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Died. Sam McGee, oldtime Yukon sourdough and inspiration for Poet Robert William Service's rugged North-Country ballad, The Cremation of Sam McGee; in Beiseker, Alberta. Oldster McGee returned to the Yukon two years ago, found his old two-room shack turned into a tearoom emblazoned with a macabre invitation: "Have a cup of tea with the ghost of Sam McGee...
...first time in Fairbanks, Alaska's history, and to a mixed chorus of sourdough howls and cheers, a half-Eskimo local girl, Minnie Motschman, 20, was voted "Miss Alaska" 1940. A clerk in a Fairbanks woman's wear store, ebon-haired Miss Motschman got a free trip to Washington. Commented a local liberal: "The most progressive move in Alaska since Soapy Smith- was plugged." Quitting his Vatican observatory after an evening of star gazing, absent-minded Professor Father John Stein forgot to switch off the lights, left them blazing like a beacon over blacked-out Rome. Summoned...
...denizen of the Skidroad for 32 years has been skinny, soft-voiced Peter Fitzgerald, ex-sourdough, sexton of Our Lady of Good Help Church. To down-&-outers in filthy flophouses Pete Fitzgerald guided priests to administer the last sacrament...
Turn the Ice-Worm Wiggle loose! Glaciers gleam with misty dews. Thrilling ice-worms lurk for you Where Alaskan icebergs cruise. "Akh-tu-wu-ye-keh" to you! Let's mush on to a sourdough stew! . . . Mr. Lopez proposes, at the Claridge Hotel in Memphis this month, to popularize the Wiggle, a shuffling, hopping dance which ends with everyone pointing in the air, shouting...
...with some U. S. chain, KFAR nevertheless intends to broadcast home-made programs for Alaska's own needs. It will announce airplane arrivals and departures to a people who fly 17 times as much per capita as their fellow citizens in the States. It hopes to teach the sourdough how to make better biscuits, and to school the cheechako (tenderfoot) in the art of mining. It will broadcast four to six news periods...