The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 24, 1947, Page 2

MONDAY, FEBRUARY. 24, 1947 Petersburg Vefs Champions Gold Medal B. B. fourney; Many Awards Announced High School, Ray Night Owls and Wrangell Ameri- off the 3 the -Juneau n Satur top team ho Meda! Tourname: as gained by a scant Id Merit Team selecieti, con- play in the fi Those men 's Hornets Ameri- the B, Mec- Ketc anding ed Ha Wrangell , Droll of Guard Base, Hornets and High. whi which 31 las Gold Individual chan nship Medals geld medals, andg team trophy were Wasvick and Tor- f Petersburg, first The Ketchikan All nd place, got a wal- ward and indiv- m medal mber of he Juneau Im- a bronze award as inners; and individ- were awarded the the Sitka ANB team, in fourth place. awards immediate- the final game Satur- Chairman Sperling the members of his Ketchikan Stars Farstad Ron Farstad John Mills Fhillips Boldue All- Each me perials re L ed hird o medals rs of fini ting t olowin Sitka ANB 1 gallant ns comeback in nd half, the Te necessary NB boys were to catch up on mar the fin o ht high and indsome minently atisfactory Imperials, who set the final .core erned. Other committee- 45 31 George idt, H. M core by rter mann Grummett 1st Tl Imperial 6 S O 'f_‘ ‘,’ s by Hanks Manager Del Hanks (Summary) Tmperials FG FT TP, Sl teamng B8 gers, e 3 o g land every person wh d make Pasquan B e Ll ot e Neilson n1 1 ot Fou e 3 , Hanks Bavard CHa G tor & Tepens Substitutes: Forrest, 1; McD: ney in. Ju- i Lucas and Hick RO e ta ANB Pr gl i ang 1(. 4 nave alreads set, and even Jghpson 4 ‘I‘ 1: with the final cheers of Saturday i o T t still rir thall en- TeE fasts are ways of g e s o 4 making next years tournament bstitutes: C. Didri B % | et One change that will be made, | E3 at the suggestion of the team u AWARDS MADE managers, is to lengthen the Hiohist aftaid 45 o , schedule, so that the games will player in the Gold Medal Tourna- % odtplste weSkh . MEG i ment went to Herb Mead, center i thosysinis e Rt i Tt S Codl consideration, Hanks said t i L o Airatiaa to enter in the tourney o Heuoe dal b 1Ank: championship team from each sparkplug of the respected ! in b, Alosks, Met- team in the tournament, up ior . b %,/ Waengsll; Pes consideration as a candidate for \TSPUE: Lgigny (duneeu the 1947 All-American Selections. ‘P AT SN e Tep eesnted, Second place Federation Honor 24 Possibly others medal went to John Mills of the s Ketchikan Stars, and third to = B o Moses Johnson of the Sitka ANB. Mills also won iward for the P4 \A g number points in a game, 31; and Jounson, with ——— a total of 82 points n four games,| Hers are the scores of the col- tock tournament Ligh point hon- basketball games played over ors nd Herb Didrickson of Sheldon Navy 69; Muhlenberg 57 Jackson Junior Ceilege was award-' Fordham 69; Army ed the Gold Sportsmanship Medal; Michigan 44; Minnesota 25 and the award of Merit, for tue Georgla 65; Auburn 45. man judged coclesi under fire,’ Ohio State 57; Wisconsir went to Tommy Thompson of the Iilinois 52; Northwestern 51 Wasvick and Torwick Veterans. . | Iowa 68; Indiana 46. No Dead Shot Award | Notre Dame 45: Canisius 39. One medal was not iwarded to Rhode Island 83; Maine 62 any r i the tournament. Kentucky 83; Georgia Tech 46 That the Dead Shot West Penn State 51 and it Withbald’ bec n City College New York 76; Man- the opinion of the five members of an 67 the Awards Committee, there was mple 70; New York U. 67. no single shot made duri 69; Idaho 35. tournament which could be c 63; Oregon 51. as “most spectacular UCLA 53. There were many long shots, ; USC 45. scme exceedingly difficul. ones; DePaul 41 Whitwoerth lege of Edu on College of Puget cific University 49. North Idaho Col- 48 Sound of Idahc 58 but Chairman Harry Sperling ccmmented “I defy anyone here to select cne shot that could be said to stand out above other un- Pa- 53; . /#usual basket of the tournament.” -4 ; Fivst ‘Ream ngton 54; Montana 4 Players selccted to ‘e First Al- %2 Cregon State 69; Tourney team were Herb Mead of Juneau High SBhool, John Mills of the Ketchikan Al Stars, Tommy Thompson of Wasvick and