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Sitka's Home-Owned Newspaper
Interpreting News
by J- M. Roberts
A. P. News Analyst
Soane people are in the hab
it a£ setting their watches ahead
hoping thereby to kid them
selves into being on tune.
The practice has two faults,
and any engineer would tell
you it is a helluva way to run
a railroad.
Most ctf the , time the
mind will discount the watch
face 'because it knows what has
happened, and the last minute
rush is the same. But some
times the mind will be fooled
by preoccupation and decide
there’s no use trying to catch
the boat because it’s already
gone.
Either result is possible from
the now-apt irmist ic now-cau
tious evaluations we are get
ting these days about the Rus
sian situation. You never heard
of setting a watch slow, but all
this hopping around is becom
ing enervating.
Pre-publication reports on
the contents of premier Bul
ganin’s letter to President Ei
senhower indicates that while
it represehts a continuation of
top level negotiations, and
therefore may be considered
encouraging, it by no means
represents any great closing of
the policy gap on disarmament
if Bulganin and Molotov j
want to trade on the question
of foreign biases by eliminating
all of Russia’s while the United
States eliminates all of hers,
he’d have to throw in Red
China, North Koi^a, North
Viet Nam and the European
satellites to make it even.
If Bulganin merely intends
to include foreign bases in the
Eisenhower proposed inspec
tion program, he might get
somewhere, although the Unit
ed States could logically de
mand similar rights at least in
Eastern Europe, where the
armies are under far more spe- ■
cific Russian command than j
the NATO armies are under
American command. In NATO,
an American general is mere
ly at the top of an amalgamat
ed commland, and he has no po
litical authority. In Eastern
Europe Russia has both polit
ical and military command.
"THE NEW YORK LIFE AGENT
IN YOUR COMMUNITY
U)CYW*^- "
IS A GOOD****TO KNOW"
MRS. L. E. “STEVE" THIELKE
PHONE RED 107
RED CROSS TO START
DRIVE FOR $750 HERE
I Sitka Chapter of tihe Ameri
can Red Cross is now making
its 1955 drive for funds. Ordin
arily this campaign would have
been held during the month of
March but by local request, the
campaign was postponed to this
time. This was done in order
| that this campaign would not
[conflict with other financial
i drives being made last spring.
Fund campaign chairmian is
Mrs. Dorothy Cutler. The VFW
Auxiliary and the Coast Guard
Wives Club will assist with
, the drive, which will close on
October 20.
Sitka’s goal is $750 oif Which
$445 goes to the National Am
erican Red Cross. Last year,
raising this same amount, Sitka
was Still asked by the Nation
al organization to contribute
$54 (to the recent hurricane vie
tiirns on the Bast Coast. The
funds which are kept here are
used to help local people in
(need of immediate aid, and are
given on a loan basis.
In the very near future there
' will be a solicitor at your door
I Your contributions will be
[ greatly appreciated.
MRS. ELAINE RAMOS
TRANSFERRED HERE
Mrs. Elaine Aibraham Ram
os, the only - graduate regis
tered nurse of the Thlingit
tribe, is now a staff nurse at
Mt. Edgeoumbe Medical Cen
ter.
'Slhe has been employed pre
viously at the ANiS 'hospitals
ait Bethel and Anchorage, and
prior to that as a public health
nurse at Yakiutat.
Mrs. Ramos is a graduate of
Sheldon Jackson Junior College
the School of Nursing at Ga
nada, Arizona and attended
the University of Colorado.
FATHER OF BOB PETRO
STRICKEN FRIDAY
Robert Petro left Sunday
on the morning flight for Se
attle, enroute to his home in
Detroit. Michigan, where he
was called by the death of his
father, Steve Petro.
The elder Petro succumbed
Friday as a result of a heart
attack and had not been ill.
He was employed in an alum
inum plant in the Detroit area
Surviving are has wife, Rose
two sons and two daughters
— Robert of Sitka and Randy,
Josephine and Ann'a Marie all
of Detroit.
Funeral arrangements were
not known and were presum
ed to be withheld until the
arrivial of his son from Sitka.
- In and Around Sitka
MISS WREATH A STILWELL
GREATLY IMPROVED
Good news to the many
friends of Miss Wreatha Stil
well oaime yesterday in a re
port that her medical check
up at the U. S. Pulbl'ic Health
Hospital at Baltimore, Mary
land had revealed her condi
tion was good and surgery
will not be required.
She will visit her family in
Iowa for a time and return to
her duties as matron in the
practical nursing school at
Mt. Edgecumibe the early part
of October.
ENS. McBRAYER ASSIGNED
TO U.S.S. CHAMUNG
Ens. Robert McBrayer, U.S.
N.R.. is assigned as intelligence
and educational officer to the
U. S. S. Chemung, operating
out of San Diego.
His wife Betty has returned
to the University of Colorado
to complete her senior year,
majoring in education.
TWO PIONEERS STRICKEN
OVER WEEKEND
Jack Faley and Kristofer
August Anderson, both of
whom shared the same birth
day — April 8 — but were
born five years apart, died
Sunday at the Pioneers Home.
