The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 23, 1951, Page 5

FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 1951 A WINNER IF THERE EVER WAS ONE! We Teld You We Could Not Hold It Over — BUT — There Has Seldom Been SUCH CROWDS - And SUCH PRAISE? s0 MO We Obtained Permission from the Producers to 1GLD IT OVER THRU SATURDAY!? TONIGHT— CONTINUOUS FROM 1:30 P M SATURDAY Shows at 7:25—9: Feature 7:55—10;00 ¥y you listen... or elsel Joel McCrea Ellen Drew Dean Stockwell BENEFIT JUNEAU P.T.A. SCHOLARSHIP ““The thinking fellow Calls a YELLOW* PHONE 22 OR 14 FOR A YELLOW CAB || Eliason. ciiizsssssressssssEssessssseessd) 13 P-TA BENEFT | ATCAPITOLWIL END SATURDAY The Parent-Teachers Association benefit, “Stars in My Crown | which is the feature at the Capitol theatre, will continue its showings through Saturday night, it was an- nounced today. Joel McCrea, credits Clark Gable | with having started him on his suc cessful acting career. It was back in 1928 when G was working as an extra in ble | Fair Co-Ed,” a silent picture s ring Marion Davies, with many of its scenes filmed on the Pomo College campus. McCrea, the Pomona student, was watching the filming when Gable urged him to mix in with the extras on the theory that it was a better job than the newspaper route which McCre: was then running to help pay h college expenses. McCrea took the advice, became an extra, and within a short time graduated to leading roles and s dom, With “Stars in Mv Crow he celebrates his twenty-irsy anni- versary in motion pictures. | Ellen Drew and little Dean | Stockwell are other principals in the action-filled story of 2 two- fisted parson, with Alan Hale, Lewis Stone, James M:tc Amanda Blake in tne suppor cast. NURSES AIDS HONOR TEACHERS AS R. (. | COURSE IS COMPLETED Twelve members of the Red Crc Nurses Aid night class that h: completed training at St. Ann's hospital met for a potluck supper Tuesday night, at the home of Mrs June Eliason. Their tests completed, the class members planned the Tuesday night dinner to honor Mrs. Cornelia Ahlstrom and Miss Ruth Lingley, the nurses who conducted the Red Cross course. Gifts were presented to their “teachers” by the class of women. Present were Marianne Stewart, Dorothy Myers, Pauline Sanders, Frances Paul, Thelma Osborne, Vera McNallen, Viola Phillips, Lou- ise Skinner, Louise Marsh, Jerry Jones, Arleen Godkins and Mrs. When they have completed their forty hours of nurses aid training, the class members will receive their pins and nurse’s aid caps. JERRY JONES LEAVING TRIP TO LOS ANGELES Mrs. Jerry Jones, of the Employ- ment Security office, will leave Sunday for Los Angeles. The occa- sion for her short trip to her home is the approaching departure of her brother for army service over- seas, FROM YAKUTAT Ed and Teddy Rener of Yakutat are stopping at the Baranof Hotel. They came in yesterday on PNA. MHE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASRA —~™ r ’MATI N G SEASON" $00000000000900000000000000000000000000000000000% 20:LCENTURY THEATRE » WHERE HITS ARE A HABIT! BPR PREPARES FOR SEASON'S WORK ON ALASKA HIGHWAY To organize operations prepara- tory to the start of construction work from Big Delta to Johnson River on the Alaska Highway, schednled for about April 1, J. R. Hortenstine, Bureau of Public Roads Resident Engineer is leav- ing Juneau next Tuesday for the interior. Mrs. Hortenstine is accom- panying her husband. Hortenstine will be joined before the end of the month Cornell, O. G. Dwyer an b Allen, BPR engineers in the Juneau office who will assist him in the eason’s work The construction contract has been awarded to Babler Bros. and Rogers Construction Company of Portland, Ore. The work will in- clude 53 miles of grading, surfac- ng and paving. Hortenstine is entering his fourtk season, as resident engineer with the BPR in Alaska and this season will be the third in the territory for | Cornell, Dwyer and Allen. The last year was spent in the BPR Port: land, Ore. office by Allen who ar rived in