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PAGE TWO Celel THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU 60th Anniversary in a2 Special Ofiering of ——— p————————————— At Prices You Caun Afford . No Approvals EVENING GOWNS No Exchanges No Refunds M Behtends Co QUALITY SINCE /SEST TWO VETERANS PURCHASE OLAF BODDING TRANS. Lee Lucas Jr., two Jur announced S Bodding Transfer Co., from Ea. and Thelma Bassford McDanie is also the proprictor of the White SOAP BOX DERBY DISCUSSED TODAY AT ROTARY MEET Tx2 Rotary Club he R Iy meeting this noon in th Room of e Baranof Hotel w Homer Garvin presiding. Busin at the meeting incl discus- sion of preliminary p ne year's Soap Box Dor and an ncuncement of new members. D W. P. Blanten, program chairman called upon Hank Harmon and Monte Grisham to tell the mem Le out this sum- Harmon tolc the trip ok to k amping grouns Gr m was the protests meeting were Phil 8 Elton Eng- tterly Transfer Co., whic ed with the new the arrangements 3 Lucas, son of former Mayor Harry I Lucas, has ed from his dual positions wit the Ju- neau Merchants Associa and the California Grocery in devose full time to the ne cern. He was previously employ- T ed by the T itorial Treasurer’s office. He was born and raised in Juneau McDaniels has lived here for many years When dischar from the U. S. Armed Forces yvear, he went to work for Transfer Co. and then ] the company last Decem- ber The pair will ding name and its present office at Street next Shop. Triplette and Dalziels on Fro to the Havri Mack The Bassfords have not yet made known their future plans, but are|t expected to remain in Juneau .o SEATTLE MEN HERE Dale Benbrook, N. H. Kripp and Ted Finch. of Seatle, are registered at the Gastineau Hotel of - MEETING HELD ANNETTE AIRPORT Officials Authority e were in today vice tchik: atla to the and co ith A an, Indians. The reach a s proposed opera oH H attorney fc grou OPERATION TODAY he ex- to- the Annette Island Airport which s land owned by the In- 1 ibe. Taking part in the meeting wers: | W. P. Plett, Regional Director' of the CAA; Henry L. Newman and H. P. Noggle, also with the eral Anchorage; Don C. Foster, Superintendent of ANS; wis Peters, Director of Na-| £ soon as an agreement 1is reached, the contract will be flown| to Metlakatla for signature and confirmation by the Metlakatla! Council. in in order that the CAA LESLIE ANN FOURNIE WINS STORK RACE WITH GRANDMOTHER BURFORD rriving just in time to welcome andmother to Juneau was > Ann Fournie, daughter of Mr. Mrs. John Fournie, who was 10 o'clock this morning at | Ann's Hospital. Her grand- mother, Mrs. Wilbur Burford. ar- rived on the Pan American plane bern early this afternoon from FPorter- ville, Calif. Leslie Ann, who tipped ¥ scales at five pounds, eight ounces, is the first child of the Fournies. Her father is an em-! vloyee of Pan American Airways. Also greeting the new baby is her grandfather, Wilbur Burford and| great-grandmother, Mrs. Pearl | who are living in Cali- er Burford fornia MEAT, MILK PRICES TAKE NEW BOOSTS (By The Associated Press) 4 New increases in the retail cost Negotidtions have been|of meat, and milk were reported » for several months to|icday as public discussion of the ain concessions for thelgjgnificance of high food prices in- tinue to operate the air-'creased production to a prediction ranged from optimism over of an economic Prices of meat recession. in Pnilaczlphia [Fishermen's Views Sought on Regulation Changes for 1948 Season in Juneau Friday, a of eight hearings on fishery tions for the 1948 season will eld in Alaska cities by Fish and Wildlife Service. A nintn hearing will be held in Seattle. The hearings are neid in line with a policy adopted by the F&WL just prior to the war and resumed last vear. The purpose is to hear views of active fishermen and cannery op- erators upon proposed changes in the commercial fishing regulation, and their recommendations for con- servation of the Alaska fishery re- source. The hearing will be conducted be- fore Seton Thompson, chief of the Alaska Fisheries Division of the F&WL and Frank W. Hynes, Re- gional Director of the F&WL. Fish- eries Management Surervisor H Slay Scudder and various local Fish d Wildlife Service agents