The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 8, 1943, Page 2

PAGE TWO JUNEAU'S USO NEWS Interesting ltems for Everybody PROGRAM The officiaj prograi for the week at USO is as follows Thursday, July 8, 8:30 pm Dance in USO lobby Frid Juls 4 m.—Service- er sting in USO Mixed Chorus Re- JSO lobby, followed by 8:00 p.m.—Committee ment meeting in Odd 0, 7:3) pm P of Dr d Mrs R Simpson at Auk Beach » USO at 7:30 and Ducl t 7:45. Make your reserva- SO July 11, 1:00 p.m convenience of Servicemen) Irip to Mendenhall Glacier. 2:00 Exhibition of Badminton at 9:30 pm.—Vespers in USO lobby. 10:00 p.m.—Songfest (“Around the Piano with Louise”). Monday, July 12, 8:00 p.m.—For- Club meeting at private home Get y reservation at USO. Tuesday, July 13, 9:00 p.m Bingo games and Quiz Contest USO lobby (or »m UsSo um in Wednesday, July 14, 8:30 p.m.— Old Fashioned Dances in USO| lobby | NOTES 50 pounds of it) (1600 square feet of Corn meal nd concrete sounds like a funny combina-| i of materials with which to prepare for a dance. But they did the trick on Monday| night in front of the USO club- house! Closing a busy Independence | Day, the Club put on a street dance that proved a great success. With the dancing area marked off with| penting, under a bright sky and| with cool bree: and to the rhy- them of our USO band (though the| designation isn’t strictly accurate, we like to call it that since its| playing has generally been at par-| ties under our auspices), a large| group of all ages Keenly enjoyed| taking part in thé dancing but! apparently no more so than did| the enthusiastic audience of some | 350 townspeople. Some say this; was the first street dance ever held in Jwneau; others say it was the first in a great many years; all say we should have another very We hope to—perhaps it will under a full moon. surely soon be Though the Club’s float on Mon- day experienced only a brief career, | doing all its floating in the 20-! minutes of the parade, its prepara-| tion involved a lot of hard work.| Incidentally, it won us a $25 prize.| The Club feels deeply indebted to several officers ©f the Army and| Coast Guard and to four GSO| girls and many of the Servicemcn! for helpful assistance that was| most generously given Consplcu-i ously resourceful in his suggestionsi and in securing equipment for us| was First Lieut. Willlam H. Thread- | gill. The others to whom we also especially grateful are Capt.| are Lieut. Warren R, Caro, of the Coast suard; Colleen Hellan, Emma Niel- sen, Lila Sinclair and Marjorie Snell; Coastguardsmen John Sher-) man and Hi Shumway; and Sol- | diers “Red” Akers, Jim Bauldree, Frank Blackwell, David Degraw, “Gibby” Gibson, Oscar Krenzke, Everett Powell, George Rice, George Schnell, Henry Stuursma, Leslie Swanson and Steward Tallman Thanks a lot, all of you! Have you a voice that you occa- sionally raise in song, even if only under the beneficent protection of a showerbath? We haven't a showerbath, but we do have a use for such a voice. Under Louise|who attend the showing of the col-|cultural states—his address was Headland's direction the Club 1s‘orful pictures by Trevor Davis of |greeted with more “amens” from | develop! 2 d chorus. Its first|the Snap Shop, tonight, at 8 p.m.|Republicans and more attention b occurred last Friday Many of these pictures of scenes|from the Democrats than any given night; th. t call is for this in Alaska, especially in the vicinity | here, except that partially off-the- Friday. When your Reporter heard a “mixed chorus” was being planned he figured this would be easy be- cause from experience he knows how simple it is just to inject him | into any singing group, 1, tune—in practically no time at all! everyone else is very definitely mixed and from a musical stand- | point the result is sure to be con-| fusion, if not absolute chaos. How- | |any | musicians | ever, he now finds that the kind| of mixing desired is the proper propottion of males and females - Last week & good start was made with the sopranos and contraltos | but there were too few men. This Friday it is hoped that many new singers will come, both men and women. The time, 7:30; the place, the USO lobby. The Club is delighted with the prospect of