Tor- wick Veter fierb Didrickson of Sheldon Jackson Junior College St AnNs Hospital &Tm;,,“l\s\;‘, ij\‘u Moses - Johnson' of ‘the BItkn y i 0" it Gairy Gregory 16 surg- TR Lo ; Mrs. John Satre, Jr. and Ms LS ke Mass ren Haines, Sunday, William were Philli the Ketchikan All Haynes and Howard Bowen were Stars Mv"'ll? 53 e ot © admitted for m ical ulxennun. § e L uncan BIES Mis. George Gullufsen and baby ficho An f ick and yoo pugene Medcalf and Mrs. Roy Torwick Veterans, Borbridge of pergtrovicte were discharged Satur- Sheldon Jacksiun Junior College, qay and in Sunday Master Marvin and Bavard of the Imperials Wilson and Jeanne Hopkins were Third Team A hareed Members of the Third All-Tour- Goyernm Hospital admitted no ney team were Ron Farstad of the new patients over the week end. All Sters, Chet Otness arged Theresa Johnson of and Torwick Veterans, king third place nd themselves in a nt were the Junea pesition in making ho piled up a 19 poirt for the various a-| t half of tk the tlarly for the All- BASKETBALL SEASON IS THE DAILY ALASKA‘EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA from Seattle; has competed as i and Snoqualmie Pass, Washington Joe Young and Gene Brady— two red-haired Anchorage High School youths—second, and third ectively in Class B combined. | | | Young, second in the downhill and ! | first in the slalom, was winner of NEARING END‘mn Junior White Stag Giant Sla- (ollEGE BB i {lom and finished third in Junior | jumping last yeaé‘ at the Anchor- « B 2 |age Fur Rendezvous. Brady, fourth s e { LOS ANGELES, Feb. 24—P—y the Jocal downhill nndythh-d in By JOR REIORGER : |Nine weeks of Northern Division! o slalom, last year took three. NEW YORK, Feb. 24—Fi—This iCoast Conference play comes tol . in Rendezvous junior _ |is payoff week in college basketball: u close this weeks with the pace-| jovition — downhill, slalom and titles Will be decided in the Big setting Oregon State Beaves nen‘{l-‘mmpmg: diss’ as mnner.up‘ to Nine, Big Six, the Pacific Coast ng only to put together 40 min- Young in the Junior White S|-\“ ference (Northern Division), the \utes of concerted effort to fashion| ™ e Bo ST Ammm‘fp Southwest ~ Conference, and the lits fist division title stnee 1042 fo 0T Ty vl oK ot o : stern Tatercollegiate Conference. | The Slats Gill-coacher Sln\ors‘m““"’,p skiing records, al Sfim\’l' Also numerous independents will be coms out three times during the| 0 SEUNE PEO SR s; D‘;’“’_" campaigning for bids to post-season {week with a tonight and Tuesday| " EE B "% FASL S ML ourneys night fracas against the Washing-| 78 FEL Ryaj,mad “e"e ‘1“" ©| Most interest tonight will be ton Stat> College Cougar: r'ny‘nmgi'm_' S ot mc'AnchDr"‘P"«qk centered on the Madison Square under the “crucial” classification. { o EER Op P age ‘}“‘(nmnon clash here between Notre { Two games behind Oregon State| Zb "ok 0, SO 1“"" of thelname and Now York University ia with a similar three games| /ot oot '-r""ce Plfl'-‘°°“ More than 18,000 spectators will be jto. play, the Cougars must win all| ZOF¢ SHEAICEO "°"" Richland, |, pand for this 14th contest be- three to co-hold the title. A single v"- hington, director of the Arctic (yeen the Irish and the Violets |win cither tonizht or tomorrow Velley Ski Run; Capt. Jack Eas-| 'y 1, conference races, Wiscon- for Oregon State and the rest of 1€V, from Kellogg. Idaho, officer |y, needs only one more win to the games will be a matter of go- ing through the motions. Two factors favor the Washington State fi The series will be play- ed on their Pullman floor and the | Cougars have been idlz for a week iworking up to the series. Oregon I State, on the other hand, comes up {to tonight's encounter after a sur- Iprisingly tough two games at Mos= Idato, where the University of by | {Tdaho Vandals turned in an upset iwin Priday ht, but dropped a decision Saturday. | The Idaho win, incidentally, {the Vandals from possibly (lishing a new division mark—that tof going through the season with- fout a win. It was their line entr ion the credit side against 14 de- i feats. | Two Saturday games wind up the 11947 season. Oregon State