The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 28, 1950, Page 8

PAGE EIGHT MUSIC FESTIVAL OBSERVANCE HERE MAY6TOMAYS Five Choruses, Three Bands from Southeast Alaska Will Be Heard Juneau will witness a co:orful ob- servance of the National Music ‘Week, May 7-14, with the holding of the Southeast Alaska School Music Festival, from May 6 through May 8. Five choruses and three bands will exhibit their musical talents to the public in individual and combined performances. For these 250 school musicians the oc- casion represents a thrilling point in their careers, one which will provide them musical inspiration and other values lasting a lifetime. Friday afternoon, May 5, 52 stu- dents from Ketchikan arrive via Pan American; and groups from Petersburg and Sitka reach Juneau by boat. The Mt. Edgecumbe chor- us is scheduled to appear some- time around noon Saturday. The Festival will get under way Satur- day afterncon, May 6, with a re- hearsal of a sclected band under the direction of Walter C. Welke of the University of Washington. A similar choral group will be in rehearsal at the same time. Saturday evening at 8 both in- strumental and vocal solo and en- semble events will be held. Sunday afternoon, May 7, begin- ning at 1 o'clock in the high school gym, bands and choruses will per- form three numbers each, adjudi- cated by Mr. Welke. Monday afternooon, May 8, wea- ther permitiing, a massed band parade will be staged. This parade would offer Juneau the unusual spectacle of a hundred piece band composed of musicians from three schocls marching and playing with- et previously training together. The Festival will be concluded Monday evening with a concert by a selected band and chorus. Tickets are on sale at the Alas- ka Music Supply and Harry Race Drug store. The adult ticket of $1.20 and the student ticket of 60 cents admit the holder to any and all events. POPULATION IN ALASKA-MAY REACH 135,000, KEATING Alaska’s populalion may reach as many as 135,000, according to Clar- ence Keating, who is in charge of census taking in the Territory. He arrived in Juneau yesterday after a trip to the Westward on census matters. He said that about 70,000 persons have been enumerated since the nose-counting started May 1, and added that his staff of census takers have accomplished in four weeks person can fill out and send to Washington.” But he added that very few refusals have been met with. Keating also said that the ques- tions asked by enumerators are ac- ; cording to laws of the United States lmu] if persons refuse to answer, the | U.S. Marshal can be summoned to | enforce his authority, “but luckily that has not happened so far,” he added. Keating cited the difficulty ot enumerating in the interior, par- | ticularly, where villages are remote and the weather hazardous. He said, however, that he hoped the census taking could be entirely completed by July 1. WEATHER OBSERVER PUTS LIBRARY FUND TEMPERATURE UP 50 BABY SITTERS: Get together with Ann Nelson and Carol Law- rence to donate proceeds of one | night’s baby-sitting—or a portion o1 ! same—to the library fund. Thirteen igirls are already signed up. Cal | Ann at Red 923 or Carol at Rea 483 to get your name in the group to contribute to this worthy eftor.! Sweet zephyrs blew today in the office of Dr. James C. Ryan, boara member of the Juneau Memoria | Library, and the temperature rose 50—not degrees Fahrenheit, not de- 1 grees centigrade, but degrees dol- lars—in the vicinity of 5th and Mair Streets, where the library will be erected. This donation—in the shape of a cool $50 bill—was placed on Dr. Ryan’s desk by Miss Patricia Burns, observer for the Weather Bureau here. It might have been that “coo: green,” but it was at the melting point for the library fund, the weather bureau girl bringing the fund’s temperature way down. \ Coupled with Miss Burns’s con- | tribution, Miss Edna Bell of Ju- neau walked into the education commissioner’s office a few mo- ments later and laid §25 cash on his desk for the fund. Miss Bell didn‘t identify herself, other than saying she got her mail general delivery. And B. D. Stewart, acting direc- tor of the drive, received a check for $10 from J. A. Noonan, an old- time steward on steamboats plying in and out of town, and now n business here. His contribution was voluntary. These three donations add up to $85 for the day. And that brings the needed money down to $1,049.1¥ —practically on the edge of that last corner to turn. Of the total amount to be ob- tained, this means that $68,952.81 has been collected of the $70,000 needed to erect the library. (How the 81 cents got there no one knows.) This sum will be matched by federal funds through the agency of the General Services Ad- ministration, a body formed to aid in building of structures such as this. Well, who's going to be the one | what it took nearly a year to ac- complish in 1940 when 70,000 popu- lation was Alaska’s total population. The largest problem which con-| fronts the. enumerators is finding| people at home and Keating said cooperation