ESKIMO GIRLS - The Rev. and Mrs. William Bills of Point Barrow Alaska, dress their two adopted daughters Roxanne 3, and Marcis Jean, 5, for outdoor play in their parkas. Both girls are Alaskans.

Alaskan Girls In Maine Look At Trees, Cows

WASHBURN, Nov. 2 [1959] -- Two little girls sat side by side on steps. Their dark eyes glistened they nibbled on cabbage leaves. They wore matching red jersey skirts and shorts and sneakers.

Their mother smiled proudly she said; "They would rather eat frozen raw fish."

"They don't like ice cream and watermelon either" she said.

The girls Roxanne, 3, with short black hair cut in bangs, and Marcis Jean, 5, with black hair, are the adopted daughters of Rev. and Mrs. William Bills of Point Barrow, Alaska. The Bills, members of the Assembly of God, have an all Eskimo congregation at Point Barrow.

Mrs. Bills is the former Marguerite Herrick, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Herrick of Wilder Street, Washburn.

The Bills and their daughters are visiting the Herricks before beginning a speaking tour along the eastern coast of the United States.

Living above the tree line at Point Barrow, the girls both Alaskan Indian youngsters from the Yukon River Section of Alaska, saw their first tree when they arrived in the United States. At a neighboring farm in Washburn, they saw their first cow and saw how it was milked.

During dinner at the Herricks one day, meat was served. One of the girls spoke up and asked, "Daddy, did you kill it?"