invades Eugene, Ore., for a single go against |Oregon with the latter needing to post a win to tie the Washington !Huskies for third place. Washing=- ton State travels to Moscow for a sipgle tilt with the Vandals. Washington closed out its season weekend with a split At Saturday 63-51 win gave Coach Hec Edmundson's Chargers an 8-8 record and at least a tie for third place. ., — ANCHORAGE COLORS WORN HERE BY HIGH RANKED SK! RACERS Nationally-known skiers were the contingent of hickory that the Army brought from Anchorage to represent Fort Rich- ardscn’s Aret Valley Ski Club and the Anchor; Ski Club in the weekend's Moller Race and South- east Alaska Championships here. An Army plane bringing ten en- trants from Anchcrage landed here Saturday just in time to let its load of skiers get up the Douglas Island trail for the start of Sat- urday’s slalom events—and just in time for the Anchorage slatsmen to cop the honors The class of the competitors from Anchorage is shown in their kiing records: ,over the lagainst Oregon among rider: Hugh Bauer—W:inner of Moller Gold Cup, Class A Downhill, C A Slalom and Combined; 1946 win- ner of Tri-State title at Jackson Hole, Wyoming and fifth place in Rocky Mountain championshivs at Aspen, Colorado; second place in 1941 Silver Skis race on Mt. Rain- ier; taught paratrcopers at Alta, Utah in 1841 as an assistant to Dick Durrance; last winter was manager of Mt. Baker Lodge, 'Washington; member of University of Washington ski team, 1935-37. At present Bauer is technical re- presentative for the Boeing Air- craft Company with the 28th | Bombardment Group, at Anchor- age. On another page of his skig !ing record is a second place in the ' Pacific Northwest Ski Asscciation jumping meet at Leavenworth, Washington, in 1940. | Chuck Hightower—who finished | runner-up here to Bauer, with | third places in the downhill and slalom and first in jumping— for | two years was Rocky Mountain junior champion; in 1941 he plac- jed thirteenth i the National Downhill. He is a former First ! Lieutenant of the Tenth Mountain | Battalion Training Group and is now employed at Anchorage by Birch-Johnson and Lyttel, con- ! struction firm. Hightower’s States , skiing record was compiled under | | the name of Chuck Patrick, as he ' was known when he was a Juneau resident for a time about six years of the 322nd Air Supply Squadron capture the Big Nine race. Winners | Yort Richardson. b 5 . ) of eight of 10, the Badgers meet Private Grantham and = Capt.ithe Boilermakers at Purdue to- Easley competed ‘in the Olass B pjght and play at Minnesota Sat- Downhill event only here, iinish- urday. ing tenth and twelfth, respectively Coach Bruce Drake's potent Ok- Capt. Easley’s main mission as a lahoma Sooners have an opportun- member of the Anchorage ski jty to clinch the Big' Six confer- group was to film the races for use 'ence title this week. They meet in Army recruiting. the Missouri Tigers, only other The Army C-53 transporting the party was to return to Elmendorf Field this morning. Anchora; 1947 ski meet, in connection with the Rendezvous, is to ‘get under way this Wednesday when down- +hill and slalom events are to be held. The Juneau ski club plans to return the compliment by send- ing a group of the best local ski- ers to compete at Anchorage. 'SONS OF NORWAY contender for the crown, at Colum- bit, Mo.,. Thursday night. Texas, undefeated in all its 10 league games, mneeds only to win one game of the Friday and Sat- urday night engagements with Ar- kansas to clinch the Southwestern conference title and then go to |Kansas Oity for the regional NC- AA playoff. Oregon States, blasted by Idaho in a stunner Friday night, can cew up the Pacific Coast Northern title bty whipping Washington State to- night and Tuesday night. ~ Wash- ingten State, with 9-4 ean tie Ore- gon State (11-2) for first place, by winning koth games. UCLA leads | California in' the Southern Divis- ion hy one game. The Uclans have won seven and lost three while NORWAY GIVE $100 T0 LIBRARY FUND; TWO EVENTS SCHEDULED The Sons of Norway have donat- ed $100 to the Memorial Library possible