The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 13, 1938, Page 2

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, SATURDAY, AUGUST 13, 1938. JUNEAU SCHOOLS U. 8. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, WEATHER BUREAU THE WEATHER (By the U. 8. Weather Bureau) AugustSale. - BLANKETS Buy Now and SAVE! ALL-WOOL! 100, pure-wool lankets . . GIANT, SIZE} . soft, warm, luxurious! Made in England. Lovely pastet colors. Buy enough for all your beds at this excepticn- ce . ally low pr Block-Plaid Blankets $6.50 Sturdy, colorful block- plaid blanket part- wool; large size. All sateen bound. Reversible Blankets $3.50 Two-toned, reversible part - wool blankets. Large size, sateen bound. Soft pastels. B. M. BEHRENDS CO., Inc. “Juneau’s Leading Department Store” ENGLISHMEN STUDY LIFE, in Glacier Bay, and Dunbar feels he will have to return.next year and determine what happens in the absence of such surges. “Seomething naturally occurs,” Dunbar said, “and I hope to.'find it. Because the glaciers here are WILL BE OPENED ON SEPTEMBER § Many Improvements Made in Buildings During Summer Vacation (Continued from Page One) | | manuals, < bookkeeping sets, . etc,) Paste, ink, cutting papers, construc- tion paper, etc., and materials of like nature will, of course, be sup- plied free to students. The policy this year in this regard will be no different than in the past years. Improvements in Building Students will note a great many improvements about the building. However, many of the improve- ments are of such nature that they cannot be seen by the average, per- son. The greatest-improvement has been the complete remodeling of the boys’ shower room in the Highi: School building. The old walls haye been torn, out and solid, concrete|: walls have been installed. In the]’ past water:leaked through the base| of the walls into the halls and lavatory, necessitating repaired walls and plaster; each year, This has been eliminated by installing.: the concrete walls. sisds Both builcings were gone Over very - carefully, in mauny . places | plaster .was removed .to, facilitate' inspection, to. discover any evidence| of dry or wet rot, stagging, slipping,| |etc. Special emphasis was, given, to, all trusses and bearing; walls. The| building, was. found to be free)from any rot ‘and while sagging :walls| were noted in some: places; . there |are no.dangerous, conditipns exist- ing. Both buildings were; declared |to be in excellent condition. This is |due to.the fact. that they were well constructed. originally, as, well as to' the continual effort on the. part. of| school authorities .to . maintain the buildings in excellent condition.. Notites for this church column ple’s meeting. | must-be received by The Empire, Tuesday, 7:30 p.n.—Public meet- not later than 10 ¢'clock “Saturday ing. | morning to guarantee change of Thursday, 1:30 pm. — Home sermon,- topics;: etc. League meeting, . held in officers’ quarters. All ladies welcome. Friday, 7:30 p.m.—Public meeting. SCIENTIST ¢ Ofliicers ns charge=~Capt. and Mrs. Bunday services will be neld ai SU@ney Jackson. | ghfl:m l;\ :he First Cnurch of | , Scientisl, Juneau, on Fifth g L and. Main Streets. The subject wil: ”IK;:JH;’ “&i‘ggggiafl L;‘;‘,ngn be ‘“Soul.” Sunday Services: Sunday School discontinued until 39 u_fn_fimme September. “The Relation Wednesday, 8:00 pm. — Tesil- Character.” ‘monial meeting: 5:6-8. : C:rml-‘mnn bsclenee Reading Room | . 11:09. a,m.—Morning Sermon. Sub- n :hu uilding.” “This room 18 ject, “Grace according to Paul, “For "P!nn \‘e pu;llc Wednesday py grace are ye saved through afternoons from 2:30 to 4. faith; and that not of yourselves. The puyblic is cordially dnvited t0 | 1t 5 the gift of God.” Eph. 2:8 sttend these services and visit the 7.30 pm —Evening Service. Topic. reading room. “AS Others See Us.” James 1:22-27; A cordial invitation is given to| \ , ¢ . CHURCH all to attend these services and wor- | | "“In the heart.of the city for the ship with us. b el hearts of the city” | + Main and: Third Sts. REV: JOHN L. CAUBLE, Pastor 10:00 ‘a.m.