The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 26, 1949, Page 4

PAGE FOUR THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA FRIDAY, AUGUST 26, 1949 ’ MOUNT JUNEAU LODGE NO. 147 SECOND and FOURTH Monday of each month in Scottish Rite Temple beginning at 7:30 p. m. GLENN O. ABRAHAM, ‘Worshipful Master; Daily Alaska Empi at asra Lmmpure 44 4 Published every evenine except S EMPIRE PRINTING COM Seconu «nu Main Streets, Juneau, Alaska HELEN TROY MONSEN % - s i DOROTHY TROY LINGO - - - ELMER A. FRIEND - - - - nday by the NY | which have neither grace nor particular beauty, f(yr‘l = = - ’ | all their quick, spectacular efficiency. They, too, might | | from "Milnary payro“ | be creatures of the in-between time, when the land was | Z 0 Y E A R S A G 0 1 ! 7 o ot ] ; THE EMPIRE || Culs Are Parl of fi . Ce | S Are rart 0 . Economy; Truman Prestdent Vice-President Managing Editor “The water is green’ with algae, tepid with mud[ warmth, a kind of protoplasmic soup full of strange | AUGUST 26, 1929 ALFRED ZENGER - - - - Business Manager | and struggling uncertainties. But the hills look down, g sty A I R Y S % | . . L. E. Iverson assumed the duties of Chief Clerk of the Alaska Game AMES LEIVERS, Entered in the Post Office in Juneau as Second Class Mutter. | and the hills are certainly itself, for they are the | ¢ AUGUST 26 o | Commission and Deputy Fiscal Clerk for the U. S. Biological S WASHINGTON, Aug. 26—P— o w. , Secretary. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: |land risen from the muck, the rock, the soil, the | g ot or the U. 8. Blologlcal SUrvey, | presigent Truman today described Delivered by carrier in .:’un;,:‘..';n« Dosglas for §1.50 peg month; et o # 4 i ot ol ® |it was announced by H. W. Terhune, Executive Officer. He succeeded military payroll cuts as part of an e b gkt A Y " ’:‘0:]:'__‘ Yy of an age reflected briefly in the stagnant ,: :{lr‘: g Ssti‘:]‘:;ss :;1) B. Cheyne, who had resigned to go to the States. Iverson formerly | economy move under government B. P. 0_ ELKS ISRATREN MONS e aln il wdvance, 101 IE 0 1% orrin H. Kimball o | Was connected with the Cleveland Transfer Company, Cleveland National | reorganization. Meeting every Wednesday at will c{n;.h-r ot LR R rlvmry} M 3 S e ;. James J. Hill o | Forest, with headquarters at San Diego, Calif. He told a news conference that| 8 P. M. Visiting brothers wel- ss Office of any failure or irregularity in the delivery Astdits s J. the Business O ,f o ok l;o; o % mz‘ v i More and Better Audits Needed I Catherine Hill S PR R gx;m‘m;;lgere?s; mhmoxnu;“- come. F. DEWEY BAKER, lephones: News ce, 602; usiness 3 3 bt - TCICPNONES EMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS (Anchorage Daily Times) [' Prankie Oliver » F. A Mewalf g EI SR DS D el G e A employees under (:11 f'lmtrfivn e T —_— - - - o i o 2 5 o | ® Mrs. Mary J. Perkins e from Hyder, where he had been since the middle of June on private Y rec ctions | Becretary. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for The average resident of Alaska is too busy making ‘ = Mrs. C.T. Stévenson 5 iyen ¥ from him. o :j\:n_:vywldu::‘ !:m‘:-’fin;:l;;::\;;& a living and trying to hurdle the obstacles to progres: le AR e 4 survey work. Mr. Truman added that he would | B to pay close attention to the actions of the public | e not be deterred by protests from | 5 e J. e L Dick Harris, wellknown local guide, had been engaged for two BLACKWELL’S ewspapers, 1411 enue Bldg. THE HEAT OF SUMMER AND THE POND Juneau’s week of summer has its residents grateful as only people starved for sunshine can be grateful for an unexpected week of sun. Always ready to admit our usual rain, our lack of warmth, real warmth in summer, we find ourselves being smug about the fact that at least we have no heat waves; people don’t die of the heat; we can always sleep nights beneath blankets. However, it is pleasant to read of summer, to find in The New York Times an editorial entitled “The Pond” that makes one feel the “dead heat of late summer.” If we had it, we probably would not want it the dead heat of summer. But it is ple: nt to read about, to remember from the past ponds such as the Times editorial mentions, to read such editorials | as this: “The quiet ponds are scummed over, now, and full of algae; and one gets the feeling that anything could happen in such waters, any, kind of life arise | from them. Here, in the dead heat