series of card parties. the Bears have a 6-4 record. fund, this donation being made ' Kentucky, winner of 29 straight During the regular business Southeastern Conferénce games and of 27 of 29 for the regular season, goes after its fourth straight pen- mecting last Saturday night, three candidates were initiated, Kirsten Hancock Loren Hancock and Ro- nant in the annual thre2-day SEC bert Christenson. tourney opening Thursday at Louis- Following the meeting refresh- ville. Columbia, unbeaten in six league ngagements, can assure itself of no worsz than a tie by taking ca: of three opponents, Yal2, Harve and Cornell, within the next eigh days. ments were served and Albert Pe- terson's orchestra furnished music for the dancing. Anna Lowell, social director, an- neunced the Sons of Norway will give a public card party next Sat- urday night, March 1, at 8 o'clock in the IOOF Hall. The next big social event of the giated Communication of Sons of Norway will be a public juneau Lodge this evening at 7 dance schedul:d for Saturday with labor in the M. M. D night, March 15 1u the Elks Ball- vyisitors welcome. room. v 3 W it D ATTENTION MASONS ILEIVERS, Secy. ool e 511-t1 HERE FROM WKAN L Forrest Stephens from Wrangell registered over the weekend as a guest of the Baranof Hotel. - Three es of cockroaches ave commen in America, the German, the American and the Oriental. U. S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE, WEATHER BURE. JUNEAU, ALASKA WEATHER BULLETIN DATA FOR 24 HOURS ENDED AT 4:30 A. M., 120TH MERIDIAN TIME Max. temp. | TODAY last Lowest 4:20am. 2thrs. Weather at Station 24 hrs. tem~. temp. P-ecip. Anchorage 40 28 28 0 Barrow -23 -27 -25 o Bethel 32 26 26 Trace Cloudy Cordova 43 35 43 .03 Cloudy Dawson . 27 11 11 05 Cloudy Edmonton 28 1 7 35 Snow Fairbanks 12 -12 0 Cloar Haines 40 3 02 Cloudy Havre 15 4 02 Cloudy Juneau Airport 41 33 35 03 Rai Ketchikan 45 | 41 41 20 Kodiak 37 | 35 38 .89, Kotzebue 5 e ) 0 Los Angeles 85 49 49 [ McGrath 15 -12 8 0 Nome 26 6 10 [ Northway 26 9 10 0 Petersburg 41 38 A Portland 56 39 39 0 Cloudy 'Prince George 4 | 38 0 | Prince Rupert . 48 38 38 [} Cloudy | Seattle 53 45 45 0 Cloudy | Sitka 44 40 Rain | Whitehorse 7 23 23 0 Clear | Yakutat 39 | 22 35 1.01 Rain *—(4:30 a. m. yesterday to 4:30 a. m. today) WEATHER SYNOPSIS: A deep low center is moving northward from a pesition about 700 miles south of the Alaska Peninsula ihis { morning. This is causing strong to gale winds along the coast from | Prince William Sound to the eastern Aleutian Islands. A ridge of high | pressure extends just off the coast from Southern California northward | acress Southeast Alaska to a high pressure center located over northern Alaska. Temperatures along the southern Alaska coast continued mild, ranging from near freezing to 41 cegrees, and range from minus 6 degrees to just below freezing over the interior and west coast of Alaska but continued cold along the Arctic Coast, minus 25 having been | reported at Barrow this morning. Rain or snow has fallen during the {past 24 hours at scattered points along the Rocky Mountain and Plains area of northern United States and southern Canada, over the interior of Alaska and ‘along the coast from Southeast Alaska to the Aleutian flggflorge Johnson-—fifth - in Class’ls}mds' A combined with a fifth in the | & HMARINE WEATHER BULLETIN downhill and seventh in slalom— | " ports from Marine Stations at 1:30 P. M. today |is 'a member of the Tolst M. B.| Souen Weather Temp. WIND Height of Waves Battalion at Fort Richardson. His|c,uo Spencer Shoddl 3 [1,‘:1;«'1.?