The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 28, 1950, Page 4

PAGE FOUR Daily Alaska Empire Publistied every evening except Sunday by the El MPIRE PRINTING COMP. Becond and Main Streets, HELEN TROY MONSEN DOROTHY TROY LINGO ELMER A. FRIEND ALFRED ZENGER - = Juneau, Alasks lcon-lmand orders their deed. They good those who the myth that a President ' by the color of b -President | Managing Edi Business Manager ANY Entered in the Post Office in Juneau as Second Class Matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Delivered by carrier in Juneau and Douglas six months, $8.98; one ye dvance 315 n advance, $1.80. Subscribers will confer a favor if they the Business Office of any failure or trregularity in the delivery of their papers. Telephones: News Offige, postage paid, at the following rat ; six months, in a¢ 602; Business Ctfice, 374. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for fepublicatior: of all news dispatehes credited to it or not other- wise credited in, this paper and also the erein. - TIONAL REPRESENTATIVES — Aiasks Newspapers, 1411 Pourth Avenue Blidg., Seattle, Wash. Monday, August 28, bid neces: Baker From ‘George he secured paid man in the WHAT? 1950 MEN AT * There were those who said during, the Jast war that, Negro units could hot be entrusted with ' hard fighting as swered time and again by command the ‘highest praise for Negro troops Who' faced the Germans in Italy and, Franee. &3 g B Later there were those of the Paul Robeson crowd of Gommunist-fellow travelers who'sajd that the Am- | erickn Negro would not. Tight in, another war., There | de by the Attorney General that the Territory does wer@ echoes of this Sentiment; in fact, wtil ‘tht"day ot have to ask for bids for labor and services, and the first Negro contingent reached the frant in Korea. | the he slanders have been refuted show of stubborn gallantry that will ed in American military annals. clubbed rifles, Negro foot soldiers stormed a Cragey .;;ugh money is misdirected to political favorites and height that has been called the “Little Cassino” after| for supnort, to more than put the Territory on a cash one of the storied battlefields of paign. Driving out the enemy, the Negroes freed some mention is the time that officials spend in the States 200 wounded American artillerymen who had been awad hemmed in by the Communists last week. Correspond- | of the Korean war. Accidentally shelled by our own mortars later in taxpayers making attacks upon opposition party mem- one of those tragic foul-ups common had to retreat later. The Washington Merry-Go-Round . (Continued from Page One) place will be claiming he can make predictions better than I can, and will want to stay up all night to prove it. “In brief,” I concluded, “It'll be just like Washington.” “But that’s your public,”* replied Mrs. P, “and you know perfectly well down deep in your heart that you wouldn't be happy without your public. If the little girls and the old ladies in hotel lobbies did'nt come up and ask for your autograph youd think you were ¢lipping.” “Now look,” I protested, “we have a nice fasm in Maryland with the Potomac River flowing right past] our front door. Why should we; leave it? Let's forget about galli-| vanting about the country and take life easy at home.” Vagation Cows | \ Mrs. P. let gut something akin to a snort #t this, . “You have a deadline every day| with a colunin seven days a week,”| she said. “¥et now on your vaca- tiol you want to take two dead-| lines a day—cows!” L ¢ ] | “I realize they have to'be milked ) twice a day,” I admitted, referring to my prize bovine friends. “But; at least they don't ask for your autograph. H “Besides cows don't talk politics,” ! I continued. “And they don’t com-| plain— except when you take their| calf away. They don’t even worry | over what you say about them, the way Senator Byrd of Virginia; doe. And they don't make long-! winded speeches like Congressman! Jacobs of Indiana.” Maybe I shouldn’t have argued so much. I felt guilty about it afterward. Because in the end we settled