The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 20, 1949, Page 6

PAGE SIX _ ., PROSPECTOR STATUE CEREMONIES TO BE Found; LostLifein | JUNEAU TEACHERS AT SITKA ON OCT. 18 ed fo Unveil Alaska’s First Bronze Statue SITKA, Alaska, Sept. 20—Mrs. Zalmain Gross, Juneau, has been selected to unveil Alaska's first | bronze statue, The Prospector, at| ceremonies to be held on Alaska Day, October 18. The 13%:-foot Lronze statue. was the last major work created by Mrs. Gross' father, the late Victor Alonzo Lewis. Shortly before his death he was named Body of Hunfer Is Upsetfing of Boat PALMER, Alaska, Sept. The body of Eugene Marsh, missing on a duck hunting trip since Fri- day, was recovered by a party of friendd and relatives late Lake on the Glenn Highway. Marsh, a Palmer garage em- ployee, was believed to have drown- ed when his kayak overturned. A Search as launched empty Eskimo-type found drifting near shore a short time after he set out alone. Mrs. Marsh, who had been visit- ing relatives in Spokane, Wash., returned here today. Among the canoe was sculptor ' survivors are the victim’s father, | laureate of the State of Washing- Arthur Marsh of Palmer, and two|found gathered at one table, the He is now Assistant Reglonal For- | ton, and he considered The Pros-|small children. pector his finest work. ; October 18 has been dE‘.\l-_’!\fl((‘d; Alaska Prospector Day at Sitka and a dual celebration is planned. The! Prospector statue will be unveiled! and dedicated and there will be a more elaborate than usual com- memoration of the 82nd anniver- sary of the transfer of Alaska from Russia to the United States. In connection with the celebra- | tion, a pageant will - reenact the' transfer ceremony which took place | on October 18, 1867, with students of the Sitka Public Schools, Sheldon Jackson Junior College and Mount Edgecumbe Scheol participating. The Army, Navy and Coast Guard, all of which had representatives: in €itka on the day of the transfer, | have een invited to take part. i Appropriate ceremonies for both ! events are being arranged by the Prospector Memorial Committee, comprising representatives from ! all Sitka fraternal and civic organi- zat ons, and a day-long program is planned. Federal and Territorial officials, mayors of Alaskan towns, membersi of the Legislature, officers of the; Grand Igloo, Pioneers of Alaska | and of individual Igloos, and many | others have been issued special in- the Memorial Com- vitations by | mittee, which also has issued a| general invitation to all residents| of Alaska to be present for thelineir way to Mount McKinley Park | Principal. occasion Work of erecting the 3300-pound statue is now being pushed for- ward. Depicting a typical pioneer; prospector on the trail, carrying his gold pan, rifle and pack, the statue will stand in frent of the Alaska Pioneers’ Home, a perpetual monu- ment to the thousands of pioneers | and prospectors who opened Alaska | to civilization. ' SCHEDULE CHANGED | BY ALASKA STEAM| EEATTLE, Sept. 20 — (@ — The, Alaska Seatmship Company today ! announced two changes in its sched- uled passenger sailings due to can- cellation of the Saturday sailing! of the Baranof, ! Instead of making her scheduled | September 28 voyage, the Alaska now is listed to sail in place of the! Baranof October 1 for Ketchikan, Juneau, Seward, Petersburg and Sitka. The Baranof will replace the Alaska on the October 1 saling. Thereafter the Baranof, now in drydock because of a troken tail shaft, will resume regular fall and winter schedules, sailing on alter- nate Saturdays with the Denali. G e TSN | FROM CHATHAM Mrs. Harold Hansen of Chatham is registered at the Baranof. |Jack Loser, ALASKA GEOLOGIST DIES SUDDENLY AT WINDY STATION E. Fellows, Robert 32, former chief of the Alaska Section of the U. S. Geological Survey, died yes- terday at Windy Station, 10 miles south of Mount McKinley