THE FBONTIERSMAN
Entered m second class matter on Oct. 21, 1947, at the post office at
Palmar, Alaska, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
A. J. DeJulio____-_ Publisher-Manager
Editot __Virginia Gallant
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VALLEY HOSPITAL
LOOKS FORWARD TO
1956 ACCREDITATION
Valley Presbyterian Hospital
will not be accredited this year,
but a few helpful suggestions
may make possible this desired
goal in 1956, members of the hos
pital board learned at their reg
ular meeting Friday night.
A letter read from the Commit
tee on Accreditation of Hospitals
offered these suggestions. None
of them were considered impos
sible of accomplishment by the
board, and already some of them
have been implemented.
Arriving next month at the
hospital will be a new laboratory
and X-ray technician, Miss Doro
thy Ba-tterton. A member of the
American Society of Clinical
Pathologists, she comes to the
Valley from the Juneau Doctors’
Clinic.
The board received with plea
sure a completion of project
forms from the Federal Govern
ment denoting that the Valley
Presbyterian Hospital project is
considered completed.
Dr. Robert Rie recently join
ed the University of Alaska
faculty as an assistant professor
of German and French.
Dr. Rie studied at the Akade
misches Gymnasium at Vienna
and received his doctor’s degree
from the University of Vienna.
He taught in preparatory schools
in the continental United Sates
and in midwestern and southern
colleges.
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Alaska Population
Leveling Off Says
Development Board
Estimates of Alaska’s average
population have been set at 208,
000 by the Federal Bureau of
Census according to the Alaska
Resource Development Board.
This figure of 208,000 represents
an increase of 3,000 persons over
the preceeding year. In releas
ing this information the Bureau
of Census points out that their
figure of 208,000 represents an
average population figure for the
period.
Data gathered by the Resource
Revelopment Board, the Bureau
of Vital Statistics of the De
partment of Health and the Gov
ernor’s office for the period in
dicates that the Territory suf
fered a loss of 6,405 persons by
immigration and emigration.
This is balanced by the fact that
births in Alaska for the period
exceeded deaths by 6,050 per
sons. Information collected by
these three agencies indicate the
Territory suffered a net popula
tion loss of 355 persons during
the fiscal year ending June 30,
1954.
Development Board figures are
based solely on a count of all
"people leaving and entering the
Territory plus the gain of births
over deaths. The Federal Bur
eau of Census uses the same “raw
data” but averages it out to com
pensate for seasonal population
fluctuations.
Present figures indicate that
Alaska’s population curve is lev
eling off but this fact in itself
is not alarming and shows less
of a slackening off than was gen
erally anticipated. The basis for
this information is contained in
a report released by the Gover
nor’s office, the Bureau of Vital
Statistics of the Department of
Health and the Resource Devel
opment Board. Copies of the
study are available at these of
fices.
Roland A. Jalbert, graduate
from Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, today joined the
University of Alaska faculty as
an assistant professor of physics.
He received his bachelor of
science and master of science de
grees from M. I. T. and attended
the University of Washington
for one year.
TERMINATION
By Bob Klem
Now why in Thunderation
Do they call it Termination?
When the Mt. tops are tiped in
Pretty Snow
It’s a longing fbr vacation
Or a broader education
That puts the poor Ghee Chalker
on the go
It’s a weakness in the liver
Not an educated shiver
But a Pennsylvania gate Gee
Painted Blue!
He just knows, he’s got to get her
Or to swallow pills so bitter
So he up and tells the boss that
he is thru!
When he needs a few excuses
It’s the weather he abuse’es
So he catches him a plane that’s
headed south
In his head there is a ringing
In his heart there is a singing
But a curse is all that come from
out his mouth
Well he wouldn’t be a human
If he didn’t want a woman
She is something that disturbes
your peace of mind
And there always will be trouble
If some times you do not double
Back to get what once you left,
so far behind
In his heart there is a singing
In his head there is a ringing
For a lusty, husky, dusky, south
ern belle!
And you’ve got the dough that
greases
And the sence that God gave
geeses
And a snow flake lit upon your
old lapel
Well I once went back and got
her
And in the spring I brought her
Back to share the rigours of the
land
Now two suites of wool long
handles
And muklucks instead of sand/.s
Make a playground that the
hearty understand.
A new escape device being in
stalled at siphons on big Gateway
Canal in Utah by the Bureau of
Reclamation will “skim” men or
animals off the surface of the
fast moving water before they
can be sucked into the tunnel
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