Attention
Seal Hunter
Ship Your Seal Skins
GREEN SALTED
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Pacific Seal Co.
OF ALASKA, INC.
Box 6506 Annex
Anchorage, Alaska
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The Company that Works for
— and with the Hunter
If You Want To:
Keep your home free of odor !
Save time and labor!
Make more money 1
Then follow our easy
Step by Step Instructions !
1. Skin your seals soon after
killing before the hair starts to
get oxidized (yellow stains).
2. Wash skin thoroughly with
soap or mild detergent (never
bleach) in lukewarm water and
rinse well.
3. Dry skin in snow.
4. Rub 2 to 5 lb. ROCKSALT.
according to size, onto flesh side
of skin. Make sure whole flesh
side is well covered with a
layer of salt.
5. Fold sides inward, hair
out. so they meet in the center
and roll up skin tightly like a
blanket. Tie a string around
skin roll.
6. Place skin roll in a plastic
bag (Turkeybag) and close bag
tightly. Leave as little air as
possible in the bag.
7. Let bag with skin stay for
24 hours in a non-freezing
place, so brine can develop.
Then keep bag with skin and
brine outside until you are
ready for shipment,
8. For shipment take skin out
of plastic bag, pour brine off
and hang skin in a non-freezing
place until it's drip dry (1 to 2
hours). Shake salt out, roll skin
as before and replace in plastic
bag.
9. Pack 2 to 8 bags contain
ing skins in a suitable card
board box which you have
lined with stronger plastic such
as polyelhelin sheets or bags*.
Make certain that no moisture
can get out.
YOUR CHECK WILL BE IN
THE RETURN MAIL.
10. Send skins by parcel post
(Postage refunded) to
PACIFIC SEAL COMPANY
OF ALASKA. INC.
Box 6506 Annex
Anchorage, Alaska
—Cut out and Keep for Reference—
THE LAND OF DARKNESS
A Story from Sledge Island
From the Eighteenth Annual BAE Rep nt
PART TWO
When she entered the house
there were two oil lamps burning,
one on each side of the room, but
no one was at home. Over one of
the lamps hung a piece of seal fat,
and over the other a piece of rein
deer fat, from which the oil
dropped and fed the flames, and
in one comer of the room was a
deerskin bed.
She entered the house and sat
down, waiting for what would
come to her. At last there was a
noise in the entrance way, and a
man said, “I smell strange
people.” Then the man came into
the room, frightening the woman
very badly, for his face and hands
were coal black. He said nothing,
but crossed the room to his bed,
where, after stripping the upper
part of his body, he took a tub
of water and washed himself. The
woman was relieved to see that his
chest was as white as her own.
While sitting there she saw a dish
of some cooked flesh suddenly
placed inside the door by an un
seen person, from which the man
J helped his guest then took his
own meal.
When they had done eating he
asked her how she came there,
and she told him her story. He
told her not to feel badly, and
went out and brought in a number
of deerskins, telling her to make
clothing from them for herself and
her child, for she had kept her
child safely upon her back all
the time. When she told him that
she had no needle, he brought her
one of copper, which pleased her
very much, for until then she had
never seen any but bone needles.
For some time they lived thus,
until at last the man told her that
as they were living alone it would
be better for her to become his
wife, to which she agreed. The
husband then told her not to go
outside the house, and they lived
quietly together.
While her little boy was playing
one day, he cried out suddenly
with delight, and when the woman
looked at him she saw that he had
spilled the things which she had
put in her dish when she stepped
on the shore. Examining them, she
found they were large, handsome,
blue beads.
In time she gave birth to a fine
boy, of which her husband was
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very fond, telling her to be very
careful of him. In this way they
lived for severa1 years, and in
time the boy she had brought with
her became a youth. His foster
father made him a bow and ar
rows, and when the boy had killed
some birds with them he was
allowed to accompany him when
hunting.
