The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 18, 1950, Page 6

PAGE SIX HAROLD JOHNSON* THESE DAYS --BY-- GEORGE k. SOKOLSKY THE FIFTH MAN A very fiice young man, a student of economics, dropped in to see me. | He was the census taker. He wanted a list of all who, | ive here, which I gave him, Two | | person in my family are Nisei, that is, American citizens of Jap- anese ancestry. < To me, and ac- | cording to the law, they are Ameri- : | cans. He wanted to know what they were by race. Before I % > s would tell him what they are by |race, I wanted to know why he did has SWitChed to .Inot ask me what I am by race, or Calvert Reserve because¢ iy wite or children. “Calvert’s better taste \1 If he got into that, | makes it a better buy.” |, logy because we have more races *of Waterbury, Conn. |ef man around here than the CALVERT RESERVE Blended Whiskey | United Nations! —86.8Proof—65% Grain Neutral Spirits | Tpen I renlized e Calvert Distillers Corp., New York Clty |\ onist was only peiting seven —— “The thinking fellow Calls a YELLOW?* PHONE 22 OR 14 FOR A YELLOW CAB The Triangle Cleaners Spots hefore your eyes? You got ‘em We cure ‘em O “for better appearance” |so 1 he would ve to take a course in anthro- by five. That must be where the| census got the idea of 'questions of every fifth person. Information You Give to the Census-Taker is... NTIAL! ST Every American citizen should know that all personal information given to the U. S. Census is confidential—under the law! It is not available to any individual or to any other Government agency! Not to the Income Tax Office! Not to the Depart- ment of Justice—not even the F.B.I! Not to anybody! Uncle Sam takes the Census—not to pry into your past and present—but to help Like other American business firms, we believe that business has a responsibility to contribute fo tiie pulilic welfare. This advertisement is therefore sponsored by DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE RICTLY C ONFIDE | cents a name and that he was not respensible for the dopey questions. let it go. But he sure got mixed up when I told him that T have three ‘chil- dren Then he asked me how maeny were born to my wife. Be- ing an absolutely truthful person, I replied, ' “two.” Now he could not ask me where the other one came ircm because I am not the fifth person. He is required to ask certain questions only of every fif- th person. So, the record does not show where the third child came from— must be a cabbage. I have used the “statistical ab- stract of the United States” these many years, but if they gather their statistics the way I saw it, then never again! The Chinese used to get their population, by counting chimneys and multiplying Then he wanted to know what I did most of last week. I could| not tell him, I did somz things last week of a very confidential nature. The constitution guaran- tees me the right to pursue happi- ness. The censls taker exy he was not concerned with that.| So it turned out that what he teally wanted to know was weath- er I worked or was unemployed and T wanted to know why he did not ask me just that He never asked me how long I was married to the same woman, that probably being reserved for the fifth person But he did want to know what my wife was doing last year. So I said that so far as I know she was my wife. That was apparently not the answer ex- pected. He went at it another way to discover whether she was ained that unemployed. I insisted that ali wives are unemployed. They ought =2 gcz a salary. They might ask for a 40-hour| week. That would be troublesome, | {ime and a half. And is it work| if a wife has to go to a show | hurt.” i J. Albert Guay is under sentence | THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA TRAGEDY S AVERTED BY LAST SECOND (Continued from Page One) | i i Grant told him most of the debts| were incurred in connection with a paternity suit involving her hus- band in New York several years| ago. | Grant during the wdr was an en- | gineer for Douglas Aircraft Corp., specializing in DC-6's. Statement Made For the past 11 months he had| been employed as a laboratory