Wales Boy Gets
Plenty Of “Firsts"
On Trip Outside
SEATTLE, (iP)—Waiting for the
elevator to take him up to the |
Travelers Aid society on the fifth
floor of the Marion building yes- j
terday morning, Glenn Sevead
look, 18, smoothed a hand rever
ently along the marble wall.
“What is that?” he asked. “I’ve
never seen anything like that be
fore.”
Glenn, whose home is in Wales,
Alaska, overlooking the Bering
Sea, had never seen an elevator
before, either. He is on his first |
trip “Outside.”
The plane he flew in from Wales j
to Nome to Anchorage was the first j
he had ever ridden in. His train;
ride from Anchorage to Seward
was his first ride in one.
“First time I seen a long trains,”
he commented yesterday.
Boarding the Baranof at Sew-1
ard was another first. The fresh!
peaches he had eaten on the boat!
were the first he’d ever seen.
“I never saw an automobile or
a truck before, either,” he said.
“Only in pictures.’
So the ride in the taxicab from
the Alaska Steamship company
pier to the Marion bldg, was an ex
perience for the lad. He comment
ed on the tall buildings, on the
“big clocks on the streets,’ on the
“many people.”
“I saw a telephone in Nome," he
said. ;
Chewing gum and smoking a
cigarette—these are both familiar!
habits, he admitted—Glenn said ;
there are about 150 people in his
native community, four of the
residents, white.
“We have about 50 houses made1
of lumber,” he said. “There are
only two old igloos.”
Glenn .js going to New York to
show New Yorkers something new
—he will tell people at the Ex
plorers Club about Wales, Alaska,
and show them how to carve
ivory.
Hugh Fire Sweeps
Java Oi Jump
BATAVIA, Java. (/P>-— A spec
tacular fire swept the Netherlands
Indies petroleum board’s main
dump at the Port of Tandjoeng- j
priok yesterday afternoon.
Native firemen extinguished the
blaze after three hours of heroic
effort. They saved two large tanks
of high octane gasoline, but 5,000
cans and drums containing more
than 100.000 gallons of gasoline
were destroyed.
Col. L. L. Drost, Batavia area
base commander for the Nether
lands army, said the fire was
“most probably sabotage.”
CHURCHES
THE CATHOLIC CHURCH
Sunday Mass—7:30 and 8:45 a.m.
At Base—10:10 a.m.
Weekday Mass—7:30 a.m.
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LAVINIA WALLACE YOUNG
MISSION
Pastor - H. R. Amundsen
Deaconess - Dorothy M. Russell
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Sunday:
11:00 a.m. Sunday School.
7:30 p.m. Evening Service.
8:45 p.m. Young People’s Sing.
Wednesday - 3:30 p.m. - Chil
dren’s Miracle Book Club.
Thursday - 7:30 p.m. - Prayer
Meeting.
FEDERATED CHURCH
Murlin W. Day. Minister
Sunday
Church School, 10 a.m.
Evening Worship, 7:45 p.m.
PENTACOSTAL ASSEMBLY OF
GOD
Third Avenue West
Pastor A. E. Capener
Sunday—
Sunday School.10:30 a.m.
Evening service .7:45 p.m.
Wednesday—
Bible Study .7:45 p.m.
EVERYONE WELCOME
CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE
Corner of Third and Division
Rev. Lewis I. Hudgins, Pastor
“You may depend upon the
Lord; may the Lord depend upon
you?’.’
10:00 a.m. Singspiration and Sun
day School Classas.
11:00 a.m. Morning Message.
7:30 p.m. Singspiration and spe
cial music.
8:00 p.m. Evening Message.
Wednesday: 7:30 p.m. Melody and
Prayer.
Come and bring your Bible.
You are ever welcome to attend
these services.
NOME GOSPEL MISSION
of
Alaska Evangelization Society
Geo. H. Loveless, Pastor
Sunday:
2:00 p.m. Sunday School.
7:30 p.m. Gospel Service.
Thursday:
3:30 p.m. “Vit-Em-In Childrens’
Bible Class.”
Friday: ,
7:30 p.m. “Know Your Bible
Class.” Using large dispensa
tional wall chart. “God’s Plan
of the Ages.”
You are invited—Everyone is
welcome.
