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Challenge of the Yukon: Harper's Castle

Challenge of the Yukon · October 11, 1950 · 29 min · 4,713 words

The transcript of “Harper's Castle”, an episode of Challenge of the Yukon first broadcast October 11, 1950. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Thanksgiving Radio plays Challenge of the Yukon free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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Now as howling winds echo across the snow-covered reaches of the Wild Northwest, the Quaker Oats Company, makers of Quaker Puff Week, and Quaker Puff Rice, the delicious cereal stacked from guns. In cooperation with the mutual broadcasting system, present by special recording, Sergeant Preston of the Yukon.

It's Yukon King, swiftness and strong to sleep, God of the Northwest, breaking a trail for Sergeant Preston of the Northwest's Out of Police, in his late-west pursuit of lawbreakers and gang on your headstone. Gold discovered in the Yukon, a stampede of a crime night in the wild race for riches, Back to the Danes of the Gold Rush, and the Adventures of Sergeant Preston and his wonder dog,

Yukon King, as they meet the talents of the Yukon. Summer is almost here, and children's thought will be turning to dreams of vacation, how and where to spend it. But while their thoughts are on this subject, it is a good time for parents to consider doing something about the elementary school situation in their town.

Now maybe your town has already set the wheels into motion on this problem, but in many communities across the nation, the unhappy fact is that inadequate elementary schools exist and need immediate attention. Now is a good time to check up and see if your town schools are going to find themselves short of elementary teachers, classrooms, textbooks, and other equipment.

If they are, find out what you can do to help. Our schools are front-blind offense for democracy. By providing the best schools it can afford, your town keeps its level high and contributes to its own prosperity as well as the prosperity and security of the nation.

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