The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 21, 1950, Page 4

PAGE FOUR Daily Alaska Empire ' | hope will reach us all. All of us admire and appreciate | the efforts of those in town who have decorated for Publistied every evening except Sunday by the Christmas. EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY Second and Main Streets, Juneau, Alaska 3 HELEN TROY MONSEN - % g - President A LOST ART? DOROTHY TROY LINGO - - - Vice-President i LS ELMER A, FRIEND - = = = Managing Editor B B Batered in the Post_Office in Juncau as Second Class Matter, An ancient art fast being lost to modern man is/ SUBSCRIPTION RATES: t fire- § i SR st by Lt 1o Teatae Aad Deugias foc $100 34 menin; | 1AL of Aire-DUHCY Within 18 JnSmoerin o taes! six months, $8.00; one year, §15.00 middle-aged Americans ability to lay.and kindle fires By mail, postage paid, at the following rates: s # ) # 4 One yeur in advance, $15.00; six months, in sdvance, $7.50; | Of various types was a houschold essential. That day one month, in advance, $1.50. e x Yoy B R cater & favor if.they wil promptly notry | 188 Passed, perhaps forever. the Business Office of any failure or irresularity in the delivery At the turn of the century most homes in the of their papers. 4 Telephones: News Office, 602; Business Office, 374. United States were heated either by stoves or furn- MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS aces. Grates and fireplaces still played an important The Assoclated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for | winter role. Kitchen cooking was done, in large republfcation of all news dispatches credited to it or not other- o wise credited In this paper and also the local news published | measure, on coal or wood ranges. Stores, offices and Lot 2 even industrial plants depended in large measure on NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVES — Alaska Newspapers, 1411 | small individual heating plants. Pourth Avenue Blds., Seattle, Wash. p Youngsters gorwing up in those days knew the | mysteries of kindling. They knew exactly how to crinkle the paper or how fo splinter the “fat” wood which, in many sections was the initial lighting =m:\l(‘rml. They knew how to place logs on a fire- place; how to pile “chun in a heating stove. They seldom smothered the first faint blazes in the kitchen range with an overdose of They had flames crackling and the kettles singing in a jiffy. How diffeernt it is now! If most city schoolboys came face to face with the nece of the morning frres in heating stoves or kitchen ranges, coal. ity Thursday, December 21, 1950 flhv\ 'd be both hungry and cold before the task could |be accomplished. Usually this lack of knowledge is | READY FOR THE HOL Juneau is getting dres holiday air. * Early snow this year prepared us weeks ago for a occasional white Christmas, though the thaws since the snows began have whiteness around town. With only two more shopping da mas, most of us are remembering nc of a year ago, and making them o year our cards will be in the mail Next year there will be no last minute rush. Next year, we will arrange ahead of time mr] Christmas decorations for the entrance to The Empire. | When we do so little ourselves a it does not become us to urge others to decorate for Christmas—but we do. The Christmas windows that hav around town indicate much thought, originality and work on the part of the designers. The decorations add to the Christmas: spirit we ed up for Christmas and the decorated windows of the stores in town, the lighted trees in the residential areas orations on home sand in yards are giving the town a not important. But there have been times when it has brought suffering. Thousands of cases of frost- bite among troops in the Arctic in World War IT IDAYS? could have been prevented had the men known. the simple art of fire-building. The cheer and comfort or an open fire has been recognized by the human race since time immemorial The ability to create fire started man on the road to civilization. It seems strange, then, that this basic skill now should be lost to so many city dweller: In prosperous suburbs it is retained, sometimes only Christmas dec- rains and muddled up the ARMORY BUILDING PROGRAM STOPPED BY PRESENT CRISIS There will be no armoris Alaska during the present cri: g to Col. Joseph Alexander, Acting Adjutant General Alaska