The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 28, 1951, Page 5

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1951 IT and THURSDAY the Meost Exciting Pictures of the Past iis BACK AGAIN with '»E EXCITING STARS! Headed by MARLENE DIKTRICH And Today’s Most Popular Actor SOHEN %TAYNE OUT-LOVING... CUT-LAUGHING OUT-FIGHTING anything you've ever seen on the screen! Dietrich & dynamites\ her ‘way throug\* lawless Pacific Paradise! For ALL Your PAINTING, DECORATING, and WALL PAPER HANGING CALEL 296 RALPH A TREFFERS MARLENE DIETRICH IS CAPITOL'S STAR he st 1pitol Marlene Dietrich will be of the picture at the Cr | night. The feature is “Seven Sinners in which Marlene is the toast of the South Seas honky-tonks and she plays the part y the lady-of-the-lovely-limbs can. Opposite her, in the role of a handsome young navy John Wayne, who gives an out- standing performance. { Others in the impress clude Broderick Crawford, Dekker, Billy Gilbert, Miscl A and Oscar Homolka (of “I Remem- ber Mama” fame). There are three feature sung by Miss Dietrich in her uniqu ;end famous style. 1mey are “I F: Overboard,” “The Man's the vy” and “I've Been in Love { Tay Garnett directed and Joe Pasternak ducer. officer is songs filir pro- the was the FRANCES PAU% LOIS REEDY GIVE CONCERT NEXT FRIDAY N GHY Juneau music lov are eager’y anticipating the concert on i- day, March 2, which will combine the lovely soprano voice of nces E. Paul and the lyric contralto of Lois H. Reedy. Both vocalists are w local music circles. Miss Paul studied voice in Juneau before she obtained a degree frou Eastman School of Music. Upon her return to Juneau she resumed her studies with Mary Berne Ehler frs. Reedy, who has lived in Ju- |neau 2% years, studied voice in ¢ Lincoln, Nebraska. Most of her training, however, has been \uth} Mrs. Ehler. Both artists have delighted local | audiences with their solos at the presentations of and with their duets at the Rotary | variety show last year. Miss Paul and Mrs. Reedy are members of the choir of Northern Light Presbyter- ian church and of Juneau Singers. | The concert Friday night will comprise a variety of soprano and | contralto solos as well as two groups of duets. Both classical and modern | composers are represented in a| program that will please all musical tastes. The program will be held at the Nofthern Light Church and | will begin at 8 p.m. The l'cceptinn‘ after the concert will be in charge | of the Trustees’ wives, assisted by | ladies of the choir. The public is| cordially invited to attend. known in lOflER Sl!DE | SHOW TOMORROW The Juneau Botanical Club will | show Alasta wildflower slides rang- | from mushrooms to paint- brushes, from orchids to dandelions, I(m Thursday, March 1, in the Oddw i Fellows hall on Franklin street. g The vivid color of Alaska’s skunk | cabbage, the flaunting color of her fireweed, the beauty of her orchids, the mystery of her carniverous sun dews will all be shown. Over 250 slides have been selected from the | collections of Mrs. Amy Rude, Mrs. | Lucile Stonehouse, Mrs. Maxine Williams and E. L. Keithahn, The club will also have on display some mounted specimens, a flower press, reference books and the card index file of their herbarium speci- mens, which numbers over 900. Anyone having wild flower slides they would like identified are in- vited to take them to the show. There is no admission but a freewill »ffering will be taken. FOURTH LUTHERAN LENTEN SERVICE ing Your BDepesits ARE SAFE BUY and HOLL UNITED STATES . SAVINGS BONDS Tm; management of thu bark s pledged to conscrva tive .peration The safety of depositors’ funds i our primary consideration. In I ARE ance Corporation ,which in sures each of our depositors arairer Lae to 8 masimurm of $10,000. FIRST NATIONAL BANK of JUNEAU, ALASEA MEMBER FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATIONM These services “What Must I Do That I Might Be Whole?” the fourth topic in he Lutheran mid-week Lenten ser- ies, embodies the transition from ‘he earlier topics which dealt with the factual basis of Christianity to the study of the personal applica- tion of those facts. are held at 8 o'clock on Thursday evenings in the church at Main and Third streets. There will be special music at this service to which the public is cordially invited. The Ladies Aid will hold their | regular monthly meeting immed- iately following the above service. RETURNS ' FROM BUSINESS TRIP | CASLER Cecil Casler, owner of Caslers Mens Store, has returned from a business trip to the Pacific Coast where he visited the merchandise marts to select spring and summer stock for his store for the comlng‘ season. 