The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 22, 1939, Page 8

PLANNERS OPEN SESSION, HERE THIS AFTERNOON Council's Biennial Meeting Under Way - Many Members Present by the gavel of [ One of Juneau's Oldest | Trucks, 23 Yearson Duty, Is Gradually Wearing Ouf - R - - Lee Smith, of the Juneau Dairv.‘]U"EAu SENDS ‘ bought a new truck the other day. | ROTARIANS ON | Ry Now, this might not sound very un- usual when people are buying new cars every day, but a new Ford gravel THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, MONDAY, MAY 22, 1939 Taylor, the Al-|{ryck delivered to Smith last week 15k meil opened its will take the place of a truck built | H ME ARD AY fer in the office of | jn 1916. This ancient automobile | w w | B Al at 2 o'clock | has outlasted three other cars Smith | has owned days, members | The Mack truck, built by Interna- s the general program of |tional Motor Co., of New York at Executive ary John E. Pegues | the beginning of the World War, is and the Council staff for the hext |now starting to show signs of old two years age. The radiator leaks in three or \bers, B, Frank Heint- four places, the clutch fails to func- of Juneau and W. C _ tion at times, and the engine is ¢ will not arrive sometimes hard to start. Oh, well 2 t Smith, the old Mack is 23 m old and still wheezing along; ght to last for a few yes iginally built to travel at a speed of 20 miles an hour and carry load of one t the truck today has a speed of 35 miles an hour and can carry a load of three or four tons. When equipped w a t body it can carry cows or six rather small on Bales of hay can be stacked six d Wi Iy fee igher than the cab and the Frank Dufresne and B. D. St v pulls such a load without ef- all of June: Advisory Com has used the truck for members meeting 1e Cour farm every G. C to see wearing out. ildren have learned repair cars by praetici the Mack. These past faw years they have habied it™ along—before every trip it gen needs some minor repairs. S soon the truck will st 2 one- f horse shay and nothing first - v to Ju- i HC':::;,‘; WHITTIER HOME FROM CORDOVA s and left peaks it only Mr. Hess said Fairbanks was ex- periencing present a building boom at with many new residences p in addition to business Fair Economic | es. Capt. A. E. Lathrop’s Ao two-story concrete theatre, condmon and office building is the & t on the 1939 program A 300- Cordova's clam cannery is running foot radio tower and 30-foot SQUATE | fu1l blast and the fishing fleet is transmission station Lathrop's | preparing gear for the opening of new radio station also are being tne salmon season, Assistant Col- built this year at the Ballaine Farm, | jector of Customs M. S. Whittier re- out of Fairbanks, ported today on his return from an fo Hess is heading right back to/inspection trip to the Prince William Fairbanks as soon as the Planning Sound city. Council meeting is aver. The small boat harbor there is ———— filled to capacity and the addition of new floats is contemplated to M' 0 d t B |take care of the large fishing fleet ISS Ygaf O e | Although some people are leaving Cordova a sult of the closing On Club Bmad(as‘ of the railroad, no great exodus has been noticeable as yet, Whittier said. | A. J. LaGasa, marine diver, is Mrs, Walter Hellan, Chairman of working at the scene of the wreck the Civic Improvement Department, Of the $25000 tug McRay on the | for the Juneau Women's Club, will south end of Kanak Island and ex-‘ interview Miss Magnhild Oygard, pected to raise the 49-ton vessel be-| Public Health nurse for Gastineau |longing to the Puget Sound Bridee | Channel, at the club program over |and Dredging Company on Friday's station KINY Wednesday morning high tide. The McRay foundered in| at 10:30 o'clock. a gale October 16 of last year. | This interview is in sequence with Whittier heard at Cordova that a| Dr. Marcia Hays' talk last week on tent city had already sprung up at| crippled children. Kodiak to house a “labor army”| ¥ ,—— | which has arrived there in anticipa- Try The Empire classifieds for tion of a start of work on the Navy's results, inew plane base. gidaire and General Motors Present ‘Conferen(e Acclaimed Dis- tinct Success-Thanks fo Townspeople enthusiastic 195 Rotarians Still as happy and when they arrived sailed aw o'clock Sunday morning after a three-day conference of District 101 in Juneau