tech- | Co., near the airport. “I'm a sick man,” Detective Logs- | don quoted Grant. “I just lost my | nerve. My wife and my youngsten{ 's not their fault. I'm glad it| turned out this way. No one was The plot recalled the traged Sept. 9 when a Canadian Pacific Air Liner with 23 aboard exploded | in the air 40 miles from Quebec. | of death for planting a time bomb on the Capadian plane to Kill his wife in a love triangle and to col- lect her insurance. WATCH , April 18—(P—A suicide watch was placed, on John N. Grant today as police advanced a love triangle theory for the near- bombing of a plane carrying 16 persons, including his wife and two ccd under strict fcund he had torn strips of cloth from his jail- cell mattress in an attempt to make a noose, Detective Jack Guldstone hat she doesn’t like because the husband likes it? And how much shculd she be paid for saying that t is a good show just to please; 2im? 3 i At seven cents a name, the young | man could not tell me. He only| could ask what they asked him to| sk and that was unimportant. Of course, while he did not HSki ne whether I was married or| ingle or diverced, he did have an tem about electric lights, radio and ‘similar trivia. i I vclunteered the information that we have a dog, but he was 10t interested. I thought that that nisht get him another seven cents.! 3ut he did want to know what our’ zas and electricity bill was. I said to him: “As one who has! o deal with statistics, I find that] ou did nct ask one important (uestion. Except for your listing of he names, there is no accuracy have to deal with vital statistics | laily. Yet, you are not gathering hem. You have not asked me, 10w maiy wives I have had or how | lenz I have been married. Asking! that of every fifth person doei not help, An average is useless i n such matters. We need iactsl ind we are paying for facts. When your census bureau issuesJ hem as facts, they will be approx-l mations only. They might even .ead to false conclusions. You as| in econcmics student ought to re- alize that.” But . . . . seven cents a name! SCHWINN BIKES AT MADSEN'SJ RAILROAD PLANS TO ALASKA T0 BE REVIEWED SOON WASHINGTON, Apr Conference to discuss what is be- ing done to work cdut an agree- ment with Canada for construction | cf a railroad from the United Slates ‘to Alaska will be held at tae Capitol Wednesday. Senator Magnuson (D-Washd said Saturday the conference will go into all details of what vari departments have accomplished. President Truman asked the In- terior, State and Defense Depart- nts to study the subject. W, E.| rne, Assistant Secretary of In-! torier, is chairman of the gover rient committee. He called conference for Wednesday. Fresh Milk Sale | Banned in Manila MANILA, April 18 — (® — The| Health Department at Baguio, Phil- | ippines summer capital, today ban- ned sale of all fresh milk. Twenty- five persons became seriously ill, ‘he department said, from ice cream made of fresh milk containing DDT powder. 18 — (M v the | you and the leaders in industry, business, labor and civic groups in plan for the future! Better schools, better rozds, better parks, playgrounds . . . better housing and hos- pitals . . . better distribu ices as telephones, electr water . . . fair representation in Congress —and many other things dependent on the Census. Do your part! your community tion of such serv- ic power, gas and you profit by—are ‘ | ciromium and other minerals. nician at Airesearch Manufacturing !, ALASKA ONLY 497 MAPPED; 5.E. AREA SURVEY COVERED WASHINGTON, April 18 — (® — Alaszka is described as the nation’s biogest “blind spot” in the mapping of mineral wealth in a U.S. Geo- Survey report. Dr. William E. Wrather, director of the survey, added in his annual report to the Secretary of Interior, however, that notable progress is made in Alaska studies in the interest of continental defense. He said there is a “pressing need” for geological survey work in Alaska in the search for coal, platinum, “Only about 49 percent of the Territory has been geologically map- i by reconnaissance methods,” he i, “and only a fraction of on cent has been mapped in detail ‘The area in which petroleum may be found is more than 250,000 cuare miles and yet only 11,000 square miles have been mapped on an adeguate scale.” : In topographich mapping of sur- face features such as hills, lakes | and rivers, a long-range program is being coordinated with the National Military ~ Establishment civilian gencies and the Alaska field com- mittee, the director said. Southeast Alaska was govered completely by pping photography in coopera- n with the U.S. Navy. Cooperating with the Defense Department, the geological surveys branch of military geology last year conducted an intensified study of Alaskan permafrost, Dr. Wrather reporied. This is ground perpeti- Wiy frozen and thawing occasion- ally for only a few inches on the surface. per of the others, will help sclve one ot the most serious problems in hu- man cancer. This problem is find- ing the pecple with cancer *early snough to cure them by surgery cr X-rays, the standard cures now. The new test was described yes-!| terday to the American Association | for Cancer Research by a team of four scientists from the University of California at Los Angeles and the Veterans Administration hos- pital in Los Angeles. They are Drs. H. S. Penn, George C. Hall, A, H. Dowdy and A. W. Bellamy. The test mixes human blood serum with the extract from the livers of people who had cancer. The test indicates cancer if solid particles form and the cloudy solu- tion becomes clear. It was tested on 4,500 people. 19 YEARS IN 'LUNG' ENDS WITH DEATH; SWEET PASSES ON POUGHKELFSIE, .Y, April 18| —(M—Death yesterday took 32-year- | old Birdsall Sweet out of the iron | lung that kept him breathing dur- ing 19 years of polio. | FOR SALE |DOUGLAS: ALMOST NEW 3-bedroom home; beautiful view; hardwood floors, garage. BUILDING suitable for business and apartment combined; center of business district. |NEW, F.HA. financed, 2-bedroom home; unfurnished. 2-BEDROOM furnished; full con- crete foundation; near bus facil- ities. |JUNEAU: $3,750 takes small, 2-bedroom home, completely furnished. $7,500—1-bedroom home beautitully furnished; excellent view. 2-BEDROOM home adjacent small boat harbor; furnished. BEACH PROPERTY: Well constructed, completely fur- nished beach cabin; wonderful view. to | ACREAGE: About 8 miles from Juneau, good He had lived in an iron lung; longer than any other human in| medical history. The next longest | case was 15 years. | The young man’s release came at | e end of a slow decline that be- gan last summer and grew more serious two months ago. Doctors | called it “complications of long-l th established polio.” Sweet’s father and mother, who| spent a good part of their own liv serving their imprisoned son, were | with him when he died. ! “They have been -a marvelous! aitentive family,” the physician, C(RACK GAMBLERS' COMMUNICATIONS, URGES McGRATH WASHINGTON., April 18 — (@ — Attorney Genera: McGrath said to- day that big time gamblers appar- ently have moved into amateur and professional sports with large scale operations. He urged that Congress crack down on the organized gamblers by forbidding the sending of gambling information acr state lines. McGrath testified before a Sen- ate Commerce subcommittee. The group is considering a bill to ban interstate transmission of gambling information. Favoring the measure, McGrath said Congress could give horse race bookmakers a “knockout blow” by denying them the use of telephone, tefegraph and radio -information needed in their operations. In addition to illegal bookmak- ing, the gamblers “have apparently moved into large erations in such a fessional events as baseball, basket- ball and football,” McGrath said. He added: “It is fairly obvious that none of these betting opera- tions of any size could be main- tained without teiephone, telegraph and other rapid transmission facili- ties.” BLOOD TEST WILL DISCOVER CANCER, SCIERTISTS FlitD ATLANTIC CITY, .J. April 18 —IM—A new blood test is 98.6 per- cent accurate in detecting the pre- sence of cancer, four researchers | have reported. ‘The test is one of a half dozen new ones, all based on tindings that cancer does something to human blood. ‘The hope is that this test, or one E20tt Lord Smith, said. The father, | Percy Sweet, is a Beacon, N.Y., real estate man. FOR SALE FORD V-8 sedan, 30,000 mi. Body | near perfect. 