of late summer, is the marshy margin and the primordial ooze with cattails growing in it, and he who approaches it might be walking backward in time toward remote begin- nings. “Even the pond creatures and those along margins belong to another time than the present. Of the reptiles, the snapping turtle is one of the an- cients, armored like creature of the Silurian Age and eyeing the world as from the midst of a ‘tree- fern jungle. The frogs are primitives, tadpoles which have shed gills and tails and crept un on land in the venerable cycle of living things from the ooze to the rocks. The water snakes are still slithering through the vanished age when pterodactyls had not yet grown wings. And in the air drift and dart such dragonflies as can be found as fossils in rocks older than coal. “Even the birds that haunt the pond have an other-worldly air, the gaunt herons with their beady eyes and darting beaks, and the bob-tailed kingfishers its a officials who represent him in the handling of public funds | He depends on Territorial officials to administer | their funds lawfully and efficiently without his know- | ing just how they do it. He depends on the municipal | administration to provide the services he needs through | the proper expenditure of his tax payments and other | revenues going into the city coffers. Activities of the | | public utilities commission and the district school | board involve large budgets and substantial expen»; ditures. More recently other public bodies have come into | the Alaska picture. There are utility districts whose | directors have the power to levy taxes and to spend them. There are electrical associations whose directors are empowered to borrow large sums of money in be- half of the members, and spend them for improvement projects. | * The average citizen, a member of some or all of these groups, rarely examines the books and records. He knows only what he is told. which sometimes is very little. To protect the citizens from misuse of funds by the various agencies, the Territory should orovide for periodic audits of all public agencies. At present, the Territory conducts an audit of it- self at irregular intervals and the results of the most recent one were amazing to say the least. Municipalities order their own audits in recogni- |tion of the fact that their:local residents want and are entitled to the information. Public utility groups, school boards and other bodies spending public funds usually go through the motions of some sort of an audit. | But the value of all of them is questionable. They ‘may account for all the funds, hut do they reveal whether the expenditures have been proper and legal under the law? s it svificient to have each agency | order its own audit and then be the custodian of it? i | | i This is a field that the next Territorial Legislature | might well investigate. A proper law might be enacted | to require audits be handled by competent auditors, | cover a specified list of subjects and that they be | placed on file in a public office where they are readily | available for public inspection without embarrass- ment. As civilization progreses in Alaska there are going | to be more and larger sums expended by the public bodies. A well-planned auditing procedure would pro- tect the public officials from accusations as well as | protect the citizens themselves from possible misuse of , funds. It would seem that the audits should be filed in a central location for the citizens most interested. | The office of the district court clerk in each division would probably be most satisfactory. | i . State College and months’ hunting by Fred Hoffman, retired Long Beach, Calif., business man, who had arrived on the yacht Eagle. CANCER SOCIETY DIRECTGRS TOMEET MOKDAY ATEP. M. The Board of Directors of the Alaska Division of the American Cancer Society will meet Monday at 8 p. m. at the Council Cham- bers, it was announced today by Mrs. Mildred R. Hermann, Divis- ional Commander of the Division. A special guest of the meeting will be Mrs. H. W. Peterson of Billings Montana, Deputy National Com- mander of the American Cancer Society, who is in Alaska on offi- clal visit. Mrs. Peterson, who is Director of Region V, comprising the Northwestern States and Al- aska, will preside at the meeting James H. Causten, Deputy Collector of Customs at St. Michael 30 vears before, and one of the backers of