National Park. Accompanied by his wife Mary, daughter of B. D. Stewart, head of the Territorial Department of Mines here, and their seven-month- old daughter Anne, Fellows was on a special two-year assignment to map the geology of the park. He suffered a heart attack on the job, as he was logging dia- mond drill cores at a limestone deposit at Windy Station. Fellows was graduated from the University of Rochester and earn- ed his 'doctor’s degree at Johns Hopkins University. He is survived by his wife and daughter, his mother who lives in Rochester, N. Y., a brother who attends. Harvard and a sister in Providence, R. I. Mr. and Mrs. Fellows and their infant daughter were in Juneau on this spring. Mrs. Fellows and Anne will return to Juneau Thursday to be with Mrs. Fellow's father. Fellows body will be accompanied to Juneau by Willlam Twenhofel, geologist in charge of the Juneau office of the U. 8. Geological Survey. Funeral arrangements are being made in Seattle. FUNERAL RITES FOR MRS. RAY TOMORROW Funeral services for Mrs. Mar- chette Ray, 48, who died sudden- ly Saturday, will be held tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock in the chapel of the Charles W. Carter Mortuary. Pallbearers will be Clifford Nor- densen, Harry Vidak, Joe McNallen, Paul Thomas, John Forsythe. The service will by the Rev. Robert Whelan, S. J.|restaurateur. Mrs. Ray was born in Portland, Oregon, husband, Eli Ray of Juneau, a son, William L. Ray of Juneau, and a daughter, Mrs. Amber Marie Olson of Wallace, Idaho. Interment will be at the Ever- green Cemetery. Now is the time for cleaning and repairing your fur coat. Let us give you a free estimate. Martin Vic- tor Furs, Inc. 9 1t oL Si QUT OF THE —1927— REMAIN CHAMPS: The U. S. Polo Team defeated England by the scores of 13 to 2 and 8 to 5 to retain the International Cham- pionship. GOOD INDIAN: Marty Callag- han, playing with the Seattle “Indians,” sets a world’s record of 173 games played without an error. * DOES IT AGAIN: Rene LaCos feated Bill Tilden, 11-9, 6-3, 11 win the U. S. Men's Singles Champion- ship in tennis for the 2nd straight year. de- STILL CHAMP: Gene Tunney successfully defended his title against Jack Dempsey before 150,000 people who paid $2,800,- 000 to see the fight at Soldiers’ Field, Chicago. FOUL, FOUL: Loayza, Chilean Tightweight, won from Seattle’s Tod Morgan in the 9th on a claimed foul. Floored in the 6th and out on his feet in the 9th, he claimed a foul and was award- © COLUMBIA BREWERIES, INC. TACOMA, WASHINGION 1318 PAST ed the decision, although the examining doctor could find no marks of a four blow on his body. * WILD WILDCAT: ‘‘Wildcat" Carter, flashy Everett fighter, defeated Vic Foley, Canadian featherweight, in 6 rounds at the old Seattle Crystal Pool fight arena. Carter won all but the 1st round, which was even. —1921— POTENT PUNT: George Flavin, captain and halfback for the Georgetown University football team, punted 110 yards (78 yards in the air) against Holy Cross. —1948— LIFETIME BOWLING: Mrs. Flo- retta McCutcheon holds this en- viable bowling record for life- time play. 300 games—10, 299—9, 290—4, 289—12 and 27950, Her average for 10 years 201, during which time she bowled 8,076 games. Alt Heiéelbérg dast | night from the waters of Snowshoe | when the| and | THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA ROTARY HONORS [BURDICK TO TELL KIWANIANS ABOUT REINDEER PURCHASE The program for tomorrow’s lun- cheon meeting of the Kiwanis Club is “a natural,” according to Gene Vuille, program chaiyman. In a general social conversa- tion, someone asked a few ques- tions about reindeer in Alaska, and a member of the group was found to have more of interest to tell than the five remaining minutes - ATANNUAL AFFAIR “We have as our guests today the faculty of the Juneau Public ichools. Please watch your English, and be careful of split infinitives.” The