The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 11, 1951, Page 5

TITURSDAY, JANUARY 11, 1951 "RED PONY" FILM, | DELIGHTFUL MOVIE BILL AT (APITOl | | | | A refreshing theme, coupled \\flh an outstanding cast and a fine | seript are only a few of the factors| ‘whlch help to make Republic’s “The | |Red Pony,” opening tonight at the| | Capitol Theatre, a motion picture | to delight the jaded tastes of sophisticated movie-goers. A Charie K. Feldman presentation, the Tech- | Inicolor version of John Steinbeck’s | best selling novel stars Myrna LH‘ and Robert Mitchum with Lc Calhern, Shepperd Strudwick an Peter Miles playing other top roles. There is conflict in this story, as |in- the usual movie plot. This time, | | however, it is not a triangle of two| | men and a girl, or two girls and |man. “The Red Pony" depicts the | antagonism which grows up betwee: a nine-year-old boy, his nd the hired man. The father, haviog “married into” a ranch family unable to adjust himself to Lm(‘! life after leaving the teachir ‘SHOWPLALE oF PITUL Opening Tonight AT 7:00 P. M. Playing Thru Saturday - A GREAT dez/ BIG /. vzz2¢ . BEAUTIFUL mw% | d| | X DR g AR 12 pro- ‘f: PHCTU R E ] fession. Hard as he tries, the wisifu f§f " man cannot grow clost to his fam- i ily. He is deeply grateful to his| | 4 serene wife for her skillful effor.s| § to bring him into the family circle, | § but takes out his nervous resent-| { ment of the situation on his old father-in-law i ‘Then, when his only son turns tol ithe hired man for training, affec- ! tion and guidance in all things the | father’s unhappiness its| | poignant crest. How he works his way out of d air to contentment, . with the indirect aid of a small red | ! | peny, makes for one of the most! | dramatic and memorable climaxes 1seen upon the screen. MOTHERS (LASSES START TOMORROW AT HEALTH CENTER ns are invited | i | | Al interested pe to attend the first in a series of | mothers classes held tomorrow af-! ternoon at the Juneau Public Health | Center. These informal classes are, for the purpose of instructing new | mothers or mothers-to-be in caring | | for themselves and their baby, and | are given by the Punlic Health | Nurse. Tomorrow’s class will be on the anatomy and physiology of preg- nancy and a movie will be shown, entitled “Care of the Expectant| Mother.” The class will start at 2’ p.m. and will last for two hours. The Juneau Public Health Center is located at 318 Main St. and any persons wishing information about | the course are asked to inquire at the Health Center, or phone 218. 57 TRAVELERS FLY | WITHPNA WEDNESDAYI Pacific Northern Airlines took 37! travelers to - Anchorage yesterday | and brought 20 from the westward. From Anchorage: Winn Ervin, James Davis, Howard Lyng, Harry DeLand, Bob Larson, A. Frank, Wil- ton Johnson, Esther Johnson and E. Hinman, Lowell Puckett, A. V. | Collar, H. A. Floyd, R. A. Paul, Edi | Durgin, D. Peterson, G. R. Jackson (and D. Calloway. From Cordova: Mr. and Mrs. Ken Loken. From Yakutat: Gerald Clark and George Johnson. | To Anchorage: Duane Connell, |carl Blanchard, Wally DeBoff, Herman Ludwigson, R. O. Kinsey, | Charles Varner, Sam Axtell, Gor- don Mason, Joe Jones, Bill Bowman, Dick Nelson, Chris Jackson, Bob| | Bernhardt. Stacy Torum, Anne Dimond, E. G. Fisher, H. Lucas, William Craw- | ford, Lucy Poling, Byron Felkner, | Paul Demmert, S. C. McAfee, Art Bennsell, D. M. Joseph, Bill Her-| | ring and 12 members of the Globe- | trotters basketball team. 35 CARRIED ON ALASKA COASTAL WEDNESDAY TRIPS Alaska Coastal Airlines carried a total of 35 passengers on flights Wednesday with 17 departing and 18 arriving, Departing for Sitka were: CHARLES K. FELDMAN presents MYRNA LOY ROBERT MITCHUM JOHN STEINBECK'S Llee Fed Pony A LEWIS MILESTONE PRODUCTION « LOUIS CALHERN wa SHEPPERD STRUDWICK and introaucing