The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 3, 1950, Page 8

PAGE EIGHT THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA CHAMBER PROGRAM ALASKA PUBLIC WORKS THONOR GUARD OF Police Chief Fined IS TAPE - RECORDED BY LOWELL THOMAS, Most of the Juneau Chamber of | Commerce meeting was recorded | today when Lowell Thomas, world- famous traveler and commentator,| interviewed Col. Bernt Balchen and‘ Nick Bez, both wellknown in Alaska, | for future radio programs. | Thomas took to the meeting a| small battery-powered tape recorder, which he said was one of the first of its kind to be manufactured and an improved model of the tape re-| corder he carried on his Tibet ex-| pedition Jast year. For two tape-recorder ‘reels, Col. Bernt Balchen, described by, Thomas as “a legendary figure in| the history of the Polar regions,”| told of the incident which stands| out most vividly in his memory. As the story unfolded, it illus- trated to those at the meeting not; acquainted with the exploits of Col. Baichen, who headed the Air Force's 10th Rescue Squadron and is now Arctic advisor to the Alaskan Air| Command, the reason Thomas could | describe him as a “legendary fig- | ure.” ; The stusy toid by Col. Balchen | was of the rescue of a B-17 crew from the Greenland ice cap, a siX- month operation which was carried out during the winter of 1942-43. Men and, equipment were risked during the task of bringing out the 11-man bomber crew not only be- cause of the lives at stake but, said | Col. Balchen, because all concerned knew the highly important bearing the success or failure of the rescue would ‘have on the morale of the many bomber crews flying to Europe over the Greenland route. To tell it briefly, the story was of the difficulties faced in the half- | [ year rescue job by glacier specialists, | former Norwegian trappers skilled | in Polar travel, US. Coast Guard ships and planes, and Col. Balchen’s Air Force unit. The climax was reached in March, 1943, when Col. Balchen landed a PBY amphibian on the ice cap to pick up the remaining sur- vivors of the B-17 crash. Col. Bal- chen told of the difficulties of tak- ing the loaded float plane off thé ice cap after an engine burned. He described it as a person on the ice- cap watching the take-off would have seen it, for he and three others remained behind to walk out. Nigk Bez, one of the leading men in Alaska fisheries, was introduced by: Thomas to chamber membes and future radio audiences as proof “that Alaska is still the land of opportunity.” In his colorful style, Thomas de- | scribed the career of Bez, whe came to America from Yugoslavia} as a boy. He told how Bez had | saved enough by 1924, when he was 28, to-buy an interest in a boat and go into the fishing business seriously, and related Bez's climb from there to his present position in the industry. The tape-recorder operated well for Balchen’s talk, but Thomas said it didn't work too satisfactorily during the story about Bez. Thomas’ part of the program followed a talk by Cmdr. V. F. Tydlacka. chief of the personnel division of the 17th Coast Guard District. His italk, describing the work of the Coast Guard, was part of the celebration of Coast Guard Week, in commemoration of which tle Chamber 1 had passed a resolution caliing | attention to the Coast| Guard’s “fine contribution to the| community.” Normal Chamber of Commerce business was not dealt with sof{ that ;the meeting could be devoted | entirely to the program, Chamber President Robert Boochever said. Visitors at the meeting, in addi- tion to Col. Balchen, Thomas, and Bez, were Miss Mary Ann Stewart, Mrs. Esther Caro, T. P. Hansen of | Ketchikan, Don Davis of Seattle,| Don Mtiler, Neill Johnson of Mel- bourne, Fila, Bill McFarlane of Juneau, Carl Heinmiller of Port | Chilkoot, and J. E. Johnson of| MOVES T0 A-J OFFICE; | -OPENS CHUGIAK BIDS Moving day extended well through ‘lh!’ week for the Alaska Public | works headquarters, which was transferred from the Community (or Coast Guard) Building to the Alaska-Juneau Gold Mining Com- pany offices on South Franklin Street. ’ These quarters are very satisfac- tory for the Public Works staff, ac- cording to John Argetsinger, Alaska district engineer, who says they. have been well maintained and are well equipped. Following a bxd-openlng late yes- terday, Argetsinger will recommend to the Washington, D.C., head- quarters that the contract for a school building at Chugiak be ‘awarded the low bidder. The following estimates were sub- mitted: Loyer and Casler Construc- | tion Company, Palmer — $43,650.81; | Anchorage Builders—$78,000; and Cupples Construction Company, An- chorage—§78,555. The Public Works engineering estimate for construc- tion was $63,500. The structure at Chugiak, whick is on the Anchorage-Palmer High- way, is to be a one-room school with recreation space and teacher’s quarters. The next bid-opening in the APW office will be August 23, when esti- mates will be opened for construc- fion of the Juneau Memorial Library and for schools at Homer and Dill- ingham. SAWMILL ILL OPERATIONS . CONTINUE; LOG RAFT IS EXPECTED SOON of Directors of the Juueau Lumber Co., Inc. yesterday afternoon, it was announced that the board had been ansuccessful in raising $75,000 prior ‘0 August third under the escrow arrangement which it had proposed.} R. J. Sommers, Allen Shattuci andl Leith G. Wildes who had become | members of the Board for the pur- | oose of attempting to secure ne’ additional financing by that date‘ resigned and were replaced by the | former members of the board, | which now consists of B. C. Canoles Joseph R. Murphy, J. Simpson Mac- Kinnon, Sr., Minard Mill and R.| Boochever. | Canoles'and Murphy were re-elec- | ‘ed to the offices of President and Vice President. The mill will con- tinue in operation and a raft of ogs s expected within the next | few days. A resolution was passed thanking | “mmers, Shattuck and Wildes for | their time and effort spent on be- 1alf of the company. Ketchikan. HTZGERALD QU PASRIONED... K2stk'cn s34 TS WELLER DISTILLERY, INC.,Lowisville, Ky. 'Distributed throughout Alaska by ODOM COMPANY AIRMEN FOR RITES | Affer Too-Long Talk OF DEAD MEMBER ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Aug. 3— (M—With the commanding officer piloting, and with 10 airmen as an nonor guard, the body of T-Sgt. Salvin 1. Stewart was to be flown o his Cordova home in a C-47 ransport plane today. Stewart was killed in the crash of 1 private plane on a pleasure flight near here Sunday. A memorial formation by his 64th Fighter Interceptor Squadron com- rades will be held at Elmendorf Air force base before the flight. Maj William Benedict, the commandin »ficer, will pilot the plane. The United States normally pro- duces over 1,000 tons of pig iro ser 1,000 population each year. PULASKI N. Y., Aug. 3— (@ ere’s no law against talking, bt a pabrolman tabbed Police Chief George Soderland for a $1 fine be- cause the chief chatted too long with a friend. Soderland said he put a coin in a parking meter when he left his automobile in the business district yesterday. Then, he said, he started talking to a friend. When he returned to the car, the chief found an overtime parking ticket. He paid the $1. Mt. Cotopaxi, Ecuador, 19,344 feet high, is said by the National Geo- graphic Society to be the world’s highest active volcano. Egg yolks are one or wne richest sources of vitamin L. 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