The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 6, 1951, Page 8

AGE EIGHT ° PAGERIGHY . ~ — —rewewesweace o gl LS SRR T il Perfed Atiendance INiemi Named Soap Box Derby Champ and Leivers | Off for Akron j Soap Box Derby winner LeRoy West and J. W. Leivers, who was | in charge of the derby in Juneau, | on their way to Akron, Ohio, | ) | left this afternoon via Pan | They American plane decke out in} lliant official Sourdough shirts | on which “gold” nuggct buttoss | 8 minent | Seattle ¢ will 1 h rode shipped e: Leiyers said has “Daily ted in bright blue letters on side. The big event is scheduled Aug-| ust 12 in Akron and Lei .\md{ Le would keep (ne home [olks ad- | vsed on how its racing champ! fares through press releases to The Empire Following the races, young West | will return to the west coast to| visit an aunt at Renton but Lei-| vers will go to Washington, D. C., | for a few days to attend a con-| ference of clerks of district cour's } for Alaska, The conference nas been called by the Assistani Direc of administrative offi ol S. District Courts. He will then join LeRoy in Se-| attle and the two will return home. Cheering young West on in the, Akron races will be his grand- mother and grandfather, Mr. and | Mrs. W. B. Converse who have al-| ready gone south. tor U Uncle Slaps Down On Tax-Rebelling Texas Housewives 6.—P— | ] | MARSHALL, Tex., Aug. Uncle Sam moved today agains(. the bank accounts of tax-rebelling| Maréhall housewives and found sev- | eral\had withdrawn their money. Two Internal Revenue Bureau| agents showed up at the Marshall | National Bank with Federal seizure warrants and orders that accounts of the Housewives and their hus- bands be made available for inspec- | tion. The agents were J. D. Langford | of Tyler, Tex., and J. P. Armistead | of Longview, Tex. They first hand- ed_to. William L. Young, president] of the banks, orders requiring to produce the accounts for inspec- tion. Then they handed over copies of Federal seizure warants requiring Young to write checks for the exact | amount of Social Sgcurity taxes and | | penalities due the Government April 30. Young then produced the ac-{ counts. The housewives claim it is un- copstitutional to ask them to serve as tax collectors by withholding taxés from the wages of their dom- estic servants. They have said they | will carry the fight to the U. s.| Supreme Qourt. Trousers, Boen Fornd on Beach A¥Yakutat <A pair of trousers and what may have Been a human leg bone were | picked up on a beach near Yaku-| tat by two crewmen from the Coast Guard cutter Storis, it was learned | at ‘Coast Guard headquarters here yesterday. The bone still had some cartilage attached and indications were that it was fairly fresh. Marks on it ap- peared to be bear tooth marks. The trousers with frayed cuffs, were Black Bear brand, 100 percent wool whipeord, size about 30x30 inches and bore two laundry marks. One was “K 1096 WED” and the other 686.” The report said that the objects had been flown to Anchorage for possible identification. No further details had been received here at noon today. Coast Guard head- quarters here said there was no connection seen between this find and the search for clues of the miss- ing .Canadian airlift plane or the missing Norseman craft with three aboard. | | | VISITOR FROM WRANGELL Victor E. Hill of Wrangell is stop- ping at the Baranof Hotel VERY NEW Ciro’s STICK COLONGE IN FIVE LOVELY ESSENCE ,Your Beauty Advisor TOBI PATTON JUNEAU DPRUG Co. Box 1151 — Phone 33 Chief Engineer of Road Commission W. J. Niemi has been appointed | chief engineer of the Alaska Road | Commission, it was announced this | | morning by A. F. Ghiglione, com- | | missioner. Niemi is moving up from tue| position of chief of operations but, | Ghiglione explained, will also carry | Jut the duties of that office until' Pins Presented fo Seven Lions C. M. Armstrong, of the U. S, Forest, Service” here, "was initiated by Milton Furness ‘into the Jun- eau Lions Club at a regular lunch- eon meeting at the Baranof Ho- tel this noon. Armstrong was pre- viously stationed at Petersburg. In the &absence