for—two deadlines a day. Usually when it comes to such things as Senator Taft, Mrs. P. wins the argument. But this time she suddenly yielded. “It's your vacation,” she said,] “and I guess youre entitled to do! what you want. "So if You wantj cows, we'll vacation with the cows.” | So we did, and on the whole I' think Mrs. P. enjoyed 1t. Filling the Silo Of course, she didn't emjoy it when the bull got loose and acted| just as bellicose as Senator Mc-| Carthy, though his name happens to be Harry Truman. You see, I name ‘the bulls for my various “admirers,” one of whom is Sen- ator McKellar. It was with con-{ siderable regret this summer that we finally sent Senator McKellar to Baltimore and the sausage fac-{ tory. I had come to be quite lund| of the old senator; but like his namesake from Tennessee, he had become quite ornery, and we had to ship him off. | sighments.” ‘But these doubters were an- Using bayonets and | But their retreat under higher- protested paying asked. The Attor ion declared it exs_who, had only instances. vouchers for $248 again, and in a |comes under “serv be boldly record- Let us state e and efficient Ter { their hands are the Italian cam-'pasis. Any another ay from their | siderable the Territory on in war, the troops | pers. ‘What this T I admit also that Mrs. P. prob- bably didn’t get any vacation thrill over my filling the silo. In the old days when labor was so scarce we ‘Had to' use Getiftan” prisoiiers, she used to help out by driving a truck. But this summer, thanks to a new Holland forage crop hLar- vester, we got the silo filled in no ‘time. and sh2 didn't have to help. A few years ago, we used to spend a week of backbreaking toil, cutting down corn, stooping over to pick up the bundles, loading it on trucks and feeding it into an en- silage cutter. But this year thanks to the forage crop harvester, the crop was automatically picked up in the field, chewed into fine bits, spewed into trucks and then blown up into the silo. Instead of twenty men for a week, we used six men for four days. saving machinery has done to the farm. However, Mrs. P. did have quite a time with her dog, which finally brought forth two pups, compared with my cat which had three kit- tens. And farm life was not en- tirely dull. We took in a swell movie, “The Lawless”; sued Fred Howser, the attorney general of California for $500,000 (he having sued, me for $300,000); and enter- tained King Peter of Yugoslavia, a very democratic Iittlé guy who was just as courteous in meeting our cook as in meeting a senator. Oh, yes, I forgot to say that in order not to be too hardhearted, I took Mrs, P. up to Long Island where we took in the trotting races at George Morton Levy's beautiful Roosevelt Raceway, visited my old y should at least have silenced for and at prices in our estimation were higher than for a fair profit. also was paid $975.50 by Committee of which he was a member for printing pamphlets and for which no bids were asked. printing without bid. lwus an attempt to abolish the Development Board as a “fifth wheel” because of its duplicating work done by Chambers of Commerce and other agencies, but the “wise guys” arranged things so that Mr. Sugdborg gets a paltry sum of $14,000 per year. It is also recalled that Stanley McCutcheon, glib- tongued Democratic House whip, received $5628.42 in Ilegal fees over the protest of Auditor Frank Boyle. ITTLE CASSINO” N s’ } But to get back to printing and bids: We have it !from a reliable source in Juneau that Auditor, Boyle agency to “thwart the purpose of the law” in many ‘We understand the ADB also made out several everything over $250 is supposed to go to bid. According to the Auditor’s office a ruling has been ADB and other agencies can claim ‘that printing vices.” item of expense to taxpayers. P | men” also have an uncanny way of having business A ftaliec du /bho nt/khs hnrdeft-fought £zgagEmenty. in the different cities at election time, traveling about That’s what labor-' did nothing to lessen the valor of have done their best to perpetuate man's ability