The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 25, 1949, Page 8

SATURDAY, JUNE 25, 19 *AGE EIGHT tists are expected to join The koala of for short periods on the “Ice Cap”|drinks but gets enough moisture hot pine needles down the back the group | Australia never of his neck. Dick Garrison crashed a ,win- dow and saved his juke box. The bubble dancer lost her bub- bles, fans and all her costumes. Juneau lce Resear Project Scientists Here For Glacicer Study ued from Page One HOUSING PROBLEM | UP FOR BOARD AT MEETING MONDAY E. Glen Wilder, Executive Director | of the Alaska Housing Authority, | arrived here yesterday from Anchor- age headquarters in order to present { the Territory's housing picture be- | fore members of the Territorial | Board of Administration Monday. | Freezing of numerous appropna-} | |GEORGE T0 OPEN PAVILION TONIGHT AT SALMON CREEK| Tents, Dance Floor, Bar, Hamburgers on.Coun- fry Club Ashes The Salmon Creek area will be { “all lit up” again tonight—but not as it was Wednesday in the horrxblel conflagration which destroyed the | picturesque Country Club. Proprietor Tom George says, just | as he did while watching the flames: “We won't be licked! We're cpening with a new entertainment | spot on the site of the old one.” The opening will be tonight, | a tent pavilion. Colored lights will | play on the crowds, and George. says there will be lots of room for dancing on the new floor. A temporary bar has been set up. | Tables and chairs have been bor- rowed so that there can be table service of beverages, hot dogs and hamburgers. | the expedition. | from young eucalyptus leaves on hich he lives. during the summer, | W. O. Field, Jr, director of the W Department of Exploration and Field Research of the American Geographical Society and a veteran | of numerous glaciological field trips | to Alaska, is stateside coordinator for the expedition. | In addition to the Office of Naval | Research, various ‘other military services are participating in the project. The Quartermaster Corps, |- within easy the Signal Corps and Alr P ‘| Materiel Comma::il, t,hnel uo l;e SF‘::'I- | 'by fflfl' est Service, the U. S. Weather Bur- | ° , 4-engine Clipper eau, Blue Hills Observatory of Har- vard University and Mt. Washing- ton Weather Observatory are all cooperating in the integrated scien- tific and exploratory program. | Fly in swift comfort aboard the big, 4-mile-a-minute Clippers . . . serving Alaska on frequent schedules. |COAL STRIKE | i your comfortable lounge seat and enjoy & world- famous service 88 part of your Flying Clipper fare. For reservations and rates, consult Pan American . .+ BARANOF HOTEL SEATTLE (Contin zone where he has been making comparative geological studies. High Level Changes Miller added that the ease of ac- cess of the Juneau Ice Field, as well as the myriad scientific prob- lems peculiar to this area are major factors which it is hoped will facil- itate a continuation of high-level !'studles. He said the government's in | Snow, Ice and Permafrost Research | Laboratory at the University of ' Minnesota under the direction of THREATE"ED IN AUSTRALIA' — e | ki the Corps o1 &ngineers, hopes to cooperate in the future field inves- (By Associated Pres:) | Australie is threatened by a tigations here. general coal« strike of its 23.000|: | tions this week was done by the ‘ Board subject to showing. It was impossible to get all key officials together quickly, and Board mem- bers deemed the action an im- mediate necessity. “The Territory $38,265,” said Wilder today. tablish a Territory-wide program in accordance with the budget ap- proved by the Legislature. “Such a program must be in op- | eration,” he continued, “if Alaska | is to receive the $15,000,000 Fed- | eral appropriation. “Congress was sold on that ap- | propriation for the Territory on the | basis