The Last of The Thunderbirds
A Story from the Lower Yukon
From the 18th Annual BAE Report
PART II (Conclusion)
When the hunter came home
the people hastened to tell him
of his wife’s death, but he said
nothing. Going to his empty house
he took down his bow and a quiver
of war arrow's, and after examin
ing them carefully he started out
toward the eagle mountain. Vainly
did his friends try to stop him by
telling him that the birds would
surely destroy him. He did not lis
ten to them, but hurried on. With
firm steps at last he gained the
rim of the great nest and looked
in. The old birds were away, but
the fierce j'oung eagles met him
with shrill cries and fiery, shining
eyes. The hunter’s heart w'as full
of anger, and he quickly bent his
bow, loosing the war arrows one
after another, until the last of
the hateful birds lay dead in the
nest.
With heart still burning for
revenge, the hunter sheltered him
self by a great rock near the nest
and waited for the parent birds.
The old birds came. They saw
their young lying dead and bloody
in the nest, and uttered such cries
of rage that the sound echoed
from the farther side of the great
river as they soared up into the
air looking for the one who had
killed their young.
Very quickly they saw the brave
hunter by the great stone, and the
mother swooped down upon him,
her wings sounding like a gale in
the spruce forest. Quickly fitting
an arrow to his string, as the eagle
came down the hunter sent it deep
into her throat. With a hoarse cry
she turned and flew away to the
North, far beyond the hills.
Then the father bird circled
overhead and came roaring down
upon the hunter, who, at the right
moment, crouched close to the
ground behind the stone and the
eagle's sharp claws struck only
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the hard rock. As the bird arose,
eager to swoop down again, the
hunter sprang from his shelter
and, with all his strength, drove
two heavy war arrows deep under
its great wing. Uttering a cry of
rage and spreading abroad his
wings, the thunderbird floated
away like a cloud in the sky far
into the northland and was never
seen again.
Having taken blood vengeance,
the hunter’s heart felt lighter, and
he went down into the nest where
he found some fragments of his
wife, which he carried to the wa
ter’s edge and, building a fire,
made food offerings and libations
of water pleasing to the shade.
— THE END —
99'ers BOWLING LEAGUE
Two more season high records
tumbled Friday night during a
tough battle between the Old
Folks and the Bankers Bunch. The
Old Folks came close to their own
record single game during a march
to the new record series for a
team, of 2615 pins. Their oppo
nents, although sparked by Jack
Carpenter’s new league record for
this season — a 611 series — were
unable to hold off the Old Folks
and went winless for the evening.
On the other alleys a lower scor
ing but just as close a battle was
being bowled. Fired up by Jim
O’Sullivan’s highest series this
season (we won’t mention the fig
ure*, the Numb Nuggets wrestled
three of four points away from
a tough Polar Bar five. Results
and current standings are as
follows:
High team series — Old Folks
2615, Bankers 2395. Numb Nug
gets 2369.
High team game — Old Folks
934, 860, Numb Nuggets 832.
High individual series — Jack
Carpenter 611, L. Nevue 549, Carl
Glavinovich 548.
High individual game — Jack
Carpenter 233, 199, Dick Deems
198.
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Nooks Sharpen Their
Teeth on Hapless Mercs; j
Hornets Sting Natives
The Nome High School Nanooks j
returned to the friendly confines
of their own gym Tuesday even
ing and throttled the high-flying
Merchants by a score of 62-10. Big
Stcff Andersen ripped the nets for
30 points as he really came into
his own in the scoring depart
ment.
Big Steff also controlled the re
bounding department for the high
school five. John Bahnke, who
played his best game, scored 12
points, while Stanley Andersen
hit for 11 more for the Nanooks.
The 62-point total was the highest
of the year for the defense
minded “Nooks.”
The high total furthers fans
hopes for a possible upset over the
powerful Malemutes of Lathrop
High School when they appear on
the scene Thursday and Friday of
this week. Coach Ray Tinjum in
sisted his charges played better
than the scores would indicate
while on their recent road trip.
Tuesday night the Nanooks con
tained the high-scoring Merchants
rather well. Ron Locke paced the
town team with 14 points and re
ceived help from Bill Oman who
hit for 13 and Willie Willoya, who
just joined the Merchants, scored
10 more. Tom Drake hit for 9
markers and played a fine floor
game.
The second encounter saw the
I Polar Hornets come from a 32-29
half-time deficit to pull out a 58
47 victory. It was the second win
in a row for the defending cham
pion Hornets.
Tony Willoya, sharp-shooting
Polar guard, led the scoring with
24 points, while Big Steve Wil
son clicked for 19.