will also likely attend A num ermen are ex- pected to apvear in each community where a heading is held, as well as industry representatives. J. Steele Culbertson, Assi: Manager of the Alaska Salmon Industry, Inc., arrived here last night from Ket- chikan, to follow the hearing cir- cuit. The schedule of hearings is Juneau. September 19; Sitka, Sep- tember 22; Craig, September 24 Petersburg, September 26; Ketchi- kan, September 29; Anchorage, Oc- tober 2; Kodiak, October 4; Cor- dova, October 9: Seattle, October ;7. All Southeast Alaska hearings, pt t at Ketchikan, are sched- d to begin at 9 o'clock a.m Ketchikan hearing is scheduied for 10 o'clock. After holding the opening hearing here Friday- probably in the Alaska Senate Chamber, though the place is not definitely sttled—the F&WL officials will Jeave aboard the Brant for Sitka, Craig, Petersburg, and Ketchikan, returning here about October 1, before leaving for the westward. - MRS. JESSIE BAKER IS SERIOUSLY ILL Mrs. Emil Krause and her daugh- ter Lorene flew south yesterday via Tan American Airways for Seattle. They were called south because of the serious illness of Mrs. Krausz's mether, Mrs. Jessie Baker. While in Seattle they will be at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John Ahlers. - --——- There are morc cars on Ameri- jcan farms than telephones—4,- 150,000 cars as compared to 1,900,- 000 televhones. DEP! WEATHER DATA FOR 4 HOURS ENDED AT Max. temp. | the | The @ N1 OF COMMERCE, WEATHER BUREAU JUNEAU, AL/, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1947 B1G CRA B_Arlene Lin- dahl, United Air Lines hostess, examines a huge king crab, flown to N. Y., part of the first catch of these giants ever made by Americans in Bering Sea’’ HURRICANE - THREATENS FLORIDANS 160 MPH Storm Wallow- ing Off Coast, Nearing | ha; t | American Airways. He has been in | | Seattle for the past week arranging | for shipment of company cargo on ' eded on 2nd Ballo- | | ‘Palm Beach Area © MIAMI, 16— —Hur- | , Sept ricane warninzs were ordered up at!yesterday via Pan American Air- 2:45 p. m. today from Fort Laud- e to Titusville along the Flor- East Coast, as a great storm with highest winds reportzd at 160 miles an hour wallowed erratically offshore. H The center at 2:45 p. m. was miles east of Palm Beach and drift was westward about five seven miles an hour The weather bureau said: “This great hurricane will ap- proach the coast in the Palm Bzacl d tomorrow un- chang~ of to - - MORGANS GO S0Uin; ANNIVERSARY 10 BE CELEBRATED SEPT. 22 Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Morgan are leaving Wednesday via PAA en- route to San Francisco attend the national convention of the Unit- ed States'Savings and Loan League, of which Mr. Morgan is a member of the Executive Council. They will spend a week in the Bay area and will celebrate their twenty-second weddi inniversary cn Septembe A few days will be spent in Port- | land and Seattle pricr to returning to Juneau September 28 - MRS. HERMANN RETURNS Mrs. Frank Hermann, who has been :siting with her sister: Seattle for the past three weeks,! returned yesterday via Pan Ameri- can Airways. | to S¥wA BULLETIN i 4:30 A. M., 120711 MERIDIAN TIME | TODAY i last | Lowest 4:30 am. 24hss. Weather at | Eration 24 hrs* | temvn. temp. Precip. 4:30a.m. | Anchorage 58 40 40 0 Cloudy | Barrow 34 31 32 Trace Snow | Bethel 52 41 45 36 Rain ! Cordova 64 35 37 0 Clear | Dawson 51 40 40 0 Pt. Cloudy | Edmonton 48 38 15 Rain | Fairbanks 50 35 28 .01 Clear { Haines 1 47 47 Trace Clear | Havre 65 41 45 Rain {Juneau Airport 57 37 38 03 Clear Ketchikan 59 47 47 04 Clear Kodiak 54 42 50 Trave Pt. Cloudy | Kotzebue 43 40 40 Trace Cloudy Los Angeles 60 64 0 Pt. Cloudy | McGrath 52 2% 39 Trace Rain | Nome o4 39 45 .03 Rain Northway 41 31 31 03 Clear Petersburg 51 46 46 06 Cloudy Portland 62 49 60 Trace Rain Prince George % 37 37 Pt. Cloudy Prince Rupert 54 46 46 A1 Clear Seattle 68 48 55 21 Rain | Sika 55 44 44 07 Clear ‘Whitehorse 50 29 Trace Clear Yakutat 61 | 34 34 0 Clear *—(4:30 a. m. yesterday to 4:30 a. m. today) of Alaska to another high pressure of Cordova this morning. An int located in Bristol Bay. WEATHER SYNOPSIS: A ridge of high pressure extends from a| center located over