of people, or organiza- | tions, in helping enumerators to locate families would be greatly ap- ' Ppreciated. “Those who do not wish to di- vulge their incomes to enumerators,” he said, “can be furnished with a form by the enumerator which the BRAND NEW POPULAR RECORDS to bring the fund around that last corner? Better hurry! SCOUT OFFICIAL Doremus Scudder, in charge of Boy Scouting in Alaska, was an overnight guest at the Gastineau Hotel. He checked cut this morn- ing and left via Alaska Coastal plane for Ketchikan on Ecout bus- iness. COUNTRY CLUB OPEN Every day at 4 p.m. IN A MYSTERY PACKAGE OF 8 for a DOUGLAS NEWS NO SQUARE DANCE Marjorie Ford, President of the Taku Travelers, reminds all mem- bers of the Taku Travelers Square Dance Club, that there will not be a meeting of the club this week. LAYMAN SUNDAY The Layman Committee of the Douglas Community Methodist Church report that this coming Sunday, April 30, will be “Laymea Sunday.” The regular Church Serv- ices will be at the usual time, 11 o'clock, but will be conducted by the Laymen. On the program are four guest THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA 'PAN AM GROUND CREW STRIKE OFF; MEDIATION WORKS WASHINGTON, April 28 — (&) — A threatened strike by some 3,000 ground crew workers of Pan Ameri- can World Airlines was averted yesterday by agreement on a new contract, . Chairman Francis A. O'Neill, Jr., of the National Medi- ation Board announced. O'Neill said the parties had agreed in principle, the contract remain to be worked out. The Mediation Board, which ad- ministers the Railway Labor Act. speakers from Juneau: Dr. James C. Ryan, Commissioner of Educa- tion; Dr. I. J. Montgomery, Alaska Merit System Supervisor; Maurice F. Powers, Alaska Boy Scout Execu- tive; Jack Popejoy, Juneau City Clerk and Mrs. Wm. H. Kerns ol Douglas. Special music is also being arranged for the services, which js open to all who wish to attend. TROLLER ARRIVES George F. Kenney arrived this week on his troller from Seattle, where he and Mrs. Kenney spent the winter months. Mrs. Kenney will arrive here shortly and the couple will troll in Southeast Alaska for salmon again this year. FIREMEN DANCE SATURDAY Big event in Douglas tomorrow night will be the Annual Spring Dance of the Douglas volunteer fire department, to be held in the Eagles Hall. This is the 52nd Annual Dance held by the depariment. HERRING MEASURE IS UP IN CONGRESS If Representative Hugh B. Mitch- ell's (Washington) H. R. 7553 pass- es Congress, Alaskan herring fish- ermen can join the subsidized ranks along with the farmers. The bill carries a $2,000,000 authorization to carry out the provisions which may ke delegated by the Secretary of Interior to the Fish and Wildlife Service. The object of the legislation is to stabilize the price on herring. The price guaranteed to the fisn- ermen under the provisions shall not be in excess of 90 per cent|pe guig tnat the Commission mem- units they propose to build, and nor less than 60 per cent of the 'y .. " h.g given him authority to the amounts of the loans include: price of sea herring received by producers on the average during the ten-year period preceding the second full calendar year previous to the date of price determination. The biil has been referred to the | House Committee on Banking and Currency. SPORTSMENS’' MEET OFF UNTIL NEXT TUESDAY The meeting of the Territorial Sportsmen, Inc., scheduled for to- night in the city council chambers, uas been postponed until Tuesday at 8 p.m. in the same location, it was announced today. The meeting, to discuss erection of a trap for shooting near Sal- mon Creek and also the coming salmon derby, was postponed be- cause of a special meeting of thel city council for tonight. CDA CARD PARTY Friday, April 28, 8 p.m. Parish Hall Sewing machines ror rent at The 1 CONSULT ATTORNEY GENERAL | press as soch as possible. White Sewing Machine Center. 52-t RCA. COLUMBIA Dollar REMAINING ALBUMS FAR BELOW COST also handles airline labor-manage- ment problems. The dispute of 3,000 mechanics, maintenance and field service men in New York, Miami, Seattle, and San Francisco arose over terms of a new contract. 26 PASSENGERS ON PAAPLANE FOR HERE Twenty-six passengers and thre:| infants were flown from Seattle to| Juneau yesterday via Pan Amzri—‘\ can Airways. They were: i Halbert Anderson, Barmey Bon-| derud, W. F. Calloway, Alice Dal- ziel and infant, Ronald Morris, M.| L. Meuller, Robert Marts, M:s. Charles Owen, Arne Osman, Rich ard Pasciuti, Mrs, Stanley Perr and infant, R. A. Pelkey, Mrs. W. C. Reynolds, Mrs. Fern Smittick, | Gloria Smittick, Tom Tillson, Fran-| cis Ozimek, Cy Poe, Thomas Px'u-‘ dette. Boarding the plane at An- nette for Juneau was W. Carry. | Flying from Juneau to Seaftle; were: Dorothy Novatney, Helen Turner, Lew Clayton, Mrs. Anten | Olson, Manus Bridson, George| Mitchell, Walter Knape, Mrs. W.