Incorporated
"The Phoenix of Fairbanks"
Page 2 JESSEN’S WEEKLY Thursday, July 5, 1956
Published every Wednesday at Fairbanks, Alaska, P. O. Box 970
Editorial-Reportorlal Departments, Phone 3511; Advertising, Commercial Printing,
Business Offices, Phone 3511; downtown Fairbanks. 529 Third Avenue or call printing
plant direct for job printing, etc., Phone 5292, located at north end of new Chena
bridge.
Jessen’s Weekly was established January 22, 1942
E. F. JF.SSEN, Publisher, V. MAURICE SMITH. Managing Editor; D. L. VAN
CLEVE, Superintendent; FRANK B. CAMP, National Advertising Representative.
Box 151, Lombard, Illinois; J. VICTOR RICHARDSON, Advertising Manager.
Entered at the Post Office at Fairbanks, Alaska, as second class matter
under the Act of March 3, 1879.
Tragic And Untijnely
There isn’t much we can say except that it is tragic and un
timely. Tragic to take the life of a man who is in his prime. A
man who has done so much for Alaska and could have done so
much more had his life not been snuffed out so early in the game.
Jack Whaley had spent a good many years building experi
ence in Alaska and during that time had contributed a great
deal toward telling the Alaska story to those in the States. Still
a young man, he had his life before him and with his experience
and ability could have added much to what he had already ac
complished.
Jack was a nice guy. All of us wdll miss his compassion and
his ready wit. He leaves a void that will be hard to fill.
A Word Of Praise For Miss Smith
We’d like to give just a word of praise for the fine work that
Miss Elsa Mae Smith, Alaska Native Service social worker, has
done during her stay in Fairbanks.
Miss Smith has put in a good many hours of her own time
to see that persons traveling through Fairbanks in need of help
got it. She gave a lot of time and effort to see that everyone was
cared for and helped a good many of those in Fairbanks who
needed assistance.
The ANS worker is much more than a public servant. She
is vitally interested in people and the work she is doing. While
we will miss her in Fairbanks we feel certain that she is in a
better position to carry on her good work.
Learn To Swim
The free swimming instruction offer of the YMCA to the
youngsters in Fairbanks is a chance that should not be missed.
Swimming should be an accomplishment of everybody, best
learned in childhood. Not only is it fine exercise for every muscle
in the body but it is a life-saving skill. Many a person who lost
his life by drowning would be living today had he known how
to swim, or if a companion had known how to bring him out of
his depth and to resuscitate him.
Better register, kids, for that instruction before the classes
are filled up.
Idaho Falls
Families Are
Visiting Interior
Mr- and Mrs. J. D. Bassett. Jr.,
and son Neil, and Mr. and Mrs. D.
M. Paige, all of Idaho Falls, Idaho,
Were enjoying their first tour of
Alaska last week.
The Idahoans who left home June
35, visited friends at Fklutna for a
few days before making a thorough
tour of the Anchorage area. The
party came on to Fairbanks after a
brief detour via McKinley park and
Wonder lake.
During their visit here the group
enjoyed a visit to the University and
other points of interest. They left
here last Friday and are due home
Saturday or Sunday.
Both men are in the reactor divis
ion cf the Atomic Energy Commia
fion in Idaho Falls.
New Cable
Houle Serves
Southeast City
City crows have been busy this
•week tearing down old telephone
Wiring and poles along Second av
enue.
The entire business and residen
tial distric. East of l ace” between
the Chce.r and Sixth street was re
cently rewired according to Harry
Eeiiner, acting superintendent of
toe telephone department of the
city Municipal Utilities system.
All calls going to this area are |
now routed through a new cable on
First avenue, says Kc-imer.
The old Second ave. cable has
not been utilized since the First ave.
route was completed last week. The ;
Second avenue poles, many of which !
Elsie May Smith
Goes To Bethel
From Fairbanks
Miss Elsie May Smith, who has
been in charge of the Fairbanks Al
aska Native Service office for the
past several years, moved this week
! to Bethel her new -headquarters.
Miss Smith, w'ho has been a social
worker for the ANS in Alaska for
the past nine years, will devote her
entire time to the ANS at Bethel.
For some time she has been divid
ing her time with the Public Health
j Service, traveling to and from Beth
I el.
The Fairbanks office was moved
this last week from Fourth avenue
to 305 Chena building on Second
i avenue. Mrs. Emil Loir will handle
! the welfare work and Phola Hetfield
| will take care of health matters.
