Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 September 1946 — Page 3

Hes MINERS ) GATES

for Help i Meat.

the Indiana coal ed to Governor lea for meat for

lencles, caused by at, have reached luction is threate ine communities

f mayors from Linton and Brazil meet with Gove afternoon. The aded by Mayor nf Sullivan, who p at the request res. ting. OPA rs of the delegae y weren't certain g, the governor AcGuife told The

y must be some or these men. I'm this as an optack the OPA 'y because I don't he shortage is. rested in getting dy if possible, b ers who need

who is a partner

1g Yar the confers vernomthat “yoru on a dletgf corn xpected to attend e with the gov«' Clarence Wright 1 Wilson of Brazil wrliton of Linton, Plea Denial

ers on the meat

operators contin

)PA rollback - of

1 price ceilings and §

e reported organ

to enlist the aid § retting meat ceils

schools — Butler Dame and Culver —appeared- to be

for authority to}

heir own livestock 1s eating places. ports from Washe cials were set tQ 1 of the applica«

—

at Linton, said |

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ough Troopers

Rather Live Where No White Man Has Gone.

By Scripps-Howard Newspapers FT. RICHARDSON, Alaska, Sept. 25. — The sergeant had asked for 90 days’ furlough, and his face plainly showed how he felt, “Where will you go?” the major

asked,

“Back in the bush,” the sergeant fairly spat it out. “It’s’too damned civilized around here. The Cheechakwa (tenderfeet, newcomers to Alaska) are taking the country!”

The sergeant was one

famed Alaskan Scouts, carried on war department rolls as the first combat intelligence platoon. ized in 1941, several months before Pearl Harbor, the Scouts have become an Alaskan legend, living in the wastes of the north where no

white man has, ever gone. Life Is Tough

The platoon is assigned a strength of 80 but it has only 48 men. Replacements and recruits - are. not

easily found.

A kid fresh from Minneapolis or

Dallas wouldn't fit. He'd

happy and he'd hate the north

»

Would

of the

Organ-

be un-

~ woods. } On the trail his chances of surHival would be slim. To be an Alaskan Scout, a man

must love and know the. bite of winds 60 to 90 degrees below zero.

He must be able to handle dogs and

carry his pack through snowdrifts

up to his waist, He's got to eat smoked salmon with his huskies when rations run low. He's got to prefer a sleeping bag in the snow to a feather bed in a

™

All

>, warm cabin.

_ All Native Alaskans

the army's Alaskan Scouts

are nativé~Alaskans, Many of them run trap lines, of their own in the ice fields past Fairbanks. They're unhappy “when they're trapped for the summersn “civiliza-

tion” around Anchorage.

y stick

to themselves, talking a strange.jargon of trade secrets which baffle the rest of the post. When snow comes, they head for the north, anxious to blaze new trails.

Sgt. Fabion Carey and T. 5th Gr. Harold Samuelson made 500 miles through the snow in 15 days out the Alaskan peninsula last

on

winter. As many as eight dogsleds, each

with 10 dogs, at one time,

have been in the field

Sgt. Carey's team made 100 miles a day last winter for eight days. ‘hen, caught in a raging blizzard, it averaged three miles a day for the next five.

No Place for Weakiing

“There's no place for a weakling on the trail,” the sergeant explains. “Man or dog, it's the same.

don’t fool with our Huskies.

dog won't work,.we shoot him. a dog gets hurt, we shoot him. We

can't be

bothered with

weight.” Apparently, the Scouts are

strong as their Huskies.

We! If a

If

extra

as

A recent

blizzard ‘on the chain froze two Huskies, while the men came out alive. Primarily, their job is one of reconnaissance, the mapping of unchartered wilds. Much of Alaska never has been reduced to paper, and the Scouts will be busy for the next 10 to 15

years exploring mountains,

yons and wastelands. Now trapper stations are investi-

gated and reported.

strangers is flashed back to Richardson,

Fish During Summer

can-

Presence of

Ft.

“In the summer, the Scouts fish.

Thousands of salmon are hauled from Cook's inlet and smoked in canvas smokehouses along the beach. The smell is terrific—but appar#ntly the Scouts and their dogs love They take the dried fish with them when they head for the north with the first snow, The Scouts have 110 huskies, but their commanding officers, 1st Lt. Francis M. Rich Jr, and 2d Lt. Taylor T. Lowery, are now at Ft. Robinson, Neb., and will return with

it.

another 60.

them for the winter.

BACK AT 91 TO STUDY HISTORY IN COLLEGE

OAKLAND, Cal., Sept. 25 (U. P.). -—At 91, Mrs. Clara Edwards Paulding is a college student. She is back at Mills college, where where she received her diploma in 1873. She insisted on a course in history prior to the Civil war “because I remember the rest of it very. well.” Part of “the rest” which she remembers includes joining her missionary father in Texas just before

the Civil war;

That ought to last

leaving there be-

cause of anti-northern sentiment; the trip from Texas through the gathering Confederate armies; her

first glimpse of

“the dust-filled

sprawling town of San Francisco” in 1862, and more than 40 years of teaching in California schools. She was born in Bath, N. Y. Her father was the Rev. John Edwards, a graduate of Princeton college and Theological school,

THIEF LOSES S FLASHLIGHT IN EXIT

) CINCINNATI, O,, Sept. 25 (U. P.). ~With the cost of consumers goods going up, maybe it was a draw. A burglar broke

HOES,

into Andrew

Shannon's house and stole $35 and

“ a palr of spectacles.

But Shannon

scared the prowler so badly he jumped out a window, leaving hehind his shoes and

‘WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 25, 1946

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