The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 5, 1950, Page 4

PAGE FOUR Dml \ fluai.a melrc PRINTING COMP Streets, Junca Oftice . SUBSCRIPTION RATES as for S1.50 per month; MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS Tuesday, December 5, 1950 GEORGE DIXON REPORT Alask: the latest developments I currently debating the isssue W are not interested have been following the reports from the 10 especially status of the proposed state- from Korea, biggest news in the on the arring s been the news new. King Feature “Washington eminent writer for wthor of the famous y in his ttle Post , hrush | g hours cooling his heels bitterness mounted in his soul, for Gov. in ar would feeling these days Ernest Alaska. Territo the Sen- 081~ our Northwest hard bench outside are forming on his disp: of calluses holds high public office, Governor is being treated as if he were the collector hand auto financing company. around waiting. talk to the from the way he is ants to senators about statehood B being given the All he| | brushoff, you might think he wanted to sell them clean postear 1 It | are bustling 15, is a pathetic sight. Capitol cbrridor: with activity and excitement. Cuurim‘s! | are Senators are importantly | | holding conferences on almost any| other subject you could name. Everybody is conferring | | with somebody. Everybody but Governor Gruening. | really coming and going. corridor press Everybody ignores him — with the exception of| | Delegate Joseph R. Farrington of Hawaii. who is in| | the same boat. If they didn’t have each other talk to, they'd probably forget how to talk. It isn't so tough on Delegate Farrington because he has a home here in Washington. He can retire to the botom of his family at night and unbosom himse!f. But Governor Gruening unburden himself except the Cosmos Club, to has no one to whom he can night doorman at th where he is putting up. Alaska’s chief executive flew down here last week | ) be Johnny-on-the-spot for the reopening of Con- | High hopes for action on Alaskan statehood | in his heart. But when he presented himself it the portals of the Senate, he was told to take a seat and wait. He waited. He waited all week. When last seen was still waiting. But like the poor book peddler who craves only a minute of the big man’s time to ¢ll him of the wonderful bargain going a-begging, a hearing. beat e 1e was getting no nearer to a I didn't rec ind forlorn. He's small in stature anyway, but after his experience he scems to have shrunk. I was in- roduced to him at last by Sen. Warren G. Magnuosn ington. rnor Gruening gave me a wan smile. or speaking to me,” he said. He declared he would continue to sit as long as thought there was even the slightest chance of ac- ion on statehood. The thing that baffles Governor Gruening is why Alaskan statehood is being given the stand-off. Who, 1e asks anyone who will listen, is against it? “Everybody seems be for it,” he sighs hag- ardly. t a sensible argument is being advanced ainst it. Yet here I am—sitting around like a bum n a park bench—being given the brushoff by every- “Thanks 1€ to vernor Gruening said he was prepared to meet and all arguments against statehood. “They can’t advance the argument that we don’t e enough population,” he said. “We have 132,000. t is more than most States had when they were idmitted to the Union. California, now the second nost populous State, had 90000 when it came in. “They we're too isolated. I came down from Juneau in 20! hours. Not so long ago took that long to go to Chicago.” when I go up to the Capitol and see Governor Gruening waiting meekly on the corridor bench, I wonder how many governors of States would e the brushoff h taking. Jan picture Warren of California s can’t argue Each day, | tal | Vi hat in har Or New York's Dewey? s?m wa,h-ngton Merry-Go- Round Continued froin Page Onue) | Latinos very the farmer Nebraska, had i lean years prior the chief reason reason for the American meat, cotton—namely, consuming more. Anyway, the aghast British Labor Rebels neighbor policy iccident, it happened that the | coffee probe, A-bomb statement hit the before the Senate Comm during a major | right Assist. policy debate, h 63 warned that Gil ers led by Tom Driberg) into Communist Mikardo, of Laber's Na-| sighted ator Executive body, proposing|of New Mexico d vel conferences between the|the quietus on I west before taking any | Iowa, sions on Korea. necusly came a speech by | n demanding confer- A on and Wash- 1s ‘a London Daily Mail goading Attlee with the Churchill would have oss the Atlantic Minister. mosphere of ex- m {rom both Conser- that Prime Min- shown atement indicating that| Now that Tho of the A-bomb was |feated, Senator At this, about 100 | & friendly commi members Parlia- | 