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PAGE EIGHT TRUMAN ASKS HEALTH INS. Teen-Age(lu Holds Election | lEG | S L AT | 0 “‘ Saturday night before an eager- ly expectant crowd at The Teen- |Age Club announcemént was made |of the results of the election of its (new officers and board members. 'Ballots had heen cast throughout the week: and interest had run high | To Richard (“Itchy”) Davis went Congress Urged tfo Enact Program Providing Sick or Accidents Benefils .. uichest nonor in his:selection i las Pre of the Club for the WASHINGTON, May 19.—(® coming Elected .with him President Truman asked Congress were E s and Bill Sperling, Vice-Presidents; Claire Folta, Sec- to give “immediate attention’ to enactment of a Federal health|retary; and Harriet Maurstad, and disability insurance program. | Treasurer. To assist these officers In a special mi e to the legis- |in operating the Club, ten other lators, Mr. Truman declared such!|girls and boys from Juneau .and legislation is “crucial to our nation- | Douglas wer: chosen to comprise al welfare.” lthe Board of Governors. Those Under the type of program he honored were Phyllis Andrews, Pat as] a worker unable to work be- Balog, Katherine Bavard, Beverly cause of injury or illness would re- |Earl, Bonnie Eaton, Harvey Hildre, ceive government payments Mary Lou Mix, Bud Reid, Bob The President's special message |Swanson ana Keith Weiss. said that some insurance protection “All the miembers of the Club has been provided against three of owe Denny Merritt and the other the four basic risks to the security |retiring officers and Board mem- of workers and their milies. | bers a big vote of thanks, for their These three are unemployment, old | fine leadership during the past age and death. But he added, pro- |year,” said Zach Gordon, Director, t the fourth-—sickness | tcday. “All teen-agers, and, indeed, r missing element in | the whole community, have reason tection ags , “is the m: our national sccial security pro-ito be proud of their many accom- gram.” {plishments. Under the Club's new ———-— |leadership I am confident that it well |will continue to do very llo“s HEAR FOLTA throughout the coming year.” An important joint meeting of the retiring officers and Board o“ SIATEHOOD ESSUE members and those just elected will be held Wednesday afternoon at 0" 'I‘ODAY 4:15 o'clock. ATLUNCHE -, e £ ") st totays tions oo nunencon PEOPLE'S PLAYHOUSE uest speaker Judge George Folta fxpr _\u:d his view that Southeast K'NY FMTURE To BE Alaska should apply for statehood * * for this view the fact that existant — disposition of Federal funds, parti- The People's Playhouse, regular cularly for roads would continue Mcnday evening feature on Radio under statehood for Alaska as a Station KINY, will be heard to- whole, withs this section benefiting night at 7:3¢ o'clock instead of 9 very little from such disposition. o'clock, Manager Dick Peter an- The Interior already far surpasses nounced today. Scutheastern in road development, On the program for tonight is he said, with their highw con- the Second Installment of “The nections with the States, while this Last Days of Pompeii.” The change part of the Territory is isolated in time was made so that the pro- with no connecting highway. gram could be heard before time There also exists the threat of for the Dorothy Crawford program removing the capitol to a more being presented in Juneau this eve- central location should Alaska gain ning. statehood. This of course