of the president the .first.vice president,Second ‘THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA | as aid only to veterans who have | story. President, Wes Overby pie-|the end of the construction season sided. when a man is expected to be named atte ce p were repl hith Hedge Me- Niemi is a former Douglas boy. icld, Martin| if¢ moved there in 1910 with his g liag Sea's | family from the Panama Canal am Wood 7one where his father worked on was some discussion of | onstruction. His father had pre- tees and projects to revive! ceded the family to Douglas by a T Rt Eathe dub. year, coming up to work al the Alm° Binekerby. Sugzested that | ‘Treadwell Mine. )me member be designated to a tend therinstallation of the Wiite- horse Liéns club on Sept. 15 Vietor Hill of Wrangell suest was a After Niemi graduated from the Douglas elementary school the family moved to Anchorage where Niemi was graduated from high school and won a four-year schol- Truman Veloes Upping of Vels' Pensions WASHINGTON, Aug. 6— ) = President, Truman today vetoed leg- islation"to iperease thé pensions of thousanids ef war yeterans who are i | aisabled, for reasgns, not connected with' thejr- pillithry service. The measure would have boosted some . pensions from .$60 and 7 to $120 a month. , In a message to the House, Mr. Truman emphasized that the bill pensiofi “for ~ nen-service connected disabllity. It would not affect compensation for veterans disabled as a result of militery service, he said, and added: “Enactment of: the bill could cost the Government, in the first year of operation, approximately $16,700,- 000. This, however, is not the full “A projection of the cost on the basis of experience on the pension; legislation for Spanish-American | war veterans indicates that toward the end of this century the cost of this bill would approach $400,000,- 000 a year including only the elig- ible veterans of World War I and World War I1.” YISITING FAMILY ~~ To visit her family for the next month, Miss ¥irgidia Shattuck ar- rived in Juneau Thursday and will spend much of her time at the | summeér home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Allen Shattuck. Her in Juneau was in time to join her brother and sister- in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Curtis Shat- tuck, for observance of their elev- enth wedding anniversary Saturday. Miss Shattuck, home economics supervisor for the Pacific Gas and Electric Company, lives in San Ra- fael, Calif. TODAY | LEARNED THERE IS A DiereRence DRY CLEANING! | | | SANITONE! Don’t be fooled . . . all dry cleaning isn’t the same! You can see, feel, smell the difference with Sanitone. All dirt outy spots gone! Like-new texture restored! Everye thing is d:_isy-fresh cee no sign of reekin, cleaning odors! e CITY DRY GLEANERS’ """ Phone 877 arship to the Colorado School of Mines. He graduated from that institu- tion in 1926 and came back to Al- aska to work for the Copper Company and later, the Fairbanks Exploration Company. Just preceding the time he joined the Alaska Road Commission in 1930, he was working for the Al- aska Railroad. He was made assistant engineer in the Anchorage district of the road commission and worked up through the offices of assistant superintendent and district en- gineer. In 1940 he helped organize the Alaska National Guard and fol- lowing Pearl ;Harbor, went into active service, He was stationed at Fort Richardson and then was transferred to the Corps of En- gineers, U. S. Army. Following his discharge Niemi served three years with the Bureau of Reclamation, working on the Columbia River basin project. In November 1949 he returned to | Prsident Truman said today the Anchorage and the road commis- sion and in 1950 was transferred to Juneau as chief of operations. In 1929 Niemi married Bernice Kingsbury, an Anchorage school teacher and they have two daught- ers, Miriam, a junior in business administration at the University of Washington and Celia, a sopho- more in Juneau High School. ...Moscow . was .built. hy. Jurie,.or George I, Duke of Kiev (1149 A. D.) James Buchanan, 15th presi- dent of the United