1€W C. President was in of issuing a clarifying which came three hours But Gillette had the support the Senate Agri and he stood didn’t figure on, Washington M pc cotton, tive of t the chi hurchill stating that | committee. However, here payoff. The eff Gillette stirred of the factors erica is mow cor he want- | us in the face, put b('m( Truman, ‘Three hours after the first tatement on the A-bomb, clarifying White House that under the law only dent can authorize . bomb and that no gest rization had been given smarting . tions of dropped the pull out of States ritain should Desperately sh we have turned has the ts in the t coffee from ti the on manganese, i ticc and Defense long way be- investigation staged or from Iowa and this preparedness for war; a connnection just the seem a war Meanwhile, hort that mobiles, cther ci almost certain cause of dwindli Other strategic 1 coffee o so t there's involved—materials America has and which we are go- | to need vitally in case of all- out war. All of grocery commod- Jju uls store market, However, ation and UA New Y the probe wa when it blax American coffee growers for pi increases, it was like blaming Iowa corn farmers for the increased price of corn. Thus the injustice piobe, which made headlines in satin - America, was the b:c~k the Communists e had | the election - def 50 of the Rio Grande. It also Jeader Scott Luc: 1 millions of hitherto 1x|t:n_li) “I'm terribly \ 2 brickbats, as ette—need to ge the good Truman’s D talking about the special sessi iggest | waxed a little to of Gillette's tuin sour Latin American coffee growers of Towa, suffered ———————— | fee prices was identical State at the harm done our good placed Secretary We Need Latin America was Thomas of Oklahoma, the first him at the polls. chairman Ellender of Louisiana nber and signed | Plans to abolish the -coffee- pwbef news from Korea and Indo-China. | biggest manganese de- use Brazil also happens to be the big- grower Gillette | Though she is now helping us out same enthusiasm 5 American peiple—instead of throw- neighbor President Truman did some blunt Congressional “unfinished business” indeed. Because | Truman. “What are you planning [to do?” | “I don't know yet,” replied Lucas remely | “I intend to take a rest after the And | special session, but have no plans cof- | beyond that.” the “Well, before you do anything, be increased price of sure to talk to me. I have someé corn, wheat and!thing in mind for you.” that the world is Note—The President didn’t speci- fy what jobs he was considering for Lucas. However, Lucas, together with Myers of Pennsylvania and Tydings of Maryland, have all indi- cated they will not take govern- ment jobs—though this is a time when experienced men in govern- ment are desperately needed. RUBY RAISES $66.39 FOR CANCER SOCIETY The citizens of Ruby, a small village cn the Yukon River, sent in ! a contribution of $66.39 to Ms. | Mildred Hermann, Alaska Division- | al Commander of the American Cancer Society. She received it to- day and said that no special solic- itation had been made but that it was appreciated. Mrs. Hermann said that the con- | tribution was four times the na- tional per capita average and had been raised largely through a “white elephant” sale, like | Ke to the for incre with Department, by the Gillett all the facts committee. Forth- Ed. Miller llette was playing hands, while far- Clinton Anderson did his best to put his colleague from stunborn. He ‘Cotton Elmer” chairman of culture Committee pat. What Gillette however, was that Go-Round ex- speculation in would defeat o mas has’ been de- | Gillette is without | ize him at first, he looked so alone | & THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE--JUNEAU, ALASKA \\\\ | Iy December 5 Archie Betts Norma Fournie Art Mantyla Jimmie Harmon Barbara Smith William Rodenberg Selma Maki Bill Goodman Keith Petrich Sigrid E. Rineberg Yvonne Lester Mrs. o o o ® o o o o FWS CALLING ALL GOAT CATCHERS Here’s something for rugged, un- employed outdoorsmen! The Fish and Wildlife Service | will open bids on December 26 for the capture of live,wild, mountain goats, for delivery by May 1. Catch- | ing these agile mnimals alive is not | exactly an pusher, The minimum ‘that will be ac- cepted is one female and the maxi- mum, 14 females and six males. They are to be transplanted on Chichagof and Kodiak Islands. De- livery can be made at FOB Anchor- age, Seward, Skagway, Haines, Ju- neau, Petersburg or Ketchikan, FWS officials said. It is hoped can be transplanted. Rid forms can be obtained at any FWS office. DEMONSTRATION ON YULE DECORATIONS SCHEDULED FRIDAY Miss Hallene Price, Distr] Demonstration agent, wil a demonstration showing ideas for Christmas gitts Christmas decorations, Frida; ember 