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CHITINA, ALASKA
LICK DOf/NiNG, JOHN' DeLEO k JOHN HOOTS
of Cordovp„,Alaska,have just rec*d the
highest honors of thhe Boy Scouts ef
America:they are EAGLE Scouts* They
must have had to work very hard. We
quote from the Scout Handbook: For
Eagle ranki *¥21 merit badges,firstaidj
LIFEsaving,athletics,public health etc
etc etc etc.
' SHAKE, OLD SCOUTS.
We Uhitina fellows
hope that we can do
that well some day,
13 is A LUCKY NUMBER THIS SPRING
On Wednesday Apr .13th,a party of Na
tive, pupils from Mrs.DelehanUs school
unfrer-tfte~-supervrs/ion- of Agnes daugh
&¥ 5' jo ^n^^p.^ny ,,daught;e r
! &f the late Comfort Joe,went upTthq
mou$tpn; sideHbabk i df Hs cho p IQ Ip - ■
nd4hg -1 o "$t bk~ the v;pasqUer'f 1 owers’ !
which thpy thot they might find on
..the sumny sides of the slopes; The
snow, melting made so much mud,they
’■got all dirty scratched on the way
Up and. down,But they were very suc
cess full picking several big bouquets
of these lovely purple flowers.They
are usually almost as big as a tulip
and just the same shoe.They have hoi-,.
low stems, like a dandelion only sil
.r cry green .plushy with fur .The leaves
ate of the,same texture and color as
the.*st$ms.Only they dqnH grow a bit
, like sword shape tulip.leaves. These
blossoms look royaly beautiful on the
hillsides-with big patches scattered
around so bright purpleright near the
melting snow.Th'ey • are the f irst mes
sehgers of spring.Coming eveyn before
• .the birds,soon after the Sun comes
back,following the long cold*, dark win
ter.No fragrance .but much beauty is '
, what these. first flowers of spring hava
• THE' FINAL ROUND U?y Harold GillAm
^prob^blyr lLr^ak*^; ho^vf inp^ -H^il trip
to. Chitina for t his wintor ,as itife Sake, -
. is s oggy and -the- traltf doming -In1 only
** a f~ew -days moreVJheK last c2r mails ' have
" b een ■ eixtaor di n ary fine s er Vi c e. TWO -
airplan e mails in 3 days. fr dm the Ad *
... miral boat first, thenfrom the Alaska.
V CARL NICKOLAI & LAWRENCE COUNCIL of
1 the Eklutna, Alaska, boap ding school
for Indian children,wrote to the HER
ALD recently that they are learning
a lot about lots of different'things.
.They ^send us their.school paper, too:. ,
"PM OF THE PILOTS FROM FAIRBANKS';lit
at Copper “Center* a few days ago “but
.in .the snowbank-,and broke his prop.
He is having a*mechanic out there to
fix'it for him.The landing field out
there is rough as trucks have mussed
^fche snow we have•heard.
*■ ^ *• ■ • • . a
THE EEOTECOTT*EJO> OF THE R.R.is send'
ing a train into Chitina 5c back the*
first round trip this spri ng,tomorrow.
APRIL 17,1832.
WE REG *3) THIS PERTINENT CONTRXBOIimT
Sitting up here on the top of" the.,
world where we are not so confused '•
hy the'noise and blinded by thjs cch
fusion,we sometimes think that we
wee the situation as a whole more "
clearly thn,n some other people .You
see-we are modest if nothing- else.
Now we s ee a lot of stuff in all d
the magazines,newspapers and over
the radio,where self-appointed dieq:i -
leaders .like the President and the;
Rotarians and the Kiwanisbs and a
lot of people are urging everybody
to spend their money'and buy now,
while prices are low,materials are
dirt cheaper than they ever will be
again,and stocks can he had at bar
gains (e;^ected a
. - gain*. tiirtb ;
' JohA, ihg' on uhn' Indij. -
an* in nis'store and**the4NatiVe^waW
1 o eking - at a roll' of clo th wi th the
idea of buying it. John knows Indi
ans so he was not saying a thing
but wad letting the Indian make. hj.£
own judgment about the cloth. A gen
erous and well meaning stranger who
•was standing by thot to help the
sale along ,so he stepped "up and
knowingly examined the cloth and .
remarked,"That is fine cloth". The'
Indian didnot become much enthused
and asked,^"You think him hiyu good
cloth?" "You bet that is good clot]
said the stranger. "You think price
hiyu gOod/"asked the NatiYe. "oh
that is a very good price,hiyu (heap
REPLIED THES TRANGERr "You think:
hiyu cheap,afcybody glad buy at tot
price" persisted the Indian. "Oh -.
yes,that is a big bargain at that ?
price",said the Stranger. "Allxi^it
you b$ty ,him then1* said the Indian
and' walked away.
We think the quick way to restore
confidence is to quit all this gen*
erous»:-ady i}eq; about buying bargains,
If these generous . ad'vizers .would
just- tur n p,ig s-qdfi sh .apd ,go .out, &
buy up these bargains and not'let
anyone know they had bot them, and
then just keep on buying them so
that-none of the rest of us could
ge t ih op the bargains;,and no t ie 1
it get out that they were-taking'
advantage of the bargains,things
would be diffeic ent.Wef re suspicas cr
the stranger who foregoes the oppor
tunity himself & steers us up to a bargain.
(To be continued next week)
when the Trainmen started to get
the R.R. open'from Cordova to Chit?
ina last week,the first day they
got only to Mile 7 out of Cordova*
In a few days they were at Mile 62
and now the Rotary is at 92* Soon
the trains will be running again,&
lying overnight at Chitinadhe train
crew are having to pick the snow &
ice loose from the track .then the
rotary plow knocks the soft snow off,
(Kore nev/.s on bnals. o.'f "tHie site c t e }