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p— PSS S S ————— - D .l D B PAGE TWO A —— You'll be better suited... FROM EVERY POINT OF VIEW N A Ciffany Worsted (Now Available With Two Trousers) e Eadsis what men For here, gentlemen, is what the clothing industry means when it talks about a suit that really answers are demanding. The TIFFANY WORSTED . . . tailored-in- Rochester by MICHAELS-STERN . . . is a suit of exceptionally fine quality at an exceptionally moderate price . . . a suit that will look extremely well on you, and serve you faithfully for many seasons to come. We're happy to tell you that for the first time in six years, some of our TIFFANY WORSTEDS are avail- able with two pairs of trousers. 860.06 Extra Trousers S$13.00 TIDE of TUYJ BMBENRENES),; g, Sponsored Locully and Nationally by The AMERICAN LEGION and The American Legion Auxiliary is a movement whose ob- ject is fo bring joy to the children of other lands, and thus express the great heart and compassion that is truly the soul of America. IF THESE GIFTS make it easier to find the PATHWAY TO PEACE then YOUR qift will be one of your best invest- ments of the year. Time Is Later Than We Think FREE SHOW FOR KiDS WHO CONTRIBUTE T0 A L. TIDE OF TOYS Juneau boys and girls are to be given the chance to make other boys and girls happy and at the same time enjoy a free matinee at the 20th Century Theatre Sun- day, January 20. To help put the American Legion Tide of Toys program in Juneau over the top the 20th Century { Theatre has generously offered free admittance to any boy or girl who brings a toy for the Tide of Toys which will later be sent to Burope. The regular Saturday afternoon feature will be shown along with cartoons and selected shorts. Toys must be in good condition I and it is particularly requested that no electrical toys or war toys (such as guns or tanks) be brought, ac- cording to Bert Lybeck, committee chairman. The latest information is that all toys will again be sent to Europe because of critical ship- ping space to Pacific areas due to the Korean conflict. The Tide of Toys committee re- ports, that toys have been coming in rather slowly, but anticipate | better results through the week, with the drive to end Saturday. Packing of the toys will take place Saturday evening, to be ready for shipping on Sunday’s steamer. Anyone wishing to contribute may take toys to Zenger's Maytag store at 211 S, Franklin Strest, ci call Blue 609 to ‘have oomeone call for the toys. The Legion Auxiliary is also collecting children’s cloth- ing in conjunction with the ‘Tide of Toys, and donations may be lef* at the same place as the toys. Working with. Lybeck on the Legion committee are Harold and Chester Zemger and Vern Harris Post Commander. THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA REPORTERS CHALLENGE (Continued from Page One) ing American troops | Europe. A number of reporters present at his news conference quickly pro- tested that this was not so. They said all of his remarks were published, subject only to the White House's own restrictions against using quotation marks without the President’s permission. Mr. Truman at his news confer- ence a week ago insisted he has the power to send troops to Europe or anywhere else he thinks they are needed but said that as a matter of courtesy he will consult Congress before doing so, He said too that if Congress tried to stop him by cutting down on ap- propriations he would carry the question to the American people. He added: “T licked 'em once. His remarks were widely publis ed. Mrs. S. Liddicoat, ' Skagway Pioneer, Dies, Auburn, Wash. SKAGWAY, Alaska, Jan, 18—(P— (Special Correspondence)—Mrs. Su- sanna Liddecoat passed away in | Auburn, Wash., last Saturday at ;3 p.m., and funeral services were | held in Seattle Tuesday afternoon according to advices received here. After cremation the ashes will be | brought home to Skagway. | . Liddecoat came to Skagway {In 1897 with her husband and four to westerr | her home with her daughter, Mrs. {E. H. Ritcher of Skagway. She | is survived by three daughters and | her son Edward of Auburn, a large | PRESIDENT children. In late years she made | THURSDAY, JANUARY 18, 1951 e ———————————— o with city health office, health and community officials regarding pub- lic health nursing activities and planning of various public health nursing programs. H FIRST HARVARD (Lu3 IN Dr. C. C. Carter, city health of- NORTH IS 0RGAN|ZED; i S iay that 1850 e e veave over 1010 1 |GRUENING IS PRESIDENT public health nursing activities for the Gastineau Channel area. Services were offered "in control of communicable and veneieal diseases; tuberculosis; raternity infant, preschool and school jene, morbidity, crippled | children’s service, and adult health supervision. The report shows the community was comparably free of communi- cable disease, only a few cases of mumps and enpox were seen by the public. health. nurses. | Monthly immunization clinics were HEALTH SERVICE INCREASES 1950 SURVEY SHOWS The northernmost Harvard Club fn the world was founded recently in the Anchorage area. Gov. Ernest Gruening was named its first Presi- | dent, At a breakfast meeting held in the Officers Club, Elmendorf Air Force Base, Anchorage