The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 8, 1927, Page 7

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>LE AND S \\ P s © 1927. by King Features Syndicate, I \ 2 s reserved Vll\ Weather Conditions As Weather Forecast for Tuneau and vicinity, it and Tue LOCAL Barom. Temn, 30.11 70 30.07 59 30.03 75 CABLE AND R RDAY B | Highest 3 | np. Time— 4 p.om. t'y 4 a. m. teday Noen today Nome Hethel Duteh Kodiak Cordova Junecau Ketchikan Wpilhce Rupert Iponton Rat tle Portiand San Fran NOT Observations at Beattle, Portland and p. m., Juneau tim The pressur high from ift ‘south central in southwestern Temperatures the upper MILLS HUM AS PATROLS LOOK 0UT FOR FIRES Black Hills, Where Prcsi- (l(',”'. l.’\' Sl){‘n(};"g Slll!l- mer, Is Busy Place. Jur San moderately British and and s have risen Yukon Valley and shily ¢ RAPID CitTY, S, D, Aug. 8 Around the summer home of Presi dent Coolidge the annual Black Hillz timber harvest is ia pro- | Bross, | The state park where th | dent is vacatior i forested country Yor it are encompassed forest preserves where timber may be cut only under federal super- vision. But enough’ lumber is tak en_each in the Hills to buiia | 2,000 six-room frame bungalows, | and half a hundred sawmills a kept in the harvest So successful has been the pro gram of the region where the & guest that lumb: without dispoilation of sonrces. For 30 y been cut down only in proportion to annual replacement by growih of others, and while lumber for 2,000 bungalows is being harvested | oach cnough is growing to | build more. i Foresters accompany all logging | | | and all miles in fod 1 busy fore tion in president is ring g conser es on timber years trees year, 2,000 erews and mark the trees which may be cut down. dying trees and thosc 8forms ape marked first vest.” Others are cut on | tainsides where spruce and pinc | growth is congested, so that the| sturdiest trees will have room fo | Erow. Where forests have been thinned out, the land ased for lve-| stock grazing and some 40,000 hea | of cattle and horses and 20,000 sheep find pasturage there muu Summer. Prevention portant Decayed broken by for har | moun- | or of fires task of the fed 1 fores >, and hazards have s0 greatly by this influx that five _alrplane patrols have been added to the force of fire watchers. Lookouts are stationed on five high peaks, including Harney Peak and Mt Coolidge, with telephone ntercommunication. Each moun- tain community has its volunteer forest fire department. Railroads through the forest preserves must hurn oil instead of coal to minin:.- ize fire bazards. f Forest fires in the Hills aver- age 52 a year, less than half ~f them due to human carelessness. " Lightning accounts f most of " the rest. Last year a conglagration | near the president’s summer home ' burned over 10,000 acres, but the average area lost to flames each year is only 365 acres. ! - - e - ~Advertising always pays. he columns of The Empire. is an im Use Humdity Win RADI0 REP eau IFranciseo Columbia we n Alg 1eastern round | § PARK PLUG Al X WAY N THE AR THREE GUM SHOE THE HQUSE Aines SHAKES Lo THAT (NNOCE AND NOT BE P & WWAY ME N ol THoSE Recorded by the U. S. Burcau beginning 4 p. m. today: ntle variable winds DAT nd Veloeity NW 2 NW ORTS TOD tenip. v Weather Clear Clear Pt. CHy 54 78 51 *—ess than Pr ree Kupe: at 4 nton are made and 4 low near the Alaska Peninsy outhwestward. Rain aska and fair Alaska southern weatl P and westarn Alagka aud fallen in . Lindsey’s Sub. e Although rmst of the stafi R S N0 WHAT S MQRE, DONT LIKE THE THEYRE ACTiN I HOPE THE : B\64 Bo2a DO ER\C, DON TRAT AL D M S THosE = AOBUDDY QOULD SUMP N - I0M GONNA KEEP (MY EYE Boston eelebrated while th achievements, Il George O. Lester I !cirr WORL V ed to Meet Burcau Mmm;{c;‘ L of th tha rion t will Burean compen | the ned by ot frox tai n the eteran it Y st sedcued .o - losesvives W alk 133,391,854 Miles Annually in Homes tg Learn Time test when .Ju Iwc l,« n Lindsey ousted, the work of Den. | v world - famous Jus Court is continuing. W. Steele, (above) lawyer, Lindsey’s successor on bench, oternational Diustrated News.) the Dunn and John vman left on the Alameda for a short equity term of court at Ketchikan. They expect to be gone about ten days. | S F. Preston, local 3 was an arrival on the He has been on business past weeks in Petersburg gttt - Willlam Gi. Bente is among the | passcngers on. the Queen. He is| an official of the Fuller Paint| Company of San Francisco. | .o Advertising | the columns of H man, Queen, for the The Richest Tee Ceram Sold in Juneau is the S. & F. CREAMS which contain more Butter Fat than any other Cerams, by test and by taste, served at the Juneau Music House Alaskan Hotel Hellan’s Pharmacy Arctic Pool Hall Rhodes Cafe Douglas Pool Hall - Olympic Pool Hall Mrs. Hooker’s Tea Parlor S. & F. CONFECTIONS Wholesale, Phone 16 JUST FOR A LOOK AT THE CLOCK PHILADELPHIA — Imagine a little jaunt equal to 5,320 trips around the world at the equator. Or 266 round trips to the Moon. That's the distance American housewlves walk uselessly each year 10 ascertain what time 1t fs, accord- ing to a computation of Warner S. Hays. secretary of the Clock Manu- facturers Assoclation, In an address here. “Women In the 23,000.000 homes in the Unlted States trudge 133391 854 miles needlessly every twelve months going from room to room to find out what o'clock it 1s,” declared Mr. Hays. “The combined distance they walk 1s egual to the distance from the earth to the sun and hal? way back again. “The present clyck-for-every-room vogue of housewiles — wall, kitchen and alarm clocks—is a direct result | of their appreciation of the fruitle ness of this home women's marathor Not only does a clock in every roor, make for greater cficiency for t housewife, but 1t adds matertally t the attractiveness of the room A grandfather or grandmother's clo in the living room adds & touch | no other article of furniture can aop proach. Hall, chime, mantel, shipbells clocks all may have a dis- tinct place in the home. They o not only time pleces but time sav eu" lated into ple or cake produc Llon. the energy expended by the country’'s home managers In a year| of walking through the house to find out what time ft 18 would fil} the| larders of the people of the civilized | world, Mr. Havs declared. ecent epoc ul Licutenant tenant is no d Mr. Fairbu IN HOSPITAL Service Quality & Produce Co. 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