Bering Sea Island
Community To Get Old
RR Bell For Church
(Alaska Weekly)
An old locomotive bell will call
the villagers of Savoonga, St.
Lawrence Island, Bering Sea, to
worship in the near future.
The new home of the bell will
be the tower of the Presbyterian
. Church — the only church in
Savoonga—built three years ago.
The bell, weighing more than
300 pounds, had been in storage
after many years of service on a
steam locomotive now retired
from its run. It is the gift of the
Great Northern Railway to the
little mission station in the far
North.
Sent to Seattle from St. Paul,
and newly polished, it was pre
sented to the Rev. Arthur Kirk,
purchasing agent for Alaska for
the Board of National Missions by
Ira A. Clary, superintendent of
the Cascade Division of the rail
way.
It was shipped aboard the
North Star and will reach its
new home the latter part of Oc
tober.
“The 250 natives of Savoonga
are members of the Presbyterian
Church,*’ the Rev. Mr. Kirk said.
“But they have little idea of time,
so the ringing of the bell will be
an actual call to them to attend
church.”
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Pan Am Pioneer Bassett
Transferred To Honolulu
Clark Bassett, veteran Pan Am
erican World Airways executive
and a long-time Alaska resident,
has been transferred to Pan Am’s
Pacific Division. He will become
station operations manager a t
Honolulu.
Bassett, one of the senior em
ployees in the entire Pan Ameri
can System, has been with the
company more than 20 years. He
was one of the group who pio
neered Pan Am service in the ter
ritory in 1932 and he has been
with the Alaska Region of the
company ever since. A brother, G.
E. Bassett, also a Sourdough and
a 20-year PAA veteran, is region
al operations superintendent.
H. K. Graves, former station op
erations manager at Honolulu, has
been assigned to replace Bassett
in Seattle.
Kirk Appointed Director
Psychological Strategy
WASHINGTON, (/P)—President
Truman yesterday appointed
Adm. Allen G. Kirk, former am
bassador to Moscow, as director
o f the Psychological Strategy
Board.
The board formulates general
policy for U.S. information pro
grams abroad and assists the De
fense Department in its planning
of psychological warfare.
Kirk’s appointment is to be ef
fective about Sept. 15. He suc
ceeds Dr. Raymond B. Allen, who
is leaving to become chancellor of
the University of California at
Los Angeles.
Kirk, 63, is now chairman of
the American Committee for the
Liberation of Peoples of Russia.
This is a privately financed com
mittee of citizens.
Punishment Fits Crime
In Case Of Boy Scout
Who Dropped Ripe Plums
EXETER, England, (JP) — A
Boy Scout who was a dead shot
with ripe plums scored direct hits
from the 150 - foot - high Gothic
tower of Exeter Cathedral on two
cathedral dignitaries walking se
dately below.
The victims were quite pre
pared to regard it as a childish
prank but not the sharpshooter’s
fellow Scouts. The culprit had
been admitted to the top of the
ancient tower only after prorms
ing on his honor to be well
behaved.
In a letter of apology to cathe
dral authorities Wednesday, other
members of the Scout troop said
they had court-martialled the cul
prit and sentenced him to stand
under a tall tree while .fellow
Scouts pelted him from the top
most branches with potatoes.
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Promotions Given
Renbarger & Rose
Two Alaska Steamship Co. traf
fic department promotions were
announced today, effective Aug.
1, by H. N. Peterson, general traf
fic manager of the company.
D. R. “Doug” Renbarger is ap
pointed freight agent ai>d R. C.
“Bob” Rose is appointed general
passenger agent.
Bom in Denver, Col., in 1910,
Renbarger joined the Alaska
Steamship Co. as office boy dir^
ectly following his graduation
from Queen Anne High School in
1928 and has been with the com
pany continuously since then.
Rose joined the Alaska Line in
1937, served in the executive de
partment until April 1941 when
he was transferred to the traffic
department. On December 7 of
that year he entered active ser
vice in the naval reserve as a
lieutenant (J.G.) and during the
war saw duty in Alaska, Wash
ington, D.C., the Aleutian Islands
and the Philippines. He attained
the rank of lieutenant commander
before being placed on inactive
status in November 1945 and has
since been appointed commander.
U.S.N.R.
On his return to Alaska Steam
ship Co. in 1945, Rose was made
chief clerk of passenger traffic,
and in December 1948 was pro
moted to assistant general pass
enger agent, his post at the time
of his present appointment.
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DR. CARSWELL JOINS STAFF
OF ALASKA HEALTH DEPT.
JUNEAU — Returning to Al
aska after an absence of 12 years,
Dr. John A. Carswell arrived in
Juneau last week to join the staff
of the Alaska Dept, of Health, Dr.
C. Earl Albrecht, commissioner of
health, has announced.
Dr. Carswell has broad exper
ience and training in both tuber
culosis and general public health
work, Dr. Albrecht said, and will
be chief of Medical Services Sec
tion for the Health Dept. He is
also to serve as deputy commis
sioner of health. Certified by the
American Board of Preventive
Medicine and Public Health, Dr.
Carswell’s training includes a
doctorate in public health from
the University o*f Toronto in 1939.
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Rush For Uranium Claims
In NW Saskatchewan Over
REGINXT Sask., </P)—The rush
is about over in the hunt for
uranium in the Beverlodge field
of northwestern Saskatchewan.
Mining men who watched more
than 1,000 men scamper over the
mountains and granite ridges in
search for fortune-bearing pitch
blende ore last week say it was
the most intensive rush of. this
century in North America. The
goal was the uncovering of the
raw material for atomic energy.
D. J. Sheridan, Saskatchewan’s
mining recorder, said a trickle of
stakers will continue, but he does
n’t expect to record more than
200 or 300 claims during the next
two weeks.
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15 CREWMEN PARACHUTE TO
SAFETY FROM STRICKEN B-29
SPOKANE, All 15 crew
men parachuted to safety from a
stricken B-29 Superfort just be
fore it crashed and burned early
Thursday about 65 miles south
west of Spokane.
The flyers, who bailed out in
pitch darkness over sparsely set
tled wheat farming country, were
found by farmers who scoured
the area with flashlights.
Fairchild Air Force Base said
the pilot ordered all members of
his crew to jump after the plane
developed engine trouble and be
fore he bailed out.
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BRITCHES BURN ON BUS
CHICAGO, (/P)—Imagine Allen
Schmidt’s suprise when he awoke
to find himself sitting in a bon
fire aboard a crowded rush hour
bus. His trousers were afire.
Schmidt, a 25-year-old chemist,
told police he had no idea what
caused his rayon ^trousers to ignite
as he dozed on his way home from
work Tuesday. Neither did any
one else.
Police swept up the remains of
the trousers and took them to a
laboratory in hopes of finding the
answer.
Schmidt was taken to a hospital
with second degree burns.
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