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10 The Guardian, Charlottetown. Wed. Nov. 14, 1962..
Survivors OI ‘59ers
Find Peace
By WARD 1‘. SIMS
TALKEETNA. Alaska IAPI— r'orty - two persons left their Michigan homes 3‘: years ago to do battle with the Alaska wil- derness.
Their numbers have dwindled and endless toil and privation have taken their toll. But for the 17 Michigan '59ers who still live in the remote Susitna Val- ley. the wilderness has been licked.
Shielding his eyes item a bright autumn sun and looking approvineg over 17 acres of ripening oats. Marino Sik put it simply.
“We have found peace in our val ey."
The calendar had just turned into 1959 when ' (1 others. including his wife and small daughter. packed their possessions into cars. trucks. old buses and trailers and left their Detroit homes for Alaska.
In the newest U.S. state. all 42 had high dreams of carving a homestead—and a new life— frnm the dense birch forests and rich soil of the Siisitna Val- ley. 80 miles north of Anchor-
age. MANY DRIFT OFF The Alaskan wilderness was
too big a hurdle for most of.
them. and they have long since drifted away. many back to the city life they once found dis. tasteful. ’
Those who managed to stick tt out found their days filled Wllh work. improving their homesteads and trying to make financtal ends meet. Under the Homestead Act the ‘59ers get
their land free provided they.
build a dwelling on it, cultivate.
at least an eighth of their land:
tusually 120 acrest and live on it at. least seven months a year for three years.
Sik an 41 ‘steading for every one.
In North
Sik. lean and hard. is one of those still in the valley, alongi with his wife. young Lindy andi Dino. who was born after Sik} homesteaded on the Susitna.
Also remaining from the orig- inal group are Gerald and Bertha Donaldson: Ray andi Bernice Kula: Nick Rubino. his wife and son:Steve Panewiczj his wife and son: Bill 0rzech-: owski: Art Puchlik, Eric Eck~. land. and Bob Watkins.
The homestead are on the- west side of the Susitna River about six miles west of Tab" keetna. . NOT FOR EVERYONE
Reminiscing in his trim, coin- fortable log home, Sik said he, would not recommend home-I
u haven't the will.I thinking about it Sik's day is an example. Morning chores precede an eight-hour day on a highway. :maintenance crew and the eve. jnings are spent improving the. homestead. During the long,‘ sunlit summer days. he works. on average of 19 or 20 hours.I The Siks have some 50 chick- i ens. 10 rabbits. a cow and a, c
alf. . All demand daily attention, I :particularly during the bitterly3 ‘cold winters when the tempera-. ture often skids to 40 or 50 de- grees below zero.
Last summer the Siks had a‘
healthy garden providing toma-. itoes. radishes. lettuce and peas. i IWhat couldn't be us was f gcanned for winter by Sik’si ‘pretty wife. Carol. ‘ The other 59ers planted small ‘gardens. too. Moose and caribou meat also 'find their way into the diets of ;the ‘59ers. along with grouse, Isalmon and trout.
U.S. Boosts Defence Against Cuban Raids
. ELTON C. FAY
WASHINGTON (AP! — United States defence against bomber attack from Cuba is mounting as the Communists persist in refusal to remove a score or more of Soviet Ilyu- shin-28 medium Jet bombers with nuclear-strike capability. The. bombers. together with Russian-made MiG jet fighter planes'fhfhich also can be used for bombing purposes. remain a menace. even though the Rus- sians appear to have dis- mantled and shipped out me— dium- and intermediate - ballistic missiles. U.S A v Nike - Hercules missiles ~~ capable of hurling atomic warheads up to 100 miles—have. been emplaced in southern Florida where batter- ies of shorter-range Hawk anti- aircraft missiles already were
range
arrayed. POSED FOR. ACTION
Southern Florida‘s tip is 90 miles from Cuba. Until now.
