The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 2, 1949, Page 4

PAGE FOU ; i Daily Alaska Empire Published every evening except Sunday by the EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY Second and Main Streets, Juneau, Alasks TROY MONSEN DOROTHY TROY LINGO ELMER A FRIEND ALFRED ZENGER President Vice-President Managing Editor Manager Post_Office in Juncau SUBSCRIPTION RA Delivered b, carrier in Juneau and Dou; six months. $8.00; one y By . postage paid. at the fcllowing rates One year, in advance. $15.00; six months. in advance, $7.50; ome month, in advance, $150 Snbscribers w Mhe Business W their papers Telephones "Entered 1n for $1.50 per $15.00 ce of any failure or irregularity in the delivery News Office, 602; Business Office, 374. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS d Press is exclusively entitled to the use for 1l news dispatches credited to It or not other this pape- and also the local news published NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVES — Alaska Newspapers, 1411 ttle, Wash, ACS HAS A NNIVERSARY week ago toda System was 49 in Alaska, Last week, to be exact, just a 26, the Alaska Cc old, and all ry was quietly observed May xmunication years the anniver: The 48th ar just reached the desk of The Empire a pictures of the oldtimers, many the present. The edition is dedicated to and present, military and civilian, tributed so much to the history of communications in Alaska Our hats are off to System which has done and the development of this Te organization. The network this great country of and patronize the system, many daily, give praise t high efficiency of those connected with it along the extensive line niversary - ed of on ose individuals, who have con- Communication g so much towards the ours the thous: ESS AND POWER POLITEN Emily Post etiquette, “Motor Manner: us up here in Alaska, it ma In it she writes, “A The Washingfon Merry-Go-Round By DREW PEARSON has composed a booklet on and while it dces not kes good reading any way no more cheat a gentleman will (Centinued trom Page 1) Mr shockin a dis on the Dear The were so I o exert portionate influe confer a favor if they will promptly notify | THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALAS! THURSDAY, JUNE 2, 1949 red light or a stop sign than he would cheat in a game ! < of cards.” “A courteous lady will t ‘scold’ raucously with her automobile horn any more than she would | | act like a ‘fishwife' at a party | Mrs. Post's intentions are com reporting is bad. A man who on fo for old women may bulldoze those same when he is in a car and they are in s A woman who would not raise her voice even to cry “Fire!” may sit on her horn in a jam which nobody but a pretzel artist can That's the way many people are. Mrs. t may as well face it. It is one of s of the human personality. The difference |between a person on foot and a person in an | mobile seems to be the difference in the power commands. Over millions of yeéars the human being has work- ed out codes that help discipline the behavior of one or two hundred pounds of bone and muscle. Those ies are often forgotten when the puny individual becomes part of a two-ton monster of steel. The end }of the paradox is not yet in sight. Rudeness seems to | erow with power. And some individuals who are fairly {well behaved in automobiles become ranting bullies ‘ when they think that only their government possesses j long-range bombers and atomic bombs. | S | Nothing for Free : (Cincinnati E irer) | Proponents of the Truman tax-supported health plan intimate that it would bring about a revolution {in the American scheme of health care. The subsi- | dization of free clinics is hinted ‘as another possible rabbit in this socialized medicine hat. i As a matter of fact. of course, the medical pro- n and various units of government already are ndable, will of old women | {e: | doing a fairly good job cf providing free or below-cost ln.rdlc.}l care. Offhand we don't know of a single | doctor who doesn’t do and hasn’t done a substantial {amount of practicing without reimbursement. Not only do they treat indigent patients, but they also contribute a great amount of time to clinics, hospitals medical schools and in other ways provide free ser Well-to-do patients frequently pay for this, either ce. | directly or indirectly, since the doctors have to live on their fees. A point not to be forgotten in considering a new health plan mirage is that when doctors specialists devote their lives and educational to acquiring a réal degree of skill they must by someone. And a bureaucratic health plan w | sought to change or *evade this responsibility would only pull down