The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 27, 1950, Page 1

- THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIR “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VGL. LXXIV., NO. 11,438 JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, ¥ 'EBRUARY 27, 1950 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS Two Lose Lives UMW PLEADS, INNOCENT T0 COURT CHARGE Hearing Be@]udge Only| —Recessed fo Allow Ne- gofiations to Continue WASHINGTON, Feb. 27—@— John L. Lewis’ United Mine Work- ers today pleaded innocent to con- tempt charges resulting from the ! failure of 372,000 miners to return to work under court order. The union waived its right to argue its case before a jury, and decided to let Judge Richmond B. Keech rule on the evidence as well as the law. The big question is whether the union is responsible for the retusal of the coal miners to go back to work. Keech issued an order Feb. 11 for a return to work, but the miners have ignored it. The union’s attorneys have con- tended that the miners are acting individually-—that the union itself has nothing to do with the present strike. Point of Famine Once the union’s pleas were for- | mally entered, the government be- gan attempting to show that the[ union is responsible for keeping| the mines idle to the point of a na- tional coal famine. The government had done little more than enter documents in the! case when it asked for a recess until 10:45 a.n. (PST). Government attorneys explained that they wanted to call as witnesses some of the men then engaged in. renewed | contract negotiations. “We don’t want to pull them away from the bargaining negotiations,” Joseph M. Friedman, special assist- ant Attorney General, said. A session of talks between the operators and union representatives had begun at 8 a.m. (PST). Welly K. Hopkins, general coun- sel for Lewis' union, said he was waiving a trial by jury for “reasons which need not be entered in the record in detail.” Pleads Innocent Hopkins then moved that Judge Keech dismiss the proceedings. The Judge immediately denied that motion and Hopkins entered the plea of innocent. The courtroom was crowded, mainly with lawyers, newspaper- men and close associates of the union or operators. A long queue lined up outside the courtroom door. The case came to trial after a week-end of frantic but futile ef- forts to get a settlement of the coal contract dispute that might have let the government drop the charges. Federal negotiators forced a Sun- day session. They kept it running into the early hours of this morn- ing. But the union and the opera- tors could not get together. In the coal fields, meantime, the 372,000 miners doggedly stuck to their refusal to work without a new contract despite the court’s orders and the snow-balling hardship over the country from lack of coal. CONTRACT TALKS RECESSED WASHINGTON, Feb. 27—/@®— Soft coal contract negotiations to-; day were recessed indefinitely but the government kept both parties subject to call for further talks on one hour’s notice. Presidential fact-finder David L. Cole said both sides felt “it would (Continued on Page Six) The Washingion Merry - Go-Round Copyrieht. 1950, by Bell Syndicate, Inc.) Bv DREW PEARSON (Editors’ note: Drew Pearson’s column tochy takes the form of a letter to Secretary of State Dean Acheson on the all-import- ant question of peace in the at- omic-hydrogen race with Rus- sia.) Honorable Dean Acheson, Secretary of State, Wash.,, D. C. Dear Dean: I have been thinking of you a great deal lately—thinking of the very unfair criticism heaped upon (Continued on Page Four) SAYS WOMAN WAS DEAD WHEN DOCTOR GAVE AIR INJECTION MANCHESTER, N.H., Feb. 27— (M—A young nurse testified today she saw Dr. Hermann N. Sander give an air injection to a cancer- stricken woman but admitted sign- ing a statement saying she was “certain” the woman was dead at the time. ” Miss Elizabeth- Rose, a nurse tes- tifying for the prosecution in the mercy killing trial of Dr. Sander, admitted under cross-examination signing the statement: “I am certain that Mrs. (Abbie) Borroto was dead before Dr. San- der entered her room. “She was cold and clammy. She had death pallor. She was not breathing. “If I had to express an opinion of my own apart from what Dr. Snay has said I would say that Mrs. Borroto was dead when Dr. Snay saw her. “Dr. Sander did not Kill her be- cause she was dead when this in- jection was made.” Earlier, she testified Dr. Albert | Snay, another doctor at the hos- pital, examined the woman betore Sander arrived and could find no pulse beat. Dr. Sander is on trial