The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 4, 1944, Page 6

% SITKA NEWS % Jack Littlepage, who spent sev- Mrs. James Hall, Mrs. James Im- cral years in Russia on engineering lach, Mrs. Kenneth Nordby, Mrs. projects, will address the members Le Moine Peterson and Mrs. Ray, of the Sitka Women's Club md‘Pelerman. | their husbands using “Russia” as| his subject at the ne: regular | Funeral services for Daisy Ellen meeting of the group which will be Weston, fifteen year old high held in the club rooms Friday, school sophomore who met her March 10 at 8 pm. Mrs. Leslie Yaw |death by suffocation when fire de- chairman of the hostess commit- stroyed the small house where she tee for this occasion and those 1esided, early Tuesday morning, assisting her will be Mrs. George Wwere held at the Lutheran Church Morgan, Mrs. N. E. Thompson, Mrs. here Wednesday afternoon with the Verne Soley, Mrs. Louella G. Smith, Rev. D. H. Johnson performing the Mrs., Jack Schaeffer, Mrs. Hale last sad rites. Music was furnished Tabor and Mrs. Lindsley Thielke. by the high school chorus, of which| it |the deceased girl was a member .t big four- and by Miss Margaret Rands who| McGraw, sou Sang a solo. Flower girls who were in charge of arranging floral pieces at the church and at the graveside were Alexandria Trierschild, Betty Ward, Dorothy Sunde and Gertrude Price while Stanley Westover, Ra-{ Lbert Wagner, Wayne Westover, Fred McNulty, Lewis Davies and Frank Martin were pallbearers. Interm took place in the Moose cemetery. The girl is survived by her mother, Mrs. Bertha Stevenson Although he is a g year ald boy, Johnny of Mr. and Mrs. Ray McGraw cele- brated first birthday party on hat wasn't borrowed at here Tuesday af- 29. A large group friends joined the this a gala i birth- be- Mrs and Jim id daughte yd Tilson and McDonald, Mrs McGraw Mrs and home th p‘.v Mr. and Mrs. Charles M. Peter- son and Mrs, George Peterson were dinner gues at the home of Mr. and Mrs. William W. Knight Wed- nesday evening. Waliace Ganty celebrated his Di: Thomas Tilson,, Mrs Miss Donua Gayle MeGraw Francis Roach with Karen Vicki Ann, Mrs. Robert Shonwald Mrs. Harold Donley and Evelyn and | tenth birthday Friday evening with Bunny, Mrs. Reuben Frakki with'® supper party at his home, after Sonia and Billy, Bobby Newcomb, which the guests were cmormu.ml. Mrs. Robert Hagen and Nancy and At the local moving picture theater., Judy Ann, Mrs. Verne McGraw and Those attending included Charles daughter, Barbara, and Mrs. Frank and John Conway, Jimmy and Price and Georgia B. Price. Larry Calvin, Wake Andersen, Paul Fletcher, Edwin and Willis Osbak- ken, Norman Didricksen, Roy Bald- win and Terry Troutte. Jess Arthur Hicks was awarded first award for bridge at the Leap Year party sponsored by local Elks and | given at the Bills Club rooms Tues- Dr. Berneta Block, Director of day evening. John Dolenc was given Maternal Child Health and Crip- second prize and Phillip Johnson pled Children services with the Ter- held the low score. Bill Beach was ritorial Department of Health whose awarded the first pinochle prize headquarters. are in Juneau spent and J. L. McNamara, second. The several days in Sitka this week per- ladies were given no prizes on this forming duties in connection with occasion but were just asked to her office. While here she conferred “pay and pay.” A late spaghetti with Rev. Arthur Bily, who is at supper was enjoyed by the guests. ¢ Mr. and Mrs. THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA the head of the local health council Miss Evelyn Graham of the OPA office in Juneau who has been here for several days on business is to! leave in a few days to return to her headquarters. Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Wort- man, Mrs. William C. Charteris and Mrs. Martha Kostrometinoff joined in entertaining with a cock- tail party, Charles M. Peterson who is enlisted with the naval reserve and who is enjoying a furlough visiting at his home here after a duty tour of sev- eral months in Dutch Harbor. The guests met at the Kostrometinoff home for cocktails, later enjoying the supper at the residence of Mrs. Charteris and the Wortmans. Those present included Mr. and Mrs. Neill Anderson, Mr. and Mrs. Earl Shen- rett, Mr. and Mrs. G. C. Banvard, Mr. and Mrs. James Brightman, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Calvin, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Calvin, Mr. and Mrs. James Carr, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hagen, Mr. and Mrs. Don McGraw, William Sarvela, D) Louis Scharpenburg, Dr. H. J. Hodgins, Arthur James, H. Furlong, Mr. gling, Miss Tla Wes and Mrs. and Mrs ver, Mrs. G The basketball team of the Shel- don Jackson Presbytérian Mission School left here Wednesday for Hoonah where they will play two games with a team from ‘Hoonah and will take part in religious ser- es which are being conducted there this week by the Rev. Walter Sobeloff of Juneau. Miss LaVerne Seagren, music instructor at the school accompanied by three girl students accompanied the group on the trip and will take part in mu- sical programs which are part of the church services. Similar ser- vices which are to be conducted during the weekend in Angoon will also be attended by this group. Members of St. Peters Guild of the Presbyterian Church will serve pie and coffee to servicemen at the popular Lutheran Service Cen- followed by a buffet! supper Thursday evening to hnnori of the Columbia Lumber Company and their families will assist at the USO in serving free waffles and coffee. | Mrs. Harry Hagen left, here for friends and expects to return here early next week with Mr. Hagen |who is to return at that time from 'a trip to Seattle. Robert Lorentzen, son of My and !Mrs. Andy Lorentzen of the Pio- neer Bakery here who is enlisted in the Coast Guard and stationed at Juneau, has been enjoying a fur- {lough, " renewing old - acquaintances jand visiting at the home of his parents here. Miss Ila Weaver who ‘has been |employed as clerk at the Sitka Ba- lzaar for the past two years will leave here on the next south-bound I boat for her former home in Brew- ister, Minnesota, where she will re- |main indefinitely. Mrs. William C. Charteris and Mrs. Charles M. Wortmah plan to leave here early next week for John Conway, Mrs. P. S.! anty and Miss Eleanor Larsen. | |Juneau where she will visit with| Ketchikan where Mrs. Charteris will be tho house guest of Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Jernberg and Mrs. Wort- man will visit with her brother |and sister-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. George Sarvela. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Tilson will| leave here soon for a trip to the| South, where Mr. Tilson plans to travel as far as San Francisco on| la business trip, while Mrs. Tllsmx} | will visit relatives in St. Helen,| |Oregon. They will be accompanied | |by their daughter-in-law, Mrs.! |Lloyd Tilson and her young daugh- |ter, Diane, who will visit with re- |Iatives in Portland, Oregon. | Mr. and Mrs. George Eliason re- turned to their home here last Fri- day from a vacation spent in Se- attle and Paulsho, Washington. Funeral services for Bertha Basco, | 22 months old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Basco who passed away | after a lingering illness at the| family home here last Sunday were held at the First Presbyterlan| Chuych Monday afternoon with the Rev. Arthur Bily conducting the WRITEOQFTEN TO THE BOYS OVERSEAS—and - Shop At tr Sundey evenne whie emvio= | AJaska Drug and Jewelry Company Harold Dawson was in charge of arrangements. I . FOR YOUR SPRI Mr. and Mrs. John Winther plan 1o leave here on the next boat for Juneau where they will enjoy a month's vacation. Mrs. Winther is employed at the Columbia Lumber Company office. SPECIAL Permanent Waves Mr. and Mrs. Robert Ticknor and as low as $8.50 infant plan to leave her¢ soon for Chichagof where Mr. Ticknor will be engaged in fishing until fall when they exprct to return to their home here. Lieut. G. E. “Tony” Schwamm, U. 8. N. R, accompanied by Mrs. Schwamm who has been making her home here during the winter, and their baby son will leave next week for their former home in Petersburg while Lieut. Schwamm Open Evenings PHONE 318 NG LOVELINESS ... OUR COLD WAVE Machine and Machineless LGRIDS BEAUTY sALON COOPER BUILDING Opposite Federal Building