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,1 'j dscvr&ilsms la Alaska ALSASKA i, , Juneau, Alaska - ' May 18, 1953 , Dear Sin: ' . This time X send you an article from Juneau, the Capital of our territory. I hope you can catch a gleam of what I feel about the trip here - or, rather the trip here. It : is impossible to put in words any of the grandeur and the beauty of , this marvelous land. Human at tempts to discribe only seem to detract from the picture. Yet, the puny efforts of man have done very little towards changing the land though they have done much to change the nature of living of people who inhabit this land. Thursday night - or rather around 4 o'clock on Friday morning V- I left Dot Lake with a Presbyterian minister. We motored down the Alaska Highway to Whitehorse -the Capital city of the Yukon ter ritory of hospitable Canada. I see no reason why they wouldn't be hospitable for Uncle Sam has for years played Santa Claus to them. Distances in Alaska are tremend ous - as a matter of fact one must speak almost entirely in terms of superlatives wnen one mentions anything about "Our Land of The Northern Light" and "Midnight Sun." Qur mountains are not Just tall mountains but the tallest on the entire continent Our glaciers are among the worlds, largest and most magnificent "We have one of the worlds greatest rivers and IOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO o LUMBER and BUILDUPS o ...65. ...00. ... 70. 9196 InsaUUon Bd. -per ,s. ft ...... Windows Complete with frames ... Door ............. 10.00 7.50 1x5 1x0-1 xt nw M tru . ... O Flooring per M. ... f x 42 x 0 per M. X x 10 x 15" 6" per M. W Stoves .............. 2 COMPLETE or SECTIONALIZED BUILDINGS ; for Sale Also ripe ana many uincr items . O Salesmen On Premises Dally A. M. til 5 P. M. V o STAR LUMBER CO. (Hot Inc.) 2 O o o o o o q BIdg. 100 Seymour Johnson Field Q Telephone 3112 Box 140 oooooooooooooooooooooooo Goldsboro, N. C. 2 IOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o xm , Give purpose to their great sacrifice. ; -';V- S'. - . ;' ' , l Exercise your rights as an American. ' ? ' . " u "' ' " Bank your money with us . O O o o o o o o o o T "Make Our Bank Your Bank" Dank Of Lit. Olive MT. OLIVE O o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o CALYPSO O IOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO we have incomparable scenery. The distance from Point Baroow to Ket chikan is about as great as that from Mew York City to San Fran cisco - from Juneau to Fairbanks in further than from Miami to New York City. Even so in spite of great distances Alaskans, get around quite a lot f or they fly more than any other people on earth. . . ..Whitehorse Is on the Yukon and is, as frontier a Canadian town' as Fairbanks is an American town. The people are optomistic - looking unafraid and confidently towards the future. They accept the present not as lifes goal or end - but as a stepping stone to better days ahead. They expect the general trend of Canadian affairs to shift from-the east to the west - and especially to the Northwest , We in Alaska feel the same way - es pecially those who look with un biased eyes to the greatness of our land, Northern Canadians are fully as aware of their closeness to and interdependence upon Amer icans s we are upon them. We cannot even drive to Alaska with out passing through thousands of miles oi Canadian territory, we eat the same foods, wear the same winter resistant clothes and share the same problems, (the growing pains of a pioneer people). Two years ago I felt- hurt when life long Alaskans looked at me with suspicion and with something ,akin to resentfulness - now I understand why that feeling is there.'It isnt exactly a feeling of resentfulness - but a feeling of pity - pity for those who try to reform their land. The reformers only become re formed and nave to learn how to conform to the Alaskan living con ditions - if they survive. If they persist in feeling that they have come as missionaries to lift the living standards of the poor Alas kan backswoodsmen - then they'll meet their defeat and retreat all the way back to their old habitats and good riddance. We arose Saturday morning to board the most remarkable train I've ever seen the White Pass and Yukon train. We