the early expansion of its quarters to include the second floor of the clubhouse, giving us| space long urgently needed. Fur-| nishing it of course will be a prob- lem. NOTE: IT IS EXTREMELY IMPORTANT that the Club short- ly acquire, either by gift or pur-| chase, furniture and equipment, as| follows: two pool tables, at lmst" four good rugs, two easy chairs and several davenports. Please :ld-’ vise us promptly if you know where! of these items are obtainable. To “Gerry” Cowgill, newest pro- spective GSO girl, we extend greet- ings. As yet unable to participate in 8ur soclal activities because of her extreme youth (at the moment she is approximately four days of age), she is said to be a very likely- | looking candidate. Our heartiest| congratulations to Club Director and Mrs. Sid Cowgill! USO - HEADLINERS - OF - THE-WEEK-DEPARTMENT: The Club is a busy spot and many "are| the girls and fellows who each| week make it the interesting, color- ful place it is. To mention just a few of this week’s “headliners”: Coastguardsman Hi Shumway and Soldiers Eddie Mohr and Larry Vukelich, the men who entered the photographs of the winners of the Club's Beauty-Contest-at-long- range, to whom congratulations are due. . . . Mrs, David Ramsay, rep- resenting the Garden Club, bring- ing us flowers several times each week, adding much to the attrac- tiveness of the clubhouse. Fred Lovin, champion horseshoe pitcher of the Servicemen at Sit- ka, and winner of the Juneau In- dependence Day tournament, giv- ing us a brilliant exhibition of his skill last night Mrs. Ethel Jones and E. M. McIntyre, colla-' borating every Wednesday night| with Buddy Rice and his associate| in making the Old, Fashioned Dances such lively, jolly| affairs . And GSO girl Mar- garet Clark, that personification of good cheer and warm friendship, a continual blessing to the USO. Y28 "L WOODLEY PLANE | MAKES FLIGHT FROM WESTWARD On a regular flight from An- chorage, A. G. Woodley, of the Woodley Airways, arrived Tuesday ydney George, of the Army, and|afternoon and left Wednesday noon | his hair down” in a friendly con- for the return flight to the West- ward. | James Huston and A. Hamilton were incoming passengers and| those taking passage for the West- | ward were, for Cordova, Major Carl | Scheibner; for Anchorage, Mrs. E.‘ Kazdof, Guy V. Graham, Charles J. Crosby and W. C. Arnold. TREVOR DAVIS SHOWS PICTURES TONIGHT AT | RES. LUTHERAN CHURCH A big time is planned for all‘ of Juneau, are nationally known,| and have been carried by tounsts? into the four corners of the| Globe. | Those interested in the historic | large or| beauty spots of Southern Alaska|the picture in a session of Gover- who are able to carry a|will take a keen delight in viewing nors in & pre-election years was these exceptionally fine photos. Es- | pecially should parents with chil- dren bring the family and let them enjoy this highest type of educa- tional entertainment. -/monthly velocity of 6.1 miles per | |JUNE WAS WARM, | "DRYER THAN I NORMAL, REPORT The weather in Juneau for the| month of June was warmer and drier than normal with the per- centage of sunshine and average| wind velocity above normal, ac-! cording to the monthly meteorologi- cal report issued by the Juneau; Weather Bureau Office. | The average temperature for the| month was 55.2 degrees as compared with the normal of 542 degrees.| This was the third June in succes- sion with the mean Lemperaturei the normal the above However, 'average daily departure since Jan- uary 1, 1943, is 2.7 degreées below | the normal. The warmest June on record for the past 60 years was| that of 1936 with a mean tempera-| ture of 60.4 degrees and the coldest | that of 1943 with 49.4 as its aver-| age. The mercury reached its high- est point during the month on the| 22nd when a temperature of 80| degrees was registered. The lowest | for the month was 41 degrees on, the 9. The highest temperature on| record for any June since 1883 is 87 degrees recorded in 1916 and the lowest on record $1 degrees in 1904. The tolal precipitation for the| month was 349 inches, which is| 055 inch below the normal for June. However, the accumulated departure since January 1, 1943 is 0.85 inch above normal. This