A Housing Problem Solution
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LOS ANGELES, CALIF. —When many streetcars finally reach
“the end of the line” here, and are retired from service, they start hi>
all over. An enterprising contractor purchases the cars in job bits and
disposes of them to buyers for conversion into dwellings. Another
way to solve the housing problem.
- The buyer takes his pick. Delivery is where and as he wants it.
Most of the hauling is done by a local transportation company using
35-foot full automatic Fruehauf Trailers as shown above.
▲school superintendents would be
come: First Division, $3,670 to
$5,775; Third Division, $3,970 to
$6,075; Second and Fourth Divi
sions, $4,170 to $6,275. The act
would become effective July 1,
' 1947.
S.B. 9 would provide two and
one-half days of annual leave pe
month and one and one-fourth
days accumulative sick leave per
month for employees of the Terri
tory. Neither annual leave nor sick
leave could accumulate to excee:
60 days. Terminal pay for unused
leave would be allowed upon sep
aration from service.
S.B. 10, by Peratrovich — In
creasing maximum aid benefits to
dependent children, expand i n g
regulatory control by Welfare De
partment. To Judiciary Committee.
# S.B. 11, by Education Committee
—Providing for termination of op
eration of rural schools in com
munities where school enrollment
has reached 100 pupils. Daily File.
S.B. 12, by Education Commit
tee—Redefining school age of
children. Daily File.
S.B. 13, by Walker — Setting
March 31, 1949 for termination of
World War II Veterans Tax. Tax
ation.
S.B. 14, by Cochrane—Appropri
ating $675.10 to reimburse
Northern Light & Power Company
for tax paid on fuel oil lost in
storm at Nome in October, 194o.
Finance.
S.B. 15, by Scott — To increase
levies upon liquors. To Taxation.
S.B. 16, by Walker—To change
the manner of appointment and in
crease the salary of the Tax Com
missioner. To Judiciary and Fi
nance.
S.B. 17, by Walker—To replace
the Governor upon the Board of
Administration by the Commis
sioner of Labor. To Judiciary.
S.B. 18, by Walker—To appro
priate $15,000 for a float in Thom
as Basin, Ketchikan. To Finance
Joint Resolution Introduced
S.J.R. 1, by Jones — Directing
provision of hospitalization and
medical care for Axel Werner.'Fi
nance Committee.
(Memorials Introduced)
S.J.M. 1, by Munz—Directs Ter
ritory’s administrative officers to
fight any increase in water borne
frieght rates. Daily File.
HOBO JOE
Accordionist
MAY’S TAVERN
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WALLACE TAXI
NOME, ALASKA Phone RED ?5
4
DON’T!
Delay having those Clothes
Cleaned. Phone Main 113 and let
ns pick them up.
For prompt cleaning and delivery
MODERN CLEANERS
♦ | PAUL A. MANDEVILLE
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y1 “Modem Cleaning Is Clothes Insurance”
Escaped Convicts
Quickly Caught
PHILADELPHIA, (£») — Three
convicts had less than three hour;
freedom early today after fleeing
over a wall of the Holmesburg
State prison, but two other dan
gerous, long-term robbers remain
ed at large.
It was the second mass escape
attempted by the men in less than
two years. On April 3, 1945 t.iey
tunneled out of the Eastern State.
| penitentiary with four others—and
it took police almost a week to ge‘
them all back in custody.
This morning at 3:15 they over
powered guard William Skelton as
he was making a routine pre-dawn
j check of the cell blocks, Warden
Robert J. Beveridge reported.
I Using a small knife and wooden
gun—Skelton was stabbed slightly
in the hand—they obtained the
keys to a prison storeroom and
scaled the 20-foot wall with a
stolen ladder, Beveridge said.
An immediate police alarm
alerted authorities in the Quaker
city and three of the men were
picked up several miles from the
prison as “suspicious” characters.
THEODORE WESTLAKE
LEAVES FOR HOME
i Theodore Westlake, who has
! been visiting in Nome this winter,
left today for his home on Cleary
! Creek, near Kiana on the Squir
| rel River.
He is a real old timer, having
come to Nome in June, 1903, where
he mined until 1908. In July ol
) that year he went north on tne
Good Hope and has been in tne
: Kobuk ever since with the exceu
| tion of one trip to Nome in 191-1.
He has enjoyed visiting 'a 1
j old friends and states he ha n >
i desire to go to the States. Othei
Nomeites in the Kobuk incu e
Frank Malfatti, now 84 years ol i
! and Albert Wise who is about 70
years.
He states that hunting and tis’i
ing are good, neighbors are few
, and that the Kobuk is a beautiful
country in which to live.
HERMAN FERGENS
VACATIONING IN STATES
Herman Fergens, for many years
a resident of Nome and vicinity
has left his home in Sitka for a
i six month vacation with his son
in Wisconsin.
VETERANS DEFEAT
NOME HIGH
Despite a slippery floor which
caused slight injuries to three
players, Saturday night’s game
was one of the best yet played be
tween these two teams.
The score was close up until the
end of the last quarter when free
shots by Ullrick and Russel put
the Veterans ahead. The final
core was Veterans 44. High
School 36. High point man for the
High School was George Bowdon
and for the Veterans was Bill Kos
tenbader.
WASHINGTON, i/P) — Kenneth
Romney, former House sergeant
at-arms was indicted by a federal
grand jury today on charges relat
to a $124,000 shortage in ac
counts of that office.
T ie indictment charged Romney
with “knowingly and willfully
falsifying” figures in the accounts
“with intent of cheating,, swind
ling or defrauding the govern
ment.”
The sergeant-at-arms serves as
a House “bank” where Congress
men may make deposits and cash
checks.
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