is enjoying a leave from his mili- tary duties. [ — | Mrs. Harold Melby was hostess “at her home Thursday afternoon with a party celebrating the eighth birthday of her daughter, Vonnie. The guests joining in the festivi- tles of the occasion were Nancy Yaw, Patty Richter, Georgia B. Price, Carol and Sonia Susort, Lynn Johnsen, Judy Lee Dare, Joy and Gay Jollisaint, Wesley Stoft, Alicia Nelson and Annie, Melby. SAME OL for their regular business session at the Moose Hall Wednesday even- ing. At this time the financial re- of two wood sales and the bask al given recently for the benefit of the fund to be used in paying for the incubator and oxy- gen tent which is being purchased by the Moose Lodge and the Wo- men of the Moose were made and plans were completed for a St. Pat- rick’s Day dance to be held in the High School gymnasium with the proceeds being used for the same | worthy cause. Dr. Berneta Block of the Territorial Health Depart- ment In Juneau gave a very inter- esting talk to members of the or- ganization at the meeting. Hostes WE ARE REBUILDING at the D STAND b Watch for Qur Re - Opening W COLUMBIA COCKTAIL BAR ses for he next meeung w be ued | Wednesday, March 15 are to be PARSONS JUNEAU Solicits the business of friends in Sitka Electric Service and Repairs Westinghouse Representative ~ Money Transmit | Conway Dock meemc co. || FFirst Bank of Sitka . COMPLETE BANKING SERVICE fed 1o All Poinis Do Your Part- Put 10% of Your Income in War Bonds Company 0il --- Coal Gasoline Insurance Phone 78 e ——— at SITKA RUSS CLITHERO WHEN IN SITKA Make Your Headquariers the HOTEL "The Home of Hospitality” Manager SERVING SITKA FOR OVER 20 YEARS Jewelry -:- Fountain -:- News Stand DINE OUT AT MO Open 5 P. M. Y’S . to Midnight BY BUYING WAR BONDS ® Drop In At ERNIE’S ‘When You're in Town! ERNIE’S - COCKTAILBAR . SITKA SATURDAY, MARCH 4, 1944 services. A small building is being erected on the property formerly occupied by the P. S. Ganty store which was destroyed by fire in November, 1942, by Hugh L. McKenzie who plans to open a hamburger and coffee stand on or about April 1. Mr. and Mrs. L.'P. Doig, Mr. and Mrs. Hale Tabor, Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Wittmeyer and Miss Dorothy Cole assisted in serving waffles and entertaining servicemen at the USO Building Sunday afternoon and evening. Mascot Suspended Until Smartens Up SHAWNEE, Okla.—Rags II, the fire department’s new mascot, is on leave at the home of Fireman Sher- man Casey until he grows up and learns more about the pitfalls of life. Young Rags, who replaced the original Rags after the latter was killed by a car in the line of duty, is not losing his status as a regu- lar “fireman,” however. ‘Rags still is a member of the department,” officials pointed out. “But he was hit twice within two days, once by an automobile and again by a fire truck. Nothing serious—he was just bruised. But we want to farm him out a while until he learns to protect himself.” - e SAFETY IN THE CLOUDS RICHMOND, Va.—After navigat- ing and gunning his way on 25 perilous bombing missions over Ger- many, Lieutenant Kermit Cavedo, of Richmond, sprained both wrists in a fall from a bicycle at the base. While travelin we'll be thinki g is difficult . . . ng of our friends in Alaska . . . Even if we don't see them . . . Givetothe RedCross... THE RED CROSS NEEDS YOUR HELP SO THAT THEY MAY HELP OTHERS. ; New Washington Hotel, Seattle FRANK B. McCLURE, Manager WOOD HAS A JOB IN PEACE ad 11 wnAa ;bOOD really needs no introduction to America. . It has buile most of America’s millions of homes, has given us paper and innumerable other products. you won’t recognize wood Perhaps new uses are versatile raw, o COLUMBIA LUM SITKA ———— JUNEAU after this war is over. being, developed that it has become known as our So The most important fact about wood is that it is a renewable natural resource. We may run out of grow. minerals, but srees Forest industry operators, custodians of our commercial trees, recognizethis fact. Harnessing growth, they are using wood today, and producing more wood for the future. that can only be A forest isn’t 2 mine, depleted. Itisa farm that can produce forever.” COMPANY ANCHORAGE B ¥