The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 8, 1945, Page 6

PAGE SIX Sitka Petershurg ALASKA COASTAL AIRLINES | Serving Southeastern Alaska Daily Scheduled Trips Wrangell Ketchikan Also Trips HAINES SKAGWAY HOONAH AND OTHER SOUTHEASTERN PORTS | For Information and Reservations Phone 612 JUNEAU Phone No. 616 WHY NOT? Have the Beneficial Effects of the SUN'S RAYS... At any time you wish. YOU CAN ... with one of our SUNKRAFT SUNLAMPS See Them Now! Alaska Electric Light and Power Company DOUGLAS Phone No. 18 Cheerful Dispensers of Dependable 24-Hour Electric Service “GENERAL ELECTRIC CO. PRODUCTS {comes servicemen to joln “it in all- |Meeting of Servicemen's Council. 7 third week. |Club meets for play in High School | GSO's are being asked to tell us ‘l TUESDAY, March 13—7:30 p. m., ;tons of cigarettes; third prize THE FEMALE OF THE SPECIES various people who contributed in VANITY BEAUTY SALON Cooper Bldg., Elsie Hildreth, Mgr. OPEN EVENINGS PHONE 318 —_— Thompson Optical Co. 214 Second St.—Phone 387 Lenses duplicated—Frames sold- ered—Reading Glasses $7.50 pair —Guns repaired—New Gun Parts - 'sex. In another even more enlight- for one of the hottest jam sessions Hotel Juneau For Comfort At Lowest Rales ROOMS WITH BATH or WITHOUT BATH Most Convernient Location ~THIRD AND MAIN— Owner-Mgr., Clarence Wise S SEATTLE For Comfort and Service McClure, ington Habit Mgr. ALASKANS FEEL AT HOME at SHotel [NEW WASHINGTON | THE BARANOF ALASKA'S FINEST HOTEL Eat in the Famous Gold Room 1t Costs No More Phone 800 Tanned RABBIT SKINS BUY DIRECT AND SAVE MONEY. Any quantity, immediate delivery. Write for Price List, Valcauda Far Co. Seattle, Washington F. B. Get the New Wash- MAKE JUNEAU DAIRIES DELICIOUS ICE CREAM a daily habit—ask for it by name Juneau Dairies, Inc. WHING DING Phone 519 Richard Peter, from Canton, Ohio, PO WATKINS GOOD HEALTH PRODUCTS Foods, Medicines, Flavorings and Spices, Toiletries and Household Necesities at PRE-WAR CEILING PRICES Complete Line GARNICK’S GROCERY Phone 174 Come in and get your FREE Calendar and Almanac ANCHORAGE via Yakutat and Cordova FARE: $82.00 plustax) Departs Juneau each Tuesday and Friday 2P. M. Woodley Airways Alaska Coastal Airlines, Agenis—Phone 612 { To pe honest with you, these - __THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA "JUNEAU'S USO NEWS | Interesting ltems for Everybody {(we're glad you asked us) Webster Shirley Kleweno, ‘who gave the Forum Club that exceedingly en- day night, proving again her pos-|American — Afrways [ they beat us!” which she long has used so gen- Week of March 8 to March 14 at 7:30 p. m. over KINY. It’s ““The jjor and a more home-like spot. 4T 1 Battle of the More Deadly Sex P m, Dance in USO to music of enough. But which, we're still won- Houston, Texas, handsome blonde g ;o last night. Servicemen’s Band. dering, is which? e o .0 | e o 0 !e FRIDAY, March 9-7:30 p. m,,| REVIVAL {ing by Mary and Jean Shaw. 10 fellow wasn't wracking his brain remember was himself a faitly jn to buy the chicks. p. m., Friday Night Party, with concerning the probable number of good fighter at one time! | A G e (refreshments and special entertain- 'marbles or beans in a large ment, followed by dancing to the he was getting prematurely gray e }o SATURDAY, March 10—8:30 p. various lengths, or he was puzzling ‘m‘ Movies in the USO. 10 p. m, himself as to whether the number AWVS Dance in the Elks Ballroom Of pinpricks punched into a large to music .of the Servicemens' Band. 2T 11 p. m. Juke box dance in USO. °F s o o e SUNDAY, March 11—1:30 p. m,, Trip to Mendenhall Glacier. 