Seattle To Have
“Safest” Airfield
SEATTLE, (/P) — The Seattle
Tacoma airport at' Bow Lake',
which will have its first regularly
scheduled commercial airline op
eration Sept. 1 when Northwest
Airlines moves its western region
al offices there from Boeing Field,
will be “one of the nation’s saf
est all-weather fields,” Col. War
ren D. Lamport said today.
The colonel, general manager
of the Port of Seattle, said the in
strument landing system known
as ILS has been installed and is
undergoing tests at Bow Lake and
GCA (“Ground-controlled ‘ ap
proach”) is “scheduled for instal
lation this summer by the civil
aeronautics administration.
BEAUTY AID
DALLAS, Tex. (JP)—M. E. Beef
ier of Deshler, Neb., here install
ing an exhibit at a grovers’ con
vention, advocated use of his
product as one of the surest ways
for a woman to reduce her hips
and waistline.
“It is a double morale builder,”
he added. “She gets the twin sat
isfaction of cleanliness for her
house and streamlining her fig
ure.”
Beckler’s line is brooms.
“White House” Has
Bees In Bonnet •
INDEPENDENCE, Mo. (IP)—A
colony of bees has established res
idence at the summer White
House.
The intruders moved into a cu
pola near an attic window of Pres
ident Truman’s Independence
home Monday.
A nearby farmer who is an api
arist in his spare time, Henry J.
Hiper, and his wife answered a
call to the White House yesterday.
After consulting with secret serv
ice agents, Hiper decided to post
pone the job of attempting to dis
lodge the bees until a 60-foot lad
der could be obtained.
“I hope someone gets them
; down,” Mrs. Hiper said. “It would
j be awful if the bees found an
! opening in the house.”
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something that aids in the com
pletion of a reaction but takes no
I active part in it. Can you illus
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Fresh Fred—Yes. A glass egg
Four-year-old Alice prayed,
i “Give us this day our daily bread.”
Then she looked at her father, a
grocer, and said. “Shall I ask for
cake too, Daddy?”
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Good Statehood
Testimony Given
At Hearings
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JUNEAU — Alaskans have rea
son to be proud of the quality of
testimony presented at the state- i
hood hearing in Washington re- j
cently, George Sundborg, general j
manager of the Alaska Develop-1
ment Board, said this week on his j
^return here from a business trip to!
the States which included attend
ance at the hearing.
“Both sides of the issue were
presented very ably and by good
Alaskans,” Sundborg said. “Itcan
not agree with Mr. Faulkner that
proponents of statehood spoke
‘only in generalities and fhiled to
supply the facts and figures which
the committee wanted.”
(H. L. Faulkner, Juneau attor-j
ney, was quoted to this effect sev-j
eral weeks ago on his return from j
Washington where he appeared in;
opposition to statehood.)
“As for the case against state
| hood,” Sundborg said, “Mr. Faulk
I ner did extremely well with it,
j considering how weak it was to
; start with.”
The Development Board man
ager advised Alaskans to judge
the matter for themselves when
complete transcripts of the testi
mony are availble, as they will be
shortly.
On one thing, at least, both
j Faulkner and Sundborg agree, the
latter said, and that is that Dele
i gate E. L. “Bob” Bartlett is doing
i an excellent job in Washington
; for Alaska.
Sundborg dismissed as “just
! some more Coffey theatrics” a
j statement from Juneau during the
! hearing by Territorial Senator
Edward D. Coffey of Anchorage
that Alaska was being represented
in Washington “by a privileged
few, mostly government officials,
who can spend public funds to
travel to Washington while the
people of Alaska are hardly repre
sented.”
I Sundborg said this certainly
j came as a surprise to those in
Washington from Coffey’s own Di
1 vision, all of whom made the trip
either at their own expense or
that of local Chambers of Com
merce believing in the advantages
of statehood. These included Lee
C. Bettinger, Kodiak mayor and
businessman; Don Carlos Brown
I ell, Seward motion picture theatre
i operator and Territorial Senator;
I Hugh Dougherty, Anchorage in
surance man; Judge Anthony J.
i Dimond, former Delegate; Ken
| Hinchey, Anchorage contractor,
j and Robert B. Atwood, editor and
: publisher of the Anchorage Times.
Sujidborg said the additional
i costs of statehood, about which
Faulkner and others expressed so
much alarm, “actually would be
only half as great annually as the
additional freight rate increase as
sessed against Alaskans two weeks
ago, and from which we will get
no material benefit whatever.”
The group which heard the
statehood testimony in Washing
ton, the Territories sub-committee
of the House Public Lands com
mittee, is to visit Alaska this sum
mer.
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JUNEAU, (>P) — Harry Lucas,
vice president of the B. M. Beh
rends bank resigned yesterday to
accept the joint position of chief
underwriter -and executive assist
ant in Alaska for the federal hous
ing administration.
He succeeds John H. Carter,
who has been transferred to the
Seattle office.
Forestry Service
Makes Record Sale
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JUNEAU, (>P) — The forestry
office announced yesterday it had
sold to the Juneau Spruce Corpo
ration 81 million feet of spruce at
$2.75 per thousand feet and 47
million feet of western hemlock at
$1.00 per thousand feet. •
This is believed to be the lergest
timber deal ever recorded in Alas
ka.
The timber is located on Kosciu
ski island. The sale extends over a
five-year period with a stumpage
payment of $270,000. Twenty-five
per cent of the money is to be re
turned to the Territory for schools
and roads.
A steward on an ocean liner was
asked how he liked his work and
replied “Fine,” that the tips were
generous, but that he nearly lost
his job on the last crossing. It
seems there were several days of
rough going and in taking a bowl
of hot soup to a stateroom he un
fortunately lost his balance, trip
U. S.-Canadian
SalmonConvention
WASHINGTON, IJPh-Rep. Tol
lefson fR.-Wash.) introduced an
enabling act yesterday in the
House to approve a convention
with Canada setting up the inter
national salmon fisheries commis
sion. The commission would have
authority to regulate the catching
and sale of sockeye salmon.
The two governments entered
into a convention in 1930 for the
preservation, protection and ex
tension of sockeye salmon in the
Fraser river in Canada and funds
have been appropriated by Con
gress for carrying on the work.
The convention has been approved
by Canada.
ped and poured the contents of the
bowl into the lap of an old gentle
man asleep in a deck chair.
“And just what did you do?”
“I tapped the old fellow on the
shoulder and said, ‘I do hope you
feel better now, sir’.”
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