The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 17, 1945, Page 6

PAGE SIX THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA PAGESI l 11 PASSENGERS IN VIA ALASKA AIRLINES An Alaska Airlines plane brought | Murray. LEGISLATORS LOCATE | yakutat to Juneau — E. B. Dull, { — ‘Mr:E B. Dull and two children. | Representative-elect Joseph F. Leaving this morning for Yakutat | Krause of Ketchikan, Representa- were the following: Le Roy West, | tive-elect Wallaco Porter of Hay- Juneau to Anchorage: D. H. Tyer. cock, Representative-elect Edward Juneau to Fairbanks (via Anchor- [Anderson of Nome, and Senator HOBBY SHOW TO OPEN HERE .. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 17, 1945 Ewlll serve to show the variety and ;beauty of the flora with which all | women can brighten their homes |during the winter months. i Ted Carter is placing an experi- {mental chemical gardening demon- ‘stratlon in the show, a plot suitable " In Juneau O. D. Cochran of Nome are guests |for any home with sunny windows. of the Gastineau Hotel. Along these lines, Carter shows plant Ireeding. both in in-door and out- 'door gradening. ————— Clty‘ HAMILTON HERE i Carter demonstrates that gravel | I culture, while very new, has a def- | W. B. Hamilton of Ketchikan is Dlsplay Spa(e Filled fo Ca- inite piace in Alaska through con- | a guest at the Gastineau Hotel. . . . trolled growth and counteracting | pa(I‘Y n S(O"lsh | adverse weather conditions. . Gardening is now a hobby that Rl'e Temple 1intcrcshs every family and the dem-I onstration will add further zest. | The Hobby Show at the Scottish | Carter will turn the experimental | Rite Temple ill open its doors to plot over to the Juneau High School the first visitors tomorrow after- 'after the show. noon at 3 o'clock. A colorful and | Sharing the spotlight at the show | fascinating showing of the media |tomorrow afternoon and evening used by local hobbyists has filled all jare: oils, water colors, pastels and available display space to capacity. |charcoal sketches; needle work, This showing of the possible uses to (Wood carving, ivory and other types which native woods, ivory and other ‘of carving; the adaptation of ab- Southeast Alaska products can be |Original design on native woods for the following passengers to Juneau | age)—Miss Sankin. yesterday afternoon from Anchor- | S age: R. A. Baker, M. T. Harris, Ida FROM PELICAN Huff, W. D. Lucy, Ben E. Lofgren, K. Raatikanian of Pelican E. G. Fisher, K. K. Kellener lis in town and is a guest at Ihci ‘Anchorage to Yakutat—Grant Mc- ' Gastineau Hotel. | i’s HING DING - e ‘put in the development of hobbies modern pieces suitable for home | and crafts will enchant and surprise |use; the use of native design in the | visitors. painting and embroidering of wear- ) David Ramsay will delight boat ing apparel and interior decoration. > R model enthusiasts with four models Silver Tea | N of perfection and beauty, including | The hours are from 3 to 6 o'clock | an exact replica of the Estebeth. |iy the afternoon and from 7:30 to| Ralph Mize is a doll house builder | 9:30 o'clock in the evening. A | after the dream of all little girls. |silver tea will be served in the | Even a grand piano which produces | afternoon with Mesdames A. E.| . music and is fashioned to exact scale | Glover, B. D. Stewart, E. L. Bar We Are Now Featuring aLarge Selection of SULLY’S PASTRY Fresh Evcry D“y | With a flare for real chic Mrs. ] at the Arthur Zimmerman has combined seashells and pine cones into bou- tonnieres of originality and distinc- is to be found as a part of the furn- | jett, M. O. Johnson, A. M. Geyer | ishings of this model house. land John Brillhart pouring. Assist- | ing will be Mesdames P. S. Sullivan, | Don C. Foster, Mary Joyce Wade, James Cole and Robert Treat and| members of the Senior Wing Girl| Scout troop. | Hostesses in the hobby room will 704 Juneau Deliveries—10 A. M. and 2 P. M. Douglas Delivery—10 A. M. Boat Orders Delivered Anytime! tion Mrs. Harold Foss is showing some | intricate tooling on leather; Mrs. Henry Harmon is displaying china | painted with an Alaska cotton de- sign. Mrs. J. H. Likens and Mrs. Joe Werner are exhibiting painted furniture, the former with a Scan- dinavian design, the latter using peasant motifs Mrs. Roy Peratrovich has charge of native arts and crafts and is eager to have any persons who may have particularly nice crafts done locally by native craftsmen to con- tact her today. The Botany Club members are busily gathering house plants which be Mesdames E. L. Bartlett, Tom Parke, Don Skuse, Willis R. Booth, | Henry Harmon, Rae Nevin, Walter Heisel and Crystal Jenne. | Highlighting the evening offering will be the talk by Ed. Keithahn at | 8:30 o'clock on the future of crafts | | in Alaska. | s ——— ATTENTION SHRINERS! | MEETING OF THE SHRINE CLUB THURSDAY AT 8 o'clock in the Dugout. Annual election of officers. J. W. LEIVERS, Secretary. | __'___—_—__,I An advertisement to sell fewer Parker “51” pens.. .. O PEN COMPANY ever ran an advertisement like this. No pen company ever had to. The Parker Pen Company is in a peculiar and unique wartime position, and because several millions of the pen buying public are involved, we use this public means to explain. | K ¢ The public is involved in this way: we ad- vertise our product regularly even though we realize that few Parker “'51” pens are now available anywhere in the world. Why then do we advertise? A business selling a trade-marked article, like Elgin Watch or Frigidaire or Buick, to the general public must keep its name in lights during a lull whether it sells or not. The public forgets unpub- licized trade names with disconcerting promptness. It would be very easy to slip from a position of leadership into second or third position and naturally we would not like to risk the shift. 