left "Whitehorse around 8:30 a. m. and Immediately began to arise above the river level and go over the nearby mountains. Soon though we reached a flat table land and traveled for half an hour over this plane. After two hours we had reached Car cross - an old supply point for the men of the "98" days. I hoped to purchase films for my C3 Argus here but couldn't for they hadn't any at the sole store. Here we came, upon historic old Lake Bennet We trav elled for 50 miles long its shores. The frozen surface of the lake was used formerly and still is used so as a travel route for gold seekers. Over this route literally thousands came between 1895 and 1902. Many of them met disaster - freezing, being crushed by snow slides and avalanches or the like. The narrow gauge locomotive had to be joined by a second at the end of Lake Bennet - for here it had to ascend the passes that were formerly so death dealing to many pioneers on foot - the White Pass and the Chilkoot Pass. The magic splendour of - these hills is indes cribable and terrifying - for one unaccustomed to such rides Become friehtened at the stupendous heights above and the equally stupendous denths below. 'The trip took 7 hours jjet halt a century ago it took V . ' .' a ...1 men, Draver ana muic yywaiui than myself two weeks to make the same trip if they survived at all. These early pioneers had gone across the passes into Lake Bennet and on into the adjoining Yukon River , - from whence they naa floated more than a thousand miles to coints strung along the river Dawson - Forty Mile - Eagle Circle City and Fort Yukon, eventually even Fairbanks and Nome, inese cities grew up - struggled and died as gold ran out yet even today all of them mine gold). Dawson had 50,000 souls, Eagle 3,000, circle 3,000, rrrD feaagway lo,u and i u, i Ail of tuese are ghosts of tueir lrmer selves. They are dead but not burled for in each lives handful of the original pioneers and they keep alive the hopes that each will one day be THE snot on the Yukon. During the days of "98", When men were literally crawling into the Yukon country, there was little order on the American side of the international border - so all the crooks and scalawags from the en tire Yukon skipped to points of vantage in American territory - driven there by the sturdy North west Mounties. Towns like Shag- way had tough go of main tuning even a semblance of order. Vigilante committees were formed. Even sq gangsters controlled, even these committees. Soapy Smith was per. haps the most notorious of all Skag way's crooks. He terrified the trail Into Canada - robbing men who returned with their hard earned gold dust until he was one day challenged by a man named Reid. Both the challenger and the chal lenged died. Today I wonder which Skagway Is prouder of. Not ' one told me about Beid - but several told me, "this Is where Soapy Smith did this or that" Robert Service, the poet of the Yukon spent much time at Skagway.-'.:-1 vi-v vv- Along with the thousands of har dy men who came - also came scores of women who were just as cour ageous probably even more so.. Some came to accompany their men some .came to establish legitimate businesses (such as restaurants) and some came to establish illegitimate businesses. Two of these women will - suffice to mention - Mary Pullen and Mollie Walsh. Both es tablished lodges and served the needs of men in and near Skagway: Mary Pullen established Pullen House (which still stands in Skag way) and Mollie Walsh established her lodge a tew miles out on the trail. There, alone, for two years she fed, cared for and comforted many men. Then a group of foul playing men robbed her and slew her. Today a monument stands In Skagway to the Aonrage of this virtuous girl for she was about 18 years old at death. J spent Saturday night at Skag way - in the Pullen House oi course. This town Impresses me even to-' day. There is every liklihood that it will even yet ' be a metropolis -someday for even now the Alum inum Company of America is try inn to gain right by negotiation to use Canadian water and develop a 800 million dollar Aluminum plant at Skagway. Sunday morning I left this quaint old town via plane for Juneau. This trip was just about as interesting and as scenic as the one from Whitehorse to Skagway. We flew over the Lynn Canal past Haines and Port Chilkoot .over many glaciers - alongside tannic mount ains as tall as ten thousand feet. We passed over islands and over tiny appearing fishing boats in tne bay.' The most impressive glacier was Mendenhall - any student of geography has learned something about it You just can t take a glac ier home as souvenir. Juneau impressed me too - from the first moment that I saw it. It is perched on steps - like a ladder .