The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 21, 1950, Page 8

PAGE EIGHT EXTRA 2,500 FEFT | THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA ¢ILD WEST CHORUS, NE'/ BIOLOGIST TO RED CRABS THREAT|PILOT JUMPS OUT ON AIRPORT ASKED 3‘5 RD GRADE SIZE, STUDY ALASKA'S 10 COAST INDUSTRY, BY PAN AMBOARD EXTEPTAINS ROTARY An extension of hioned dress present 5,000 foot Juneau airport cemple at le‘ I?UMI\ today looked liké a “Oklahcma” scaled wudience ever gave ical show more se than did Ro- chairman of ranof Gold Rmm\ said pre be ta of such A PAA Clipper Fairb: way'’s because of field. None enger ed A Civil A tior to prevent an accident third graders re- popular nymber— dedicated, as a informed the club, “to embers of the Rotary southbcund from who aecom- | ronautics carried on by Fred G. P Anchorage. He left for his quarters before he could be reach- ed for mment well 3 uare dancing, arranged for the st month, and Ellis Rey- the per- hear chairman for recommended th " by building ¢ 11 at the e “town i McN and t Savory sion be made foot wid Eric Newbould, with ton at the piano, 1 Rot then third grad- h groups, i vigorous *School D to busir b ters af- left for school, vick named 13| pearhead the ation to complete the wide ample then be addition a marker of snruce or other material to establish a point on kteycnd rich it would for a l hir to touch i when first landing taviar vidual licit fund campaign for Library. trom, Ralph | said * gV Dr, illiam | H. E. Green, In addition, he care will be taken in critica perature range of 28 to 31 d X [ >. Ry El Reynolas, temperature, to have absolu Jerry McKinley, ird D. Stab- | surance of braking action m Dyer and | attempting a landin “Everyone concerned,” he “was very fortunate that the air- craft sustained only minor damaze -largely due to the excellant ling by a veteran Alaska pilot Capt. Dick Hawley. “The befor said carry th 1" Stewart com- on results and urged prtance ing the drive for ' the yet tc > alled a his when a realiza- the project was allowed Th yrary Committee i, Stewart and nented with thus 1z major contribut S toe A ained, “was a of wind and temperature, latter at a critical p¢ coverir the r emcly slippery apparent to the ground personnel.” Slight damage was incurred to lage in the gatter |~ %o, the plane’s fus , where it struck a callg of | W ©40 n the tideflats, “t o The chief pilot also recommended portion ice on th a wind sock at either end of A\Yn“(' g B runway, so “th t may have the |1t ©f SR ; 2] true picture i ditions. Y v v a2 Py | Savory and the three acc %) : ing him arrived yesterda due to go outside tod are Donald F. True, operations éh % ] gineer, Stanley Moy, su 2 nt | s U i el of aircraft line e, both of & Tl San ncisco, and Earl Lee of Seattle, representing the Airline Pilots’ Association. leplorable incident library W tion, and nw rman, T. eport for Rotary B. C Rolland trong Anchors OLD1IME JUNEAU IE DIES IN HOSPITAL ess, Albert A away at 11:30| €'t Ann’s hos- | 9€*0n, for over | Lall co jager of the pany at Sitka | um? here | Tour an head- 1al Missions of the Pr and will make here. guests werc helan, C. L Skagway Hig} ¢ Ernest Columbia Lumber Com and the Sitka Col- for the ld Medal (Jack) ad Com- bytes his the Rev. After a long il “Barne (Bert) Kiefer passe o'clock last night in S pital, where he had been one week. Born December ‘11, in Francisco, Mr. Kiefer spent his early childhood in Whatcom, Wash., now Bellingham, where he received h. schooling. He and foliowed ness as a W In 1212, he he reside time. He dispatcher for the Royal Blue Company from 1943 to 1948. Mr. Kiefer was a life memt the Hotel and Re ploy Local No. 871, and a mer cf Pioneers of Alaska, Igloo No. §. He is survived by his widow, Azne of Juneau; a brother, John B Kiefer; a neph Dr. Joh (dentist) and a nie M