National Guard. He has returned from Washington, D.C., where he attended a conference of the Na- tional Guard Bureau. here will be no federal funds i 20 YEARS AGO £%': empirE e P e e e e ) DECEMBER 21, 1930 . | Tnis cdition was the big 28-page Christmas issue of The Empire, . December 21 ® | with a four-color lithographed cover page, and filled with latest news, » ® | Christmas features and the many Christmas greeting ads from Juneau . Donna Wood ot . Herbert Mead e . Joe C. Johnston . T T AT . Mus. Thomas Dahl 3 The Yuletide festivities began this day when Juneau’s Community . Hazel Foster o | Christmas tree burst forth in a myriad of gaily colored electric lights . Mrs. Thomas Howard e |and the joyous strains of Christmas carols filled the wintry air. A ° Tessie Milligan o lla crowd of Juneau residents participated in the celebration. The ° Mrs. Amos Reid ® | program was arranged by the Juneau Woman's Club. The City crew . ?‘:{“";""C__do“s‘i‘l‘l ® | erected the big tree at Triangle Place at the foot of Seward Street 2 B ® |and the Alaska Electric Light and Power Company furnished the elec- 9 0 9:0 & ¢ .8 99 W W }“," ity and wired the colored outdoor lights. Michael Kornssos at St. Ann’s Hospital. 4 g | am Angell and Miss Lyle Morris of Haines were married in the | parson of the Lutheran Church, with offici They were atténded by Mr .and Mrs. | The groom was connected with the U. S. Signal Corps at Chilkoot | Ba Wi Robert Killewich. acks and the bride was one of the popular young ladies of Haines. | Having won all games played in the basketball tournament held at Haines the previous week, the Douglas Hi cagers and coach Lluydi |Rinden returned home on the Fornance. Teams entered in the tourna-| |ment were from the Douglas, Juneau, Haines and Skagway high schools | F at Chilkoot B . The Douglas Hi team was| ion of the Lynn Canal division. and Company |declared cham available for ' a Natlonal Guad The primar; le pupils of Mrs. Pear] Burford’s piano classes| armory ar place through d\ci" bl for Thet 3 3 . d ekt batt were Mute funding program for the fiscal year,8ave @ recita or their parents and friends. Taking parl were Harry e P ional Guard armories | Sperling, Jr., Leroy Vestal, Keith Petrich, Jessie Kilroy, Martha Pet- are another casualty of the present crisis,” said Col. Alexander. Enroute to Washington, Col. Alexs ander_ attended a civil defense meeting of state and city directors in Chicago. Discussed at the meets {by Boy Scouts, householders who own gasless fi places and outdoorsmen who go camping. - Modern gadgets even have invaded the latter field. We know several grizzled woodsmen who wouldn’t venture into the wildern without a portable gasoline stove aid a supply of fuel! What, we wonder, is this old world coming to? ys before Christ- ow our resolution ver again. Next by December 1. bout decorations, ! Many are of the opinion that Dean Acheson is the best Secretary of State the country has had since George C. Marshall. e been appearing Success is never final and failure never fatal It's courage that counts.—(Prince Rupert News.) The Washington Mem-fio-l!igld (Continued from Page One) Chinese guerrillas against the Com- | Operate together. munists, the President pointed out that it migibelemd. tovas pesaliatory i Communist move against the Phil-| ippines; also that the guerrillas are too “inaccessible” and scattered to be supplied from the air or| welded together into an effective | fighting force. Noté—The Congressmen who con- ferred with the President included Francis Whalter of Pennsylvania, Brooks Hays of Arkansas, House whip Percy Priest of Tennessee, all Democrats; with Kenneth Keating| of New York and Walter Judd of | Minnesota, Republicans. Capital News Capsules Another Music Critic—President Truman has a different opinion of at least one music critic—Mrs. Helen Knox Spain of the Atlana| Journal, who wrote such a favor- able review of Margaret's concert in Atlanta last season that the cation for war. The doctrine would} public power. The lobbyist hid in also apply to Japan, Prime Minister | Jensen's office and sent the notes Nehru informed ambassador Hend- | by messenger. . .The potent Asso- erson. ciated Farmers and National Can- Note—Nehru is not in sympathy | nery lobbies are at it again. This with the Chinese policy, believes| time they're working on the House | Europeans and Asiatics can co- | Agriculture Committee to repeal the Child Labor Law ban against farm children working during school Legal Wire-tapping {hours. . Torrid” is the latest Congressmen will give special at-y Pentagonese for critical materials tention in January to the U. S.