States, was a Federalist. His successor, Lincoln, was a Republican. In 1917, Congress passed a law requiring literacy tests to limit immigration. Kennicott | . Midshipnien from the Naval Academy at Annapolis, Md., line ramp leading up to United Nations Secretariat Building in New York City. The 73 middies, half of a contingent of 146 on a summer tour of _east coast air installations, visited the buiding while the other half went on liberty. It was the first group of Annapolis men to visit the new headquarters. § Wirephoto. .,;Missouri Yalley Authority’ Asked By Truman WASHINGTON, ENGAGEMENT AND CRUISE TO EUROPE ARE TOLD BY MIDSHIPMAN SPERLING Midshir. n David Sperling has just completed a cruise aboard the U.S.S. Johnston. The story of the cruise—a rough one—and his very exciting June Week during which he became engaged and gave a miniature of his class ring to Miss Mildred Michel in a letter written to Mr. and M Keith G. Wildes while he was en- route from Holland to Cuba. Aug. 6, - midwest must elect more “for- ward-looking, liberal-minded mem- bers of Congress” to assure crea- tion of a Missouri Valley authority to control floods. David’s brother Bill Juneau this summer employed by Bil Manthey, building contractor. Thay | are the sons of the late Mr. and Mrs. Harry Sperling. Mr. Truman expressed this view in a letter to CIO President Phil- ip Murray. It was in response (o one in which Murray asked him to set up immediately an emer- gency commission to draw up a |river _management = program for the “Missouri Valley.” = The young midshipman and Miss Michelherg, who.Rad.come o .Ju- neau from Canada to join the nurs- ing staff of St. Ann's Hospital, met i last summer and she is now working in Baltimore. Their marriage will be next June following David's graduation from Annapolis. The White House made public the President’s letter. Murray had previously released his own. Mr. Truman declared that three key flood control dams proposed for the Kansas River and its trib- utaries have not been started, “All because of opposition by the officials and Congressional rep- SPECIAL BROADCAST Shirley Davis invites you to —EMPIRE WANT ADS PAY— Meet Your Neighbor, KINY, Tues- | days, 5:45 p.m. 897-1t | | resentatives of the state of Kan- sas.” & Boys’ and Girls’ Underwear Sizes 2 GET READY FOR | EVERYTHING FOR THE CHILDREN . . . from the skin out — Sleepers — | [ | | | Bootee Style Sizes 0 - 8 to 16 400 Grayling Planted in Lake on lAdmiraIiy Isiand | sidered for ¢ MONDAY, AUGUST 6, 1951 Stabilization. was taken as an ob- servor, but was kept busy on the The fish ranged from two to ten return trip pumping air into the | inches and the trip from the lake cans of fish to supply “them With | near Atlin to Lake Kathleen took Rhode said mortality on | one hour and twenty minutes, Rhode eeney, with the Oftice of Price | stated. the trip was less than 25 fish. s About 400 grayling have been planted in Lake Kathleen, 30 miles from Hawk Inlet on miralty Is- land, Clarence Rhode, regional di- rector of the Fish and Wildlife Service said today. “HERB” S. ROWLAND Alaska Manager Rhode flew into a lake near At- lin, B. C, and brought the fish | Baranof Hotel-Juneau out in 5-gallon cans iast week. He | locations in re being eon- | said that three other Southeastern Alaska @ 2 | The project, he said, is bein: ried out by the Alaska Dep: of Fisheries, the Territorial men’s Association and the Fish and Wildlife Service | Ed Sweeney and Louie McDonald | Telephone 419 car- | ts- Life Insurance-Annuities | accompanied Rhode. McDonald, | with the Territory's fisheries de- | i i i i 3 | a reputation for service and integrit partment, stayed at the lake to A P 2 it s BRI E EEE e Y capture fish for another planting SITKA, 16V STRAITS YAND “/CHATHAM STRAITS™ POINTS: READ DOWN —== et COASTAL AIRLINES ,BOK_2DO8) JUNEAY ALASKA == PHONE 613 A HAwK INLET CHATHAM rooo___{_| SUPERIOR | | TENAREE TP N | | {SFFECTIVE_ JUNE 1, 1951 JUNEAU/SITKA= KETCHIKAN s e LV JUNEAU (PST) AR E : LY SITKA LV PETERSBURG 12:00| LV WRANGELL 12:40| AR KETCHIKAN % §-FLAGSTOR. 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