to fight can be judged is skin. the Statehood Sundborg of the Development Board Remember, there The highest Territory! And we ask you, FOR bills for which no bids had been ney General when asked for an opin- was possible for an -administrative for covering one job to Baker since that there are some conscientious ritorial employees and officials, but tied. In the aggregate each year thing which we do not hesitate to official duties, which means a con- “Machine “official business” at the expense of erritory needs is a house-cleaning. Istone embattlements reminding us of a war just as bloody'as that in ' Korea, where brothers and cousins ‘of the north and south battled wgainst’ each other-—a grim remind- er that wars seem to continue as !long as man is man. ! Well, that was our vacation, ! which I think Mrs. P. enjoyed rea- sonably well—especially the canoe trip that cost only fifty cents. And I came back, still the incurable op- timist, hoping that some day wars can be stopped and that the de- bacle in Korea may be one falter- ing step toward stopping them. ASSIGNMENT CHANGED Alva Blackerby is being assigned | the regional office, division of oper- ations, Forest Service effective to- day, it was announced by Frank B. ( Heintzleman, regional forester. {Malcolm E. Hardy is replacing Blackerby as supervisor of the Ad- miralty division. SCHWINN BIKES AT MADSEN'S ® 0 0o 00 0.0 0 0 0 0 . . . TIDE TABLE . . . . AUGUST 29 L ® High tide 2:45 am, 17.7 ft. ® ® Low tide 8:59 am., -16ft. e e High tide 3.3 p.m, 176 ft. e e Low tide 9:18 pm., -02ft. e o o o o o ° o THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA Wasted Taxpayers Money . . Germany on the threshold of dictatorship was described to Chamber —_— . AUGUST 28 ® |of Commerce members and guests by Attorney General John Rustgard, ::;:o"“w-"m' (Ketchikan Daily News) . ® |who was just back from an extended European trip. He and Mrs. 3 When one considers the amount of taxpay . Thomas L. George ® |Rustgard had vactioned in Norway, Denmark, Sweden. Germany and nce, $7.60; | money in the Territory politically wasted, it is very|® WilforJ JIbESEe ®|France. Just returned from less extensive travels, Maj. L. E. Atkins difficult to remain calm. . Glenn Earl Allen L3 i A # ? < L will promptly notify 3 R f i 8 There are so many loopholes for those so inclined | ® John C. Martinsen o | spoke ‘""’”Y‘ on Alasks alfairs. ; As engineering officer of the Alaska Im waste the taxpayers’ money that it is hard to]e® George Phillips @ |Road Commission, he had madg his first survey of the interior and ,spmulwr or estimate the aggregate sum. . Everett E. Smith o |the northern road system. Major Atkins told the Chamber that ex- Let's take printing gs one instance, also -showing|® Thomas Burns ® [tension of the air mail system to Alaska was impeartive. othier. the loose interpretation of the law for bidding on]® Cyril Hansen b e s Sevs ou work. ® Mrs. Charles Naghel . ®F V. H DeBolt, Dougles School superintendent, arrived on the Prin- l For instance in two months ending May 15,|® Gene Vuille ® | ess Louise. Among Douglas teachers arriving were Miss Edla Holbrook, 1950, the records show that W. L. Baker of The Phyllis Krasilovsky ® | Mrs. Felix Gray's niece; Miss Margaret Pimberton and Miss Helen Mac- Chronicle received $5600, much of which was without{e e ©¢ © ¢ ©¢ ¢ ¢ e o @ BARANOF HOTEL BUSINESS FALLS OFF THIS YEAR Juneau hotel business is follow- ing the trend now prevalent all over the states since the end of the war with a 12 to 15 per cent drop in occupancy, William R. Hughes, manager of the Baranof Hotel said today. During June, July and thus far in August of this year there have been on the average 450 rooms vacant monthly he revealed. Two years ago aver- age occupancy was about 95 per cent, where now there is only 75 to 80 per cent, For the fiscal year 1948-49 the Baranof did $30,000 less business | than during the previous year and with the present downward trend it will be $50,000 less this year, he said. The Baranof has one of the largest private payrolls in Juneau which