|with high priorities. Circuit Court of Appeals decision A A AP overthrowing the Judy Coplon con- viction. In this decision, the lhreelxMAS VA(AIION PARTIES FRIDAY, judges took the unusual course of recommending legislation to Con- gress—something that judges, in our system of checks and balances, seldom do. Pointing out that the FBI had less power to arrest than the or dinary sheriff, the court récom mended that FBI powers to ar- rest be enlarged; also that certain phases of wire-tapping be declared legal when it involved “espionage, sabotage, kidnapping, extortion and national security.” be held in Jboth schools in the J. Edgar Hoover has leaned over grades tomorrow before the closing backward against any illegal use}hour. Students have been making Juneau Public and Parochial chools will close tomorrow after- noon at 2 o'clock for the Christmas holiday vacation. Classes will be resumed at the regular hours the morning of January 2 | of wire-tapping—unlike many other preparations during the past week | government agencies, the Washing- ton police and even some Senators. In fact, the protection of civil liberties would be much safer if Hoover’s Bureau alone were Allowed‘ President bubbled over with joy and telegraphed the Atlanta Jour-| nal for extra copies of Margaret's | picture. (Contrary to rumor, the President did not use profane language in his note to critic Paul Hume of the Washington Post). Senator trom to handle wire-tapping. Congress will consider all this in January. T % Senat When President Truman first e Te““{“"‘f‘)“‘)f““(,‘;t wrote last week's National Em- Ic v.:e BS ow % lr'“l’ f::“ I lfcrgency speech he called for a 4- Z, s l.e,’:’; 'He"L"]&‘“; ng A TUR| 050 600-man army and navy. At %HM 2 g :’ ; U\I «s"i,"‘:; the last minute, however, he scaled of Memphis about hiv plack bUb| e 4ouy t5 three and s half Willbn Crump warned that McKellar was| s : 7 men—a victory for the Air Force. too old. This made the Senator so| . A . The Airforce wants priority given sore that he stomped out of] 3 s Dt offioe and caughit the tirst to airplanes and weapons instead i ce and caught the first| ¢ mappower. . .Alcide De Gaspeti plane back to Washington. | A $ . 2 of TItaly is the latest European U. S. trained Germans—Without S % Premier to propose a visit to Wash- waiting for European diplomats to s ks o 3a the U. S. Army ington Chester Bowles, retiring e rms, the U. 5. AMY| Gouernor of Connecticut, has been has quietly trained 10,000 west Ger- 2 £ Sk aiaht tnder the noese 'of the offered the very important job of ;‘ &l rg 4 u‘ ler - thesnucle | directing the multibillion-dollar Russians (o serve 8 Uhe MUCIEUs runs g program to Europe. (Bowl- or ‘:h g “‘2 :e’ - prmap ;’an’d'jes hag declined the offer of ambas- 0. moneand bave baep st sador to the Philippines.). . .U. S. for the big party of the year and by their handiwork have trans- formed their class rooms into gay settings for the holiday festivities. Each room in both the schools will have its Christmas tree. Gifts will be exchanged and holiday re- freshments will be served. Sewing macnines for rent at the White Sewing Machine Center. 642-t7 1 Class room Christmas parties mui re a number of probiems from he territorial and federal levels. “There will be temporary active duty for certain Alaska National E officers,” said Col. Alexan- der. Capt. Willlam A. Angell of the First Scout Battalion will be the first officer on tempor: federal 3 sl b s SYNONYMS: Doubt (noun), distrust, mistrust, suspicion, disbelief, | our of his units. Three other|skepticism. Jut Battalion officers have been| WORD STUDY: “Use a word three times and it is yours.” Let us recommended for Today’s word: eral duty. A program for Alaska Guard officers at army schools in the States presented by Col. Alexander at the Washington conference was appraved. Six of= ficers are to attend courses during the next six months. (OAST GUARD FILM IS AVAILABLE FOR GROUP SHOWINGS A 28-minute new color 16 mm. film, “Career for Tomorrow,” on the U.S. Coast Guard Academy, is now available to groups for loan, free of chs from the Com n- der, 17th