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8, Daily SiUta Sentinel, Sitka, Alaska, Tuesday, October 8,1985 Ad for Brides Leaves Camp Without Cook By PAUL JENKINS Associated Press Writer ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) When word got around that Tom Williams was seeking "mail-order" brides for some of the boys at Paystreke it cost him his cook. Williams' newly hired and highly prized hash-slinger took off for the tall and uncut with one of the women who showed up at the primitive camp. "Now everybody's kind of pitching in with the cooking chores and I'm looking for another cook," says Williams, a trace of chagrin in his booming voice. Williams says two women showed up unannounced at Paystreke during the weekend. One was.from Alaska and the other from Everett, he says.

"They said they had read about the place and wanted to meet the men," says Williams. News accounts of Williams' search for brides for some of his dozen workers have drawn responses from all over the world, he says. "The cook was standing there and he was talking to them: He came back and said, this woman needs help, and I'm going to go help He apparently Appraisals Slow School Expansion ANCHORAGE" CAP) An appraisal that cut the estimated property value of land needed to expand the Chugiak High School and delayed the project until at least spring was based on erroneous information, a city official says. Anchorage. Municipal Property Manager Peter Scholes said the appraisal, because of mistake discovered in an earlier estimate, used incorrect numbers in its calculations.

"I'm not too pleased with the'whole deal, frankly," he said. "The municipality has to acknowledge it made a mistake." The new facilities now will not be in use until at least early 1988, instead of September 1987. The first appraisal valued the land at $640,000. The second estimated the land's worth at about $500,000, after the appraiser apparently figured in too much land as being used as a sewage drain field, officials said. The land is owned by Eklutna a native corporation that has stood firm on the $640,000 figure.

Despite unanimous approval of Anchorage school officials to spend $640,000 for the land, all land acquisitions must be approved by the Anchorage Assembly. Only Sept. 24, the Assembly disapproved the purchase 10- Eklutna and municipal officials were scheduled to have another appraisal done. The results are expected at the bargaining table in about three weeks, Scholes said. had met her many, many, many years ago and there was some interest there.

It looks like it sparked back on when they saw each other The cook had been hired only two days earlier, Williams says. Williams in September advertised in an Anchorage newspaper for "mail- order" brides for some of the unmarried men working to build a tourist-attraction replica of an 1800s mining camp at Paystreke. The camp, located near Hope, is built on the banks of Resurrection Creek at the end of a twisting, rough dirt road about five miles off the highway. The men, facing a long, dark Alaska winter with no running water, electricity or telephones had kidded Williams about the lack of women at Paystreke. The nearest civilization is Hope, a tiny community of about 150 people some 80 road miles south of Anchorage.

There are no bars, no dancehalls and few single women in the area. So Williams, a 40-year-old bachelor, came up with the idea of advertising to get his bachelors married off. Williams says he has been swamped by response to news accounts of the advertisement. "I just got a call from a newspaper in Frankfort, Germany. They said they had a lot of responses and just didn't know where to send them." Williams used to mine at Paystreke and now sells jewelry and cans of dirt and rocks "guaranteed" to contain ore in Alaska stores to finance construction of the mining camp.

When finished in a few years, the facility will have cabins, a non-alcoholic saloon, can-can girls, gift shops and other facilities, Williams says. His laborers, some recruited from the ranks of the homeless in Anchorage, work for free, putting in 10- to 14-hour days, he says. "I told them, 'You help me and make me a rich man, and I'll make you the most comfortable people in the state, money-wise," he says. Native Dancers Set Installation Gajaa Heen and Noow Tlein dancers will install officers 7 p.m. Wednesday at the ANB Hall.

Brian James will be installed as president for the Gajaa Heen Dancers, Betsy Brown vice president, Melonie Duncan treasurer, Diohhe Brady secretary and Chucky Miller and Charlie Farquhar sergeants-at-arms. For the Noow Tlein Dancers, Herman Davis will installed as president, Roby Littlefield first vice president, Alice Dubois second vice president, Esther James treasurer, Linnea Neuman recording secretary, Vida Davis corresponding secretary and Irene Roberts and Henry Burton sergeants-at-arms. Tribal Court Judge Bill Brady will give the oath of office and Frank 0. Williams, president of Alaska Native Brotherhood Camp No. 1, the charge.

