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No. V.
Kennecott, Alaska, Thursday, May 19, 1938.
FKEE—By Carrier, Five Cents.
Creek Mines Get
Ready For Season
C. H. Kraemer has had a full
crow of men since the middle
of April on Chititu creek, which
is 14 or 15 men.
Leonard Bren wick has been
freighting for Kraemer. He
will haul 75 tons altogether. Mr.
Kraemer will te ready to mine
as soon as the water starts 10
run.
DAN CREEK OPERATIONS
Jack Price of Dan Creek has
about 17 men working with him.
At present they are getting the
pipeline and sluice boxes in
shape so they will be ready to
mine when the water comes.
OUTFIT FOR CHISANA
A mining outfit of about 15
tons left Seattle on May 15.
When it arrives at McCarthy on
the railroad it will be flown to
1'hisana by Merle Smith of the
' ordova Air Service. It will be
Jl »wn over Skolai pass into Chi
sana. When it gets to Chisana
it will be used to develop a gold
quartz property of W. A. Sulzer,
who was once governor of New
York.
LONG AT COPPER CREEK
John Long will mine again
this year at Copper ci eek for
O. A. Nelson. He has been
freighting all of his supplies by
dogteam from McCarthy. Fred
Wittikop and John Stanfield will
work with him this year.
Hospital Notes
Nicolais Jenson, who has been
at the Kennecott hospital for
some time, is improving. Mr.
Jenson is a photographer of
great, repute.
Mrs. Olaf Nelson, of Valdez,
is up and around, and expects
to fly home in the near future.
School Has Little
Sickness Trouble
Only three persons we»*e ab
sent because of sickness this
year. The rest were absent be
cause of the tough road between
McCarthy and Kennecott. The
month ending October 1 had
89.95% attendance, which was
the lowest. This was because
60% of the school left for a
week’s visit in Fairbanks.
The best month was March,
with 100 per cent attendance.
Attendance for the whole year
was 96.88 pet- cent.
Billy Humpheries had perfect
attendance.
During the first six weeks
there were liive pupils and dur
ing the rest of the time there
were seven except for the last
month when there were six.
Photo In Magazine
Werner Hensc’iel tonka pic
ture of Mount Blackburn which
will be printed in an early issue
of the Alaska Sportsman The
picture was taken from the gla
cier and shows the mountain in
the distance. Werner says the
picture isn’t the right size for
the cover but will probably be
the frontispiece.
Lyle Morris has been sick with
the llu and out of school for two
weeks.
Mrs. Paul Werner and Mrs.
A. W. Tolnen arrived May 17.
.. SORRY CARD
We are sorry that the paper
is three days late. We ran out
of ink bub the Cordova Times
saved the Star from sudden
extinction after several futile
attempts at making it ourselves.
—The Editors
Term Completion Calls
For Summary of Work
END OF YEAR MARKED BY FULL PROMOTION LIST. NO
SERIOUS DIFFICULTIES. SPECIAL INTEREST
SHOWN IN GEOGRAPHY. HISTORY AND HEALTH.
With tomorrow marking the end of the school year, it may
be a good id< a to review the year’s studies.
Tommy O’Neill, first grade, has quite a mathematical ability.
He finished second grade arithmetic an*l has done about a month
of third. He expects to finish second grade reading matter this
summer. He did good work in spelling and his art work shows
promise of some day comparing
with that of Leonardo da Vinci.
He ha.s a promising voice and
will probably make Lawrence
Tibbet ashamed of himself.
RONALD GONE
Ronald Brososky, second grad
er, left a month ago. He did
third grade work from the mid
dle of the year. Jn his quiet
way he got things done, and he
showed promise in story writ
ing.
JOHNNY COMES LATE
Johnny Pytel started late in
the year. When interested he
plows into things for all he is
worth. His voice is good and
since he comes from a long line
of Latin ancestors he will rival
Tommy O’Neill after Lawrence
Tibbet has been put to shame.
Johnny shows interest in his
tory, geography and health.
He is particularly interested in
the way the geography book
tells about Alaskans sitting
around in igloos toasting their
toes on blocks of ice while‘tear
ing off large slabs of walrus
meat.
BILL THE STUDENT
Wm. Humpheries, while not
considered the final authority
in handwriting, made up for
this by his knowledge of geog
raphy, history, health and kin
dred subjects.
Einstein had trouble with
mathematics in school, so may
be Bill will be a super-scientist.
He Is a studious soul who shows
signs of future scholastic great
ness. He uses the Socratic
method of discussion.
LYLE THE AUTHOR
Lyle Morris was in the sixth
grade. What Lyle lacks in volu
bility she makes up for in story
writing. One of her stories was
put in the Alaska School Bulle
tin (for which she wishes to
thank Mr. Karnes).
She is good in arithmetic, and
was interested in what the geog
raphy had to say about South
America and Mexico.
HIGH SCHOOL PUPILS
Bruce and Frank Morris
worked together in two of their
courses but they hardly make a
pair. Bruce gets things done
by blood pressure, while Frank
does his by patient plugging.
They weren’t very wild over
Spanish but Frank found geo
metry his long suit and Bruce
was an expert in English.
Both did well in world history
and have covered a thick high
school text and part of a college
book. The college book has
too many oversized words, tho.