Attention
Seal Hunter
Ship Your Seal Skins
GREEN SALTED
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Pacific Seal Co.
OF ALASKA, INC.
Box 6506 Annex
Anchorage, Alaska
★
The Company that Works for
— and with the Hunter
If You Want To:
Keep your home free of odor 1
Save time and labor !
Make more money !
Then follow our easy
Step by Step Instructions 1
1. Skin your seals soon after
killing before the hair starts to
gel 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 slay for
24 hours in a non-freexing
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-freexing
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 polyethelin sheets or bags*.
Make certain that no moisture
can get out.
YOUR CHECK WILL BE IN
THE RETURN MAIL.
• Limited amount of turkey
bags and plastic liners can be
provided on request, also salt
where not available locally.
10. Send skins by parcel post
(Postage refunded) to
PACIFIC SEAL COMPANY
OF ALASKA, INC.
Box 6506 Annex
Anchorage, Alaska
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News from Savoonga
By SAVOONGA
CORRESPONDENT
John Kulowiyi, President of the
Savoonga Village Council and
Sanitation Aid for St. Lawrence
Island, recently spent a week at
Anchorage engaged in a training
program for the nine Sanitation
Aids of Alaska. From November
18-22, Mr. Kulowiyi and the eight
aids met in the Administration
Building on the grounds of the
ANS Hospital.
John Doore, of the Public Health
Service, was the instructor in
charge of the educational train
ing program for the aids. Dr.
Rausch instructed the men in the
treatment of a villager bitten by
a rabid dog and what to do with
the dog. Mr. Duncan gave instruc
tion on how to care for the injured
in case of a nuclear bombing,
and how to care for pregnant
women in a fall-out shelter.
John Kulowiyi reports that if a
bomb should fall near Savoonga,
the villagers should go to a fall
out shelter already stocked with
a two-week supply of food, water,
clothing, bedding, and medicine.
In connection with his post as
Sanitation Aid, Mr. Kolowiyi
spends approximately one hour
a week teaching in the classrooms
of Gambell and Savoonga. He
also works with individual vil
lagers helping them learn how to
purify water, keep the village
clean, and keep themselves well.
•
The Savoonga Mothers’ Club
held its annual Christmas party
on Wednesday. December 11, at
the Savoonga Day School. Ap
proximately forty members at
tended the after-school party.
Games were played and a sound
filmstrip shown. Refreshments
were served just before the party
ended. President of the Mothers’
Club is Mss. Herbert Kiyuklook.
•
It was a happy day for the
family and friends of ten-year
old Marjorie Kulowiyi when she
arrived at Savoonga on Saturday,
December 7, after an 11-week
stay at the ANS Hospital in An
chorage. She had been there to
receive treatment for a broken
elbow. Returning as far as Gam
bell by plane, Marjorie found that
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| she would have to travel from
j Gambell to Savoonga by dog sled.
The small ski plane used between
the two villages was in disrepair.
Because of bad weather the trip
by sled took three days. Marjorie’s
family and friends became increas
ingly uneasy as the days went by
and she did not appear. When she
finally did arrive, she was greeted
with joy and relief.
•
Each Thursday evening the Vil
lage Council offers the residents
of Savoonga two showings of a
movie ordered from a commercial
firm at Anchorage. The movies
are shown at the school. The pro
fit made from showing the films
is used by the Council through
out the year or village projects
and welfare.
•
Recently the villagers of Sa
voonga were notified that a herd
of walrus had been sighted from
a plane to the north and east of
the village. Last Thursday, Decem
ber 5, weather permitted the
men of the village to go hunting,
and during the day 17 of the
run were pulled up onto the shore
to be butchered. Each family was
then supplied with meat and the
caches were filled. The village had
been without fresh meat for some
time, and the abundant supply of
walrus was indeed welcome.
Christmas as a religious holi
day will be celebrated by the vil
lagers of Savoonga as they par
ticipate in special programs pre
sented by various groups of the
Savoonga Presbyterian Church.
Opening the observances of
Christmas will be the adult choir
singing the cantata “Immanuel
Forever,” under the direction of
Joseph Noongwook. This perform
ance is to be part of the morning
worship service on Sunday, De
cember 22.
•
On Christmas Day the holiday
activities will come to a close, with
a two-part program given for the
entire village by the Young
People’s Group under the direc
tion of Katherine and Joseph No
angwook entitled “Before Christ’s
Birth,” and by the Mariners, a
Young Married Couples’ Group —
Rosemond and Jerry Wongittilin,
Skippers — entitled “The Birth
of Christ.”