that housing is Alaska’s most | important need. “We are encouraged over pros-‘ " wild- ‘ { is obligated for ‘to es- A five-membered advance party will leave for the “Ice Cap” Sun- day, flying by plane to Taku Lodge, the low-level base headquarters for | From there they i at money. f:c':dziiflfgfi l:u, must be able ; dT:woe:;eth:eeftirx;‘!s will l‘xsojom- ;vzm c;lxmb up‘ t:he Taku G;ncler ior | :mners tgday. The men’s request for Phone 106 ur ows program is | |ed tog T to for a pavilion on miles to the center of the ice|increased pay and a cut in working, | :lon d:k;o:fl;figt o B Prow L [the location of the former “hot| field. time to 35 hours g week has becn"f mfl Mm[,a” After the Board meeting, Wilder | ¢ | spet” which' used to be the famous Group Members rejected by the government coal|; WIJAW will leave for Washington, D. C. | %&- i . 5 3 | Salmon Freek Country Club. George| 1In this first group will be Robert | beard. It is mid-winter in Austrnlia[" e Sysem of Ty Clppes for hearings on the appropriation. | David Livingston, 25, lies dying in a Los Angeles guiter, dropped by a single shot fired by Police Officer | Flans dancing outdoors in good Lange, a geologist from the Univer- |and the nation’s small coal supm:wlr George Barber (left). Taiking to Barber is Taxi Driver Frank Brown in whose cab Livingston tried weather, under cover when indicat- |sity of New Hampshire who ac-|is drastically rationed. RE ed. ccmpanied the Boston Museum of iy to flee, police said, after holding up a bowling alley with a toy pistol. Lying in street is §155 in cash obtained in holdup. Wirephoto. . ongrafulatiens | It will be surprising if someone dcesn't come up with the suggest-{ ion to call the new place “The | Phoenix” for that legendary bird that rose from the ashes young and beautiful. There will be a contest to name; Science-University of Chicago Cos- mic Ray Expedition to Mt. McKin- ley two' years.agp. ! Also in the team will be Norman | ‘Turner, senior meteorologist- of the Mt. Washington Observatory in New Hampshire; Prancis Pooer, of thei FUNERAL SERVICES FOR JOHN FOSTER TUESDAY Double ( ToBlockade China Ports RID YOUR HOME OF {OOKING ODORS, FUMES and HEAT! S i O | Gk ST | the .ncw pavilion, 22orainy to | graduate school of meteorology at| The Chinese Government’s block- |¢ Fufl'(’; :ld-t me A“mk ;x1 \\c\c“ d o et e et ade of Communist-held po n n.nz.r. iay n“v" A».AL L;‘C llr-n UL' Settoybne DR el Hospital._N. ] China is scheduled to begin at mid- Babe: i be\ml‘rid m‘“ Tux' ; \‘ said George today. Iexpedltion's medical officer. right tonight. The largest port ior PEOTR 18 piste g g e tng| The only thing is that some peo-; A Navy FHY Wil be emmoyed at pm. in the chapel of the| e haye peen carrying things away. | Next week to “drop approximately international commerce—Shanghil --was almost empty. Except for the crippled British freighter Anchises, damaged in a 150 bundles of equipment to the expedition, Miller said. Officers and men from the Kodiak naval air sta- tion wiil make the drops in a series Charles W. Carter Mortuary with ywnile there scemed to be nothing the ‘Rev. Samuel McPhetreg " | to salvage, some of the molten sil- | ciating. Interment will ke in Ever-| .o. could have been turned in, and green Cemeass | other small things, too. We would Mationalist air raid this week, B T { ;s f seven high-altitude fligh there were few foreign ships to & T _ X appreciate the return of such ar- |Of seven high-altitude flights. Addi- R Fossh ot civil. ya 'Gl\?:\ .Hn,':n,‘)fl',l,xe is known as the ias which people probably thought tional air drops are planned for late dangers insurance rates have been TR e 2 . |were worthless. Believe me, we'd in' July, Miller said, with Alaska climbing steadily and shipping = : | like the and for more than just Coastal Airlines and Alaska Air- ¥ ouvenir: plane Charter