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FEBRUARY
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1959.
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fThe past four months has boon the coldest on average ever ,
recorded* for the Copper River Valley* Some deeply hurried water
{tfp&fe: that have never frozen before ara new temporarily out of
circulation* Some, wild animals have burroughed•s6 deeply thay will
not be--, able to surface before the 4th of July* There are quite a
number of horses wintering out on the rivor bars at Chisana ahd
•Korsefoldt. Thoy belong to Lou ^nderton, Larry roller, Harold Nickles
The hor»Q3.fo~d on buhch grass and pea vine and with little snow
in there it is reported that the horses arc doing vail rin‘spit’s ‘ff
the cold winter* The fortunate people were those who. coul’d afford
toitako, a^trip *tg^tho Caribbean this winter and miss some of this
fontofls cold* E^jt^having to come back might seem bad* , .
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sioiosst iin^©w- wce^SL.ago Susie Brickel' in not coming home alerted her
' trrath&ri. Paddyj Kijfig, to search for her* He found Susie.lying in a
snow .bonk sho was’jmablo to talk and froze pretty stiff* Boyf you
flinvel'to .ha^e ■ soma thing more than blood in your veins to lio outside
a few hours in 1C) below zero y/aothor* She was taken, to tho Bar and
rthai^^ut *aid*.tb£ju t0- tho. Glenallon. hospital whprq shq remained for
. a tTrm days *y-. Wo libapd thru local gossip that Susi-e^had ;§uf f orod .a
^/el iglitUdtr oKe and frost bitten knees* It is’ the ‘boliof 'of ^ome df
us that it was what you call a MU5KSTSL stroke and, M0G«*N D«*VID
knees*
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/ >'fnvlliyiric-.'ln Chitina this winter there are nineteen grownups
I and:six children'.,.Thoy consist of three married familys (thev have
h>‘the fclds) ,* Nine.- bachlors and four- -single* gala,- (fair, average; •
4 $JV%ry,body liv.o_s separately, except hysbonds .and, wives*. 4*
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The pnly time, a husband is sure .to be right is when-he
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M* VvfjJust a hell of a lot of TTeskans who voted for statehood
knew-i that it did not make any sense but it .seemed st go#d. to ( ,
obdlieyo that they jus\ couldn* t resist falling for it4 _ • ^ *
l »■ ■/.>' ;-;Roninds us of an: old maid be ok in Missouri who becamo s’#'
r/(, desperate* that* she prosecuted her c molingf lover for rape# During
ihe1 trial, the. rugged, old judge asKed her if she made, every of fort
-o*to restrain the do:ondant when he was imposing this outrage upon
< 'her*- She replied: "V/oll, Judge ,<.h guess *»h shud of resisted, but
i i you khow it just s o o - -; e d so good could^t”*
h.(. ■%>.. The juveniles and new-comers (15 years or less); who voted
■■•a. la/thi3 statehood just hopefully assumed that the politicians
ajej^d rtho «»1 a^ka press Knew what they wore talking about and were,
givingJthem tho honest dope#
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‘'iflME K^gazine says that a Mr. Jacobwits, a danco studio manager
" of'Dotrdit, is intending to lead a*caravan of 40 prospcctivo
; horrtoster.dors families to Moa.se Pass, Alaska this coming summer.
\'fMPiad Piper Jacobwitz and his followers have no illusions about
Alaska. fNo body’^says Jacobw.itz, *has the picture of a land of
^ pilk' arid honey. S V/e expect at least three years of hard work
..before anything pays off*,"
''' By way of being helpful wo suggest that Jacibwitz increase
his'‘margin to fifty • throe years, based on the experience of
'’homesteaders in the past* L«ng, long ago a loador'wh# hoped
-to lead some homesteaders into the From-isod Land had the good
vJudgement, to send a few men on ahead to "spy out” the land
...."before he plunged blindly in<
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M'-- * 1! **1 ' Once upon a time in the happy long ago Federal Employees
i.could accumulate 45 days of ?nnual leave. And the employees oven
\ had'free travej. time rnd maybe Jnclo even'7 pa id the faro to*and
t from the States. Ch, for the ^>od old d'ye of inequality# . ,,
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