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An airplane seat that provides a dining table with one push of a
button and a full-length lounge with another! That’s the new
Sleeperette, now being installed on the trans-Pacific Clippers of
Pan American World Airways. These photographs illustrate how
the footrest of the new seating unit also provides a table adjustable
for eating, reading or writing, and how the footrest, plus the seat
which tilts to a virtually horizontal position, combine to provide
sleeping accommodations aboard the Clippers. Curtains convert
each unit into a private compartment at night.
VISITING MR. AND MRS.
FRANK BINGHAM
Mrs. Hannah Verheek of Seat
tle, mother of Mrs. Frank Bing
ham and Mrs. Ben Hyndman; and
Mrs. Alva Bingham, of Helena,
Mont., mother of Frank Bingham,
arrived on the Fourth of July
ffom Anchorage, having come up
the inside passage from the
States.
They plan to visit for about two
weeks before returning . to their
respective homes.
Sourdough
Versus Pioneer
(49th Star)
Seattle sourdoughs claim the
word “pioneer” spoils Alaska’s
famed frontier tradition.
If you fancy yourself an Alas
kan pioneer, shun the Seattle
Sourdough Club the next time you
are in Seattle.
Its members frown on Alaskan
pioneers—in fact they argue there
is no such thing, that an Alaskan
is either a cheechako or a sour
dough, but never a pioneer.
Organized in 1933 by men and
women who hit the trail to Alaska
during the gold rush days, the i
Seattle Sourdough Club was in
corporated in 1945. Club literature
describes its members as “The
only incorporated proponents of
the Old Sourdoughs who opened
up the last Great Frontier, Alas
ka.” Members of the club consider
the name “sourdough” as the sec
red tradition of the Yukon water
shed and Alask^.”
The word “pioneer” as applied
to Alaskans was handled thus in
a Seattle Sourdough Club publi
cation last year:
“Did these cheechakos ride in
prairie schooners? Did they till
the soil and raise crops, also build
grist mills? If not, why? Oh, why
in the world should anyone call
them pioneers? To rob the North
land of its sacred tradition or j
usurp the glories of the old sour-1
dough. Sourdoughs ran trading j
posts, were fur trappers, then min-!
ers, who washed the subsoil away
—took their crop from the bed
rock; they were migrators like the
geese and ducks, the caribou, the
salmon, the seals, the snow, the
ice.”
“All Alaskans are sourdoughs,” j
says another bulletin of the Seat
tle organization. To be an active j
member of the Seattle Sourdough
Club, Inc., a person must be a
sourdough, relative or child of
one. In addition there are associ
ate members who are not sour
doughs, but who are described as
interested in the growth of Alas
ka. The latter have no vote or club
business. Now in its thirteenth
year of existence, the club claims
1900 members.
President of the Seattle Sour
doughs is Capt. F. A. Siegel. A
former president is Fred J. Wet-1
trick, one-time civil engineer for
Copper River and Northwestern
Railway and now a Seattle attor
ney.
An accomplishment of the Seat
tle Sourdoughs, as reported by
Sourdough W. O. Peterson, who
was in Alaska prior to 1899 and
is now a dairyman at Renton,
Wash., was dedication of the Alas
ka Way in Seattle in 1938.
Feeling affection for the mighty
Yukon, Mr. Peterson reports that
at one time the club “started out
to change the length of the Yukon
by trying to add 700 miles to make
it one of the five big rivers of the
world, but we were short by 250
miles of water.”
Future plans of the Seattle
Sourdough Club include an ambi
tion to erect a “Hall of Fame for
Alaska’s great and near-great.”
According to Mr. Peterson, Seat
tle Sourdoughs were divided in
sentiment on the matter of state
hood for Alaska.
Getting back to the battle of pio-1
neers vs. sourdoughs—the Seattle j
Club is not opposed to the prairie,
schooner brand of pioneers. In!
fact, club members point out, the;
Washington State Pioneers were1
their guests at a banquet in 1945.
United States Commissioner
PROFITABLE CHANGE
ARDMORE, Okla. UP) — When
W. B. Eagle operated his own
farm he used to sell watermelons
to a dealer for 30 cents a hundred
pounds.
Now Eagle has his own water
melon store and what do you sup
pose he is getting these days?
Five dollars a hundred.
ALL-SEEING DRIVER
OKLAHOMA CITY. Okla. UP)—
A driver charged with failing to
yield the right of way told acting j
police judge Granville Scanland
the other motorist “must have
dropped from Heaven.’
“I never did see him until after I
the accident and I looked both di- j
rections,” he testified.
You should also look up in the
air,” Judge Scanland observed as
he assessed a $6 fine.
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Gilbert Chambers of Seldovia is
described as a grandson of Judge
Thomas Chambers, a Washington
pioneer. But nevertheless, the Sel
dovia official, say Seattle club
members, is a bona fide sour
dough. Newly elected Congress- j
man Homer R. Jones of Bremer
ton, Wash., is also a member of
the Seattle Sourdough Club.
Club literature contains this
statement: “Please don’t call a
sourdough a pioneer—the word
pioneer has no more place in sour
dough lore than a pair of snow
shoes has on the Sahara Desert.”
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