The Wrangell sentinel., 1930-08-07
BUREAU EDUCATION EXTENDING FIELD
 OF WORK IN NORTH

Returning from Seattle, where he was called to confer with other off eials of the bureau, Clark M. Gar Der, superintendent of the western district of the Alaska division of the United States bureau of educa- tion, arrived at Fairbanks, reports the News-Miner.
 MT. Garber went south from his headquarters at Akiak on the first voyage of the steamer William Tup- per. His stay in Seattle was limit ed to one week and he was busy all the time he was in the city. He is returning to Akiak via Seward and Fairbanks in order to look over bu- reau activities along the railroad belt and the Panama and Yukon Rivers. Stops were made at Anchor age and Eklutna, where the bureau maintains an industrial school. MT. Garber will also make a number of other stops after leaving Fairbanks.
 stay of two weeks is scheduled at Mountain Village, where the bu- reau is going to have 16-bed hos pital built. MT. Garber will remain there about two weeks while the work is getting under way. Quar- ters for the resident physician and surgeon, nurse, orderly and cook will be provided within the hospital building. By October l or shortly after the building will be complet- ed The personnel will come in by way of Nome and St. Michael and will reach Mountain Village about the first of September.
 The new hospital will serve population of approximately 2,00O persons on the lower Yukon who heretofore have been without med ical service If residents of the dis trict find it necessary to secure med ical attention now they must go ei- ther to Nome or Panama or across the Yukon-Kuskokwim portage to Akiak The hospital will cost in the neighborhood of $40,000 said MT. Garber.
 It is planned to erect four new school buildings on the Kuskokwim this year, he added. They will be | located at Quinhagak, Ahiachak, tTunksak and Sleetmute. The schools at Tuliksak and Ahiachak will serve districts where educational facili- ties have not been available preVi- ously. Those at Sleetmute and Quinhagak will replace old build ings. One hundred or more pupils will be enrolled in the new schools.
 "On the west coast between the mouths of the Yukon and Kuski- kwim," MT. Garber said, "the peo- pie are probably the most primitive in the world. Their condition is not generally known to the public because it is only infrequently that white men travel through there. They have no educational or medi- cal facilities and are in sore need of both. They need IA schools at least. The two new ones we are building this summer will serve part of that country. They are going to be built at places where the largest number of pupils can be enrolled. In all, there are probably 800 chill dren in the district who have no means of acquiring an education"
 The request for funds to build these needed schools, Mir. Garber added, is now in the hands of the budget committee of Congress and arrangements will be made to build the schools just as soon as appropri- ations are provided.
 This is MT. Garber's fourth year at Akiak. Before going there he was at Cape Prince of Wales for three years. Before coming to Alaska he held the chair of biology at Capi- tol University, Columbus, Ohio
 The building program for the fu- ture.. said MT. Garber, calls for schools at NichoH, on the upper Kuskokwim, Cheechingamute, Ka- penuk, Kwiguk, Nunapitsiok and Choquaakloti, all in the western coastal district, and Tukchuk, Cho- gamute and Holikachaket on the Yukon. Plans are under consider ation to provide medical relief for the McGrath area by stationing a travelling doctor or nurse there.