The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 26, 1943, Page 6

PAGE SIX * CITIZENS ANSWER APPEAL OF MAYOR TO HELP PAVING Sitka's citizens have responded well to an appeal made last week by Mayor Winr rd to obtain help for the v enterprises which have 'boggec oW for lack of labor lab: shor e wa also thre: ng to greatly reduce the fishir and canning industries of Sitka However, the mayor was able to report Wednesday that the shortage has been greatly reduced by th people to work after completion of th By jobs each day We are still threatened with a labor shortage but it is no lon acute aid Goddard Volunteer help was requested to register their spare time last week Much of this volunteer labor has been designated to the fishing docks where the staggered shifts have brought about a definite increase in production. The city street paving project ) showed signs of progress this w as concrete was laid on downtown Lincoln Avenue Contractor John Cushing said though the labor slwrtage has greatly handicapped the projec paving will soon be laid from the docks to Sheldon Jackson School MISS HELEN MOORE IS HONORED BY SHOWER Fellow employees of Miss Helen Moore gathered at the home of Miss Beatrice Nelson Wednesday evening to honor her as bride- to-be with a shower. Co-hostesses for the event were Miss Nelson and Miss Rhodes The bride received an assortment of many appropriate gifts and re- freshments and entertainment were cnjoyed by all present. Guests present were Mary Ellen Gleason, Mrs. Pat Cox, Penny Ed- wards, Ruth Enders, Mrs. Lorene PARSONS ELECTRIC CO. JUNEAU Solicits the business of friends in Sitka Electric Service and Repairs Westinghouse Representative YouName It—We Have It Tilson and Sons PHONE 72 Sitka's New Men's Store SITKA NEWS % ‘Everyihing for the Sportsman THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA stayed Mrs Mrs. Stanley Peterson, while she |was in the Capital City. |worth, Marjorie Moore, and Mrs.| J. W. Whittmeyer, sister and mother | MRS. ARPENBERG of the honored guest L FOR SHORT Miss Moore will be married Sun-| VISIT IN PETERSBURG day in the Presbyterian Church; Mrs. Louis P. Sharpenberg took to Walter A. Welch. Rev. Arthur|passage for Petersburg where she Biley will officiate. {will visit for a short time with her i sister, Mrs.: Tony Schwamm. MRS. M. WHI 1S | GIVEN PARTY | RUE L CLITHERO Mrs. Mary Whittemore was hon- | ¥ ELKS LODC ored on her seventy-ninth birth- | ON JUNEAU TRIP day night by a surprise| Russell Clithero returned Thurs- party given by a group of friends.|day from a few days’ trip to Ju- The party was held at the home of |[neau. While he was in the Capital Mrs. Whittemore's daughter, Mrs. City, Mr. Clithero was initiated Clarence Rands, and hostess was|into BP.O.E. at the meeting of Mr Charles Whittemore. Many |the lodge on Wednesday night relatives and friends attended. | The business that took him to s Juneau was the annual stock- ALASKA COASTAL DOES Ullll(i('l&' meeting of the Sitka Ho- BIG BU DURING ill‘l Corporation. Mr. Clithero is ONE WEEK’'S FLYING |part owner and manager of the More than forty persons were hotel in this city, passengers on the Alaska Coastal T s airlines planes between here and COLUMBIA LUMBER CO. Juneau last week, accordihg to fig- WORKING TWO SHIFTS ures released by the local office of | With the arriv in Sitka of the Alaska Travel Control i(}l-nl‘.u' Morgan, brother of Tom On June 13 arriving passengers Morgan, president of the Colum- were Mrs. E. J. Buchanan and Tom bia Lumber Company, the com- n. Arriving on June 14 was'pany has gone on a full night shift W. W. Burns and those de- with Mr. Morgan in charge of the parting were Edna Wilson, George night work. He brought a crew J. Lane, Mrs, Jim Nicole and Her- with him from Wisconsin and he man Nicole and his crew are among those to On Wednesday those leaving answer the appeal of Mayor E. M were Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Claire, Goddard for volunteers to work on ‘Tom Morgan and Mrs. Binckly the paving job during their free with Jack Engdahl, Carl McGraw, time Ole Grandt and E. P. Sorrs arriv-| Mr. Morgan has taken the Nick ing that day. Bulshanin residence in Sitka and Thursday those who came in expects to be joined by his wife were Jack Gucker, J. Deganahl, within a few days. Alexander Kashevaroff, Leonard o’ Allen, T. G. Villagracia, Jennie LANDMARKS Buchanan, Gertrude Buchanan and Harriet Rosa. Leaving were Cecil L. McGraw, Jack Engdahl and Jerry W. McKinley. Ralph Wil- coxin and R. D. Young came in Friday while Frank A. Metcalf, R. B. Forest, Mrs. E. J. Buckhanen, Joseph A. Gard and Miss Dallos Black went out ARE MOVED TO MAKE WAY FOR NEW PAVING The old Russian pushka, which for years stood in front of the Russian Cathedral, had to be moved because of the paving job on Lin- coln Street and is being mounted at the Lincoln Street entrance to Baranof Castle between the Fed- eral Building and the Kettleson Building SITKA RESIDENTS RETURN FROM TRIP Work of moving the landmark Mrs. Jane Wesley, who is em- was undertaken by the American |ployed at the Sitka Post Office, Legion, which had a work party and Mrs. Dallas Black, accountant, turn out on Tuesday evening, to returned on Tuesday from a sev- pegin the job. eral days' trip to Juneau where The pushka and two stone petro- |griff both have great historical value as the canon was