Nike weapons had been de-i
ployed in other areas of the country. primarily around big metropolitan areas and air- fields. The missile defences are in addition to swarms of U.S. Air Force and Navy jet inter- ceptors poised for swift takeoff from runway and carrier decks.
It is probable that Cuba now is under closer. more compre- hensive radar watch than any like-size area in the world.
ed to whatever fixed. land-based radar was available has been added the electronic eyes of constantly patrolling
radar-equipped aircraft of both’
P U.S. Navy and Air Force.
Navy carriers on patrol in- clude radar - photographic air- craft in their normal comple- ment of planes.
The mission of the radar watch is to warn the intercep- tor planes and missile batteries in time to meet hostile aircraft heading toward targets in the US
[The radius at which the IL-28 bombers can operate is consid-
erably less than that. for the. in-
Competition Hos Siiffened ‘ On Wheol Marketj
OTTAWA lFIN—Exports of: wheat and flour. second largest;- Item in Canada's sales last year. are showing the pinchi of the Europen Common Mar-I ket tariff. v
Figures for the first nine months of the calendar yeari show the export value at $415.-‘ 000 against $464.300.0m inf the corresponding period of; 1981.
Exports so far in the crop5 year—which began Aug. i——I Ihow a comparable decline. Up, to Oct. 24. sales abroad of! Ivheot and flour totalled 73.200.- noo bushels or 18.100.000 fewer than a year earlier.
Faced by Red China sales. other Iron'Curtain buying and airports to West Germany. Brit- ain and Japan. Canadian ex-
358.-
higbolst on record. 'They were
nearly as high two years ago.
the evidence now indi-
cates that if there was a wheat period for Ca
. nodl.cordingto Mflmnofehronlcsur- dommhmnorflhwe like. the ho is over been killed throughout AlgeriI udwcld bandit-stun
.
, armed forces—have been re-
:termediate-range ballistic mis- siles which the Russians had been putting into place before US reaction brought Russian agreement to withdraw the nu- clear rockets.
Th IL-28 is shown in U.S. data to have an estimated 3range of 1.200 miles. The use- ful radius (the distance out from takeoff) would be less ‘than half that, with allowance .for manoeuvring and time over target. The full range could be used to reach more distant tar- 3gets, if it were a suicide. one- way trip.
Speed of the IL-28 is esti- mated at about 540 miles an hour. the maximum useful alti- tude at about 50.000 feet.
you‘re wasting your time eveni
iWheoi Board To Visit Chino
REGINA (CPI — The Cana- Vdian Wheat Board will go to tl-Iong Kong and perhaps Peking Ito negotiate for future grain Isa es. Agriculture Minister $Hamilton said here.
He defended grain sales to ‘Red China when China is theI aggressor on the northern India: frontier on grounds that Indiaj ;and Red China are continuing; (I trade.
iNew Deep Found In Pacific Ocean
LONDON (AP) —- The Royal Navy survey ship Cook re- ;ported here it- found a ideeper spot—37,782 feet—than 'any previously recorded in an ocean. In a radio message to the admiralty. the Cook said the depth was determined by echo- sounding equipment In the Min- ‘danao trench east of the Phil- lppines.
‘WOMAN TAMES 'OLD CYCLIST
i BLANDFORD. England I A i—A woman. not old age. has forced 91-year-old Thomas Edmonds to give up cycling.
When he moved into Cas- tleman's Home for the Aged here. he brought his bicycle with 'm
Matron Evelyn Ementt took one look at the bike an said: “You're not rid- ing that. You‘re too old."
hen Thomas protested. she took away the bicycle and locked it in a shed.
He went into town and bought another.
T e matron that one too. "I give up." said Ed- monds, "she's tamed
confiscated
HARRIS PERSECUTED
ALGIERS (APt — Beatings, arrests and executions of for- mer Harkis—Moslem auxiliar- ies who served in the French
ported throughout Algeria. The latest report said so Horus, considered traitors by Algerian nationalists. were arrested. Ac-
ovuilIblo iota-nu-
the country won its in- «Ice.
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