The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 16, 1948, Page 8

INCREASE IN RATES Ordinance Prohib iting Money Boards, Gambling Devices Is Passed Oi interest to every Juneauite who uses electricity tion read at last ing of the City Council, night's meet- whereby is the peti- | | ¢ the Alaska Electric Light and Pow- | er Company petitions to increase its rates, and requests a hearing to present its case. Lengthy dis- cussions and research brought out pertinent legal and ' bther facts, and the Council voted to request answers to a questionnaire about valuations and capital investments before setting a time for the hear- ing. The Light Company petition | was signed by W. S. Pullen, Presi- dent. Third and final reading of Ordi- nance No. 324 prohibiting money boards and other gambling devices | resulted in its unanimous passage. On due motion, the Council vot- ed that, in cooperation with the owners of the Davis estate on Six- th Street between Franklin and Seward, a concrete retaining wall and sidewalk are to be installed, provided the owners deed the nec- essary property to the city for the installation. Boat Harbor conditions were dis- cussed, and improvements, espec- fally in sanitation, authcrized. Among the letters read was an invitation from Dr. W. G. Chart- eris, Mayor of Sitka, to attend the Conference of Southeast Alaska Mayors, November 15, 16 and 17. The proposal to install some 200 parking meters for a trial period | of 18 months, the city to receive 25 percent of the revenue, was ‘“s'i cussed, but no action taken. | Suggestion was made that a! holst or elevator be installed at| the City Docks, a proposal on which | action will be taken at a later meeting. i At the next City Council meet- ing Friday, November 5, Mayor| Waino Hendrickson will give a report on the present status of the | Fair Association Building. | e (OLDSNAP MOVES T0 EAST COAST ning for sunning. trunks’ sides tightly, a back zippe) under all around. Then the bra together at the center with the the sunny version and Gloria Gi Wirephoto. DRAFTEES & V By MAJOR TH Why can't the armed forces get enough voluntary enlistments to increase their strength to the au- thorized numbers? The Navy, Marines and Air Force can. Th g it now, and it looks as though thev'l be to keep it up. If you've been tcld that when you These Coronade Changeables, displ Low an ordinary appearing swim sui To transform the suit, tie strings gather the able | passenger to pass through Los Angeles Municipal Airport, and as part of his reward Stewardesses Valari celle left him in this state of lipst opened less than two years ago. » Wirephoto. e LaBreche (left) and Grace Gris- ick and disarray. The airport was VOLUNTEER ROGRAMIS ved at Los Angeles, Call becomes something really stun- r opens and the suit's top is folded is turned upside down and pulled neck strings. Kippee Valez wears able the conventional garment. ( ETERANS GUIDE OMAS M. NIAL (By The Assuciated Press) Defense officials said today the volunteer enlistment program for 13-year-clds has been a flop, and plan to renew their appeal universal military training. Only 18,300 teen-agers have vol- 0 in Tunisia during the North unteered for the one-year hitch to Afvican campaign. He his bayonet, and he killed a whole ! jlian reserve organization. machine gun nest with it—10 Ger- program calls for 161,000, mans, For that he was given the| Defense authorities said the next Congressional Medal of Honor. Congress will be asked to enact a You might as well get used t0'program for universal training sim- the idea of going into the Army lilar to the one requested by Presi- because if you go anywhere that’s dent Truman. That arrangement almost certainly where it will be. would provide for six months :of er The CALLED FLOP also had'pe followed by six years in a civ-' | Force picked up 1.249; {],SG’I and Navy 5,154. Army authorities contend that this wil lfail to provide the pool j of trained manpower needed to pro- {tect the nation in an emergency. The draft is not building up the ,pool of reserve manpower either, | the Army oificers point out. Men | who serve 21 months can sign up i for another year. ‘ccmpleted three years’ service they | are not subject to call into the reserves. Defense officials say most 18- year-old apparently prefer three- ! year hitch with no compuision to serve six years in the reserves. Most of them are signing up for that. TEXANS FIND 'SOURDOUGHS Marines ‘When they have | Ruth Alice Ford who has been nicknamed “Susie” by her family, lies in a coma at her home in Philadelphia, Pa., while her brother, four-year-cld Glenn, keeps her company. She has been in a semi- conscious condition since a brain operation last December but her mother, Mrs. Dorothy Ford, says her prayers, and those of neighbors and friends, will keep Susie alive. She will be five years old Oct. 14, A 7% won't cover a No. 10 YOU CAN'T expect a small size rubber to fit a large size shoe any more than a small amount of insurance can safely cov- er a large volume. L‘et this Hartford Agency _flt the amount of your insurance to the value of what you own. L 1 but there will be no festive party at the Ford home. (? Wirephoto. . i ington, had hoped to rub shoulders | ——w—— "--- !wnh prospectors. They wanted to ! swirl a pan of paydirt and see the | | glint of yellow. | Instead they found that the quest for gold is now performed by huge | | dredges directed by men who learn- | l'ed about the precious metal in a university laboratory, | | a Colorado resort turned into an | international holiday for these lads. With a grubstake from tips, the | | four started north in a station | wagon loaded for camping. When | they ran short of cash, they went to work. Somewkere en route through the Canadian provinces the | jkoys learned of the tight regula- | | tions about foreigners without cash. j But the Alaska border looked closer | | than Texas so they kept rolling.