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Sweitzer hooked it and her husabahd pulled it in. New Nutrient Standard List Report is Withheld By WARREN E. LEARY AP Science Writer WASHINGTON CAP) The National Academy of Sciences has decided against issuing a new report on recommended dietary nutrients because of an "impasse" over interpreting scientific data from the five- year study. The academy announced that the expected report on recommended dietary allowances, or RDAs, of; vitamins and minerals wouid-tfe delayed until it formed a new com'- mittee to study the issue. The committee established in 1980 to reexamine the RDAs issued that year reportedly has concluded its unreleased report that lower levels of certain nutrients could be recommended.

Several nutrition groups opposed the lower standards when apprised of the panel's findings. The study group's proposals proved unacceptable to other bodies at the acadwiy, as well as independent reviewers, and the disagreements were reflected in a succession of drafts, prepared in an unsuccessful attempt to reach consensus," said' Dr. Frank Press, the academy president. In a letter to the National Institutes of Health, which sponsors the nutrient studies, Press outlined the controversy arid said a new edition of the guidelines would not be issued "at this time." Despite "exhaustive deliberations over the last six months," Press said, the academy's Food and Nutrition Board and independent reviewers were unable to agree with the study committee on the levels of certain nutrients to be recommended. However, the chairman of the study committee stood by his group's work, charging the academy was trying to avoid the controversy of proposing new RDAs that differed greatly from older standards.

"I think this impasse was mostly symbolic," Dr. Henry Kamin of Duke University, chairman of the committee on dietary allowances, said in a telephone interview. "We were willing to modify our numbers (on nutrient Card of Thanks We, the family of Herbert Bruce, wish to extend our thanks to everyone for their thoughtfulness, kindness, prayers, flowers, donations and port. To our friends and relatives in Sitka we thank you. Special thanks to Albert and Sally Kookesh and to all the Kookesh famly who opened up their homes for us and supported us so graciously.

Also to all the people of Angoon for the flowers, prayers, support and remembrances while he was in Anchorage hospital. From our hearts we thank you. Herbert's Family, Mr. and Mrs. Philip R.

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And Family Mr. and Mrs. David James and Family Mr. and Mrs. Jess Weaver levels) based on scientific data, but no justification was forthcoming from those who disagreed." Controversy over the proposed RDA revisions became public recently when a draft report was leaked to the news media.

It was reported that the committee called for decreasing recommended allowances of vitamin vitamin vitamin B6, iron and other nutrients, while increasing the that decreases in recommended daily amounts of any vitamins minerals could be used for political cutbacks in federal food programs, and could result in poorer nutrition for the nation. RDAs are used in planning the diets of people of all ages at hospitals, schools and other institutions. They also are used in developing dietary supplements, new food products and diets, and for nutritional labeling on packages. The academy is a private, congressionally chartered organization that performs technical studies for the government. Alaska Airlines Has Family Fares Alaska Airlines is offering reduced family fares for those traveling to and from Southeast through Nov; 21.

Under the special Family Fare Plan, the head of a household pays regular round trip, full coach fare, the second member pays half the round trip, coach fare and each accompanying member pays one-third the round trip, coach fare. Family members must travel together and may include spouses and children age 2 to 17. The plan is effective to or from Juneau, Sitka, Ketchikan, Wrangell, Petersburg, Cordova, all mainline jet points on the Alaska Airlines system and cities within Alaska served. by subcontract carriers. One free stopover is allowed in either Seattle or Portland in each direction of travel.

Puerto Rico Battles Death-Dealing Flood ByLUISR.VARELA Associated Press Writer PONCE, Puerto Rico (AP)' -Workers dug the mud and debris of devastated shantytowns early today; seeking more victims of. the mudslides and floods that killed at least 60 people and left entire towns cut off. A major storm passed joyer the island Monday, dumping as much as seven inches of rain income places within a 10-hour period. Most major highways were flooded, dozens of bridges were washed out, thousands of people were left homeless and telephone service was disrupted. There were reports that entire families had died, arid officials expected the death toll to rise as communications were restored with isolated towns.

Officials said damage would be in the millions of dollars, calling it Puerto Rico's worst disaster since Hurricane Donna killed 107 people in 1960. "The number of deaths is large. It is very sad and tragic," said Gov. Rafael Hernandez Colon, who toured the island by helicopter and visited the worst-hit areas in this Caribbean coastal city-late Monday. He declared a state of emergency.