The Shaman In The Moon
A Story from Kotzebue Sound
From the Eighteenth Annual BAE Report
A Malemute Shaman from Kot
zebue Sound near Selawik Lake
told that a great chief lives in the
moon who is visited now and then
by Shamans, who always go to him
two at a time, as one man is
ashamed to go alone. In the moon
lives all kinds of animals that are
on the earth, and when any ani
mal becomes scarce here the Sha
mans go up to the chief in the
moon and, if he is pleased with
the offerings that have been made
to him, he gives them one of the
animals that they wish for, and
they bring it down to the earth
and turn it loose, after which its
kind becomes numerous again.
The Shaman who told the fore
going said he had never been to
the moon himself, but he knew
a Shaman who had been there.
He had been up only as high as
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the sky, and went up that high by
flying like a bird and found that
the sky was a land like the earth,
only that the grass grew hanging
downward and was filled with
snow. When the wind blows up
there it rustles the grass stems,
loosening particles of snow which
fall down to the earth as a snow
storm.
When he was up near the sky
he saw a great many small, round
lakes in the grass, and these shine
at night to make the stars. The
Malemut of Kotzebue Sound also
say that the north wind is the
breath of a giant, and when the
snow falls it is because he is
building himself a snow house and
the particles are flying from his
snow shovel. The south wind is the
breath of a woman living in the
warm southland.
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Kotzebue Report . . .
By KOTZEBUE
CORRESPONDENT
Congratulations to Bob and
Marge Baker on the birth of their
baby boy December 15.
Dr. Buchanan, Opthamalogist of
the USPHS Hospital, Anchorage,
held an eye clinic in Kotzebue
Dec. 16, 17 and 18.
Avis Gordon, Records Clerk at
PHS Hospital, left on vacation
December 13.
Mrs. Gordon Chappel, RN at the
Hospital, plans to leave Dec. 20
for Seattle to spend the holidays
with her son Simeon who is at
tending school there.
Alice Sheldon, hospital cook,
leaves the same day for Chemawa,
Oregon, to spend the holidays with
her son Carl.
Dr. Harrison, PHC MOC and
Fran Pagenkopf, PHN, are doing
school physicals this week.
Ivy Caudill, PHN from Unalak
leet, escorted a mother and one
twin to the hospital Dec. 16th on
Alaska Airlines. One twin was
born in Unalakleet shortly before
the plane took off and the other
after arrival in Kotzebue in the
Kotzebue Hospital.
Mrs. Frederica Beltz and fam
ily have moved to Fairbanks. Ron
nie and Arlene left last week and
Frederica went to Fairbanks
Dec. 16.
Friends High School is planning
a Christmas musical by the girls
and boys choruses, which will be
directed by Miss Shirley Sharpless.
The musical will be given Dec.
18 at 7:30 p.m.
The Friends freshman class are
planning a school Christmas party
! for Dec. 20 at 1:30 p.m., sponsored
by Mr. and Mrs. Stolberg.
No word has been given as to
Christmas vacation at the BIA
School but the Friends High
School will have from Dec. 23
through Jan. 1. Students/from the
outlying villages will be flown
home for the holidays by Rev.
Paul Miller.
The Friends Church program
wil also have their program the
evening of the 24th, followed by
midnight services, and will have
their feast Christmas Day at 4 p.m.
The Church of God program will
be Christmas Eve at 7:30 p.m.
The Catholic Church will have
their Christmas program Dec. 24
at 7 p.m.
Edith Bullock returned from
Juneau Dec. 16, accompanied by
Alice Connolley. Alice is chief
nurse at the Indian Service Hos
pital at Fort Yates, North Dakota.
A Welcome Back buffet dinner
and party for Alice was given by
Edith Bullock and Marie Heinrich
Monday evening, Dec. 16.
Wien Airlines and the USPHS
Hospital are tied for first place in
the Kotzebue men’s volley ball
league. The FAA women are in
first place in the women’s league.
Santa Will Leave
I On Schedule
! ARLIS 2 ICE ISLAND, Alaska
Iff' — Personnel of Arlis Ice Island,
closest inhabited area to the North
Pole, verified yesterday Santa
Claus’ departure schedule Tues
day night for his annual trip
south.
The following message was re
layed over Ice Island communi
cations:
“Due to depart North Pole
Christmas Eve. Will pass over
Arlis 2 at 2200 to 2210 hours (10
to 10:10 p.m., Alaska Standard
| Time). Headed south to Barrow
1 and all points south to spread
cheer and good will throughout
the world.”
The message was signed by
Santa Claus.
Personnel of the floating ice
island, located today at 88 de
grees 30 minutes north, 87 degrees
18 minutes west, added to Santa’s
message their own wishes to the
world for a Merry Christmas and
a Happy New Year.
The ice island is an Arctic Re
search Project sponsored by the
federal government and the Uni
versity of Alaska.
Few men want to change their
sex, but 65 per cent of women say
they'd rather be men — if they
had a choice.
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