ESKIMOS SHARPEN PITCHING EYES
IN PREPARATION FOR ’50 EXPEDITION
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Barrow are holding regular prac
tices now, in preparation for their
annual “North Pole Champion
ship” game, in which they meet a
team from the supply expedi
> tion each year. The eight-ship
expedition, which is loading now
in preparation for a scheduled
rendezvous at Seattle on July 17,
will arrive at Barx-ow in early
August.
The ships will carry a year’s
supply of goods and necessities to
all Army, Navy, Coast and Geo
detic Survey, Air Force and
Weather Bureau installations
north of the Ai'ctic Circle.
’ The cargo will include fuel,
foods, clothing, lumber, tractors,
tobacco, an oil derrick, 7,000
sacks of cement, equipment for
the installation of a laundry and
hundreds of cases of soft drinks.
The expedition’s ships include
transports, a tanker, landing ship
tanks and ice breakers. The land
ing ships are used for round-the
clock unloading operations, when
the expedition constantly fights
against time in its effort to beat
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Pt. Barrow in the early fail. The
ships have only a few days when
the far northern waters are ice
free.
The expedition, will be piloted
by Commander John Backland,
ice pilot who formerly lived at
Pt. Barrow. Commander Back
land has sailed those far northern
waters for 28 years, and for sev
en years has led the annual Bar
row expedition.
ARMY CONTRACTS ARE
AWARDED OFFICIALLY
Produce contracts were award
ed this week by the Army. Suc
cessful bids were announced
earlier this season, but actual con
tract awards are not made until
after July 1, the beginning of
the new fiscal year.
Major contracts to be filled by
the Matanuska Valley Farmers’
Co-Operating Association will be
for celery, lettuce, onions, tur
nips and potatoes.
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MOUNTAIN NAMED
FOR LATE CORDOVAN
A former Cordova resident,
Tom White, has been assured a
permanent memorial in Alaska,
with the recent announcement
that a 10,000 foot mountain east
of Miles Glacier, has been named
Tom White Peak.
Mr. White recently died at the
Pioneer Home at Sitka. He came
to Alaska before the turn of the
century with the U.S.G.S. Mt. St.
Elias expedition, returning again
with the second expedition in
1891. He elected to mine in Alas
ka, following the second expedi
tion, and did not go home again.
White is credited with the dis
covery of oil in the Katalla field
and was identified with the ex
ploration and development of
Katalla oil and coal resources.
HEALTH COUNCIL MEETS
The Matanuska Valley Health
Council holds its regular monthly
meeting next Thursday evening
at seven o’clock, Council presi
dent Louise Kellogg reminded
this week. Members will meet
in the former library at the Rec
Hall.
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