ANB got 15 points from Arnie
Castel and another 14 from Har
old Bell.
Inconsistent scoring cost the
ANB five any chance for a win
on this night, however.
Next City League action takes
place next Tuesday evening with
another two-game card. Nanook
fans will be treated to an excel
lent Lathrop H.S. team Thursday
and Friday nights.
Howard Nunooruk has been
charged with rape and is being
held to await action of the grand
jury. Bail is set at $1,000.
The boar’s head was established
by Henry VIII as a Christmas
dish.
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will be mailed to anyone,
anywhere, with the sender s
name included, for 25 cents.
Anyone wishing to secure
this edition, is asked to
notify the Nugget office by
Saturday, Dec. 21.
State’s Best Team?
Will the Nome High School
Nanooks be facing the State’s best
basketball team this Thursday and |
Friday'.’ Many people will tell you
that this team is the best in the
State of Alaska. From the scores
they have been rolling up, their
credentials are pretty good.
Featuring 6-foot-7 Gary Wilken,
Coach Joe Tremarello has a lot
of horses, and will show local fans
why some people consider this to
be the best team in the state. Big j
Gary would like nothing more '
than to win the state tourney this
year, especially since he couldn’t
play in it last year because of a
misunderstanding in elegibility.
Wilken has a lot of help on this
fine team, too. Greg Mitchell is
an excellent guard and will be
a good college prospect. Romar
Swarner is capable of scoring a
lot of points on any night and
must be guarded like a hawk.
Other members of the team are
just as good. All in all, it looks 1
like a very solid team and one
that will win its share of games.
It will take quite an effort to
stop these boys and a top-notch
defensive job to beat them.
SatEvPost Hollers
‘Too Much Money!’
ATLANTA — Attorneys for
the Curtis Publishing Company
have asked that a libel judgment
of three million, 60 thousand dol
lars be set aside as excessive.
This was the amount won by
Wallace Butts, former Georgia
athletic director and football
coach, in his suit against the Sat
urday Evening Post. Butts sued
because of an article which ac
cused him of conspiring with foot
ball coach Paul Bryant of Alabama
to rig the 1962 Alabama-Georgia
game.
Attorneys for the publishing
firm argued today in Atlanta that
the amount should be set aside.
The plea was heard by Federal
Judge Lewis Morgan, who also
presided at the libel suit hearing.
The judge said he did not be
lieve he had the authoriy to re
duce the amount of the award al
though he did say he was con
cerned about the question of ex
cessiveness. Morgan gave no indi
cation when he may rule on the
request for a new trial.
WEATHER BUREAU REPORT
Continued cloudy with light
snow. Little change in tempera
ture. Wind Southeasterly 10 to 20
miles per hour, with occasional
stronger gusts.
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‘The Voice’ Jr. Is
Back willi Daddy-O
LOS ANGEL.ES M — Frank
Sinatra Junior has been reunited,
unharmed, with his family in Hol
lywood. And his kidnapers, the
richer by $240,000 in ransom mon
ey, are being hunted by the FBI.
The family reunion took place
today at the home of Sinatra’s
mother, long divorced from Frank
Sinatra, Senior, the noted singer
and actor. Sinatra Senior had
hurried to Hollywood from Reno,
Nevada, after receiving tele
phoned communications from the
kidnapers who snatched his 19
year-old son from a motel at Lake
Tahoe, on the Nevada-California
border last Sunday night.
In the end, there was a ransom
pickup on Wilshire Boulevard . . .
and the younger Sinatra was
found on a Bel Air street by a
private patrolman. The patrolman,
George Jones, drove young Sina
tra to Mrs. Sinatra’s house in the
trunk of his car, to avoid atten
tion.
Jones quotes young Sinatra as
saying the kidnapers were more
j scared than he was . . . that he
! thinks they were a bunch of ama
' teurs . . • and that one of them
: chickened out before the ran
som pickup, giving up the whole
deal. Jones says young Sinatra
told of being let out on a highway
about two miles from where he
| caught Jones’ attention as the pa
1 trolman drove by.
There’s no word from the FBI
on how the hunt for the kidnapers
is going.
And in the Lake Tahoe resort
j area, there’s rejoicing that the
young man who was snatched
from there is safe and free. At
the entertainment spot where Sin
atra had a singing engagement,
the leader of the Tommy Dorsey
band started up a medley of
Christmas music, saying: “This is
the nearest we can come to
: Thanksgiving music.’’
It was Benjamin Disraeli who
observed. “Every man has a right
| to be conceited until he is suc
cessful.”
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