PUB Kp LIBRARY ANNOUNCEMENT
The Dillingham Public Library in the
basement of the .school is open each Tues
day from 7-9 p.m.
It has been disappointing- that so few
people are patronizing the library and there
are so many good books from which to select
good reading material. $200 sorth of new
books have Pecently been added, including
some wonderful picture history books for
both juvtenile and adult enjoyment.
Renewal membership for adults costs but:
50/ a year and for children 25^. This en
titles the member to two books a week.
CAP Uxi#T RETURNS
Marshall Ponko, Jr# returned l2ay 1C from
his trip to VJashington, tuG. where he went
in typical CAP fashion— by plane, he was
accompanied in the five-seat 0-45 hy three
area pilots, Col. Jack Carr, Col# Virgil
Stone and Maj. Bob Strong# Taking shifts
flying, the three pilots flew the piano
over the Alaska highway and spent two nlghtc
at Great Palls, Montana and at sloux Falls,
South Dakota# Marshall - w hir first glimpse
of Chicago through the iJ..icko, remarking, "Tt
was too big, and thore was too much smoko
for me”.
The 52 cadets, one from each state and
Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico and D.C#, found
names were hard to remember 60 settled by
calling each other by their state names'#
Accordingly *Alaska* found he vras to sharep
a room with Virginia, Wisconsin and New
York. Alaska also found hims elf to be the
youngest cadet there.
During the three days the cadets attendee
the official CAP banquet* scrutinized the
planes in the Smithsonian Institute*
attended a cadet dance* and took in th®
typloal tourist*s visit to the nation*s
capital*
* A humorous report comes of Marshall's
visit to the office of the Delegate* He
“toss introduced to the Secretary as being
from Dillingham and the Secretary*s im
mediate response'-was* wCh* you mean that
place in Alaska where all the petitions
come from.” Our cadet was a bit non*
plussed* to say it nicelyJ
At the CAP dinner in the Shoreham
Hotel, llarshe 11 heard the CAP official
annua 1 report which will later be pre
sented to Congress* The cadets were wal—
co.oeu bj speaker of the House of. Repre
sentatives Joseph Martin*
lviarsh&ll* who will probfbly attend
H«S* next year in the states* is current
ly working for Dennis Fenno in the BBjTo
mechanic (?) department*
A young businessman who was a doaeon
in his local church was in Dallas on
^business# H e was to purchase a new sign
to be hung in front of the church# Defer e
he left home he had copied the motto and
dimensions# Vnhen he arrived in Dallas he
discovered that he had left the paper at
home#
Hfe wired hi8 wifei "Send motto ani
dimensions •"
Later that evening the reply came i»
and t»»hen the telegraph girl red the tele*,
gram, she feinted#.
The message read* "TJhto TTs a (fliild i3
Born, 6.jCsst -long-and ?. J^aat.jgriiLci+f
Ifte exciting and wonderful gifts and novelties brought
back by Peg Ffrvdfbrd from her Eurcpea* tour* Come
and see them—you may never see such .an assortment
again. Now cm display and Purchase-able at
LOUE*S TRADING COMPANY