—Sunday School. 134:00 ‘a.m.—Morning Worship. Holy, Gospel, Luke 1611-9 (Ninth Sunday after Trinity); sermon sub- ject, “Stewards .on God's Full Ferms.” 6:30, pa.—Luther League meet, «/The general, public. is cordially in- vited to worship at all services of our church, €108 FIRST CHURCH OF CHRI School. ~ Lesson, of Temperance 1o Prov. 4:10-23; Ithes. RESURRECTION LUTHERAN CATHOLIC CHURCH Church of the Nativity of the Blessed V. M. Juneau | Fifth and Gold Streets ! REV. WM. G. LeVASSEUR, 8.J., Pastor 10th Sunday after Pentecost Sunday Masses— 5:30 a.m.—Holy Mass, 8:00 a.m.—Holy Mass and Instruc-| tion, 10:30 a.m.— Holy Mass followed by Benediction of the Most Blessed Sacrament. 8:00- a.m.—Holy Mass daily. | Days of Special Devotion — Mon- day, August 15, Feast of the As- sumption, a holiday of obligation, masses at 7 and 9 o'clock; Friday,| August 19, Feast of the Purification | of the Blessed .Virgin Mary. will HOLY TRINIWY [ CATHEDRAL, : EPISCOPAL, .. | Fourth ano. Gold Streets THE VERY REV. CHARLES E, RICE, Dean 8:00 2.m.—Holy Communion 11:00 a.m.—Morning Prayer Se 2 - R‘H;“;‘fiadfly schoal, e and | T | until, Septem- | R METROPOLITAN METHODIST [ EPISCOPAL CHURCH Fourth and Seward Streets O. L. KENDALL. Pastor ‘ SALVATION 10:00 a.m.—Church School. Mrs ARMY BETHEL MISSION ASSEMBLY OF GOD 121 Main Street CHARLES C. PERSONEUS Pastor Sunday services: 11:00 a.m. — Morning Sermon by the Pastor. 12:00 noon—Bible: School. Classes for all. 1:30 p.m.—Broadcasting a service over KINY. * . 7:45 p.m.—Evening Service. Tuesday, 7:45 p.m.—Bible for everybody. Friday, 7:45 p.m.—Glad Tidings Band. | Communion Service the first Sun- day of each month. Everyone cordially invited to all| these services. SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST | CHURCH Corner Second and Main Streets| H. L. WOOD, Pastor Note: The services of this church are held on'Saturday, the seventh day of the week. Sabbath school Saturday, 10 a.m., with Bible -classes for all ages. Sabbath worship 11 a.m. Sermon | by the pastor, or leader. Young People’s Missionary Volun- teer Society meets Friday evening, 7:30 o'clock, at parsonage. Dorcas and Mothers Meeting the 2nd and 4th Wednesday of each month at 2 p.m. Bible study groups in homes, Mon- day, Tuesday and Wednesday eve- nings. open to all. The public are welcome to all the services of this church. | Forecast for Juneau and vicinity, beginning at 3:30 p.m., Aug. 13: Cloudy, possibly showers tonight and Sunday; light to moderate vari- |able winds. Weather forecast for Southeast Alaska: Cloudy, possibly showers, tonight and Sunday; light to moderate variable winds, mostly south- west. Forecast of winds along the Coast of the Gulf of Alaska: Moderate southwest winds tonmight and Sunday from Dixon Entrance t6 Yaku- tat and moderate easterly winds from Yakataga to Cape Hinchinbrook. LOCA) DATA Barometer Temp, Fumidity Wind Velocity 29.97 55 92 SE 12 3:30 a.m. today ... 30.00 53 98 [ 0 Noon today . 