Miss America To
Refuse Contracts
To Marry Doctor
ATLANTIC CITY, —(/P)—A
girl who knows what she wants,
the new Miss America is build
ing her plans around marriage
to a medical student already be
ing greeted as ‘‘Lucky Guy” by
his classmates, and the usual stage
and screen contracts are going
begging.
Tall and brunette, Barbara Joe
Walker, 21, of Memphis, Tenn.,
won the title, “Miss America,
1947” Saturday night over 53
girls representing 39 states, 14
cities and Canada. A crowd of
18,468 jammed Convention Hall
to see her receive the crown from
Marilyn Buferd of Los Angeles,
Miss America of 1946.
“I do not care much 4or mov
ies,” Miss Walker said yesterday
at her first news conference as
reigning beauty. Very few peo
pie are successful at it and I do
not care to wait around Hollywood
for years trying to be successful.”
With the $5,000 scholarship she
won, Miss Walker plans to com
plete her studies at ' Memphis
State College, marry John “Lucky
Guy” Hummel, 23-yr-old medical
student at the University of Tenn
essee College of Medicine, and
then “I want to take my Master’s
Degree at a university close to
John’s hospital.”
“It takes about 12 years for a
doctor to get started,” explained'
the poised, five-foot seven-inch!
beauty. “The pageant people are;
going to arrange my schooling so1
that I’ll be near his hospital.”
MARGARET STEINBRECK
TO TEACH SECOND GRADE
Miss Margaret Steinbreck, sec
ond grade teacher, arrived from
the States Friday on the PAA.
BONNIE DUNBAR LEAVES TO
ATTEND PORTLAND SCHOOL
Bonnie Anne Dunbar, oldest
daughter of Mayor and Mrs. Lu
ther Dunbar, left for school last
Friday and will attend St. Helen’s
school in Portland, where she will
be a Junior in high school.
BARROW MORGAN RETURNS
TO MILITARY SCHOOL
Barrow Morgan, son of Lt. and
Mrs. Stanley Morgan, left for his
second year at St. John’s TJilitary
Academy, Delafield, Wis., where
he will be a sophomore in high
school.
Lt. Morgan is officer in charge
of the local ACS radio station.
Alaska Is Strong
Cornerstone In
U. S. Defense
SEATTLE, —(/P)—Satisfied that
Alaska is now a strong corner
stone in America’s defense. Sena
tor Harry P. Cain, <R-Wash.>
flew back to Seattle Saturday
night after a 10-day tour of the
Territory.
“Alaskans do not feel they are
being let down. I was amazed
at the vast amount of construction
work completed and under way,
and the morale of our troops there
is as fine as I have seen any
where,” the Senator said. Cain
himself spent three years over
seas in the paratroopers.
Cain, responsible for pushing
the so-called Tongass Alaska for- (
est bill through congress in the
last hour of its sessions in Wash
ington, expressed confidence
measures of the bill would greatly
ease American newsprint prob
lems.
Under terms of the measure,
the government would open vir
tually all the vast timber tracts
of southeastern Alaska to private
production of newsprint.
(Alaskan forests have a pot
ential of 1,000,000 tons of news
print annually) and I am confi
dent that this new industry can
be built up without endangering
Alaska’s main industry, its fish
eries,” Cain said.
Talks with Alaskan spokesmen
from all branches of government
and industry, the senator said,
that dangers to the fishing indus
try from pulp fluid and logs in
streams can be averted.
“Furthermore the trip convinc
ed me that by proper use of an
80-year plan cycle of selective
logging, there is no danger that
this huge natural resource will
be wasted. Instead, at the end
of 80 years Alaskan timber re
sources will be greater than they
are today,” Cain said.
The United States, Cain said
now buys 80 percent of its news
print outside its continental
boundaries.
LOIS JUND HERE PREPARING
FOR X-RAY CLINIC FOR T.B.
Lois Jund of the Territorial
Public Welfare department ar
rived Friday on the PAA plane
from Fairbanks, where she or
ganized the city for Tuberculo
sis X-rays. It was reported that
Fairbanks holds the record in the
Territory for cooperation in this
important program.
Miss Jund says the clinic will
be started here soon.
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SS BARANOF scheduled lo sail from Seattle for Ketchikan.
Juneau, Cordova, Valdes and Seward, Sept. 13th.
SS BARANOF scheduled to sail from Seward for
Juneau, Ketchikan, and Seattle Sept. 19th.
