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R As I SIT HERE, ALASKA. IT IS THE YEAR THE DESIRE COVES TO ME TO FECOUNT THE STORY OF MY RECENT TRIP TO ISES, THE YEAR OF THE RIG GOLD RUSH IN ALASKA. ALASKA HAS JUST BECOME THE 49TH STATE OF THE UNION, I, LIKE MANY CF MY FORMER CLASSMATE3 OF '49 AM ON MY WAV TO ALASKA SOMEDAY. AT THE AIRPORT AND CARRY GROCERY STORES ALL OVER THE UNITED STATES. THE PLANE WHICH TAKES ALASKA IS THE EXQUISITE DESIGN OF THAT MASTER DESIGNER, FRANCIS PLUMONDORE, PILOTED BY THE ONE AND CNLY DON DAVENPORT ABLY ASSISTED BY RAYMOND GIFFORD, BETTY SEARLS IS CHIEF HOSTESS ON THE PLANE AND IS ASSISTED BY LAURELL WOLFE T0 CET A GLIMPSE OF THE PRGSPERING STATE....MAYUE T0 SFTTLE THERE TO SEE JE OFF WAS MY OLD PAL, DYANN KAHNY, WHO OWNS SEVERAL CASH ME TO AND IS CO-PILOT. AND TEN JUNIOR HOSTESSES. THERE WAS NO DCUBT IN MY MIND AS T0 ARRIVING AT VY DESTINATION SAFELY. WHEN I ARRIVED IN ALASKA, FRED KOEHLER, THE MAYOR OF HIS FAIR CITY, FAIRBANK3, AND THE MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL, AUOREY SCHNEPP, ANNA HUHMAN, EULA MARIE SMITH, JAMES MAY, JACK PHILLIPS, AND WILLIAM CARROLL WERE ON HAND T0 GREET ME- FRED TELLS ME THAT JERRY YOUNG OPERATES A VERY EXCLUSIVE NIGHT CLUB NAMELY uSMO0CHVILLA,' THAT I MIGHT BE INTERESTED IN VISITING. IMMEDIATELY I DECIDED TO VISIT THE NIGHT CLUB. As I ENTER THE SWANKY NIGHT CLUB, I AM ESCORTED TO MY TABLE BY GLEN CARMONY wuo IMMEDIATELY RECOGNIZED ME ANU CALLED MY ATTENTION TO THE TWO SINGING WAITERS, GENE STOCKMAN AND LYLE OLSON, A DANCING SEKTET WHICH INCLUDES ETHEL CAIN, PHYLLIS CLAPP, LILLIAN OLEJNIK, UELBERT SHARER, DAVID BAVLI K AND PAUL HILL GAVE US THEIR VERSION OF THE RASPA, IT WAS VERY GOOD, IN FACT SO GOOD THEY HERE CALLED BACK FOR AN ENCORE- THE OUTSTANDING PLAYERS IN JERRY'S ORCHESTRA ARE IVY BENNETT ON THE SAUSLPHONE, VERNE CRONE PLAYING HIS CLARINETTE, AND THAT WELL KNOWN SAXAPHONE PLAYER, DAVID HOPP, BETTER KNOWN AS nHOT LIPS HOPPn' THE ORCHESTRA WAS CONDUCTED BY THAT MAN nTHAT'S MAD ABOUT MUSIC,' ROBERT SEARLS- AFTER SPENDING A VERY ENJOYABLE EVENING AT nSMOOCHVILLA,n I CALLED A TAXI TO TAKE ME TO HY HOTEL ROOM, WHEN THE TAXI ARRIVEC, I NOTICED THERE WAS A WOMAN DRIVER. 