amounts to $176,000 annually, Hughes attributes the cause to lack of payroll here and general conditions. He pointed out that boom conditions still existed in the Interior where hotels are running 115 to 125 per cent full—but no such condition exists here. PROUTY BACK FROM . E. ALASKA TOUR; GOING TO HAINES The Rev. Paul Prouty returned Saturday evening aboard the Princeton-Hall from a ‘compléte coverage of Southeast Alaska cities. Accompanying the Rev. Prouty was the Rev. Murlin Day, chaplain at the Mt. Edgecumbe school and hospital and temporarily represent- ing'the American Bible Society. The Rev. Paul Evans and family of Wrangell visited points of in- terest while aboard the missionary boat including Sheldon Jackson Junior College. The purpose of Evan’s trip was to get a better view of the Presbyterian Church’s work in Southeast Alaska to assist him | in his work at Wrangell. “A spirit of enthusiasm and en- larged activity is very apparent on the campus at Sheldon Jackson Junior College,” the Rev. Prouty said. He leaves aboard the Princeton- Hall late this week for Haines and Skagway. Mr. and Mrs. John Hope, of Ju- | neau, left here for Fairbanks via PAA Saturday to attend the funeral | of Mr, Hope’s adopted brother, Wil- liam Siveley, who was drowned there last week. They will be gone Bbout two weeks in order to visit with relatives in that city. | | Some families of chickens are low | in hatchability of eggs. | FLEISCHMANN on a product is like 24 carat on gold—the finest it can be. Try FLEISCHMANN GIN and be convinced. A 3 boss, Herbert Bayard Swope, and 1. sng%?slfio ::, ::::::T:::: to my old student, Ernest Cuneo, went| o Zodlag Elis salling on the sound and relaxed| ° ~top wall 4. American Sl 9. Purpose humorist EENSTALY, 12, Wooden 5. Continent is, calmallse 37. Mistake Canoe Trip 14, Swiss canton 39 Short for a 15. Moves to man's name action 40. A considerable 17. Spring month number vacation was the Sunday when 1| 19. Mu;lral :i %}l’:levhl:lblnnum took Mrs. P. on a canoe trip up the | 20, sify st of the - dste o i course 45. King of beasts old l?llesapeake and Ohio canal, 21. Aboriginal 46, Egret dug 120 years ago, long before the New 48. Figures shaped ailr calander Iike a pieca railroads, Lq connect Washington 23. Opened nuts of pie with the Ohio River and the Miss-| 26. At home 1. Unit of work issippi. Starting from in front of | & il forth 53 Mahtonied our house, we paddled up to Sen- appur- b4. Female deer tenance 65. Small eca, where the canal barges once transhipped their cargoes, then re- turned down the bosom of the Potomac—a most turbulent bosom at that point with so many rapids that we spent half the time in the water rather than in the canoe. I confess that the war news from Korea hung like a cloud over much of our vacation. But out on that historic river where you could see no sign of human habitation, you could almost forget that two parts of the world were tearing at each other’s throats; forget what a mess man has made of modern civil- ization. Almost, but not quite. Gone from the Potomac were the sharpened poles which once pointed down to- ward the river on the Maryland ¢ide to keep the Johnny Rebs from c g from Virginia. But still present on the river bank were the But I think the best part of lhé“ Crossword Puzzle Solution of Saturday's Puzzle ‘ 66. Laths 67. Female sheep DOWN 1. Cut off 2. Organ of hearing 3. Town in Maine Prisoner | Grafted: | heraldry | Pronoun Chinese measure . Gamut . Jellyfish . Biblical character . Wire measure- ment Greater amount . Influence: slang clip 5. 6. 