3007 63 66 NwW 13 | RADIO REPORTS TODAY 4a.m. Precip. velocity 24 hrs. T 0 0 .03 T E-] 01 0 A4 16 04 44 13 T ‘Worship. Weathes Lt. Rain Mist Cloudy Time study‘s:ao p.m. yest'y 4am Weather Low.st 4am. temp. temp. 38 42 46 50 54 Max. temp. last 24 hours | 68 42 58 58 56 68 54 60 58 62 55 58 60 62 0 2 4 64 8 82 | Station Anchorage Barrow Nome Bethel Fairbanks awson St. Paul Dutch Harbor Kodiak Cordova Juneau Sitka Ketchikan Prince Rupert Edmonton Seattle Portland San Francisco . New York Washington Cloudy Pt. Cldy Cloudy Rain Rain 50 50 Pt. Cldy Pt. Cldy Cloudy Mist leonalcaswal Rain Rain Pt. Cldy Rain Cloudy Clear Clear Clear charsaae 0 o 0 0 WEATHER CONDITIONS AT 8 AM. TODAY Seattle (airport), sprinkling, temperature, 55; Blaine, raining, 54; Victoria, cloudy, 54; Alert Bay, raining, 48; Bull Harbor, raining, 55; Triple Island, missing; Langara Island, cloudy, 51; Prince Rupert, raining, 53; Ketchikan, showers, 55; Craig, cloudy, 57; Wrangell, cloudy, 65;; Petersburg, cloudy, 55; Sitka, cloudy, 56; Hoonah, cloudy; Hawk Inlet, foggy, 54; Tenakee, cloudy, 64; Port Althorp, cloudy; Hood Bay, cloudy, 54; Radioville, cloudy, 58; Juneau, cloudy, 56; Skag- way, cloudy, 54; Haines, cloudy; Yakutat, foggy, 52; Cape Hinchin- brook, cloudy, 55; Cordova, cloudy, 60; Chitina, clear, 52; McCarthy, clear, 48; Anchorage, clear, 53; Portage, clear, 50; Fairbanks, mist- ing, 53; Hot Springs, part cloudy, 52; Tanana cloudy, 55; Ruby, part cloudy, 54; Nulato, partly cloudy, 54; Kaltag, cloudy, 52; Stuyahok, part cloudy, 48; Flat, clear, 46; Crooked Creek, part cloudy, 48; Bethel, cloudy, 54; Nome, misting, 47; Solomon, foggy, 52; Golovin, cloudy, 54; Council, misting, 48. Juneau, Aug. 14.—Sunrise, 4:18 a.m.; sunset, 7:50 p.m. Aug. 15— NORTHERN LIGHT. PRESBY- 3 ERIAN. CHURCH “Where Welcome and Worship Meet” Franklin at Fourth REV. JOHN A. GLASSE, Minister GEORGE SCHMIDT, - Chorister CAROL' BEERY DAVIS, Organist 9:45 a.m.—Sunday School. 11:00—a.m.—Sermon. CHAPEL BY 1HE LAKE (On Fritz Cove Corner) receding so swiftly and melting Esther Sprague, superintendent. illoug! ve. WEIuehty, Ave 11:00 am. — Morning Worship, | New Fire Escapes. g The. fire. escapes. on. the:. grade REV. JOHN A. GLASSE, Minister Sunday School at 9:45 l\’alock,'sun“se' 4:20 a.m.; sunset, 7:47 p.m. | fresh water coming .down has a GLAG!ER BAY 1 heavily, it is likely a great deal of distinct bearing on the subject.” Bunday~ )y schoal building are being removed ' . 2:30 pm.—Praise Megting Kenneth E. Harris, preaching. Sub- | with well-taught classes for chil-| WEATHER Jject, “Is the Lord Your Shepherd?” dren of all age-groups, and a wel- SYNOPSIS y % b Brigden spent most. of his time Find Little Correlation to|taking pictures of bird. life .and and new escapes are being; pro-! vided, This work will probably not! |be completed by . the opening. of 1 6:00 pam~—Sunday School. 7430 pan.—Salvation Meeting. 7:00 p.m.—Epworth League. 8:00 p.m—Evening Service, “He Greenland—Locate Bird Rookery twenty years old, h scientists who | have just retusx from glacier studies in Glacier Bay, “found all| aciers out and two non- | Using maps two young Eng 1e¢ place | Dunbar, zoolo- lical | Maxwel Brigd: mer 1d. Wallace left Juneau early in July upwelling waters at the face glaciers. ek correla- tion of these food ¢ ges with those of Greenland. #In Greenland, Dunbar there are “quite nite” upw of deep water, bringing planktonic life to the surface and creating a rich feeding area for birds and sea life. | One Parallel Found Only one such parallel wa to study and & arryir of d de ngs found MARYE BERNE EHLER, soprano, AVAILABLE T"OR ENGAGEMENTS AND Vocal Instruction TELEPHONE—RED 550 the arca under study. The young men, both. scholarship students from Oxford and Cambridge at .Yale | University, included in their glacier studies observafions of bird life. Rare Birds Found They did not find the rare Aleu- tian Tem which is supposed to be| moving eastward, but they did find numerous birds, including scoters, glaucous winged gulls, coromorants, | pigeon guilleomots, tufted puffins, rosy finches and many .other birds. They found a large bird rookery on Francis Island, near Willoughby Ts- | land. The students chartered the N(‘llli Bell, Capt. Johnny Bressman, at| Hoonah, and were let off in Gleke Inlet with a skiff and their equip-| ment. Returning to Hoonah. yester- day, after three weeks in Glacier Bay, they flew to Juneau with Ma-| Monday, 7:00 p.m.