Juneau last Tuesday. The other three engineers have been in the Juneau headquarters office the past. winter, LONGTIME FRIEND OF ALASKA CONTRIBUTES TO LOCAL RED (ROSS The Juneau Chapter of the Am- erican Red Cross is the recipient of a contribution of $15 to be included in its annual drive fund from Mrs, M. E. L. Gann, 84 year old world traveler residing at present in Al- berquerque, N. M, Mrs. Gann has made the world her home since the year following the First World War and has made several t; to Alaska. She made long visits in several different years with the Goddard family when they owned the Goddard Hot Springs near Sitka, and made many friends in Southeast Alaska. Each year she has made a con- tribution to the local Red Cross Chapter but this year she wrote her old friend, Mrs. A. F. Ghiglione of Juneau that she was increasing her contribution because while she prays it will never be needed to aid in case of disaster, in these present trying times there is the possibility of need and she wants to feel that she has in some way helped her old friends. Mrs. Ghiglione met Mrs. Gann nearly 20 years ago in Yellowstone Park shortly before she was leaving for one of her visits to Alaska. She said today that Mrs. Gann ias each year contributed to the local chap- ters of the Red Cross in various parts of the states where she has made close friends. W. H. ANDREWS HERE W. H. Andrews of Anchorage is stopping at the Baranof Hotel. FROM SEATTLE Lucille Weeks of Seattle is stay- ing at the Baranof Hotel | committees LIONS CONVENTION “ The Mt. E nosts, Thursday, cumbe Lions were Friday and Satur- day, to the annual Lions Conven- tion. New officers elected were A! Lawrence, Mt. Edgecumbe, District Governor; Dr. Frank Dorsey, An- chorage, and Alva Blackerby, Ju- neau, Deputy District Governors The Convention started off with registrations Thursd: a radio pro- gram by visiti delegates at 5:45; cocktails at the s Club 6 to 7:30 and a bowling tournament, won by the Juneau delegates, at 8. Friday's session started with breakfast at the Totem Club, fol- lowed by a business session from 10 to 12 for committee meetings for rules and by-laws, resolutions and nominations Luncheon was served at the Totem Club and was followed by a necrology program for the five Alaska Lions who had died dur the past year. ‘Then business sessions continued with giving their reports. At 8:30 there was entertainment at the Mt. Edgecumbe Auditorium, A calf was auctioned and this was followed by selections by the Mt. Edgecumbe boys and girls glee clubs and chorus under the direction of Mike Ossorgin Mt. Edgecumbe Boy Scouts, which are sponsored by the Lions, gave a tumbling ex- hibition under the direction of Richard Radach followed by a hu- morous dance “Moth and Flame” by Grace Ushler, Dory Scudder and Alvin Dickman Three or Four Lions managed to get into the show with an impromp- tu skit before the Bete Sigma Phi's put on a pantomime “Ihe Lights Went Cut.” ‘The program ended with the Mt. Edgecumbe Band performing in new , uniforms toward which the Lions had contributed $1000. Saturday started with breakfast at the Totem Club followed by a business session in which all rules and by-laws recommended were ap- proved, along with 26 resolutions. Lunch was served at the central kitchen and was followed by a tour of the school and the two hospitals. The party was then taken for a short ride aboard the M, S. Mt. Edgecumbe. The Convention wound up with a banquet at the Moose Hall which was prepared by Nona Schaeffer and served by local school teachers. Dr. Ben McBrayer was toastmas- ter and speakers were Al Lawrence, District Governor Winn Erwin, Jr., and Gordon Smith, Lions represen- tative from Seattle. The program was broadcast over radio station KIFW. After the banquet which was at- tended by many local guests, the Lions joined the Moose and Women of the Moose in their annual St. Patricks Day Ball. The Juneau and Anchorage del- egates were escorted aboard the Baranof, which sailed at 11:30—and the