The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 1, 1950, Page 6

PAGE SIX LYLE E. MANSON BAND DIRECTOR, PUBLIC SCHOOLS Lyle E. Manson of Marion, Towa, will be the new instrumental dlrec-‘ tor of the Juneau Public Schools, according to anouncement made to- day by Superintendent Sterling Sears. Manson will direct the bands of the public schools and will very| probably take over the directorship | of the Juneau City Band. Joseph M. Shofner, who has been instrumental director, resigned on| the last day of school, Superinten-| dent Sears said today, and we had | to e q action contacting | available music directors in order | to complete the teaching staff for| the beginning of the school year. | Manson, young and unmarried | and with a band directing back- ground, exchanged favorable com- | munications with myself and the School Board with the result that a | contract was sent to him, which was immediately and returned | here, Sears s Manson is a graduate or the famous United States School of Mu- sic in Washington, D.C. For some time he has been director of the wellknown Coe College band which has made many prominent appear- ances in eastern musical concerts. Besides band director he has also directed symphony orchestras. He| plays the bass horn, clarinet and | also bass viol. He is also a vocalist appearing as soloist in various choral groups. At the COUNTRY CLUB—Lobsters, Prawns, Opysters, Steaks, Chicken and Chinese dishes. OPEN ALL NIGHT. 869-2t 3 store buildings for rent or will remodel into office if desired. 64-tf | I. GOLDSTEIN | LOWELL THOMAS, GLOBAL EXPLORER, ON ALASKA JUNKET| Ready for the next adventure in his eventful life, intrepid Lowell Thomas arrived from Seattle yes- terday, but declined to discuss his further destination. i The famed global explorer did .&nyi he is glad to be on his way again, glad, too, that, despite his serious accident in Tibet, he is able to walk and climb without crutches or cane. He did say he was to meet his old friend, Col. Bernt Balchen “for an- other junket.” Thomas said, “The Korean busi- ness upset my long-laid plans. How- er, it is nice to know that, in a, I am half-way to the Orient. In this uncertain world, who can say what my destination is?” Colonel Balchen, long commander of the 10th Air Rescue Squadron and recently named also as Arctic advisor to the Alaskan Air Com- mand, was to come here from El- mendorf Air Force Base, Anchorage, this afternoon. Lowell Thomas returned repeat- edly to that personality. “Balchen is a tremendous figure in aviation,” he remarked. “I have been on the fringes of flying since 1924, when I was historian for the first flight around the world. This. will be fine—I haven't seen him for several years.” Shortly after leaving the Pan American airplane which brought him here, Lowell Thomas was in his room at the Baranof Hotel rigorously going through the muscle exercises prescribed by a noted New York “ski-doctor” who wants to make Thomas' injured leg stronger than the good one. Thomas worked hard at the leg exercises so he could get off crutches * NORTHBOUND S.S. Aleutian ....Aug. 1 Jordova Seward Valdez S.S. Alaska ........Aug. 6 eward FREIGHTER SAILINGS FROM SEATTLE RING SPLICE — August 2 COASTAL RAMBLER—August 11 SOUTHBOUND S.S. Aleutian’ ... Aug. 6 Wrangell Seattle Ketchikan S.S. Alaska ... Aug. 11 Ketchikan Petersburg Seattle "H. E. GREEN, Agent—, Juneau—Phones 2 and 4 in time to be best man for his son, Lowell Thomas, Jr., at his recent wedding. Thomas, Jr, was on his first expedition with his father in Tibet and according to the injured man, “Without question, he savea my life.” Thomas is a lean, trim, somewhat slight-figured man with steel-blue eyes, and wavy dark hair in which a trace of silver barely glints. He looks ready for any venture that may show up—and usually does, “Why, when my son and his bride were in Hawaii on their honey- moon,” he said, “Mauna Loa put on that show. Things always happen.” He added that his son had ex- pected to go back to Central Asia but, with developments in Korea, “that door was closed, so he is stay- ing home to write the greatly needed book on Tibet.” First Visit in 35 Years This is Lowell Thomas’ first trip to Alaska in 35 years. When in the North in 1914 and 1915, Thomas was one of the first persons ever to take moving pictures in Alaska. He made long journeys—down the Yu- kon; shooting the rapids at treach- erous Miles Canyon near White- horse; into the Klondike; to Fair- banks and Nome, often with such famous pioneer figures as General Richardson and Bishop Rowe. He hopes to run into some of his old friends—Jack McCord, for in- stance, a youngster then, who now " THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA lives at McCord on Kodiak Island and has a cattle ranch on his own little island. “Jack was one of Rex Beach’s characters,” Thomas said reminiscently. | Then there is Bobby Sheldon whom he knew 35 years ago (and | saw last night). “He was quite a boy,” Thomas reflected. “He had the first concession on the Fair- banks-Valdez trail. “Guess Alaska just naturally re- mained my favorite place in the i when the Thomas family is around. | world,” he mused. “You see, I came from a Colorado gold mining camp/| —Cripple Creek. I knew the mer who worked on the beach at Nome | T knew them on the Porcupine and | the Kuskokwim. I always intende to write a book about Alaska, the the First World War came along from a week in the California red- woods—the annual week-long Bo- hemian Grave encampment, where his companions included forme President Herbert Hoover, Genera! Wedemeyer and such notables, After 45 wvear: jhomas ~wnd “startling” for the airplane to land facing Mendenhall Glacier. His heart “popped out” to get into an automobile and drive on a smooth highway to the city. And in town— “Why, the plank sidewalks are gone. The Baranof, a hotel comparable to the Waldorf, is unbelievable. “I was shocked,” said Thomas, “to learn of Capt. Lathrop’s death. I had looked forward to talking to L0 HITZGERALD KENTUCKY'S FAVORITE BONDED BOURBON For True This time, Thomas came directly | | him, and to catch up with the great | career he built since those early | days.” Thomas was busy last evening looking up old friends, dining at i the Governor's House and talking | with Maynard Miller, field director of the Juneau Icefield Research Project sponsored by the American Geographical Society. He expects to | visit the Ice Cap with Colonel { Balchen. | Lowell Thomas, Jr., was with Mil- lier and Bradford Washburn on the ady Icefield Expedition in the C ier Bay country in 1940. Thomas, Sr., is accompanied by his cameraman, John Roberts, Uncommunicative about his im- mediate plans, Thomas did give a ort of reason for this trip. “A long time ago,” he said. “I promised my wife a honeymoon in Alaska. We were married in 1917, then the World War came along| and we went into that together. You might cail this a reconnaissance trip | maybe we'll honeymoon here ncxli ear!” { The medieval walls and old build- ings of Helmstedt, Germany, are; well preserved. |'be a member of the U.S. Air Force. BIG RCAF PLANE | CRASHES I FAR | NORTH; 9 KILLED OTTAWA, Aug. 1—P—Nine men | were killed yesterday in the crash of a Royal Canadian Air Force| four-engine Lancaster 600 miles south of the North Pole. ! One of the dead was believed Loi Seven others were RCAF airmen| and one was a civilian employee of the Canadian Department of Trans-l port. The plane, making a reconnais- sance, crashed and burned while} dropping supplies to a weather sta- tion operated jointly by Canada and the United States. [ At the COUNTRY CLUB—Lobsters, Steaks, Chicken OPEN ALL ] 869—211 Prawns, Oysters, and Chinese dishes, NIGHT. the! The best temperature for storage of Irish potatqes is given as 40 degrees. Bourhon Flavor LOUISVILLE, KY. 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