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GHITI1TA, ALASKA. JANUARY PA,19?2.
us car ' mchcll Ilew irom Copper
Center to Chitina in Gillam's Swall
pw.He will work for Gillnm.vrhen he
was ready to start for Cordova to,
get passengers he found his plan'e
covered with ice.Ho had to bcrape it
off before, he could start so he s£ai
d for a show and dance at Chitina.
They'pourd hot whiter ovet it to.re
move ' the -ice . •
’ * FIRjE.
At 3 oclock in the morning.
A fev; days ago Pete Kennedy
went to bed. At a little before 3 A.
II.he got up and put some more wood o
on his fire to, make the house warmer
At 3 A.,M..he was awakened, to find tha
t.his house was on fire.He jumped ou
t pf bed and got every thing Out cf
his house except 2 mattresses, his
false teeth■and .glasses,the latter
he would.surely havegotten if he
were able,They were where the fire
started on-a window sill and he
thought he might burn himself if he
■tried to.get them. He took what he
had. up to Hr.Taylor's Cat house and
slept in- it that night..--bouse me,
I mean Ca,tipilar -Tractor house.
Hr .Bryan has given him a lift by let
ting him sleep in his hotise.lt is
tough luck that he lost his house.lt
is tough luck to have caughten fire
where the pipe goes thru .'the. ceiling
Two pall "bearers(Billy Cameron &
Archie McAlpine)both of. Chitina and
others walked sadly to the Seattle
pernetary.Their burden was James
("Jimmy”)Diffley.They wer e accompan
ied by many friends.Jimmy ms a fine
young man and. it is too bad for Chit
ina to loose such a fine young man.
He Came up every year- .and worked for
the Road' Commission He will be great
ly missed by his Chitina friends.He
. is the step' son' of Mr-. Mike Johnson &
a -1 -brother of the twins, John and
Mike who live in Seattle.
Carl Carlson dragged a -runway
on the lake so Gillum’s plane can ta
ke off and land there.He used the
Snowbird to pull -and “brush as a drag
After he dragged’ the brush back and
forth on the snow it got hard so tha
t the skies of the airoplane ran on
top of the snow and it could go fast
enuf to take off.
The Chitina Water Works is
" still going strong but in Billy Tibb
s seller it was filling up about an
inch an hour.They are busy digging a
ditch .The water goes in one side
of the srller and out the other.
The Chitina Warer works is 2-1 miles
of small pipe buried 2 feet in the
ground .The- water is all heated to
keep it- liquid at 40 below.
EAR OLD GTLIAM
made his first trip on his mail route
between Chitina and Cordova on
Thursday.He went to Coreova with the
mail for Outside.and brought the.
Outside mail to Chitina.He made the
trip in approximately 3 hours.This
included stop at Cordova for lunch.
Hr.Charles E.Uhl should compline
nted on the fact that he is the only
man that ever wrote to a magazine
and his letter of appreciation of
our paper be published. His letter
was published in the June 8th issue
of TIET,
In what wc said in our late
Anniveipary Humber we gave credit
to many . -wspaper.s in the country
and wp should nqt have overlooked an
y one but we must say we left out
"The Post Standard" ,Syracuse ,New
York and "The Seldovia Herald".They
both put in a paragraph or-two of
our paper. VTe thank them very much
and ask ygur pardon for leaving you
out in our Anniversary issue, .
The bunch of peddlers that feed
at the- trough- over at the Commercial
Restaurant will sure be glad to.sec
Harry I-'oore rcturn^from his-visit to
the States.Harry has not an. equal in
Alaska and probably not in the world
as a radio reproducer He can work
all day in'• the A.?. .C. garage and,
then, sit up-.all night and read thxil
ling Detective stiries and at the
same time listen to the news report's
on the radio' so that' he can repeat
it next day to the people at.-the
tabic without leaving cut .a. thing
but he.makes it a lot better than th
e radio announcer because- he can ex
plain what.it all means.They sat it
is a lot- more interesting and. int-el
ligent.,than listening to the news
first, hand .Haynes was elected to
take his place and. he is doing prett
y well but he cant come up to Harry
because he dont know as much.He dont
even know what the Democrats are
going to do at the naxt convention.
Harry is going to meet his mother
and several brothers and sisters at
Seattle from several States.They
will have a. great visit as they have
not seen each other for years. d
Feil Finnesarid has just retur
ned from the Ect.sina where he has
been doing some prospecting on his
silver property. He says he saw
more moose s.nb caribou tracks than
he has seen in that country for
years.He saw very few signs of fur
animals but lots of wolf tracks#
The wolves kill the other fur
animals.