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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1950 SONNYBOY WEST DIES AFTERK.0. | | NEW YORK, Dec. 22—{P—Little | two-year-old Sharon West won't gét the toy piano her daddy in-| tended to buy her for Christmas. Her daddy, Al (Sonny Boy) West died last night some 22 hours after &ie had been knocked out by Percy Bassett of Philadelphia, in a box- ing bout. The 21-year-old West, a Negro lightweight from Washington, D.C., underwent two delicate brain op- erations and received three blood transfusions, but failed to regain consciousness. He had been kept alive for several hours by artificial respiration. Dr. Vincent Nardiello, State Ath- letic Commission physician, said ‘West died of an intra-cerebral hem- orrhage and a cerebral concussion. | When he was knocked out West fell flat on his back and his head hit the canvas with a thud. Only a few hours before he en- tered the ring trainer Johnny Sul- livan said West had talked of the Christmas gifts he had in mind to buy his family with his purse money, estimated at $1,000. He had his heart set on the toy piano for little Sharon. ‘The death was the third boxing fatality in the United States and the ninth in the world this year compared to 18 in 1949. | ORANGEBOWL DOPEGIVEN MIAMI, Fla., Dec. 22—i{®—Ver- satility and speed will be the North All-Stars’ main weapen in the Orange Bowl Christmzs night when they meet the Southern collegiates All-Stars in the third annual Shrine North-South charity football game. Yale’s coach Herman Hickman, larger than any of his 30 hand- picked players, said he was aban- doning the two-platoon system in favor of making every man on the squad available for at least two positions. “When you have only 30 men to work with—and all 30 are smart, top-notch football players, you can shift things around to suit yourself,” said hefty Herman. ‘ | IKE WILLIAMS IS | SCHEDULED MEET | ARAGON, MARCH LOS ANGELES, Dec. 22 — (® — World lightweight champion Ike Williams will defend his title here next March against Art Aragon of Los Angeles if negotiations are con- cluded as expected. Matchmaker Babe McCoy of the Olympic Auditorium said he had received a wire from Frank Palermo, Williams’ manager, agreeing to the proposed 15-round battle. | McCoy said it would be held out- dcors, probably March 20. SOROPTIMISTS Soroptimists who plan to attend | the club’s Christmas party the eve- | ning of Thursday, December 28, are i asked to call Ilah Parmenter by | Saturday, Dec. 23.—Adv. th‘ Make your own Center-piece a! Ming-tree Christmas tree. See at| Nina’s Nick Nack. 689-2t | Coach Given New Confrad lqulf Univ. LOS ANGELES, Dec. 22 — (B — Loyola University took no chances of losing its most successful football coach, Jordan Olivar. The board of control, aware that their coach had received tempting feelers, tossed out his old contract and gave him a new one—for five years and at an yndisclosed hike in pay. The same deal went to Olivar's assistants. Olivar coached the Lions to eight wins and one loss, to Santa Clara, in the season just closed, and last year the Lions had a six-four re- cord. FIGHT DOPE Here is the result of fights last night: At Brooklyn — Billy Neri, 139, Brooklyn, outpointed Kid Dussart, 143%, Belgium, 8. At Vancouver, B.C. Langston, 156';, Haney, B.C. Jimmy stop- ped Pedro Jiminez, 155'%, San Fran- | cisco, 8. PITCHER CARLSEN SIGNED BY STARS HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 22 — (B — Righthand pitcher Don Carlsen, purchased from the Nashville club in the Southern Association, will perform for the Hollywood baseball club in 1951. Carlsen, who hurled for Los An- geles in 1947-48, saw little service last year because of an arm opera- tion. He pitched in five games, win- ning one and losing one. REFEREE STOPS G0 10 SAVE FIGHTER VANCOUVER, B.C., Dec. 22—(® Jimmy Langston, 156%, of Haney, B.C., scored an eighth round tech- nical krockout victory over Pedro Jiminez of San Francisco last night. Jiminez was down three times in the final canto before the referee stopped the bout. SEATTLE UNIV. IS 12 GAMES T0 G0OD SEATTLE, Dec. 22—(®—The Se- attle University Chieftains had 12 games behind them today and still SCORES OF - BASKETBALL | Here are final scores of basket- ‘bnll games played last night: ;\V.l.