AIRLINES
There has been little activity
in traveling over the New Year
holiday, due to unfavorable flying
weather. The Alaska Airlines
made a trip however from An
chorage, bringing in Mrs. Tucker
as a passenger.
PAN AMERICAN AIRWAYS
The Pan American plane ar
rived Monday evening with Don
Foster, L. C. Peters, Steve Horn
jrak, Tom Ongtooguk, Robert Scott
and Charles Maxwell. Departing
passengers for Seattle were Al
berta Peterson and Adelle Vol
mers. For Fairbanks: Isadore
Chameris and Barnadette Ama
rok.
Repatriation Of Poles
Up To 10,000 Per Day
WARSAW, Poland — (/PI — The
repatriation of an estimated four
million Poles from western and
eastern Europe is being stepped
tip to more than 10,000 per day.
Wladyslaw Wolski, vice minis
ter of public administration, re
ported 4,500 Poles are entering
Poland at Szczecin (Stettin) from
Germany daily^ Six thousand
Poles are passing into their home
land from American zones of oc
cupation. Repatriations also are
being speeded from Soviet Russia.
Return of Poles to their home
land originally started on the basis
of 3,000 daily. More than 200,000
have entered southern Poland in
the last three months.
Soldiers Prefer
Girls Back Home
LAWTON, Okla.—(/P)—Ninety
five percent of the marraiges at
Fort Sill replacement center unite
the soldier with the girl from back
home.
One chaplain who has married
18 couples said in only two cases
•were the principals strangers be
fore the war. Another performed
17 ceremonies and all the brides
and grooms were home town
uweethearts.
AT THE WALLACE HOTEL—
Don Foster, L. C. Peters, Jun
eau; Mr. and Mrs. DeWitt Falvey
and Steve Hornyak, Nome.
OVERSEAS CIVILIAN
POSITIONS OPEN
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HeadouavtWT^ vWiiskan Depart
ment— Inimediate overseas civil
ian positions in all theaters of op
eration lor lawyers, civil engin
eers, architectural engineers,
landscape architects, nurserymen,
licensed and assistant embalmers
and cemetery superintendents
now are open under the Office of
the Quartermaster General, the
War Department announced today.
Unless released sooner by the
proper authority, personnel will
be expected to serve a minimum
of one year overseas. The project
is estimated to require at least
two years for completion.
Applicants must meet civil serv
ice standards, but will not be re
quired to take a competitive ex
amination. The age limits are
from 21 to 50 years.
The salary range for the posi
tions now open is from $2,166 to
$4,300 a year, plus a 25 per cent
differential for overseas duty.
Personnel will be domiciled in
officers’ quarters and subsisted in
officers’ messes or their equiva
lent at an approximate charge of
$37.50 a month. Transportation
costs both ways will be paid by
the Government.
Applicants who are physically
fit and otherwise qualified to fill
any of the above openings should
write or wire or apply in person
to The Quartermaster General,
Personnel Division, Civilian Per
sonnel Branch, Temporary Build
ing “C”, 2d and P Streets, S. W.,
Room 2021, Washington, D. C.
Full information on experience,
dates and references should be in
cluded in the application.
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Fun With Science
Gulping highballs or eating
nails won’t change it but the
speed of sound is about three
times as great through alcohol—
and 15 times as great through iron
—as through air.
Byrnes Assures
Control Safeguards
WASHINGTON. Dec. 31—(A*)—
Sccrefa**y of State Byrnes, in a ra
dio address to the nat’on assured
that the new policy control ma
chinery for Japan “safeguards the
efficient administration” of Gen
eral MacArthur.
He also disclosed in the report
on the Moscow conference, that
the Big Three foreign ministers
had not discussed technical or sci
entific matters in connection with
atomic energy control. That the
Soviet officials asked no questions
about the atomic bomb.
Secy. Byrnes said the troubled
affairs of Iran were on Moscow
agenda. One stage of the agree
ment seemed the imminent estab
lishment of a three power com
mission to study Iranian problems.
He said he was “not discouraged”
by the failure to agree on Iran,
and added it was the only import
ant item on the agenda on which
an accord was not reached.
He was aware of widespread
speculation on whether tfte new
setup for Japan would circum
scribe the policymaking powers of
U. S. and administrative authority
of General MacArthur. Secy.
Byrnes devoted much of his ad
dress to discussing the new eleven
nation Far Eastern commission,
and four power Tokyo council.
WAN PILL ROLLERS
ROLL OWN ASPIRIN
■ ■
NEW ORLEANS —UP)—Albert
i
Lauve. head of the pharmacy de
partment at Charity hospital, said
his assistants manufacture some
3,500,000 pills a year for hospital
use.
Lauce estimated that by pro
ducing the hospital’s glucose alone,
his department saves $180 a day.