for first degree murder. The state says he in- jected 40 cubic centimeters of air into her veins. Miss Rose said after the injec- tions he turned to her and said he was calling an undertaker. \OLDTIME RIVER BOAT CAPTAIN ENDS HIS LIFE FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Feb. 27— (A—While his wife and a neighbor chatted in the parlor, Capt. Clarence O'Flannigan, 65, went into a bed- roora and shot and killed himself Friday night, police reported. O’Flannigan was a prospector and gold rush river boat captain He had been in ill health the past sev- eral years. He came to Alaska 30 years ago, arriving over the Valdez trail. He switched from prospecting to steam- boat building, his wife often helping to pilot the boats. They built the steamboat Atlas, which carried prospectors and sup- plies to the Tolovana and the Chin- sana districts. O'Flannigan was said to be the only steamboat captain who ever completed the treacherous, difficult journey up the Nebesna river, and one of the few to reach Chisana. Roads, freight trucks and the air- plane business finally doomed his steamboating venture. He lost his boats through financial difficulties. Until his death, O'Flannigan was a boiler fireman at Ladd Air Force base. Mrs. O’'Flannigan reigned as Queen Regent at the winter carni- val last year. O’Flannigan is survived by a sister in his birthdplace, Dallas, Wis. PILOT, CRASHED PLANE, IS FOUND; FEET ARE FROZEN WHITEHORSE, Y.T., Feb. 27— —A para-rescue doctor was ex- pected to jump today to the aid of a light plane pilot who was found alive 90 miles southeast of here yes- terday after his Tiger Moth crashed last Wednesday. An RCAF para-rescue team who jumped to the wreck reported by walkie-talkie radio that the pilot, Morris Grant of Whitehorse, was alive but suffering from frozen feet. His aircraft had crash-landed 5,000 feet up the side of a sharp mountain peak in an area studded by mountains. It was sighted from the air by Norman Peterson, bush pilot trom Carcross, Y.T. STEAMER MOVEMENTS Denali from Seattle scheduled to arrive at 7 am. tomorrow and salls westward at 9:30 am. Princess Norah from Vancouver due tomorrow afternoon or eve- ning. Baranof scheduled to sail from Leattle Saturday. H-Bomb Can Wipe Ouf Man, Says Alfiomislf (By the Associated Press) A top atomic scientist says the| hydrogen bomb could be rigged to create a death cloud capable of killing all the humans in the world. Dr. Leo Szilard, biophysicist at the University of Chicago, and three | other atomic authorities agreed that ! such a bomb could be tirned into a world suicide weapon capable otJ wiping out friend and foe alike. The scientist saw the H-bomb as creating a cloud of radioactive dust which carried everywhere by the| winds would poison the air, seitle to earth and slowly but surely take the life of every man, woman amd| child. | The scientists, at a University of Chicago round table, raised this question: | What would happen in event of | war if the enemy, faced with de-| feat, would threaten to let loose a | hydrogen bomb with all the terrible | potentialities of world suicide? The scientists didn't have an an- swer. The implication was that it| was up to the diplomats to see that | such o situation never comes to| pass. In the face of such a gigantic issue today’s immediate develop- | ments seemed somewhat insignifi- cant. But the diplomats had reports | on the desks from over the world like these: The Soviet Union has underlined | her growing stature as a sea poweri by creating a separate Navy Min-| istry under Adm. Ivan Stepanovich. The Soviet Army and Navy had| been unified four years ago. The new move was designed to give im- | petus to a program which calls for building up to 1,00 Submarines and at least three modern battleships. BRITISH COALITION MAY SMOOTH OVER DEADLOCK FOR TIME LONDON, Feb. 27—®—Strong| hints cropped up today that a Con- | servative-Labor “gentleman’s agree- | ment” may delay a new generai| alection for the next few months. But final decisions are still to be! taken. Such a truce, perhaps unspoken, | would permit the virtually dead- locked House of Commons to deal with pressing problems both at home and abroad. The Communist Daily Worker sourly spoke of al “packdoor coalition” by Labor and | the Tories. 