Keepsake
DIAMOND RINGS
POLAR CURIO
SHOP
Peace Found
In Simplicity
Of The Past |
(By Frank Tripp)
There are signs of a back-io-the
past movement. Not to horse and
buggy days. Rather to an interest
in that which is the real America,
its soil, its legends and its folks.
The Pulitzer Prize for the best
biography was awarded posthum
ously to William Allen White, the
once obscure editor of a small pa
per in Kansas, the Emporia Ga
zette. The biography was his own,
a story of the day and life of the
man he knew best—himself; the
tale of a great and humble Ameri
can.
The same week a stage spectacle
depicting wholesome American
life captured the great city of Lon
don. “Oklahoma!” crashed the
British capital as no production
has in years, if ever. “Oh What a
Beautiful Morning” dissolved even
London’s fog.
The man who made about the
deepest impression at the war
fronts spent few words on gener
als, statesmen and maneuvers. He
wrote back home about G. I.’s he
met. He cabled heart-throb stories
across the seas that told some anx
ious mother that he had seen her
boy and he was well. Ernie Pyle
sent stories from half way ’round
the world that editors once brushed
off their desks with scorn.
Until the hearts of the people
burst upon the consciousness of
hard-boiled fact-merchants who
had worshiped the idol of scoop
and pomp and prominence—and
ig/iored the commonplace for
which the world begins to yearn.
Sermons are preached and ex
horters plead that man must re
turn to God -to save civilization
and his soul. No surer course could
be advised. But how can one return
to a place he has never been? Of
too many that is true. They know
neither God nor home.
Still there is unmistakable evi
dence that man is reaching almost
blindly for that very goal. He will
not admit it is God he seeks, but
it must be, for man is searching
for contentment—peace.
So he reaches, back toward sim
plicity and nature and is begin
ning to like and praise the simple
things of life, the primitive cus
toms pf days before the hectic
times in which he lives. As he
hears and sees the homely joys he
once ignored he contrasts them
with his harassed life and seeks
more knowledge of them. He wants
that peace himself.
Children are learning and liking
the songs and music of the 90’s.
The old waltz and semi-classics
are coming back again. Youngsters
leave their jazz and dance if one
will talk to them interestingly of
j times their fathers lived.
These things are taking place
and offer hope. Doubly so because
’tis not a silly search that’s going
on. It’s an effort to blend the rug
ged, joyous past with the bothered
present and create a sound future
for a generation which knows not
where to go.
All that can be told that is good
of days we elders lived will do
more to preserve true American
equilibrium than expectancy of
ease and fortune rooted in the
minds of those who will take over
when we leave.
The most hopeless man in all the
world is one who has no knowl
edge of or respect for the whole
some things which created the so
ciety in which he lives.
The job lies in the home. First
the child must know his forebears
and the place from which he
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U.S. Commissioner's Court
Jerry Roberts was held to ans
wer to a charge of intimidating a,
witness in the U. S. Court.
Frances Walker was fined five!
dollars for not having an opera-!
tor’s license.
Harold Brown was sentenced to
six months in the federal jail for
disorderly conduct.
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GUS VIERRA. OLD TIMER.
PASSES ON
»
Gus Vierra. aged 67, a Portu-i
guese who has made his home
here since the early days, passed
away yesterday morning after an!
illness of several weeks.
He is survived by his widow
and one son, Johnny Vierra, who
is home on furlough from Ger
many due to the illness of his1
father.
Funeral services will be held
from the Lavinia Wallace Young
Mission tomorrow at two o’clock.,
sprang. Back on the soil that’s a
religion in the home.
ROTARY CLUB MET IN
BOUCHER HOME
The Rotary Club held its regu
lar Thursday vusiness luncheon at
the home of Wilfred Boucher, with
president Christ Roust presiding.
Alfred Lomen, Jr., was announced
as a new member of the organiza
tion.
Guests for the luncheon were A.
P. Brandt, highway patrol officer,
D. B. LaBounty, drug salesman,
and Carl Lomen.
JOHN KOWASUK PASSED
ON WEDNESDAY
John Kowasuk, well known Es
kimo, died Wednesday after a lin
gering illness and is being buried
with a graveside service this af
ternoon with Rev. L. Hudgins of
ficiating. He is survived by a sis
ter Mrs. Cabin Boy and three
daughters.
SON BORN TO MR. AND
MRS. JOHN OST
Mr. and Mrs. John L. Ost of
Council, are the happy parents of
a son, Emory, born on August 7.
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