E. T. Barnette, founder of Fair- banks and leadinng mining man and banker there, was here on a visit. Personnel of the “San Su Strutters” arrived to open the engagement »f this novelty orchestra at the Palace Theatre. The charming young musicians were Misses Hazel Hayes, El Dean Travis, Faye Toliver, Harriet Goodlow and Vivian Lewis. With a 31%-inch Mackinaw trout to prove his statement, Dave Housel eported “trout that grow by the foot and not by the inch,” on his return rom eight days at Lake Bennett. Earl Cathcart, new Superintendent of the Douglas Public Schools, urived from the south, as did Misses Dorothy Fay, who was to succeed Miss Margaret Abrahamson and Miss Josie Hursh. Weather: High, 60; low, 50; cloudy. some members of Congress from | going through with the curtailment. | | NOTICE The police department has had | numerous complaints from citizens about the young people of Juneau High School trying to force their way into homes with express pur- pose of forcefully taking a student | out to be initiated. These acts of | lattempted entry and actual trespus] will not be tolerated. Anyone ap- ¢« prehended by the police for molest- !ing students will be charged with disorderly conduct. Initiation ' will stop immediately—B. Hulk, Chief , of Police. 82 4t SCHWINN BIKES at MADSEN’S — , MIRACLE SERIES | Popular Piano Instruction . and Accordian PHONE 4mM and will hold a question and . . . b nover torum tor memnes ¢ me Daily Lessons in English W 1. corvon Board at” the conclusion of the Feeds business session. == —— — — — Agenda for the meeting will in- WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “How would you like to be clude both reviews of ¢ activity 2 Say, “How would you like to be I?” and previews of o projects ¥ planned for the Alaska Division, as OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Debenture. Accent SECOND syllable, well as several items of important 00t the first. business upon which action must OFTEN MISSPELLED: Intercece; cbserve the C (not S) and the be taken, and a full meeting of EDE (not EED). the Board is urgently requested SYNONYMS: Whiten, bleach, blanch, frost, silver. WORD STUDY: “Use a word three times and it is yours.” Let us ncrease our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today's word: RECTITURE; undeviating adherence to moral standards. “He had never wandered from the path of rectitude.” MODERN ETIQUETTE % nerra e by Mrs. Hermann. SOPRANO, VIOLINIST WILL GIVE CONCERT HERE ON SEPT. 13 Matilda Holst French, mezzo- Q. When the ceremony is over at a church wedding, should the soprano, and Sylvia Da’ violinist, members of the famiMles be allowed to leave first, before the other are scheduled to appear in a con- people? cert at the 20th Century Theatre | A. Yes, this is the proper procedure. Tuesday, Se"te"‘be_" 13. Q. If one is called upon to serve as master of ceremonies, must one Jufi‘;:: x;':ogc;:j_ Eradutian U | i every time there is an anncincement or introduction to be made? Miss French studied music at the| A Most certainly. University of Washington, Oregof Q. What is the correct way to eat stuffed celery? in New yOrk: A. Lift it to fne mouth with the fingers. City and Milan, Italy. 1 = T Miss Davis is a member of Buf; | The Washi;dlbn Merry-Go-Rgu_nd By DREW "PEARSON (Crntinved from Page 1D | ed a letter from an undertaker in his district reading, “I guess I ow2 ORAH DEE CLAR, were ‘one'of those tavorwver ACCIDENT VICTIM, racketeers. But I find I was wrong about you and want to say so.” I-EAVES FOR SOUTH Jacobs replied as follows, “I was wrong about you, teo. I thought you only consorted with the deac.” Miss Orah Dee Clark, who has been a house guest of Mrs. Mildred falo (New York) Symphony O chestra, conducted by Willlam'| | Steinberg. | | SELERCLE S ; OTICE ! | Motorists have been too lax in making full stops at stop streets. | Starting tomorrow the fine will be| e by LOOK and LEARN ™ & comon o J What is the approximate mean altitude of the United States? How many drops of liquid will the ordinary teaspoon hold? Which extends farther south, Florida or Texas? Of what political party was George Washington a member? . In what State are the most magnificent specimens of tree growth BRSNS MADSEN CYCLE & FISHING SUPPLY [} Pull 1ine of Halibut and Trolling | | Gear — Many items now at new LOW PRICES Open 9 to 9 . Opp. Ball Park Widest Selection of LIQUORS PHONE 399 “Say It With Flowers” but “SAY IT WITH OURS!” Juneau Florists Thone 311 I [ The Erwil; Feed Co. Office in Case Lot Grocery Phone 704 HAY, GRAIN, COAL and STORAGE SHOP AT BERT’S FOOD CENTER Alaska’s Finest Secretary— 1 {{ WALTER R. HERMANSEN l t Moose Lodge CABINET SHOP 17 Main St. Phone 772 High Quality Cabinet Work for Home, Office or Store Regular Meetings Each Friday Governor—JOHN LADELY “The Rexall Store” Thomas Hardware Co. i Your Reliable Pharmacists BUTLER-MAURO DRUG CoO. Alaska Music Supply " Arthur M. Uggen, Manager Pianos—Mausical Instruments and Supplies .Phone 206 ..Second and Seward.. FOR Wall Paper Ideal Paint Store Phone 549 Fred W. Wendt JUNEAU'S FINEST LIQUOR STORE BAVARD'S Phone 689 The Alaskan Hotel | ! Newly Renovated Rooms at Reasonable Rates PHONE SINGLE O PHONE 555 PAINTS — OILS Builders’ and Shelf HARDWARE | Remington Typewriters 4 ) s . | the board will recommend a com-i ‘ i i R. .Hermann since 'her release|$_15< If that ?mm, .remedy mc-,thaf MRS AAHets Torhas Supermarket SOLD and SERVICED by promise. STRONG DEFENDER from B Ann%k early “tHis cmonth situation the fine will be larger. ANSWERS: The steelworkers are demanding There is another place in Wash- 3 L4 * | City ordinance calls for a maximum | ‘ S J. B. Bur‘ord & co a “package” increase of 30 cents ington, besides the White House, left Wednesday for Seattle where ¢ $100. This also applies to bi- | 1. 2,500 feet above sea level. ° Al o an hour, including a wage boost, where Maj. Gen. Harry Vaughan She planned to meet her niece, Miss ‘cycles—Bernard Hulk, Chief nf; 2. Eighty drops. STEVENS “Srathfl““ed“egml:own by pension and health benefits. Best has strong defenders. ,Frances Clark of Portland, Ore. Police. 82 2t 3. Florida. . mers inside guess is that the board will| It is the medical department of |She will go to Portland to remam| — —_— e ‘ 4. Federal Party. LADIES’—MISSES’ hold with the workers on their the Veterans Administration. \for some time. She was accom-! NOTICE TO CREDITORS 5. Balifornia. READY-TO-WEAR claims for a raise, but will sharply| To chiefs of this agency the em- |Panied on the first lap of nerI NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN | e | FORD AGENCY l trim the amount. v | journey by Mrs. Leigh Grant of |that the undersigned has been ap- Seward Street Near Third (Authorized Dealers) ; battled White House military aide 15 | | Douglas, one =f ner special nurses | bointed Executrix of the Last Will GREASES — GAS — OIL | something of a hero. He gave! JUNKETEER® (them a heluing hand at a time | during her six month’s hospitaliza- | and Testament and of the Estate of House leaders are havin; a .ord | When they were in desperate straits. | tion. |HARRY IRVIN LUCAS, deceased. time keeping their rank-and-file | They have never forgotten him for| Miss Clark, a pioneer school | All persons having claims against in check on expense-free junkets;it. This is the story they tell: ;Feflcher of the Territory, was ser-|the estate are required to present abroad. | In 1946, when Gen. Omar Brad- |iously injured in a traffic accident |them to t_he undersigned at Juneau, Usually at this time of the year! ley, as V.A. Administrator, was|here in February, and is still bad- Alaska“within six (6) months fram the boys are scattered far and|frantically trying to reorganize thely crippled from the accident. A the date of this notice. wide on"'omcial“ tours of one kind | moribund medical service, his most resident of Anchorage, she was vis- Dated at Juneau, Alaska August Juneau Motor Co. | Foot of Main Street ELLIS AIR LINES DAILY TRIPS JUNEAU TO KETCHIKAN via Pefershurg and Wrangell With connections to Craig, Klawock and Hydaburg Convenient afternoon departures, at 2:30 P. M. The Charles W. Carter Mortuary Fourth and Franklin Sts. PHONE 136 MAKE JUNEAU DAIRIES DELICIOUS ICE CREAM . - stor i r i 4th, 1949. another. But the protracted Urgent need was doctors and den- iting Mrs. Herman at the time o_l ) e B Unsp clea| tists. VA hospital were jummed her injury. Her journey south is| INA PRIEST LUCAS, FOR RESERVATIONS PHONE 612 a daily habit—ask for it by name gravy-train craving. Result, they|With ailing and disabled veterans. for the specific purpose of enabling Executrix. Card Beverage Co. Maj. Gen. Paul Hawley, chief medi- |her to® received physio-therapy First publication,” August 5, 1949. cal director, reported he needed | treatment not available here. | Last publication, August 