PETER MILES . Tom and MARGARET HAMILTON Screen Play by JOHN STEINBECK Music—AARON COPLAND Produced and Directed by LEWIS MILESTONE A REPUBLIC PRODUCTION o | EGHNICOLOR | { UBJECT OF RESCUE BY AIR! EXTBA! TH:!ILLING S R. Murray, A. G. Marcum; for Fick ' Cove: O. Colby, Lavymne Wells, Lee Booth; for Skagway: Paul Frost; for Haines: Mrs. Lewis, W. E. Moore, Clara Carson. For Hoonah: K. 8. Clem, Leo- nard Johnston; for Pelican: Rev. and Mrs. C. C. Personeous, Anna Lee Cousart, R. Paul Cousart; for Sisters Island: W. R. Peterson; for Hawk Inlet: Carl M. Ander- son. Arriving from Gusiavus: Bill Baker, Frank Peratrovich, Gov- ernor and Mrs. Ernest Gruening; from Sisters Island: W. R. Peter- son; from Skagway: Mrs, R. Mur- ray, Roy Dennis, John C. Reed, Joe Flakne. From Tenakee: Tom Armstrong, Bill Eglar; from Angoon: Rich- ard Willard; from Sitka: Bernice Odom, Jean Carter, Lee Jenny, Ernie Carter, E. Griffin, Rachel Carpenter, t "K CARTOON o and LATEST NEWS 7:20—9:30 5—10:05 Shows Feature 7 ELLIS AIR LINES DAILY TRIPS JUNEAU TO KETCHIKAN via Pelersbnrg and Wrangell With ~_unections ¢5 Craig, Klawock nnd Hydaburg r_suvenient afiernoon departurcs, at 2:30 P. M. FOR RESERVATIONS PHONE 612 | the Elks Hall. THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA P-TA IS TO MEET MONDAY EVENING; GORDON SPEAKER Zach Gordon, director of the | Juneau Teen Age Club will be the speaker at the next meeting of the | Juneau Parent- Teacher Association. The group meets in monthly session next Monday, January 15, at 8| pm. at the high school study | | hall, according to Mrs. Florencs Ooakes, president. , It is still not too late to join the P.-T.A., and more parents and | others interesteq are urged to join. Fourth grade mothers will be in charge ol the social hour after the | meeting. Mrs. W. A. Elkins is in charge, Tea s of the fourtl grade are Miss Freeda Bechtold Mrs, Helen Webster and Mrs. Mar- ion Williamson, | MISS PAT JONES ON FIRST TRIP OUTSIDE Miss Pat Jones, graduate of the 1950 ss of the Juneau High School, is making her first trip out- side. She left yesterday with her brother, Sgt. Dewey Jones, who came home for the Christmas holi- s. Dewey is making the \n(h Pat as far as Denver, Color- ado, before continuing to St. Louis, Missouri, where he will attend an Army Advance Finance School. Pat will visit with her other brother Bill, who is attending school in Denver, for two weeks, before go- ing to visit with relatives in To- peka, Kansas. She then continues ,on to St. Louis. Pat is stenograph- | er-receptionist for the Alaska Pub- | lic Wor She expects to return tc Juneau in about cne month. CANTEEN SERVICES COURSES SCHEDULED FOR CIVIL DEFENSE The two canteen services courses —an afternoon and an evening class—are to start next week in The afternoon class is to be held January 15, 17 and 19 from 1:30 to 3:30 and the night class is to be held January 15, 16 and 19 from 7:30 to 9:30. The concluding lesson for the after. noon class will be a dinner servec the evening of January 22, with the last lesson for the evening clas. held the evening of January 23, Dr. I. J. Montgomery, super- visor of the Alaska Merit System is to give a Red Cross orientatior talk to each class. Rev. Willic Booth will familiarize those taking the courses as to how the canteen services can best be fitted intc the local civil defense program. Ml&s Hallene Price, home demon- stration agent, is to teach the diet- etic portion of the courses, Mrs. Jack Wallis is chairman of the canteen services. HOLY TRINITY GUILD PLANS TWO EVENTS The regular monthly meeting of Holy Trinity Guild was held Janu- ary 10 in the undercroft of the church. Plans for the parish dinner and for the Valentine’s tea werc discussed. Mrs. Georgia Nelson wa: appointed chairman of the tea, anc Mrs. M. O. Johnson was asked to be chairman of the