Blin, all of Seattle. Announcement of fune rangen awaits word frc Seattle rel: The rem W. Carte: t to S his late teens the taurant busi- er until about 1937. came to Juneau, whe continuously SENATE COMMITTEE APBROVES EKLUTNA POWER PROJECT m--The approv- tion of the $20,- project near Fep. 20 Committee ey (D-Wyo) believed the jects {3 ARRIVE, 7 DEPART % 0 BY PAGIFIC NORTHERN o t must go back action om the Pacific Northern A 13 persons here yest westward and took out. Arriving from Anchorage Capt. E. C. Vaughar - ley, Mr. and Mr: Y Powell. Coming from Christine Tiedemah Mr. and Mrs. C. Eva Paulsen and Carl Diversetk ing at Yakutat elen Brenner and Dr. Joseph r Going to A G. Marcum, Mar Paquette; the: Juneav to Cordova: Fr aghy, Sig Skarstrom wick and Mrs. M. Litz and | | the | | Wildlife | amount $he T pink and shipped I L *The Aleutian Islar | cone | oft, this coast wa pushed but bad 1? "NEGLECTED FISH" Alaska’s “neglected fish” w | get the attention of an experi biologist. ' he \\AH mon—silv in Juneau vester- | '\‘hlhc\ ° [there is ev Department been car: fish ar 1 habits and | with their | out studie salmon—the! how they neighbors in the 1 | “That’s what § Ander why we stole ington State I eries.” He and been om fish | studies in ! e? salmon ted by Service al b; ) ‘ nationdl Fisher mission. ‘ “Most, of Ala inen are in these typ! he declared. “I feel said troll negl ent fi w,l fisheri t the sms of Fisherips gets for be spent in finding fac directly benefit fishermen.” In the past, and red udied | troll | A graduate of t | Washington schcol three s almpn, i} cason at'the e pink salrpon ¢ Walter. He spent one nician wit h the Uni ent of Zoolog er brought., with him the latest said twe a succe ~1 spent Bay red s news of fish-packing. He en ha de in tle oft in plastic ul legs of the 1 the edges of the clear plastic the meat is packed in the center. Top and bottom of the ner are tin. this way, t yoes like hoteakes,” he said. The men are branching fr packing into the packi of fiileted sole and rockfish. These ‘\'\ pa with the colorful side cut ar product sells itself, he said He said the produc the new container in ice e e to their dest 'MARINES EXPLAIN THEIR EXERCISES OFF ALEUTIANS ('u"f , Feb. is were in enemy | hands and 2acific coast was) under atomic K. | This W situation sround for Ma- maneuvers in| | SAN DIEGO 21— | the area rece The First I Camp Pendletor e’ maneuver of Marines from % ich enga; taking an i nder theoret! intensified ining to. resist the attack from the . A C@mp Pendleton explanation on he % omic war today dis- by engi had atta Aleutiar and Dutch Atomic att installat Mare Isand, Calif., 2inst aircratt mdusv, {3 uthern California e enemy forces were suppewn to have not less than 160 troop- carr tbmarines and about 500 long troop-carrying * cratt. Training to meet such an emer- zency situation be continued base Harbor. x5 had been launched ns at Bremerton, Navy | I It .,/ > > I'n the capi | torial m creb | v | eral Security Agency in Al | the territory’s representatives to the r('vnmrccd | | the Camp {(ONGRESS WARNED!' WASHINGTO! Feb. 21— B — ep. Mac (R-Wash) told the today that imports of canned crab meat will wreck the Coast crab industry unless are stopped. > said in a statement for the 1ressional Record, that 15,000 Russian crab meat, worth half a million dollars, were brought tle last week. b meat was caught by | Russian Russian waters, by o |Russian v rs and was canned wb\ Russian workers,” Mack said {“If the im ions continue, and reason. to believe continue under our free practices, our Paciffc Coast ab industry will be knoeked intc ed hat.” called that prior to Pearl n furnished 85 percent 1eat sold in this coun- the wa he said, the will | Ha of the cr ry. Sin | Japanese fishing \qu s have been turned over to the Russians. u crab fishermen