erpentine linking those aboard r with new friends on the ted farewells, music and ight tinting the sky impressions which the legats carried away he departure of the Washington Oregon, Idaho, British Columbia and Ketchikan Rotarians and Ro- tary Anns followed a formal dance at the Baranof Hotel. District Gov- erncr Marshall Cornett ferecnce Chairman A. B with their ladies, led the march, followed Reeve me Thi Tom D flect of the Juneau Club. At intermission ceremonies, Phil- lips presented Cornett with a to- i conference Phillips grand AY § em bench, Indian war boat and two E: o dolls labeled “Andy P; and “Marshall Cornett” their famous counterparts among the delegates. Mrs. Cornett Wwas given a basket of flowers, Mrs Tom Dyer making the presentation on behalf of Juneau Rotary Anns.| District Governor Nominee Henry Cline Fixott of Portland presented Phillips with a totem lamp as a gift of the conference. Geod Time Was Had By All Unanimous concensus was that the conference had been a great success. The conference executive committee today expressed the decp appreciation of the Juneau club to every individual and business house who helped make the conference the success it was. Juneau cooper- ated wholeheartedly with the com- mittee, it was stated, and this co- operation deserves thanks. Tomarrow the conference head- quarters in the Baranof Hotel will be closed for good and the “Totem Room” become again the “Bubble Room"” it was before the Rotarians came to Juneau. v on the Aleutian at 1:30 | Mount Juneau were the finai | and Con- | nne- | \ !’ { MISS DOROTHY QUACKENBUSH (Miss American Aviation 1938-1939) like all charming T. W. A. hostesses, is af your service cléar across the country. Cooyright 1939. LicorrT & MyEs Toracco Co, of the Teresa Hotel, is starting a,shows each night, the first at 7 taxi service to be known 8s the o'clock and the second at 9 o'clock Teresa Hotel Taxi with a Packard | car. | Irene Peterson, who has been | south attending a business college, has returned here and will resume | her work at the Cold Storage office. H. C. Shaeffer has purchased a | lot on Etolin Street from Olga May McNulty. | Mr. and Mrs. Foster Mills have | moved into their new home and Recent arrivals here to join the|the former Mills home is now oc- | fishing fleet are L. Kron and John |cupied by Mr. and Mrs. Sam Boyd Romseth with the Mabel K, and|and small son. Thomas Warren with the Leona W. Herman Nichols, resident of the Pioneers' Home, passed away May He was born in Michigan, June 863 and came to Alaska in 1905 | For years he worked as a miner a Members of the Outboard Motor Club are busily working on & 11031121‘ 1 and housing for motors. 2 s o ¢ e e 4 Dorothy Quackenbush, with her smile and her Chest- erfields, keeps smokers happy Jfrom coast to coast. \ : Chesterfield’s happy combina- | tion of the world’s best tobaccos | gives smokers just what they want in a cigarette. . .refresh- 4, ing mildness, better taste, more : pleasing aroma. p When you try them you will know & e why Chesterfields give millions of _'_, Bea e 4 men and women more smoking Hoh g pleasure...why THEY SATISFY 4 Commencement || 3 ] ‘1 /! WANT TO PLEASE THE GRADUATE? ’ Dance at Temple | | ) 1 Following commiencement exercis- es for the class of 1939 Wednesday evening, a dance will be held for the | High School in the ballroom of the Scottish Rite Temple. Stanley Cox {and his orchestra will furnish music for the dancers. George Alexander is in charge of | arrangements for the dance, and Katherine Torkelson, Dorothy Ber-| | tholl and Lola La Paugh. | AR N i PR | ) | S LS L NEws lTEMs | The Russian Church is remodeling one of their buildings on the Or- phanage property, making two mod- ern apartments. e WPA work on Park totems in the Many children nave been abwnl:sitka National Monument is going from the schools <llowing a mild ahead remarkably fast, repainting epidemic of the measles. |and repairing. A number of the totems are already near completion. A new service has been establish- at the Coliseum Theatre here, two | \ SITKA, Alaska, May 19. (Speciall Correspondence)—Teresa Grossman ed ~ Two Champions for 1939 4-Wall’ Refrigerator ofds First Gol \;‘\\\\\::\N\'\s“\ “fiMflW‘N}'\H\ Buur on A¥ fl”:’"‘fu‘" Preserves m‘l M““‘“’m Drying Ost! @ Years in the making— now years ghead! 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