- up the side of the hills here. It can't go further East nor can it expand, to the West, only can- it become longer and longer. The town is on .the famous Lynn Canal or Gastineau channel (inland Pass age). It has imposing schools, chur ches, : streets, homes, and state buildings. Its hotels are as good as those any place. The Baranof Hotel here is equal to the Sir . Walter, the O'Henry, the Washington Duke or any other, hotel in North Caro lina. You can find anything you want to buy - from soup to dough nuts - steaks to salmon steaks (and at prices only two thirds as high as in Fairbanks). The population here is more or less permanent - as there is very little transient labor. Right now most fishermen are pulling in their loads of Salmon and other fish. There are scores of fishing boats here. All in all Juneau is a pretty good all-around American town, You folks would De prouq ox ner. , . - i . -rer. This new t. explained tr C. r hit of the N. C 1 I ... t u:d. . g was sreclal- . e Ex- See us r; .7 ; ? yczx i tobacco cu::i7.3 We EecoEESzzJ ILzzi . To You . I Mount Olive, N.C. f a I lowing t,i io Lve UnA gredients it t . T Y II D u L L raox2z::s Home of Wayne-EtfElSa Burial Association Fnaeral Directors - EmtalaMti Istaame SerrtM Day or K!s! pi es: mf. a -g . 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Added head, leg, elbow-room . , Cffifjf tii9 ghras yee ell Ihb added Sab' Takes curves like a true sports car Oversir Safe-Guard hydraulic brakes AnU-distortion curved winObhield ' t "f t ";t glvM V n ' DMHItyl f 1 xtra-mtTffed box-girder frame Longer-laating baked enamel finish Solid, substantial Dodge construction DODGE TOPS Alt 8'. f7S M MOBUGAS ECONOMY RUM W' ' I ' Specification 'and, tuipmtnt tublxt to chanm without nntiw. Sinceriy Alsa F. Gavin An estimate- 67.5, per ceht of all farms purchased in the U. $. during the fiscal year ending March 1053 were bought oa credit Some 36,635 North Carolina farms sold dairy products in' 1990. ' Summer Driving Courses For School Folks Raleigh Summer courses in driver education for teachers, prin cipals, and other safety workers will begin the first week In June according to John C. Noe of. the N. C. Department of Public In struction. Two week and one week courses will be offered with the trainees expenses being borne by other cooperating agencies among them the State Department of Motor Vehicles, N. C. Automobile Dealers Association, . American Automobile Association, The Carolina Motor Club, Association of Casualty and Surety Companies, and the N. C. Association of Insurance Agents, Inc. A limit registration last year forced the cancellation of five driver education courses, Noe said. "The matter of providing neces-J sary expenses for rooms, meals, and transportation creates a major bot tleneck and greatly limits attend ance of these summer courses. How ever, in many areas of the state civic clubs, auto dealers groups and others have provided scholar ships covering such expenses for teachers from their local commun ities. If your community has an organization or individual who wishes to provide their local school with such scholarship the cost will be approximately $39 for one week courses and $50 for the two week courses. No tuition is charged and the colleges make rooms available to trainees at cost" ' ' The first driver education courses, tar? white teachers,' will- begin' at East Carolina college June o. dead line for applications is June 1 and applications should be forwarded to Dr. N. M. Jorgenson, New Gymnasium Building, , E. C. C. Greenville. Later courses will be conducted on the following schedule: White: N. C. State College be ginning June 29. Applications to be sent to E. W. Rueeles. Extension Division, N. C. State College, Ral eigh by June 15. University of North Carolina be ginning July 6. Applications. - to Hammond Strayhorn, Woolen Gym nasium, U. N. C Chapel Hill bx June 29. .' Western Carolina Teachers ' Col lege beginning July 27. Applications to W. E. Bird, Administration, W. C. T. C, Cullowhee by July 20. Appalachian State Teachers Col lege beginning August 17. Applica tions to Chappell Wilson, Adminis. stration Building, A. S. T.. C, Boone by July 20. - Negro: Elizabeth City State Teach ers College beginning June 15. Applications 'to S. D. .