citizens, Army and Air Force personnel, all former Har- vard students, gathered to forn Alaska’s first Harvard Club, and at the same time the most northern organization of its kind. The new group will call itself the 61st Par- conducted at the Health Center |allel Harvard Club in honor of its with an attendance of 451 persons; |location at Anchorage, and indi- 172 persons were vaccinated against cated that the club’s first officiul smallpox; 242 were inoculaited for |act would be to inform James B diphthe: cough and!Conant, President of Harvard Uni tetanus. versity, as well as the Director of Participation by the Public the Associated Harvard Clubs of Health Nursing Service in the con- |the new organization. trol of venereal disease appears very| Gov. Gruening, who graduated light, as only a few cases received from Harvard in 1907, was named service, but it is not a true picture | first President of the group by ac- of the incidence of venereal diseases | clamation. Other officers elected | lin the area and no doubt is only|were Lt. Col. Stephen C. Munx Ia small percentage of the cases. [Chief of Information, US. Arr More time and rvice were de-|Alaska, as Vice President, and voted to tuberculosis control than|mer E. Rasmuson of the National lany other phase of nur Bank of Alaska as Secrelary-Trea- | \'chm X-ray survey was made and |surer. Col. Monroe graduated frnm“ ia total of 696 X-ray pictures were Harvard in 1934 and Mr. Rasmuson ; taken. Weekly chest clinics were|in 1930. conducted, showing 31 patients ad-| Major Joseph M. Hartley, 1I. mitted to medical service, 416 office : former Harvard football player and {and clinic visits, 160 admitted Luinow Army Special Services Officer,| nursing service and a total of 639 was named Club Poet. home and office visits made. Also| The first order of business for {245 visits were made in behalf of | the new group will be to contact al! hxrnlxcnts and to patients not found | Harvard alumni and former students at home. One hundred and fifty-|in the Territory and invite them to! one X-rays were taken on patients|attend future meetings. ! needing follow-up and rechecks. | Although no definite date was set | | Twenty-one patients were admitted | for the next meeting it was agreed for sanatorium care. Thirty - nine- expectant mothers | future as required or desired by *he were admitted to service and 74|majority of the members. home and nursing visits made to| Those who attended ! {them. Two hundred and twenty- meeting included Gov. Gruening,; | eight new mothers were seen by |Mr. Barrie White of Anchorage, Lt.| the public health nurse and 363 Col. Charles Kuna, US. Army,) whooping the first! | that the club would convene in the | Major Hartley, Lt. Col. James W. Clark, US. Air Force, Mr. Ras son, Lt. Col. Monroe, and Major| Frank A. Gleason, U.S. Army. RECOMMENDS ACT FOR FUNDS ALASKA HARBOR PROJECTS As part of the general drive to| strengthen the Territory, the| Alaska Development Board has re- commended to Delegate E. L. Bart-| lett that he introduce in C()ngre\s! a special act to appropriate the' funds necessary to construct during| 1951 all the harbor improvement' projects in Alaska which have been | approved by the Corps of Engineers and authorized by Congress. } Involved in the new Development | Board move are a channel dredging proposal, a river protection project and eleven small boat harbors, in- cluding the Gastineau Channel dredging project. Local Projects 1 At the same time the Board urged | | that authorization be sought for| | number of grandchildren and great- | grandchildren. Mrs. Liddicoat was | Visits made to give nursing care and | tvery active in church work until ill | information. Two mothers classes| | health prevented. She would have | were conducted with an enrollment | |been 81 years old had she lived |of 19 mothers and total aitendar el | until March. iOf 63. | Mrs. Liddicoat had gone to Au-| Weekly well baby conferences | burp to visit during the winter | were crowded, with an admission n(‘ months. Mrs. Ritcher left Thursday |319; 459 home visits and 568 office | January 11, by Alaska Coastal to |Visits. | |be with her mother. } Three hundred and eleven K:v'hrml“ | “I¢hildren were admitted to nursing | ['service, 207 children were given | TEMPERA“'RES 1] }physical examinations and 354 of- s !fice and home nursing visits were ALASKA WRITTEN UP == | Nursing care was given to 66 sick (By Associated Press) | persons which required 307 home So you've been complaining about | ang office visits. the weather the past few days. Stop | One crippled children’s clinic and a minute and consider Alaskans. | one chronic disease clinic were held, The Seattle weather bureau said |anq 15 children were admitted to last night the interior of Alaska| medical care and 31 to nursing ser- is having its worst cold spell of|yjce Forty-three office medical this it . | visits and 182 office and home nurs The warmest it got in Fairbanks |jng yisits were made. Seven new yesterday was (Brrrr) 51 below |eqses were reported to the crippled zero, The coldest there Tuesday ang chronic disease service and 15 night wa: not much worse—only chjldren received hospital care. 53 below. To tnp it off, it snowed. Twenty - nine patients received | Anchorage