the whole level of medical compet Or, in other words, provide the American publ qualified standard of medical care erally with a less It is impossible to be mad at anyone while ng,” says a dancing master. He evidently never I of Indian war dances. “An leval of profits “Thus tne corporation repo: industrial 1948 were 23.2 1aara and Poor’s i that for 1548 nies, profits for cent above 1947 However, if oil companies were eliminated from the sample, 1948 profits were only 16 per cent above 1947. In other words, so great was the oil industry’s increase in 1948 profits that for a large sample of all industrial corporations, the 1948 profits increase was about 50 per cent greater as a result of includ- ing the oil companies.” From 1946 to i up more than 2'; times, the inves! gators report. The oil companies justified this on the grounds that they were -expanding to meet the unprecedented demand for pclrnl»‘ eum products. Now the expansion has stopped, as evidenced by cut- backs in production and imports. Yet the oil companies turn around and boost prices even higher be- cause these inflated profits are set tling back to earth again. 5 11 prefits shot il ir Senator Maybank will call the blg‘. oil companies before his committee around June 15. ] CAPITAL NEWS CAPSULES Paris Conference— Secretary of State Dean Acheson has cabled the State Department that next week will b2 the critical period in the | Big Four Foreign Ministers’ con- ference. Both sides have beenI sparring up until now and no sec- | ret ions have taken place to! date However, next week several secret sessions will take place and! Acheson thinks they'll give an op- | portunity to 1ind out whether the! Russians want to fish or cut bait.| If there is no action next week. | Acheson will be home around June 10. Talks With Vishinsky— v Acheson has held two record meetings with Vish one short and one long over the Austrian peace for the first time 1947 <on believes an ¢ ment ¢ reached to get Russian trooj of Austria Vishinsky ha a surprisingly mild attitude in talks, and Acheson ha that the United States n consent to let the Russians have $150,000,000 in Austrian reparation for an Austrian peace tre Czech Underground - A underground movement has up in Czechoslovakia that ha Communists worried. At least three well-organized guerrilla bands have | been @ttacking Communist officials| and ice in the vicinity of Bratis- hva‘_"‘Afier each attack, they re-| treaf. into the hills and can't be locat Five thousand army troops have been assigned to track down the- ky talk | And | Ache- | be out shown | to treaty 1ce these licated return | the | has now taken his life. cd to be | time you broke the story, and |among his friends and many f Mr retary James F ot Defense o ever knew and him. I had the privilege of a to of duty, in minor capacity, on Mr. Forrestal’s staff, and came to respect him as an American of ccnsummate ability and patriotism “His suicide, however, means more | than a personal loss to his friends. | It must be taken to the nation’s heart as glaring proof of the need for fearless news reporting in the =% nation's. capital. When your dis-|Teservat patch came out some weeks ago Quested to be describing the advanced state of 0'clock deterioration of Mr mental health, it came as m: a surprise to me than did the sub- news that Mr. Forr I hapg Washington at ‘ 10 WEDDING SATURDAY Guests attendin wedding of Miss Be! sequent in gov- ernment officials the almost unar mous opinion that the F 1 story was the last straw—that Drew Pearson should now be shut up for responsible reporting “Had the officials of the Medical Center been as alert a diligent about their busine: as you were about yours, perhaps Mr SWIMMERS but her | doors | Curtis G. Shattuck Richard Wingerson Phyllis Turner Mrs. Jerry Powers Katherine Clements R. F. Wright Dave Englehart Rae Watkins Mrs CONDITIONS OF WEATHER ~ ALASKA DTS, Weather conditions and temper- ! atures at various Alaska points, |also on the Pacific Coast, at 4:30 ‘;a. m., 120th Meridian Time, and | released by the Weather Bureau, | Juneau f 1 Anchora Ba: Beth Co Da Edm Fairbanks H < o o 0 0 0 44—Partly Cloudy 24—Snow Partly Cloudy 44—Rain Showers y Cloudy 50—Partly Cloudy 49—Cloudy 44—Rain 47—Rain Airport te Island Kodiak 47—Partly Cloudy 41—Cloudy 30—Partly Cloudy | 49—Cloudy 36—Cloudy v Cloudy y Cloudy 42—Cloudy 43—Clear ly Cloudy s Cloudy ALL-SEASON HIGH HALIBUT PRICES PREVAILING TODAY 30 for e. five g 67300 Samuelso 3.000 ) E. C PLASTIC SIGNS ARE NEWEST IN DISPLAY NEW PILING FOR ALASKA STEAMSHIP CO. DOCK k, using his floa on skids. BEGINNERS FRENCH CLA Enrolling tonight. Marie Doy tructor. Ph. Red 575, Ferrestal might have eventually