5:30 p. m, Coffee Hour, with waffles. :Rmh Brooks at the piano. 9:30 p. ‘m. Movies in USO. 11 p. m., Song- | ‘fcst. (Note: Juneau Ski Club wel- | course; but it did provide a of passing a few minutes idle playing, a business meeting will be‘baccos. in idle speculation that eventually called at 8 o'clock and all members | |netted the winner several cartons gre asked to be on time, of cigarettes, credit slips at the rd party. pinochle will| club canteen, etc. At the card party, pi | | S ever to have discontinued these them. | {day skiing,) contests. Anyway, they are being | | L |revived at once. We propose to 'e MONDAY, March 12—7 P. M. present a new brain-puzzler every N the evening. TJan and Mim, nowadays more ac- ! City, Towa, which the girls say is lo l E"‘ widely known as “The Golden 4 LA 1°1, 1 Buckle on the Corn Belt” . . . and | s 21 i PRI (here is that name Shirley again) | BY PA" ‘MERI(A | A s v 9 ' The 1200 baby chicks | Jjoyable party at her home on Mon- | P R 0 G RA M | GI—“Those wasn't no ladics— session of that gift of hospitality |reached Ketchikan. Dut to bad fly- | ing weather they were unable to be { Don't fail to listen in Tuesday ercusl: # club riend- | transported to the First City, and eronely (0 BRSOl b & fuen |as they had to be fed and watered, {they were sold. The demand was le THURSDAY, March 8-9:30 p. Versus the Less Deadly Sex,” sure ;0 the name of Kent Diehl, of (s, hrisk that they were all sold by Coast Guardsman whose skill as nn" Martin Geary, Johnny Johnson,‘ amateur middleweight boxer has' gy, conners, Ray Harrington and led to his representing his outfit prejen Mundheim, of the Pan Am on some interesting barnstorming | 2 Radio Show over KINY, “The! At one time in the life of our trips, accompanying on those trlpi ifiifisvfr:g':i;;eg":flin ;Eme‘:ei:g 50 ‘Ladder Under the Maple Tree” by USO there almost always was @ g chap named Jack Dempsey, also 'An SOS call was sent*out and lo- |Commandos. 8 p. m., Portrait draw- guessing contest under way. If a cf the Coast Guard, who you may|a] dairy men and farmers flocked o & DISCHARGED FROM HOSPITAL i W imaeas ot sticks ot nooaree o SONS OF NORWAY T0 ise,”',iJi‘”‘#&;fif&?"?’;‘f';e‘,‘“ié,i’: MEH'; ( ARD pl AY'"GIMW xece_ivi_n_f; medical attention. | GET RIGHT for the spring and, d amounted to 6,911 or 13402— The Sons of Norway will give a Summer Season. The Mineral Baths many more or quite a few less. pyplic card party Saturday nighz,‘“ Warm Springs Bay will put you Not that it proved anything, of gtarting at 8:30 o'clock in the Odd Tip-Top Shape. Clean, Furnished Fellows Hall. Previous to the card cabins. Grocerles, Liquors and To- O'NEILL & FENTON, Baranof, Alaska. e e e——— TookiHg - Hack | Hixe be played, but if others want ln\ SMELTS—SHRIMPS—OYSTERS ooking back, it seems a mistake .,y priqge, tables will be ready for| Sanitary Meat has just received | Public Accountant-Stenographic-T MURPHY and MURPHY Successors to Harvey Lowe ROOM 3—First National Bank Bidg. M. ISAACS——Building Contractor REMODELING — REPAIRING CABINET SHOP 270 South Franklin Street. “THURSDAY, MARCH 8; 1945 ax Returns PHONE 799; Res. Black 290 WELDING PHONE 767 OF ALASKA Lumber and Building Materials PHONES 587 or 747—JUNEAU YOU CAN GET LUMBER FOR ESSENTIAL REPAIRS ON YOUR HOME There is no substitute for newspaper adverti:inj! | Columbia River Smelts, Petersburg | || JUNEAU WELDING AND MACHINE SHOP Refreshments will be served dur-‘shrimp and Eastern Opysters. Two free deiiveries daily. Phone 49. to 10 p. m. Juneau Badminton | Starting today, you GI's and gym; servicemen welcome. 