quotation is from that| | eminent publication, the Rotary Windjammer, issued weekly by the Rotary Club of Juneau. W. L. (Monty) Grisham is rumored to be this week’s editor. No worry about grammar re- |permitted. strained Rotarians from their usual! Presto! Charles G. Burdick, who nonsense, nor in their enthusiastic| had been kept busy answering | welcome to most of Juneau’s 44!the questions, was asked to tell teachers. (A few were absent, super- | more, to Kiwanians. | vising hot lunches ‘or on some “Alaska Reindeer Purchase” of | other urgent duty.) ,which he was in charge several Where too many members were:years ago, will be Burdick’s topic. group was ruthlessly divided :y the | ester. committee, so that the tables filling] The Kiwanis Club will meet at the Baranof Gold Room were|12:10 o'clock in the Gold Room of nicely balanced between members}the Baranof Hotel. and guests. | A T T | Brooks Hanford was chairman l I !for the annual party.honoring the !cENSES’ l;GHTs faculty of Juneau High and Grade | | Schools. He introduced Dr. James| lop VIOLAIIONS C. Ryan, Territorial Commissionerl of Education, who spoke briefly. OF VEHICI.E SAFE'I'Y In turn, he introduced Sterling |S. Sears, Juneau School Superin-| gupmitting his daily report for tendent, who has just started his|tne joint vehicle safety check-up first year here. | now in progress, Lt. Emmett Botelho Superintenden, Sears contrasted|of the Territorial Highway Patrol the wide-open spaces ol Wyoming,|added two comments to the tabu- which he had just left, to Juneau|lation. streets, say.ng that, at first, every| “Please remind everyone again,” | vehicle confined to a city street‘he urged, “of the necessity for each locked like a ~dangerous weapon.|individual to carry his driver's li- | He told of his reaction to Juneau’s|cense on his person or in his car capricious weather, and of learning{at all times.” to relish all her moods. His second remark was, “It is “My first impression,” said the; believed that more violation tickets new-Superintendent, “was that you|would have been returned to date, have a very capable faculty here.; were local garages able to keep up After two weeks, that 1mpreas:on!with all the repair work indicated has become a conviction. The faculty l since September 15, the beginning ;handled a record enrollment o!ior the safety drive. Everyone—in- (more than 930 students without a|cluding the motorists—would be hitch, and things are going|happier if that work were spread smoothly.” out during the year, when and as | Introductions proceeded into the|the car's condition warranted it.” {next bracket, with Superintendentj The annual safety check-up is Sears calling on Leslie W. Avrit,{conducted jointly by the Patrol and Principal of Juneau High School,}the Juneau Police Department. |and T. Floyd Dryden, Grade School| The daily report shows that, be- tween 1 and 6 p.m. yesterday, 138 | They introduced their teachers,)cars were checked, with these re- alco the school nurse and secre-|sults: itary, each person standing as his 21 violation tickets were issued; jor her name was called. 18 of these did not have driver’s | President Bob Akervick made a|license on person or in car; 3 had krief, address of welcome, empha-|no driver’s license wharsoever. ‘:izing that the purpose of the an- 14 cars had no stop lights. nual Rotary party—to get ac- 9 had faulty headlights. | quainted—is a realizat'on of Rot- 11 had no tail lights, ary’s first objective: Club service.! 2 had poor trakes. He called attention to the other| 3 cars had only 1 license plate. | ojectives, namely, vocational, com- 8 had no rear view mirror. munity and international service. 4 were without windshield wipers To continue the get-acquainted! 