Forecast And
Weather Report
Compiled by U.S. Dept, of Commerce,
Weather Bureau
Forecast Wednesday and Thurs
day, with light variable winds.
Lowest temperature tonight 32,
highest tomorrow 50.
Data for other selected stations
as of 7 a.m. today:
Station Temp. Weather
Barrow 22 Lt. fr. rain
Point Hope 26 Fair
Kotzebue 37 Clear
Wales 26 Cloudy
Gambell 27 Fair
Nome 43 Clear
Unalakleet 42 Part Cloudy
Bethel 40 Part Cloudy
McGrath 53 Clear
Anchorage 46 Cloudy
Fairbanks 54 Cloudy
Whitehorse 49 Cloudy
Edmonton 67 Part Cloudy
Juneau 47 Rain
Ketchikan 55 Cloudy
Seattle 52 Cloudy
Mother's Night Theme
Eastern Star Meeting
Mother’s Night was the theme
of the meeting of the Order of
Eastern Star last Monday evening
with the men of the order taking
over the entertainment and social
part of the meeting.
All mothers and grandmothers j
and great-grandmathers were pre
* sen ted with appropriate gifts by
the worthy matron, Mrs. Eda
Dewey, after which the men gave
all the ladies lovely fresh carna
tions.
Following the meeting the
Senior Girl Scouts presented a
pageant and sang scout songs un
der the direction of Mrs. E. Galla
gher and Mrs. Ed Hawkinson.
Desolation, Ruin,
Death Blanket
San Salvador
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador,
(/P) — Desolation, ruin and death
blanketed areas of eastern El Sal
vador today in the wake of the
little Central American nation’s
worst earthquake in history. In
one city alone some 1,000 persons
perished in the first shock Sun
day.
As Red Cross agents and other
relief workers rushed to the
stricken areas, new tremors were
reported in Santiago de Maria —
already battered by the first
quake—and in the city of Berlin.
There w.ere no casualties reported
immediately from the latest
quakes.
Asks Congress for Law
Classifying Public
Lands In Alaska
WASHINGTON, (/P) — Interior
Secretary Chapman asked Con
gress yesterday to pass a law
classifying public lands in Alaska,
“to promote their orderly devel
opment.”
Chapman proposed in a letter
to the Senate a law requiring
classification prior to the acqui
sition of any right to occupy pub
lic lands under non-mineral land
laws.
“The present emergency makes
it more important than ever that
Alaska be settled as rapidly as
possible with citizens who want
to live there and contribute to
the economy with the intention of
making the lands their permanent
home and source of livelihood,”
Chapman said.
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He said the proposed law would
guard against “inappropriate use”
of public lands. It would give him
authority to set the “size and
shape” of any tract to be settled.
Many ex-soldiers and civilians
who were stationed in Alaska dur
ing and after World War II plan
to return there to live, resulting
in a great demand for land and
interest in Alaska’s economic pos
sibilities Chapman said.
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PIANIST TO PRESENT
PROGRAM OF CLASSICAL
MUSIC ON MAY 19
A concert of classical music will
be presented at the Community
Church on the evening of the
29th of May by Corporal Barks
dale White, pianist.
Mr. White, whose home town is
Loudon, Tenn., received five years
of his music training with a pri
vate teacher at Loudon, one year
at Converse College music dept.,
Spartanburg, South Carolina, and
one year at Peabody College,
Tenn.
A number of local people will
assist in the concert to provide a
varied musical program of instru- j
mental and vocal numbers.
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John Kee, 77-Year-Old
Member of the House
Of Representatives Dies
WASHINGTON, (A5) — Rep.
John Kee, 77-year-old chairman
of the House Foreign Affairs Com
mittee, died Tuesday o*f a heart
attack.
He collapsed during a routine
session of the committee and was
pronounced dead by Dr. George
W. Calver, Capitol physician.
Kee had been ill for some time
and only recently returned from
nearby Betheseda Naval Hospital.
He had been a member of the
House since 1933.
Warner Baxter, Long
Time Movie Actor, Dies
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif.,- (TP)—
Death has stopped the horrible
pain which handsome Warner
Baxter, the movie’s original Cisco
Kid, suffered for years.
The suave, virile idol died Mon
day night at his home. He was 62.
For years he had suffered from
arthritis, the pain of which was so
great that he was unable to eat.
Baxter was the second actor
ever to win the top Acadamy
Award Oscar.
Jack Haldeman, director .
Arctic Health Research,
Appointed To New Post
WASHINGTON, <A>) — Dr. Jack
C. Haldeman, medical director
since 1948, of the Arctic Health
Research Center at Anchorage,
has been appointed chief of the
Division of State Grants of the
U. S. Public Health Service.
Haldeman, 38, and a native of
Downey, Idaho, succeeds Dr. Es
tella Ford Warner, who recently
was assigned to a government
health-aid mission in Beirut, Leb
anon.
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Very little is known about the Alaska salmon, back*
bone of the Territory’s economy. Despite years of
study, scientists still have much to learn about this
highly important resource.
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{ insure future runs of salmon in Alaskan waters. For this
I reason, salmon packers of the Bristol Bay, Westward, Kodiak
A Island, Southeastern Alaska and other districts each year assess
themselves a fixed amount per case of salmon to finance the
University of Washington Fisheries Research Institute.
The industry in the past five years has allocated nearly a million dollars
to finance these studies. The University’s Institute is an entirely inde
pendent, scientific research organization, directed by Dr. William F.
Thompson, who has won an international reputation for his studies
of the halibut and Fraser River sockeye. The Institute’s research pro
gram complements studies being made by the Fish and Wildlife Service.
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