- Williams, Elizabeth City State Teachers Col lege, Elizabeth City by June 8. 'Fayetteville State Teachers Col lege beginning July 20. Applications to J. a Douglas, Administration Building, F. & T. C, Fayetteville by July 6. Application and registration forms may be secured from local school principals or by writing John C. Noe, N. C Department of Public Instruction, Baleigh. I ' . t 'v j BENNETT DEAVEE Bennett Deaver, 69, of Wolfs crape Township, died at 5 p. m. Saturday at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Ernest Gurlay, of Warsaw, Route 2. He had been ill for a year. Surviv ing are three daughters, Mrs. Gur ley, Mrs. Alton Kennedy of Rich lands 'and Mrs. George Underbill of Four Oaks; four sons, Emmett of Kinston, Jimmy of Dudley, Rich ard of Calypso and Henry Deaver of Magnolia; and 20 grandchildren. Funeral services were held Monday at 2 p. m. at the home of Mrs. Gurley, conducted by the Rev. Johnny Miller, Pentecostal Holiness minister of Faison. Burial was 'In the Mark Smith Cemetery near Deep Run. POULTRY MEETING ' "Democratic feeding' of chickens was the mai ntopie of discussion Wednesday at the annual Poultry 0 oni . f own " O' CSWllllANa DtMY MOBUCK, mt, rp-AvVrrtWKll, M. c, . OWOUARTUQUD DAIKY PRODUCTS 'AyrrrmitHC tUMBERTON. N, C DB. H. W. COLWEUL Optometrist Wallace. North Carolina Offlce Phone: 2051 ReslMioa: 8440 dittos;! 'Old Photographs Restored Portraits' Oommecclal Phhtnmnhw ., WeeTdiags, Parties, Anniversaries and Identification Photos LANIER STUDIO . At Wallace - - -Sittings Nights and Sundays By Appointment ' THE DUPLIN TIMES Published each Thursday In KenansrHle, N. C County Seat af DUPLIN COUNTY Editorial, business office and printing plant, KenansvUle, N. C JT. ROBERT GRADY, EDITOR OWNER ' . Entered At The Post Office, KenansvUle, N. C . as second class matter. TELEPHONE KenansvUle, Day 855-6 Wight 1&V1 SUBSCRIPTION SATES: I WO per year Daplio. Lenoir ; Jones, Onslow, Pender. Sampsow, New Hanover and Ways eomnttes; 4J0 per year outside this area In North CaraUaa; and $5.00 per year elsewhere. Advertising rates furnished oa request. ' A Duplin County Journal, devoted to the religions, material, ' educational, economlo and agrlenltaral development of DasUn . County. ... 1 S?' Mr'1 ( N A TfON A I f D I T O R IA I AbCTrgN c :Trp Li kj U Li pooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooc O' i ' '' j ' ' ' k. war .W 'T , who safeguards the Family's Health i Adjustali!e Mel :'a r-"crtp hood can he ctac-l to direct beat i t 1 1 rt of tut bars yon desue. Extra ihi' ct i banters a yeSowing does not erixsp , tobacco Vi...e t s. ( Clear bine Ca -- , t "rt by old reliable maker of cook , that gives von . Je service and ma nam fceBe-t ttout year fuel. . Hood and curer b ' of new Galvanized sheets and tastaZci " with gaiTauej t . , v Cnrert to both 4 or f lamer units or any eomblnaSon of ua to give proper beat for any size barn. a ''' .i'crrrs ts r-cn 24 currrs fits.es . . F.O.B. tfanfy N.'c. o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o O - o o o O' o o o o 0 -. V-f- -i' " -w '" . 0 ) " 1 '-i 9 3 -v .. w : j best and milk is best! Thank yon, Mom, for serving enough milk every day (at least one quart for the children, one pint for the grown-ups). Wise Mother .knows nutrition authorities call milk ''the most important single ' food." Careful Mother values milk's Vitamins A for skin health VJ , '- -l ' . .': ' " V- ' ' - - ' ' '" ' 'J ":" "' - '":' i'--' "' '''' '('- i'- " 1 ' and good eyesight, the Bs to fight fatigue and nervousness, D for sunshine goodness - its minerals, ' Calcium and Phosphorus for strong bones and teeth Protein for buildingand repairing body tissue and muscle - Butterfat for quick energy. Yes, Mother knows Konry, N. C. ' ILono t:. mm l' J ,,,4 jr kl 1 1 lie
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