'MY GOODNESS, GERRY DAIMLER, NHAT ARE YOU DOING DRIVING A TAXI IN ALASKATn Wvou HAVE TO TRY EVERYTHING ONCE,n WAS HER EXPLANATION, AFTER WITNESSING WHAT I WOULD CALL A VERY HAZARDOUS RIDE, I SETTLED MYSELF COMFORTABLY IN MV HOTEL ROOM FOR A MUCHLY NEEDED REST, THE NEXT DAY, I DECIDED TO DO MORE VISITING AND REVIEWING OF OLD ACQUAINTANCES. I FOUND THAT JERRY MARKHAM IS PRESIDENT OF THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF ALASKA. JERRY IS KEPT VERY BUSY EXAMINING ONE ARE IN TOWN, NRAIN, RAIN GO AWAY SO THE ROSEMARY SNOOKS WHO ARE RUNNING CHILDREN, THEY EKCLAIMEC, NTHIS I ALSO FOUND THAT BOB GRASHORN IS A SALESMAN WORKING FOR KOLD KIST ICE DOLLAR BILLS AS HE KNOWS SOME OF HIS FORMER CLASSMATES LITTLE CHILDREN MAY PLAY, WEINGS MARY SHOCKEY AND A DAY NURSERY. WHEN ASKED HOW THEY LIKED CARING FOR IS WHAT WE HAVE ALWAYS DREAMED OF DCINGon BERG COMPANY, IT SEEMS BOB HASN'T BEEN PROSPERING TOC WELL AT THE BUSINESS OF SELLING I3EBERGSo NORMA DECKER AND LA VERNE LEWIS AFE FLOOP BOUNCERS AT ONE OF THE WOFLIV5 LARGEST ICE SKATING RINKS SITUATED IN THE HEART OF FAIRBANKS, ON A BILLBOARD OUTSIDE THE SKATING RINK I NOTICED SOME FAMILIAR FACES, YES, THOSE FAMILIAR FACES BELONG TO MARY PEARSON, GENEVIEVE GILL AND UCLA TERPENING, THEY COMPOSE THE INTERNATIONALLY KNOWN NGLOOMER GIRLH DANCING TRIO WHICH IS MAKING A SHORT APPEARANCE IN FAIRBANKS-
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THE OTHER DAY, AS I wAs WALKING DOWN FRIENDS AND CLASSNATES, HARLOW Loucxs AND WHEN THEY TOLD ME THEY WERE co-EDITORS OF WTHE ALASKA 0UTRAGEen IN ONE OF THE HOST THE STREET, I RAN INTO TWO OF MY OLD DARRELL HAMEL. I WAS VERY SUPRIBED ONE OF ALASKA'S LARGEST NEWSPAPERS, RECENT ISSUES, I NOTICED WHERE DOCK HUNT NAS WRESTLING WITH A POLAR BEAR AND WAS FINED S20 BY Zoo KEEPER LARRY LEE FOR MISTREATMENT TO ANIMALS. I WONDER WHY DOCK DOESN'T PICK ON SOMEONE HIS OWN SIZE. WHO WOULD EVER HAVE DREAMED THAT UOLORES RICHARDSON WOULD STILL BE AT ALASKA STATE COLLEGE? SHE .YUST HAVE LIKED IT AEI?-'ULLY WELLS YES, SHE I8 SEEING TO IT THAT OUR GRAND-CHILDREN AND GREAT GRAND-CHILDREN GET A EALANCED DIETn SHE HAS BEEN GIVEN THE TITlE OF BEST DIETICIAN IN THE STATE OF ALASKA, SPEAKING OF THE DOMESTIC TYPEQ WE FIND PACKARD IN A EST SKYSCRAPER IN ALASKA. PERHAPS THEY CAN FOR THEY ARE RAT GOMOLLI ELNA JENSEN AND BLANGHE TOPMOST FLOOR or THEM TALL- BETTER AT A HIGHER ALTITUOE, IIQST POPULAR :mass DEGIGN- NEATLY ARRANGED OFFICE LOCATED DN THE DESIGN AS THE CERTAINLY DOING A SPLENDID JOB ERS IN THE 49 STATES. , WE HEAR UPSWEEPS AND ARE THE BEST NOFF TO FACTORY. HE VIRGINIA UAGSLAND IS IN PARIS GETTING TRYING TO ccIIvINcE THE FASHION DESIGNERS THAT THE LONG TIGHT SKIRT8 YET. I A I I SEE THE NoRLD, wAs IIDRHAN UNGERS TIIEIIE. IIDRNAN OWNS A RICNLE I5 Now WORKING A DEVICE T0 PICKLE PICKLES I-IITHouT A 'RIDKLERT