would Replacing the Playhouse at 9 mean the loss of many Federal o'clock will ke the Jimmy Durante agencies located here, he concluded. show, which was switched from the During the luncheon Buddy Hun- carlier hour. Another change will ter and his orchestra composed of put the Meredith Wilscn program Dale Roff, Doug Gregg and Jerry at 6:30 p.m. Chapman entertained with soft swing music. Virgil Heath of Seward, fox'mer‘uFE IERMER pADDY | Juneau resident, was a guest at the | 1 meeting. | SENTENCED IN 1943 | Nomination of officers for the | | ccming year were made and the DIES ‘T Mt"[ll IS_i election will take place next week. ! - e - | Official word of the death of Willi Pad 1) FouR ARRESIS MADE ‘backmt‘:) J’lim:z:. hg; ch:;;Iul;mhuhlr-‘ shall Walter Hellan, who has re-| BY polI(E’ wEEKE"D turned here from a trip with two P! risoners to the Federal Peniten- tiary at McNeil Island, Wash. | i Police made four arrests < y ovSrtyme weekend., Robert Pres-' Ielan sald that Paddy died, of ton- Andrews, longshoreman, for- | tuberculosis, at McNeil Island, feited §35 bail on charges of be-2E@ut two months ago. Paddy was convicted in 1943 for the murder| ‘"g“‘?“&‘;'flmm William A, Holz- Of Tony Simin at Douglas in 1942. heimer, this morning, fined Peter I:C “f‘x’s ;‘?“t”“‘?;’d to hang but, on, Place, another longshoreman, $25 APpeal. his sentence was commit- and sentenced him to five da in jail for being drunk and di orderly. Lucille - Jerome, was fined $25 ‘ and sentenced to 10 days in jail The jail sentence was suspended || with the provision that she leave . town. She was booked for being i drunk and vagrancy. 4 Alice James, also booked for be- | ing drunk and for vagrancy, was | given a 30 day jail sentence. The i last 25 days of the sentence was suspended. e, — At the time of the Bataan sur- render about 85 percent of the American troops there had mala- ria - - .o YOU'LL FIND THE WIDEST SELECTION of furniture on Ju- neau Young's Mezzanine floor. | —adv. 581-tf | | | | | Phone % | 22 ; | ] 24-heur Dependable Service Asphali Tile! CORK and RUBBER FLOORI! 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Ardena,! £ % /'t\\ i E‘““‘d““w]‘;"']a!* reported Emil Tang, and Mrs. Sam Asp WASHINGTON, May 19.—(P— MANILA, May 19—(—North- £ ¥ ™ i “‘m’_ x‘l"‘ I"’:‘"“_O';‘ es"l""; b p"l':'Land Mrs. Bemis. The House Post Ofiice Committee west Airlines expects to start New 5 rol er a!“l SIsier Su“s :{‘ik en(gl \01 H_H:‘f :‘;:;:] DT| To Cobal, Louis Drydahl; to today approved legislation increas- York to Manila flights over the % 3 yeek end On Triday, a total of Taku Lodge, Mary Joye; to Funter ing postal rates to provide an csi- Great Oircle Route the first week Eit BLLadiRE tho Sds © Juneal. ter Bay and rteturn, Dr. C. C. mated $110,000000 additional re- in July, William Musgrave III, ] roli “:‘-" e passengers Were as cCarter, on an emergency flight: to venue a Northwest representative here, an- “Q ¥ \is OWs Lake Florence and return, Sam The ¢ ee vote aise ounced today. h o b fabiar & 2 , So oted to raise the N 3 : . ukfr},":w?:;:“ucfi“rlnfii‘:z’e-;‘;‘;_ Curtiss, J. Torgerson and Buck air mail rate from five cents to six Don King, Orient division chief, k. Petecsor, go DaNE |Buckner; to Lake Hasselborg and cents an ounce and recommended and a party of 12 airline and When you give, scmetni er Crapo, Foster Mills, Jerry Rog- < g . . i you glve, scmetning i atride (O :)a(‘k Rogers ‘relum. Mr._aud Mrs. Keith Wild- increasing rates for second-class U. S. Civil