FDR’s First Great
Grandson Born
PORTLAND, l/P) — A 9-pound,
1-ounce boy — the first great
grandchild of the late President
Roosevelt—was “doing beautiful
ly” at a hospital Monday.
So was his 22-year old mother,
Mrs. Van H. Seagraves, who en
tered the hospital Saturday night.
The baby was named “Nicholas
Delano”—traditional names in the
Roosevelt family
Mrs .Seagraves is the former
Anna Eleanor Dali, who was
known to the world as “Sistie”
when, as a child, she romped in
the White House during the early
days of the Roosevelt administra
tion. She and Seagraves met as
students at Reed College and were
married July 7, 1948.
Her mother, Mrs. Anna Roose
velt Boettiger, and her brother,
Curtis came here for the birth.
Catholic Information
Isn’t it hard to be a Catholic?
Isn’t it hard to be a Catholic and
have to go to Mass every Sunday
whether you feel like it or not—
to have to abstain from meat on
Fridays, even if you loathe fish
and eggs—to have to confess your
sins to a priest, even your most
secret ones—to have to do the
many things that the Catholic
Church demands of its members?
Isn’t it hard to be a father and
have to go to the office or mill or
field on every week-day, whether
you feel like it or not—to have to
abstain from many things you’d
like to do if you had no wife or
children—to have to help with the
lessons and entertainment of your
youngsters, even though you’d
rather be reading the “sporting
extra”—to have to do the many
things that your duties as a parent
demand of you?
Isn’t it hard to be a soldier or a
sailor—and to have to risk death
on the battlefield, in the skies on
the seas,
Hard? How hard every compul
sion of life is for the man who has
no purpose—no goal to aim at—no
love for aught but himself!
Toil, suffering, self-denial, sac
rifice—how sweet their flavor to
him you offers them as a free gift
of love to his family, his neighbor,
his country, his God!
The Catholic believes that his
duty to God is to do exactly what
God asks of him. He believes that
his Church was established by
Jesus Christ to make clear to him
exactly what God asks of him. He
believes therefore that he has be
fore him an unerring map of the
road which he has to follow “up
hill and down dale,” over rough
spots and around sharp curves, in
wet weather, cold weather—which
he has to follow, come what may,
if he is finally to arrive in the
Promised Land.
Isn’t it hard to be a Cathaolic?
Ask a poverty-stricken one of us
if he’d trade his route to Heaven
for the wealth of the world. Ask
a pain-racked one of us if he’d
abandon his way of the cross for
the health of the world. Ask the
most insignificant one of us if he’d
risk his road to eternity for the
applause of the world. Just ask
any one of us!
Isn’t it hard to be a Catholic?
That depends or} how you look at
it. But one thing is certain. For the
Catholic who realizes, it would be
unbearably hard not to be one.
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Alaska Needs To
Have Statehood
To Grow Up
SEATTLE, (£>) — “Alaska won’t
grow up until it reaches Statehood
and quits hanging onto its moth
er’s apron strings.”
So Declares W. O. Peterson,
sourdough and Washington pio
neer.
“In the early days, we in Wash
ington had difficulties and we
never overcame them until we
had statehood,” said Peterson.
“Washington had greater dilficul- ;
ties than Alaska does now. Alaska
has greater natural resources than 1
Washington had when it became a
State.”
Peterson, chairman of the board
of trustees of the Seattle Sour
dough Club, Inc., was born in 1881
on Chambers Creek (named for
his grandfather, Judge Thomas
Chambers, who came to Oregon
Territory in 1845) near Fort Steil
acoom.
At 17, he went to Yukon Terri
I tory during the gold rush and re
mained in the north six years. He
now lives near Renton.
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Rep. McDonough
I OK’s Statehood
—
WASHINGTON, f/P) — Another
I Congressman spoke up lor early
Alaska and Hawaii statehood in
! the House this week.
Rep. Gordon McDonough <R.
I Calif.) was the fifth of a, series of
House speakers since the State
hood advocates launched the
speaking campaign a week ago. He
demanded that the Heuse leaders
order the bills out of the rules
committee.
McDonough argued that lack of
statehood allowed communists to
engineer the crippling Hawaii
dock strike. Were Hawaii a state,
he contended, the Talt-Hartley act
terms could have been utilized.
Chairman Peterson (D.-Fla.) of
the House public lands committee
expressed new optimism over the
prospects for the statehood bills.
Noting that Congress might stay in
session until October, he comment
ed to a reporter that for the first
time he now believes the measures
can be enacted this year.
“That gives us time,” he said.
WEATHER SUMMARY
FOR JULY
Generally the weather was clou
dy and cool compared to what is
normal for the month of July with
a mean temperature of 48.5 de
grees while the normal is 49.9. Ae
eragc cloudiness was 9.3 whereas
the normal for July is 7.8. The
percentage of possible sunshine
was less than half of that normal
ly expected with 16 per cent of the
possible while the normal is 33
per cent. There were only four
days out of the month in which at
least a trace of precipitation did
not fall, although total precipita
tion for the month was 1.23 which
is less than half of the 2.50 inches
that is normal for the month. The
highest temperature of the 1949
season was recorded on the 11th
when the mercury reached 67 de
grees. Normally we can expect
some temperatures in the low to
middle 70’s during July. The pre
vailing wind for the month was
W.S.W. and the maximum veloc
ity 31 MPH from the East.
Barney Crosby arrived from
Council with a clean-up of the Ni
ukluk Mining Co., which has had
a busy dredging season in that
area.
Liars Wanted At
Pioneer Pienic
SEATTLE, OP) — A contest to
find who can tell the biggest lie
will highlight the annual Alaska
Yukon Pioneers’ picnic August 14
at Woodland Park.
More than 1,000 former resi
dents of Alaska and Yuon Terri
tory arc expected to attend, R. B.
Julian, trailblazer for Alaska
Cabin No. 1, Seattle branch of the
national organization said yester
day.
Capt. and Mrs. A. J. Goddard,
who ran the first steamer from
Dawson to Fairbanks down the
Yukon River will attend. She was
the steamer’s first pilot.
Former requirement to join the
association was that a person had
to be resident in the Territory in
1900, but today it is 10 years resi
dence there.
Coffee, sugar and cream will be
furnished. Sourdough Fred Smith
will start the pot boiling early in
the morning. The entertainment
will go on all day. Besides the liar
contest, a prize will be given to
the oldest old-timer present, and
to the oldest woman there. The
woman’s auxiliary is called the
Ladies of the Golden North.
Games will be arranged for
J children, Robert Gezell, northern
j chief of the organization, said.
Entire Village
Drops 1,500 Feet
In Earthquake
QUITO, Ecuador, </P>—Witness
es reported yesterday one of the
most fantastic pranks of Ecua
dor’s disastrous earthquake—the
little village of Libertad and its
surrounding fields sank 1,500 feet
straight down into the earth.
The town, with a population of
about 100 persons, just disappear
ed. Where it once stood is a gap
ing hole half a mile in diameter
and 1.500 feet deep.
The strange tale was told by
miliary and medical officers re
turning from the quake area south
of here near Pelileo, hardest hit
city where thousands died. They
said they were shown the big sink
by Col. Gabriel Nunez .troop com
mander in the region.
Most of the top soil earth in the
sunken area was scrambled by the
sudden drop, but in a few places
crops continued to grow just as
I they did before.
Henry Wuhrman of the Grant
Mining Co., at Coffee Creek is in
town for a few days on business
and reports a busy season at both
the Coffee Creek and Macklin
Creek camps.
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