The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 29, 1948, Page 8

HIGH OFFICIAL, EASTERN STAR, (OMING HERE Eva Holland Hamilton, Most Worthy Grand Mat- ron, Due Next Week Local Eastern Star members have been advised that Eva Holland Hamilton, Most Worthy Grand Matron of the General Grand Chapter of the Order of the East- ern Star, will arrive here on Wed- nesday, July 7. While here she is expected to make her official visitation with both Juneau Chapter No. 7 and Nugget Chapter No. 2 in Douglas. Mrs. Hamilton’s position makes her the ti‘ular head over Eastern Star Grand Chapters in 46 states of the Union as well as subordin- ate chapters in Canada, Mexico, China, the Philippine Islands, Cu- ba, Hawali, the Canal Zone, Puerto Rico, District of Columbia and Alaska. Although her home is in Chicago, she spends much of her| time traveling, having been in Honolulu and Bermuda as well as other widely separated places, in recent months. The Most Worthy Grand Matron holds office until the next Trien- nial meeting of the General Grand Chapter scheduled for late 1949. She expects to visit all of the 12 Alaska Chapters during July. Juneau and Douglas Eastern Star | members are making plans for a joint dinner in her honor, an ini- tiation meeting at each Chap- ter, and a school instruction. The program will announced later. of be — e YACHT NELSONIA HERE The Nelsonia, a yacht owned by Stanley Nelson of Seattle, arrived in Juneau Saturday from Seattle egnd left the small boat harbor yesterday morning to continue her present cruise. OFFERS PURSES by Lewis VISITING ROTARANS| ARE 70 BE HONORED ATDINNER ON JULY 6 Plans for the visit of South Bend, Indiana, Rotarians and Rotariannes next Tuesday evening and for the| Fourth of July cvlebration were | made at Rotary Club luncheon to-: |day in the Gold Room of the Bara- | Inof Hotel A dinner meeting will be held Tuesday at 7:30 o'clock, or when the Princess Louise arrives, to hon- or the visitors at the Gold Room, while the ship is in port. There will be no noon meeting | Committees for the occasion are: Dinner Menu, Bill Hughes and| Horace Adams; Welcoming, Bob| Akervick, Earl Albright, Dr. W. P | Blanton, Charles Carter, Tom Dyer, Harold Foss, Monty Grisham, Gov. Ernest Gruening, Hank Harmon, |Mayor Waino Hendrickson, Ed K mer Garvin and Howard MacLean; | finance, Stan Grummett and Don| Skuse; program, Dr. W. M. White-| head and Dr. R. H. Williams; decora- | tions, Hank Green and Pete War- ner. | Loretta Keithahn, Rotary and American Legion sponsored July 4“ | Queen candidate was one of the| luncheon guests today. Others were visiting Rotarians Paul Holmes of | Medford, Oregon; Roy Kelly, Waiki- | Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock; —— corporated, held their general elec- tionis .two weeks ago and elected five men as members of the Board of Trustees, The .town--officials were elected by the Board from among it's membership, QUEEN BOOTH DATES GIVEN The Filipino Community, spon- soring Tillie Martin for Queen of the 4th of July festivities, will have charge of the ticket selling booth tonight. Augie Lapatan and Vic- tor Baccho, Miss Martin's campaign manager, say that their candidate is lagging behind and ask for more support from their friends. The booth is located in front of the First National Bank and thé Oldsmobile will be on display there, The American Legion and the Rotary will have charge of thé ithahn, Del Miller, Ernie Parsons, | pooth on Wednesda: i : y evening and| Eric Newbould, Ralph Rivers, Ho-|ne 1oyl Order of Moose will take | | over on Thursday night. KAVANDER RITES HELD TOMORROW Final services for Karl Kavander, pioneer Juneau resident, will be held \ I DA Mother Kills - 2 Sons, then ’ Shools Self OROVILLE, Wash., June 29- Sheriff Lester Moss said today an Oroville mother shot and killed her two sons last night and then killed herself. | He identified the victims as Mis. Dorothy McGee, 30, and her sons, «Greg, 2 and Doug, 1. The bodies were found by neigh- [bors on the shores of Lake Osoyoss, 150 feet north of their home, Lake Osoyoss is north of Oroville. The oldest of the two boys, Greg, was alive when found but died later /in St. Martin’s hospital at Tonasket. The woman's husband, Horace McGee, an Immigration Inspector, told Moss he left the house about 7 p.m. last night to do chores for a vacationing neighbor. When he re- turned, Mrs. McGee and the children were gone. The sheriff quoted Moss as saying he tecame alarmed when, after in- quiring of neighbors, he looked through the house and found that his 45 caliber service revolver was missing. A few minutes la.er, friends noti- | | i | | ki and William H. Twenhofel, Mad- | In the Charles W. Carter Mortuary. |fled him that the bodies had been found on the Lake shore. The sheriff said he was told that Mrs. McGee had been in ill health for some time. A note indicating sui- | ison, Wisconsin, Guests included Bill | | Ellis of Juneau; C. and Al Zenger. | | Rotarians Dr. C. Earl Albrecht,| Harold Foss, Hugh Wade, Maurice| | Powers and Elton Engstrom gave | brief talks on their recent trips. | inclucde the picnic on the 11 and the | Soap Box Derby on the 18th. Lee! Lucas and his committee are busy| working on the Rotary July 4 float.) - - | FIRST MAYOR OF | YAKUTAT ELECTED Jay B. Mallott, Yakutat mer-| chant, has been elected first mayor of that town by the Board of Trustees. Other officers elected were Harry Bemner, Sr. treasur- er, and John Willlams, Jr., clerk. Yakutat, which was recently in-' Eulogy will be delivered by the Rev. Ellison of Seattle |G Herbert Hillerman and interment | will ke in the Pioneer's Plot of the Evergreen Cemetery. Ernest Ehlers will sing at the service. Pallbearers will be the following: James' Orme, Ralph Beistline, Mi- Rotarian events planned for July‘hax‘d Mill, James Mrdsen, Waino| Hendrickson and Alired Zenger, €r. el RUTH COFFIN RETURNS Glad to be back in Juneau after| sweltering through Fairbanks’' heat | wave, Miss Ruth Coffin, examiner- inspector for the Rent Office, re- turned via Pan American Airways| on Sunday. they are bigger and better than ever this year. Made of Faille, S;tin Lined n Black and Navy o Some Fitted with C C C C STEVEN “The House of Swansdown” oin Purse ompact omb ombinations WIDE RANGE OF PRICES S One of Alaska’s Exceptional Stores Miss Coffin reported | that the temperature hovered be- tween S0 and 100 for a week. She also said that despite the efforts oi the Army to control mosquitoes, | i | So, for your own So“round, | Veterans cide was found near the scene, he said. ONE PERCENT TAX FOR VETERANS 10 I \ EXPIRE TOMORROW Tomotrow is the last day that | Alaskans will pay the one percent| Sales Tax which was enacted by the 1946 Territorial| Legislature to build up a fund for loans and bonuses to Alaska resi-| dent veterans. ‘ The law prescribed that collection of the tax would cease at the end| of the quarter in whjch $3,250,000 | has been collected. This amount| was reached in April and tax col-| lections will cease at midnight to-| morrow. | Businessmen have thirty days in which to remit the tax to the Territorial Department of Taxation, according to Norman E. Sommers, Deputy Tax Commissioner. | OWNER OF MELODY RETURNS T0 JUNEAU; PHOTOGRAPHY TRIP Walter Venema returned to Ju- neau yesterday from Seattle to equip his boat, the Melody, for [about a month's fishing, after which he and a companion, Dick Bolding, plan to take the boat to Seattle on a photographic mission. experts Lucky Strike regularly than the so firm, so fully puckoid sl Bolding and Venema have been attending the University of Wash-| ington the past semesters. 1 Gathering material for the Na-| tional Geographic Magazine, mei two men plan to completely pic-| torialize the -aspects of Alaska | fishing and to cover the scenic possibilities of the inland route when returning to Seattle. { Bolding has recently had sev- | the Seattle Times, | T i | MCSQUITO BITES, LIMP RESULTS OF PARACHUTE JUMP FAIRBANKS, Alaska, June 29.— (A—A slight limp and mosquito bite scabs were Walter Bear's only reminders today of a flying les- son that turned into an unschedul-| ed parachute jump. ‘ Bear, a Civil Aeronautics Ad-| ministration employee, tumbled in-| space while receiving instruc- frem George Richards, also of the CAA, in siow-rolling an’ open cockpit plane. | After his rescue from a Chena River swamp, Bear said his safety belt apparently came unsnhapped| while the small craft was upside | down, He suffered an injured! ankle in parachuting safely into) the mosquito infested area. | Clara and Gloria Davis, both'| irom Tacoma, are visiting Juneau | and staying at the Gastineau Ho- tel tion An impartial poll covering all the Southern tobacco markets reveals the smoking preference of the men who really kriow tobacco—auctioneers, buyers and warehousemen. More of these independent experts smoke next two leading brands combined. SOUTH CAROLINA GOV. IS OUT FOR GEN. EISENHOWER COLUMBIA, 8. C., June 20.—® —There is “a good chance” that {eral pictorial articles published in'General Dwight D. Eisenhower will | were Charles Hornsby-smith be for President, the Democratic nominee Governor Thurmond | predicts. He declined to elaborate at a The UEOAY. FRES, @ news conference, but repeated his previous assertion that “Mr, True" man’s nomination is certain to in- sure defeat of the party.)” HOSPITAL NOTES Admitted to St. Ann's Hospital yesterday for nedical treatment and ™ Mickey Furlong. N Discharged were Bruce Novasky, a surgical patient, and Robert Pam, medical patient. FOX PARTY PRESENTS ® Raised from the Dead— Thrilling Sound Motion Picture @ Fall of Jericho— Dramatic Musical Feature © The Magic Touch— Rev. L. F. Fox Sermon by L. F. Fox TONIGHT AT 7:30 SCOTTISH RITE TEMPLE Organ Concert Wednesday 12:30 to : . M. 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