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I News from
Savoonga
By SAVOONGA
CORRESPONDENT
In keeping with the spirit of
Christmas, the BIA School for the
past week has added a touch of
holiday atmosphere to the village
of Savoonga with recorded Christ
mas music. Played through an am
plifier mounted on the outside of
the school, the music has been
played for 20 minute periods be
fore school opens, during the lunch
period, and at the close of the
school day.
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Members of the Girls’ Club of
the Savoonga Day School had
their Christmas party Saturday af
ternoon at the school from 4 to
5:30 o’clock. First the girls made
Christmas cards for their parents
and friends, and then they played
games. After a short game time,
two of the girls served refresh
ments that five of the members
had made earlier — Christmas
cookies and malted milks.
Members of the club are: Ar
lene and Polly Annogiyuk, Bren
da Gologergen, Ida Kava, Violet
Kingeekuk, Edna Rose Kogassa
goon, Marjorie Kulowiyi, Wilma
Miklahook. Ernestine Mokiyuk,
Hannah Noongwook, Merilyn Pun
kowiyi, Betty Wongittilin, and
Sterling Wongittilin.
This was the Girls’ Club final
meeting.
Forming a dog-sled caravan, 12
Santas from Savoonga recently
rode to Gambell to bring back a
gigantic Christmas party flown to
Gambell from Ft. Richardson by
the Air National Guard for the
villagers of Savoonga. Two thous
and pounds of toys, gifts, and
clothing were sent to the villagers
by the men of the 4th Missile
Battalion, 43rd Artillery of Ft.
Richardson. Chaplain Wilbur G.
Peterson was in charge of the
project.
On the sleds was a gift for each
person in the village, and several
others to be used in the village,
j The boys and girls were espe
cially excited as they thought
about the wagons, tricycles, skates
and dolls that might be on the
twelve sleds. To the children, the
only difference between these
sleds and Santa’s was that huskies
were pulling them instead of rein
deer, and these Santas did not have
red suits trimmed with white fur!
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Surplus Pooches Stir President’s Pique
By J. W. DAVIS
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON UP* — President
Johnson, a dog lover but still a
man of prudence, has done the
sensible thing again.
He has asked that Americans
not flood the White House with
gifts of dogs and other animals.
. Specifically, the President ac
cepted the gift of a white collie
from a 9-year-old Illinois girl, but
asked at the same time that others
who want to send animal gifts to
give them instead to children or
institutions in their own com
munities.
The First Family already had
two Beagles and two Beagles just
by themselves are a lot of dogs.
Every First Family has been
deluged with gifts, some of them
probably to the point of embar
rassment. No one likes to return
a gift, or to refuse one that is
well-meant, even if it is not par
ticularly wanted and has to be
fed.
The John F. Kennedys, having
two small children, were particu
larly showered with pets, but they
always seemed to have room for
one more.
In addition to three ponies, the
Kennedys were honored with dogs
galore, the most famous being
Pushinka, the offspring of a So
viet space dog.
Dogs have always been the most
popular Presidential pets, begin
ning with George Washington. An
exception to the dog-loving line
was President Harry S. Truman,
but his friends were always quick
to point out that he had nothing
A White House dog that figured
in politics was Fala, a lively Scot
tie belonging to President Frank
lin D. Roosevelt. In the 1944 Pres
idential campaign, some critics of
FDR charged that a destroyer was
sent to the Aleutian Islands at
heavy expense to the taxpayers I
after Fala allegedly had been left
behind in one of the President’s
trips.
Roosevelt turned the tables in a
radio broadcast, still remembered
as a campaign masterpiece, which
poked ridicule at politicians who
stooped to attack “my little dog,
Fala.”
During the first world war, the
White House grounds were pas
ture for a flock of sheep. Presi
dent Woodrow Wilson had a
double purpose: to help keep the
grass trimmed and to provide
wool that could be sold for the
benefit of the Red Cross.
President William McKinley
had a parrot which, so it has
been chronicled, could whistle
“Yankee Doodle Dandy.”
President William Howard Taft
owned a J ersey cow named
Pauline.
It was Austin O’Malley who ob
served, “Show me a genuine case
of platonic friendship, and I shall
show you two old or homely
faces.”
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