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Your Roving Reporter
Snatching a few days, to get away from
the monotony of a small town and the routine
chores connect cha mural living, your
Homesteader publisher finally caught an
Anchorage bound plane, alter trying for three
days to get transportation in that direction.
This is not a orine because we would rather
wait that long and longer than find oursel
ves piled up against a mountain or pancaked
on an isolated piece of kenai peninsula
tundra.. when we did take off, we had the
feeling that we would be delivered safely at
the anchorage airport &
and after a short hour of smooth sailing in
the winter twilight, we crossed the Inlet with
the lights of Anchorage before us, twinkling
like so many Xmas trees, as we landed we saw
what had been the promise of a January thaw
turned into another extreme cold snap, and
next morning temperatures of minus twenties
were being reported.
The big city, as they go in Alaska, was
showing signs of the strain from the long
drawn out strikes and in the lace of the new
strike threat be the carhenters, was not feel
ing too hilarious over the future, merchandis
as not too plentiful altho airborne herish
avies were to be had at a mice. Lowevermoo
heople were not grabbing for high priced.m
merchandise and with reports of lower prices
in the States, were holding off from gobbling up everything in sight.
This is a good sign of saner furchasing and will it followed up stop
the threat of inflation.
The town seems to have thrown away all their racors and have
gone all out for whiskers and staches, as advertising for their coming
February Fur Rendezvous. Some have trimmed their brush while others hav
just let her grow. They have so many greens sponsored by the different
groups, that your pockets become filled with tickets on the beautiful
Chrysler auto to be given away at the counting of the votes for their
carnival queen, 03
rahn
a week visiting friends and business acquaintances, we
emplaned on a beautiful Sunday morning, with the prospects of
after
iful view and a perfecty and Alaska me was model in confort.
and the service,
services. We would like to take this trip more often..
should be moud of her air