The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 17, 1939, Page 2

MRS. MCKECHNIE PASSED ON LATE Channel for 23 Years Dies af Son’s Home Mrs. Elizabeth passed on last night clock cisco, October 10, ing the death of her Bellingham, Wash., in Ca/loi{:&%mm'cmz LAST EVENING Resident of Gashneau McKechnie, 175,/ g3 at 11:10 o'-| 26 She was born in San Fran- e 1864, and follow- | 28 Ahead husband in 1916, came| 30 Daily Cross ACROSS | 1. High mountain 4. Skins 9. Weep con- 2. vulsively Solution of vesterday's Puzzie 10 THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, FRIDAY, NOV. I7 1939. word Puzzle stern 12. FIsh éggs | 13. Devonred | 14. Sy)able usea in musical refrains . Give approval . S i *Rnraham 5 | i9. Bgyptian river 0. At 8 distance 21, Converses informally Disagrees Solitary 21 Demiind as due 22 Bquine animal 23 hills 24 Stir up 2. Ixpress con- tempt 2. Weeds 30. Flreworks profected | 27. Thin fine sllk through the | '29. Depletion ot the beautiful Hindu princess DETEWOLD IS | "IN JUNEAU ON minimum and Saturday, except 1Brings in Wéfifiington Aft- er Nearly Freezing in at Goodnews Bay | Veteran Westward skipper Pete Wold and engineer Ed Anderson, {arrived in Juneau this morning {from a summer in Goodnews Bay portion tonight, Foreeast or wmas coast be easterly tonight, light snow in Moderate to fresh east and northeasterly southeasterly Saturday, except northerly cver Lynn Canal Rain tonight and Saturday; becoming moderate to fresh southeasterly Saturda along the A moderate disturbance in the lower Gulf region will cause strons winds over the Gilf of Alaska, and fresh to strong winds U. 8."DEPARTMENT OF AGR!GULTUR.E, WEATHER BUREAU THE WEATHER (By the U. S. Weather Bureau) Forecast for Juncau and vicinity, WAY ouTSIDE Light snoWw or rain tonight, rain Saturday: | winds; temperature tonight about 82 degre Forecast for Southeast Alaska: beginning at pam., N moderate southeast = Northern extreme portion—Rain nottheastern wind tonight, portion fresh to strong easterly coast of the Gulf of Alaska: s along the except strong tonight in the vicinity of Dixon Entrance. The wind directions along the coast from Dixon Entrance becoming southerly to Sitka will Saturday; from Sitka to REMEMBER OUR BIG DRAWING for the THANKSGIVING DINNER. Winner will be an- nounced at the store and on the radio at 7 P. M., TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 21ST. 3 packages 19(3 2 dozen 89(} 2 ounis 4 BC it s et i s Large package 2 9 c JEL'J" All Flavors SUGGESTIONS FOR YOUR HOLIDAY DINNER We have a complete stock of Desserts, Mince Meat, Plum Pudding, Date and Fig Pud- ding, Pickles, Olives, Maraschino Cherries, Fruit Cakes, Cranberries, Jellies, Spiced and Pickled Foods. (ALL RINDS OF MIXERS) FRESH HOLIDAY M_EATS — FOWLS TURKEYS, GEESE, DUCKS, BOIL CHICKENS and SUCK COCKTAIL OYSTERS - .- OYSTERS FOR DRESSING PORK ROAST lean shoulders, priced real low .. ... .1h, 25¢ FRESH GROUND BEEF pure beefonly .........]h, 25¢ PORK CHOPS center cuts, loin and rib . . ..1b. 35¢ LITTLE PORK SAUSAGE purepork ... b, 35¢ CALIFORNIA' GROCERY TELEPHONES 478 & 371 PROMPT DELIVERY g Thirteen years ago, la-year-old Norman Smith, fresh from Ballard M High School in Seattle, journeyed to the Fort Yukon country above the Arctic Circle with a trapper friend. Today in Juneau, headi south for the first time since t Smith is aboard Pete Wold's boat Washington with a 23-year-old na- tive wife and three children born in thé wilderness without the aid of a doctor and who, until this summer, had hever seen civiliza- tion beyond Fort Yukon - “Without a bean” and “driven | g | said. .