4 Most British newspapers ap-| plauded Prime Minister Attlee’s de- cision to form a new government and attempt to carry on with La- por’s thin overall majority of eight seats. With two districts still unreported, Labor had 315 of the 625 seats. The Conservatives and- allled parties, 295, the Liberals nine, the Irish Na- tionalists two, the Independent Liberals one. The speaker of the House, who votes only in case of ties, is listed as non-partisan. Delayed returns from two remote districts in Scotland gave the Con- servatives and the Liberals one more victory apiece this afternoon. Rebel Leader Turk Weslerlin_g Arrested (By "Associated Press) In Singapore, Capt. R. P. ¥ (Turk) Westerling was under arrest. He is the rebel leader whose forces of deserters from the Dutch Army seized most of west Java's Capital, Bandoeng, in a raid on Jan. 23. Westerling has boasted he could take the Indonesian capital city of Jakarta if he had enough arms. STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Feb. 27—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 3, American Can 112%, Anaconda 30%, Curtiss- Wright 9%, International Harvester 28%, Kennecott 54, New York Cen- tral 13%, Northern Pacific 16%, U. S. Steel 30%, Pound $2.80. Sales today were 1,400,000 shares. Averages today are as follows: PLANS FOR CAUCUS Another meeting of the Republi- can organization was held Sunday for the purpose of perfecting plans for the forthcoming Territorial caucus to be held in Juneau, March 29. Several committees were ap- pointed to deal with the problem of getting preliminary plans for the convention underway. The issues which face the welfare of the Territory were discussed at length. Ways and means were dis- cussed of bringing out in the open errors which were discovered in the recent audit of Territorial accounts. It was felt the long concealed that the audit and recommenda- tions made as a result of such examination should be brought to| the attention of every taxpayer in the Territory of Alaska. The tax- payer has a right by law to know if his tax dollar was spent in ac- cordance with law and the Republi- can party intends that this right shall be restored. | GLACIAL ICE SC0OTS HIM OFF ROAD, BUT PASS NEGOTIATED Driving over 865 miles of the Alaska Road Commission’s highway | system in the dead of winter and going off the road only four times is related by D. H. Miller, chief of | the ARC's adiminstrative division. Miller returned this weekend after a ten-day argosy over the rugged Thompson Pass near Valdez, the Tok Cutoff, the Glenn Highway, and a portion of the Alaska High- | way leading into Fairbanks. Glacial ice, formed by under- ground water seeping to the surface | and freezing, causei the car o skid into no-man’s land, he said. These stretches are perhaps only 20 yards long, or a few feet, but when {a car hits them, everything goes every which way. The pass leading into Valdez was 'negotiswd in good time, and by radio control. Every 20 miles or so a radio station is located on the road, and was a car passes, its time and probable speed are radioed to .'e next station. If the vehicle ! doesn’t show up in the expected | time, a search goes on immediately. In this manner, little danger lies in wait for the winter motorist, Miller said. Snow plows with 11-foot wing blades, and types of rotary klowers are going constantly in the pass, kept clear in a cooperative action by the Alaska Freight Lines and the Road Commission. It has closed briefly only two days this winter. Truck convoys leave Valdez every two hours, and Miller, driven over the entire route by S. L. Lundwall, | commission cost engineer, attached himself to one of these on their northward trek. He flew to Nome and inspected a new depot recently erected there, and while at Fairbanks he looked over ship facilities. LEE FUNERAL RITES T0 BE HELD TOMORROW Funeral services for Jack Irwin Lee, 68, who died February 19 =t Funter Bay, will be held in the chapel of the Charles W. Carter Mortuary at 2 p.m. tomorrow. The service will be conducted by Major Eric Newbould of the Salva- tion Army. Interment will be in Evergreen Cemetery. Mr. Lee was born in Aberdeen, SD. He was a veteran of World War I In 1932 he came to Funter Bay and fished and trapped in the vicinity until the time of his deat Mineral Bill Is Turned Down, Com. WASHINGTON, Feb. 27—#—The House Rules Committee today re- fused to approve a bill designed 0 stimulate exploration and conser vation of critical minerals throu an incentive payment program. The vote by which the committee declined to clear the measure for House action was reported as 6 t0 6 tie. ; The bill passed the Senate last year. 4 Mrs. Evangeline Atwood of An- chorage arrived yesterday to at- tend a meeting of the Territorizl industrials 204.33, rails 55.49, util- ities 42.81, Board” of Public Welfare. She IS a guest-at the Baranof Hotel. SIR HARRY LAUDER | PASSES AWAY, HIS - HOMEIN SCOTLAND