Cldse Season
*)?i Eaglss
The claws of America’s
national emblem. the bald
• eagle, will no longer bring
two dollars a pair to Alaska
bounty seekers, the National
Audubon Society reported reT
cently.
A federal regulation for
bidding the killing of the A.
askm oill eigle, unless they
are found “committing dam
age” to wildlife or domestic
stock was issued by Secretary (
of the Interior Oscar L. Chap-1
man. . j
The eagle bounty law in A
Saska has resulted in the pay
ing of bounties on more than1
100,000 eagles since its en- i
Actment in 1917. The new|
.regulation provides that no
■part of the carcass of a bald
•eagle may be “possessed or!
transported for any purpose.” •
Marie Olsen is working at
hihe Navy Exchange at Kodiak
Naval Station.
Council Guarantees Road
To Mew School Tt*'
1 he city council assured i >■.
A. Holmes Johnson, preside,
of the Independent Soho
District Hoard, that a ser
viceable road to the site o
the new school building w'oub |
be built within 30 days.
Dr. Johnson appeared be
fore the council during tin
regular meeting Monday
night to explain that the con
struction of the new school
could not start until the A
laska Public Works office was
satisfied that such a road was
in existence.
A plat, submitted to the AP
W along with the school
plans, shows that such a road
exists. A letter from Donald
Wilson, director of the APW,.
to Dr. Johnson said that while |
the plat showed such a road j
he had been informed that!
none existed or was in a pass
able condition. Wilson referr-i
ed to Sixth street which runs
along the northern boundry of
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■ vstem land to the proposed
•hool site in tiie northeast
oroer.
The council^also assured Dr.
lohnson that a water line
•vould be run to the site in j
ime for construction par
tuses.
“The APW is holding up
acceptance of the school bid
until the road and the wmter
line items have been clari
fied.” Dr. -Johnson said. j
The engineering on Sixth
street has been done and has
been paid for, Jack Hinckel,
former councilman told the
council.
The council instructed Mill
Vokacek, city street and
water superintendent, to look
into the matter and to begin
work on the road as soon as
possible.
According .to the city plat
Sixth Street runs from Mill
Bay Road to Mission Road and
leads directly to the new
school site. The road will only
be made passable at this time
from the Mill Bay entrance to
the school site.
FROM TH^ PRESS BOX
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Lefty Crdift, JOC USN
One of thl n&st fantastic
and glamorous^athletic figures
of all time is tnqm Oklahoma.
Without further'i'dentification
you should know - Kt is JIM
THORPE.
In the states several weeks
ago 01’ Jim proved his hold on
the imagination of young and
old was undiminished when
the ball park crowds all but
mobbed the old hero of Car
lisle.
Old Jim smiled happily and
philosophized—“A man gets
famous twice. The first time
when he is young and a star
athlete. Then they forget all
about him until he gets to be
an old man. And then the kids
have heard so much about him
, that be is famous again”,
j But life hasn’t been kind to
| the former Olympic Games
[champion and football All
American. He has gleaned a
iiving of sorts from occasional
public appearances. Only a
few months ago the nation
was shocked at the news that
THROPE was ill and broke.
He is up and about again now,
hitting the Chautauqua cir
cuit, a lonely and somewhat
tragic figure.
But what a source of enter
taining and exciting stories?
Few living athletes have ex
perienced so many thrills in
one lifetime. He gets a far
away look in his eyes as he
talks about his greatest mom
ent of triumph.
That was when King Gustaf
V of Sweden made the state
ment that went around the
world — “Sir, you are the
greatest athlete in the world.”
The poor farm boy from the
prairies had stolen the show
at the 1912 Olympics as no1
other athlete had before or
SINCE. . .winner of both the
!e'fithlon and j entatelon.
Jim was high man on the
totepr pole, and he came home
to a hero - worshipping
America.
Then fickle fate turned on
the Indian, as she has on the;
rest of his once pr- u 1 happy
race. And what led to Thorpe’s
disgrace, toppled him from
the throne? An act which is
common-practice in the col
lege world today. ... he was ;
paid a small salary for playing ,
baseball in Carolina. Declared
professional, he was stripped
of all his Olympic medals, all ,
his athletic trophies.
Today at 66, with the stoi
cism of his race, Jim Thorpe
is neither a gripper nor a
squawker. Life is sometimes
hard, but then there are such
moments.as the . ones at the
ball parks in the states. The
kids, dads and grand pops
haven’t forgotten old Jim.
NOTE — This information
was given to this writer while
attending Armed Forces Pub
lic Information -/School with
Jim Thorpe’s son, Carl during
the winter of 1950.
Father Pierce Brennan of
Fort Richardson has been
conucting mass at the Star of
the Sea Chapel during the ill
ness of Father George Spiegel
halter.
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