Coast Guard District here, it was announced today. The film shows interesting high= lights in the cadet’s training at the Academy to become Coast Guard officers. Most of the pictures were shot at the Academy in New Lon- don, Conn., but about a third of the footage taken on a summer training cruise to London and Casa- blanca. The pr tuition-free education leading to a bachelor of science degree in engi- am involves a four year temporary fed- | attendance by | ic‘lsnn, George n, Thomas and Ennis Whyte and Melvin Merritt. Weather: High, 44; low, 40; rain. i Lessons in English %% 1. cornon Daily WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “I saw a pair of twins.” PAIR OF is tautological, as TWINS implies a pair. | OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Parquet. ronounce par-ka, first ‘3.\ in AH, second A as in CAKE, accent second syllable. SPELLED: Blond (noun), msculine. Blonde, feminine. increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each da NTERV! ; any interference that may affect the interests others. “We uld decide our own quarrels without the interventior of others.” | ot e ; MODERN ETIQUETTE of RCBERTA LEE 3 Q. Will you please explain the proper manner of eating soup? A. Dip the farther edge of the spoon into the soup and direct it |away from you and towards the outer edgeo ft he plate. Do not fill the spoon to the brim. Put the side, and not the point of the spoon {into the mouth. And be very careful to take the soup into the mouth ;“i‘.hnut the slightest bit of noise. Q. When leaving a person to whom you have just been introduced |and this person says, “I am glad to have met you,” what should your nse be? A. “Thank you” is sufficient. | meeting the other person, one may s |shall see you again soon.” | Q. Whose place is it to select and engage the clergyman for a | church wedding? i A. This is the bride’s privilege. Usually the wedding ceremony | takes place in the church she and her family attend. 1 100K and LEARN 2 ¢ coro | resg “Thank you. 1. How many human hairs, piata side by side, would it take to cover the distance of one inch? A baby girl, weighing eight pounds was born to Mr. and Mrs.‘ the Rev. Harry R. Allen, | e e e i e it e i e | Al Or, if one is very pleased about! I hope that l‘ | neering and a commission as ensign | 2. What river drains one-tenth of Europe in its 1,750-mile course? in the Coast Guard. \ 3. How old was Columbus when he discovered America? = s S . What is the proporti 3 e ioht § oL NOwIeE !rgg[: proportion of men who reach the heighi of six — | Aok 1 i The Douglas Trucking Co., makes | 5. le\};‘:‘;};];;s“m largest American rodent? the following announcement: In| ! the future e check your- oil | 1. Atiout 333. supply, as ar a charge of $1| 2. The Danube will be made deliveries on Sun- 3. Forty-one. days or holi after 6 p.m. on 4. One in 200. week-days. Dou Trucking Co. 5. The beaver. ACROSS 33. Improved in 1. Knock healt 4. Prevailing 35. Light brown fashions 36. Disfigure 8. Wading bird 3. Faint luster 12. Open: poetic a4 L toom 13. Toward the sheltered 39. Lapidated side 2. Vases © 14. One of an 43. Ancient Greek ancient race physician 15. Secret . Sereno Persia Unm . Oily stapces . Arabfan . Light strokes Elieel e :“"““‘"‘5 in West | intelligence expects hordes of Chin- ar: French A r‘m. wik 1[ B | ToBh 4 iy un: | ese so-called “volunteers” to pour evice for ? "e““" z“;”"‘ sgd::"t‘;’rs X‘L‘el “e‘ into Indo-China any day. . .Mayor L B estern zone uI e lal of . i ¢ |Martin Kennelly of Chicago has shape “labor battalions.” Actually, they bt M 8 :U , Cozy home 2 staged a farsighted campaign are carefully selected anti-Nazis| gjerg the public against enemy sab- who will be the officers of the giage Kennelly put on a real-life new German army. show, illustrating how enemy agents could poison Chicago’s drinking | water. Chinese Monroe Doctrine Most significant news to come 4l out of Asia recently resulted from Washington Pipeline a talk between Prime Minister | genator Pepper's sl:;mummmeo. Nehru of Indian and U. S. Ambas- |y vestioating wire-tapping, will call sador Loy Henderson, at Which|g,me new witnesses before closir Nehru broke the news of the DEW ¢ne pooks on Senator Brewsters Chinese Monroe Doctrine for Asia.