1. King of the golden touch Aromatic seed Sound of a bagpipe . Concluded . Actions g Cl? in New ork state . Move apart o) Pl . Part of a plant Finger ornaments Positive pole For fear that Chop . Propel a boat . Understand Dutch meter from 120 YEARS AGO THE EMPIRE et et i} AUGUST 28, 1930 Donald. Miss Marie Brennen, popular night operator for the Juneau Tele- phone Company, returned to the switchboard after an enforced absence of eight days. Her shoulder had been dislocated when she slipped and fell on a wet sidewalk. Miss Iris Heath, former clerk in the office of Gov. George A. Parks, returned on the Aleutian after making the Grand Circle Tour, covering the Yukon River, Interior and Alaska Railroad points. Mrs. E. J. Martin entered St. Ann’s Hospital for a minor operation. Mrs. Ann White also was admitted to the hospital. John Loukars was brought here by air from Tenakee and taken to the hospital for treat- ment of a cut leg. Margaret Vernon of Ketchikan, William V. Southergate, C. J. Kearney and Madge Williams of Vancouver, B. C., were registered at the Gas- tineau Hotel. Among guests at the Alaskan were Andrew Hovisk of Port Althorp, Sam Odaber and F. Coleman. With school about to reopen, there was a regular “epidemic” of ton- silectomies. Living on liquids and_not disturbing other patients in St. Ann’s Hospital with noise were Robert Karsten, R. Hermann, Benjamin Melvin and Herman Dawes. Weather: High. 67; low, 46; clear. 2 e f Daily Lessons in English 3. 1. corpon || WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “She posssses many admir- able female traits.” Say, “FEMININE traits.” OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Rapacious. Pronounce ra-pa-shus, first A as in ASK unstressed, second A as in PAY: accent second syllable. OFTEN MISSPELLED: Isaiah (Hebrew prophet); observe the AIA. SYNONYMS: Garrulity, talkativeness, loquacity, loquaciousness. WORD STUDY: “Use a word three times and it is yours.” Let us] increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today's word: INFLEXIBILITY; firmness in will or purpose. “His very inflexibility spires confidence in the man.” A e ——————— MODERN ETIQUEITE Rosers 1mm. | Q. If there is to be a double wedding, and the britles aré Sisters, what is the order of the procession down the ¢hurch’ aisle? L | .. A. All the ushers walk down first, followed by all the bridesmaids. The older bride, preceded by her maid df Hohor, ds: off: th# Hght arm of her father. Next comes the second maid of honor, followed by the second | bride, escorted by a brother or near relative. o Q. When a girl is with her escort at a night club and wishes to leave the table to go to the powder room, what should she say? A. “Will you excuse me” is sufficient. Q. Should soft-boiled eggs be eaten with the fork or spoon? A. These should be eaten with the spoon. 1. | disease? 2. Of what land are the Maoris the native inhabitants? 3. Who discovered a preventive treatment for hydrophobia? 4. Who in ancient history was the famous leader of the Cathaginian army? 5. What musical instrument and geometic figure have the same |name? ' i | ANSWERS: [ Al 1. An infectious disease is any disease caused by the entrance, growth |and multiplication of bacteria or protozoans in the body; a contagious disease is one spread by direct contact of skin or coughing, such as | diphtheria. 2. New Zealand. 3. Louis Pasteur. 4. Hannibal. 5. The triangle. What is the difference between a contagious and an infectious MRS. 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NOW AVAILABLE HERE T iy There is 'a: call ‘for a’ilicensed mate and an AB, Seaman, Gus Gisberg manager of the Territorial dE::jyy:loyment Service, a\m}vuncgd to- Employment ' openingg jn_several specialized fields also exist, he sajd: A'male fiscal accountant Wil minimum of five years government accounting expen'ence is needed, also a blue print machine oper- ator, a bookkeeping machine oper-; ator, an architect, a tile setter,| general clerk typists, and account-| ing clerk typists, There is a call for laundry work- ers and Gissberg anticipates mote calls for baby sitters about the time school starts. V.F. W. Taku Post No. 5559 Meeting ievery Thursday in “the C.I.O. Hall at 8:00 p.m. | Brownie's Liquor Store Fhene 103 139 Be. Fraskila P. O. Box 3508 4 S L GEORGE BROS. Widest Selection of LIQUORS PHONE 399 The Erwin Feed Co. Office in Case Lot Grocery Phone 104 e HAY, GRAIN, COAL and STORAGE STEVENS® LADIES'—MISSES’ | READY-TO- Beward Street Near Third The Charles W. 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