Starts Consolidated
Telephone Service
Covering Alaska
SEATTLE. (/P> — William M.
Maxey, is a modern Johnny Ap
pleseed of Alaska communications
who thinks Alaska never can be
properly defended until its tele
phone system is extended and
modernized.
Like the legendary Mr. Apple
seed of American frontier fame,
Maxey is becoming a familiar fig
ure in the Far North. Instead of
appleseed, however, he brings
telephone equipment to Alaska’s
frontier settlers.
In Seattle for two weeks on bus
iness, Maxey, president of the
Alaska Telephone Engineering
company, Inc., addressed the Alas
k ka department of the chamber of
commerce Monday.
He explained that he had never
been in Alaska until two years
ago. when he was summoned from
his home in San Francisco to in
stall a telephone line, asix-position
switchboard in Fairbanks after a
fire Christmas day 1946 destroyed
the Fairbanks Telephone ex
change.
That job completed in late 1947,
he took a complete personal sur
vey of Alaskan communications.
What he saw appalled him.
“Some towns as large as 800—
Craing, Pelican, Hoonah, Homer
and Seldovia, for instance — had
no telephone service,” he said.
So Maxey organized the Alaska
Telephone Engineering company.
Inc., and set about to bring mod
ern communication to every com
munity in Alaska.
Project No. 1, on which he is
presently engaged, involved pur
chase of the Seward, Wrangell
and Nenana exchanges and con
verting them to dial systems, plus
installation of systems in Haines
and Homer, Seldovia.
“My idea is to have a unified,
standard telephone system through
out the Territory,” he said. “The
Army’s Alaska Communications
System does a remarkably good
job. but it needs help.”
After two years in the north
land. Maxey says Americans do
not know their own Alaska. He
said, for one thing, that climatic
conditions are better there than
many places in the U. S.
For another, he added. Ameri
cans should rid themselves of the
idea that Alaska is a far-flung out
post. He pointed out that it is
only hours by air from Seat
tle to Anchorage, and only 8 to
Fairbanks.
“Chicago,” he said, “is 8Vfe hours
from Seattle. This is an air age,”
he concluded, “so why not think
in terms of time instead of miles?”
Nugget Ads Bring Quick Results
Alaska SS Co.
Alters Schedules
SEATTLE, </P> — The Seattle
Steamship company today an
nounced two changes in its sched
uled passenger sailings due to can
cellation of the Saturday sailing of
the Baranof.
Instead of making her scheduled
September 28 voyage, the Alaska
now is listed to sail in place of the
Baranof Oct. 1 for Ketchikan, Jun
eau, Seward, Petersburg and Sit
ka. The Baranof will replace the
Alaska on the October 15 sailing.
Thereafter the Baranof, now in
drydock because of a broken tail
shaft, will resume regular fall
and winter schedules, sailing on
alternate Saturdays with the De
nali.
FLYING HOSTESSES GUESTS
AT MARKS AIR FORCE BASE
Thirty-two flying hostesses ar
j rived at Marks Air Force Base last
Saturday as guests of the special
services section to attend dances
sponsored by the Murks Service
Club.
The girls, civilian workers from
Fort Richardson and Elmendorf
air force base, Anchorage, express
ed their delight in being able to
visit Nome while here.
“The scenery is beautiful and
Nome is exactly as I pictured it,”
exclaimed Miss Irene Townsend
of the ration breakdown office, at
Elmendorf. “A long time ago I
j read in my geography book of the
I land of the midnight sun, and to
i me Nome is the land of the mid
I night sun, she continued. “I felt
I just like I was living in the gold
! rush days of 1849 as I walked
I down the streets of Nome.” Miss
I Townsend is from San Francisco,
j Calif.
Miss Alice Brown, of lower New
York State and who works at the
Alaskan air depot at Elmendorf
said, “I’m thrilled to be here and
we have been looking forward to
the Nome trip for a long time and
it certainly isn’t any disappoint
ment.”
The personnel of Marks were
not disappointed either and the
Service Club was filled to over
flowing as the airmen and ladies
enjoyed an evening of fun and
dancing.