SAAY:: THE LOWDOWN ON SOME NEW FROM FAIREANK3 TO HOLLYWOOD WE ROLL OUR EEEPERS--JEEPERS, CREEPERS WHERE DID YOU GET THAT FIGURE DONNA? Yes, DONNA SHELEY I-IAS QEACHED THE HEIGI-ITOFH HER AMBl'ION AS A POWERIS MODEL. ISN'T SHE HEARING A LOVELY GOWN? IT'S STRAIGHT 'ROM PARIS. AND IV MOVIE-LAND WE SEE--MG IT ISNIT GREGORY PECK, BUT IT COULD DEH-AND IT IS OUR NGLAMOR BOYD DAVID STARKS HURRYING T0 THE THEATER FOR A PERSONAL APPEARANCE HMM--MUST BE QUITE A GUY! JUST LOOK AT ALL THOSE BOBBY soxsl KARL STROMBERG AND BILL HARRIS ARE Two MORE 49ERS WHO DO NDT SEEN TD BE so INTERESTED IN THE ALASKA GOLD RUSH AND THE PROSPERING STATE. THEY ARE TRYING T0 PRODUCE THE 97TH ELEMENT. ' OuR econ SANARITAN, EMMA PARK, THE GREAT SURGEDN AUD SCIEWTIST, HAS JUST RECENTLY COMPLETED A WONDERFUL CURE FOR HEAD COLD55 AND SINCE IT HAS WORKED sc SUCCESSFULLY ON HER PATIENTS, IT IS RAPIDLY SPREADING TO OTHER COUNTRIES. I ALAN GUNDERSOH OWNS A FLEET OF MOTOR SCOOTEQS WHICH HE RENTS FOR SIGHT-SEEING TOURS THROUGH THE CITY. IT SEEMS THAT I REMEMBER ALAN AS A GREAT LovER OF MOTOR SCOOTERS AND CARS. ' IN JUNIOR GUENTHER'S GOLC MINE WE SEE EDWIN RADFDRD AS HEAD FDRENAN. EDWIN IS KEPT VERY ausv, BECAUSE JUNIOR HAS JUST RECENTLY EUPLOYED NORMAN GILBERT, GEORGE Hucx, DoN CODDINOTON, JACK MILLER AND RUSTY REYNOLDS. THEIR AMEITICN IS GOLD DRIGHING AND EDWIN SAYS THEY ARE DOING A VERY FINE Jos OF IT. I 'AROUND THE woRLD ON A HOR3E.'--IMPOSSIBLE. 8uT THE NGLOBE TROTTERSTW DARLA HOOVER AND MYRTLE KREBS, HAVE PROVEN TO us THAT IT IS POSSIBLE. THEY HAVE Jus? RETURNED FROM THEIR sREcTAcuLAR TRIP AND ARE RECEIVING MUCH PUBLICITYQ FRDN ONE EXTREME TO THE OTHER, WE NOW FIND PAT KuEHN AND ADA MCGEE TEACHING IN A LITTLE ESKIMO SCHDDL. THEY BOTH RECEIVED THEIR M.A. DEGREES AND WERE OFFERED MANY Does IN HIGH SCHOOLS ALL ovER THE UNITED STATES, BUT THEY DECIDED THESE WIDE-EYED AND EAGER CHILDREN NEED THEM MOST. I A LITTLE T0 THE SOUTH IN WASHINGTON 0.0. AWJTHER 49ER, BETTY JOHNSON, PERSONAL SECRETARY TO SECRETARY or THE INTERIOR, PHILLIR HAGGSTROM, IS TAKING A LETTER AT THE ASTOUNDING RATE OF TWO HUNDRED WORDS PER NINUTE. MR. HAGGSTROM JUST couLDN'T D0 WITHOUT HER, so BETTY's HUSBAND FINALLY GAVE IN AND LET HERE WORK THREE HouRs A DAY IN THE OFFICE. WE REMEMBER SHIRLEY FARRINGTON, ouR LADY cr ART AND INTERIOR DECORATING, BUT wHo WOULD EVER GUESS SHIRLEY WOULD MAKE A LIFETIME CAREER OF THIS. Yes, SHIRLEY's DONE ALL OF THE INTERIOR DECORATING IN UMR. BLANDINGS DREAM IGLOOIW
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