to standby for need- | companies have cancelled sailings. MGTORISTS URGED TO PAY FINES ON | METER VIOLATIONS i Since parking meters were put | into operation Monday meter ‘io-i lations have averaged 25 a day, says Police Chief Bernard Hulk.i Motorists were given two days'| grace before police officers began | tagging cars for failure to feed | the meters, overtime parking and! improper parking. ed in-between air supply. Up In Air Expedition leaders will take to the air today for a high-altitude reconnaissance of the area. Hunt Gruening, Alaska Coastal Airlines pilot, will take scientists aloft mn an ACA plane. Other personnel on the expedition are: Robert Forbes, University of ‘Washington geology department who ! is in charge of air drops; Richard Merritt, Yale University, in charge ! of equipment testing and instru- ment work; Duncan McCollester, | high altitude ecologist of New York | City; Charles O. Harrington of Blue Hills, Mt. Washington Observ- atories, and Melvin Marcus, secre- tary of JIRP and a Yale geology | Fourteen firemen responded to | the 2-9. emergency call and volun- teered to fight the blaze Wednes- | day. Assistant Fire Chief Bill Nied- | erhauser directed the operations, ifind Lars Sorensen, chief truck driv- iur. supervised the pumps. He re- ported that water in the creek was !so low the men had to dam a ‘place with canvas in order to get | water into the suction strainer. | Department men who worked | hard to get the fire under control | were John Morrison, foreman of Company No, 1; John Bavard, Sam | Paul, Jr., Guy Gaudette, Bert Ber- | tholl, Frank Hermann, Bud Walker, | Harry Sturrock, Ray Hagerup, How- Cook in a cool, clean, airy kitchen. Banish “greasy grime”, steam, cooking fumes, heat and odors right at their source with an ILG ‘ Kitchen Ventilator. Wide variety of sizes and models for owners or renters of homes and apartments. See us today. One dollar has teen established as the minimum fine, but repeaters | will pay more. { {ard Dilg, Ellis Reynolds and Phil | Bertholl. : Morrison had a special word, too, for two fire-fighters not members student who accompanied the group on last fall’s expedition. | Three geophysicists from the o ALASKA ELECTRIC LIGHT & POWER CO. Cheerful Dispensers of Friendly Dependable 24-hour Electrical Service Chief Hulk also warns those wim! unpaid tags to pay the fines at the| Police Station or to the City Clerk. | “The tickets have to be paid,” he | said today, “even if we have to get| out warrants of arrest. In that case, of course, it won't be as easy | as a dollar per.” % About 875 has been collected | from the meters to date, and finesl amounting to $25 have been paid. Hulk reminds motorists agam‘ Navy fo Speed Up wat maers on_een ot v Digcharging Oil al in loading zones. | . Point Barrow Base Stanford Research Institute, Stan- ford University, C. F.Allen, S. Mil- |of the Department—Jim Rollison, bartender, and a Mr. Lee, who help- ed him at the nozzle of the 2%-|ler and Dr. Thomas C. Poulter, di- | inch line. | rector, are due to arrive here next | Lars Sorensen can still feel those Tuesday. A number of othér scien- ' <L, T Mrs. Perle. Mesta (right), Washington’s No. 1 hostess, congratulates Mrs. Georgia Neese Clark (left), of Richland, Kas., after latter was Shortly after, Mrs: Mesta was nominated by President Truman to be Minister to Luxem- bourg. # Wirephoto. sworn in as new Treasurer of the United States. ‘BUILDER ADDS CAR, GARAGE 10 EVERY HOUSE BACK ON DISPLAY —The Gjoa, which bore Capt, Roald Amundsen on his 1903- 1906 discovery of the Arctio Northwest passage, is restored in Golden Gate Pk., San Francisco- | GOOGE FAM“-Y SEATTLE, June 25. —P— The| wASHINGTON—®—In his 1028 |Navy expects to reduce cOstS| presigential campaign, Herbert '] d% | joading oil on its annual Point|ery parage. | Barrow supply expedition. But it remained for Perry Bmt‘n-: Arrival of the Princess Louise to- | Navy officials said today an LST | ors, prominent Washington build- We are not licked! Come on out TONIGHT e« oo e0.and help up cele- Folks == night will mean a family reunion | will be used for the first time this for Dr. and Mrs. James Googe and |year in getting the oil ashore. | their three children who plan to;Thrt LST will carry the fuel di-| ‘spend the summer here vacationing |rectly from the Navy tanker to the! from university studies in the Slatefi.