parish dinners tc be held Jan. 11. The World Day of Prayer was planned with Mrs. Johnson and Mrs. Smith appointed delegates from Holy Trinity. The rest of the meeting was given over to Miss Carson who showed pictures of the eagle anc told very interesting stories of her mission life in the wilderness. Mrs. Ryan and Mrs. Grummett were hostesses for the evening? STORK BRINGS GIRL 10 TREVARTHEN'S A 9 pound, 15 ounce baby girl was born to Mr. and Mrs. James Trevarthen at St. Ann’s Hospital yesterday afternoon at 1 o'clock. The new arrival has been named Helen Elizabeth. Mrs. Trevarthen is the former Jeanette Casperson, and daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Casperson. He is with the Coast Guatd here This is their first child and Casp- ersons’ first grandchild. SLAUGHTER OF GEO. SURVEY OFFICE IN PALMER LEAVES Marvin Slaughter, engineer in charge of the Geological Survey Palmer sub-office, leaves today af- ter conferences here on the co- operative stream gauging program with the Corps of Engineers, U. £. Army. Niné new stream gauging stations are contemplated for next season. Six of the stations are to be installed in southeast Alaska, two in south, central gnd one on Kodiak Island. Established last season were seven gauging stations. W. N . A. A. MEETS TONIGHT The local chapter of the Women's National Aeronautical Association meets tonight at 8 at the home of Mrs, M, Kristan, 923 D Street, trip | Mrs. R. Anderson, Honored, Shower Mau- Mrs | rice Jack Jones and Mrs, Long were co-hostesses at a fsbork shower Wednesday evening | in honor of Mrs, Robert Anderson of Douglas Several interesting game were played during the eve- ning. Prizes went to Mrs. Stanley | Hamlin, Mrs. Joseph Kendler, Jr., fand Mrs. Frank Hynes. . Pink and blue cookies were serv- ed with sherbet and “stork” favors appeared on each plate. A surprise climaxed -the party when Mrs, Ronald Mayo, dressed as a colored “mammy” entered with a basket of “clothes” and shower. She gave the basket to derson. Many lovely gifts basket. attending the party were: be a Mrs, vere in Those Mrs. David Simonsen, Miss Frances then discovered there was going to; [ BIG DOUBLE BILL IS FEATURED TONIGHT AT 20TH CENTURY ‘The life expectancy of steeple- jacks — those daring men-about- \ skyscrapers—is not long, but Para mount’s action hit, “Disaster,” should be proof that it is lively ‘The film which arrives tonight at the Gross 20th Century Theatre, conjunction with a second action hit, “Overland Trails,” starrir Johnny Mack Brown, draws a b on the women behind steeplejac ing men and is expected to score a direct bulls-eye in. suspense excitement. “Disaster” reveals the hazards of that little-publicized but vitally important job filled by the men who clamber up the nation's tow- ering buildings to repair and reno- vate them. Heading the cast of the thriller are Richard Denning, lovely PAGE FIVE I ToNIGHT and FRIDAY-2 SUPER | THRILLERS i ONE BIG SHOW! @@%(myfir LOWEST PRICES in TOWN! FOR TOP ENTERTAINMENT! in | § \ { | \ ! and Paul, N Stanley Hamlin, Miss Miriam Troutman, M Dorothy Junge Mrs. Harold Jones, Mrs. Ronald Mayo, Mrs. Albert Carl-i son, Mrs, Ole Ingebright, Mrs, Les- lie Avrit, Mrs, Mel Pidgeon, Mrs. Frank Hynes, Mrs. Joe Kendler, Jr., Mrs. Maurice Long, Mrs. Jack | Jones, Mrs. Ken Shudshift, Mrs. | Arne Shudshift, Mrs, Lucille Glaf- Mrs, S. M. Dore, Mrs. Boyd | Pield, Mrs. Ray Mountjoy, Mrs, | William Weir. 19MOREDAYSTO | GET AUTO TAGS There are 19 more days in wlml” ar owners can obtain their Al- wska auto license plates, City Clerk | C. L. Popejoy said today. To daLw about 250 license plates have bcnn‘ sold through the city clerk’s office | out of a normal 2,000. According to action by the last! méeting of the City Council the $5 | out-of-town license fee is not be-| ng collected now and refuads are | being