8:30 D. simply: What is the over-all length m., Forum Club leaves USO for|of that string which is stuffed into party in private home. 8:45 D. that milk bottle reposing on the m., Movies in USO. counter in the lounge? First prize, e o o 185 in cash; second prize, two car Broadcast of Quiz Contest (See nteen credit slip for $150. item below.) 9:45 Customary Tues- winners will be announced Thurs- day Night games in USO. iday, March 22. | e o o ‘ e * o e WEDNESDAY, March 14-7:30,! NAMES IN THE USO NEWS Movies in USO. 9:30 p, m., Square| If we had a daily bulletin of Dancing in USO, under joint aus- Jocal USO news published at our pices with AWVS. Public cordially . clubhouse, the issues of the past invited. iseveral weeks would have con- e o o o o o tained many names,—names of the or ,one way or another toward making WAS KIPLING RIGHT? the Juneau club what we like to There is no little evidence in the believe is something more than works of Rudyard Kipling that the “just another USO.” To cite only gentleman was quite an authority a few of mahy examples: The on the other sex. In “The Ladies,” names, certainly, of Chuck Metre, youwll recall, his spokesman cited Merchant Marine Sailor, from cases and places in support of some Seattle, an excellent pianist, serving interesting and valuable generaliza- as the spark plug on Thursday tions about the members of that night, after the dance had ended, ening poem he concluded, cmphati-;hea;d at the clubhouse in many cally, that “the female of the months . .. and Shirley Romano; | species is more deadly than the recent bride of Soldier Joe Romano, | male.” |looking particularly beautifull at | We do not care to go on record Saturday night's formal dance. here as agreeing or disagreeing| And GSO Girl Jackie Schmitz, with Brother Kipling in the gen- who is shortly to be leaving for the erality of this proposition. But, spe- States and whose departure will cifically, we do have a very pointed come too soon for her many friends question and we don't know the here who will miss her a lot. | answer: In USO Quiz Contests is And Keith Reischl, the latest to | the GSO female more or less dead- visit us among the large number ly than the GI male? lof Juneau servicemen now home Or, putting it just a little dif- on furlough, and among the best- ferently, after one of our service- liked of all of them . . . and men has come to intellectual grips Shirley Westby, one of the newest with a GSO, what'll he mean when of the GSO members, already very he says: “And I learned about popular with our fellows, proving women from Grace Berg, or Mar- especially helpful by her taking garet Femmer, Shirley Kleweno, charge of the canteen for three Mary Shaw, Jean Shaw or Mary hours beginning at 11 p, m. each‘ Scott (as the case may be)”? that’s Priday. | what we want to know. And the charming Fardal sisters, As a matter of fact, we probably Night . .. you desire.. .. SUPER This Space Donated by The Gastineau Hotel {1 631 Willoughby Avenue i i AUTHORIZED AGENTS FOR GRAY MARINE DIESELS and GENERAL MOTORS DIESELS From 25 to 400 H. P. GRAY MARINE GAS FPNGINES . From 42 to 96 H. \ GYPSY: I see you going to the A. W.V.S. BENEFIT CABARET Saturday | Sanitary Meat Co. HE will be everything Chrysler Marine Engines AND, Confidentially, I have inside information it will he || Chas. G. Warner Co. NORTH TRANSFER E. O. DAVIS don’t ha 1 to wait for the - 7 answer. Noxt, Tuesday ragnt a Girts. Sl OO RO OO ERLL RO Service Organization team of three picked from that squad, is sched- uled to meet a Soldie Team, comprised of Roscoe Hoissen, from Medalia, Minnesota; John Oden- wald, of