is the| driest June since the record dry of 1936 when only 054 inch was re-! corded for the entire month. The| wettest June on record was that| of 1904 with 1150 inches to its| credit. Measurable precipitation fell on 16 days of the month, which in- | cluded 12 days with 004 inch or more and 3 days with .25 inch or more. The greatest amount record- ed in any 24-hour period during the month was 93 inch on the 27 and 28. The greatest amount on record for a like period is 2.86 inches re- gistered in 1938. Sunshine for the month totaled | 2118 hours or 39 percent of the possible. This is the greatest amount of sunshine for June since 1936, when 328.6 hours was recorded. There was sunshine registered on| 25 days of the month and included 5 days with 100 percent sunshine. Wind movement for June totaled 4419 miles making an average hour or 0.4 mile above notmal. The maximum velocity for a sustained | period of 5 minutes was 18 miles from the southeast registered on | the 16. The highest wind velocity | on record is 30 miles from the, southeast recorded in 1938. The pre- | vailing wind direction for the| month was from the west. | There were 4 days clear, 4 days partly cloudy and 22 days cloudy. Light fog was observed on the 9, 11, 12, 25, 27, 28 and 30. Solar halos | on the 10, 15 and 17. | Dewey Held Spoflight Al Governor's Meet | Recently Held in Ohio (Continued from Page one) | other day, when he greeted a| handful of the newsmen in his shirt- sleeves, chain- smoked cig-| arets from a silver holder and “let| fidence. When he talked off the| record, he had something to say that gave us a better understand-| ing of the man and a clearer con-| ception of his views. He didn't| pontificate, either. Dewey has mellowed. In spite of| the amazing record he made before that age, maybe he has come lo‘\ realize that life really does begin| at 40, This isn't a purely personal view- point. Although Dewey was assigned | the task of speaking on the food supply — a subject which normally | should have been tossed to one of | the Governors of the purely agri- record address by Chief of Staff Gen. George C. Marshall. Although conference officials did a wonderful job of soft-pedalling politics, to keep it enmtirely out of impossible. The political attention, | of course, centered on the Repub-| lican potentials for the 1944 Presi- dential ticket. I made as thorough | |a poll as possible of both Republi- |cans and Democrats as to how they THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU ALASKA Seabees Back from Aleutians-~-and Happy &3 Members of what the Navy said was the first battallion of Seabees to return from overseas filed happily from a ship at Seattle, Wash., after Aleutian duty. "' WHERE NEW RAIDS ROCK SICILIAN STEPPING STONE o - [ - g n < T vl = A.I.AVA ‘caroNIA 3, ~ MT. ETNA ~=(10,741 FT.) i f A e 4)\/‘/“\ = 1 ASRENTOT I T oo — BN HEAIR e\ = GEI.A—j\’\ ~ N SSYRACUSE— = RAGUSA [ ] - LY, STEPPING STONE to the Italian mainland, is staggering under fresh Allied air blows in an _npparcnt the might of our air forces are Sicilian airdromes, asted the fields at 'mo, adminis- siCI pre-invasion softening up. The latest points to feel 3 marked with planes on the map. Flying Fortresses, escorted by Lightning fighters, bl Castelvetrano and Sciacca. Two radio stations were hit and set afire at Marsala. At Pal trative buildings were hit. thought these potentials had emerged from the conference. £,/ ‘The list shaped up this way: Governor Dewey, first; Gov. Lev- erett Saltonstall of Massachusetts, and host Gov. John W. Bricke tied for second place; with Go: Earl Warren of California, fourth, but - still in the money. - R. BRUST IS BACK FROM TRIP TO NORTH R. Brust, Chief Clerk for the Alaska Office of Indian Affairs, has returned from an extensive trip north, mainly on fiscal mat¥|’ ters. He visited Point Barrow, Nome, ! Q. Kotzebue, Fairbanks and Anchor- J3 age. (LANDINDO —————— VA NCHINA, MRS. J. LITTLEPAGE VISITING IN JUNEAU Mrs. Jack Littlepage arrived in| Juneau from her home in Sitka} and is staying at the Gastineau ) Hotel while in the city. { ORDER YOUR RABBIT SKINS{ Now Tanned, cleaned and all ready to make up. 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