\hmmon State 70, Loyola (Los | Angeles) 52. Idaho 69, Utah State 53. | Seattle U. 64, Whitman 40. | Portland 60, College of Pacific 56. | Oregon Tech 73, Clark J.C. 58. Eastern Oregon 89, South. Ida. 83. i(‘nln. A. and M. 68, Gonzaga 48. Everett J.C. 48, Los Angeles CC 42 [St. Martin's 55, NW Nazarene 42 |Okla. A. and M. 50, South. Cal. 48 Bradley 92, Centenary 64. | Long Island 90, UCLA T71. Oklahoma 48, CCNY 43 | Mississippi 46, Arkansas 41. Tulane 67, Northwestern 49. Kan. State 82, Springfield (Mass) 59 Holy Cross 64, Vanderbilt 62. San Jose State 49, Colorado 47. 150,300 KING SALMON . EGGS TO BE PLANTED | IN MONTANA CREE¥ | | Through the courtesy of the Washington State Department of Fisheries 50,000 eyed king salmor eggs were scheduled to arrive ir Juneau via PAA this afternoon, C L. Anderson, director of the Alaske Departient of Fisheries, said today Special arrangements were 'mad¢ with Acting Director of Fisheries Bob Schoettler and C. N. Ellis, su- pervisor of hatcheries. The only cost to the Territory is the transporta- tion. The eggs come from a typica | Puget Sound stream which is simila | to Montana Creek where they wil |be planted in about 12 inches of ‘gravol on riffles. The eggs are | about 65 percent complete in de- | velopment, Anderson said. | Twenty nests will be placed ir jas natural conditions as are pos- ;\lblf‘ The nests will be marked anc a check made in the spring afte water conditions have been right long enough for the young kings t complete development. It will ther |be known whether or not the ex periment is successful. If the egg are gone it will be from three to four years before the salmon will |return to the stream. This experi- iment will be watched with interest. 'TERR. VETS BOARD " WILL MEET JAN, £ | Veteran Affairs | Board will meet in annual session | January 4, it was announced today |by Floyd Guertin, Commissioner. | The report for the biennium to the | Alaska Legislature will be compiled land approved and other regular | business taken up. | Members of the Board are Robert ©. Ellis, Ketchikan; John Hellen- | thal, Anchorage;; Wallace Cathcart, er., Fairbanks; L. Embert Dem- | mert, Craig, member-at-large. It is expected the new Board | member from the Second Division | will be announced by Governor | Gruening on his return to Juneau from the states, scheduled for to- | morrow. are unbeaten. Whitman was the| latest victim, falling 64-40 last night. John O'Brien built his sason total to 224 with a 2l-point splurge to| lead both teams. TIDE TABLE December 23 High tide 1:42 am., 143 ft. Low tide High tide Low tide e o 0o 0 0 0 0 0 0 DOUG GRAY HOME Doug Gray and Tony Bartness returned yesterday from Kodiak wheer they had been on two weeks active duty with the U. S. Navy. CHRISTMAS BAKE SALE At Sears Roebuck, Dec. 23, 11 am, BPW. 688-4t Ycur Deposits ARE SAFE BUY and HOLD UNITED STATES SAVINGS BONDS T i mansgemen of chis bank is pledged to conscrva tive operation. The safety of depositors’ funds is our primary consideration. In addition, the bank is 2 mem- ber of Federal Deposit Insur- ance Corporation, which in- sures each of our drpositors aesinst loss to a2 maximwa of $10,000. vt DEPOSITS IN THiS BANK ARE INSURED FIRST NATIONAL BANK of JUNEAU, ALASEA MEMBER FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATIOM SITING BARRINGTONS Josephine Arola of Pelican arrived in Juneau this week to en- joy the Christmas holidays and a isit with her son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Bar- rington, Jr., and her grandchildren. Mrs. Arola plans to be here as the house guest of the Barringtons for several months Authentic Colonial furniture min- itures at Nina’s Nick Nack. 689-2t Make your boy happy with an airplane motor. Idle hands make mischief. See at Nina’s Nick Nack. |3 JUNEAU, ALASKA g THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE SKI CLUB WILL s CRol Towi ReY- McGinni Christmas carols will be sung night at St. Ann’s Hospital, the Govegnment Hospital and through town by members of Juneau Ski Club, according to T Liddle of the entertainment cor mittee of the Club. Already seventeen “singing’ sk have offered to participate in event and it is expected many me will be on hand by 8 tonight wher the caroling starts, Liddle said The singers will sing fr open truck offered for the occs by Earl Crass. The truck will h at least 17 people and any club member wishing to