GOLD CHAIN SHOWN
On display in the southeast win
dow of the Northern Commercial
company store j u large gold nug
get chain that will be taken home
by some one during the Golden
Day.-.
Whh the chain is a model of a
prospector complete with pack. The
chain is presently the property of
Igloo No. 4, Pioneers of Alaska.
Billy Gilcher retired Fairbanks
pinoneer business man. arrived in
Fairbanks tills week.for a visit with
old friends. Gilcher noiv makes his
home at Sacramento. California.
The Gilcher building at 524 Third
avenue one housed his plumbing
shop.
are virtually sitting in the middle
of the street, are being eliminated,
as well as the obsolete wiring on
the South side of Second.
Christian Chapel
Holds Services
At Lathrop9 10th
The Christian Reformed Chapel j
with its summer pastor, Calvin !
Sprik, is now holding its services I
in its church at the corner of Lath- ;
rop and Tenth avenue.
The church plans a Bible school j
scheduled to start on August 6 and ■
due to run two weeks.
Worship services are held at 11
a.m. and 7:30 p.m. on Sundays. Sun- i
day school begins at 10 a.m. Young
people's meetings are held on Thurs
days at 7:30 p.m. Everyone is wel
c6me at any of the services.
Sprik who attends Calvin Sem- |
| inary in Grand Rapids. Mich., is re- !
I placing Rev. Heynen of Anchorage
| for the summer. Heynen has con- j
| ducted services here for the past ;
i three years.
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Williarn Coghill
Concludes Visit
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At Nenana Home
Capt. William Coghill, son of Mrs.
Winifred Coghill of Nenana, was
scheduled to leave here today for
his new post in the Pentagon where
he will be working in army finance.
Young Coghill just completed
work for his master’s degree at
Harvard business school and has
been visiting his mother and two
! brobers. Bob and Jack, in the rail:
I and river town.
j
This was his first trip home in
| eight years. Wounded in Korea, he
I spent many months in Walter Reed
I hospital in Washington, D. C.. and
entered Harvard upon his release.
Accompanying him to Nenana was
his wife.
MARC STELLA BRINGS
NEW PIPER SUPER CUB
BACK FOR FRONTIER
Marc Stella, who with Dick Mc
Intyre has resumed the operation of
Frontier Flying Service, returned
I Monday from Billings, Montana,
where he took delivery of a new
Piper Super Cub for use here.
Frontier has four planes, a Ces
sna 170 and 180 and a Beech Bonan
za and the Cub. The two men will
do charter work for miners, con
tractors and hunters and fishermen.
Headquarters is the Frontier store
at 409 Second avenue.
SECOND SON WELCOMED
BY DANIEL SIGNORES
The Daniel Signores of Dennis
Manor welcomed the birth of their
second son, Peter Joseph, born in
i St. Joseph's hospital on Saturday at
' 7:14 a.m. He weighed in at 8 pounds
I 3 ounces.
Signore is an engineering aido
! for Municipal Utilities. The couple’s
! older son is Mark, 2,
Maternal grandparents are Mr.
! and Mrs. Clarence Westbrook ot
' 316 Slater Drive.
JOHNSONS HOME FROM
SIX WEEKS IN MIDWEST
Mrs. Ralph Johnson, with daugh
ter, Becky, and son, Jeff, returned
home Friday evening via the high
way after a six weeks' visit in the
Midwest.
They visited his mother Mrs. An- j
' na Johnson, in Mabel. Minnesota,
1 and with her folks, Mr. and Mrs. |
| En.il It, Bjorkmar , ir. Ale lo, Till-'
nois.
Mrs. Johnson reports tha1 sue is j
very happy to be home after a tire- j
;cmc two-way trip over the high-,
way. She is a fourth grade tec-r her
at Denali school. Johnson is em
ployed at Eielsen.
CHRIS JOHNSONS ARE
PARENTS THIRD CHILD
Mr. and Mrs. Chris Johnson of
Fairview Manor became the parents
of their third child a daughter, j
Sharon Elinor, born in St. Joseph's j
hospital Thursday at 3:30 a.m. She
weighed 7 pounds 13!* ounces at
birth.
Johnson is a lineman for the
Municipal Utilities system.
Federated Fund
Business Men
Start Monday
All men who are campaign chair
men in the business solicitation for
the 1956 Fairbanks Federated Fund
will hold their kickoff breakfast at
8 a.m. Monday at the Elks Lodge.
The chairmen will be the guests of
the Elks.
