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Trappers af.^tbir fort Yukon area
report snail.'catches of fox and 1vtul,
betj a heavy-catch of marten.
T -e successful for farms of Alaska
ope -ixe «• a pelt basis rather yipn
ypjnig upon high prices fyr iireod
ic^itock as formerly-prevailed.
EL Homing, proognec;, Anch
orage pilot, an<i Louise JL Shannon,
fonucrly of Anchorage, were issued a
xr.alriage licrnre in Seattle aoout Pe
rth,her 2U, uueording to word which
reached Anchorage recently. Horning
is L cetera^ transport pilot..'
The schoofs.at Fart _ Yukon .have
het^t closed because, pf four mild cas
as -f scarlet fever.- The illnas* de
.Tpkaed after Christinas and prevent
ed the .etisdbmaj-y Vew Year’s Testi
fies. Movies, dances and. other
politic. gatherings were _ saspendec.
Th* annual p< tlait k was called off.
XeaHy buried in.a snowdrift near
the. Fish Creek dredge, 25- miles from
Fau hanks recently, Jock Isaacson, 56
years old. ^ts found leaf'this yceek
He: had .been missing a week,.and a
search party found he had taken tut
wrong trai; while walk jig here aloj^fe.
r. 'xbanlis Creek.
Between 2o0 and 300 persons .have
mo' -d from .the -slide danger syea ta
>. • - r arts of the oify in Junean,. ac
cruing to recent reports- in Anchor
age. The exodfas han. respited w five
apartment bouses and" doseas of
homes betng vacated. If is -.jinder
3 to Oft. several persons have left Ju
neau entire!ybecause of the -slides. _
A total of 300 tons j>f Matanuska.
raffeyt coal was .sent .to’ Juneau.re
cently; It. is the hr.-t, fime.in years,
that Alaska, cod! has .gone so .. f ar<
sou t.h. The government-chartered
ships taking emergency supplies to
the Territory fit® Seattle did not
terry cord north. Matanuska coal
is being u*>d .to refuel the. boats itr
Seward.
The Alaska Juneau Gold Mining
Company. reports. December; opera-,
tions- snovred preliminary net income
of $1110,700 before taxes pr depletion.
—a *fcofinv-a4 $^>>ddo from..Novem
ber ret ami. but well up .from tbe
$l'€JKd) .net income of December
1935. Total 1936 net income wap
$£.S2a.7Qd, "the best in the compdi*y£
history.
Mrs_ John Powers, wife of Senator
Powers, was taken to the Fairbanks
hospital with both, feet’ badly frozen
due oj a night spent on. the trail with
the .temperature 40; degrees below
tea*. early in January. Mrs.- Powers,
was. carrying mail for her husband
what sne became exhausted. Becom
ing' .sleepy, she lay dawn in the-.show
and' slept all night. Fhe was- found'
‘he jjf-xi xiu»„-ning, ' ”
The National Emergency Relief
Council recently- stated that expend
itures for relief in Alaska for the
first 11 months qjL 1936 totaled!
$3,361 ,£30. Expenditures- for 1935 to
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t&led $4JI33,678. Last year's spend
ing included $2,5S5,887 by the FERA,
$239,978 ir. emergency, conservation
work, ?114,0.j0 from PWA. $51,690
I from the agricultural department,
$28,080 from WPa! and $370,077 by
all other agencies.
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Natives, have been forced to aban
don their roundup of reindeer at j
Point* Barrow. on account of , the
valves scattering.the herds. Eight
een thousand animat wti' counted j
and marked, herders .reporting that
many caribou have mixed with the
reindeer. The herders reported that
they would spend the dav rounding
up the reindeer and driving them
•into a corral only to have them.scat-:
, tcred again at night by ( forays of
wcises
Bernard SI. Stone. 62, for _ mere
than .30 years a newspaperman in
''Alaska-and until recently, editor and
manager of the Fairbanks News-Min
er, died recently at Sar. Francisco.,.
“Benrie,’ as his friends knew _ him,
came to Alaska duriag the gold Tush,
.and was widely known. He was in
charge- of the Nome .Nugget jgditar
in 1902 and guided it through the i
hectic years of the stampede_He
later punchasea the- Sewaru Gateway
and at one time was associated with
the Anchorage Daily lime®.