| cool and not lose your head.” still and temperatures severe, mith gave birth, with her husband the only doctor and hot water the only medical aid. “There’s nothing to it,” Smith “All you've got to do is keep While he made this matter-of- | fact statement, dark-eyed wiry Mrs. | Smith smiled and looked proudly | from one healthy normal child to| another, the youngest of them, in! a dress, chewing busily on a rlve»‘ cent tallow candle. | “I'm pretty tough,” but added that if she is ever to| | she laughed, | out”. by the bad end of the rab-| "y e {5 per wilderness home bie cycle, Smith plans to get 8.,y “friends, she'd “rather walk” | doncic: e Bater than be ick from Goodnews | With his wite ahd children, | gay o Seattle. Gwendolyn, 6, Myrtle, 4, and Ray- i3 Fh Sl o mond, 1, Smith paddled down from | the Afttic 0 Goddhews By this|#—— s — * | summer. He went down Willow | HOSPITAL NOTES | Creek, into the Coleman, thence #. g into the Porcupine, into the Yukon, down that mighty stream in their 19-foot canoe with a tiny out- board motor to aid them, across the water portage from Russian Mission 60 miles to the Kuskok- | winmi River, on down the Kuskok- | wim and into the salt water of ‘Bering Sea and to Goodnéws Bay. | The family began their long jour- | ney in July and stopped twice along the route to “work fort a little grub money.” Smith met his wife at Fort Yu-‘ kon as a 15-year-old native girl turning 16. Together they bullt | a trapping home on remote Willow | Creek far abové the Arctic Cirele !in one of the remotest areas or‘ the North. Their nearest neighbor was 25| |miles away. Fort Yukon was over | 300 miles away, the nearest settle- | ment, and when Gwendolyn, My?- tle, and Raymond came along, two of them in April while snows were | | | today from St. Ann’'s Hospital. M. Gansneder, employze at the | mine, was injured last night while on shift and is at St. Ann’s Hos- | pital receiving medical care. 1 Maleolm Moe was dismissed today from surgical attention at St. Ann's Hospital. After receiving surgical supervis- | fon, Peter Kangas was dismissed | Baby Paulino is at St. Ann's Hos- pital receiving medical care. Lawrence Allen was dismissed to- | day from surgical care at the Gov- ernment Hospital. - LARGF. GEESE Among the geese displayed recent- 1y at Ketchkan, after a hunt by Dr. R. V. Ellis, Jack Gucker and Walter Blanton, was one weighing 11 pounds 2 ounces. NOTICE! * Don Aplend has no longer any connec- tion with TRIPLEX CLEANERS. All accounts should be paid directly to TRIPLEX CLEANERS. TRIPLEX CLEANERS, Box 2107 IT'STIME TO CHANGE YOUR THINNED - OUT LUBRICANTS! little would be salvaged from the - Py | Martha Wmd expects to be in busir south for the \nntcx HOT SAUCE GRAPEFRUIT o SNOWDRIFT | C‘)FFEE SCHILLINGS—Plain or Drip C”RN STANDBY—CREAM STYLE CORN BEEF LIBBY'S—12-0z. tins BLACK TEA oo PRESERVES oo FL”UR MI CHOICE—Quality Guaranteed RUTABAGAS BRUSSEL SP’R(]UTS SQUASH HUBBARD or MARBLEHEAD APPLES ’OFATHAN or DELICIOUS . SPINAC“ FRESH a/nd CRISP SWEET 'POTATOES ¢ CUCUMBERS HOT HOUSE . ONIONS : Ll POT AT“ES NO. 1 YAKIMAS GI‘APEF“U'T TEXAS PINKS .. ORANGES 0¥ 5510 sie GRAPEFRUIT JUICE =™ S0AP POWBER WHITE KING ... PINK SALMON *=" avsurry CLE ANSEB SUNBRITE . PARD DOG FOOD WALNUT MEATS TALK TURKEY ! P ot had AR i v :; gn‘(r'ea! after a close race \j‘l?h winter ice| Cape HMinchinbrook, northeasterly; and from Cape Hinchinbrook to 3 e g . . g e 46 Strained toa 2. Old card game | aboard his boat Washingtc Kodiak, Noftherly, Luight / ” with her son, Larry McKechnie, at| 88 Weatied by e pieh 3. Small flag [5iaa ook over the . 