The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 26, 1950, Page 8

PAGE EIGHT CONSTRUCTION TO ]Filhil'lg Vessel _Founders,(koss Madden Tells {Landing Craft in Danger As Storm Thrashes Coast START THIS FALL ON MEMORIAL | LIBRARY Ground for the Juneau Memorial Library will be proken within a few weeks, if the necessary tech- nicalities take the usual time, John Argetsinger said today. As Alaska Public Works regional engineer, Argetsinger sent his con- tract award recommend: Washington, ‘D. C., headquarters today, and he hopes for approva within a week. Then the ee- ment with the City must be signed the actual® ¢ t awarded an bonds executed Argetsinger recommended that the award be to Triplette and Dal- ziel, Juneau construction firm, low bidder for the contract, and the construction include develop ment of the basement The Triplette and Dalzel was for $12 , which is only more than the Public Works engin- eerinig estimate. At the bid-opening Wednesday a T and D representative >.||d4‘ “We could start the work tomorrow morning.” B. Frank Heintzleman, chairman of the Memorial Library Committee, | bid $5 said, bid is very satisfactory to board. This firm put up the Air- port Terminal building of w)n(-lr‘ the people of Juneau are _ynsu»i fiably proud.” : Heintzleman continued, “Certaln- | 1y, again, Wwe of the committee | want to thank all the people of Juneau who contributed to the| fund. We, are about to realize a the ation to the | that | (Continued from Page One) to assist the landing craft at ddy- break, (A rescue plane will also attempt reach the landing craft today, dispatches from to Associated Press Cordova said.) Other Distress Cases vo other Coast Guard weie calied out on distress Ca vesterday, The cutter C.trus rushed to Ratz Harbor miles northwest of Clarence Strait, to aid an 8 rigging scow, the Bisco III, reported adrift and heading for rocks with one man abo The cutter arrived on the stene it 11 a.m. and- reported to Coast juard headquarters that the.scow was anchored. The scow was taken in tow later | by the power-barge Solo 1. Both sessels are owned by the Farwest Company of Wrangell, Coast Guard pokesmen said. A 52-foot Coast Guard patio. boat from Petersburg went to the aid of the fishing vessel 30G1456, disabled in Beechers Pass at th. “The Triplette and Dalziel| south end of Wrangell Narrows by | porters in the country who work for a broken tailshaft. The patrol boat was instructec to take the vessel in tow (o Peters- burg. SUSPENDED FINE GIVEN FOR NOT SETTING BRAKES Ove Graveson, a TFederal em- Tt THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA 1 ISoroplimisIs of Picture-Stories | skl Free lance photographer and writ- | | er Ross Madden told members of the | : Soroptimists at their luncheon meet- ing yestcrday that aspiring writers | could find the most interesting stories in their own back yards. Then he tempered his statement by saying | that he knew of three unwritten stories in his home town in Montana, thati he realized the attraction of| distant places, and that, in fact, fs/ his reason for being in his pro(es-i sion, He likes to travel. With the development of the| printing press, the telling of stories! | in pictures became a lost technique, | Mr. Madden said, until the German | picture magazines started | in the; 11920s. When conditions in Germany | became intolerable to some of the | | picture journalists, they left for] | other European countries and many Shower Held for Mrs. Elwin Wright On Friday Evening A kitchen shower was held Fri- day eevning for Mrs. Elwin Wright in the apartment of Mrs. Dorothea Forrest with Mrs. Marion Hendrick- son as hostess. A special cake portraying a bride ind groom on the prow of a boat vas made especially for the shower. Mr. and Mrs. Elwin Wright leave | sunday on the Baranof for Kasaan where he will teach school this winter. Guests at the shower were Miss Louis Nichlson, Mrs. Dorothea For- rest, Miss Claire Folta, Mrs. Helen Raff, Miss Marguerite Shaw, Mrs. Thelma Brown, Mrs. Arline Whit- tier, Mrs. Patte Bidwell, Mrs. Jan- ater became staff members of Look oo MacSpadden, Mrs. May Wright, | ! and Life when those magazines Were ypic 1 oretta Keithahn, Mrs. Joyce i ; (Twenty-eight Travel With Pacific Northern Airlines Yesterday Pacific Northern