26, 1949. ' i Interstate Commerce Chairman 2,000 doctors immediately. - L DO B —y | = Robert Crosser, D.,, Ohio, is under i Oldesl Bank n Ala.ska | are restive. Juneau Dairies, Inc. very ‘Wholesale 805 10th St. PHONE 216—DAY or NIGHT Chrysler Marine Engines e —————— Strenpous efforts to obtain civil- MIXE] N | ¥ for RS or SODA POP sirong pressure from committee|jan medics proved unavailing. C rd Puzzle y H members to agree to two junkile. Bradley and Hawley were at their TOSSWO msl—unl na“ a cemllfy 0' Biflklflfl—l“fl fiA.n(‘:an;]Eugfl.onP One is to Saudi-Arabia, to “study” wits' ends. Someone suggested they | ACROSS 85. Two: prefix . . ’ 1 o v U. S. oil interests there. Report- see Vaughan about the matter. | 1. arabian 36. Exists cfllfl' S Hen sWeal' ed concelver of this plan is the His response was immediate, | - - garment 37 Daukbterof The B.M Behrends el “|il Chas. G. Warner Co. powerful Arabian-American Oil “I think I've got the answer to | & Mimics 38. Supported by | b o o 1y s ! : P, i 9. Neckplece 39 Orderly Stetson and Mallory Hats Company, which has huge invest- your proble; he said, “if we can 12, Cap 41. Utter Arrow Shirts and Underwear 5 ments in the Middle East. Aramco get the Army and Navy to cooper- 12. }'ni( ot welght :2‘ gr«;?lcnl truit Bank All ezt H ] { ) 14 ess ubli dmonds Shoes | would house and entertain the ate, and I see no reason why they 18, Fights conveyance M”E “ms‘. OME GROCERY | junketing Congressmen. shouldn't. The Army has hundreds 13 Huge wave 46 Burpose £ Ph 146 5 The other scheme is a tour of lof surplus doctors, which it train- 20, Subpiication 4. Feline animal Sufety Deposit ane “ Eurcpe to examine airline setups ed and who are clamoring to get a2 mhicken SEoMartifoation t - | 25. Mall B6. Distant: prefix ‘e Home Liquor Store—Tel. 699 | and operations. Practically all are out. But it's short of dentists. g; })en‘( ahead 57. Watch clrr)!selv 4 £ B o T A “ Y ‘m:u_,. Phone ) monopolistic *“chosen instrument” The Navy has a lot of surplus den- ¢ ‘“:.’L,:‘.i:". ik “{:‘3&' A Solution of 'Yesterday's Puzzle Boxe.‘: or Re”t i 5 systems. Pan American Airways | tist, which it trained. If we can 31 Deface 69. Writing fluld 7] i 1 i < s i 82. Dutct 3. Entertained 1. Uncooked a2 which has long agitated for such do apping, it will be to ‘geokrapher DOWN & Recorded 8. Move | COMMERCIAL SAVINGS 500 a policy for the U. S. overseas 21"~ everybody's bentit all around. The 33 Group of § flamese calpe . SIRGAIINEE. | 5. Lowsst point To Banish “Blue Monday” lines, is credited with originating government has a claim on these pupils of disgust 6 Rather than 10. Have debts c la 0 T n E s o freed | this Junket, young ootors and they should be j Cordinction NUNN-BUSH_SHOES i Ml L e X i Yhey shoy . Beverage from work — TRY ! Tosser is holding out firmly used in this emergency. Il see “F B ; e i . Faucet STETSON HATS against both trips. In this stand what I can do about the matter.” . Clear Quality Work Clothing he has the backing of both Speak- Vaughan made good his word. et | Gonno“ A“nnnsn“ z muki Llll.ll er Sam Rayburn and Republican Going directly to then-Secretary . Recreational floor leader Joe Martin. Ra is very blunt about junkets To a group of trip-huvgry fresh- men he rapped, “Your people sent hurn you here to legislate and not to gallivant around the world You are being paid to work for your con- stituents. If you want to stay in Congress, you had better stick to your knitting here. It will pay oft a lot more in the long run than Jjunketeering at the taxpayers’ cx- pense.” TOUCHE" Rep. Andrew Jacobs, D, Ind, is as plain-talking in his correspon- dence as he is in his speeches. The former labor lawyer of War Robert Patterson and Navy Secretary James Forrestal, Vaugh- sts an arranged a three-way swap. The Navy transferred 700 dentists to the Army and 500 doctors to the V.A Similarly, the Army detailed 2,000 doctors to V.A. for two year's ser- vice. Thus, the Army got the dentists it sorely needed, V.A. the doctors it desperately needed, and the government received some re- turn for the training it had given | the medics. | General Hawley credits his suc- cess as V.A. medical director as due in a large measure to Vaugh- an’s effective aid in this crisis. | SCHWINN BIKEs at pMADSEN'S Dame for honey Organ of Active Alder trees: _ Scotch Congenled American Indian auality nber . 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