Modern Tom Sawyers Find Alaskan River
(In-Navigable for Inner Tube Raft
It takes a sturdier craft than
an inner tube to negotiate the
swift currents of Alaskan rivers,
a pair of workers at a construc
tion camp near Klukwan found
out last week. The men, employed
by the Alaska Road Commission
on the paving operations of the
Haines cut-off, inflated the inner
tube of a large piece of road ma
chinery and began floating down
river on a peaceful sailing excur
sion.
However the pair lost their
craft after half a mile’s voyage,
and they were left clinging to a
stump near the junction of the
Big Boulder and Klehini Rivers.
- 'they called for help, hoping fel
low workers would come, but no
help was near.
The stranded pair spent the
night skipping from sandbar to
sandbar in the river bed, hoping
to reach shore. All they did was
travel three miles upstream, but
arrived no nearer their camp.
After spending the night in sand
bar-hopping, the marooned duo
retraced their steps the next
morning, to perch on their orig
inal stump and sandbar and hope
for rescue.
Eventually it came through the
air. when they were spotted by an
Alaska Coastal Airlines pilot.
Territorial highway patrolman A1
Luebke, stationed at Palmer last
winter, then made his way to the
riverbank and tossed a line to the
sandbar-sitters. He guided them
back to camp, none the worse for
Canucks Do a Better Job
;Of Road Maintenance
Than ARC'S 1950 Crews
The northern portion of the
I Alaska Highway, maintained by
I Canadian authorities, is in better
I condition than the Alaskan por
I tion of that road, Frank Metcalf,
territorial highway engineer, re
ported in Juneau last week. He
had just finished a three weeks’
survey of Alaska’s roads. Mr.
Metcalf said highway mainten
ance had been allowed to lag this
season, in favor of completion of
large blocks of paving projects.
Mr. Metcalf found that the
radio equipment recently installed
in vehicles driven by the terri
tory’s highway patrolmen was
proving most satisfactory, and
was simplifying the patrol duties
of the 22 highwaymen who must
cover all of the Territory’s Inte
rior system of roads.
If every individual refused to
believe rumors they hear, there
would soon be a scarity of ru
mors.
The best cure for worry: Do
something—preferably for some-1
one worse off than you.
their night’s experience. However j
it will be a time before they set j
out downstream in another in- j
flated inner tube.
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Mile 61, Glenn Highway
Phone l-J-31
V/i Million Gallons
Of Water Drench Kodiak
In One Giant Slosh
Kodiak, like Palmer, had a
water problem last week, too. !
However the Island city had, too.
much, rather than too little. Pres
sure at the city reservoir broke
braces in the spillway and re
leased a three-week’s supply of
water for Kodiak.
The three and a half million
gallons of water dug a canyon 15
feet wide and 10 feet deep as it
rushed downhill from the reser
voir. Boulders were uprooted and
planks and logs tossed about like
matchstems in the miniature
flood. Most of the water collected
in a beaver pond, used as an aux
iliary water supply for Kodiak,
at the foot of the hill.
However it wasn’t necessary to
pump water to a .standby tank.
Nature’s remedy on Kodiak, a wet
and persistent rain, already was
filling the reservoir shortly after ,
it emptied.
Thrift is the best of all virtues 1
—especially if it was practiced
by your ancestors.
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Anchorage
Foster Transferred
Don Foster, who has been di
rector of the Alaska Native Serv
ice headquarters at Juneau, will
leave the territory for a new ap
pointment at Minneapolis, it was
learned this week. Mr. Foster
will be replaced by Hugh J. Wade,
who steps into his new job from
the position of Alaska regional
r.
director for the Federal Security
Administration.
Mr. Foster was a strong sup
porter of the plan to build a large
ANS school on the John Bugge
property in Palmer.
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Baked Chicken with Dressing
Roast Beef or Roast Pork
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