8 at the City Hall, ning at 1:30 pm. Miss Price sug- gests that you bring a pencil and ver, cutting scissors in case you wish to cut some patterns. She also would like you to take any patterns or Christmas suzgestions that you would like to share with your neizhbers. t Home give some and Dec- (Iud(d in Miss Price’s demons n are tree decorations made with aper and paste, the making of #nd a game board. Everyone is wel- come and invited to attend. DON'T EXPECT THE MOON... Don't get over-enthusiastic when making out your Christ- ttee chairman, and | | SCHWINN BIKES AT MADSEN’S mas ‘‘hint’’ list. Remember that Santa is only hubby. i is the unpleas:mt; ect of the furor up in Latin Am-| ming back to slap | following the bad . Portion of & curve . Custom 30. Australian bird . Thought out Draw together 34. Masonic doorkeeper Rash . Dim . Western ACROSS . Moccgsin . Competent . Post 1t . Scottish highlander . Altar_end of a church . Pertaining to the present . Whirl 18, Cooking ort of manganese, to Brazil, which he Americas. But Indian 29. Excited . Airtight chamber . The moon 5. Serpents Born Not so much . Remainder . Number of things and is still he unfair accusa- committee. | . Foolishness b . : 22! Coat with lea t is not with the T as in the last nganese is getting efrigerators, autp- vilian products are | 0 be curtailed be- | ing steel. | materials are also | which Latin [Hmir] REEEER Solution of Yesterday's Puzzle DOWN 1. Tame animal 2. Era Entanglements Anguish Prohibits 6. Meadow . Addition to a buildin ick- 3. 4 temporary © use Comrades. Court - order Dread which is why the | Mythical Thick parnan underxra\mfl did Senator Gill- t back to working stem Tennysonian character - policy. efeated Friend Obligation Grasp Burns on the leaders | on opened, but he sentimental abouL eat of his Senate | as of Illinois. sorry, Scott,” said \ | D Malarial fever Demons )il that eventually 200 of the animals | begin- | {as in CAKE, O as in NOT, accent second syllable). 1 A few of the specific things in- | activity for a cookie | | |a score of 24-12 and the High School boys' team was defeated by the | | frosted candles, a few stuffed toys,|a separate one to each of the sons and daughters. |at a dinner table? Weather at Alaska Points Weather conaiuions ana temper- atures at various Alaska points also on the Pacific Coast, at 4:30 ani, 120th Meridian Time, and released by the Weather Bureau are as follows: | Anchorage .. Annette Island Barrow Bethel .. Cordova Dawson Edmonton Fairbanks Haines Havre . Juneau Au’pon, Kodiak Kotzebue | McGrath ome Fresh killed chickens, shipped from the States, were offered in|Northway | Juneau stores at 30 cents per pound and sugar was selling at 75 cemslPewer‘"g | Port for a three-pound jar. p:i;]c‘:nd Szattle Sitka the biggest November movement of the yellow metal ! Whitehorse YakuLat 120 YEARS AGO e empize DECEMBER 5, 1930 Under the terms of a deal being consumated, Ketchikan interests | were combining with Juneau capital and entering the local hardware and furniture field it was revealed by Glenn Carrington, representing the Ketchikan interests. Carrington, his long-time business associates John W. Jones, J. B. Warrack and J. R. Heckman were acquiring a large interest in the Juneau-Young Hardware Company. They held a similar interest in the furniture department of the Heckman stare‘; in Ketchikan. Oliver M. Olson, who took over the C. W. Young Hard- ware Company and the Juneau Hardware Company, consoldating them, five years before, was to retain his connection with the firm but was retiring from active business because of poor health and planned to live in the south. Jones was to manage the store. 15—Snow : 9—Rain | -2—Show -4—Cloudy . 33—Cloudy | .. 1—Snow| -11—Clear | -1—Snow | 17—Cloudy -19—Clear .. 18—Snow 27—Partly Cloudy -11—Cloudy o -26—Clear l— Partly Cloudy e -3—Cloudy 33—Rain 43—Cloudy -19—Clear 42—Cloudy 38—Rain 2—Cloudy 31—Cloudy ! Officers elected for the year at the regular meeting of the Women of the Moose were: Senior Rgent, Mrs. Starr; Junior Regent, Mrs. Bender; Chaplain, Mrs. Anna Rodenberg; Recorder, Mrs. Gertie Olsen; Treasurer, Mrs. O. Harri. The Christmas Committee was as follows: Mesdames Bodding, Jarman, Radelet and Osborne. George Shipments of gold from Alaska to the States in November aggre- gated $1,380,631, |since the boom days of the Territory it was revealed in the monthly | statement issued by J. C. McBride Collector of Customs. The High School Girls' basketball team defeated the' Alumni by‘RE(I.AMATIO" BUREAU CONSIDERING ASKING FOR DOROTHY PROJECT “The Bureau of Reclamation is considering the advisability of seek- ing authorization the $16,000,000 Lake Dorothy power project,” Jo- seph Morgan, chief fof thé Investi- gations Division, Bureau of