Ketchikan delegates left by plane the following day. Everyone had a wonderful time and left a great deal of work had been ac- complished. I ATMT. EDGECUMBE | ENDS 20TH CENTURY | PRODUCTIVE ONE| SHOWINGS TONIGHT “The Mating Season,” Para- mount't comedy that is showing at the 20th Century theatre for the last times tonight, is given “high rating” by trade magazines and by| those who have seen the picturz in, Juneau. ' Gene Tierney is the picture’s be- autiful leading lady and her ro'e is that of an impoverished socialite who marries John Lund, son of Thelma Ritter who owns a ham- burger stand. { Miriam Hopkins plays the of Gene's mother and others in the exceptional comedy cast include Jan Sterling, James Horimer, Lar- ry Keating and Cora ‘Witherspoon ro'e | RECENT GEO. SURVEY PUBLICATIONS, MAPS Eleven new Alaska maps have re- cently been published by the Ge- ological Survy according to the lo- cal office. All of the maps are quad- rangles and are available in the local office for inspection by the public and for distribution to fed-| eral and territorial offices. Thej maps may be obtained at the Geo- logical Survey Office, Federal Ct'llvl ter, Denver 14, Colorado. The Medfra contour and shaded relief editions and the sleetmute contour and shaded relief editions are scaled one inch to 250,000 inohes or one inch to approximately four miles with a contour interval of 200 feet. The Kodiak A-3, B-3 and D-3 quadrangle maps are scaled one inch to 63,360 inches or 1 inch toj a mile with contour interval of 100 feet. | The Kenai quadrangle map is is-! sued in the contour and shaded re- lief editions along with the Tana-! cross area map in the same editions These four maps are scaled one inch to 250,000 inches or one inch to approximately four miles with contour intervals of 200 feet. New Geological Survey publica- tions on Alaska number four. They are as follows: Copper Deposits of the Prince William Sound District by F. H. Moffit and R. E. Fellows (1950); Garnet Deposits near ‘Wrangell by C. T. Bressler (1950); Volcanic Activity in the Aleutian Arc by R. R. Coats (1950); and Frost Action and Vegetation Pat- terns on the Seward Peninsula by D. M. Hopkins and R. S. Sigafoos (1951). These publications can be ob- tained from the Superintendent of Documents, Washington 25 D. C. and are available for inspectior: by the public in the local Geological Survey office. DOORS OPEN 7:00 NG PAGE FIVE SHOWS AT 7:15 and 9:30 SHOWING 20TH CENTURY'S NEWEST IN ITS PARADE OF BIG PICTURES! WITH THE 5TH AVENUE IN SEATTLE! NOW PLAYING DAY AND DATE BE SURE AND SEE THIS ONE ——— DESIGNED FOR ONE PURPOSE ) 'ERTAINMENT THEY HAD AN URGE TO MERGE! weand they did...and it was wonderful...and you'll love it! with MIRIAM HOPKINS + THELMA RITTER * JAN STERLING SING WITH THE “SING OR SWIM” — BOUNCING BALL LATE WORLD NEWS SATURDAY MATINEE HOPPY-ROUND-UP-CLUB HEY KIDS YOUR OLD PAL HOPPY IS BACK WITH A GOOD SHOW—CARTOONS—FREE CANDY ; Hopalong Cassidy on the Warpath! g Clarence E. MULFORD'S HAPPY BIRTHDAY MARY JOYCE DAVIS DUKE DAVIS CHARLES CURBERT CLARK GRUENING Present your Hoppy cards at box office for Free Admission. DON’T FORGET to ask for your Hoppy Bicycle Coupons. GIRL SCOUTS MEET Girl Scout Troop No. 12 met in the Elks Hall Tuesday afternoon. We wrote invitations to our mothers for next Tuesday’s party. We re- hearsed the plays we are giving. Julia Walther, reporter. DR. TED OBERMAN OPTOMETRIST 20th Century Theatre Bldg. 2nd Floor Boys’ Sport Coats 100% Wool GABARDINE Wrinkle Resistant Sizes 6 1o 14 A Happy Easter to ALL These Ads Tell a Useful Story, Indeed! Where to Shop conveniently Where to Buy Wisely How to Save Time "+« « « andMoney only 15 minutes from Juneau to an inviting place to eat [ Yowll enjoy your drive to the Airport 0 BILL °N POLLY’S Phone: 61 | save at least 12 ways when | ship Clipper’ Cargo by SO REMEMBER: The money you spend in JUNEAU with the Merchants who are Build- ing JUNEAU give YOU a part, also, in BUILDING Juneau. 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