LT. COLONEL MARSTEN
PASSES THROUGH NOME
Lt. Colonel M. R. Marsten
passed through Nome over the
week end actively engaged in the
organizing of approximately 50
units for the National Guard in
the outlying districts of Second
Division in accordance with the re
cent act of the Legislature which
established the National Guard in
the Territory.
Col. Marsten stated that the site
of the National Guard headquar
ters in Nome has not been fully
decided, but he could definitly
state that an extensive program
was being planned to make the
Alaska Guard an outstanding or
ganization.
Mrs. J. S. MacKinnon, Jr., for
merly Jane Nelson of Nome, is
the mother of a baby boy born
April 15th at Juneau. Mrs. Mac-1
Kinnon is the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Harry Nelson now stationed
at Anchorage with the C.A.A.
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NEW MINISTER FOR
FEDERATED CHURCH
Announcement was made last
Friday evening at the meeting of
the Ladies Aid Society at the home
of Lois Morgan, that a minister
has oeen selected for the Feder
ated Church, who will arrive in
July, with his family from Jun
eau.
The name of the new minister is
Rev. R. Treat, who has been a*.
Juneau for five years.
George Gothaw, 2nd Division
chairman of the Board of Asses
ovs and Equalization for the 2nd
Division, left today for his home
at Shishmaref, hawing completed
arrangements for the establish
ment of the tax office on the
ground floor of the Polaris Hotel.
Applications have been received
for the position of tax assessor
but no announcement has been
made concerning the filling of the
position.
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FINE LIQUORS, BEER AND WINE
Out-of-Town Orders Carefully Handled
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SERVICE CLEANERS
4th and B Streets—Opposite School House
QUALITY DRY CLEANING A SPECIALTY
Mr. and Airs. Carl Alickleson, Props.
Prompt and Courteous Service
Phone RED 96
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Jane Sniffen !
Becomes “Miss
Nome of 1949”
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monies, tickets for the several
prize winners were drawn. Queen
t-indi drew the numbers from the
box.
The lucky number for the Jun
ior Queen Contest, (blue ticket),
is No. 219. Tommy Martin of the
North Pole Bakery won the prize
for the Junior Queen Contest. The
prize is to be half of the net pro-;
ceeds of the Junior Contest and
has not as yet been determined.
Winner of the Senior Queen!
Contest ticket is Number 362, win
ning for its holder $500. The lucky
man is none other than Sgt.
Kenneth Hebert, of Marks Air
Force Base, hunband of runner-up
to the Queen, Lolly Hebert.
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Secopd prize in the Queen Con-;
test went to Lolly Hebert. It was
$100, and a bronze medal.
Third prize was won by Ellen !
Waldheim; $50 and a bronze
medal.
Fourth place went to Mary |
Roell, winning a check for $25.00
and an engraved bronze medal.
Total scores in the contest were i
as follows: Jane Sniffen 89,000;
Lolly Hebert 58,300; Ellen Wald
heim 47,300; and Mary Roell,
25,100.
Tofals for the two little Queen
contestants were: Linda Gifford.
29,500; Roberta Anderson, 25,700.
The queens were beautifully
gowned for the occasion and made
an exceptionally pretty picture on J
the stage of the large hall. Queen
Jane wore white, as also did Mary |
Roell. Ellen Waldheim wore red
and Lolly Hebert, blue. All were
beautiful evening gowns.
Queen Jane Sniffen graciously
thanked all who had sogenerous
ly supported her campaign for the
throne as Miss Nome, Queen of
Nome, 1949.
Miss Sniffen is a Special Serv
ice worker at the Marks Air Force
Base and is in charge of the Serv
ice Club at the Base. During the
past month. Miss Sniffen made a |
trip to the States on her own ini
tiative, in the interest of raising
funds for the Nome Ice Rink. It is
to her credit that much of the
funds raised was donated directly
for the ice rink as she requested,
and in no way helped in putting
her on the throne. Miss Sniffen is
to be congratulated on her civic
interest.
The carnival, which consisted of
many and varied concessions and
games, was enjoyed by all. The
games, etc., consisted of coin toss,1
baseball, soda stand, bingo, wheel
of-fortune, roulette, and many
other forms of carnival entertain
ment.
Donations made directly to the
Arctic Club for the ice rink are
as follows: Sourdough Club $100;
Glenn Carrington Co. $30; and the
Dream Theater $25. These dona
tions were given in response to a
request made by Miss Jane Sniffen
t>n her recent visit in Seattle.
Dave Tewkesbury, of Tewkes
bury Publishers, Seattle, also
made it possible through a contact
with Alaska Airlines to furnish
Miss Sniffen with a through ticket
from Seattle to Nome on the re
turn trip. Miss Sniffen stated she
was most grateful to all who as
sisted and donated in any way
toward the success of the contest,
carnival and ice rink.
Chairman of the committees
were: Mrs. Gordon Osborne, Jun
ior Queen Contest; Frank C. Bing
ham, Elmo Miller, and W.lliam
Ullrich, carnival; and Karl Dewey,
finances. Many others assisted in
Fighting Presses
Nearer Shanghai
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small scale. Kaiting is on the
Shanghai-Nanking highway seven
miles north of the railway between
the two cities. Red troops thrust
ing along the rail line were within
35 miles of Shanghai.
Inside this largest Asian city,
the nationalist garrison ordered
Chinese and foreign business firms
and some government agencies to
turn over 950 trucks and 300 jeeps
for “military purposes.”
Foreign consulates, including
the American and British, were
interceding to try to keep the gar
rison from commandeering the
foreign vehicles. Many American
and British firms were hard hit by
the order. Some were engaged in
essential activities.
One communist drive, a com
munique said, was toward Nan
chang, Kiangsi provincial capital
380 air miles southwest of Shang
hai. The other was pointed for Fu
kien province on the southeast
concessions and games and con
tributed greatly toward the suc
cess of the affair, reported Mr.
Duffield.
More income tax money has
been refunded so far this year to
persons in the Washington-Alaska
collection district than in an entire
year’s refunding operation in
past, Internal Revenue collector
Clark Squire reported in Tacoma.
Refunds to 505,023 persons
amount to $29,702,734. This is
$151,999 more than for the entire
calendar year of 1947, when 544,
744 persons received refund
checks. In 1948 the refunds
amounted to $28,210,060.
The increase in the number of
refunds to date over those for the
corresponding period last year is
29 per cent, and the increase in the
amount refunded is 63 per cent.
Collections of all federal taxes
in this district have passed the
200-million-dollar mark. The
amount received so far is $206,
668,969, of which $133,023,784
represents income taxes.
coast just below Chekiang.
'Fukien fronts on the big island
province of Formosa which gen
i eralissimo Chiang Kai-Shek re
| portedly has converted into a fort
ress for a last nationalist stand.'
Shanghai newspapers said a
I “state of siege” existed at Han
|kow, central China industrial cen
ter 600 miles up the Yanktze from
| Shanghai.
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