can- te with the low wage:s »w standard of living of :|NATION'S INTERESTIN ALASKA INCREASING, “VI}R hlBRE(HT F!NDS HONOLULU, Feb. 21—®—Puerto e center of keener and vmnrwmz on in Wash- A Eve rencountered al before, and it isn't uly from the point of view of de- fense,” Dr. C. Earl Albrecht, Terri- Commissioner of Health steted upon his ret here today. Reactions of he committee: on bills for the Arctic Instituie ot Health and other health matter nely favorable,” Dr. Al- He was called to Washington the first week of February to present information about the proposed work of an Arctic Institue of Health as a research center at the Univer- of Alaska. Dr. Albrecht pre- sented his report to members of the sub-committee of the House ap- propriations committee. Also appearing before mittee on Resolution No. neral health, welfare a; 12l rehabilitation, he s reaction there was also “favorable.” Conferences with federal aut! 1t assurance of more funds for bnth tuberculosis control and § real dicease control programs for fiscal year, the commissioner the Com- 403, 1 a (‘nn'vrmce with Elberi ers oi the committee \ndlmv: hl th legislation, demon- rated a “gratifying realization and appreciation of Alaska’s health ch have be accumu- through the first neglected es in the terr ¥ Dr. Albrecht and Hugh J. Wade, uty regional director of the Fed- a, were said that pre-conference meeting of state delegates on the mid-century White | House Conference for Children and Yomh which is to take place in De- cember. Upon Wade's rgturn to Ju- neau, Dr. Albrecht said, they will present their report on the contfer- ence to Governor Gruening, after which plans are to be made for | Alaska’s participation in the White House Conferen: OTIC The City of Douglas will rcceive applications until Mareh 5, frem responsible private bu: sponsers or for private financing r the construction of twenty-five houging units for Douglas. Anyone ested please contact me on or before that date. MIKE PUSICH Mayor ““The thinking fellow Calls a YELLOW” 1 ® i ® Courteo @ Rapid Service PHONE 22 YELL® AS JET HITS SNOW, ESCAPES UNHURT DMONTON, Alta., Feb. 21— American jet fighter pilot | escaped possible injury in a crash landing yesterday by vaulting from s plane as it slewed through deep the edge of the Whitehorse, rport. Royal Canadian Air Force ers here said the flier, Lt. Blodgett of Montgomery, | undershot the t from a patrol flight over th ka-Yukon border during Exer- e Sweetbriar. Blodgett, a member of the Gsth' quadron, Elmendorf Field, r se, Alaska, told the RCAF the fire went out” in his “Shooting Star” jet fighter engine as he Was } coming in for a landing. The plane slithered through the| now for yards, tearing off the eft wing tank and nose wheel. The RCAF said six other planes| have been damaged or wrecked dur- T the joint U.S.-Canadian sub- Arctic war maneuvers. head- W. i Vt., | PUERTO RICO WANTS BUT KEEPING QUIET Rico would like to be a state, but is soft-pedaling the issue at pre | sent to avoid hindering the chances of Hawaii and Al a Puerio Rican Emissary said today. He is Jesus Pinero, former Gov- ernor of F rto Rico, who is in| Honolulu to attend the celebrations his week marking the 50th anni- versary of the arrival of Puerto ns in Hawaii. ‘Of course we want staiehoed,” | Pinero told reporters, “but we, are anxiously waiting to see what hap- pens in Hawaii first. “We have strong hopes that Ha- waii will get statehood, because that likely will have a fa ble influ- }ence on our own statehood hopes. Meanwhile we are ‘preparing for statehood obligatio: by making urselves as self-sufficient as -pos- ible.” Some 275 members of the Hono- lulu Puerto Rican community wel- | comed Pinero with a dinner-dance last night. |EIGHT JURORS ARE SELECTED, "MERCY KILLING" CASE MANCHESTER NH., Feb. 21— (M—A British-born juror—the