The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 5, 1951, Page 8

PAGE EIGHT . IMPRESSIVE FUNERAL FOR JOHN RECK AT ELKS HALL FRIDAY Friends of John Reck crowded the Elks ha iy a‘ternoon to pay last respe: to the man who had done <o ch for Juneau, whese 1t in every community enterrri nd whose death Tuesday t our town Flower and surrounded indicated the ex ships. During the Elks service, presided over by John H. Walmer as exalted ruler; these - {riends pronounced (Scotty) Adams g Norman Ban- field, lec Howard E. Simmons, esquire; Ellis Reynold secretary and Victor Power, ch: lain. of more tha sen to give a mentioned h his birth two da s Lincoln was Lil>1 time afier the ead o his lonz residence life that was ex principals of the Elks which he had been a member 33 years: charit®, justice, biotl love and fidelity. His devotion to the ofher lol influence vs fe ent of his friend- 5, was cho- y for Johp Reck, the civil war; 1 Juneau; his ed by the Lodge of for were the th. vaging a_city crew h will be just a memcry oli is merce, to the public works, is i with th: Fi which he had k chairman o. the boa:d of direcior Mr. Faulkner mentioned his d=vo- tion to his fam.y anl his during the long jears ol that ended in her de ago. Mr. Reck was an orgauizer of the Resurrection Lutheran church and it wes this church that conducted the. spiritual part of the service. With the oid of the church’ vested choir, the Rev. G. H. Hill- erman conducted the funeral ser- vice of his church in which was in- cluded, Christiansen’s arrangement of Bach’s “Come Soothing Death,” by the senior choir. The choir and the Rev. Mr. Hill- erman entered the hall in proces- sion proceeded by young people of the church carrying the church cross and candelabra. It was an impressive service as was the committal service by the Rev. Mr. Hillerman in the Odd Fellow's plot in the Evergreen cemetery where Mr. Reck was laid to rest beside his wife. Pallbearers were Grant Baldwin and G. E. Alinquist of the Moose; William Biggs and Al Zenger, Sr., (the new hall until a from the Pioneers; Pete Christensen and Art McKinnon from the Odd Fellows, and George Parks and Wal- | lis George from the Elks. Honorary pallbearers were H. L. Faulkner, Allen Shattuck, Charles Goldstein, Minard Mill, Joe Wil-| liams, Earle Hunter, Charles F Car-‘ ter, J. S. MacKinnon, Sam Paul, | Arthur Uggen, John Krugness, | Waino Hendrickson, Felix Gray, R. | E. Rokertson and Ray Nolan. | Mr. Reck is survived by his son | William, Juneau, and daughters, | Mamie, Juneau, Mrs. B. B. Green, me in less than a ye. new Communist offensive. 1 Cit t Junean th operations are underway Scon th adly make v completed to y for the new Alaska Office Build- ing The City outgrowth Hall building the a twinkle in the ey of a city library committee on July 1, 1913, The twinkle spread to the volunteer firemen who joined for- ces for the se of erecting a building to library and the fire On Aug the Cit e the department 16 of the cil cauzht to build City Engineer B, a crew wrecking the toed on the corner fain Streets and architect p pians. around. oured for the foun- dation on ptemt 8 and con- struction started 12 days later. On November 22 the 1 city offic All work W I ection of the city engineer Crowded conditions in the schools were as acute in 1913 as in 1951| and part of the Juneau Public| School moved into the upstairs of ! new school | kuilt. About 50! in the schools| studies ame year, building could be pupils, of the 249 then, pursued th new building which of the finest buildings in the city and cost about $20,000. Lester D. Henderson was superintendent of schools then, Crystal Jenne recalled today. He later became the first commis- sioner.of education for the Terri- tory. city GIRL SCOUTS MEET Girl Scout Troop No. 8 met in Fairbanks, and Mrs. A. R. Duncan, the Moose Hall Tuesday evening Ketchikan, two granddaughters and We are giving a dinner for our three great-grandchildren. { mothers on May 15. The court of | awards will be May 10. Hong Kong is an important cen-1 Violet Pekovich, reporter ter for reshipment of goods from —_— other Asiatic ports. | —EMPIRE WANT ADS PAY— =%~ THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA Refugees on Move South Again | }"." uthward along a dusty s they could, fled the , Korean refu ecs, ¢ This group, carryi 5 H A P E L Robert Callahan, writer and historian, stands outside the tiny desert chapel he built in memoryy close friend, Will Rogers, in Los Angeles. i it ; - j WORKS IN NEW MEDIUM — Charles Pearson, of Glendale, Cal., finishes portrait of Jane Russell on metal. Tech- nique is combination of bas-relief on copper and airbrush painting, I All Sales Records Broken... ... by your acceptance ‘of the new Dictaphone Time-Master! The most successful dictating machine in history helps busy people get more done...in less time...at lower cost! DICTAPHONE. 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