‘heach_ where it will be pumped The Googe family have all fol- |into storage tanks. lowed in their- father's scientific| Previously the Navy has ferried| footsteps. Miss Mary Googe is @ fuel ashore in. drums on pontoon | sophomore in the medical school of |lighters. Last year it took a week the University of Colorado. Miss tc unload 50000 drums. The Navy Ruth Googe is a graduate student says it hopes to do it in two days at the University of Colorado in|this year at a saving of $250,000. ers, twenty years later, to offer a car and a garage with every house. Arncld Perry, head of the capi-| tal firm, says this offering is “no, campaign promise.”” He actually furnishes & brand new Crosley sta-| tion wagon, valued at $1,077, with each of his new houses in suburban Bethesda, Md. And, he reports, he | is doing a land-office. business— | “with Republicans and Democrats alike.” parisitology. James Googe Jr. has| The 1l-ship expedition is ex-| “Buy a house with a car as N : . just received his A.B. degree at | pected to sail from Seattle apbout|standard equipment,” is the Perry h te 0 G d 0 Denver University and plans to at-|July 26. In all, it will unload|slogan. “Some ~builders put in l‘a ‘ lll’ l‘llll l’e g. deep-freeze units or television sets, 15 inducements to buy. Why hot a | ar in every garage.” ISITKA YOUTH DIES | e s o o e " FOLLOWING ACCIDENT important industries in Spain. tend the University of Chicago 45000 tons of cargo at Barrow and School of Hospital Administration | Barter Island next fall. Accompanying the Googe'’s son is his wife, Mary, who has been a teacher in the public schools in Denver. PROF. MacGINITIE ASSIGNED, ALASKA THIRD STROHEIM —Erich von Stroheim, back in _Hollywood, meets his grande daughter, Victoria, for first time, Same Place! - Hot Dogs — Hamburgers Candy — Soda Pop Cocktails — Beer, efc. Tonight what used to be the famous-=se--zeax - SALMON CREEK COUNTRY (LUB | o= e e i, Innocent Williams, Jr., son of i ome Mr. and Mrs. Innocent Williams of Sa‘ '"g sched“le Sitka, died here at the Govern- £ ment hospvital Thursday evening PASADENA, Calif., June 25.—®— |following injuries received in an Prof. George E. MacGinitie, Cali-| gccident near his home. . . fornia Institute of Technology au-| He was brought from Sitka thority on marine life, will become | earlier in the week for treatment. J. W. McKINLEY director of the Arctic Research His father is an ordained deacon Laboratory at Point Barrow, Alaska. |jn the Russian Orthodox church Professor MacGinitie has been|and a long-time resident of Sitka. granted a leave of absence from|The youth was born May 22, 1925 Caltech’s Marine Laboratory for the| task, it is disclosed. JUNE 29: Hoonah - Pelican - Gustavus - Sitka Tenakee — Angoon - Hawk Inlet JULY 6: Hoonah - Gusiavus - Pelican Loads Every Wednesday at Juneau City Dock after arrival of weekly ship from Seattle e e oo MARYLAND VISITOR Thomas Webb of Fredericksburg, ““rPhe stirf bird nests on the moun- | Maryland, is registered at the Gas- tadi 20ps. of central Alasks but win- | tineau Hotel. ters in South America. For nearly| K i 150 years after the bird was given' Nevada is the sixth state in area its scientific name, ornithologists in the U.S. but its population is were unable to locate its breeding smaller than that oi any other ground. state.