made to those who have al- eady paid it, he said, LAPIDARY WORK SCHEDULED MON. AT MINING COURSE, A review on the phases covered o far in the mining short course seing given in Juneau by the Uni- sersity of Alaska Extension Divi- ion under the direction of Larry 2. Doheny, consulting engineer, will be made at the class to be held| tonight from 7 to 10 o'clock in he High School building, accord- ng to announcement made tod:\y: oy Doheny. The class heard a lecture on min- | ng law by Treasurer Henry Roden, authority on that subject at its neeting last night, Monday night, January 15, Do- aeny will lecture on lapidary work, Demonstrations in cutting and solishing gem stones will be made yy local persons who do this work either as a hobby or in their busi- ness. Expected to participate are Juan Munyaz of the U. S. Bureau of Mines; Buck Weaver, owner f the Harbor Leather store; Carl Raker of the U. S. Coast Guard; 3il Eide, teacher of science in the Juneau high school; Joe George, swner of the Thrifty Shop. Doheny said Joe George will al- ow the use of his 16-inch diamond ;aw in a demonstration of the vork. He said local enthuysiasts in he work are interested in organiz- ng an amateur lapidary club and that George has indicated that m such an event he would allow he use of his diamond saw for work by the club members. Next week in the mining short course classes will be held in the slow pipe and chemical test on minerals and the use of the Geiger -ounter. GUCKER BUYS MINER PUBLISHING (0. AT U. 5. MARSHAL'S SALE The Miner Publishing Company of Juneau was sold for $2800 to J. W. Gucker oi Juneau, at a U. S. Marshal’s sale Tuesday morning. The “sale was conducted by W. G. Hellan, Acting U. S. Marshal, Gucker is the judgment creditor of the company holdings. The sale was ‘held to satisfy a debt owed by A, «G. Overholtzer and Rose Overholtzer on the company, its holdings and goodwill secured by chattel’ mortgage Sept. 14, 19¢9 tc Gucker. Total amount owed by the mortgagees was given as $13,000. Gucker and William Liddle were the only bidders for the property. Little entered a bid of $2700, | | | | | BETHEL HOSPITAL DIRECTOR Miss Louise Robison, director of nurses at the Alaska Native Ser- vice Hospital at Bethel is on tem- porary duty at the ANS offices here after a vacation and recruiting for ANS personnel. She recruited for nurses, hospital and school per- sonnel, and public health nurses |in the mid-west. Miss Robison re- | ports fair response to the recruit- ing program with student nurses | a false murder charge. To do so he | ‘to the Library Fund. 4 bark is pledged to conscrva varying degrees in American citie o g Fhe iatie and. what happened o :Ciémuany of rA.‘““»\.u..‘n funds .“‘;u’r | and Japan during the last war could ey Gavidiabi | fairy homogenous building density OF NURSES ON DUTY HERE| | during the last war were produced Trudy Marshall, Will Wright and | James Millican. The tale revolves around the (‘I-? forts of Denning to clear himself of | has to elude the police, which he accomplishes by turning steeplejack | and hiding out atop skyscrapers. Matters come to a dramatic heac when a terrific disaster strikes the town and all steeplejacks are callec to the rescue. LIBRARY FUND GHS EXTRA $§25 FROM ANB Another unexpected $25 was: added today to the Juneau Memorial | Library Fund, B. D. Stewart an- nounced. The extra contribution came from the Alaska Native | Brotherhood and was the amount | that the Juneau School Board Lumed back to the lodge for the use of the high school gym for the Native dances held last month. The dances were held to raiSe money to fulfill the $250 pledged by the ANB | A Paramount Picture with RICHARD TRUDY JDENKING - MARSHALL A Pine-Themas Production .