was balmy by compar- | aqult health supervision and 64 ison. Tt had A minimum of 26 be-|pome visits made by the Public low and maximum of 11 below. |pealth Nurses to give supervision Nome, on the Bering Sea, chiver- |4 instruction. ed with a high of minus 23 and | Nyrsing conferences were held low of minus 29. | Even at Juneau, far down on the southeast tip of Alaska, it got to 3 below Tuesday night at the | ”aw ' airport and warmed up to 15 above | a during the day. Ketchikan reported | a mild night time 16 above and | day temperature of 29 above. \ Men’s Suit Salz (& now on at | Graves, the Clothing man. 710-zt fixtures li Downward light softened by tinted enamel cooting here Enjoy the excellent appoint- ments, the delicious food, and the ‘courteous service. Special round trip winter excursion fares now in effect. Vancouver, Victoria, or Seattle $108.40 from Juneau JUNEAU SAILINGS Southbound Tuesday, January 23 Tuesday, February 6 Tuesday, February 20 For information and reservations contact ‘Wm. K. McFarlane, Agent Juneau e “34‘:& New lamp bulb beautifies Bright light directed UP from this part of bulb General Electric 50-GA Bulhs ony . Alaska Eleetrie Lightand Power Co. T S A S S TR ¢ e VO S | - A.E.L.&P. ke these! Plus Tax 40¢ seven other Alaska projects which the Develo i, 4 J pment Board is urging an have been recommended but not yet | appropriation is the Skagway 1’?1\ er ;lx)dopzled lby Congress, including | project, which would co:l §651 400. ouglas harbor and Gold Greek| The seven ad al proj still pri bl ditional projects still needing authorization by Con; '_rhev President’s budget message | before appropriations can be sought this \f\uek failed to request an ap- |are: Talkeetna flood control, $46,- propriation for any Alaska river and [ 000; Anchorage harbor, $5, 8.51 OOU“ harbor project aside from Wrangell | Ninilchik harbor, $125,500; ? Hu‘mex" Narrows. harbor, $54,000; Seldovia sn - s ,000; Seldovia small boat Only $3,979,100 would be needed | basin, $364,700; Douglas harbor to build every single one of the |$392,000; Gold Creek flood camroll Alaska projects awaiting money | $311,000. 3 from Congress,” George Sundborg, Consultant to the Alaska Develop-| F. R. Stevenson of Petersburg is ment Board, stated in a letter to|registered at the Baranof el o) shin il aranof Hotel. Most of the projects involved have Ernest O. Swanson of Elfin Cove been authorized by _Congress ever!|is at the Baranof Hotel, since 1945 but no money has been - —_ forthcoming for their construction. | AT THE BARANOF Otis M. Hill, Jr., of Junean is at the Baisnof ¥ Alockade Prevents Work The usual procedure after acts of | authorization are passed by Con-| gress is for appreLriations requests | for the specitic projects to b(’1 _.M cleared through the Bureau of the | Budget by the Corps of Engineers. This has not been done on any of the Alaska projects except Wrangell | Narrows and the Nome breakwater l l E I y for many years. The Development Tk and Mrs, itka are stopping at the Baranof Hotel. Board’s proposal for a special act | would seek to get around this block- | This wont be announced ' offic- ade which has prevented work on | ally until next Monday, but Harry so many urgently needed projects ‘Lundehm'g has been re-elected se- Funds Authorized | cretary-treasurer of the AFL Sail- One of the projects involved, ors’ Union of the Pacific. That is Kodiak harbor improvements cost- |1¢ Dighest office in the SUP. ing $58,000, was authorized by Con-| — gress as long ago as 1940. Eleven other harbor projects were a rized in 1945. These, with their cos are as follows: Seldovia har- bor, $210,000; Skagway harbor, $36,500; Gastineau Channel dredg- i $800,000; Elfin Cove, $£131,000; Sitka harbor, $724,000; Petersburg harbor, $150,600; Wrangell harbor, $422,000; Port Alexander, $79,300; Meyers Chuck harbor, $99,300; Craig harbor, $276,000; Metlakatla harbor, | $341,000. The other authorized project rv-‘ maining in Alaska and for which | GROUP HEALTH ASSN., Inc. ANNUAL MEETING TO BE HELD MONDAY EVENING January 22nd, 1331 at 8:00 P. M. in Office of Drs. Rude and Clements * All Members and Interested Persons Urgently Requested to Attend To Non-Catholics and Catholics Alike You Are Cordially Invited To A Holy MESSION conducted by the Noted Jesuit Missionary #Rev. Francis Toner, S. J. of the Jesuit Mission Band JANUARY 21—28 (INCLUSIVE) EVENING A‘I‘ 1:30 | SERVICES Cathelie Church Fifth and Gold '« ITS PURPOSE In these critical days of moral deca- dence and assaults against Christian faith and morals, to give people a clearer realization of the real purpose of life and man’s great destiny; To enable people to see more clearly whether or not they are 4ireain3 life's course to its proper goal—eternal hap- piness; whether they are using — or wasting — the limited time allotted to reach that goal; To help people chart a SURE course, safe from the many dangers and decep- tions that beset the way; TO INSPIRE PEOPLE TO PERSE- VERE, never to lose heart, but rather to increase their good efforts until they have safely reached the Harbor of Sal- vation and Eternal Happiness—a goal that may be much nearer than you think! FATHER TONER (ST. FRANCIS XAVIER Great “Apostle of the Indies”) IS THE ACCEPTABLE TIME"” P