One day the boy killed and
brought home two hares, which,
like all the animals and birds in
that country, were coal black, j
They were skinned and left out- 1
side, and shortly after, freshly
cooked and steaming, they were
placed just inside the door in a
wooden dish as was always done
with their food. The woman no
ticed for the first time that when
the dish was pushed inside the i
door it was held by two hands. |
This remained in her mind un- j
til she became suspicious that her
husband was not faithful to her.
Finally he saw that something
troubled her; he asked what it
was, and she told him. After sit- j
ting and thinking for a short time !
he asked her if she did not wish
to go back to her friends, to which
she replied that there was no
use in wishing for anything that
she could not do.
• To be continued'
Four Alaska Youths Will
Compete for Air Academy
JUNEAU Ufi — Rep. Ralph J.
Rivers has announced his nomi
nation of four Alaska youths to
compete with each other in an
examination next spring for ap
pointment to the United States Air
Force Academy.
Named to take the examina
tions are:
James C. Knapp, son of Mrs.
Alice E. Knapp of Anchorage;
Hans E. Wagner, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Harry E. Wagner of An
chorage; Edward M. Simko, son
of Sgt. and Mrs. Edward M. Sim
ko of Fairbanks, and Jack B.
Webb, son of Mr. and Mrs. Rich
ard B. Webb of Fairbanks.
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Service
Dial 2671
P.O. Box 460
Village of Buckland
By BUCKLAND
CORRESPONDENT
George Washington Sr.. Allen
Geary, Arnold Thomas and Sher
rill Sage went caribou hunting on
the 12th of this month. They
planned to go up to New Site and
farther up to Fish River.
Wiens mail service was delayed
and it came on Sunday. Joshua
Savok and Jessie Hadley, wife of
reindeer herder Paul Hadley, left
for Kotzebue.
Again, mail service was delayed
and came on Wednesday, bringing
Mr. Savok and Mrs. Hadley back
to their homes and families. Sher
rill Sage came back from cari
bou hunting alone. He reported
that Mr. Washington, Thomas and
Geary will continue hunting, prob
ably until the end of the following
week-end. Weather was holding
good after one and a half days of
wind and blowing snow. Eight or
nine caribou were seen and the
next day 11 were sighted. Mr.
Geary went after them and
wounded one but did not find it.
Better luck next time, Allen. Two
moose were sighted but they were
not shot at. The three men will
be at Howard Creek the rest of
the week. We sure wish them luck.
Mr. Sage thinks they will need it
because of scarcity of dog feed,
which consisted of rabbits after
finishing their grub.
Thanks to Mrs. Jean Burand for
making this Buckland news avail
able at Nome Nugget and to the
owner and manager, Jim O’Sulli
van. We hope our fellow Alaskans
enjoy our news briefs columns in
the future.
Sunday was an unlucky day for
Warren Thomas. It seems the
snow has gotten slick on him and
it licked him by spraining his
back.
Mr. Paul Miller, Supt. of Friends
Mission of Alaska, brought Miss
Nora Thomas for Christmas vaca
tion from Kotzebue Friends High
School today. Miss Thomas seems
to be enjoying her long waited
vacation already. She is a fresh
man there in the school, and she
is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Marvin Thomas of Buckland.
Mr. Warren Thomas was seen
dog teaming and it is supposed
he is doing fine. Watch it, War
ren!
Mail plane didn’t come as
scheduled on Thursday in spite
of good weather.
The caribou hunting group
came back today with good luck
air around them. They caught 7
caribou and reports that the cari
bou are close by after all. Old
man George says he shot two with
one shot, and that makes his luck
more certain.
Ethel Takes Ernie
Singer Ethel Merman and actor
Ernest Borgnine plan to marry.
Miss Merman says the wedding
will be in Hollywood in July. It
will be the fourth marriage for
the 55-year-old Miss Merman; the
third for the 46-year-old Borgnine.
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