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The pend tie-up for small airoraft has
been the locale for many a stealthy m&rau
er in the pursuit of midnight snatches.
Bob Harris has suffered especially
under this "reign of looters" having been
their victim through triple thefts. The
first two robberies rbsulted in his loss
of gear and emergency rations. The last
time the vandals cut his snowshoee from
the skiis of the plane where they had
been tied to the strut and cirriod in cas
of an emergency landing,, No attempt was
made (rpparently) to conceal the signs
of the robbery but evidence left behind
war inconclusive in leading to the identy
of the lawbreakers.
Other victims of this thief £thieves)
were Jp.ck Smeaton who lost rations rnd
gear and some of the Adventist's pilots.
FOLIO EITCTPflLLES DTT,T,TIPPAH
Health Nurse Edna Crawford warns all
to be sensible and not to become panicy
with the frightening news of polio epi
demic? in St. Paul and Nome. Emotional
disturbance cannot help at all and may
weaicen resistance thereby becoming a fac
tor in allowing this disease entrance in
our area.
Within the past mouth the Territorial
Health Department has rushed gamma ^io-*
bulin to S t. Paul Island in the Pribilof
and bo Nome where mass innooulations have
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(ilaims that Bristol £ay villages ere
in aire ub&u. of fooa ana supplies and ti.«
situation is being ignored by the terrl^
torial government were sharply contradict
ed on January 12 by Vaino Hendrickson*
Sec# of Alaska and Director of the FifOv*
©rmen*s Relief Program#
Hendrickson referred to Downey1s statu
, mcnt of needs for destitute families hem
as being a "pot-shot#,,the latest in a
long series of political snaping at t’rs
administration program’1# He bnsed hie
stand on a letter received from Frank
Schneider*, resident of the Pilot Point
area for the past 43 y&ars, in whi^h he
said that only one man* a bachelor* naevi'
ed immediate relief*
Albert Devies of Neknek, Chairman of
Special Union Committee to study fisher
rents needs, discounted Sohroicler,fl lot
ter by explaining he was a watchman for
th e Winger Packing Co# at Uguehikr IP
miles from Pilot Point where the Union
Committee found most of the suffering
isting. Mr# Davies said* ”It would be
very easy for Mr, Schneider to know the
Qondition of those who live in hie im
mediate locality ana yet Know nothing .
garaing the other villages of Bristol 1:
juXr* i/avies1 Committee substantiated
Downey’s expression of the seriousness
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