STATHAVEN, Scotland, Feb. | Sir Harry Lauder, the beloved | Scottish comedian, has gone roamin {in the Gloamin' for the last time. | | He died st night at the age of 79 after an illness of many months. | sir Harry, whose twinkling eyes | jand broad baritone made him| known in both the United States | {and Europe for half a century, suf- fered from arterio-thrombosis (an | arterial blood clot) complicated by kidney ailments. He was near death last August, but rallied and for weeks appeared greatly improved The man who wrote “Roamin’ in {the Gloamin and turned it al-| mest into a folksong in popularity, drove himself with public appear- ances until last year. Then on the | re] ed advice of doctors he re-| luctantly announced his retirement at Lauder Ha,' his spacious home |in Lamarkshire. « ! I suppose a man can't go on | forever—though I'd be perfectly willing to,” he remarked. H | This last trip to America was| in:.x\h‘ in 1937, iTacom"a Dodor Falls ' ToDeath from Hotel SEATTLE, Feb. 27 — (® — The pajama-clad body of a man identi- | fied as Dr. Thomas Benjamin Cur- | ran, 75-year-old retired Tacoma physician, was found on a side- walk outside the New Washington hotel early today. Coroner’s deputies said he appar-! | ently fell to his death from a win- dow on the 10th floor. Papers in his room showed he also rowned a home in Victoria, B.C. RESCUE TWO FROM CRIPPLED PLANE - DOWN ON GULF | | i VANCOUVER, BC., Feb. 27—/M— A German-born scientist, Capt. Al- bert Wehner, was rescued Saturday night from a crippled amphibious plane in the Gulf of Georgia. He and his pilot, Lawrence Man-{ | tie ‘of Vancouver, were picked up | by the S.S. Princess Elizabeth atter | drifting five hours on the chuppyv | wind-swept waters. They had drifted imore than 15 miles to sea. Pilot Mantie put his plane down when it developed fuel trouble on |a flight from Nelson Island, where Capt. Wehner lives, to Vancouver, | a distance of about 50 miles. | PATSY ANN GOFORTH | HONORED AT PARTY, | SIXTEENTH BIRTHDAY | On her sixteenth birthday, Miss Patsy Ann Goforth was honored | yesterday at a surprise dinner nnd’ | theatre party given by her mother, | | Mrs. John Parmenter. A huge, beau- | tiful birthday cake with 16 candles | | centered the dinner table in the iParmenter home, and places Were marked with clever candy doil imnde by the hostess. | Later Miss Goforth, a freshman | at Juneau High School and her school friends attended the Capi- tol Theatre for a showing of “Little | Women.” | Guests were Misses Audrey Feero, Janet Schultz, Gladys Uggen, Be- ‘,unda Clark, Mary Nordale, Marilyn | Crooks, Marlene and Paulinc | Greenwaid and Joan Kassner. i SEATTLELITE HERE Peggy Penrose of Seattle is a guest at the Baranof Hotel SON FOR BUCKNERS of Juneau became the parents of a son early this morning at St. Ann’s Hospital. The child, born at a.m., weighed nine pounds eight ounces. HANSON SUED FOR WAGES DUE DURING FISH SEASON Magnus Hanson, Juneau fishing boat owner, found himself defend- ant in a suit filed today in district court by A. J. Martin, who alleged work performed as a fisherman and seaman during the fishing sea- son ending August 1, 1949. Martin, through. his attorney, William L. Paul, Jr.,, demands pay- ment of this sum plus court costs. that Hanson owed him $29533 for | STATEHOOD BATILE UP THIS WEEK House Is Ex_p—eded fo Pass Legislation - Senate Shows Opposition By CHARLES D. WATKINS WASHINGTON, Feb. 27—M--Be- | fore this week ends, proponents of statehood for Alaska hope to nave half of their long Congressional battle won, They see a good chance the bill | will clear the House this week and go over to the Senate side where | the struggle will be renewed before the Senate Interior Committee. Speaker Rayburn (D-Texas) an- nounced last week the bill would be taken up in the House Tuesday or Wednesday. When this is disposed of the House then will turn to an- other measure granting statehood to Hawaii. Delegate Bartlett of Alaska said today he does not expect the Alaska statehood bill to run into any serious opposition in the House. Proponents of the measure are not so cheerful about what may happen in the Senate. Bartlett appealed by mail to ev- ery Representative in Congress for a favorable vote on the enabling bill, citing “overriding national in- terests” and continental security from enemy attack as paramount reasons for Alaska statehood. He said that Alaska is suffering economically as well as politically because of the curbs upon its self government, “Many thousands of ~Americans there have been and are being de- nied fundamental rights of Ameri- can citizenship,” he