Arctic Tern Makes A Right Turn
At Wrong Time For Scout Eiden
ihere are good turns and then
there are terns—that’s what last
week’s Boy Scout camp at King’s
•Lake taught Scout Jerry Eidem of
Fairbanks.
Jerry, in company with several
other Boy Scouts, took the camp’s
new canoes on an exploring trip
around the edge of the lake. Some
little distance away, the boys
were delighted to find the nests
nd nestlings of three pairs of
' ns, hidden among the reeds.
True to Scout tradition, they
^/dn’t disturb the tern babies, but
true to boy’s curiosity, they did
part rushes and grass above the
nests for a closer view. Some
boys had plans for pictures of
themselves, posed with the tern
family.
But parent terns don’t approve
of photographs. They attacked
the intruders like a flight of an
noyed P-51s. One pair of parents
^cooped up beaksful of mud to
1 op on the Scouts. The others
lattered the startled Scouts with
.ain tern ammunition. The angry
irds treated the boys to dive
ombing attacks, skip-bombing
'tacks, and suicide plunges.
Jerry, delighted with the war
ike aspect of the game, entered
:.to the spirit of the fun with a
var-game of his own. Watching
die sky for the next wave of at
tackers, he pretended himself an
anti-aircraft gun, and he swept
the air with imaginary bullets,
complete with sound effects.
As he drew a deep breath to
continue his fusilade, one tern
parent swooped low and loosed
a final tern bomb. The result—
a direct hit in Jerry’s opened
mouth.
The Scouts withdrew from the
field in confusion. Fellow Scouts
were content with soap and water
treatment, when they hurried
back to camp—but Jerry retired
for the evening with an extra
large bottle of mouthwash and an
unhappy memory of the habits of
terns.
Salmon Aren't Running
At Fish Creek Yet
It’s too early yet for the salmon
run in Fish Creek—that’s the of
ficial word of deputy marshall
Bill Bouwens, who’s considered
as authentic a source of informa
tion on that subject as can be
found.
RETURNS FOR FOURTH
WASILLA—Bill Eldridge was
home for the Fourth of July holi
day. He is now employed by the
Fish and Wildlife Service.
WORD
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Two men—M. D. Snodgrass and
Clyde King, Sr.—and a bear—a
glossy-hided black three-year-old,
are the principal actors in this
week’s bear story. The action
isn’t ended yet, so there’s not
much to tell.
The bear first met Mr. King
on one of Palmer’s main streets.
He fled, when he came face to
face with the King vehicle, and
was promptly introduced to Mr.
Snodgrass, coming in another ve
hicle from another direction. The
two cars pursued the young bruin,
which finally escaped by running
across the Cates yard (beside the
spot where the young Cates
daughter takes her daily sunning)
and disappeared into the thick
woods there.
The bear was so hurried in his
leave-taking, that he tripped and
tumbled end over end as he en
tered the woods.
At press-time, no local hunters
yet had supplied the proper end
ing to this bear story. Until they
do, mothers in North Palmer ai’e
urged to keep a watchful eye on
the straying of their small fry.
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The weather gods behaved in
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past weekend as they may be ex
pected to do on a four-day holi
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would-be vacationers, with glor
ious post-holiday weather.
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some drippy, sticky weather that
constantly threatened either to
improve or to get much worse—
and did neither one.
Finally they produced a glori
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just to show reluctant office
workers what they might have
enjoyed on the holiday, had the
gods been willing. Then they
climaxed their weather show
with some of nature’s fireworks
and ended with an all-out rain
storm that was still stretching
pudddles across Valley roads at
press-time today.
Colony Day Expense Record
Isn't Ready This Week
Colony Day’s financial state
ment still was awaiting some
final facts and figures at press
time this week. Committee chair
man A1 Hagen definitely has
promised the statement for pub
lication in next week’s issue of
the Valley Frontiersman.
HOME FOR HOLIDAY
WASILLA — Vaughan Wilson
was in Wasilla for the Fourth
holiday. Mr. Wilson is now em
ployed at Cantwell.
Merle Smith Convalescing
Merle K. Smith, president of
Cordova Air Service, last week
was reported convalescing satis
factorily from an operation. Mr.
Smith went Outside to Mayo
Clinic several weeks ago. The
latest report said that Mr. Smith
was able to leave his room for
short walks.
Lutheran Services Changed
To Morning Hour
Services at St. John's Lu
theran Church were changed
from the afternoon hour to
eight a.m., effective July 1.
Reverend Joseph Frenz an
nounced last week. The Sun
day School hour at St. John's
will be at 9:15 a.m.
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