The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 6, 1950, Page 8

PAGE EIGHT TRUMAN SAYS GOP PLAYING POLITICS, PIKE NOMINATION WASHINGTON, July 6 — ® — President Truman declared today he is 100 percent behind Sumner T. Pike for renomination to the Atomic Energy Commijssion. He said Senate opposition to Pike stems from Republican party politics. At his news conference, Mr. Tru- man also criticized Senator Edwin C. Johnson (D-Colo), who joined four Republican Senators in the 5 to 4 vote against Pike's reappoint- ment The vote was cast by the Senate members of the Senate-House Atomic Energy Committee. The nomination still is to be considered by the full Senate which is due to vote Monday on confirma tion. RUSTGARD MEMORIAL CHURCH 1S ENDORSED BY FORMER PRESIDENT Ex-president Herbert Hoover has given his endorsement to the John Rustgard Memorial Church now under construction for Babson Park’s colored citizens. The John Rustgard Memorial Church, started by Mrs. Rustgard with a donation of $5,000, is called by -Mr. Hoover, “a fitting tribute to” Mr. Rustgard, “It exemplifies the realization of the Christian teachings by which he lived and which he taught. His contributions for his fellow-men were a challenge and an inspiration. “It is with admiration and appre- ciation that I join with his other friends in this tribute to him.” The letter is signed, “Yours faithfully, Herbert Hoover.” Mr. Rustgard served several terms as attorney general of Alaska. Early . in the 1930s, Mr. and Mrs. Rustgard moved to Babson Park, Florida, where Mrs. Rustgard continues to make her home since her husband’s death a year ago. WILBUR GOES SOUTH TO JOIN CARD'S TEAM Don Wilbur, former player on the local Coast Guard baseball team, left Juneau yesterday on Pan American for Pocatello, Idaho, where he will be tried out with onc of the farm teams of the St. Louis Cardinals. While he was with the Coast Guard team here he played the po-~ sition of catcher and relief pitcher. Wilbur was one of this year's graduating class at Juneau High school. FROM SEATTLE Among Seattleites newly regis- tered at the Baranof Hotel are G. K. Wilson, P. T. Holm, G. A. Grif- ‘ fin, O. T. Finney, W. J. Jolly, Beatrice Bona, June B. Hanford and George W. Curtis. FIRE DEPT. MEETING The members of the Juneau Volunteer Fire Department will hold their regular monthly meeting in the fire hall starting at 8 o’clock tonight. e R i l ‘ Bristol Bay . Fishing Reporied As "Yi" Good" DILLINGHAM, Alaska, July 6— (P—Bristol Bay fishing is “very ‘good.“ That is the report of Jim | Downey, business agent of Local 46 of the Cannery Workers Union (CIO). The salmon season opene.d last week. GIRL SCOUT CAMP WIND-UP MEETING Scout camp program, council mem- bers, camp staff and leaders will hold a no-host luncheon at noon July 13 in the Baranof Terrace room. Miss Mildred Kershner, camp di- rector, and her staff will be present for a discussion of summer activi- ties. Mrs. Leona Lincoln, chairman for the luncheon, wiil take reservations until Tuesday morning. Anyone desiring to at- tend should call Mrs. Lincoln. SITKA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OBJECTS | The -Juneau Ghambker of Com.. merce has been called down by its counterpart in Sitka for what Ju- neau Chamber President Robert Boochever termed today a “simple statement of fact.” In a letter, W. Langille Morrison Jr,, secretary-treasurer of the Sitka Chamber, stated: “I have been instructed by the membgrship .. . to reprove you on your statemert to the efféct' that Juneau is the ‘scenic capital of Alaska’ in your very picturesque pamphlet . . . this might easily be changed to ‘legislative capital of Alaska’ and thereby be more ac- curate.” MRS. FORREST LEAVING ON HOME BEAUTIFUL BUYING TRIP SOUTH Mrs. Gene Forrest of the Home Beautiful store plans to leave to- morrow on an extended buying trip niture mart held in Seattle on July 10-14. i MARRIAGE LICENSES Two applications for marriage li- censes have been filed in the U.S. commissioner’s office. Hal Willlam Windsor applied Monday for license to marry Martha Walker. Windsor is employed by the Alaska Electric Light and Power Company and Miss Walker is an employee of the U.S. forestry serv- ice in Juneau. Daniel Morris and Bella Iverson applied for marriage license Tues- day. Morris is a Juneau carpenter and Miss Iverson is a nurse at St Ann’s hospital. 