3 IN"SEVEN SINNERS' ! had been established in 1905. “The Messiah” |° |the first three years but in 1848 | system, which has been developed { pressing fUE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA o e M"‘----—.-- A NORTHERN NOTEBOOK I ; By BOB DE Twenty-fourth of a Series Leo H. Saarela, who has been Alaska’s Commissioner of Mines for 1 little more than a year, is the second man to hold this job and he st Alaska-born man to head Territorial department. He took over in the Department of Mines n January 1, 1950, succeeding B. D. Stewart who had held the po- tion since the offic was createc on March 14, 1935. The Commissioner’s father, Hjal- mer Saarela, was an early-day resident of Juneau and was a car- penter by trade. He worked for the ska-Juneau mine and on gener- onstruction jobs and during the mers he gillnetted salmon for the cannery at Chilkat, near the upper end of Lynn Canal. In 1915, when the government took over the old Alaska Northern Railroad and began to build what is now the Alaska Railroad, the Saarela family moved north and settled at Anchorage. It wasn' much of a town then and in fact until about that time had been known merely as Knik Anchorage— the anchoring place for ships bring- ing supplies to the little trading post of Knik, where a postoffice Leo Saarela, the present Com- missicner of Mines, was born Anchorage on October 21, 1915, and was the first white child born in the new city. He finished grade chool and high schoc! in his home town, then went to what was then the Alaska Agriculturak College and School of Mines and is now the University of Alaska. Majering in chemistry and metal- lurgy, he graduated in 1939 and went to work for the Cleary Hills Mines, a lode golé mine near Fair- banks, as assayer and geologist. In 1941 Saarela moved over to the Territorial Department of | Mines as assayer and associate | engineer under B. D. Stewart. He |remained on that job until 1945 and in the summer of 1946, with a couple of pariners, he staried his own placer mining operation. This was, and Is, a bulidozer proposition on Hunter Creek, near | Rampart, and Leo was active in the operation from 1946 through 1949. The pickings were not heavy they adopted a new recovery sys- tem, known as the sluice plate by Glen D. Franklin and his asso- ciates in the Fortymile district, and since then the total gold re- | covery has increased. During the winter months, when mining operations were closed | down, Saarela hired out to the ex- tension service of the University of Alaska and taught the mining| short-course in towns from Ketch- | ikan to Anchorage. Since taking over in the tory’s Department of Mines last | year Saarela has found that the| | problems of the Commissioner are somewhat varied. One of the more| ones of the moment is‘ the virtual embargo on powder: shipments to the Territory. This came about as the rcau‘l of the Dangercus Cargo Act, which | became effective on August 9, 1950, | and which prohibits the 1oadm"\ and discharge of powder in excess | of 500 pounds near areas.of habi- tation. The Coast Guard, which ad- ministers the Act, has adopted the American Table of Distances—a table designed to reduce the haz- ards of storing powder—as its standard for powder discharge in Alaska, and this has, for the time/ Terri- | being at least, stopped the ship- ments of powder. “You can’t carry on mining without powder,” says Commis- sioner Saarela, and so far no meth- od has been worked out for resum- ing shipments of that commodity. The Evan-Jones coal mine in the Third Division is reported to have about two months’ supply of powder on hand now, and