3 with foreign license to be re- theme of the luncheon meeting, | newed. Rotarians stood and. identified| 17 of the violation tickets issued themselves, being fined in the tra-|the previous day were returned. ditional humorous manner if iden- tification extended into advertising. JURY SAYS NOT GUILTY Introductions were the order of A six-man jury in the City the dfi}f, Wi"h every person in the| Magistrate’s Court today found room identified. Lloyd Reid, Jr, not guilty of Visiting Rotarians introduced | driving a car without a muffler. were H. D. Harlan, Anchorage sales- The jury was made up of J. S. be conducted |™an, and Erich Lund, Kansas City | MacKinnon, Jr., J. A. Sofoulis, V. Power, C. G. Casler, the Rev. Her- Other guests were Dr. E. H. Dunn,{man E. Beyer, and Frank Her- and is survived by neflphysician-in-chuge of the Hudson|mann. Stuck Memorial Hospital at Fort Yukon, and Charles W. Bledsoe of Seattle, whose classification is wholesale plumbing and heating. FROM PELICAN John W. Enge of Pelican is a guest at the Baranof. ISCHOOL SYSTEM AT ANCHORAGE BEING CHANGED 1 ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Sept. 20— (A—Anchorage has come up with a new plan tor handling the prob- |lem of overflowing school rooms. | It is preparing to adopt a six- | day school week for the teachers, in which each pupil will be on a three-day week by attending on alternate day | It was susgested by a parents'| | meeting and adopted by the district | | school board. The plan will be suc- | stituted for the present plan of| | double shifts five days a week. | The new plan was evolved after ‘a bus firm notified school officials it would not be able to provide adequate buses for the children on the double shift basis. Under the double shift basis, buses are needed to carry children to school cetween | |7 and 8 am., and home between 5| and 6 p.m. The bus firmi said it can't provide the school buses dur- ing those rush hours. MERCY FOR SLAYER ASKED BY HUSBAND OF DEAD HUNTER| ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Sept. 20— #—The husband of an Anchorage | woman slain in a hunting accident Sunday pleaded successfully with |a coroner’s jury late yesterday to: exonerate the neighbor who fired l the -shot. | ! Ronald Hudgins told the jury that | ‘lhe hunter, D. W. Abbott, “is a| good friend of mine and will re-| main so; my wife was all I had but I don't hold her death against| him.” | | Abbott was near collapse as he imld of the tragedy. He later was} Iheld clameless by the jury, Wh.Ch‘; ruled the shooting was accidental. | ALbott said he mistook Mrs. Colleen Hudgins, 22, for a moose as she| moved through the heavy brush on} Campbell Flats, outside Anchorage. | He said he mistcok the Hudgins’ rifles for antlers. | Hudgins is accompauaring his wife’s Lody by plane to her former | home in Helena, Mont. | | & | FROM FT. YUKON | Edward Dunn of Ft. Yukon is a guest at the Baranof Hotel. e s S | FROM WRANGELL | Mrs. Dorothy Bigelow of Wrangell | is a guest at the Baranof. GOVERNOR LEAVI Gov. Gruening has flown to An- chorage enroute to Mt. McKinley} to join the Warne conference meet- !mg starting tomorrow. SET SCOUTS TONIGHT The Sea Scout Ship 712 meets tonight at 7:30 o'clock in the Elks Hall to plan the social and business ievents of the year. At tonight's meeting, all boys who are now 14 years old may join the Sea Scouts. | i —Jerry Hill, Acting Yeoman. Therse is no more reliability in a fur coat than the house you buy it from. Martin Victor Furs, Inc. 1| i | The first vse of iron for rails| ,was in the ‘crm of thin straps laid on top of wooden rails. Bt s O L RS R e Styled ahead! Engineered ahead! Higher compression Champion and Commander engines of in- creased horsepower * Self-stabili ing coil spring front wheel suspen- sion * Wide-rim wheels and extra- low-pressure tires * Self-adjusting brakes * Oversize, windows and windshield * Glare-proof “black light”” instrument dials + Wear-re- sisting Studebaker craftsmanship. in cars! It's a breath-taking new 1950 Studebaker—with the