'No rust, motor ex- | cellent, new 6-ply tires. $550.00 | Phone 721, 81-4t | ACRES, 4 rms. and bath, fire- | place, 650 ft. beach. See Robert | Parker 2 miles Nerth of Douglas Eridze 81-3t DOWNTOWN waterfront property, | reasonably priced. Inquire at ¢ S'N'T Clothing Store, 177 S. Franklin. 81-6&; ALUMINUM Double Tub, daven-| rort, matching chair, reasonable. Call Black 447 anytime 8 am. to 10 pm. 80-2t | WANTED APARTMENT wanted for Alaska Coastal employee and wife, | Write Empire C 1788, 73-6t VHY F contractor’s prices? Re- roof with aluminum shingles at actual cost. Warde A. Johnson.| Ph. 81. 66-1mo EMPLOYED couple and one child | need apt. cr hoyse in Juneau| or Douglas. Ph. Douglas 145. 6—4[‘ DAY NURSERY-—Mothers care for your small child. Mrs. Wm. Pas- | sey. Ph. 938. 106-21‘ LOST AND FOUND | OST—Sia Bay area. Loop Rd lese female cat, Auke Reward. G. E. Libby, | 81-1t FOUND—1 brass key, owner may have same by identifying and paying for adv. r | FOUND—Bracelet, owner may | claim same by identifying and| paying for adv. FOR RENT STEAMHEATED Rooms, weekly or Monthly. Colonial Rooms. 69t There is no substitute for GOOD Plastering For expert, distinctive plastering . . . with the plaster that INSULATES . . . call 15 yrs. experience MY Your Deposits SAFE D STATES DS ARKE ‘BUY and HOLD UNT SAVINGS BO. T HE mansgement of this bank is pledged to conserva- tive operstion. The safecy FIRST NATIONAL BANK ot JUNEAU, ALASKA MEMBER FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION nlcn ,Phone Douglas 21 ot DEPOSITS IN THIS BANK ARE INSURED house. BOATS: 26-foot cabin cruiser; new Chrysler! 110 Crown motor; sell or trade for car or beach property. 4 THE CLARICE—can be seen for} w days at small boat harbor. MURPHY & MURPHY REALTORS - ACTOUNTANTS Phone 676 over Frist Nattonal Bank FOR SALE ] 1 UNIV. MARINE ENG. used 2 seasons, 25 H. P. with 2% reduc- tion, $300." 2 6-volt batteries, $10 | each. 1 Northill anchor with 6 fathcms % chain and 18 fath- | cms Manila line, $30. 150 ft steel | trclling line, $15. Inquire care- taker at Shrine Island, Mile 24, Glacier Highway. 81-6t TRANSFER BUSINESS, includes, | 1 G.MC. Pick-up Truck, 1 Inter- { national, 1 l.-ton Truck, and| Road. FPuli basement, four bed- % 1 Dodge Dump Truck. For in-| rooms, view, Owner finance, i formation write to Box 27,{6th at KENNEDY—3 bedroom, '3 - Haines, Alaska. 81-6t | children’s play rooms separute, © REA BUILDING at Auke Lake will be sold to the highest bid- der for cash at 2 p.m. Saturday, April 22, 1950. Sale to be held on the premises and successful?! bidder will be, required to remove | structure and clean up wikhlni 30 days. 81-4t ACCORDIQN~Tuprani 120 bass, 3 will sell $135. Red 690 80-6t } e R AR R e GOOD VIEW HOUSE with small apt. 3 lots, Write Empire C 791. reascnably priced. 80-tf 4 ROOM partically furn. house 3:4 acres pat land Auk Bay. Jake Hendricks, 80-tf FOR SALE OR LEASE: 105 ft.‘ Power Barge. For information Air-Mail Power Barge—Box 927 Anchorage, Alaska. 80-3t DON'T BUY a sales talk. Reroof with beautiful aluminium shingles at actual cost of material and labor—Warde A. Johnson, Ph. 81. | 22ft. 6 in. fast Runabout. 6 ft. beam. Port Orford cedar planking. Oak frames. 90 hp Flagship Marine Engine. Com-~ pletely refinished, overhaul- . . . . . L] . ed. Box 314. Ph. 817. T1-tf ® . . 26 ft. SPARTON MANOR 3-room trailer-house. Has everything in it. Gocd condition. Priced right. Ph. 817. T1-tf L i |HIGHWAY home, Mile 16. Make offer. Ph, 707. TWO BEDROOM home. 62-t Well fur. recently refinished inside and out. Reasonable—Call Douglas 232. 78-6t KNOCK DOWN FREEZER, 12 ft by 16 ft, York Machine. $500. down, balance monthly. George Bros. T1-12¢ 14x5 one year-old $275.00 Skiff for $100. Call Green 332 evenings. T7-6t 1 BARBER CHAIR, 1 wash bowl, Inquire Smiley’s Pool Hall. 74-1mo. 1940 5 PASSENGER Chevrolet con- vertible, radio, heater, good con- dition. Call Red 904. 