4 FROM HAINES } | Karl O. Johnson, long-time | Haines resident who visits Juneau ! ocacsionally, is on a visit of sev- |eral days. He is stopping at the Gastineau Hotel. Gather up your soiled holiday clothes and call 877. They'll come back to you as good as © Deeply embedded grime vanishes ® Even p erspiration stains go ® No trace of stale cleaning odors ©® ""Like-New" fexture restored @ Beautiful, longer-lasting press @ Minor mending free CITY DRY Phone CLEANERS 871 to the States. She will visit the fur- | 77" | THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA INTEREST IS HIGH IN WHITE HOUSE 'YOUTH CONFERENCE Nationwide participation in the | midcentury White House Confer- | ence on Children and Youth is now in full swing, according to George F. Crisman, executive secretary of the Alaska Commission on Children {and Youth, who has just returned |to his Juneau headquarters after | attending an advisory council meet- | ing in Chicago last week. | The council on state and local action, which has just closed its | preconference meeting, was host to To wind up the Gastineau Gnr]i 150 persons representing the states|longshoreman in Anchorage. |and territories, and two observers | from Germany and France. | Crisman explained that local ac- | tion in Alaska encompasses partici- |pation in the 1950 Midcentury | White House Conference by 195 | communities in the territory. The Alaska Commission on Children and general Youth, established by proclamation | |of Gov. Ernest Gruening in Janu- | ary, is acting as liaison between the | local committees and the national committee of the White House Con- | ference which is scheduled to be | held in Washington, D.C., next De- !cember 3to 7. | “The meeting In Chicago,” Cris- | ference activities wherein the rep- )rgsenwtlves of the states and terri- | tories reported on participation of their citizens who are gathering the subsequent action. | ¢ “The purpose of the White House | Conference is to consider how we | can develop in children the mental, i emotional and spiritual qualities so necessary to individual happiness {and responsible citizenship, and {'what physical, economic and social | conditions are considered necessary it.o this development,” he continued. is the report of local action which was made to the advisory council | regarding one of Alaska’s pro- gressive communities, Sitka. An ac- count of formation of the Youth | Progress Organization of Sitka was terest,” he said. { BOTTLES THROWN FROM CAR; MAN FINED S§15 Jack Pasquan was fined §15 in City Magistrate F. O. Eastaugh’s court yesterday after pleading guilty to a charge that bottles had been thrown from his car on Main Street Tuesday. Pacquan stated he did not throw the bottles, but he assumed re- | sponsibility for the passengers in his car. There are thr Popular | man said, “was one of the precon-: | facts which will form the basis for, “Of particular note to Alaskans, received with a great deal of m-‘ our Up - the - LeBAUGH FUNERAL T0 \ BE HELD TOMORROW Funeral services for Herbert Leo LeBaugh, 40, who was found dead in a room at 208 Main Street Fri- day, will be held tomorrow at 2 p.m. in the chapel of the Charles W. Carter Mortuary. A coroner’s jury found Monday ; that Mr. LeBaugh, a longshoreman, had died of “a gunshot wound ap- parently self-inflicted.” The services tomorrow will be conducted by Capt. Henry Loren- tzen of the Salvation Army. Inter- !ment will be in Evergreen Ceme- tery. Mr. LeBaugh was born in Cando, IN. D, and was employed as a He Ewns said to have arrived here {about a week betore his death. 