re- covered and lived a long and useful life. American newspapermen should paste on their walls the headlines of this minor Pearl Har- bor at Bethesda, to guide them whenever there is pressure to with- hold the news.” Crossword Puzzle ACROSS Cuadie SABOTAGING PUBLIC HOUSING Inside fact is (hat courteous Chairman Sabath could have squel- ched the Rules Committee filibuster jagainst the public hc railroaded the bill floor—if the benign gentl Illinois used the same tactics that his foes him. At one closed-door week, only one of the fcur Republicans. Wadsworth- filibustering Ge: the Dixiecrat, in a frenzy Sabath had the votes to » Housing bill out over three Republicans ab: Cox, who almost with the Republicans began demanding that the c tee postpene action ur members are here t selves,” Sabath him I could take advantage of these gentlemen who are-absent and calf for a vote, but T don't intend ta. I} don’t believe in doing business zmz4 way. T try to be considerate of my colleagues who are zgainst me as well those who are with me Be 0 € howe 1. Comparstive Sofution of Yesterday's Puzzle . Variable siar ending 3. Cisaning I F impiement W 4¢4—Rain Showers ' 20 YEARS AGO " JUNE 2, 1929 A jinx in the form of a broken crankshaft stopped Raymond L. Haines' race Ketchikan in his small outboard motor boat on the second leg of his voyage to Seattle. Haines was on the way back to Juneau, to make arrangements for a new start. from THE EMPIRE Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Caro returned on the Princess Louise after a six- month motor trip on the Pacific Coast in their new Willys-Knight car, Class of '29 JHS graduates planned their futures as follows: Gladys Naghel—business administration at Oregon Agricultural College; Robert Waggoner—engineering at Park College, Missouri; George Hall—en- | gineering at WSC or Alaska College; John Meggitt—engineering, Alaska, ! College; Fred Orme—agriculture, Alaska College; Alex Kiloh—mining iengmeering, Alaska College; Brian Harland—Stanton School in prepara- | tion for his 1930 West Point appointment; Carl Jenson—a year out, then | engineering at Alaska College; Einar Jackson—work a year, then study Iradio engineering; James Ramsay—business administration, OAC; Alex! | Sturrock—mechanical engineering; Gardner Leighton, James Orme and | Bill Norton—undecided. H. L. Faulkner, President of the Chamber of Commerce, announced | this executive committee for the annual Fourth of July celebration: | Grover C. Winn, chairman; Guy McNaughton, H. ‘'G. Walmsley, R. L. Bernard and J. E. Barragar. Public Schools teaching faculty, had been engaged as secretary for the summer publicity bureau. The Rev. A, P. Kashevaroff, curator of the Alaska Museum, received | a letter from Prof. W. G. Beattie, former director of education with the U. S. Bureau of Education in Alaska and later a professor at the Uni- | versity of Oregon, saying that the steamer Queen would arrive in August | with the floating U. of O. summer school. Mrs. Iva Tilden and Miss Josephine Tupper were southbound on the Admiral Rogers, planning to spend the summer motoring through Cali- fornia and the Southwest. Weather: High, 61 low, 40; rain. Daily Lessons in English %% 1. corbox WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “Jim is not as tall as John Say, “Jim is aot SO tall as John.” OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Hospitable. FIRST syllablé, not the second as so often heard. OFTEN MISSPELLED: Deceased (dead). Diseased (having a disease). SYNONYMS : Obstinate, obdurate, stubborn, headstrong, willful, per- | verse. WORD STUDY: e a word three times and it is yours.” Let us increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today’s word: CONCEPTION: power of understanding. “Have you no conception of what caid?” MODERN ETIQUETTE Q. “When you have d in another city and friends of a friend of yours have entertained you, what is the best manner of acknowledg- ment. A. Be sure to write them a personal note of thanks, and a little by ROBERTA LEE % g:; of some kind adds to the sincerity of your appreciation. Q. How can confusion and waste of time be avoided when giving a dinner at a hotel to a group of friends? * A. Reserve the table and select the dishes in advance. That is by r the' best plan. Q. Is it all right for a girl to send cut flowers to a voung man? A. The only occasion when she can do so would be when the young'! man is a very close friend and is ill. 1. Which city has the highest altitude in the Western Hemisphere? 