The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-03-22

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 Miss Margaret Weightman, Public Health Nurse for the Bureau of Indian Affairs, reports that she ministered to 123 cases of flu among Indians and gave nursing treatment to a total of POS patients during February at Wrangell.
 For $3,000, to be paid in install ments of $250 monthly beginning December Is, 1884, the town of Wrangell has acquired the meters, poles and wires, constituting the light and power distributing sys- tenn formerly owned by the Wran- gell Lumber Company but now held by the Bank of Alaska as trustee for bondholders. The town will use the distributing system in con- nection with it's own electric light and power plant.
 Every morning and noon. cod liver oil is given pupils as they enter the Indian School at Klawock and warm milk is provided every pupil at recess. In the past two months, the average gain in weight has been three pounds per pupil. | Heavy snow has crushed the bridge across Power Creek to the American Legion Cabin near Cor dova. The span was built last year land will have to be entirely re- placed.
 Minimum shipments to Seattle of E100 cases of canned crab weekly are lexpected to be made by the Alaska Food Products of Cordova. The cannery is working to capacity and is using all the crabs that fisher men can bring to it. K MT. and Mrs. iAdolph Ammon leach nearly 70 years old, recently eleft Chitina for the Kotsina districl Ito do work on their copper claims ithere. This is their thirty first trir Ito the Kotsina region. They travel with two horses .hitched to double lender sleds. MT. .Ammon drive: lone and Mrs. Arnmon the other Two or three weeks, depending or the weather, will be required tc lreach their destination.
 \ Public schools at Cordova were Iclosed several days as a result oi Ia mild form of influenza having Eafflicted about half the pupils.
 Tynee Pennenan and Eric Eklune were married at Cordova.
 Miss Aline Winquist, nurse at tht Cordova General Hospital, wa: taken by airplane to Kennecott tc relieve the nurse in the hospita Ethere, who had been stricken by Appendicitis and who had been sub [jected to surgical operation. | Near the wharf at Valdez a 90- pound halibut was caught by Larr, Gregrorieff. @
 Air nail envelopes having can. Icelled stamps which were carried b. Clayton L. Scott in the first com. mercial air-mail service across ths gulf of Alaska from Cordova .tt Seattle in 1929 are now worth $l, each, it is reported. About si, months ago they were quoted a $50.
 Donna Pederson, aged ', rescuet liner brother, aged 5, from drowninI near the Ocean Wharf at Cordova The boy was playing in a skifi land fell into the bay. Donn' rushed to his rescue and succeede' } unaided, in pulling him out befor The suffered more than cold an
 unexpected plunge. fe e sis Aaet K IA charity collection at Cordov 5 has gone to the purpose for wh3cl Nit was intended. One of the Cor dova churches was making a dona tion collection for the heather , land some unidentified "neathen lin Cordova stole it. The amour Twas $10.
 ] REQUIEM MASS SAID II