| “Anyway,” explained Sam, “new- | i ly made friends helped us out when | our luck was down.” | Crossing the border into Alaska | all four worked briefly in a lum- | ker camp—and then headéd for the | gold fields. They worked at the Fairbanks { Exploration company’s placer What began as summer work in ‘ The Arnolt Sea-Mite weighs only 198 Ibs., yet develops 20 H.P. at only 2800 R.P.M.! This powerful little engine displaces only 61 cubic inches. It is adaptable to a variety of uses including runabouts, yacht tenders, utility and fishing boats and as auxiliary engine in sail and power boats. Has built-in reverse gear, elec- tric fuel pump and instrument panel, and remote-controlied solenoid switch for the starter. Let us show you this fine engine todayl | !camp. The big dredge sucks dust | and nuggets from the gravel where | gold rush day prospectors once | made famous strikes. After a month j?!"l»]d“"i“‘d ."0“’” lb:‘ “‘blf’ 18, mfl‘ke_ You probably know that you|continuous training for 18 and 19| |a choice unun:J l?: bn}m .bx‘m(Ylea | won't be called for at least 21 days iyear-olds in a military camp. fol- , don't believe it. You | gter yowve taken your pre-in-!iowed by an additional training | HAVE GONE (By The Associated Press) The autumn’s first “real” cold |of the serv snap moved southeastward across, may be able to make a choice, but the northern plains states today and weather forecasters warned that it would reach the Atlantic Coast by tomorrow. | Killing frosts were expected in| many sections of the midwest but weather experts said the cold weath- er would help crops, particularly corn, rather than harm them. “At this stage, virtually all the corn has been laid by and the cold will help to dry out the kernels,” the weather bureau said. | However, forecasters warned mo- | torists that temperatures as far south as northern Illinois, would drop low enough to bring damagei to automobiles tenight if they were | not_in garages. | “Temperatures will go low enough | to remind us that winter is snap- | ping at our heels and that we'd best | prepare for it,” one forecaster said.| Already, the cold air seeping | down from Canada had pushed temperatures down to 18 above zero at Dickinson, N.D., the coldest spot in the country. Other representative temperatures early today were 49 degrees at Madison, Wis., 48 at! Iowa City, Ia., ahd 34 at Water- town, S.D s Some scattered snow flurries were predicted for tomorrow and Mon- day in the upper lakes region. Oc- casional light showers or snow flur- ries were forecast for 'the lower lakes on Monday and Tuesday. The weather bureau said the cold air mags would sweep over the Ohio River valley during the night and reach the East Coast later tomor- row. By that time its ‘southern fringes will te reaching into the northern sections of states along the Gulf of Mexico. NOT 50 GOOD IN GREEKLAND ATHENS, Oct. 16—®—Amcrican Ambassador Henry F. Grady con- ceded today that the mijtary picture n Greece is not satis- factory and declared hard-fighting is ahead if the Communist-led rebels are to be smashed He said flatly that more effec- tive cooperaiion is needed between the Greek government and the American economic-military mis- sion. He declined to predict how long the fighting might go on. Grady’s statement, handed to cor- respondents shortly before the ex- pected arrival of Secretary of State George C. Marshall, was prompted | by written guestions fram the cor- respondents, designed to uncover the reason for Greece’s failure to clear out the guerrillas. | you can only win if you choose the Army. It's dollars to doughnuts that the Navy, Marines and Air Force will be akle to keep their strengths at the authorized levels without dratt- ing anyone. There are reason for this. The Army must climb from 550,000 to 837,000 men. The Navy and Ma- rines have to go from 469,000 to 666,882, which is only about 69 i percent of the Army increase. The Air Force must climb from 382,000 to 502,000, only 120,000 compared fo | the Army increase of 287,000 The Navy has its submarines, its PTs and its destroyers, the Air Force .its jet fighters and enor- mous bombers and the Marines have a glamour which perhaps tops them all. The Army does have tanks and ilame throwers and airborne divis- ions. the his his You think of the infantry, foot soldier with his leggings, cartridge belt, his rifle and sore feet. No glamour there? Ex-private Nichclas ; Minue iound more than he ever bargain- ed for. He had his cartridge belt and his ritle and his sore feet But what do you think of | first when you think of the Army? | | duction physical and mental ex-|period in the National Guard or | amination and passed them. As|Reserves. | socn as that happens you g0 on 2| A volunteer program for 18-year- :]ist. Also on the list are others olds was tacked onto the Draft all ready to be drafted. Theylact as a last-minute compromise. and you make up the “pool” from!7t was first proposed by Defense which Selective Service will 13d59‘urriciam that this one-year train- out manpower as the Army flCEd-\‘““)g for ls_year_o]d be made com- it. {pulsory but Congress put it on a Say, for instance, that the Army!yoluntary basis. needs 30,000 men in January. They | The Army said it had succeeded tell Selective Service headquarters,|in signing up only 10,500 of the which quickly notified each local|1g-year-clds to date. The Air board what its quota will be and » s ot Rty By JAMES H. FERGUSON COLDSTREAM, Alaska — Four |Texas youths learned here this year that Alaskan gold no longer is grubbed out of the creeks by | sourdoughs. The discovery was a slight disap- i pointment. ‘The four, Julian Blackwell, 17, of {Houston, Sam Newton, 21, of Dal- |las; Norman Vick, 17, of Hunts- lville, and Bill Woffard, 17, of Arl- when the draftees must be called Okay, you took your pre-indu tion in December, one month be-| { fore. Your local board has to sup- (ply 10 of the 30,000 men asked for. You're one of the chosen ten, and you know it because your lo- |cal board sends you a greetings card. When you get it you might | just as well start getting up at 5:30 | every morning because it’s only a question of days before you'll have to. The “Guide” will scrutinize in- duction machinery more closely inj the near future. e The U. S. Aircraft industry grew | from an annual production of 1$280 million in 1938 to $20 billion in 1943. R Lo Good luste Ask for Schenley Reserve &t your favorite package store and bar If you prefer bourbon ncient S YEARS OLD [ | | ! 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