—Life Saving Guard Parade, under the leadership of Mrs, R. B. Lesher. Tuesday, 6:00 p.m—Young Peo-! Who Has Never Given Up Has Never | Failed.” You will always Tina a warm wel- | come at the Methodist Church. ! |school but. is; of such- nature. that |the new construction will not.:dn- terfere with the operation. of the schaol. When completed, the new | | Wednesday The storm area that was centered over the Mackenzie Valley :::I agonipts e “-; yesterday morning has moved eflst-souuleasbwa}'d duxfing the past 24 Chapeladies meet hours, the lowest reported pressure L_ms morning b_emg 29.34 inches evening at Fort Smith. The pressure was rising rapidly this morning over home, timely notice the lower Mackenzie Valley and upper Yukon_ and T_al:mna valleys. given in the Empire. The barometric pressure was below normal in the vicinity of the —_— Kodiak Island, the lowest reported pressure being 29.90 inches. High every other at someone’s usually being| escapes will completely remove jthe | necessity = of . opening :: the .entire building when only the auditorium is in use. Patrons will enter ithe] huilding from Sixth , Street, the same as they do for. High .Schaol affairs. The new escapes will be much safer and better than the ones now on the,building and wil] permit easier .and 'quicker: evacua- tion of the, buiiding in case of fire, panic or disaster of any kind. ¢ The home economic room has two new and modern electric, ranges in- stalled. One of these ranges was presented to the school by. the Alaska Electric Light and Power Company of Juneau, who, incident- /|50 repaired are the Math room and | present a neat appearance and are | extremely serviceabie. 1+ Where :flooring, 'was’ splintered or [badly worn - in - the . various class | rooms; 'thie old’ boards were torn out ‘and' new ones installed. This was merely a temporary improve- iment and eventually new floors | will be.installed. That will be a problem for the future. The rooms English room in the high school, | the auditorium and eighth grade room in the grade school. struction starts there will undoubt- ‘for use in connection with stage | edly be steps leading down to thelughung and decoration of the gym- | floor level also which will provide nasium for dances and parties giv- | for much faster exits from the | en by the students. In the past this High School. At present, the rear |was done by running temporary lines from the power outlet on the over the Pacific Ocean to latitude barometric pressure prevailed from the Alaska Peninsula southward 30 degrees. This general pressure distribution has been attended by precipitation over most of Alaska and northwestern Canada, followed by broken clouds this morning | ver portions of Southeast Alaska and Western Alaska. weye reported last night over the Puget Sound region. Light rains doors merely lead out to the steep basement floor, The :students last bank behind the school and open- | ing the doors is of little value in’year purchased 'a panel board -of | case of fire or panic. This work |twenty outlets for use in stage| will be started and completed as|and dance lighting and now vmh’i soon as pessible after school opens. | the new installation of service lines Two boilers in the furnace room |in. the gymnasium, the use of long of the grade school have been given | wires - temporarily placed will be| To Woman's Outing a complete set of new flues. This |eliminated. Mrs, Geyer Hostess Steps Repaired The steps near the control room | in the high school were repaired. | These: steps, were built originally. as | |work is complete and the boilers| Teachers