SS DENALI scheduled to sail from Seward for
Yakutat, Ketchikan, and Seattle Sept. 21st
SPECIAL NOTICE— The last sailing for Nome and St. Michael
This year. The MS JUMPER HITCH is scheduled from Seattle
September 15th.
Reservations made through Anchorage, Fairbanks or Nome Agent
Kansas City Demos
Convicted Today
In Vote Fraud
KANSAS CITY. —(£>)—'Three
I Democratic party workers stood
■ convicted today of vote fraud
charges growing out of the 1946
primary election.
A federal court jury returned a
guilty verdict late Saturday in
the trial of Morris Klein, Henry
i Burke and Frank L. Holmes. They
; were the first of 34 persons in
, dieted by a special federal grand
jury to stand trial.
Two other defendants, John
Melham and William D. Wilson,
originally went on trial with the
three but their motions for ac
quittal were sustained last Fri
day.
The maximum penalty is 10
years imprisonment or a $5,000
fine or both.
The Kansas City Star began the
original investigation into alleged1
irregularities in the primary, in1
which Enos Axtell defeated Rep.!
Roger C. Slaughter in the Mis-;
souri Fifth district congressional |
race. Axtell. who was endorsed
by president Truman, lost to Re
publican Albert L. Reeves in the
general election.
SMOKE-FILLED 'PANAM'
OFFICE CAUSES ALARM
The City Fire Department was
called out last Saturday night to
answer a call from the Pan Ameri
can Office where oil dripping on
an overheated flue filled the of
fice with smoke. Little or no dam
age was caused.
EUNICE LOGAN WILL
TEACH IN KOTZEBUE
Miss Eunice Logan, teacher for
the ANS school here for the past
few years has been transferred to
Kotzebue where she will teach
for the coming year.
WELFARE worker goes
FOR KOTZEBUE SURVEY
Kate Smith of the Territorial
Health Department, who has been
on a health survey here for the
past two weeks, left for Kotzebue
where she will carry on her work.
Vatican City, the worlS’s small
est independent state, is about the
size of an 18-hole golf course.
NOTICE
Rebekahs will meet in I.O.O.F.
Hall, Wednesday evening Septem
ber 10th.
Rosa B. Hagen, Secy.
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1 Show, Sept. 8 and 9, 7:30 P.M.
Monday and Tuesday
"AND NOW TOMORROW"
Loretta Young - Alan Ladd
Also "I Am America"
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1 Show, Sept. 10 and 11, 7:30 P.M.
Wednesday and Thursday
"HER HIGHNESS AND THE
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I Hedy Lamarr - Robert Walker
MRS. TUCKER VERY ILL
GOES TO STATES
Dr. and Mrs. J. B. Tucker left
suddenly for the states last Friday
with the Alaska Airlines due to
; the severe illness of Mrs. Tucker.
' During the absence of Dr. Tucker
four of the Nome Airbase doctors
have volunteered to serve the
people of the community.
The airbase doctors are Capt.
Aiken O. Mays, Capt. Sidney P.
Schiff, Capt. P. Cohan and Lt.
R. Casey;
MISS TWEET SPENDS
FEW DAYS IN NOME
Miss Phyllis Tweet arrived from
Teller and is spending a few days
in Nome.
MRS. MILLARD AND SON
MAKE SHORT VISIT tfERE
Mrs. Clara Millard and son
made a round trip from Fairbanks'
today where Mrs. Millard is a1
teacher and her son is employed
by the Wien Alaska Airlines.
Hager Is Charged
2nd Degree Murder
FAIRBANKS, Alaska., —</P)—
A first degree murder charge ag
ainst Herbert C. Hager, 38, bar
tender and former pilot, was re
duced to second degree Saturday
by U. S. Commissioner Everett
E. Smith at a preliminary hear
ing into the fatal shooting of
Harry C. Weiselman.
Smith released Hager on $10,000
bail alter holding that evidence
was insufficient to support a first
degree charge. Weiselman was
shot August 17, in a Fairbanks
hotel.
MUNCYS HERE FROM TELLER
ENROUTE TO CALIFORNIA
Mr. and Mrs. Glen Muncy have
completed their mining work near
Teller and are in Nome enroute
to the ftates. They plan to spend
the winter in California.
COLD WEATHER IS COMING
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Drastically marked down to sell.
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