72-t1 CRESENT Apartments. Cali 428 68-t! el Sl A AR AN R+ B 1948 GMC % ton pickup, 4 speed transmission, 8 ply tires, 8 ft. bed, deluxe cab, must go. Make offer. Ph. 707. 56-tf ' SEVERAL Large ana Small Dia- monds. Perfect stones. Bargal. prices at the First Nationa! Bank. 35 u LARGE SIZE Lang restauranm range. Contact Cleo Comers at City Dock. 460-t1 W-A=N-T A-D-S I i {NEW LISTINGS—2 bedroom, re- TUESDAY, APRIL 18, 1950 FOR SALE NEW LISTINGS—Seatter Tract, two houses, $12,000 for both. Front house 3 bedrooms, living- A room, diningroom, sunporch,/ backporch, large kitchen. Hous¢ in rear has 2 apartments, 2 bed* rcom and one bedroom. Besu- tiful view. Income from all “three $150. Move into any part and let the property buy itself. NEW LISTING—920 12th St, Two houses, one bedreom each. Paf- % ly filled. ‘Good business location Or home, between new s¢hool site and planned ahoppin’ center. $6,000. NEW PRICE—2.mi. Glacier High- remodeled, furnishedf basement way, 2 bedrooms, r furnsss, e large yard on bDeach. $6,500. n Terms, 2 BEDROOM—1 year old. Pri vately bullt home on Behrends Ave. Unfurnished but with full electric kitchen equipment. ' Fire- place Medium priced. Terms. BUILDING LOTS—Cedar tract and the highlands. A good choice is still available. , APARTMENT HOUSES—8 to 4 units, A financial is available to responsible parties showing in- vestment return on these prop- erties. WILLIAM WINN Office in Alaska Credit Bureau BUILDING LOTS—Four Ilots at 6th and Park. Two lots adjacent, - 1 block above boat shop, Greek - Church site, $600. Douglas one lot across Douglas school, basement already dug, $1000. Three within block DeHart’s store at Auk Bay, $1,000 and $1,500. modeled beick home, 2 mi. Gla- cier hichway. Basement, view windows, furnished. $7,000. NEW TERMS--$1,500 down, $100 month, takes $5,800 house Basin s large livinzroom, diningroom, din- % ette. An cld fashioned, comfort- ab.e house, swings and séndpl]e for kids. Across street from pub- ic playground. 2 blocks from ial, 4 blocks from schoolg. View of harbor. $8,600. VERY SMALL one person house, Basin Road. $2,250 cash or $2,- i 350 terms. . W i Eh“ SUMMIER CABIN with baach Ty A3 Cove, $2,400. BEACH HOME, fireplace, 2 bed- rooms, basement, -large yard, . workshop, modern kitchen ana bath. Make offer. g ELFIN COVE, 4 rooms, dock, $1,400, ' DOUGLAS PLAYGROUND, remod- eled Spruce Corp. house, 2 bed- rooms, livingroom, kitchen, bath, storm windows. Nice bright little house for only $4,500. f 1948 HUDSON COMMODORE, 4! door Sedan, cost $2,983. 5 rew tires, new upholstery, new puint, new valves, springs and guides. Trans. and clutch overhauled, $1,- 425, this week only. 36 FOOT TROLLER, 9 ft. beam, double ender, 30 Palmvar en- gine. ONLY $2,500 for qrick sale' —owner has job in Anchorage ‘waiting. i SMALL HOUSE to be moved. 10x13; suitable for short batchelor or: tall kid. Can be moved on truch $75. NEW MAYTAG, new THOR wash- ing machines; new EUREKA vac- o uum cleaner; new QUAKER and DUO THERM ranges; ALL SIZ- ES WINDOWS, DOORS, BATH TUBS. f CHARCOAL BROILER for 8 steaks ideal for summer cabin or home or restaurant. $175. PETER WOOD SALES AGENCY SEWARD AT MARINE WAY Telephone 911. SARSEEN AL el i s By BABIES and small children cared for in my home, day, week or month. Call Black 212. = 81-5t COAST GUARD officer, wife and two children. Desire to rent fur- ! “ nished or unfurnished apt. or house, occupancy June 15th. Call Blue 954. 80-tf COMPETENT STENOGRAPHER in private business office. Best, o3 hours and pay. Write Box 797 Empire, giving age and qualifi- s cations. 80-4t b YOUNG COUPLE urgently neeq ‘M furn. apt. or house, Krasilovsky *¢ 123 after 6. 80-6 MISCELLANEOU — e “THE BAHA'I faith is not an in- vitation to a new religion; it is a call to religious unity.” For lit- erature Box 992 Mountain View, Alaska. M. 8. RELIANCE, 52 ft. motor safl‘- er, diesel powered. See at end float No. 1, small boat harbor. 11% FLAT BOTTOM red cedar skiff with oars $45.00. Write Box 2353 or phone 38 16-t4 S SRR ONE INNER spring mattress, like new. Ph. Douglas 343. 69-tf GUARANTEED Realistic Perman- ent, $7.50. Paper curls $1 up, Lola's Beauty Shop, Phone 201 315 Decker Way.