* | DISASTER—¢ OVERLAND T R PLUS 2ND EX 0-10:45 A\TLS—T7:20-9:40 CITING HIT! NDotAM PICTURFS: In transmitting the check, the Rev. Walter A. Soboleff wrote “Since the board felt such an en- deavor was all in the interest of a | eivic project we are glad to add thi: { amount to what has already been made possible for this wonderful project.” SOUTH “MAC” FLIE FIRE AHA(K 0" u' S' je:mc;o:&:e "mifrf'v fi':’emmfiuif.fé : TIDE TABLE : CITIES DISCUSSED IN | the Pan orsce i nis cate. 1| o ; : hedul el Sea VL D BOORIEF| T 2 e e o S e 5 /4 came from Pelican yesterday and|e Low tide 11:18 am., 26 ft. e Since no area in the United State: | ¢onfided to the PAA boys that he|e High tide 5:12 p.m., 15.7 ft. @ e Low tide 11:31 pm. 04 ft. e is not enthusiastic about air travel. will be immune from possible at- tack because of its situation alone the extent of fire from enemy ac- tion will be influenced by the char- acteristics of the target at the time of the attack, is the message stated in “Fire Effects of Bombing At- tacks,” a recent publication of the national Civil Defense office. The primary factors to be con- sidered in wartime fire attacks are building density, combustibility of structures, firebreaks and size of target area. Contributing factor: are continuity of combustible con- struction, occupancy combustibility, size of buildings and topography. ‘Weather factors are humidity, pre- cipitation and wind. These factors are all present in SCHWINI BIKES AT MADSEN'S Sewing machines for rent at Marie's Sewing Center, 702-tf Your l)eposlte ARE SAF E BUY and HOLZ» UNITED STATES SAVINGS BONDS ot T management of this happen here. Adequate fire-control planning for civil defense will de- pend to a great extent on an assess- ment of those characteristics of | built-up areas which would make | them susceptible to fire storms and‘ conflagrations. The method involves resolving the urban city areas into sub areas of wdition, che bank: is a mem- IN THIS BANK ARE INSURED ber of Federal Deposit Lisur- mce Corpuration, which in- cahi of our depositors w0 a maxunum The other factors can then be ap- plied to those sub areas to obtair an estimate of their susceptibility to fire and to the production of great mass fires. Defining the areas of a com- munity in these terms will not only assist in planning what to do in case of attack, but will act as a guide to long range planning de- signed to eliminate or reduce to 2| minimum the existence of highly vulnerable areas in our cities. The outstanding feature of the attacks on Japanese and Gcrm.'m{ FIRST NATIONAL BANK of JUNEAU, ALASKA MEMBER FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION Fares Reduced One Way Round Trip cities in World V'Va‘r Ir was the ap- | Anchorage 6300' “340‘ palling consequences of the mass fires which took the form of fire Kodiak 98.00. 176.40 storms and conflagrations. Fire i > S | storms were the result of incendiary | Homer 80.00* 144.00' bombing. Naknek A.B. 104.50. 188.10. Naknek Village 114.50. 206.10. 109, Reduction on Round Trip *Plus Tax Even though fire spread may oc- | cur from some buildings to other‘ adjoining ones, such fires are un- likely to spread outside the pldm‘ area or beyond the block or group in which they occur because of fire- wall barriers, streets, or other open spaces. A more appropriate term for | a conflagration would be “group | fire.” Fire storms and conflagrations Daily Flights — Passengers, Mail and Air Cargo Connections at Anchorage for all Interior and Westward Points by very heavy attacks concentrated in space and time which started | simultaneously a large number of | Tickets and Reservations fires close together. Both mixed | high explosive and incendiary bombs BARANOF HOTEL and the atomic bomb are eapable Phone 716 ° of producing such effects. JIM HURST HERE Jim Hurst, CAA man from An chorage, is registered at the Baras 11R01INES. I\( Yorrrie s L i showing the most interest. nof Hotel,