His idea of a restful, soothing
sight after watching pills hop jerk
ily from a pill machine at the rate
of 6,000 an hour, is a batch of
golden-smooth cough syrup.
‘-It’s a hard job” he said. “Very
exacting. But then, we make our
own aspirin.”
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WIEN Alaska Airlines
Miss Dorothy K. Whitney
Appointed Director Of
Public Health Nursing
The annomt—ent M:p<! Doro
thy K. Whitoev P" Pmer^rv' of the
Division of Public Health Nursing
for the Territoral Peo-'rtment of
Health, was anno,,^r,od todav by
rommi'S'.^e" of tTo*h?b C. Earl
Albrecht, M. P. Mi s "rhitnev ar
rived in Juneau lasf week from
Anchorage, and has tnuen over the
duties of her new office with the
Health Department.
A graduate of Washington Uni
versity, ’36. B.S. Nursing, with
major in Public Health Nursing,
Miss Whitney joined the staff of
the Territorial Department of
Health in 1940, when she was ap
pointed as public health nurse at
Palmer and later in Anchorage. In
1944 she was made Public Health
Nursing supervisor for the Interi
or, with headquarters at Anchor
age.
“We feel particularly fortunate
to obtain the services of Miss
Whitney as Director of the Divi
sion of Public Health Nursing,”
declared Doctor Albrecht, “inas
much as she is well qualified and
has had excellent training and ex
perience in the public health nurs
ing field as a staff nurse and as a
supervisory nurse in Alaska.”
Miss Lillian A. Gardiner, who
has served as Director of the Di
vision of Public Health Nursing
since May, 1944, was commission
ed in the regular Corps of the
United States Public Health Serv
ice, July 19, 1945. She has been on
loan to the Territorial Department
of Health to carry on the work as
Director until the appointment of
her successor.
Announcement will be made by
Doctor Albrecht of the appoint
ment of a Supervisor at Anchor
age for the Nursing Service in the
Interior, on completing of arrange
ments, now pending, to fill that
position.
Be Wise—Nugget Advertise
F A R E W E L L—Greta Gynt.
Norwegian Aim actress who lived
in England throughout the war,
waves goodbye at Croydon air
port as she boards a plane to
return to Oslo.
i Holiday Dead
j Total More Than »
Five Hundred
A more somber note to the na
tion’s New Year’s holiday celebra
tion recorded as the number of
deaths from violent causes passed
the five hundred mark. A survey
across the country showed that at
least five hundred thirty persons
'Offered violent deaths from six
o.m. last Friday to midnight Tues
day. Tabulations listed two hun
dred forty-eight traffic accidents.
The National Safety Council es
timated between three hundred^
seventy-five and four hundred
motor fatalities over the holiday
period. Pennsylvania led the
states in death toll with forty-six,
Texas and New York followed
with forty-one each.
MR ROUTES
TO ALASKA
Stating his belief that the Civil
Aeronautics Board was being sub
jected to “terrific pressure,” Dr.
Walter H. Judd, Congressman
from Minneapolis, protested on
the floor of the House recently
against action taken by eighteen
western Senators in urging the
Board to consider the Pacific
Northwest as the natural gateway ^
for the north Pacific air route to
the Orient.
In the letter dated December 12
sent the Board by eighteen Sena
tors from eleven western states,
statement was made of their con
viction “that to adopt the examin
ers’ proposal made for a single
north Pacific air route over Can
ada via the Twin Cities (Minne
apolis and St. Paul from Chicago*
would seriously retard the devel
opment of the West.” In urging
establishment of the route by way
of the west coast, the Senators J
stated,. “Since all portions of the
United States can be better served
by an all-American route to the
Orient via the Pacific Northwest
gateway, the interests of the en
tire western half of the United
States should not be subordinated
to a foreign route to the preju
dices of the national interest.”
Dr. Judd, in his address to Con
gress, objected to the method used
by the Senators, and stated his be
lief that decisions of the Board,
acting upon its examiners’ recom
mendations and following oral
hearings, should be “free from ]
suspicion’ of political pressure and
“members of Congress should not
set up an agency supposed to be
wholly independent in its judg
ments and then write letters urg
ing it not to be independent.”
Pet Mink Started
Backyard Fur Ranch
BINGHAM, Me. — (/P)— Under
protest Mrs. Floyd Boyington
agreed eight years ago to care for
two mink which her trapper-hus
band brought home as pets.
She soon became interested in
the little animals, and has turned
that interest into a business that
in 1945 produced 300 pelts.
Her backyard mink ranch keeps
Mrs. Boyington busy the year
’round. And from April, when the
“kittens” are born, until late No
vember, when the pelts are ready
for market, her husband also has
to be on the job daily.
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