MOOSE PASS
NEWS NOTES
By Mrs. Delbert Wolfe
The children of .the Moose Pass
School presented their annual
Christmas Program at the Quonset
"Hut on Thursday evening. Decem
ber 23, at 7:30 The program was
as follows:
PLAY—GRADES "FIVE-EIGHT
“Mr. McHate's Reform,” written
and performed by:
Mr. McHate, Paul Reed: Mr.
Smith, Barry Hostetter; Jonathan,
Michael Tavis; Miss Henderson.
Barbara Huff; Miss Samone, Ruth
Woods; Morrie, Larsie Cole;
Santa, Norman Pearson; Merry
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PLAY—GRADES FIVE-EIGHT
“Woodland Christmas" written
and performed by:
Benjamin Bunny, Larry Foster;
Mortimer Moose, Kent Saxton and
Charlie Clements; Butch, “Corky”
Kenneth . Llebelt; Muscles. Roy
Woods; Shorty, Richard Hostet
ter; Lillian, Curtis Hostetter; Bru
iser Bruin, David Gibbons; Prof.
Percival Turtle, Loren Saxton;
Narrator, Charlie Clements.
PLAY—GRADES ONE-FOUR
“Singing Trees" played by the
following:
The Five Trees. Mary Brickley,
Edward Nelson, Pamela Hostetter,
Sherry Tuthiil and Pauline Cole;
Mary, Carol Christie; Jim Keith
Ainsworth; Sue, Alice Christie;
Ken, Charles Nelson; Narrator,
Billy Foster.
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GRADES ONE-FOUR
“Signs of Christmas.” Steve Tut
hiil, Charles Johnson, Bobby Mer
cer, Billy Merritt, Marie O'Leary,
Jimmy Mercer and Paul Garwood.
PLAY—GRADES ONE-FOUR
"Santa Was So Tired," played by 1
the following: Santa. Charles Nel
son; Helpers, Keith Ainsworth and
Carol Christie; Fairy, Sherry Tut
hiil; Mrs. Claus. Pauline Cole;
Reindeer, Edward Nelson. Charles
Johnson. Marie O'Leary, Steve
Tuthiil, Paul Garwood, Bobby Mer
cer. Billy Merritt. Mary Brickley,
Jimmy Mercer and Pamela Hos
tetter; Narrator, Mrs. Theodore
Brunner.
The remainder of the evening
was given over to the distribution
of Christmas Socks by the Sports
man's Club and a candy treat from
j Estes Brothers.
Moose Pass observed Christmas
day with family dinners and roar
ins fires for it has been very cold
out here. The thermometer hovers
between twenty and thirty degrees
below zero. There is sickness in
almost every family—a form of
! Flu that seems to start with a
i sore throat and cold. Harry Soper
is reported ill as is Bob Woods,
and the Woods children. Wanda
Wolfe was so sick Christmas Day
that the Bob Wolfe family could
not attend the family dinner at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Thurman
Wolfe.
Mr. and Mrs. Max Foster enter
tained Mr. and Mrs. Ray Foster
on Christmas Day and Mr. and Mrs.
Lyle Reed and daughters were the
guests of Mr. and Mrs. Merle Reed
and Paul Reed.
Mr. Ed Donaldson could not start j
his panel delivery to get into Sew
ard and pick up Mrs. Donaldson |
and the Christmas turkey and fix- ;
ings. Mrs. Donaldson came out j
on the bus and they plan to have
their Christmas on New Year’s
day.
Mrs. Katherine Hall. Miss Delia
Gabriel and I.arsie Cole were
guests at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Delbert Wolfe on Sunday,
December 26th.
Miss Mary Lou Sword,, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Sword,
took a breather from her studies at
Pacific Lutheran College in Park
land. Washington, to visit her par
ents here. She expects to go back
to college shortly.
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Leslie Brattain from the Uni
versity of Washington has beeu
in town over the holidays visiting
his parents.
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NEW YEAR SAN-ORAMA
STREET SCENE
. . . tightly clad silhouetes scur
rying along the iced roadway: a
million moonstreams diffusing into
a flourescent glow; yellow lamps,
their welcoming cast slipp i n g
through an occasional window, en
ticing a solitary walker hurrying
home in the vacuum like quiet.
