The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 13, 1949, Page 8

PICKETSIN = € T BIGPLANT never | boat stop. Eva arrived from Seattle yester- an Airways, in the he had re for more than a| SOUTH BEND, Ind, May 13 (#—Pickets stopped an attempt t Packard Motor Com- seven brake dies ts from the | Wil day by the pany to remove and a million 2 strike-tound Be Sh two deputies in front of the t cuit order allowing Packard to re- niove its equipment from the Ben- day via Pan Amer 11 continue to banks tomor- | She call aunt to San| isco a posteript to her trip| tive Ireland. | anks the day of | arrived in Seattle rthquake year to I va left F eclipse the day of the W a prominent Juneau man was introduced to the vivacious little Irish woman last evening, he said, “Oh, yes—you're the person| who puts all the people to bed!” | Mrs. McGown is renewing many | friendships here, and giving them | “we'll wreck your trucks” and thelitems of personal news about their | first driver stopped. He said he| pairhanks friends. could go no further and the at- PSR tempt was called off by the sheriff e TR About p C10- ted Aut hnout o cto-vones 2o Seamen Turn In As i : Firemen, Fight Blaze for an alleged slowdown, elimina- Ai Alaska S'eam DOck dix plant The pickets replied that they would refuse to move. Six semi- trailers started to move into the plant through the pickets. The sheriff said the pickets shouted -statement of 47 workers dismizsea the Bendix plant since April 20 ‘The union has demanced rein- tion of an alleged speedup cdismissal of a $1,500,000 suit against it by Bendix damage May 13—% eamships Bz Abigail turnsd i men yesterday aftenoon Eva McGown, Famed i b o Irish Alaskan Figure, Visits Here Briefly One of Alaska’s most dyna and well-known parsc ti making a vivid imprint in Ju that of Eva McGown, e cfficial hostess of Fairbanks. Part of her duties in the housng and information b amen and | fire- northwest Alaska crews of the two shtips pulled their vessels away from the pler and played water or the fire from their own fire fizhting equip- ment Before city firemen arrived on the scene, the fire was out. Cause of the fire was undeter- mined and loss was termed nezli- gible Nobody knows v dale Hotel lobby, spo: by ho invented City and the Chamber V] without it industrial V] merce, is to s h, tr T Z uld be impossible. R SO r [the explosion was caused by part GOOSE PLUGS JET o' oo sreaking “hwougi " | cockpit and coming through the left PLANE AN(HORAGE. side of the windshield, making a '] g |hole big enough to stick a foot 0DD "EXPLOSION" " DD A 10-inch hole was in the right wing. Another goose broke through the "gun camera. Ten pounds of May 13— |Meat and feathers were inside a ANCHORAGE, Alaska 64th | duct chamber. —Lt. Kelsey O. Wynns, Fighter Squadron pilot from Okla- Crh L QAR o ) 0 1 homa City, Okla., was knocked| The 20,000 lineside gardens bor- momentarily unconscious yesterday | dering British Rpilways, averaging after hearing a “big explosion” as|1-16 of an acre each, report a he flew a jet plane through ;\ixecord crop for 1948, having raised training flight out of Elmendort over one million dollars worth of field. | vegetables. Recovering, he started to tail| Many of America’s best tile set- out but reconsidered when he found |ters of 20 years ago came from the plane’s motor still working. In- | yenice, Italy, the city of canals stead he returned to the field (\xxdl“.m,l.l. need for waterproof building landed. made clay tile a popular building showed material Inspection of {he plane e e e e e e e e Final Appearance of the Season 0 Juneau High School BAND in CONCERT in the HIGH SCHOOL GYMNASIUM Friday Evening, March 13th at 8:30 o'Clock e e e e e o o e e e e 3 EVERYONE iS INVITED L‘ Adbmission Is Free n prm e g“fi' ) |} At Home in ” rHE red-white-and-black banner of the Alaska Steamship Company is a familiar sight in all Alaska ports — from Ketchikan to Kotzebue. It ost as representative of the Ter- Any has become al ritory as the famous Alaskan totem pole. While the toiem pole represents the tradition and colorful past of the Territory, the Alaska Steamship Company flag cymbolizes the chal- lenging possibilities cf the future. This flag is the symbol of the Territory's future because it represents the water transpor- Alaska Port tation so essential to Alaska’s continuing growth and development and the realization of its great potentialities. The Alaska Line is working with the pcople of the Territory by bringing thera the tools, supplies and equipment they need to fashion sound agricultural, indnstrial and com- mercial enterprises izora Alaska's vast resources. By devoting its crganization and facilities to the job of providing Alaska with the best freight and passenger service possible, the Alaska Steam- ship Company is an active “partner” in building a sound and thriving Territorial economy. 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