powder for seasonal mining operations and construction work throughout the North will have to start cominz in soon. { Saarela forsees that the larger mining operators may be able to fly their powder in and land it at airstrips not far from their op- erations, perhaps at an actual saving in freight costs. But he does not see in that solution a great deal of help for the small operators in isolated places. Much of Saarela’s time is devoted to efforts to revive interest in min- ing in Alaska, and especially in the mining of minerals other than gold—coal, copper, iron, mercury, uranium and so forth. Uranium, which has been re- ceiving a good deal of attention from prospectors in the States and Canada, has also created a certain |amount of interest in Alaska and it has been determined that the | stutf is present in several areas. The best showings so far have been around Hyder in Southeast Alaska and in the Kuskokwim River and Seward Peninsula areas in Western Alaska, but Saarela has hopes that continued search- ing will turn up other likely pros- pects. Although deposits of uranium- BETA SIGMA PHI Spring Formal, March 10 at the | Baranof Gold Room. 738- :ul‘ bearing ores are sometimes indica- ted by visual signs—salts of urqn-‘ at | g | Day that the ARMCND ium, for example, impart a canary | yellow color to the rock—the imple- ment most needed for uranium ore | prospecting is a Geiger counter This is the most sensitive instru- ment yet devised for the detection of radioactivity and a good one for field use costs around $£100 Not all radioactive are sources of uranium. Thorium, for instance, is very widespread and highly radioactive, but it does not produce uranitm. Thorium, how- ever, may be very useful to the uranium prospector for checking his Geiger counter. It is used in the mantles for Coleman lamps and a mantle, either unburned or burned, will give approximately the sa Gieger count as uranium-bearing ore containing one percent of ur- anium, a sufficiently high percent- age to make it ve interesting. The House of Representatives of the Territorial Legislature has vo- ted to match the Atomic Energy Commission’s $10,000 bonus for the discovery and production of 20 short tons of uranium-bearing ore or mechanical concentrates as ing 20 percent uranium, and current prices would be worth another To assist in Alask; at that quantity of ore $22,000. the uranium prospector department is ing a p.anphloc on ur- and how best to look for them, and the pamphlet will be available in a couple of months now. DENNIS WINN 1S ENROUTE SOUTH FROM PRIBILOFS| Returning from the Prbilof Is lands after carrying a full load of freight for the Fish and Wildlife Service operation and residents there the Service ship Dennis Winn, Capt. “Pop” Dell, arrived in Juneau late yesterday afternoon and left enroute to Seattle. The Dennis | Winn made the trip in place of the | vessel Penguin, now in drydock in Seattle, usually assigned to the run. On its return to Seattle the ship crew will prepare for its annual assignment to Bristol Bay in May Capt. Dan Drotning, skipper of the Penguin is First Mate on the Dennis Winn for the present trip Passengers for Seattle on the Dennis Winn were Mrs. Florence | Gronholdt from Sand Point and; Mr. and Mrs. Blake Kinnear andl their little son from Juneau. FWS officials said in Juneau to- day that advices have been re- eived from Director Albert M. Dennis Winn will continue to headquarter at Seuttle when the Service fleet mo/es to | Juneau. This is due to the fact that the ship is used to transport freight from Seattle and would necessarily make several trips 2 year to that port and to the fact that loca'® facilities are inadequate | | for hauling the big ship out for | overhoul. FROM SITKA Car! Kerr of Sitka is at the Bar- anof Hotel. FROM ANCHORAGE Russel Swank of Anchorage is| staying at the Baranof Hotel. WHY RUSH PROTECTION? WE know, from experi- ence, that there’s reason to rush . . . there’s no time to spare! Fire, lightning, wind, hail, explosion or some other peril may be heading your way right now. And, if you're caught without proper insurance, you can lose plenty! Don’t