cast in 1723 and the petrogriff which were brought Sitka from nearby location, are said to date from 990 AD., according to re- search by Dr. J. Hrdlicka. MANY ATTEND MIXER GIV BY MOOSE. ON LAST MONDAY NIGHT About 500 members of the Loyal Order of Moose, and families of Moose, turned out last Monday night when the lodge gave an open house and mixer at the Moose Club to BUY WAR BONDS! Good Fun Good Music Good Drinks Good Company WHERE? atthe | _SILVER FOAM I\ ] 5l Refreshing Beer and Mixed Drinks Made by Experts PAY COLUMBIA COCKTAIL BAR i e the Baranof Hotel ! The evening was spent in dancing | Black visited with her sister,jand games while a buffet supper| |and refreshments were served dur-| I‘m;z the evening. MRS. J. E. SMITHMEYER ON VISIT IN JU | To visit her brother, Henry Sully, and his family in Juneau | M J. E. Smithmeyer left this week by plane for the Capital City | Mrs. Smithmeyer has been handling |the Sitka news since the departure |of Miss Helen Roan for the south,| |and during her absence Mr. Smith- meyer has taken over | Mrs. Smithmeyer expects to re-| main in Juneau until after July 4 CORDOVA RESIDENT ROY DeLEO, SUCCUMBS Wellknown Alaskan of the Third Roy DeLeo, aged about last Saturday of a heart k at his Cordova home, ac- |cording to word received here. The ibody has been shipped south for | burial An official with the Copper River Northweptern Railroad until the | company ceased operating about |six years ago, he stayed on to wind |up its affairs. For the past few years he served as local agent for the Alaska Steamship Company. | Accompanying the body south were the widow and son John |DeLeo, a captain with United Air- lines who is now located in Seattle. A daughter Gretchen, now Mrs Herbert Redman, was formerly a Juneau resident. Until her marriage she was employed in the office of the Territorial Treasurer. - 3 NEAR MISS SCORED ON ENEMY SHIP | ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA, June 26.—A Beaufort bomber squadron scored a near miss on a merchant vessel in a small Jap convoy off Cape St George on the tip of New Ireland Medium bombers also strafed five villages on New Guinea. Action was limited in other South Pacific the- aters. - e HOTSHOT | DENVER—I'm a faster man with | one of these any any Jap I'll ever | meet,” John Ellington told “the | b oniet s | NEW YORK, ~Dogs who | go around biting people here don't have to worry any more about cap- ital punishment. They can bite three people, the legal limit, then join the Army which wants 125,000 canines, aged 1 to 5, 18 inches tall. The city capital punishment ordi- nance was done over so owners of three-time toothers could offer them to Dogs for Defense, Inc. | There’s a catch. If a pooch is turned down by Dogs for Defense, he gets the works, ANNIVERSARY RECIPE GIVEN PUEBLO, Colo.—Recipe for cel- ebrating a wedding anniversary, by Mr. and Mrs. Charles Saxton, who have been married 56 years: First, Mrs. Saxton writes a let- |ter and places it under his break- |fast plate. It tells him how much |each year with him has meant to | her and how happy she has been. A ——— | When the dinner hour arrives they e ! dress in formal attire. Usually they dine with their daughter. |+ Later they spend the remainder of the evening together and agree |that an extra hour or two of com- panionship is the best possible way to celebrate their anniversary. AT A new device used by aerial | gunners automatically’ prevents hit- ting the tail or wings of their own planes. SATURDAY, JUNE 26, 1943 Army's Amphibious Truck Gels Trial oty At home on land or sea, hauling troops and equipment on and or across water, the Army’s new 2'4-ton amphibious truck cruises along the sands of a Florida beach with a load of fully-equipped This is the type of vehicle which after the war would solve Juneau’s problem of connecting with the new Alaska Military Highway. capable o | troops at a demonstration. 4 R Saturday Night. Adv. | Moose Cabaret Conway Dock | Company o Oil --= Coal | Gasoline | Imnsurance Phone 78 COAST GUARD FIRE FIGHTERS—_Members of the U. S. Coast Guard go through part of their training at Galveston, Tex.—wharf front fire protection. | up soon enough for me,” the explained. “Is there any coming woman Missus as he reached for the pistol | in his hip pocket. “Just watch me | draw!” | But John was quicker on the trig- ger than on the draw. An explosion tore away the seat of his breeches, and his Army induc- | tion at Fort Logan has been delayed | pending healing of bullet wounds. | We're Celebrating Right Now! WITH COCKTAILS at THE COLUMBIA PAY CAN BE FIL WELL-STOC ® COSMETICS to Glamor-LOTIONS BUY MORE WAR BONDS Sitka’s Pharmacy JEWELRY | ALASKA DRUG ARD LED IN OUR KED STORE ® enhance Summer to soothe the skin. DRUGS FOUNTAIN JEWELRY NEWS STAND for Over 20 Years COMPANY NOT SOON ENOUGH ’ way to get him drafted right away Th P IY s i MINNEAPOLIS «How | HE'S just no good.” e ar s e e e —“HOW| "t ong referred her to the draft can T get my husband drafted be-', -0 - fore his number comes up,” queried = 4o I've ordered CHOP a womans voice of the police Best way to get maximum corn SUEY from MOY’S * switchboard operator. “What's that?” asked Officer Ed- ward Long. ) “My husband’s draft number isn't production is through greater use of hybrids, says the U. S. Depart- ment of Agriculture. 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