The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 31, 1950, Page 8

PAGE EIGHT SEARCH FOR PLANE [SHOFNER RESIGNS IN ARCTIC, PART OF | ASMUSIC DIRECTOR SERVICEEXPEDITION! OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS ! Joseph M. Shofner announces his After ranging the Arciic coastpregignation from the Juneau Public from Point Barrow into Canadianjgenools as Director of Instrumental Territory and exploring both sidesyygic of the massive Brooks Range, Clar-{ por the past three years Mr. ence Rhode, head of the Fish and ghofner has been director of the Wildlife Service, was back at his juneau High School band. When desk today to recount how he he came to Juneau direct from joined in a navy search for a miss- the military in 1946, the High ing plane in the far north. ISchool band had only 25 members. Rhode took off three weeks ago, There is now a total of 92 stud- accompanied by several assistants,lents jn the instrumental depart- to visit each station of his service 'ment of the Juneau School, includ- west of Juneau. He found sheep injing the High School band and be- several localities never before known, ginners band which he also organ- | to sustain the animals and re-iized. | ported that moose were fast | Mr. Shofner has also been Direc- | in-| creasing in numbers north of the tor of the Juneau City Band sincel Brooks Range. jcoming to Juneau and this organ- | While in the Barrow vicinity, an ization increased from 18 to a Alaska Airlines plane under charter membership of 40. The Juneau| to the navy, and carrying a scien- City Band compliments him on his | tist, Rogers D. Hamilton of Johns directorship. Hopkins University, and Pilot Bert has been in charge several high Galbreath, disappeared while fly- class public concerts were givenf ing between Anxiety Point and under the sponsorship of the Rq-; Point Barrow, and Rhode and his tary Club and Beta Sigma Phi and| men were pressed to join the search the funds realized went to the| by members of the 10th Air-Sea purchase of the new uniforms of | Rescue Squadron. the present band. | He flew some 4,000 extra miles It was mainly through his ln-J between Barrow and Umiak but ob- dividual efforts that the recent| tained no trace of the missing plane. Southeast Alaska School music fes-| His big Beechcraft could maneuver tival was held and which proved | through fog better than squadron such a great success bringing to- | planes, and ranged over the frozen gether various choral groups and| ocean for miles—“like being in a band organizations. So well was| white squirrel-cage — you couldn’t this first festival established that| tell where the ice began or the skyits continuance is now assured, | left off.” !permanent officers having been el- 's risky flying there,” he re- ected and the next festival sched-i cow®d, “fog doesn’t drift in. It just uled to be held at Ketchikan. forms suddenly out of nothing. The Mr. Shofner has also been active | dewpoint changes in five minutes in community afiairs. He is first, and there you are.” Vice-President of the Lions Club, a Rhode was at McGrath, tiny member of the Elks, VFW and mining town on the Kuskokwim, American Legion. He is also chief‘ when the ice went out, and at Fort ©f intelligence section of the ‘Alaska | Yukon on the Yukon River when National Guard. | the ice went out there. His wife Shofner will leave Juneau June and son, Jack, were here in Juneau 4 @board the Baranof on his way when the ice went out at Nenana— t0 the University of Colorado where | which was much more important to he Wwill attend the summer session the family than the other break- here. | ORIENT TRAVEL TALK FOR KIWANIS CLUB Alaska Mission, Seventh Day Ad- ventist, was introduced by Kiwan- ifan John Griffin, who is treasurer. Gene Vuille reported that a Ki- wanis work committee has com- | pleted installing the swing seats iin the Willoughby Avenue play- ground, and has made other im- | provements to equipment. Thesd |will be finished shortly, on arrival of materials. ! Program chairmen for next month are: Gus Brown, June 7; Chester Zimmerman, June 14; Hen- |ty Leege, June 21, and Neil Moore, | June 28. DOUGLAS . NEWS W.S.C.S. MEETING The Women's Society of Christ- ian Eervice meets this evening at 8 b'clock at the home of Mrs. Ry Rice. Women are reminded to take their handwork for the bazaar. Be- During the time he!sides a sewing session there will| be election of officers and a social | hour All women interested in church service are invited to attend. THREE FAMILIES MOVE During last week, several man- euvers were made by residents, into new homes. The James Wellington family moved into their recently| purchased house formerly owned by the Robert Wagners. The El- bert Bishops purchased and moved into the Wellington home and Mrs; Olga Ruzic, Douglas “eacher, dnd! son Gary moved from the Hoskins; apartments to the Fifth Street apartment formerly occupied by Mrs. Grace Milles, THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA JUNEAU CITY BAND INHOLIDAY PARADE The Juneau City Band made an- |other good appearance yesterday, ‘panicipaung in the Memorial Day | parade, and this notwithstanding that many of the members are ab- { sent from the city on vacations or | had made former arrangements for | the holiday. There were, however, { 24 members of the band in the pa- |rade and they made a splendid ap- pearance in their new uniforms. The band gave the march tuhe that spirited a snappy parade. Carol Jean MacDonald, the Ju- neau Band’s high stepping chief | majorette, led the organization and Fancy Halves 1 1b. Packages 79 TIONALLY ADVERTIS VISITING HERE Miss Carol Nickel s visiting In! Douglas at the home Mrs. Durance, for several weeks. She is a daugh-/ ter of the Rev. Peter Nickel, and lives at Auk Bay. FROM WISHRAM, WASH. Mrs. Don Campbell and 5-month | old daughter Terry, were arrivals| Sunday by PAA from Wishram, Wash. They will visit here about| a month, as guests of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Pinkerton. Mrs. Camp- | bell is a daughter of Mrs. Pinker- ton. MAYOR O. K. | Mayor Mike Pusich is resting well at St. Anne’s and will be home the | latter part of the week. In 1777, a Rhode Islander, Jere- miah Wilkinson, invented a ma- chine that could cut nails out of a sheet of cold metal. RIGHT TO LIMIT. FRE; Asparagus - 0. 300 Can — Van Cam Sauerkraut 303 Size Can — Tastewel PECANS SEHOP HERE Pork and Beans Large 2'; Can — Libbys ing aides, Joyce Hope ‘and Arlene Adsero, also members of the band’s staff. Joseph Shofner, Director, accom- panied the band in his last appear- ance with the local musicians with which he has long been identified. WIL GAMES Scores of games played in the WIL yesterday are as follows: Tacoma 11-2, Salem 2-4. Spokane 3-11, Wenatchee 2-3. Yakima 13-5, Tri-City 2-1. Victoria 5-5, Vancouyer 2-3. lshe had with_her two other twirl- ~“mpire Want Ads bring results— I g GRADE A LARGE—CARTON i CANADIAN EGGS 8¢ Dozen 10" oz. Tin — April Showers . - 2ford5¢c ... 2or2lc 2 for 35¢ ps 11 tion along the Colville River, con- sisting of two planes—one to ferry gasoline, the other to search for wolves. The plane will follow the roaming caribou herds and shoot wolves from the air. He reported caribou were more widely scattered than at any time Beautiful . . . picturesque he had ever seen them. dirty—the contrasts of the Orient. Amongst them he was surprised as seen on a three-month freighter to see a lone black bear, the only trip, were shared with her first one anyone has ever seen that far audience today by a returned Ju- north. Tundra grizzles inhabit the |neau traveler. mrea, but why a black should be in| Miss Estelle Wolf showed koda- the vicinity was a puzzle. He was only 200 miles south of Point Bar- row, he said. ‘The new-found sheep were near the Canadian border along a river canyon. He reported no definite count, but said they were numerous. With Rhode on the flight were Dan -Ralston, law enforcement head; Doug Swanson, his assistant; Ed Chatelain, biologist, and Robert Baker, Ketchikan enforcement agent. HOSPITAL NOTES Mrs. Jack Loser, Mrs. J. C. Dodd, Mrs, Lex Utter, Mrs. Jack Thomp- son, Mrs. Oscar Vienola, Richard ‘W. Johnson, Mrs. Adam Greenwald, Harley Utter, and Mrs. Thomas Al- lain were admitted to St. Ann’s hos- pital over the holiday. Margaret Barber, Charles Baird, Mrs. W. Muncaster, Janice Bailey, A. Overgard, E. Lindoff, and Abe Friesen were dismissed. Both Brown Leghorn and Black Minorca chickens lay white eggs. chrome slides of her voyage aboard the SS American Mail to a Kiwanis | Club audience at the weekly lun- cheon meeting in the Baranof Gold Room. Later travels made up for a bad start—a stormy seasick 15-day crossing to Yokohama, then five days’ rain and no picture-taking in that city. But the camera clicked often in the Philippines, the Malay States and Ceylon. | Highlights among the color slides | were pictures of vivid tropical sun- | sets, of mosques and Budhist tem- ples and sultans® palaces; of long vistas in cosmopolitan Ilo Ilo, P. I., and Singapore, and of the lush countryside growth. Miss Wolf's interest in botany also was evident in her shots fea- turing the novel “traveler's” palm, bougainvillea, frangi pangi, hibis- cus and other tropical vegetation. Her accompanying comment was informal and informative; although often detailing anecdotes of areas in which bandits roam to burn, rob and kill, President Stanley Baskin intro-| | duced Miss Wolf. The other guest, | Pastor A. L. Zumwalt, president of | | i | i his ps.the way HE likes them! DOWN WENT [ our coting BILLS {{ When We Discovered How Sanitone Dry Cleaning | Makes Clothes Last Longer shirts‘. s | You should see how bez- ter Sanitone Dry Clean- ing s-t-r-e-t-c-h-e-s cloth- ing budgets! It gets out embedded dirtand grime that workon fabricfibers. Erases nasty spots, too. Everything sparkles with dewness after Sani- tone cleaning! 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