e e s e s e e o SSRGS TR dop s B P Juneau, Alaska ‘White sidewall tires and wheel discs optional at extrs cost Stop in and see this car that's stopping traffic! New 1950 Studebaker THE “NEXT LOOK”IN CARS? STUDEBAKER does it again!. .. Studebaker, originator of the “new look” in cars, now amazes the whole motor- ing world with this even more revolutionary “next look” lines and the lure of something jet-propelled! It’s a longer, more powerful new money-saver of a Studebaker—designed with dramatic distinction from its gleaming aerocurve front to its flight-streamed rear end! See the thrifty 1950 Studebaker—it’s America’s most distinctive, most advanced new car! | CAPITOL AUTO SALES g Routsala. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20 |retired banker, visited all the Ma- sonic lodges except Valdez. On his arrival to Alaska several weeks ago, Gastineau Lodge and Mt. Junesu Lodge held joint meetings to receive the distinguished visitor who is leaving today for his re- turn to the States. the HDIAMONDS FOR A MEMORABLE DAY ¥ For her lifetime happiness, choose one of these beautiful diamond duets that lock together ¥ the popular Word has been received that| w + o or for the pop Jerry Barash, who worked at the ! double ring ceremony, see our elegant matched bride SEWING COURSE, MAYBE Under the sponsorship of cal women who may be interestedl in a sewing class, a part of the Poslpo“E MEE""G courses, are asked to sign up and or RESERVE OFH(ER‘ express their willingness to psxrnc-l ' paper are on hand at the business son weathered out early this af- houses so that the community |ternoon, instructors scheduled for Mrs. Arthur Walker of Juneau will | Reserve Officers’ group asked to be the instructor, if the classes are |change the meeting to Thursday. | class, for which Reserve O\'fi-} SCHOOL BOARD ELECTION = jcers receive credit, will be at 7°p. | 4 between the hours of 8 a. m. and | Reading Room gn South Franklin| 7 p. m. for the purpose of electing ! Street. | term of five years. Polling places |charge of the instruction. i in Douglas will be at the City o, | There will also be a polling place ! HOTEL IN SPOKANE at the home of Herbert Savikko on | Qualified voters may cast their ballot at either of these vcting, Baranof during the summer of 1948 | and groom sets. oy Davenport Hotel, Spokane, The judges for the cuiside ais-;°f the | trict will be Mrs. Herbert Savikko,! Washington. He attended the Cor- ministration, graduating in June afl From $l .up To Choose From NEWS Douglas Island Woman's Club, lo: University of Alaska extension ipate in such a class. Slips of} Their flight from Fort Richard- | ladies may signify their intentions.’) tonight's meeting of the Juneau organized. W. P, the September training' An election will be held on Oct. m. Thursday in the Salvation Army, one school board member for a| Maj. A. L. Baker is to be in' Council Chambers of the City Hall. | BARASH NOW WITH ! the Douglas Highway. places. has been made assistant manager Mrs. Wm. Hixson and Mrs. Bert nell University school of hotel ad- l 0 0 U G I F T S THE NUGGET SHOP this year. 1 Any person who is a qualified! parasn js the son of A. J. Bar- elector of the Douglas Independent jaqn prominent in . hotel circles as| School District may file his or her|gocretary of the Washington State | candidacy for school board mem-'p,te; Association and publisher of | ber by filing a signed statement the Hotel News of the West. with the school board clerk or Mr. et R L S Balog at the City Hall, on or be-, fore 5 o'clock September 27. O'TOOLE VISITS 1 A. Dermotte O'Toole of Tenakee was a brief visitor in Douglas last | week. He is manager of the Sny- | der estate at Tenakee and also- postmaster there. Plumbing ® Heafing 0il Burners Telephone-319 Nights-Red 730 Harri Machine Shop, Inc. HIGH MASON INSPECTS Henry C. 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