May, 2014
A group of elementary students slept at Haines School for a “peep-over” Friday, when the library’s chicken eggs were expected to hatch. Organized by school librarian Leigh Horner, who kept her personal chicken eggs in the library as a learning tool for students, the event was Horner’s spring reading contest prize. About 100 students were eligible.
Alas, there was no peeping. The eggs were not fertile. The students made pizza, played flashlight tag, and rode scooters in the gym. Seventh-grader Gabrielle St. Clair helped outs and parents Pam Long and Jen Allen chaperoned.
May 6, 1999
Haines search and rescue chopper pilot Ken Seright lifted longtime resident Ron Smith off Tsirku Glacier Friday evening about five hours after Smith crashed his Cessna 170 coming into the Chilkat Valley.
Smith, 61, was flying alone from Yakutat when he misjudged his elevation off the icefield, dragged his landing gear in the snow and flipped the plane onto its back near the crest of the glacier.
But the 14-year pilot kept his wits, remembering to attach a new antenna to his emergency locator transmitter after the crash busted off the craft’s main antenna. Then, using his radio, he tested its signal.
Although his plane was severely damaged, Smith suffered only bruises and a cut hand. He inventoried and arranged his gear, melted some snow for a drink and crawled into his sleeping bag in the upturned plane. Besides the sleeping bag, he had a tent, cookstove, dehydrated meals, soup, canned salmon and moose and tea and coffee. “O could have been there a month really, ‘Smith said this week.
“I was pretty confident that sooner or later somebody would find me, but with the weather, I was mentally prepared for a week or so. I wouldn’t have been comfortable but I would’ve survived.”
May 2, 1974
Nix on Mix – Little League for Boys Only, says district representative
I spoke with Stan Miller, district representative for Little League, Inc. and he stated the girls may not play in boys’ Little League with boys since the charter does not permit it.
The rules read as follows for 1974: Girls are not eligible to try out or play on Little League teams.
Not: The purpose of this ruling is not discriminatory on the basis of sex. Considerable research and studies have been made into the physiological differences that exist between male and female children at the age of Little League Baseball participants. The results indicate that it is not a safe practice for girls to be included as players on the same team as young boys in a competitive contract sport such as baseball.
However, gals, Little League Inc., does have a nationwide girls’ softball program. There are almost 500 leagues of this type. All interested parents may want to look into the girls’ softball leagues.