Snit was. filed in-the federal dis
trict court at .Juneai} recently by,
Gust Erickson, wtao^e wife was killed)
I in the landslide there .last. November,
against the Alaska Juneau Gold Min
iing Company asking $16,000 for her!
oeath and $4J>0« for the loss of their,
house and additional sums for the,
.contents of the house. Erickson seeks
a total of $23,593 from the company i
: on. hii contentions that the slide was
caused by negligence on the . part of
the firm in permitting logs and. rocks <
to lie on the mountainside. The suit;
claimed the logs and rocks were loos-!
ened by heavy rains and caused the
! slide.
Paul Ouellette, a pajuled corvid
from McNeil’s Island. federal peni
tentiary, was arrested m Anchorage
recently, charged with attempting to
break into the fur room of Kos’os
kyrs Store. Ouellette was bound over,
to the grand, jury. He is charged
with breaking the glass in the rear
skylight of the store. Iron bars pre-„
vented hi# entrance. According to,
evidence brought out at .the hearing,
John Ke^ote was in the alley ha^k ..f.
Fourth. a> ers*e when he heard glass
breaking- and spied a figure .cromh^pl
near the fear skylight of K<fslpskj'si
store. The figure jumped to ,.tba1
ground aoo ran under a street, light,
enabling Mr. Kenote to see him
clearly. Ouellette was sentenede. to-a
year and a day in McNeil's- Is-land
prison in January of last, year Sot-'
burglary in Fairuanks, officials said. ■
He- served nine manths of the sen.-^
tence and was out on. parole.
AShlU GOVERNMENT AID -
SACRAMENTO, Feb. 11 — State
Senator Thompson today asserted
that the State pension- plan is going
to make a powh^uae out of Calif
ornia and asked for - government aid
in keeping out transients who are in
vading California, for the purpose of
establishing residence and drawing
pensions.
SOCIAL SECURITY
ACT AFFECTS MANY
Apporrimately 18,000 Alaskan
workers will benefit by the federal
Speial Security program, according to
3ugh J. W ade, Alaska administrator
f the prog.-am with headquarters in
Juneau.
The immediate purpose of the Al
aska offiae is to furnish t'^.postoffife
department the maximum service-and
c. . pfiation in the department s pro
B'su for setting up of initial wage
records and assignment of SocialSe
cority account numbers to the indus
trial and commercial, workers for
wnoni; federal old age. Pepc-fits have
betun. to accrue.
Distribution of t h p application
blanks for the program to employers
and workers by the post office was
to have begun in November, but the
odnsignment to Anchorage and the
Bail belt has been delayed because of
strike canditu ns.
The Alaska office of the Social Se
■»rity program, will not carry on thtJ
actual work of setting up of initial
Bra6e recorCs and assignmen of Social
Spcipity account numbers to the es
timated 18.OGCi Alaskan workers for
whom the federal old-age benefits be
gan^to accrue on January 1.
Setting up wage records and as
'iF’iment of Social Security account
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numbers will, involve (1) filling in an
application form by the individual
employe: (2) making a permanent of
fice record based on the application:
and ISt returning the .individual
worker a card certifying that an ac
count has been -set up in this manner.
One of the duties of the Alaska of
fice will be to provide employes, em-,
ployers and all other interested per
sons with accurate information re
garding federal old-age benefits and
their rights and. obligations under
these benefits, -
The major function of the Alaska
office will be to maintain the local
contacts necessary to the administra
puid to qualified workers reaching the
age of 6 - .en .or after January
1942, and urw^ftj-o-hich lump-sum pay
merits will be made to those entitled
to them, beginning January 1, 19,‘,7.
The amount of the benefits will be
determined by the wage record of the
individual.
Further details of the permanent
Alaska prog; am for administering
federal old-age benefits are being
worked out, and when decisions^ are
reached, public amvouneements will
be made.
TWO MISSING IN SURE
KAMLOOP, B. Cg Feh. 11;—A snow
siide crashed into a snowplow and
hu.-tied it over,* 50-f<xt,emb*pk«ient.
All the crew escaped except the en- .
gipeer and ^conductor. Workmen are .
diggnig to find and jinec^y ^h* bod
ies
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LAWRENCE'S PLAGE
HARRY LAWRENCE. PRpPi* 4
When in. Flat, stop at Lawrence’s Piac^ W# a»%.»
open at all hours. Good Dog Bar as in coonecMpo,
Through La pence’s Place you. can ohlain. ,
Liquors of ail kinds. Also Wines apd Beer. .
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