| Knape, Al Condon. Juneau to| Ketchikan: S. E. Hatlo, Russ Con- | lon, Robert Shapley, Paul Gray. SCHWAMM JUSTIFIES HIRING LEGAL SERVICES; DID NOT In conversation by telephone to Anchorage today with Tony Sch- | wamm, director of the Alaska Aer- ning low-rent projects under the \'onautics Commission, the question | government's public housing pro- of hiring of legal services by the' AAC was justified by Mr, Scwamm. | hire outside talent in order to ex-| pedite the building of airports. | Mr. Schwamm said that he did not think it was necessary to ln-‘ quire from the Attorney Gener- al's office as to whether legal serv- ices should be performed by the! Attorney General's office or by1 outside assistance. i The statement that Schwamm had asked the Attorney General for advice as published in An- chorage newspapers, is unfounded. Schwamm said today that “he had not specifically” asked for advice of the Attorney General Marcus Jensen, member of the 1949 Special House Investlgnting‘ Committe, returned to Juneau Thursday from Anchorage, and in-- formed the Empire that a full re- port would be made through the NO PROMENADER DANCE There will be no meeiing of the Promenaders Square Dance Club on ‘Saturday, April 29. The next meeting will be held on May 6, at the usual time and place. DECCA but that details of| | the Public Housing Administration 50 HOUSING UNITS OKEHED IN JUNEAU DISTRICT BY AHA ANCHORAGE, Alaska, April 28— (P—The board of commissioners of {the Alaska Housing Authority dis- Iclused yesterday it had granted ap- proval for housing projects at Pal- | mer, Cordova and Juneau. Con- struction of 170 dwellings along the | Bering sea coast also has been | 2uthorized | The action took place at the authority’s annual meeting here |last week but was not disclosed until yesterday. | At the same session, Father Paul C. O'Connor of Hooper Bay was | reelected chairman, and Z.' J. Lous- | sac, Anchorage Mayor, was named vice-chairman. Other commission- ers attending were Mrs. Louise | Miller of Ketchikand and Harold Byrd of Flat. The 170-unit program will be lo- cated in six Bering Sea coast vil- lages. It will be carriedsout along the lines of a plan given a suc- cessful trial last year at Hooper Bay. The program calls for improve- ments to existing native homes and construction of new dwellings at an average cost of $375 each. A federal allocation of '$63,300 will-be used by the AHA to buy and take necessary materials to the villages and to instruct natives in methods of construction. Actual construction work will be done by the natives and funds will be repaid by the family over a x-year period. Legal requirements limit loans to $500 each. Ccnstruction projects approved by AHA included: Palmer, 25 single units; Cordova, 12; Dillingham 10; Douglas 25; Juneau. Airport 50; Farbanks, University of Alaska, 6. The poard also notified the Pub- iic Housing Administration of its desire to get low rent housing projects under construction soon at Fairbanks, Juneau and Ketchikan. WASHINGTON, April 28—(MP— President Truman has approved $8,387,800 in loans to local housing autherities in 15 states and Alaska, | announced today. These loans will pay for plan- gram. The communities, the number of Alaska—Anchorage, 150 units and $55,000; Fairbanks, 75 and $30,000; and Juneau, 50 and $20,000. FROM TENAKEE Dermett O'Tcole, of Tenakee, is HAWAII STATEBILLI ALASKA H.R. 331 FOE WASHINGTON, April 28 — (B — A Senate Committee was told to- day the Hawaii statehood bill is much more liberal in the percent- age of land the proposed state would get than is the Alaska state- hood bill. W. C. Arnold, Managing Direc- tor of the Alaska Salmon Industries, Inc., testified that while Alaska would get a maximum of 1,273,283 acres upon admission, Hawaii would get in five years all of the Federal land in that Territory. He said this would amount to 5.5 percent of Hawaii’s total land area or 227,000 acres. On the other hand, he continued, Alaska’s 1273283 acres would amount to less thain two-thirds of one percent of the 365,000,000 acres in that territory. Arnold testified the House-ap- proved Alaska statehood bill is not fair to the Territory and would not accomplish what its proponents hope. He said it would retain Fed- eral control of some 98 percent of the land in the Territory. “It is my view that if statehood is to be forwarded for Alaska,” he said, “the resources must be un- locked.” ROXANA HOLOWKA, BARNEY KANE 10 BE SEEN IN SHOW Those who saw little Roxana Hol- owka dance the Ukrainian “Ho- pak” at the recent grade school operetta, are in store for the treat again when the clever little Miss performs it again at the Rotary Variety Show May, at the 20th Century Theater. Roxana who was born in the Ukraine, will wear an authentic Ukrainian costume. Another dance, sure to please, will be a buck-and-wing by Bar- ney Kane, old time trooper. He is joinin; with “Ras- tus” Passey and Rufus Cheney in to be an act worth szeing. A rehearsal of the speciaity acts for the Variety Shcvv, which is be- ing sponsored by the Rotary Club, ater Sunday afternoon. FROM SEATTLE Guests from Seattle, registered at the Baranof are: Pat Carey, C. M. Ambrose, and J. S. Fry. 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