4 14 v Then too, we have regularly produced a limited quantity of pens under the War Production Poard restriction order, and since its cancellation. At the time of writ- ing, our 1944 fourth quarter shipments are running approximately as follows: U. S. Army and Navy 60.02%; U. S. and foreign civilian retailers 39.98%. While it is nec- essarily only an estimate, we believe two- thirds of this last quantity are purchased by or for men and women in Service. Therefore, of our current total pen pro- duction (about one-half of 1941 produc- tion), approximately only one-tenth has been available to civilians of this country. We believe the few hundred thousand pens rationed to our civilian dealers are equal to only 5% to 10% of the demand. Our calculation is based on an analysis of orders we cannot fill. 7 S 14 We are printing this public notice because the War Production Board order limiting ,the production of fountain pens was rescinded September 26, 1944, and the public was duly notified in the press that all restrictions governing the manufac- ture of fountain pens had been lifted. Nevertheless The Parker Pen Company will, for reasons given below, continue its strict and impartial quota rationing sys- tem indefinitely just as it did while the WPB order was in effect, and just as it did, voluntarily and self-imposed, nine months before there was a WPB order limiting pen production. So the trickle of supply will remain a trickle. There are thousands of merchants and millions of copsumers who want to know % ey PR why there are virtually unlimited quan- tities of other brands of fountain pens, but not Parkers. The situation for this company is serious and truly troublesome: we have been warned by loyal dealers that we are perilously losing ground in market position and in dealer distribu- tion, both here and abroad. 7 7 Knowing our uncomfortable market posi- tion, the U. S. Navy has given us permis- sion to disclose some information about our munitions manufacturing program. The U. S. Navy was charged with the development of Rocket Firing, both for itself and for the Army. Rockets are a vitally important evolution in warfare. Rocket firing, in effect, puts heavy artil- lery into the air. A rocket missile is equiv- alent in destructive power to the missile fired by a multi-ton gun on the ground. Yet a fighter aircrafc can take aloft and fire six rocket missiles. These rocket missiles have a fuze which detonates the main explosive charge with a certain small delay after the rocket hits the target. The slight delay gives the mis- sile time to “shoulder” into the target armor and then let go with everything. The manufacturing technique involved must be rigorously precise. The Parker Pen Company was the first manufacturer of these fuzes in the United States. It helped with some of the develop- ment work. These fuzes require pains- taking precision in manufacture and as: sembly fot they must not explode acci- dentally or prematurely, yet they must be certain to explode when intended. After a fighter pilot has risked his life to ap- proach within target range, there must be no failure in the missile. Enemy gun emplacements on Saipan, Guam, Palau, the Philippines and many other invaded areas have been put out of action by these missiles. Many enemy ships lie at the bottom of the Pacific be- cause they met up with Americad boys in fighter craft armed with rockets. Other fuzes we produce (for the Army) bear official priority rating “Emergency Urgent A Critical. , 3 ) No commercial considerations could in- duce us to edge away from this rocket program, or from any other munitions we produce until the requirement for munitions is substantially decreased, or more manpower is available for civilian manufacture. In fact we are currently over-producing by 8.8% above munitions contract requirements. 7 7 14 We could produce more fountain pens without interfering with munitions out- put by putting fewer manhours into each pen unit. Every Parker Pen is designed and made to give many years of service, and it is not a product that lends itself to hasty, slip-shod, mass-production methods. The parts are soundly and care- fully made and assembled with precision adjustment. They cannot be thrown to- gether and shoveled out. This is an advertisement to sell fewer pens, rather than more pens. But we pri- vately feel the Parker *51” is well worth waiting for. This public notice is therefore both a blanket apology, for advertising a product not generally available, and a statement of policy to which we hope you will understandingly subscribe. THE PARKER PEN COMPANY, JANESVILLE, WISCONSIN, U. S. A. (.& H.Pure (ane SUGAR, 50 Pounds. - $3.75 POTATOES 25Pounds - - - $1.27 Clover Valley Stokely’s, 46 oz. BUTTER Tomato Juice 2 pounds $1.03 | 12cans$3.95 MEAT DEPARTMENT FRESH GROUND BEEF 36¢ 4 Pound - - - - - - - - BACON, half or whole slab - Pound 43¢ POT ROAST, Grade ABeef - Pound 39c:- BEEF BRISKET, Grade A Beef - Pound 273 - COOKING CHEESE, Darigold - Pound 43¢} et LIQUOR DEPARTMENT GILBEY'S GIN, 90 proof - - - 5th $3.65 PRE-WAR SCHENLEY'S, 86 proof, 5th $4.95 SEAGRAM'S 5-Crown, 86.8 proof, 5th $3.95 3FEATHERS - - - - - 5th$4.35 RAINIER BEER----Stubbies 6 bottles $1.00 (ase $3.85 -PABST BLUE RIBBON BEER- & bottles $1.00 (ase $4.75 - IRVING'S MARKET- - 2 DELIVERIES DAILY-10:30 A.M., 2:30 P.M. S S Y e it e