New York, N. Y, and JUNEAU CITY LEAGUE BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT TONIGHT AT 7:30 FIRST GAME DOUGLAS HIGH SCHOOL vs. SUBPORT SECOND GAME JUNEAU HIGH SCHOOL vs. BEAVERS Friday Night at 7:30 FIRST GAME y ’ SIGNACS vs. Thursday's Losers SECOND GAME Winners of Thursday's Games Battle for League Honors ADMISSION STUDENTS—22¢—PLUS 8¢ TAX. TOTAL 30¢ ADULTS — 42¢—PLUS 8¢ TAX. TOTAL 50c Persons in military uniform admitted-at student rate Use Sixth Street Enirance ONLY! teams have already met. (We're not going to tell you who won in what was a very close contest.) What turned out to have been only 'a dress rehearsal for next week took place on Tuesday. It was in- |tended to be the real thing, no mere warm-up. | The two teams were lined up |there at the USO mike and the, irest of the radio equipment was lin place. Starting time arrived— the announcer did his “good even- ing, everybody, etc., etc."—and the ‘qulzmaster trotted out some special ihumor for the occasion, dedicated {to those members of the public who the week previous had accur- ately and promptly (within ap- proximately one minute and a couple of seconds of the commis- sion of the error) telephoned’ in to inform him that the capitol of Kentucky still was, as it long had been, not Lexington but Frank- fort! | Throughout the program there was a lot of frolic and banter be- tween the two sexes. We all hoped the listeners-in were having as imuch fun as we at the USO were having. And then just about two | minutes before the end of the pro- gram, we got the word: “Sorry, but {you haven't been on the air at lall. There's been a mechanical mix- up at the studio, Not a word of the |program has been heard.” Maybe ! we who had been talking into] that dead microphone for nearly a half-hour didn't feel silly! Next week we think it not un- likely that use will have to be made of the old joke in slightly altered form: { STRANGER — “Who was those ladies I seen you competing again: al Tuesday night's Quiz Contest [T A T | COWLING-DAVLIN | I TIMELY CLOTHES A SRR O Bert's Cash Grocery L =.I'l||llIIIIllllllmlllflllllIIIHIIIIIIIIIlIIIIIIIIlIIII!lIIllllllllIIIiIIIIllIlIIIlIIIIIIIllllllll"lllIlIMIIIIIIllllIIllllllfllm_HllIHIII THRIFT C0-0P \ N Member Na‘ional Retaller- z { { A ‘ MiRINE SUPPLIES LY Owned Grocers 211 SEWARD STREET PHONE 767 FORD AGENCY | (Authorized Dealers) GREASES—GAS—OIL Foot of Main Street Junean Motors JUNEAU PLUMBING & HEATING CO. PLUMBING—HEATING—OIL BURNERS—SHEET METAL Third and Franklin COLUMBIA LUMBER COMPANY Southern Fried Chicken ALASKA CLEANING CO. Window Cleaning and Janitor MERF C. FERRIS Phone 777 | Alaska'Cab Office FOR QUALITY MEATS | AND POULTRY FREE DELIVERY Call Phones 13 and 49 MACHINE SHOP Marine Hardware Light and Heavy Hauling E. W. DAVIS PHONE 81 COMPANY DODGE and PLYMOUTH 5 DEALERS WHEN IN NEED OF Diesel Oil—Stove Oil—Your Coal Choice—General Haul- ing — Storage and Crating CALL USl Juneau Transfer Phone 48-=Night Phone 0393 NUNN-BUSH SHOES STETSON HATS Quality Work Clothing . FRED HENNING Complete Outfitter for Men “SMILING SERVICE" PHONE 104 or 105 Free Delivery Juneas Alaska Trading Co. J. W. GUCKER, Prop. PHONE 122 or 4 At Alaska Dock and Storage PSS SRS SN | HOME GROCERY Phone 146 Heme Liquer Stero—Tel. 090 American Meat — Phene 38 G. E. ALMQUIST CUSTOM TAILOR Across from Elks’ Club ] Femmer's Transfer OIL — FEED — HAULING Thomas Hardware Co. PAINTS — OILS Builders’ and Shelf at Reasonsble Ratés PHONE BINGLE O Alaska Meat Markel The largest and most complete stock of Fresh and Frosen Meats in Juneau. L. A, STURM—Owner, JPHONE 39—83%