SCHOOL PRIZE OFFERED
Any student of an elementary or high
school in Alaska is eligible to enter the
essay contest being sponsored by the
Alaska Salmon'Institute which will divide
$1200 in prizes amongst eight Alas ka
otudents and two schools.
First prize of $500 will he presented
to the winners of the grade and high school
divisions and a sot of encyclopedias will
be awarded to the winners* school library*
In each division sc.conu prize -will be
$100, third priz©, $5 3, - nd fourth prize,
$25. Ronora ble mention cc: _ urates will
be given runners-up.
Th© essays must be 500 words or less on
th© subject ”Alaska*s Salmon Inaustry".
Contestants should writo on one side of
the paper only and sign their nemos, addres
ces, schools and grades.
No entries will be ro^urnodj decision of
the judges will be final and in case of
ti$s duplicate awards will be-made.
Essays must bo postmarked not later
than November 15, IS53 and should ho mail
ed toi Alaska Salmon Institute, Box G93,
Ketchikan, Alaska*
Inhere would be a more logical soction
of Alaska for some of this roward to be
sent than to our little cornerl Some child
—any child might win* irJhv not give your
eolf a chancel Get an entry in nowi
Nov/ on the Grp nd Jury in Anchorage
are Herman C• Shade and Andrew Roberts
ttlarkJs Point.
Of
Nora Dolera went to Bethel for medical
•are; Kathryn Tumerna to Anchorage for same
I>r• C. Earl Albrecht, Commissioner of
Health, expressed in a letter to Miss
Dorothy Gustafson his thanks and appre
ciation for the $350.35 which this town
contributed to the recent Chest X-Ray
Survey. He.. said concerted community ef
fort end aim were necessary in planning
and expediting such a program with such
excellent results. •*
In another attempt to furnish the
Public School hero with water, Carl Quis-W
berg*s crev; is now working with the in
fvllation of the new tank, etc. Orville
bias-well is in charge while Fred brakes?
ami ^al'an^el .baCKi'ora work with him*
bus Fohl is ao.mb some electrical work
at the schoci, toe.
• After a 7~woek .race nna is sane e survey
of A laska health problems, Dr* Tarraa
and party returned to Juraan struck es
pecially by the fact that approximately
half a mi stile* square irk law a,ad <26*003
people depend upon four paysiclam, and
eight hospitalel The doctors in thin
area arc stationed at Nome* Tanana* Bethel
and Kotzebue*, The greet bulk of. health
wor-k falls on public health nurses* a
group of ”fin3.» devoted* well-trained
women who are doing a wonderful' work11 ac
cording to Dr* Parran* Dean of The Grad
uate School of Public Health and formed
Surgeon General of the TJ*S«Publle Health
Service•
This survey wes requested by the 1S53
Alaska Legislature,
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and now she * s laying odds l
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