Lighted windows blot-out un
noticed through the waning night,
and New Year, 1955, enters uncer
emoniously and tranquill like a
peaceful sleep.
FLYING OBJECTS—
WILES AND WILD
YV’hile flying saucers were re
ported throughout half the world,
Sanatorium psuedo-sclentists, with
tongue in cheek aploml), noted evi
dences of a celestial visitor on
nearby Iron Mountain. Dry-humor
ed Art Crookes with a hypnotic
medicine man spiel, enhanced gome
to include that a mysteriqus bar
ren area was effected by a flying
saucer’s quick landing and take
off.
Dr. Buehler sucstantiated the
theory, contended a nocturnal
cruiser of indestructible material
caromed otf a spruce tree to drop
above the iron Mountain cliffs for
temporary repairs, and a subse
quent undetected escape.
The spectacular theory brought
many peering warily through cur
tained windows to speculate: sauc
er, myth, or meteor? Thirteen
year-old Jerry David, dispensing
with the spaceman theories in ab
rupt and lofty indignation, offered
the best hypothesis. "Shucks,” he
said, “that brown spot's just an
old eroded snow patch."
MISAPPREHENSIONS
Seward San tubercular children,
actually aware that “positive’’ cas
es are permitted relatively little
! play, have concerned interest in
their physical progress, in that
gradual restoration of health is
rewarded with increased recrea
j tional time. Once, nurse Reba
Mahurin confronted a seven year
old convalescent and asked sharp
ly, "Did you throw that doll on the
floor?”
"No mam,” she answered.
"Are you positive?”
“No, mam!" the litle girl shriek
ed in abject horror, "I’m ‘nega
tive!’”
YUKON SOJOURNER
Generally at ease during a par
rying struggle with danger, Russell
Nunes, stateside sportsman and ad
venture seeker, is set for a ten
weeks sojourn by river boat from
Circle to the mouth of the Yukon
River in summer.
Nunes’ appetite for adventure
was whetted by harrowing escapes
in the Pacific War; once Japanese
soldiers passed several feet from
a bush where he lay hidden. As
an “Alamo Scout,” Nunes’ assign
ments were essentially reconnais
sance and entailed surreptitio u s
missions within enemy territory.
Nunes will voyage the waterway
to hunt and photograph its banks
using 1,000 feet of movie film. At
journey’s end, he and his compan
ion anticipate returning to Anchor
age with a bush pilot.
—briggs
FEDERAL WORKERS MAY
DRAW UNEMPLOYMENT PAY
President Eisenhower signe d
Public Law 767 on September 1,
thereby making Federal Civilian
workers, who were unemployed
through no fault of their own, eli
gible for unemployment benefits.
"This group of workers will be
entitled to these unemployment
benefits as a result of this Federal
Legislation after January 1, 1953,
according to A. D. Phillips, Execu
tive Director of the Employment
Security Commission.
It is estimated that there are
about 2 and a half million Federal
civilian workers and about 15,000
of them are in Alaska. These
workers were not covered prior to
enactment of Public Law 767. Job
less insurance will be extended
under this new program to Federal
employees at no direct cost to the
worker, the same as with the
existlnng program (or industrial
workers. Neither will there be
any direct cost to Alaska since
the total cost (or administration
ot the Act and benefits paid will
be borne by the Federal govern
ment rather than the Territorial
government.
The Territorial Employment Se
curity agencies will make pay
ments to unemployed Federal
workers on the same basis as oth
ers are now being paid. The pre
sent 1 erritorial agencies, through
their local o((ices, will determine
benefit eligibility and amount of
payment. The actual administra
tion of New Public Law 767 will
be made in accordance with pres
ent provisions of Territorial un
; employment insurance laws. The
; unemployment compensation ser
vice, will generally determine the
amount of benefits he will receive.
The determination will be based
on reports from Federal agencies
containing information about the
ex-Federal worker’s length of ser
vice, amount of Federal wages,
and reasons for separation from
Federal employment.
I Both benefit and administration
| costs will be borne by the Federal
i government but all determinations
j and other matters concerning the
J worker will be based on the actual
I State or Territorial laws from
I which he files or where he worked.
; if, during his base period, the
worker had earnings both in Fed
I eral employment and in employ
ment covered by the State or
i Territorial unemployment compen
I sation law, the Federal govern
ment will pay for any additional
benefits payable because of Fed
eral employment.
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