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One of tho mostvpersiatant and widely assumed fallacies about
«tlaska i8 the idea that tho long days in «*laska make things grow fast#
i This idea got started by a tourist hero ono hundred fifty years ago,
and has boon ropcatod so many million times sinco chon that a Jot of
people assume that it is trUe* Alaska's summer temperature is ten
degrees too cold and this "lots of daylight"is not going to warm it up#
anyone who caros to inquire into tho mattor in a scientific way , and
that means simply drawing your conclusions from what you see, can go
down to tho store and get a few packages of seed of tho few kinds of
thing's that will grow in 4*laska* *
fv You will find that tho grov/er of these seeds is willing to stake
hiSf^eputationv on the statement that in Missouri tho
The peas will mature in 55 days from planting,
Beets are ready in 56 days from planting,
Carrotts are mature in 70 days,
Leaf lettuco 45 days,
’Head Lettuces 60-pays '
Radishes 25'days
Thrnips 45 days from planting seed
■"’‘Cabbage ’60 days Trom setting plants, r~* . .
Cauliflower 60 days frim setting plants#
,' Watormdloh^ in 85 days from planting seed*
Now if!you/ sant to be realistic, scientific and cynical you might
plant somd of the above on the 20th day of May and see what you have
on the 20th day of July# Therms the lont daze#
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Wee had hoped to get a Gazette t>ut tu u in March but we;had no
mime,# paper* Our supply was received in Valdez* the fnidlo #f Febuary;
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v&Tfl ‘Vir.^ tux v.;:yf.-n* a si 1 v.»)- that tutiay. ?’ad
neatner the time nor inklihufciun toc-; 100k up' our- anipmont' ox puro. c.
If thay klaim ;that they wuz simply protektin^ the public from having
this sheet inflickted tri it, we Jeant put up any souhd argument agonst
that# ~^You may notice that some «f this paper has been stored in
valdoz s© long it is/starting to‘turn yellow# - j..:
l ^ ivith .Uniort'.Cil moving "into Valdoz wd Y/onder If Standard gag
will t^rrl yellow# . ' . k : * * *.
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' /Chief 2hon pingekok of the Soho Tribe, south pf Tebay Lake
says he .-thinks tho, 59or expidition from Detroit i3 the- mostest^
unabashed and vacuous publicity stunt cooked up since Russia discovered
Alaska in 1492# But hd warns that the newspapers have shot their wad
on these "pioneers” and that subsequent caravans of colonists can
- expect ,very little attention# .
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«7o road "in* the daily Press that, "Anchsrage expects to have
150,000 tourists* this summerNow that is enly two thousand different
visitors per day for seventy five da2/s. \7e do not hope for quite so
much' here in Chitina*
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4*n old timer looking on the passing scene remarked, "A few
, • weoks•ago they took Susie Brickel to the hospital fsr a check-up on
% -her Mogan David knees# Susie been drunk for a couple of weeks now, so
the bar.ownor took her to the hospital to sssxifxakax check up and
see if she can stand‘it another couple of weeks.’1« .. ‘
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*She sez.y "See this' paper* has vital statistics c vlumn now but,they
t failed to mention a lonely widow looking for'a mate* I know as 1 am
the v/idow and 1 call it vital.” -
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• Spike o.f. the boys down at the Cash Store for lack of something to
do smarted the old oat (tractor). The nuso being ?o froo.:- around the
town people appear ed from everywhere* Have'you ever aeon, a -out two
dozen people come cut of hibernaticnv. Tht.y loo>ao oa.v.'oe or o i rom
tobaco ** flood or Litlo <.bnoi' and ’..it 6 -au "• t-s n ;.iv iy f r-3y
Gee, just think v/hat thoy w>.uld of be-n kz li.ee m another cox months.