said. “Alaska is prohibited from regu- lating the use of the resource which {orms the basis for the area’s most Important industries—fisheries,” the letter stated. “These are entirely under the control of the govern- ment. Under this control there has occurred an .alarming deple- tion of Alaska's salmon run.” The Delegate pointed out that laws enacted by the Territorial Legislature are subject to veto by a Federally appointed Governor and the National Congress. Sen. Warren G. Magnuson (D- Wash) said yesterday he would urge Sen. Joseph C. O'Mahuney! (D-Colo), committee chairman on| Interior and Insular Affairs, to} hold immediate hearings if the House bill is passed. The Senate Committee had pigeon-holed state- hood legislation sponsored by 20 Senators for nearly a year. Magnuson said he would also sug- zest that the committee substitute the House measure for the long- stymied Senate bill to expedite en- actment Convention Called The bill "provides that all of Alaska including a distance of one marine league from the coast line shall become the state of Alaska. | If the bill clears the Senate the next step would be a constitution ! convention. This convention would be composed of 26 delegates from the Territory’s four judicial divi- sions who would be elected within eight months after enactment of the bill. The bill also provides: Delegates must meet at Juneau stitution. The people would vote on the con- stitution in from 75 to 100 days from adjournment of this conven- tion. If a majority favor its adoption the Governor is required to notify the President. The latter then would notify the Governor if the consti- tion at which a Governor, members of the State Legislature, one Rep- resentative and two Senators would | be chosen. Deemed Admitted The Governor would certify the result of the election to the Presi dent, who then would issue a proc- lamation that the state shall be deemed admitted to the union and its chosen candidates entitled to sit in Congress. The bill reserves to the United States land it holds now in the Ter- ritory except that Alaska as a state would be granted four sections in each township for support of its public schools and one section in (Continued on Page Six) the first Tuesday after the 90th day | after their election to adopt a con- | tution meets requirements. Then | Mr. and Mrs, Frank Buckner|the Governor would call an elec- | Library Fund, Ferry Drive ~HitSeaitle Heinizlemafi N. W to Raise Funds, Investi- gate Car Ferry Start SEATTLE, Feb. 27—(®—It should be possible to drive your automo- bile onto a seagoing ferry in Scat- tle and drive it off in Southeast Alaska, B. Frank Heintzleman said here yesterday. The Chambers of Commerce of Juneau and other Alaska cities want to see that become a reality and Heintzleman has promised to survey the possibilities while “out- side.” . Another thing he has to do is try to raise a portion of $10,0.0 here from merchants, wholesale houses and industrialists having commercial relations with the Ter- ritory, to help Juneau build a lib- rary. The town itself has raised $60,000 and $70,000 is anticipated {in matching funds ffom the Federal {Public Works program authorized by the last Congress. Both undertakings were accepted by Heintzleman because he had to come outside anyway on his annual mission to Washington, D. C, to be on hand when Interior Depart- ment appropriations are taken up by Congress. He is Regional For- (ester for the Territory. “Alaska now has 2,600 miles of highway into the Interior, and a lot of it is being blacktopped by the Alaska Road Commission,” Heintzleman said, More Tourists Seen “Alaskans feel that many more tourists would come up if they could drive their cars right onto- a ferry, and have them there to {use when they got off. We under- stand such ferries are operating between the Hawailan Islands, be- tween Miami and Cuba, and be- tween Boston and New Brunswick. “Many might like to make a circle tour, coming back by way of the Alaska highway. The Hart highway, Prince George to Dawson, Is ex- pected to be opened this summer, cutting off 500 miles, and making it unnecessary to go through Ed- monton.” Heintzleman said he doubted that flat-bottomed ferries of low free- board, like the old Golden Gate fleet, would do, even if converted |to staterooms. He pointed out they would have to cross open water in Queen Charlotte Sound. Some- thing like the Puget Sound Naviga- tion. Compafy’s motor vessel Chin- ook would be necessary. Heintzle- man will confer with steamship iines here on the possibilities. Regarding Juneau’s library, Heintzleman said it is now housed in