will be returning on the| The lovely summer home of Mrs. are now ready for another six topoats leaving Seattle on the 31st of | A. M. Geyer, located at Tee Har- ten years service. | August and should be in Juneau bor, was the scene of much festivi- Library Shelves about the third of September. As|ty yesterday when members of the o 5 Rty rine,Alrways last Dightand willasijms: lso \igsentedy SSomo’ FEars A. J. (Tony) DIMOND VOTE in 1 Dem south on the Prince Rupert ténight. ‘What has impressed both men most since they came to the Unite States last year, was not the fact that Americans prefer ice water to tap water in their drinking gla; but rather that they prefer beer. “It didn't seem right to us that beer should be cold,” they said “Americans drink their beer cold the flavor is ‘gone—but we've gotten used to it.” —_———————— The first fire alarm box in the U. .S. was used in Boston, Mgss cold i oh 3 ocra _ L ot oot T Representing Small [} A.P. WALKER, Crai Representing Fishermen. o & e [3 Representing the Miners. iT STRAIG (Paid Advertisment) |ago, one of the ranges now worn lout ‘and discarded. With the in- stallation of these new ranges the temporary ‘and would be eliminated | if .and. when. additions were made |peen installed in the study hall of tosthe High School. However, they | he High School auditorium. These | Additional library shelves have d| 0| Home Economic department now [have cbeen in: use for eight years |chelves were much needed and at| 'has three ranges, twenty-four hot|and as far as the average Derson |pest are a make. shift and tempor- | |plates and the usual supply of{was, concerned, were thought and gy arrangement. The library facil- | {other apparatus. . {looked to be the.same as Other jjoc in the Juneau Schools are | The sewing room has also had|stairs. They were in need of some carefully watched and promoted‘ | considerable remodeling. , The ald repairs and this has been done. - |each year, Space is needed badly |linoleum has been remoyed from|.,The' rear doors on the floor levol;and this shelving added this year |the floor, the floor sanded and|of the High School gymnasium| iy pe greatly appreciated by slu-' varnished and now presents a much |have been. repaired' now and they dents and teachers alike. modernized appearance. The sewing |can be opened. and. used if neces-| o pew ceiling was installed in tables were torn down and com- |sary. Plans are now underway for RODEN, Representing Professianal and Business Me: tevnag Representing Agriculture and pletely’ rebuilt. “New ' hard-stitface Mrs. Webster’s room as the plaster the construction of a new npproachiwns loose and in some places crack- to- the balcony level of the High! . g e g. The new celotex material was | Bcodl gymnasium. “{Vhe" this cone 564 more or less as an experiment, | tops.. werg. installed “and., te with metal around '9?! 4 Jiinedid 5 C 8¢ . ? JAMES V. DAVIS, Juneau Operators. P Jllwlll Horticulture. il ¥ “g 0 A oL B . 4 HT! .. However, after the job was com- | pleted the appearance of the room | as well as the acoustics were no- ticeably improved. It is possible that from time to time other rooms will be covered with the same or | similar materials. ‘The High School Study Hall has been completely equipped with the new lights such as have been. in- stalled in the entire grade .school during the past three years, This 'was a necessary improvement and one which all persons interested in the school will heartily approve. It is the desire of the school authorities to improve the lighting conditions of the school rooms. .as best they -can, realizing that the [lchildren must be in those rooms studying six hours daily. While these lights are expensive to install, they are the best that modern science up to this time has