Mr. Pailey was born in 1879
in Iowa, came to Alaska in
1902 and worked as a fisher
man. living all over South
eastern Alaska. He was admit
ted first to the home last Feb
ruary from Craig; then the
following month returned to
Craig to care for property and
re-entered the home Sept. 13.
Presbyterian graveside rites
are scheduled for Tuesday.
There are no known relatives.
Mr. Anderson was born in
1874 at Bergen. Norway, came
to Alaska in 1924 and made
his home at Petersburg, work
ing as a fisherman. He enter
ed the home in May of 1952.
His wife preceded him in
death, but he is survived by
six children: Willie C., former
chief of police at Petersburg.
Alaska, but now at Waterville
Washington; Palmer and Oscar
of Waterville: Kornan of Sea
tie: Everend of Brandon, Minn;
and Bertha Dawson of Douglas
Alaska. The Rev. Frederick
Knelbel will conduct graveside
rites for Mr. Anderson tomor
row afternoon.
! ALASKA COASTAL PLANE
PASSENGER LIST
Arriving Friday:
Rose Skannis, John Ardenia,
A1 Perkins, Simeon asd Peter
Oskolkoflf. Ed St. Clair. David
White. Andrew Alaralrea, W.A.
Hilden, Don Neal and Steve
Gorac from Juneau.
Leaving Friday:
Dorothy Field, Dick Gushing
Mr. and Mrs. Fitzgerald, L.
Rainery, O. Johnson, Dud Phe
lps, Mr. Cashman, Gay la Brooks
IDon Neal, B. Robertson and
Jim Gregory to Juneau.
Saturday flights cancelled
by weather.
Arriving Sunday:
Matthew Bean, John Norbert
M. Is ad ole, B. D. Stewart, Gba
rles Woods, Hedb Lawrence,
Jean John, Art Gamble, Mr.
and Mrs. Olsen, Dorothy and
Erick Olsen. Cline Holmes, La
Verne Smith, Jack, Dora and
Margaret Jater. Zack Noya
from Juneau.
Leaving Sunday:
Edward. Harriett, Kathleen
and Colleen O’Connor, Rose
Mary Bemis, Mr. Kunz, Bob
Petro, Mrs. B. E. and Lorraine
Feero, Don Neal, L. Evans, Fr
Zelenak, Mrs. Elsie Rinehart
and Mr. Magnuson to Juneau.
JAMES McBRAYER WINS
ROTC HONOR
Jaimes McBrayer, son of Dr.
and Mrs. B. E. McBnayer of
Mt. Edgecuimfbe, has been pro
moted to the position of Cadet
Sergeant Major of the R.O.T.C.
unit at Park College of Aeron
autical Technology at East St.
Louis, Missouri, where he is a
student in the top lliialf of his
sophomore year.
Young McBrayer, remaining
at his studies straight through
the summer months, will com
plete has work for ia degree in
three years.
MRS. ESSIE GRIFFIN
VISITING FROM SOUTH
Arriving last Wednesday,
Mrs. Essie Griffin of Tulsa,
Oklahoma, is paying an indef
inite visit to Mr. and Mrs. F.
G. Wayne.
Mrs. Griffin is Mrs. Wayne’s
I mother.
KERMIT OLSEN
FAMILY HOME
Mr. and Mrs. Kermit Olsen
i and children, Dorothy and Eric
I arrived home Saturday by plane
from Skagiway where the fam
ily made their home while Mr
Olsen was working for C and
R. Builders there.
The family are living at a
house art 280 Lake Street. Mr.
Olsen leaves today, along with
Clint Holmes, superintendent
for C & R, for Valdez, where
the firm has another construe
tion job scheduled.
FRED SOMMER ENTERS
HOME FRIDAY
Fred Sommer, 90 years of
age, arrived Friday from the
hospital at Ketchikan to enter
the Pioneers’ Home.
Born in 1865 at Carter coun
ty, Pa., Mr. Sommer came to
Ketchikan in 1934 to make his
home, following the occupation
of boat builder. He lived in his
own boat until it sank, and
since then had been cared for
at the hospital.
Wqnt Advts. Bring Results.
•‘PLEASE PASS THE ;
TUBE OF JELLY.”
For real, fiendish ingen-:
uity, you’ve got to hand it <
to the packaging industry.;
(They’re the fellers who!
make boxes, cans, bottles,!
etc., you know.) ;
We’ve long become accus
tomed to many of their in
novations like milk in card
board boxes, beer in cans
and plastic squirt bottles,
but do you know what
they’re up to now?
\*V%
They’re putting up jelly
in collapsible metal tubes
(like toothpaste used to
come in). Not only jelly,
they’re planning to put a
wide Variety of stuff like
mustard, chocolate sauce
and even lard in tubes.
Do we decry tlhe passing
of the time-honored bottle,
jar or jelly glass? No.
we think the new packag
ing is wonderful. We can
hardly wait to hear the kids
say, “Please pass the tulbe
tube of current jelly.”
It does make us feel kind
of backward & old-fashion
ed that we aren't able to
get into this act. Our pro
duct hasn’t yet been put up
in collapsible tuibe or squirt
bottle but as soon as some
genius figures out how to
do it you can bet we’ll be
the first in town to stock it.
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