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SDIIDAY, May. 10, 1931 OHITIITAJ AMSKA
The Fit Cf The Year "EEHANA” loo Pool.USli&hMsves Every Year On Uhieh
Bets Are liad As To Uhat Time It
Goes Cut.
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Banana, Alaska. May. 1C.—- Youkon led gou.es Out at BE BABA. Spring is
realy hero, in Alaska. The ice "broke up ajr exactly 9:23 this morning.
The re was a pOol on it of $60,000.oo or therabou.tS. Three poeplw got
the pool, a bout §20,OCC.oo apiece for prizes at guessinhg the time
correctly. Tne man lives"( The winners jin Anohor&go, the other two in
Fairbanks. Ejyfioration" about the peoples name 1 s are not yet"Known.- The
winners on the poll must guess, the day, the hour, the minute. If no
one guesses dorrectly the person who is the nearest gets it. Alaskans
have bet on this ice for the last many years. The pool has never been
one by a resident of the Copper River Yallyv. bne year however, a man
who was a former resident of Chitina one it but he was living at Fa
irbanks at the time* It was about $36,(1 C.oc that year. It is said that
he was a strwet scavanger in Fairbanks at the time. But luck Knocked at
his door. We also heard that he bought his aged mother a house and a
chicken ranch inr the states, with 'the ttoney he tmm. Mrs. Al Moore g^
esfct the day right"today b-nt not tho h>-r and minute. Once Mr. Jjewis
Done hay fe bet was but 10 minutes "off. 0b.ee ".Tilliam Tibbs was 10 min
utes off. Mrs. Moore was 13 minutes off.
CeITIBA IUBttTE POOL OB BEBABA*
Chitin" has a minute po d1 on BEBABA. The day and the hour do not have
to bo guessed on this pool only the minute. The right minute was had
by Barry Mo ore of Chitina. "T-Tis prize totalRdd $6;Voo in all. This pool
does not apply to people out of town.
FROM THE HON* THE SECTY OF STATS AT WASHINGTON D.0* NOTICE.
By order of Gov. Parks. A' Claims Convention has been concluded with
the GovTt of PANAMA' providing for a Mixed Claims Com. to pass upon and
finally adjudicate all claims of American citizens against Panama. Will
consider all unsettled diplomatic claims which have arisn since the
Independence of the Republic of Panama Nov. 3, 1903, as well as the
claims of Panama citizens against the United States. Any person having
diplomatic claims should communicate immediately with the Dept of State
at Washington.. The time for prparction of claims is limited,and, un
der the terms of the Convention; all diplomatic claims not presented to
the Co$l. shall be barred from further consideration*n
LATEST POPtfLATlOE IEFCBMATIOE. The Census Director announces that
of the 59,278 population of Alaska, there are 26,350. males over 15 yrs
of age and but 14,818 females over that age. The number of persons
from 5 to 2^ yrs of age attending school in 193C was 9,133 as compared
6,455 it! 1920. Dr.mWrn. Hamilton, Ass't Chief, .alaskan Ifv. Office of
Edu*, published in the April number of SCHOOL LIFE, an illustrated art
cle on "From Barbarism to Civilization in 46 Years" telling of the trans
for of the work of nearly half a century in adapting a IlatiVo people 5f
thewYorth, to the white man's world. From the Office of Edu to the Bu
reau of Indian Affairs.
Taken from "The PASHKA" Sitka, Alaska, School paper.
If an S and an I and an 0 and a U, with an X at the end, spell Six;
And an E and a Y and a 3 spell I, Pray what is a speller to do?
I hen if also an and an I and a Gr and a Fi 3 P, spell side,
!h.oreTs nothing mnoh olso'for a spoiler to do
Bnt to go .and eomnit "sionxoyosighed*
^ ED KtfRTZ BixOE FROM TRE STATES MEMO ST MS GOOD MS ETEE. w
Ed Kurtz who was hurt more than a ybar ago when the train jumped the
track, and had to have his foot amputated at Eennocott hospital, is
now hack from the States with his wooden log, and getting about almost
as lively as over*