Hernandez Colon said he saw six bodies pulled from a river below a collapsed bridge between the southern cities of Santa Isabel and Coamo. Police said three police officers drowned when their car plunged into the river as they went to rescue fchree other people. The governor also visited the Mamayes shantytown, where police spokesman Luis Martinez estimated at least 30 people bodies had been recovered this morning from the one-square-mile shantytown, one of several hillside communities of and-tin shacks in this industrial city of about 190,000 people; Hernandez Colon said the U.S. Army had sent heavy equipment from Fort Buchanan in central Puerto to help dig out bodies and survivors. "Many people were apparently buried as they slept," police officer Jose Santiago said.

Martinez said up'to 400 in Mameyes were buried by the mudslide! Police said initially that as many ais 200 people were killed, but municipal officials said later that most people apparently fled before the mudslide. Twelve people drowned in a between -Tuque Beach orr the Caribbean Sea and said district attorney E'd'g; ardo Delgado. A U.S. Coast Guard helicopter rescued 16 people from a bluff just before-it was the island's western tip, Coast, Guard spokesman Steve Eddy said. The Coast Guard participated in at least nine rescues using its two Puerto Rico-based Minister Admits 'Devils' Were His ANCHORAGE (AP) While most of the demonstrators marching outside the Anchorage Baptist Temple in August focused on the issue of apartheid, three men dressed as devils ranged farther afield.

The 'devils' carried signs attacking the Rev. Jerry Prevo, and praising communism and Satanism. The demonstrators, concerned that the personal nature of the devils' attack would detract from their anti-apartheid message, asked the men to identify themselves--but they refused. Now, Prevo acknowledges that the three were church members, marching with his approval. And he admits their function was to discredit the protest.

Prevo said he approved of the stunt because he believed the march was really a personal attack on him. Prevo was assailed by many for his defense of South Africa following a summer visit. "I am very convinced some of these people were not interested at all in South Africa they just wanted to get Jerry Prevo," the minister said. Amber is the fossil resin of ancient pine trees. COLISEUM TWIN THEATRE MS Lincoln St STARTS WEDNESDAY: A woman born of electricity.

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Tom Amos Killed In Cycle Crash Graveside services for Paul T. "Tom" Amos are scheduled for 3 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 10, at the Odd Fellows Cemetery, Bay City, Ore. Amos was born May 26; 1923, in Arkansas City, and lived in Alaska for 26 years.

He moved to Salem, after his retirement from Alaska Lumber and Pulp Co. in 1979. Amos was superintendent of the power plant at ALP, He served in the U.S. Merchant Marine in World War II as an engineering officer. Amos married Dana Louise Fisher on Oct.

17, 1945. He was a member of the Masons and Elks Lodges in Sitka. He is survived by his wife, Dana, of Salem; daughter Denise Elizabeth DeChristafaro of Anchorage; son Dane Richard Amos of Seward, Alaska; sister Leona P. Foiirnier of Oceanside, and brother Richard of Roseburg, Orel The family suggests contributions lieu of flowers to Union Gospel Mission, 345 Connecticut Street NE, Salem, 6re. 97301.yof Barrick Funeral Home of Salem, charge of funeral arrangements.

Art for Kids Starts Saturday Art for Kids, sponsored by the- Greater Sitka Arts Council and Community Schools, will be held Saturday in me Blatchley Junior High School Multipurpose Rpojn. The session for children in kindergarten through second grade will be 9:30 to 11 a.m. Children in third through fifth grade will meet from 11:30 a.m. to 1p.m. The youth will create birds and animals from papier mache at this first workshop.

At the Nov. 9, the creations will be painted and a tree or other environment for the animals be made Dec. 14. The completed project will be on display in a downtown location through the whiter holidays; Cost of is $2 and includes Registration forms are available at the elementary schools. Children may also register at the workshop.

For more information, call the Arts Council at 747-5971 or Community Schools at 747-8670. Kid Session Set The first National Association for the Education of Yqiing Children meeting will be held 7 to 9 p.m. Oct 15 at Betty Eliason Child Care Center. For more information, call 747-5892. Booths Offered Nine booths are available for rent to non-profit organizations at the Alaska Native Brotherhood Alaska Day Carnival to be held Oct.

19. Deadline to reserve a booth is Oct. 14. To make a reservation, call -Louie at 747-5534 after 2:30 HOMECOMING Corsages and Boutonnieres now available AT CeV Flowers On Lincoln.