Aeronautics Authority to a youngster you want to M. .r' Hibner Bettv‘lvvlah" iy 'AalA-l es, N. Bavnneld fznd B. Simmons. mail—newspapers and periodicals— Officers were scheduled to arrive make sure it will please his . o 51 l._E(-” Ay e ay, Motou To Pelican City, Mr. and Mrs. if the papers are mailed beyond today from Tokyo aboard a Sky- § mother. And y P ; Au. };sa:: yassett, Tom 8an, Milnes, Mrs. King, M. Goodman, I. the country of publication. master survey plane. v\h er. And }mfi:\-\re Sl;lre' nn 'S, . . " a Y T < . H " n o vhe i rive - Paul Vandor, Gertle Thursiow,| lnadoft; to Warm Springs, Badie, :Reesisaid theilatter'inoréases are Northwesy 'recently completed vnen you give MATEY'S! Tt pinegges Mt ,~p year: dhd Fenton and Ed Tibbetts; to Pe- based on zones and on aaverusmg 'enovation of a war-wrecked apart- You know how practical ‘Nx;t 1\;10&«, f’ouca]y :ue‘g fl]n | tersburg, C. Linden; to Wrangell, content in addition to a boost of Ment house in the Ermita district they are — and how be- infant, t¥rances: ;Glough,; tosaee (1, - Vi MoGes! to Ketonikil. . !Halr s omit s ol o reading |t0 house employees and passengers. coming they are. Bush and infant, Mrs. S. E. Vi- A alf a cent a pound on the reading 5 A Botie .- Jafs LA T OIN [ ok Y SIS portion of the publications. i Al Aurdal. n To le‘GMarlmeum W. A. Kass- Besides the increase in the aif QL. TULLY IN JUNEAU SIZES1to 6 Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Anderson, | joetC "],,l::::’"t "’S”’:" l’(”'," mail letter rate, the committee re- Col. T. J. Tully, Army Signal Vic Sellin, Knute Gronning, Jobn | loiy', 0 Juneau. E. S Hawkins commended establishment of i Corps oificer in command of the E : Sather, John Berg, Charles Green, ‘hm\ T ol e i :'11 _‘\"“' air-mail postcard which may be alaska Communications System, Theodore Edwardson, John Brown,| gy, "5 5y oo i mflrfll“ for four cen has arrived in Juneau on a routine | P Robert Mortensen, Walter Lund, % £ 6 ¥ The committee rejected a Post- inspection trip, and registered at Th N dg f! dJ Car} Bertelsen. From (IEuQFales to Juneau, George office Department suggestion tO' tne Baranof Hotel e \ee . ecra afl unlor op Carl Webb, James Thesenwitz,| ViLams; from Skagway, E. M. double the present one-cent rate e 1114 SEWARD ST. G. A. Wright, Ed Ness, Willlam Lindbroth, Jean and Connie Wal- on postcards, retained existing rates & E & Woods, Ernest Archiband, Thors-| "&%S: Geneva Walters, Betty J. Con- on newspapers and periodicals sent ,m RO Ly g rantien wEiies srompt Attenti Given All MAIL © ten Forsberg, David Johnson, Eu- 8n: from Haines, Elizabeth Hock- through the mail In the country of (L€ pavements laid down in the s S o D £ RDERS Sone Koch) ANt SRtINEA, ings and Evans Willard; from Peli- publication, and continued the pre- 19t FEenbiry fete ml‘ s i — s e e —— To Ketchikan, Calvin Russell |Can City, Erma Douglass, I. Alha- sent first- ailing rate of o o To Seattle: Bruce Parker, Arthur d«_)!l, Mike Goodman and Charles three cents for Boscow, M. S. Anderson, Ned Birdsell ARG S o Mo SO PR syt s s MY NECK ES OUT AGAIN Crowe, Kate Dennis, Ethel Bnker.