Forty-third in a Series
VISITORS WANTED
A whole lot of people will be
coming to Alaska this summer. But
mostly, the reports say, they will
be construction workers and troops
in addition to the regular seasonal
influx of fisheries and mining
workers.
The people the Alaska Visitors
Association hopes to attract—the
summer vacationers or tourists —
are apparently staying away from
Alaska in droves. The Canadian
Pacific has cancelled a couple of
its sailings and other lines report
that bookings ha\e dropped sharp
ly from last year’s peak.
The drop is laid to a war scare
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concerning Alaska. First big job
for the Alaska Visitors Association,
it seems, will be to convince people
in the States and Canada that
he Russians left Alaska in 1867 and
aren't going to get back here.
THE GI AND FISH
A report from Washington, D. C.,
on the food preferences of American
soldiers does not make very good
reading for those in the Alaska
fishing industry—or any other
fishing industry.
Soldiers are inclined to be un
happy if fish is served too often,
the Army said.
During a recent six-months per
iod the Army bought 2,616,000
pounds of fish in Seattle alone,
and this did not include any can
ned fi. ii. For this fish the Army
■ aid $1,123,000, or about 42.5 cents
a pound.
But the buyers held out no prom
ises regarding future purchases
although the Army would like to
increase its fish puchases because
fish is cheaper than meat.
“Repeated efforts on the part of
the military officials to increase the
per-capita consumption of fish in
military menus has not been too
successful," the Army report says.
Maybe what the Army needs is
not a change of menu but a change
of cooks.
ROBBER'S ROOST
Sergeant William Ya ,ier|, 8th U.
S. Cavalry, came to Alaska back in
1898 with an Army exploring ex
pedition in command of Captain
E. F. Glenn.
Sgt. Yanert was a pretty fair
explorer and cartographer himself
and he was placed in charge of
several detached parties that
worked along the Susitna River
and in the Broad Pass country. As
a result of his work a mountain,
a lake and a river in Central Al
aska are named for him.
When his soldiering days were
over, Sgt. Yanert stayed in Alaska
and became plain Billy Yanert. He
settled down on the Yukon flats,
built a cabin and operated a wood
yard in the summer and ran a
trap line in the winter.
He called his place "Purgatory,"
wlrich caused more than a little
comment among the passengers on
the river steamers that stopped at
his place. But a couple of years
later he added another attraction.
Returning from a trip, Yanert
found that he had been robbed.
His grub cache was empty. His
spare clothing was gone. So were
his blankets and cooking utensils
and tools. In fact, he had been
cleaned out.
He got another outfit from town
and, as soon as it was stowed away,
he set about erecting a warning.
He hung a piece of bacon outside
the cache and it wasn’t long before
a Canada jay, more commonly
known as “camp-robber,” was at
work on the bacon. He shot the bird.
Then he dug a man-sized grave
in a conspicuous place near a
corner of his cabin. He buried th^
jay there, rounded the grave into
the usual shape and fashioned a
wooden headboard. On the head
board he burned an inscription
with a hot iron: “He Robbed My
Camp and I Shot Him."
This not only caused a great deal
of excited speculation among the
travelers who prowled around the
place while their steamboats wooded
up at Yanert’s yard but, so far as
the record shows, the camp was
never again robbed.
WHITEHEADS RETURN
Dr. and Mrs. William M. White
head returned home Tuesday via
Pan American plane from Seattle
where Dr. Whitehead went to at
tend a medical meeting. Mrs. White
head enjoyed a few days vacation
and shopping the Queen City.
Sunday Dr. Whitehead will fly
to Anchorage to attend a meeting
of the Territorial Board of Educa
tion of which he is member at large.
He expects to return to Juneau on
Wednesday.
All babies have blue eyes because
fhe pigment which determines the
color of the »”r does not develop
intil after birth.
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TERRITORY WILL
OPERATE SCHOOLS
ON SERVICE BASES
The Territory will operate eight
schools for various armed services
during the coming year. Dr. James
I_
Ryan said upon his arrival back in
his office from a trip to the west
ward and interior. He was accom
panied on the trip by Dr. Paul T.
Jackson, representative of the U. £5.
Office of Education who was here
on a survey of school matters as
pertaining to schools on Army, Na
vy and Air Force bases. The schools
the Territory will continue to op
erate are at Adak, Kodiak, Elmen
riorf Field. Fort Richardson, Ladd
Field. Eiek n Field, Big'Delta and
Whittier.
The Territory had previously op
erated such schools on a reimburse
ment p’T costs being returned to
the Territory by the sendees in
volved. However, the past session
of Congress passed Public Law 874
which made the U. S. Office of Ed
ucation responsible for Ihcir finan
cing.
Ryan said he and Dr. Jackson
conferred with military heads
“from General Kepner down" on
the matter of anticipated enroll
ment of the schools for the com
ing year. The armed services look
for an enrollment of about 3000
pupils, from kindergarten to the
twelfth grade, which will neces
sitate hiring of 140 teachers.
Dr. Ryan said the plan worked
out is to appoint an administrator
for all the armed services schools,
with headquarters at Elmendorf
Field, who will run the schools for
the Territory, financing to come
from the Federal government
through the U. S. Office of Educa
tion. Estimated cost is in the neigh
borhood of one million dollars.
Dr. Jackson was due to fly dir
ectly from Anchorage to Washing
ton, D. C„ to put the plan into ef
fect.
If a piece of some stars could be
brought to earth, their density,
about a millionth of the density
of air, would * make a pretty good
vacuum.
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