delay. the insurance you need NOW. Shattuck Agency Phone 249 Seward Street See us for protection comedy-drama starring the late Wallace Beery, will have its last | showings at the 20th Century itreatre tonight. In this hit picture | from Mountain Iron, Minnesota, in | complimentary i will be announced . W. BEERY PICTURE ENDS AT THE 20TH; GERONIMO COMING “Alias A Gentleman,” the MGM the famous actor plays the part of an ex-convict wha. turns high hat Coming to the 20th Century Thursday for a two-day run wil | be the story of “Geronimo,” the | swaggering Apache Indian chief | who opposed the United States | Army in a death struggle on the | parched plains of the great south- | west. In “Geronimo!” fans have stirring story of the white man’s last great redskin enemy, a ven- geance-driven outlaw who mass- acred, plundered and burned a | trail of error through the west. Heading the cast of “Geronimo!”{ are Preston Foster, Ellen Drew, An- dy Devine, Willlam Henry, Ralgh Morgan and Chief Thunder Cloud, the latter, a full-blooded Indian, in the title role. With its basis in fact, and its fact running faster than fiction, “Geronimo!” brings to the) screen a thrilling chapter of Amer- ican history. DOLORES MATILLA IS ACCOMPANIST, SINGERS CONCERT Miss Dolores Mattila will be the accompanist at the Spring Concert being given by the Juneau Singers Friday evening March 9 at the 20th Century Theatre. Miss Mattila came the | to Juneau September of 1948 to take the po- sition of school nurse, in which ca- pacity she is still serving. Miss Mattila studied the pianc “most of her life” to quote her own words. She was the piano soloist with the Juneau City Band in its concert in March 1949, and is thel same artist who received so many comments for her excellent work with The Juneau Singers when this organization par- ticipated in the Rotary Show last year. In the first act of the forthcoming concert, Miss Maftila has an op- portunity to display her musician- ship in “A Hymn to Music” which is a beautiful Fred Waring arrange- ment of Chopin’s Etude in E Major. The chorus of Singers will furnish the accompaniment to Miss Mat- tila's solo. One native born Juneauite who is an adent music lover claims this will be the very first present- ation of this type in Juneau. The first act will aiso include such well-known and much loved music as “Tales from the Vienna| Woods,” “The Spirit of Music,” “Prelude” (Ronald-Cain) and oth-| ers. i The second act is a riotous com- | edy affair, designed to tickle the most indifferent funnybone. Some of the numbers and cast for this act later. HOSPITAL ROTES Patients admitted to St. Ann's hospital were Mrs. Margaret Wood and Lillie Fitzgerald ) Discharged from the hospital were Master William Lund, Mrs. Joe Waddell and baby boy and Arthur Riendeau. At the Government hospital Mary | Starr of Angoon and Rosie Theo- | dore of Kanik were discharged. JUNEAU Frelatives and friends in Rock Is- 7:00 HE'S “HIGH CLASS"...and it's mgllly Hilamul with Tom 'AGE FIVE LAST Time Tonight SHOWS AT 7:20 and 9:30 g THAT IUGGED RASCAL HAS / BECOME A SMOOTHIE! Drake ¢ Gladys George Dorothy Patrick Plus 20th Century Variely Hour PETE SMITH —— WOE RLD NEWS BY AIR STARTS TOMORROW—— KINNEARS TO MIDWEST Mr, and Mzs. Blake Kinneas and their little son were passengers on the Fish and Wildlife Service ship Dennis Winn yesterday for Seattle on a vacation trip for a month in the midwest. They will visit with land, Ill, and in Park Falls, Wis- consin. Kinnear is an enforcement agent with the Fish and Wildlife Service in southeast Alaska. DRUNKEN DRIVING — GOLDILOCKS AND 3 BEARS e @ o o o o o 0 o 0 . TIDE TABLE . March 1 . ® Low tide 12:4% am., 55 ft. e High tide €:58 am. 151 ft. ® Low tide £:°5 p. 16 ft. o High tide o:8 pm. 112 ft. e . G. H. Giiscr. of Valdez ie a guest at the Baronof Hotel. Second and Frar.klin uneau - 430 PHONE 506 FOR APPOINTMENTS { 0 0 < ) ) ) ) ] ) ]_ ] > " Universal Truth Study of Metaphysics by Marjorie Maureen Meeks,B.S.,D.D. Subject “Life Patterns® GOLD ROOM BARANOF HOTEL Two o'Clock SUNDAY AFTERNOON mfidsmm—'— ’:‘."" 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