produced. Walls haye been patched where plaster was loose or. knocked -out. Many other.small repair, jobs have been, completed or will be completed | beforg the opening of school. Much new equipment has been purchased | for the various class rooms, either | entirely new to the system or re- placing worn materials and equip- ment which has been in use. Five new typewriters were again pur- chased this year, replacing: five ‘old ones., No typewriters in the com- mercial department are over four years old. Each' year a number are traded in on new ones so that| from now.on, no machines will be ' older than four and most less than| | three years old.. New. Power Lines ../ va?' 10y grdunty Oscar G. Oison Catndiddte for Rgf_elgtfion s TERRITORIAL TREASURER 1938 "18TH and 110 volts, have been installed in the manual training shop for the operation of . the, small machines. Two hundred twenty-volt lines have inlao been run to the gymnasium |Manual Training; and others. It is Pover‘ lines, giving befh 220 and ] soon as ' teacher assignments nrei.!uneau ‘Woman’s Club gathered for complete, such notification will ap- | their annual club picnic. pear in the newspapers. Ieaving Juneau by bus yesterday Consider Night School ‘morning at 11 .o'clock, between 26 Night school is again being ‘con- |and 30 ladies spent the day in hik- | sidered for this coming winter.|ing, berry-picking, canoeing and These classes will: not start until|sewing, and, incidentally, the wea- the latter part of September and |ther was reported perfect, only then if there is sufficient| The usual abundance of good enrollment to justify their exist- | food was prepared by Mrs. Ray G ance. Courses will be announced at|Day, with: Mrs. Thomas Haigh in a later date but will probable in-|charge of transpertation, while re- clude Typewriting, beginning and | servations® were taken care of by begihning | Mrs, J, M. Ck}umrs‘ John Kline, and Mrs. H. L. di 6 SPOKANE WILSONS GO TO WHITEHORSE| Mr. and Mrs. G. E, Wilson, of Spokane, Washington, where Wilson is connected with Shell Oil, flew to Whitehorse ‘with PAA today. The Wilsons will visit an uncle, George Wilsor, Postmaster at ‘Whitehorse, and will spend about two weeks there before returning ‘south. H [ NORTHERN LIGHT PRESBYTERIAN “Where Welcome and Worship Meet” advanced; Shorthand, and advanced; United States His- tory and Civics; Mathematics; Rem- edial or beginners’ English; one for- | eign language, possibly Spanish; | possible that in some courses high school credit will be ‘given. No classes will be available to regularly enrolled high schol students. Pri-| marily the classes will be open only to adults. There will be a charge for' each class, the amount or cost has not yet beendetermined. Furth- er: details will be announced later by -the Superintendent of Schools, who is giving the numerous re quests for night classes considera- tion. | Alaska Music Supply . 122-2nd. St——Jupean POSTMASTER 'WILE SAILS ON VACATION Postmaster Albert Wile is sail-| ing on the Mount McKinley this| afternoon for a month’s vacation in the States. The Postmaster is going to San Francisco and also ex- ‘pects to spend some time in Nevada with old friends he has not seen for ma¥y years!® = o wasniwiar V. JOHN A. GLASSE, | RE i Minister. GEORGE SCHMIDT, Chorister. CAROL BEERY DAVIS, Organist. Jorman's-Friendly a8 Wl 7o 6o y SUNDAY SCHQOL—9:45 Everyone invited ta hear a Korean medical missionary speak. MUSICAL MOMENTS—10:50 Edythe Young, guest musician, plays familiar melodies.: WORSHIP SERVICE—11:00 THIS SERVICE IS NOT BROADCAST. Dr. Sherwood Hall and Dr. Marian: Hall, medical missionaries from: .Korea, will speak. Margaret Bowen, guest soloist. TUESDAY EVENING—S8:00 Matilda Holst, Edythe Reily Rowe, Carol Beery Davis in concert.