Solcitation of businesses and their
employees will begin immediately
following the breakfast. Director of
the drive is Ed Philleo general
campaign chairman.
Tuesday evening at 8 p.m. all res
idential workers will hold a similar
kickoff at the Main school. Mrs.
Lloyd W. Martin is chairman of the
residential campaign which is sched
uled to get underway with its house
to house canvass on Thursday at
6:30 p.m.
Chairmen who are spearheading
the business solicitations are E. P.
McCarron, Harold Byrd, John Buck
ley, Capt. Harry W. Walliek, James
A. Patterson Ken Gillanders Jack
Wilbur John W. Kessel, Joel Buf
fington Mel Harris, Roy Schrack and
Thomas K. Downes,
Directors of the residential cam
paign and their respective organiza
tions or territories are:
Zelda Eidem, College area; Lois
Tait, American Red Cross; Capt.
Gerald Hill. Salvation Army; Rich
ard D. Hansen, American Legion;
Lucille Young, Quota club; Mrs.
Julien Hurley, USO; Norma Clark.
Slaterville Woman’s club; Myrtle
E. Ostby, Fairbanks Women’s club;
Norma T. Thompson, AAUW; Mary
Elizabeth Lomen, Girl Scouts; Cath
erine M. Black, Eagles Auxiliary.
Others are: Freda J. Driscoll, Al
aska Crippled Children's associa
tion; Ethel Tonseth, American Le
gfion Auxiliary; Wilma Swenson.
AAUW; Betty Calhoon, Hamilton
Acres Women’s club; Grace Cady,
Emblem club: Eve Mitchell. Garden
Island; Johnnie McNabb, Business
and Professional Women: Gertrude
J. Kornfiend. Lemeta; Mary Stock.
Pioneer Auxiliary Number 8, and
Bertha Gray, Soroptimist Interna
tional of Fairbanks.
Buey Lemmond, 714 Northward
building, was admitted to St. Jo
seph's hospital Sunday for medical
attention. L mrnond is a salesman
for Service Motors.
Youngster Burned
By Cherry Bomb9
First 4th Victim
Tommy Younkins, 12 year old son
of Mr. and Mrs. Leroy Younkins. is
the season’s first victim of explod
ing fireworks.
Tommy was admitted to St. Jo
seph’s hospital on Sunday after a
homemade “cherry bomb" explod
ed and burned his hands. He was
treated at the hospital and released
to go home, sad but much wiser for
the experience. His burns were not
serious.
The family resides at 117 Vi First
avenue.
"Tex" Branch Visiting
From Point Barrow
Edward “Tex'' Branch, “eatskin
ner” foreman for Puget Sound and
Drake at Barter Island is in Fair
banks this week visiting friends
and tending to business.
Branch was entertained at dinner
by the Ralph Lyles at their home
Saturday night. Guests at the din
ner were Mr. and Mrs. Herbert
Spear and Mrs. Hazel Behrendt.
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
Notice of Final Hearing in the Probnle
Court for the Fairbanks Precinct, Fourth
Division. Alaska, Probate No. 1796. Notice
is hereby given that the undersigned
Administrator of the Estate of John Aug
ust Anderson, sometimes known as John
A. Anderson, deceased, has filed his final
account and report herein, including his
petition for order settling account and
directing distribution, and the Court has
fixed 2:00 PM. on the 4th day of Sep
tember, 1956, at the court room of said
Court, at Fairbanks, Alaska, as the time
and place fo rhearing and settling said
account of said Administrator. All per
sons having objections thereto should file
same in writing or appear in said Court
at said time.
M F. MILLER. Administrator
RALPH J RIVERS
Attorney for Administrator
First Pub: July 5. 1956
Last Pub: July 26. 1956 .
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PIONEERS
of
ALASKA
MEETS FIRST AND THIRD
MONDAYS EVERY MONTH
Visiting Members Welcome
J. M. Jorgensen, President
R. J. McKanna, Secretary
MASONIC DIRECTORY
Masonic Temple, 805 First Ave. Dial 2836
Tanana Lodge No. 162 F&AM
Stsfecl Communication Wednesday, July 11, 8 P.M.
Howard H, Kuhns. Worshipful Master
F. L. Baker, Secretary
Midnight Sun Chapter No. 6, O. E. S.
Next Regular Meeting—2nd Friday in Month
Esther Ward, Worthy Matron
Mary Helen Chaddon, Secretary
Alaska Commandery No. 1 Knights Templar
William B, Bevington, Commander
Edward Leigh-Kendall, Recorder — Phone 5489
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