Airlines brough 11 passengers from Anchorage yes- terday and took 17 to Anchorage. Those arriving here were: Lauren Horn, J. J. Fargher, W. B. Heise], K. G. Merritt, T. Tyvoll, J. Lowen, Al- bert White, Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Smith, A. Sulman and O. Astrom. Outbound were: Vera Knicker- socker, M. J. Monagle, Charles sprout, Ross Madden, Ernest Dent, Bob Anderson, Sylvia Jones, Krist Peterson, Harriet Penwell, Harry wilson, Mrs. Audrey - Kirsch two children, Harold Bremmer, Os- ar Frank, Charles Brown and Lou- Bowden. Anthracos! a lung disease found umong antracite miners, caused by | inhaling the hard coal dust. Asbestos workers sometimes suf- haling dust from the mineral. starced with the idea of appIying gievens, Miss Mary Lou Fagerson, | ! American practice to the publication | | of the story-picture magazines such | as those that had been developed | m Germany. | | There are three or four hundred | | free lance photographers and re- themselves or on special assign- | ment from national publications whose primary purpose is to find evaiits and pgople. of -interest that will lend themselves to stories, Mad- | | den said. ! The nationally-known photogra- pher has completed the Ladies Home Journal assigriment that brought him to Alaska early this month, and Yeft Friday to caver picture stories| Miss Connie Davis, Miss Rdath Dawes and Mrs. Carol Davis. dream of 30 years—well, even more (ployee, was given a $50 suspended than that, as it began in 1916 |fine by City Magistrate F. O. Eas- «We would be especially appre-|taugh this morning after he pleaded for the New York Times, Time and Life magazines at the Westward, in ciative if those with pledges will start making payments. “This construction cost will leave some money for furnishings, ul—‘ though not enough. We notice that quite a few families in town who, we believe, might be ex-| pected to contribute to a public| library, have not done so. We should like them to consider con- tributions to help pay for the | furnishings.” Besides the approximate cost of the site, $10,000, the Library fund includes $72,000 in contributions to date of cash and pledges, and a‘p-l proximately $70,000 as grant-in-did | from the Alaska Public Works. B. D. Stewart and Dr. James C Ryan are the other members of| the Juneau Memorial Library Com- mittee. ANS SOCIAL WORKER WAS WORLD TRAVELER Miss Beatrice L. Erickson, newly arrived Alaska Native Service soc- jal worker, has a background of travel, She came to Juneau from At-| lanta, Ga. where she was case work supervisor for the Red Cross’ southeastern -area. Before that she was in charge of the hospital program for the Red Cross in Ess- lingen, Germany. She first went to Europe in 1943 as supervisor of Red Cross work in the hospitals of the T7th Army. After returning from Europe at the end of the war, she went to China with the UNRRA. Miss Erickson, who worked as child welfare consultant for the Louisiana = State Department ' of ‘Welfare, fills a position with the ANS which has been “a contindal vacancy,” according to officials. BARANOF GUESTS Twelve State-side visitors were registered at the Baranof today: Walter Lowen, Matt Ryan, Stanley Sulman, all of Seattle; Mr. ‘and Mrs. Arthur C. Smith of Newton Falls, N. Y.; G, Hamilton Beasley and Donld Royce of Los Angeles, Alza Block of Montclair, N. J., Don- na O. Campbell of San Francisco, Mr. and Mrs. Allan Reiter of Mal- verne, N. Y. and Frank J. Williams | of National City, Calif. “For Better Appearance” CALL guilty to a charge of leaving his |truck unattended. City police charged Graveson had left his truck on a grade behind the Federal Building without set- ting the brakes and cramping the wheels. The truck rolled down the hill and struck a car owned by Rob- ert Davlin. The fine was suspended on con- dition that Graveson have the brakes on his truck repaired. Fairbanks and at Pt. Barrow. | The Soroptimists meeting was pre- | sided over by Dr. Grace Field, newly elected president of the Ju- neau group. ! Dr. Field called for a meeting of | the board of directors of the club| Tuesday noon at the Baranof. | The Siriono, a tribe of Bolivian | Indians, can imitate birds and ani-| mals perfectly. | floor show. burgers. 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