oldest of nine seated so far in the Sander “mercy killing” trial—was dismissed today after the prosecution raised a belated challenge. Council for Dr. Herman S. San- der offered no objections to re- moving 72-year-old Albert Baines, a retired Manchester Gas Company employee who came to this country about 40 years ago. Baine Presbyterian—was one of ihree Protestants among the first nine jurors chosen yesterday to try Sander on a charge of murder for pumping air into a hopeless cancer patient to end her suffering. After a ccnference of an hour and a quarter with defense counsel and prosecutors, Judge Harold E. Wes- cott returned to the courtroom to announce: “The state has requested the right allenge the last juror seated . The defense offered no lest is granted.” The reason for the state's request was not explained ‘With Baines’ removal, eight jurors remained seated and five more were to be chosen. Of tl are Roman C: Dependable Service us Service OR 14'FORA W CAB mnway on his re-|S | couldn’t be held on schedule tomor- Avenue. | T0 BE STATE, 100, | volving | also decided upon at that | the sum of $10 to be sent | penses of refr ANCHORAGE GETS ITS SNOW, BUT NOT OUT OF CLEAR HEAVENS ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Feb. 21— »—There wasn't a single cloud in Anchorage’s cold sky today but snow fell the le h of Fourth Avenue— the main s For seven weeks anxious city offi- cials have waited for the cloudless ies to close in and give. Today, in final desperate move, they orde dump trucks from the street depart ment to go far afield and haul in snow enough to cover the avenue. Otherwise, the big Alaska dos and snowshoe racing-championshig row. The races are held in conjunction | with the annual Fur Rendezvous | which also includes a high school basketball tournament; native craft exhibits; parade of industry, and a Hollywood style movie preniiere. The movie is “Twelve O'Clock High,” whose main character is based on Maj. Gen. Frank A. A strong, Commanding General of the Alaska Air Command, Anyway, there’s snow on Fourth LEGION AUXILIARY ADDS | $250 10 LIBRARY FUND The American Legion Auxiliary added the sum of $250 to the orial Library Fund, as voted by the members at a special meei- ng held recently, Mrs. Chester Zenger, President, has announced. Several other contributions, in- either time or money, were me: These included renewal of magazine subscriptions for the Edgecumbe Orthopedic Ho:spi the Gr Unit | Falls, Montana, Auxili which has a “Coffee Hour” eve. Sunday at the Army Base Hospital | there; participation in ‘the e ments fgy the J liette Lew World Friendship T planned by the Girl Scouts, and the meaking of “cast pants,” with m; terials furnished by the ACCA. Se eral members volunteered their help in the sewing of the cast socks. The Auxiliary will hold their regu- lar meeting tonight at 8 o'clock in the Dugout, and all members are urged to attend. This will be mainly a business session, and will be pre- ceded by an Exeq\lti\'e Committee meeting at 7:30 o’clock. I-'IT FOR A KING BALTIMORE, Md.—“Calvert Reserve | I is custom-made for this King,” dec]ares 1 custom tailor Manny King. “I like | | Calvert best because it makes a better- | tasting highball or cocktail,” he adds. | CALVERT RESERVE -Blended Whiskey —86.8 Proof—65% Grain Neutral Spirits, Calvert Dlsullers Corp New Yol‘x Clty I Studebaker Champion regal de luxe “4-door sedan Deep Sea F TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1950 JOINT MEETING b shermen's Union Fishing Vessel Owners o TONIGHT 8:00 P. M. I.ook AT THESE NEW LOW TRAIN FARES TO California! TO SAN FRANCISCO FROM OneWay Roundtrip VANCOUVER, B.C. $18.20 $32.80 SEATTLE .......15.30 . 27.55 TACOMA.......14.75 2655 PORTLAND. ..... 1200 21.60 Plus 15% federal tax. 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