northwestern Canada southwestward across the Gulf center located about 700 miles south ense comvlex low bressure area s This pressure distribution has caused north- patches of Rain has fallen butcher shops were reported to|westerly winds over Southeast Alaska and except for haye increased three to ten cents|morning fog clear skies prevail over the entire area. a pound yesterday, with choicz|quring the last 24 hours over southwestern Canada, along the coast sirloin steak selling in some neigh- borhood pound. Meanwhile prisons in stores at §1 to $1.1 officials of Philadelphia said inmates would have to do without meat three days a waek because insufficient funds on hand were to meet current food prices. genizad milk. >+ IN TOWN | Henry Monroe, of Pelican, | the Gastineau Hotel 0 @ two|Ing at a number of stations over that |and northern portion of Alaska. icents and to 22': cents for homo- is at 25 miles per hour on Wednesday. afternoon from Washington to Southeast Alaska, over the Rocky Mountain region ilof the northern United States, over the Aleutian Islands and south- western Alaska. Below freezing temperatures were reported this morn- northern Canada and the interior Temperatures were below normal yes- terday over Southeast Alaska. Thev ranged from 37 to 53 degrees along the coast from Puget Sound to the Gulf of Alaska. MARINE WEATHER BULLETIN Reports from Marine Stations at 1:30 P. M. today A two-cent increase in the price WIND Height of Waves ‘of milk—from 17 to 19 cents—be- Station Weather Temp. Dir.and Vel. (Sea Condition) icame effective today in Pendicion | Eldred Rock Pt. Cloudy 47 Calm Smooth |Ore., and customers of two major |Poini Retreat Clear 50 N 5 Smooth St. Louis dairies began paying an|Five Finger Light Clear 53 SSE 5 Zero additional cent a quart, wit} MARINE FORECAST FOR PERIOD ENDING WEDNESDAY EVE- rises for Grade-A milks to 21'. [ NING: Protected waters of Southeast Alaska and the outhide waters, Dixon Entrance to Yakutat—variable winds mostly northerly or westerly less than 15 miles per hour except northerly 15 to 25 miles per hour in Lynn Canal and Taku Inlet. Winds becoming mostly southerly less than Increasing cloudiness tonight and Wednesday with light rain from Sitka northward beginning Wednesday ! Calvert Distille: G { | { | LUMBER OFFICIAL RETURNS A l A l!. | George Schmidt, Vice-President |of the Juneau Spruce Corporation, s returned to Juncau via Pan the Robert ugene, vessel owned by the Dahl Transportation Com- pany. PRI S RITES FOR TAGUE | Funeral services will be held to- | morrow at 2 p.m. for Joseph Tague, iihe Salvation Army officiating at the Charles W. Carter Mortuary. Tague was brought to Juneau tafter tic died September 4 on board !the tug Portugbar of Ocean Tow, Inc, at Idaho Inlet. He has no NEW YORK, Sept. 16~ P—Dr. known living relatives. Interment Cswaldo Aranha, former Foreign will be in Everizeen Cemetery. Minister of Brazil, today was elect- T = ed to preside over the critical 1947 FROM OHIO session of the United Nations As-! Mary Bellville, of Calerain, Ohio, sembly is staying at the Gastineau Hotel The election of the silver-haired i g Brazilian was achieved on the FROM INTERIOR second ballot after the initial vote K Robert &I. McKay, of Fairbanks, had failed to give a decisive ma-|js at the Baranof Hotel. U-N ASSEMBLY Australian Second jority. i e — The second ballot showed: ! AT THE GASTINEAU Aranha, 29. . Howard Baker, of Anchorage, is Dr. Herbert V. Evatt, A“Slr'fi\l"reglstered at the Gastineau Hotel. jan Minister of External Affairs,; O R T RS 22. . CALIFORNIA COUPLE HERE Four ,tallots were declared in-! Mr. and Mrs. K. M. Crows of Los valid. Angeles are stovping at the Baranof The election of Aranha, who had served as President of the Assem- Lly's special Palestine session here last Spring, resulted from a switch | Hotel. g g FROM FIRST CITY A. H. Ziegler and A. E. Owens of of votes cast by Jan Masaryk, Kstchikan are staying at the Bar- | Foreign Minister of Czechoslovak- | anof Hotel. : ia, on the first ballot. These votes il il it presumably were from the Soviet! VISITING JUNEAU blee. B. Holden and H. Reeves of Wichi- |ta, Kansas, are registered at the Baranof Hotel. 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