| e tanning activities. . .The new Nehru reported that, the Indian o of Gefense mobilization dire ambassador in Peiping had cabled | yor was offered first to Paul Hofl- that the Chinese Communists Were| ymapn former ECA Administrator, planning to pop a big SUIPIiSe|perore it went to Charles E. Wil-| on the western world in the form on Hoffman, however, turned it} of a Monroe Doctrine. | down. . Purcell Smith, the $65.000! This would mean that all White g vear private power lobbyist, was: and non-Asiatic nations were 1%0|/laught sending notes to Congress- | keep out. Any interference, ac-|man Jensen of lowa inside the| cording to the proposed Chinese| House Appropriations Committee— ' Monroe Doctrine, would be justifi- while the committee was debating —(Adv.) Solution of Yesterday's Puzzle §1. Father of mod- 2. Prefix means ern engrav- ay ing from DOWN - 2 im= 1. Huge mythical ent bird A 4 1 Give up wholly ( tand an of the English R L » " court from ag another trit fod viftly digit back i lition ¥ in tres i linen talner ot u - — = F. HIBLER as a pald-‘up subscriber 10 THE YAILY ALASKA 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 MAN IN THE IRON MASK" Federal Tax—1%c Paid¢ by the Theatre Phone 14—YELLOW CAB CO.—Phone 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 £ Oldest Bank in Alaska 1891—0ver Half a Cenfury of Banking—1950 | The BB. M. Behrends Bank Boxes for Rent COMMERCIAL SAVINGS Safety Deposit | | | | body. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1950 Weather al Alaska Points Weatlier conaiions ana temper- atures at various Alaska points also on-tihe Pacific Coast, at 4:30 am., 120th * n Time, and released oy e Weather Bureau! are as foliows: | | Anchorage 14—Snow Annette Island 40—Rsn Barrow -10—Snow | Bethel S -7—Clear | Cordova .. ... 37—Rain Showers Dawson -5—Cloudy Edmonton .. 14—Fog| Fairbanks . -10—Cloudy | Haines icrigens 25— SMOW | Havre <. 35—Partly Cloudy Juneau Airport 34—Rain | Kodiak 5 33—Cloudy | Kotze -22—Partly Cloudy | McGrath -7—Cleat Nome ... 2—Partly Cloudy | Northway -2—Snow | Petersburg . 40—RaTn | Portland 45—Clear Prince George . 32—Cloudy Seattle '49—Cloutly Sitka 40—Cloudy ‘Whitehorse \-8—Cloudy | Yakutat 34—Rain | SOPHOMORE (LASS GIVES CHRISTMAS | PROGRAM FRIDAY An innovation in the Juneau Pub- lic High School pre-Christma$ ac- tivities will be the CI mas pro- gram by the Sophomore English | class for the high school students | . 5 | tomorrow afternoon in theegymna- | sium. ynder the direction of Miss Rhoda | Mae Zwickey, class instructor, mem- bers of the English class will present | a program of choral reading, Thn; Nativity, according to the Gospel| of St. Luke, and other Christmas ] themes from various literary works. ! The members of Mrs. Myrtle Phil- | ips class in Spanish will sing three | songs in Spanish and the program | will close with the singing of Christ- | mas carols by the entire student JOHN TANAKA IS HOME | FROM U. OF W. FOR XMAS John Tanaka, Juneau High School graduate, is home for the holiday: after completing his first quarter in pre-medics at the University of Washington. CHRISTMAS BAKE SALE At Sears Roepuck, Dec. 23, 11 a.m, BP.W. 688-4t WALT HATLIN 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.m W‘ The Erwin Feed Co. | Office in Case Lot Grocery Phone 784 HAY, GRAIN, COAL and STORAGE STEVENS® LADIES'—MISSES’ ! READY-TO-WEAR | Beward Street Near Third The Charles W. Carter Mortuary Pourth and Frankiin Sts. PHONE 1368 Casler’s Meri's Wear Allen Edmonds Shoes Bkyway Lugzage BOTANY "500” CLOTHES NUNN-BUSH SHOES STETSON HATS Quality Work Clothing FRED HENNING Cempicte Onufitter for Mem | SHAFFER’ SANITARY MEAT FOR BETTER MEATS 13—PHONES—49 Pree Delivery MOUNT JUNEAU LUDGE NU, 147 SECOND and FOURTH Monday of each month | In Scottish Rite T'emple beginning at 7:30 p. m. Carson A. Lawrence, Worshipful Master; s JAMES W. LEIVERS, Secretary. @ B.P.0. ELKS Meeting every Wednesday at 8 P.M. Visiting brothers welcome, WALLIS S. GEORGE, Exalted Ruler. W. H. BIGGS, Secretary. ——— Mocose Ledge No. 700 Regular Meetings Esch Friday Governor— ARNOLD L FRANCIS Secretary— WALTER R. HERMANSEN Brownic's Liquor Store Fhone 123 139 Se. Frankiia P. O. Box 2530 || "The Rexall Store” Your Rellable Pharmaaists BUTLER-MAURO DRUG CO. Alaska Music Supply Arthur M. Uggen, Mansger Pianos—Mausical Instruments and Supplies -Phone 206 _Second and Sewas(_ GENERAL PAINTS and WALLPAPER Ideal Paint Store Phone 54 Fred W. 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