join in t caroling is requested to meet at t Baranof Hotel at 7:45 p.m. The singers will wind-up at home of Mrs. Lucille Stein for ¢ fee and cake. (oming To'dafy‘ AST GUARD PLANE GOES ON DOUBLE 2UTY A US. Coast Guard plane Kodiak did double duty yesterd according to word received b OG headquarters. It delivered to Sand Point on Pepof Islar combat a whooping cough epidemic that has broken out on Unga Is- land. On the return trip the plar moved Mrs. Fred Nelson of Point to Kodiak. She was with an acute case of appendiciti above), y appointed f Juneau Methodist church, to- nd son he Rev. McGinnis come: to Ju- neau from the Quincy Methodist Church, in Quincy, Ohio, where he has filled this pastorate for the last three years. Rev. McGinni born in Georgia and of Asbury College in Wilmi in 1945 Accompanying his wife, Hi formerly of ‘Minn their son, who is just one year of age. The Rev. McGinnis will the pulpit in the Methodist c this coming Sunday he ge her 1 his wife e via MARCUM SOUTH Lt. Allan Marcum of the Ala National Guard was scheduled t eave today on PAA for Seattle, San Francisco and Los Angeles for the holidays. He expects to attend the Rose Bowl game at Pasadena and visit his old home in Longview Wash,, enroute back to Juneau. He axpects to return about January 7 MecGinnis MecGinnis, finn., and yan Timothy, Rey riet young occupy ch PAA DUE TODAY Three Pan American Airw planes are due in Juneau from attle and Annette tod Two planes were scheduled to leave for Seattle ng this afternoon. JIMMY OLSON HOME Jimmy Olson, son of Mr. and Mr Hoke Olson is home for Christ- mas, He has been at Mt. Edge- cumbe for the past year and a half SFoed is moere Fun wit INE?!”? YOU'LL FIND THE FINEST SELECTION OF BOTH IMPORTED AND DOMESTIC WINES AT . . . Bii! LIQUOR Ray's STORE PH BOX 1589 X CRRRRRFRR FAMOUS SINCE 1894 GOOD TASTE THROUGH THE YEARS! TRY THIS FINER WHISKY TODAY! T 0 S s i e WENDED WHISKY * 86,8 PROOF * 65% GRAIN NEUTRAL SPIRITS ® CONTINENTAL DISTILUNG CORPORATION * PHIL\. #A PAGE THREB | front of the American position. Low flying observation planes counted another 78 Reds who had been killed by artillery fire over a ridge. After daybreak there was a re- laxed atmosphere all around the front. The sun was warming, the skies were bright blue and not a | shot came from the enemy lines. b RED DOG SALOON |159 REDS ARE KILLE OPEHING LATE SAT. | N PRE-DAWN PUSH AS OLD TIME BAR|ON HUNGNAM BEACH The swinging doors of the Red Da Saloon swing wide late to- morrow in grand opening. The sa- loon, claimed to be the only one in Alaska, will be complete with§ doors that swing both ways, saw- | dust, T ra girls, singing wait- ers and free lunch But that isn't all that the saloon will have! There will be an old time piane player, amond-toothed” Lil, and “Soap: mith and crew To spell off the piano pounder wil be the first nickelodeon brought to Alaska. The music box ased to be in the old Louvre Bar and date back to about 1860. The nickelodeor still plays as though it was made but yesterday. The Red Dog saloon takes ir Bailey's Bar and the Royal Cafe that closed recently. The saloon is faced with Jogs and the interior is painted with scenes from an old time “water place. Earl For- L Mansfield are the BEACHHEAD, Ko- rea, Dec, 22—(P—American Infantry artillery killed at least 159 Com- s early today in smashing a| Pacific Northern carried five pas- persistent pre-dawn attack by 400 sengers in and out of Juneau yes= to 500 North Koreans. | terday. Doug Gray, Tony Bartness Officers of the U.S. Third Division | and W, Olson arrived from AncHor- unit which beat back the Reds|age. Dave Cleveland and E. F. Hies ounted 81 North Korean bodies in ‘ kock flew to Anchorage. HUNGNAM s“The thinking fellow Calls a YELLOW” PHONE 22 OR 14 FOR A '\ YELLOW CAB | SCHWINN BIKES AT MADSEN'S ' { For that different gift Nina's Nick-Nack Shop. Douglas Gym TONIGHT December 22-7:30 o'Clock s MIKES vs. IMPERIALS DQUGLAS HIGH vs. itz waslaiwA apM ahorSl 2aiM MBIA LUMBER COLU NEW YEAR'S DINNE { 1stAWARD 2nd AWARD GOOSE TURKEY DINNER DINNER for 8 for 8 and all the trimmings and all the trimmings e rrree) - WE HAVE A COMPLETE STOCK OF FOOD FOR YOUR CHRISTMAS DINNER New Year’s Award Dra PBecember 29th One ticket is given for each dollar well-spent for groceries or meat at California Grocery and Meat Market BUY YCUR CHRISTMAS TURKEYS HERE "