MOTHER OF MRS. KARL
DEWEY PASSES ON
Word has been received of the
death of Mrs. Katherine Jacobson,
mother of Mrs. Karl Dewey at her
home in Bellingham, where she
has been ill for some time.
She is survived by six daugh
ters and three sons, and several
' grandchildren. Mrs. Nels Strand,
formerly of Nome was also her
daughter.
Funeral services will be held in
Bellingham.
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Scotty’s
Liquor Store
presents
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Southern Chicken
Bread
j Southern Thicken Bread is the
intriguing name for delicious little
corn meal biscuits traditionally
served in the southland with fried
chicken The unusual aspect of
Southern Chicken Bread is that the
biscuits are fried in the drippings
after frying chicken. The biscuits
rise and bake just as they would in
. the oven. The wonderful flavor of
the drippings permeates the biscuits
> with a rich chicken goodness.
You’ll want to adopt this southern
custom of Chicken Bread as a spe
; cialty of your house. Southern
' Chicken Bread with a platter of
fried chicken is good food at its best.
Southern Chicken Bread
114 cups sifted enriched flour
\'z cup enriched corn meal
3 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
4 tablespoons shortening
*-3 to 3*» cup milk
Sift together dry ingredients. Cut
in shortening until mixture resem
bles coarse crumbs. Add milk, mix
ing lightly only until mixture is
dampened. Turn out on lightly
i floured board and knead gently a
| few seconds. Roll out to ^-inch
thickness; cut into diamond shapes,
rounds or squares. Place in frying
pan in which chicken has been fried
(leave only a small amount of fat
I in the frying pan). Cook over med
1 ium heat until delicately browned
on under side. Turn and cook on
other side Cooking time about 8
minutes Serve immediately with
fried chicken Mokes 12 to 18 pieces.
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Kind Body Of
Duck Hunter
PALMER, Alaska, i/h — The j
body of Eugene Marsh, missing on
a duck hunting trip since Friday, i
was recovered by a party of i
friends and relatives late Monday |
night from the waters of Snow
shoe Lake on the Glenn Highway. J
Marsh, a Palmer garage em
ployee, was believed to have |
drowned when his kayak over
turned. A search was launched
when the empty Eskimo-type
canoe was found drifing near!
shore a short time after he set out 1
alone.
Mrs. Marsh, who had been vis
iting relatives in Spokane, Wash.,
returned here yesterday. Among
the survivors are the victim’s
father, Arthur Marsh of Palmer,
j and two small children.
Uranium Found In
Washington State
_
*By The Associated Press*
A uranium content well above
government-set minimums for de
velopment has been reported I
found in the concentrate taken
from deposits above Salmon La
Sac in northern Kittitas County in
I Washington State.
The announcement was made
j yesterday by Homer A. King, an
! executive of the Big Dome Min
| ing Co., after receipt of a report
from the metallurgical division of
i the U. S. bureau of mines office
at Salt Lake City.
The report indicated the ores
Gen. Romulo New
[lead Of I uiled
Nations Assembly
NEW YORK. </P> — Brig. Gen.
Carlos P. Romulo of the Philip
pines was elected president of the
United Nations assembly yester
day. He immediately challenged
teh 59 delegates to make this ‘‘the
peace assembly.”
Romulo was elected a few min
utes after the assembly opened its
fourth session in the packed blue
and gold assembly chamber at
Flushing Meadow Park, site of the
1939 World’s Fair.
Romulo got 53 out of 59 votes.
The Soviet bloc cast five votes
for Vladiimir dementis. Czecho
slovak foreign minister. The other
ballot was declared invalid.
Romulo pleaded for cooperation
among the big powers. He said
world political conditions already
were improving and it was the job
of the assembly to see that this
trend continued.
“This session,” he said, “coin
cides with a turning point in past
war international relations.
“I hope this session will earn
for itself the title. ‘The Peace As
sembly’.”
The 48-year old Philippine dip
lomat, soldier and former news
payerman is known as a bitter foe
of communism.
contain two pounds of U-308 a ton.
Government minimums are a
quarter pound a ton.
The state flower of Louisiana is
the magnolia.
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