““ Vl;l[-; (Sea Clmrlgéttiom previous skiing competition WBS | pldred Rock Cloudy 38 FRiay 7L as a member of the Ballard High|pint Retreat . Cloudy % NNE i 0 it School team, Seattle. § Lincoln Rock Cloudy 43 SE ki Zero _ T-Sgt. Harold Hartman—eighth | Gyard Island Pt. Cloudy 42 N 3 Zero in Class A combined, ninth in both | gape Decision Cloudy 44 E 3 s downhill and slalom- has no pre-| vious competitive skiing' record. He is in charge of the Trail Crew of the Tenth Rescue Squadron, Fort Richardson. He comes from Dexter, Michigan. Don Mertz—first in Class B combined with a win in the down- hill and second in the slalom—also a member of Fcrt Richardson’s Tenth Rescue Squadron; conjes MARINE FORECAST FOR PERIOD ENDING TUESDAY EVE- NING:. Protected waters of Southeast Alaska north of Sumner Strait— northerly to northeasterly winds under 15 miles per hour becoming variable Tuesday—variable cloudiness. Protected waters of Southeast Alaska south of Frederick Sound—variable winds under 15 miles per hour—variable cloudiness. Outside waters, Dixon Entrance to Sitka— easterly to southeasterly winds 10 to 20 miles per hour—cloudy. Outside waters, Sitka to Yakutat—southeasterly winds 20 miles per hour becom- ing 35 miles per hour—rain. Low pressure center—28.60 inches—48 degrees north, 160 degrees west, moving slowly northward. t..Mzmorial Pre . bers Sporis Briefs . I Beltin' Bem Hogan, the Mister {Moneybags of golfy has pocketed |another $5,000. He teat the English star—Dai Re2s—on all counts to |take all the prize money in an in- |ternaticnal match play tournament jat San Diego. | Sporis Notable fo Wed Vaughan Coreley, who tutored the University of Oregon football line since 1938, will take over ilar duties with th2 Univer Arizona next s n. The Multorpor Hill Class A jump- ing championship at Mound Hood Cregon, still belongs to Olav Ull- and of the Seattle Ski Club. He retained the title with almost flaw- less jumps of 166 and 168 feet in the Portland-Cascade Ski Club's annual tournamont. Th2 longest leap of ‘the day was turned in by Art Granstrom of Everett Wash- ington, who soared 182 feet on one |jump and 154 on another for sec- ond ce. Harry Brown of the Bralerre Ski Club of Vancouver, B. C., was third. Another ski event was held ov the weekend at Mt. Rose, near R no, Nevada. he two- Univer- city of Nevada ski carnival wa topped by University of California entrants. California’s overall points | totalled 394.2. The host Nevada, placed second, with ot entrants finishing in this order: University of Utah; nc State; Universit California Aggie College of Californ Washington Birthday the Tacoma, Wash,, nd Marine Capta’ ilicn, Chicago socialite. own above Mrs. Marjorie Lus The couple plan to wed. with , is s Everything in Sporting Goods of Ore the 1 Placer Junior A The ann trapshoot at gun club was won by Earl C | of Tacoma, who took overall championship. About Pacific Northwest shooters par ipated. Tied for second place were Ted Gehrman of Centralia, Al Barnes of Seattl?, and C. J. Hilte- brand of 8alem. Gehrman won th2 oot-off. | Junior, 200 L4 i -~ ‘SITKA BASKETBALL PLAYERS HOMEBOUND The Sheldon Jackson Junior Col- lege beat, STS II left Juneau ail 11 p. m. Sunday to return to Sitka with the eig! members of the ketball squad, Roland Wurster, Cean of the Junior Colleze, La 12nce Doig, skipper of the Lo Mrs. Doig and son In addition to Gold Medal Bask>tball ithe young men had |morning church servic | Northern Light Presbyterian C and the evening vices at byterian Church While in Juneau the team mem- ware entertained in tr members of FEoth the churches. ying in the tournament, the the irch the SCHEDULES to ANCHORAGE - Connecticns to KODIAK ® NAKNEK d Interior points. of -+ LOGGELS ATTE! [ION LOGGERS with lous for sw.e. Contact Juneau Lumber Mills. Will buy frem 1€9,000 ft. to 10,000,000 feet. For further particulers see Juneau Lumber Mills. 43311 [ -+ oo Y AUCTION Members of Rebekahs Auxiliary are reminded of Auction following ‘regular lodge meeting Wednesday | Feb. 26th. adv. 510-t3 Chest Colds ICKS To Relieve Misery VapoRus JANVARRRUARAASAMARIN S s o, | | | | 1 | | PaciFic NoRTHERN AIRLINES Reservaticns and Tickei Oftice, Baranof Hutel,—Phone 716 CHARLES A, WHYTE, District Traftic Manager Rub on Tested | L Lt g ‘ | Fh, e There Is No Substitute for t Baranof Hotel Buildirg 7 Newspaper éd‘iert_ising_!~ L Salmon €reek Country Club | 3 Miles North of Juneau on Glacier Highway Finest Country Club in Alaska COCKTAILS from 5 P. M. to4 A. M. DINNERS from7P. M. to2A. M. Steaks . . Chicken . . Spaghetti Chinese Foods-All Kinds Phone O Salmon €reek Country C€lub 3 Miles North of Junean en Glacier Highway