with climatic conditions in Alaska.
Chinook winds, as they are called,
sweep in off the Japanese Current and
nay occur at any season of the year,
gven in the dead of winter you may
go to bed with everything frozen up
tight and awaken to find water drip
ping from the eaves and the two feet
of snow reduced to six inches of
slush.
How these winds get across the
nountains without being cooled off
Is a mystery, yet they do. Two or
three Chinooks during a winter are
cot uncommon in the Tanana Valley
far in the interior.
The Chinook is invariably from
within a few degrees either way of
direct South. It comes without
warning, and, as far as we can de
termine, it does not pertend any
particular climatic condition to
rollow.
BIN DAME HUNTERS
LUCKY OVER WEEK-END
Last Saturday Emil La Walter,
for many years a resident of the
valley and. famed as a guide and
trapper, left in company with
Francis Biggs by auto for the
Willow Creek district, on Sun
day there was a skift of snow
up there in the mountains and
they ran across the tracks of
moose, c aus 1 ng them t o change
their minds about climbing after
goats.
Just at dusk they got within
rifle distance of their quarry
and Emil dropped a hog-fat three
year-old bull with two shots be
hind the shoulder that could be
c overe d wi til t he p?ilm of yeur hanc
Hi3 moose was exceptionally
dark, being almost black, and dres
out at around six hundred pounds.
gill Synske, of tho Road Com
mission, also got a moose; a nig
felloe that weighed around eleven
hundred pounds and carried huge
oulmotied antlers with eight point
Eugene Carr bagged a fine spec
imen of the mountain goat, the he*
of which he is having mounted. it
will he a present- to his twelve
year-old son in the States•
LOST : IT. St art zman, t e 1 ephone
line foreman, has lost a metal
hack clip-board with important
p ap er s at t ache d. p/i 11 e.nyone
finding it please return it tc
the Teneral Office of the ARRC at
■j -I i ’X] eig
a 1 a.
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jOOVLk I NO
LLY
Friends of Miss Rita Revelle,
Secretary to Mr. Carr who sufferer
a painful aooi tent to her* leg las"
week, will he glad to know that t)
injury is not as serious as vas
first suspected.
Miss Revelle is still at the
\nehorage Hospital, but it is hop*
she will soon be able to return z<
NOTICE LEGIONNAIRES
Secretary Rex Atwood asks that
all be at the meeting Friday the
Pf'th at the Library tent. And
don't forget, the big meeting wher
permanent officers will be electe*
is called for the following Frida;
October 4, at eight p. M. sharp.
P1 e a s e t ry and b e the. re, f el low s .