'COAST GUARD ASSISTS | INJURED FISHERMAN The Coast Guard cutter Cahoone went to the assistance of a fisher- man who had burned his arms while aboard his troller in Slocum Arm last night. The fisherman, John Haddon, 50, whose home port was not given, (was reported to have been burne zscverely on both arms while aboard his boat, the Sandra Joe. He was taken to Sitka aboard the Cahoone for medical treatment, } according to reports reaching Casstl Guard headquarters here . | ' DAUGHTER FOR ROLISONS { Hopes of Mr. and Mrs. James Rol- ! ison, Jr., who wished this baby ‘: east Alaska as “a favorable power ' sold are bought by women for men. be a girl, have been realized. daughter was born to them at 4:05 a.m. today in St. Ann’s hospital. The young lady joins two broths ers, James Rolison, 3rd., who 1s six years old, and Nels, 4. ‘The “happy pappy” is msnager: of the Baranof Hotel Cocktail; Lounge. | OHIOANS HERE ' Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Benning of Toledo, Ohio, are guests at the Baranof Hotel. i OLYMPIAN VISITS L. K. Baskette of Olympia, Wash., |is at the Baranof Hotel. ! FROM LOS ANGELES | . A. Wright of Los Angeles is {at the Gastineau Hotel. FROM FISH BAY Bob Murray of Fish Bay is at the Gastineau Hotel. - FROM FAIRBANKS , 'Bud 'S. Seltenreich of the Civil | ' Aeornautics Administration sznu.' Fairbanks, is stopping at the Bara- ‘nof Hotel. I ee other noteworthy newcomers in Stairs Store . . . multi-color Dusters, lovely summer blouses and nurses’ uniforms in cotton and Nylon. BLUE FLAG OF UN MAY FLY IN KOREA WASHINGTON, July 6 — ® — The blue flag of the United Nations may be flown by Americans and others fighting to stop the Com- munist invasion of South Korea. Diplomats who reported this said also that Gen. Douglas MacArthur probably will be named United Na- tions commander for the Korean area. The United Nations flag is light blue, bearing a polar map of the world flanked by twin olive branches. Since the resistance to the in- vasion is under a call by the United Nations, flying its flag and making the Commanding General a U.N. agent would further formalize the arrangement by which aid was sent to the South Koreans. SCENERY CREEK IS 600D POWER SITE SAYS GEO. SURVEY WASHINGTON, July 9 — P — A | US. geological survey report today appraised Scenery Creek in South- I'site” 1t is near Petersburg, flow- ing into Thomas Bay. The survey report, released by the Department of Interior, said its assets are heavy rainfall, a good storage site and a_high con- | centration of fall. “Complete regulation of stream flow can be achieved with a dam| on Scenery Lake,” the report said.| “By utilizing the fall through 2 tunnel and penstock to a power- house at sea level, 16,000 firm horse- power can be developed, and rnare‘ than 100,0000,000 kilowatt hours of energy can be produced in an aver- age year.” AT GASTINEAU William W. Read, Jr., of the Am- erican National Red Cross staff in} Seattle, is a guest at the Gasti- neau Hotel. FROM KETCHIKAN | Among Ketchikan visitors, guests‘l at the Baranof Hotel, are Cdr. F. J. Schreiber, Fred Kirkland and| R. L. Barnett. | TACOMAN HERE J. L. Kerzie of Tacoma, Wash, | is stopping at the Baranof Hotel. FROM PHOENIX P. H. Brooks of Phoenix, Ariz, jis staying at the Gastineau Hotel. i CHERBOURG, France, July 6—(® —More American arms for France —450 tons made up mostly of anti- |alrcrin guns—arrived here today under terms of the Atlantic Pact armament agreement and were un- { loaded without incident. About 85 percent of the neckties Use DARIGOLD EVAPORATED MILK MNTHERS REACH FOR IT WITH CONFIDENCE Ask your Doctor DARiGoLD ¥APORATED This colorful newcomer at Stevens promises to be one of the big hits of the season . . . in a multitude of designs, this cool-as-a-cucumber chambray is perfect for summer wear. Up - the - Stairs Pi Eastern Grade A Pork Roast b.49c : | I THURSDAY, JULY 6, 1950 i3 SHAFFER’S 49-Phone-13 SANITARY MEAT CO. * ‘Meat at Iis Best — at l.o_vyer Prices FREE DELIVERY Prices Good Friday and Satarday ] From the Farm 1o the People of Juneau Fresh-Killed Cut-Up Rhode Island CHICKENS for Fricassee Ib. §5¢ In 3 to 3% Pound Boxes Rhode Island Red ROASTING PULLETS Ib. 49¢ Farm Fresh - Oven Ready ROASTING CHICKENS Ib. §9¢ Choice Beef - Short Ribs For i:;nggrung SLICED BACON Ib. 49¢ Hormel's Best Grade cnic Hams