THE YATANUSKA VALLEY ' ’IOHEEY
P ub 1 i s he d Th ur s d y s by AY AC
at Palmer, Ale ska
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BOY VOYAGE
A couple of naming- toots and
the Brill vac off for Anchorage.
It was just another trio for the
train crew, but to the two men in
the ^pen door of the baggage car
it must have been something else.
Lt. Col. LeYoy ?. Hunt end
Trouble Shooter” Eugene Carr
waved good bye as they passed the
string of office tents. In another
V'L UXU L “
ir;vv liiiua v a. ui_lvi ip* va^oiUft.
the deserted canvas city of Gamp
Perkins. They were leaving the
Eatanuska Coloni: atinn project
behind. Their jnhs vTere finished.
What w---re their thoughts?
It has been a hectic four months
since they came nnto the job with
enough discretionary rewers to co
ordinate thp various phases of the
worb and to make deeisisns on the
ground without the lengthy delays
attendant to querying ashington.
oclone! Hunt and Eugene Carr I
How many times during the summer
the bearers of these two names
'have come under discussion by colo
nists, eld settlers and workers on
the jebj Here a knot of men could
h° heard cussing them both right
nut of the picture. Over the re
another group might he praising
them. This was only natural. Au
thority can demand loyalty, hut not
devotion. Colonel Hunt came close
fo.it, though. He commanded re
srect and that is akin to both. He
was the i d ° a 1 diplomat who fitted
his povers to the subject, winning
his point v/ith a minimum cf fric
tion. -ns was tne iron list m
the velvet glove.
Eugene Carr accomplished thirds
too, but he had thrown his velvet
xlove away before he arrived. He
didn’t need it much on his job.
Hep the first two months he was
here he was. never known to smile
between eight in the morning and
five in the afternoon. His orders
had whip crackers on the end of
them and they were obeyed.
There was a tla^e on the De
ject for each of these men. They
filled them, and filled them well.
Good luck and thanks to you
both, Colonel Hunt and Eugene Carr,
e will miss you.
Other officers who h ve finished
their jobs and returned to the
States are Captain Allan Herkins
and Lt. H. V. Hartin.
:-'rsuycriA paxes native girl
Nita Ezy, EC, wife of Jack Ezy
who works for the Alaska Railroad,
died at the ARRC hospital at Pal
mer Wednesday evening, a victim
of double oneumonia.
Doctor Albrecht who attended
her said that both her lungs were
in bad shape due to three previous
attacks of the same disease, but
that her will to live carried her
along for the five days she was
under his care. It was too late
for either serum or oxygen, both
of which he administered, to do
any rood.
M's. E:y was from Matanuska
and was one of the very few re
maining members of the once pow
erful and populous Chugach tribe
that formerly inhabited the val
ley .
i3u.rxa._L, wx on one o-reeK urono
dox rites of the Russian church,
vrill he held at Matanuska Friday
afternoon.
Doctor Pollard, ARRC dentist,
v.Till he here TTov. 9th and will
occupy the ;.?nd tent from the
north end of the Transient hos
pital row. Anointments may he
made with Hiss Vivian Stoddard at
the main office.
Allen Sexton of Tract 11 ar
rives hack in Palmer from Anch
orage tomorrow. He reported to
Doctor Walkowski there for X-Ray
and laboratory studies of an ill
ness from which he has suffered
all summer.
Fred Sorri, the ’’Bull Moose
of the Boiler Room,’’ developed
a rash that caused consternation
among, his hunk mates, hut it has
teen proven to he nothing conta
gious, simply a stomach condition.
i reu is in une ncspiuai lor a
few days.
There is to he a physical ex
amination made of every employee
of the corporation, announces Dr,
Albrecht. He expects to get at
this lengthy job the first of next
week.
Oh yes, the answers to Colonel
KuntTs spelling bee of last week.
The correct spelling is:
HAPHiHA instead of NAPTHA
SUPERSEDE .. .. SUPERSEDE
SACRILEGIOUS .. .. SACRSLIGIOUS
Kimono and rarefy were spelled
correctly. How many did you get
right?