The KENNECOTT
STAR
Ho. 2
gennacott, Alaska
January 3l, 19^8
TUBERCULOSIS TEST SHQtfS
ONLY FOURTEEN PSR CENT
SCHOOL PUPILS POSITIVE
Blackburn School Has Good
Record in T.B* Tests
On January 17, Or* 1*3*
Kgan performed inject!one
for tuberculosis test of
all Blackburn School Pupils
and sever ether Kenneeott
and McCarthy children*
On January 19, the doc
tor examined the places
where he gave the pupils
the test and found that
only one of the seven pu
pilB, or 14#, reactes pos
itively* decorda usually
run between 10# in rural
areas, and as high as 40#
in cities* The Alaska per
centage is usually high*
It takes forty-eight
hours for the tuberculin
to act* After 46 hours,
the examiner looks at the
spot where he put the tub
erculin under the akin,
and sees if the person who
took the test has a redd
ish, slightly swollen spotq
ah the point of InjectIon*
If It is rod around the
spot where the tuberculin
was put in, the one who
was tested is inclined
toward tuberculosis, and
if it la not colored and
swollen, he la safe*
Oscar Watsjold Leaves
Oscar Watsjold left for
Seattle on December 18,
for a visit* He does not
know if he vill come back*
He left with the Cordova
Air Service*
SCHOOL PLAT? SLEDS, HEWS
PAPSH, HEW JAHITOH, KEEP
PUPILS BUSY AND WOHHIED
End Seen in Several Courses,
With Review Ahead
Second year of high school
has completed the prescribed
coarse in geometry, and is
happily looking forward to
an intensive review and com
plete study of supplementary
exercises and theorms*
Algebra, Spanish, and 6th
arithmetic are also near the
finish line, hut Mr* Busoy
promises plenty of review and
supplementary work until the
end of the year.
Fun and Work ah Recess
We can skate, or Hide the
littlor ones around on sleds
at reoess* Mr, Busey has had
to keep his hoots at school,
for he is mush in demand at
recess as general sled-puller
and trail-blazer* Principal
riders arc Johnay, Tommy, and
Ronald and Billy, with the
older ones doing most of the
work*
The children hare had some
pretty wild rides, and it le
expected that someone will
he sure to break his neck be
fore the end of the year*
Inside Dope on Play
While the Xmas play was
preceding, the actors off
stage were made to sit on the
special chairs assigned to
each one* He was to sit on
It when offstage because if
they were left standing about
they would get tired and start
running around and making a
lot of noise*
(sch. news contin. next* col)
ALASKA PLAMING COUNCIL
DIBSCTS TBACHEBS TO GET
INFOH64ATION ABOUT ALASKA
Kennecott and McCarthy Area
Surveyed For Connell
Mr. Busey has finished
gathering information from
this section, as part of an
industrial and occupational
census taken in Alaska hy the
Alaska Planning Council.
The boundaries extend to
the next school districts in
all directions.
The census shoved mining
as the principal occupation in
this region, with hardly any
thing else except a little
farming and road-building.
Figures on races showed
that there are no natires in
the Kennecott-lfeCarthy sec -
tlon, which is quite a bit
different from the usual thing
in Alaska*
Pupils Writing Stories
For some reason, the school
pupils have suddenly bee one
interested in writing stories*
Good stories have been written
by Lyle Morris, John Pytel ,
end Honald Brosodky. One by
Lyle, called "Adventures Of A
Bird,", is in this issue.
Stow School Janitor
On Tuesday morning a couple
of weeks ago, the beards were
found not washed, and there was
a lot of trash on the floor.
Some of the school pupils
asked Mr* Busey why, and he
said Ur, Moore had gone for a
▼•cation in CordOTa* Mr* Busey
was made temporary janitor, and
and he was supposed to wash
the blacld)0BBd3 and sweep the floor.