64-fc _47 JOOUI DO whose home she died 34. Container 48. Adjective 4. PURORIEAQ By | ington, former Oceanic ¥ LOCAL DATA /- Mrs. McKechnie made & host of | 35 Threatens . o SuOW . Narrow foad (RO ey been vsinp it ime Barometer Temo. Humidity wina Velocity Weathe ’7//”.5%'6’ friends, during her residence on Gas- | 33 Invites §0: Fed to the tull . Slamese Lighte ork in Goodnews Bay.| 3:30 Pm. vesty .. 3004 % 88 BE . 5. . Dbt Diisle tineau Channel. As a membet of the| % Suble .. i 8 ‘ iy R boxkd 3:30 am. today .. 29.82 34 97 Calim 0 Fog prastern Star e I FUERGEORRGL L THR Y 1 Portion of & | | Aboard the vessel with Wold anq| Noon today w0l i 64 swW 5 Cloudy the affairs of that fratefhal organ-{ § Horn eurve s | Anderson are Bud Hansen, son of RADIO REPORTS izatior the well known trader at Platinum TODA Survivors are her son, Larry, two b shigt oy ’ £ jsters and one brother in Qakland [ R i e ki Wit Bllax Scropt. Lowest 3:30a.m. Precip. 3:3Cam Califor % he Strand! 1 opera- Station last 24 houre | temp. temp. 24 hours Weathar The remains are at the Charles e » | 13 16 0 P, Cldy W. Carter Mortuary., Last rites will i55 Wtk 2 i e 4 ; be on Sunday. afiyisis 18 9 1 Trace i i xl; Mills, 2% | 1 3 04 Cletix s Angeles Fairbanks -2 | -10 -10 0 Cloy “loudy Old Schenley brings a new S(oul (OMM"TEE { nephew of I)Lnni I]{'\rb(r 5 Ko 90 Trace Snow meaning to BOTTLED IN ELECT IN DE e i R a 33 02 Pt. Cldy . per of, the Bi Kodiak 39 37 38 21 Rai BOND. For it bears the o | Cordova 39 34 8 p al approval of three of the Annuai erection of officers will be Tt 0 L+ «._3 0» Rain world’s greatest whiskey } 7 the Boy Scout District Com- i Rt ] Bitka 15 m‘ 3 43 Fog experts — members of the mittec at its next meeting in mid- | Geodnews Bay Fre Ketchikan 49 39 18 23» Clou el : 6 deel 4 39 E 2 Cloudy Schenley Board of Quality Decettiljer, 1t was declitd a0 i meet- | Wold pulled out frc Seattle 63 i 0 44 0 Sod Control. Ask for 0ld i held yesterday. A new Chair- October 17 ter 1 50 | £ wloudy Schenley tods man will be named to succeed i O’Nw j‘ | :fl 42 0 Cloudy ) St Charles G. Burdick who Is going to |““ 3 69 54 54 0 Clear i +ood el ] SCHENLEY Nome to buy non-native owned rein- 4 ‘ WEATHER SYNOPSIS el deer for the Government, A disturbance was centered this morning over the Gulf of Al- R aska 9 N 3 G : ce only workeq 25Ka at latitude 52 degrees north and longitude 142 degrees west, with LUND BACK FROM NORWAY ¢ of ”“ Hiie, ‘Orie ot ‘the Wold the lowest rrtpnrted pressure 29.14 inches. Another disturbance was Peder Lund of Petersburg has re bargs W it S hE ok located at latitude 46 degrees north and 162 degrees west, with the te ned from a sévén months’ trip to | S NG o e gk dotse., Bk G .| lowest reported pressure 28.80 inches. yay. He met relatives for the | Wi Porhhataly i i Light to moderate rain has fallen over the southern portion of first time in 35 years | | " An attempt was made to saivage Southeast Alaska, while the weather has been mostly cloudy over } lthe w motorship Martha ‘\;e !Imrthem portion, and along the ¢oast of the Gulf of Al 2 5 ke i ostly cloudy and cold weather, with light e v, ! piled up in an attempt to save g ' Ith light snow over scattered .|||n||||uumnmmmmm|un||||||'||mmmnnmmmmu|||||mm||m||u|mnumuuu|||mum||||m||||||m||||||h bl U5 I an siempt 1o ave 4| Mooy S0 nd e et with 16 vall oo el e Eived Juneau, Nov. 18—Sunrise, 7:5¢ am.; sunset, 3:36 p.m —H ~ —— There is no substituse for Newspaper Adveriisinq That % O k(o 3 large tins for 39c 2.45¢ Per pouud 19(} ]/4 Tis. pkg. 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