‘l‘“wsz_": fl'?rm Fli:h Bay, W. EHix- L ; A F Ronald Baker, Carl Baker, Dick Son; from Tenakee, Darlene Brun- . - F 1 reuge, Tt Ewart C. ¢ Ml e, Robert Bruncige and Mille o Voney Back Guaraniee for 90 Days H. N. Curley, Murlin Davidson, Brundige; from Petersburg, James BE (HOSEN FOR i 2 ¢ 2 3 A Zaida Davison, Staniey Bishop. SWIS: ifom Wrangal, Dean C. £ I am so confident ihat prices on major elecirical appliances rick, Esther Be ) ice and Mrs. W. P. Johnson. " g sl 3 @ . B foamonts wef 44 tols] . RS TEIEK (h ‘runkaly Mukiy won't be reduced within the next 90 days that I will guar- y g i lows Samuelson, E. C. Baker, Jan Wheel- s f f d i d . d . v Ketchikan o Juneau, Balfour er, Mr. and Mrs. Raph H. Weeks 0. o Tl antee to refund any reduction made on prices now in effect on Gessner. and daughter, Al Peterson, Mr. and 4 250 VL BT haifal e T Seattle to Juneau: William Nei- Mrs. Joc Barnas and child, Tommy (foe HFHER CROET O Soman s the _GIIOng items now in siock. son, Thomas Sheean, Louis Gerard, Peters, R. Linden, John Brown, .- ' I s ¥ E Y i Ray Gerard, George Adams, John William Wamner, Edna Nauska, G, oo, Gict D€ gy i Wgshq house Plar, €s Refn erators Badms Dockal, Albert Hiimo, John Kar- C. Hall, L. Lindstrom, Helen Eur- | pedls it = LY WAmas g o -‘g g terud. ant, Mrs. Soley, L. M. Berlin and i oy p‘h'l R d- R f 2 t ‘ ders of the powerful Libera = Cliff Barrett, Chris Halstead, Roy Peters. i e Fnico hadics e l‘lgera ors John Hanson, Melvin Starkenburg, - B - accept Te ”‘ Kat A‘““‘m ‘4"\‘\1' R £ i ' Warren Arnett, Olaf Olsen, Mar- o S el Ll s E W- h M h the Chirah. %Al Cariee: IR of the Social Democratic parts asy as lng aciines 5 Ao, Farell Hopkins, PICNIC JUNE 22 . 5o oo o s remier Vacuum Lleaners % ot : portfolios to leftwing Socialists 7 V 3 o Wiy Serwidys o must. be settled, however, before | Immediate Belivery son, Denny Flaherty, Dennis Fla- The Juneau Shrine Club has an-|Sotayama reccives a formal vote ) herty. nounced that Sunday, June 22 Mo Cital bani Mesmdecs ot Yho A W [ » Robert Robinson, John Camon- been set as the date for their o 90 00 TESEEel O O ; annual picnic at the Recreation Beach. This will be their fourth annual picnic. The Shriners have, on their previous picnic dates, had perfect weather, and they are ex- pecting that their good fortune will hold for this year. President Tom Hutchings is to announce committees and detailed arrange- ments in the near future, izado, Jack Edwards, Frank Clerk, Auk Bay William Hillman, Henry Dertz William Bok, Esther Shipman, Gustaf Foslund. Walter Bott, George Blaine, Rod Cameron, James McElroy, Harold Davis, Art Makus, Andy Minirick, Dan O'Brien, James Peer. Elmer Doykko, Roy Rogers, Fu.d Simons, Brien Walsh, Tolden Wo- are, Mrs. Paul Arnold, Hilda Poole, Lula Olword, Bety Weigh, Martha Gadigan. e K 1 H. | The Evan Jones Coal Mine, at | Jonesville, has been closed down' 7601, United Mine Workers of 15 flights over the weekend, son, this morning, that they have! - i i (EVAN JONES COAL | by a walkout of miners on May ' ovER WEEKE" 15. The miners, members of local | —_— :America, notified Territorial La- Alaska Coastal Airlines reported bor Commissioner Henry A. Ben-' carrying the following persons in left their jobs pending completion ! and out of Juneau, in addition to of negotiations for a new contract. many passengers between other B S points: “ | SENATOR COFFEY HERE From Juneau to Sitka, Russell, Senator Edward C. Coffey of the Clithero, Ed Chamberlain, Dorris Territorial Legislature arrived in Fleetwood, J. C. Porter, E. C. Bak- Juneau from his home in Anchor- | er, Mrs. P. Jones, R. Linden, C. B. age, and registered Sunday as a! Foster Mills, guest of the Baranof Hotel. 1t’s the Nicest Store in Town Baranof Hotel Building with a reckless and beautiful cxcitement all its set like a or sea or in the air. 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