Re- clamation said today! A preliminary report has already been made and can be brought up to date with a little additional work, he said. “Although author- ization could be granted by the Congress it is likely that construc- tion wbuld be held until such time as there was gvidence of a market for the power. Present plans cali for 30,000 kw with two submarine cables across Taku Inlet each to carry 69,000 volts. From Point Bish- op to a substation near Juneau, the power lines would be on trans- mission towers. Authorization will be sought from the new Congress for the construc- tion of the Swan Lake project near Ketchikan, Morgan revealed. This men’s Alumni by a sore of 41-13 in a doubleheader played in the chool gym. x raifi. Weather: High, 45; low, 43; S e g Daily Lessons in English % 1. corpox | B e e R e PNy WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “I look badly today.” If you really look badly, you had better have your eyes. fitted with cor- rective lenses. - Instead, say, “I look BAD today.” OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Environment. Pronounce en-vi-run- ment, I as in VICE, four syllables and accent the second syllable. OFTEN MISSPELLED: Appellation; two P’s and two L’s. SYNONYMS: Licentious, lascivious, lewd, disolute, profligate. 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: CHAOTIC; completely confused; disordered. (Pronounce ka-ot-ik, A “He brought the | city out of its chaotic condition.” R 1 MODERN ETIQUETTE % perra rzm ) Q. How many wedding invitations should be sent to a family where theer are several grown sons and daughters? A. Send one invitatlon addressed to the father and mother, nnd - with 13,500 kw capacity, he said. FROM BETHEL Misses Patricia Wilde and Joyce Slocim, Alaska Native Service nurs- es from Bethel were in Juneau to- day enroute to Mt. Edgecumbe. They arrived- here yesterday from ( Fairbanks via PAA. { Q. How should a maid hold a dish as she presents it to the guests A. The dish should be held flat on the palm of her left hand, and presented at the left of the guest. If the dish is hot, a napkin can be used as a pad underneath, Q. When a woman extends her bare hand to a man, should he re- move his glove before taking her hand? A. Yes; but this is not necessary if her hand is gloved, too. LOOK and lEARN A C. GORDON How many nerves does the human body contain? Which is the brightest planet? What is the popular drug used for enlarging the pupil of the ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR Experienced House Wiring Electrical Marine Repair Phone Red 290 Juneau, Alaska V.F. W Taku Post No. 5559 Meeting every Thursday in the C.I.O. Hall at 8:00 p. D, The Erwin Feed Co. Office tn Case Lot Grooery Phose 14 HAY, GRAIN, COAL and STORAGE Which is the largest Canadian province? What composer is responsible for the music of “Show Boat”? ANSWERS: More than 10 million. Venus. Belladonna. Quebec. Jerome Kern. | There is no substitute for Newspaper Advertisingt 5. Besides STEVENS® IES'—MISSES’ %Y—m“fl GEORGE STRAGIER as a paid-ap subsecriber w0 THE VAILY ALASEKA EMPIRE is invited to be our guest THIS EVENING Present this coupon to the box office of the CAPITOL THEATRE and receive TWO TICKETS to see: "THE LOST ONE” Federal Tax—1%c Paid by the Theatre Phone 14—YELLOW CAB CO.—Phene 22 and an insured cab WILL CALL FOR YOU and RETURN YOU to your home with our compliments. WATCH THIS SPACE—Your Name May Appear! The Charles W. Carter Oldest Bank in Alaska 1891—0ver Half a Century of Banking—1950 The B. M. Behrends Bank Safety Depoiu Boxes for Rent 'COMMERCIAL SAVINGS Quality Work Clothing will be a ten million dollar project || TUESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 19 MOUNT JUNEAU LODGE NO. SECOND and FOURTR @ B.r.0 ELKS Meeting every Wednesday at . M. Visiting brothers welcom P WALLIS S. GEORGE, Exalte Ruler, W. H. BIGGS, Secretar, Mecose Lodge No. 7( Regular Meetings Each Frida) - Governor— ARNOLD L FRANOCIS Secretary— WALTER R. HERMANSEN Brownie's Liquor Fheme 103 139 Se. Frankih P. O. Box 2400 "The Rexall Store” Your Reliable Pharmadists 3 BUTLER-MAURO DRUG CO. Alaska Music Supply Arthur M. Uggen, Manager Pianss—Musical Instruments and Supplies -Phone 208 . Second and Phone 54 GENERAL PAINTS and WALLPAPER Ideal Paint Store Pred W. Wena T e St Card Beverage Ce. ! ‘Wholesale 805 10th s3. PHONE 216—DAY er NIGH] The Alaskan Hotd WALT HATLIN Thomas Hardware (m( Remington J. B. Burford Ce.. “Our Doorstep Is Wern by Satiafied Customers™ FORD A ] GENCY GREASES — GAS — OIL Junean Motor Ce. " oot of Main Street JUNEAU DAIRIES D. ELICIOUS ICE CRE » dally habit—ask for i by & Juneau Dalries, Inc. | HOME GROCERY Phones 146 and 34! S ———————————— Yo Banish “Blue Monda' To ve you more fred ¢ for MIXERS er SODA POP