two inadequate rooms in the city hall. He will ask the Carnegie Foundation in New York to help stock the proposed new library. The Sears Roebuck Foundation has agreed to supply books for a circu- lating library, he said. They would be carried to small fishing and In- dian villages by the small boats operated along the Alaska coast by public agencies, Rotary clubs of Juneau and Ketchikan are co- sponsoring this, s | TIDE TABLGE FEBRUARY 28 Low tide 4:56 am., 64 ft. High tide 10:56 a.m., 14.1 ft. Low tide 5:45 pm., 08 ft. s0e0cesce . . D . o . . . e 0o o0 0 o 0 0 s o ® W o v o 8 o 8 ¢ | WEATHER REPORT In Juneau—Maximum 35; minimum *31. At Airport—Maximum 35; minimum 30. FORECAST (Junesu and Vielaity) Cloudy with occasional light snow flurries tonight and Tuesday. Lowest temper- atures tonigt about 33, highest Tuesday near-38. PRECIPITATION {Past 24 nours ending 7:30 & m. today City of Juneau—.02 inches; since Feb. 1—3.14 inches; since July 1—58.25 inches. At Airport—Trace; e since Feb. 1-2.08 inches; o since July 1—38:51 inches. e 0 0 0 00 0 0 00 In Cabin. Blaze on Highway REPUBLICANS MEET, BUDROSS, WIFE, DIE IN FLAMES Charred Re;;ins of Well- Known Couple Found in Ashes of Cabin A man and his wife were burned to death yesterday morning when fire of undetermined origin roared through a log cabin on Glacier Highway, over three miles from Ju- neau. The cabin, set back 50 feet from the highway and surrounded by a grove of trees, was a furnace of flame by the time the blaze was | discovered shortly before 9 a.m. neighbors said. First alarm was sent in by Ralph Randall, a fisherman, who was driving by. He said he saw smoke billowing from the house. He tried to enter, but the heat—"like a tur- nace"—drove him back. He then went to the Johnson Home on the highway and phoned the Juneau fire department. The Juneau fire department with one truck, answering a 2-9 alarm rushed to the scene but could not fight the flames effectively because the fire had progressed too far. Ammunition exploding also kept those who would have fought the fire away from the house. Charred Remains The charred remains of Marvin B. (Bud) Ross, 39, and his wife Shirley, 42, were found in the ashes of the cabin at 4 p.m. by Deputy U.S. Marshal Walter G. Hellan and Alaska Highway Patrolmen. Sam" Paut J¥., ‘drivér of the Ju- neau fire truck which answered the alarm, said the cabin was nearly consumed by the flames when the firemen arrived at 9:25. He said it was impossible to determine the cause of the fire, “We couldn’t get within 100 feet of the cabin because of the intense heat,” he said. Neighbors said that even the first people to reach the scene of the blaze could not approach the front of the house because of the heat. However, one of them managed to turn off the oil at the outside fuel tank at the side of the cabin. One neighbor, D. W. Mahoney, said that it was not known at first that anyone was in the blaz- ing cabin. The Ross’ car, usually parked in front of the cabin, was gone, But a search revealed that Mr. and Mrs, Ross had left their car in front of the Baranof Hotel after attending a party and had gone home early Sunday mornipg in a taxi. ‘The driver of the cab, Gordon At- kinson, reported he took them to their cabin on the highway, leaving Juneau at 6:32 a.m. Remains Found Remains of one of the couple was found in what had been the rear of the house, according to Hellan. It was assumed to be that of Mrs. Ross because of a woman’s wrist- watch found nearby, Hellan said. The second body was found near where the front door had been. Neither could be positively identi« fied. Only the fireplace and chimney and part of the front steps of the cabin were left standing after the fire, The remains of Mr, and Mrs. Ross were taken to the Charles W. Qarter Mortuary. Both Employed Here Mrs. Ross had been employed for | nearly a year as a Fiscal and Bud- get Clerk in the office of the Gov- | ernor of Alaska. She was born in Niagara Falls, N.Y., and was gradu- | ated from the Niagara Falls High | School and the Brockport Teachers College, Brockport, N.Y. { She had been a swimming in- structor and school teacher in Niagara Falls. She joined the De- partment of the Interior here in 1946, working for the Fish and ‘Wildlife Service until last year. Mr. Ross had worked as clerk in the custodian's office of the Fed- eral Building for four years. Born in Coeur d'Alene, Ida. he served | in the Army during World War II. Prior to coming to Juneau, Mr., and Mrs. Ross had resided in Ko- diak, Alaska. Mr. and Mrs. Ross had been re- ‘deeor-nnl their log cabin for sev- (Caontinued on Page Six) s e