2. Who was the originator of the expression, “In the spring a young man’'s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love”? From what is the word “good-bye” derived? ‘Who was Jean Lafitte? Of what famous opera was Bizet the composer? ANSWERS: Mexico City; 7,480 feet. Alfred Lord Tennyson. It is a contraction of “God be with ye.” A notorious pirate who operated along the Gulf of Mexico. “Carmen.” Oldest Bank in Alaska 1891—0ver Half a Cenfury of Banking—1949 The B. M. Bebrends Bank Safety Deposit Boxes for Rent COMMERCIAI SAVINGS E. H. HILL as a paid-up subscriver 1o THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE is invited to be our guest THIS EVENING Present this coupon to the box office of the CAPITOL THEATRE and receive TWO TICKETS to see: Federal Tax --12¢c--Paid by the Theatre - Phone 14— . __and an ipsi cab | R RETURN YOU to your home with.our o .. WATCH THIS SPACE—Your Name May OU an Appear! against steamer time, only two hours after he had left Miss Mildred Abrahamson of the Juneau | Pronounce with accent on | 2 GIRLS WILL RIDE T0 SCOUT CAMP ON How can buying a ticket either of Juneau's two movie thea- tres help send two local Girl Scouts to join delegates from every | country in the hemisphere at Mus- | kegon, Mich.? Ask any Girl Scout this ques-‘ tion, and she can give you the]| answer before you have time w{ whip the change out of your poc-| J ecretary. @ B.P.0.ELKS Meeting every Wednesday at 8 P. M. Visiting brothers wel- come. F. DEWEY BAKER, Exalted Ruler. W. H. BIGGS, Secretary. ket to buy a ticket. i Seouts; will tell you that theatre || managers have offered half the pro- 1 | ceeds from tickets sold by Scouts || ‘}for Wednesday and Thursday mov- | | ie performances this week and for || the next two weeks. They will tell | you that Scouts have an $800 quota ||| | to meet for traveling and camp ex- l | penses for their two Alaskan dele" gates, Shirley Casperson and Mary | Lou Fagerson i An ambitious Scout salesgirl will | jalso tell you that delegates and | their troops have been given the | responsibility of working to raise the money themselves to send their girls to the big July national en- | campment which will bring together | Girl Scouts from every state in'! the union, territories and Latin! American countries. | A good Girl Scout salesman, like girls in squads now covering the"‘ town in their fund-raising cam-, | paign, would say, “If you plan to go : to a movie this week, buy your ticket from the Girl Scouts to help ! send Mary Lou and Shirley to the | national encampment.” ! Now is tiie tuue 10 put your fur coats in storage. We have the only cold fur vault in Juneau. Come in | to our office. Chas. Goldstein |and Co. Unless especially trained in ag-| gression, bloodhounds seldom attack | their quarry. ! Widest Selection of LIQUORS | | ! PHONE 399 | “Say It With Flowers” but “SAY IT WITH OURS!” | Juneau Florisis | PHONE 311 | “The Erwin Feed Co. | Office in Case Lot Grocery | ¢BONE ™% | HAY, GRAIN, COAL g and STORAGE || cal EXPERIENCED MEN || Alaska JANTTORIAL Service { FRED FOLETTE | Phone 247 STEVENS’® LADIES’—MISSES’ READY-TO-WEAR BSeward Street Wear Third The Charles W. Carter Casler’s Mea's Wear Pormerly SABIN'S Stetasn and Mallery Hsts 4rrow Bhirts and Underwear Allen Edmeonds Shem Skyway Lagzage BOTANY llm’l CLOTHES NUNN-BUSH SHOES STETSON HATS Quality Work Clothing Cemplete Outfitter for Men R. W. COWLING COMPANY Dedge—Plymouth—Clo sales DeBote—Dedge Trocks BLACKWELL'S CABINET SHOP 17 Main St. Phone 772 High Quality Cabinet Work for Home, Office or Store MOUNT JUNEAU LODGE NO. 147 SECOND and FOURTH Monday of each month in Scottish Rite Temple {begining at 7:30 p. m. * }GLENN O. ABRAHAM, YOUR FUN TICKETS wormioes sene AMES W. LEIVERS, 8 to| = ! f Moose Lodge No. 700 Regular Meetings Each Friday Governor—JOHN LADELY Secretary— WALTER R. HERMANSEN Beri’s Food Center Grocery Phones 104—105 Meat Phones 39539 Deliveries—10:15 A. M. 2:15 — 4:00 P. M "“The Rexall Store” Your Reliable Pharmacists BUTLER-MAURO DRUG CO. “ ¢ | Alaska Music Supply Arthur M. Uggen, Manager Planes —Musieal Instrumente and Supplies Phone 206 SBecond and Seward ~— FOR Wall Paper Ideal Paint Shop Phone 549 Pred W. Wena» Juneau’s Finest Liquor Store BAVARD'S Phone 689 The Alaskan Hetel Newly Renevated Reems &t Reasenable Rates FHONFT. BINGLE O PHONE 55656 Thomas Hardware Co. PAINTS —— OILS Builders’ and Shalf HARDWARE Remington Typewriters SOLD and SERVICED by J. B. Burford & Ce. “Our Doerstep Is Worn by Batisfied Customery” FORD AGENCY (Authorised Dealers) GREASES — GAS — OIL Juneau Motor Co. Poot of Main Strees MAKE JUNEAU DAIRIES DELICIOUS ICE CREAM To Banish “Blue Monday” To give you more freedom from work — TRY Alaska Laundry DR. ROBERT SIMPSON OPTOMETRIST Eyes Examined—Giasres Fitted SIMPSON BUILDING Phone 256 for Appointments —, — _H.S. GRAVES LEVTS OVERALLS