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ZUMWALT TO TAKE'
CONFERENCE TO
ALASKA ADVENTISTS
When the president of Alaska j
Mission, Seventh Day Adventists,
leaves about September 1 on his
annual two-month tour, he will
have for others of his faith a
first-hand account of the recent
conference in San Francisco.
Besides his own summaries
from carefully taken notes, Pastor
A. L. Zumwalt will carry tape rec
ordings of outstanding addresses
and meetings at the quadrennial
World Conference of Seventh Day
Adventists. i •
Also, he has mounted news
paper pictures and features on
a wide paper several yards long,
for an effective wall display. Sev
eral Adneibist ^issues we^g pub
lished by newspapers in the Bky
City.
In the more than 20 years in
was the first general conference
Pastor Zumwialt has been able to
attend. Besides Mrs. Zumwalt,
other Juneauites attending were
John W. Griffin, Alaska Mission
treasurer, and Mrs. Griffin.
The World Conference, which
has met every four years except
in wartime, was attended last
month by 889 delegates from 68
countries. Only the Iron Curtain
countries were not represented,
although Communist China was.
The Adventists' General Con
ference was organised 87 years
ago with 20 delegates represent
ing 3,500 members, all in North
America. Today there are 716,544
members all over the world—an
increase of 61 per cent since 1936.
Current assets include 162 med
ical units, 290 colleges and sec
ondary schools; 3,341 elementary
schools and 52 publishing houses.
In the past four years the Dor
cas iwelfare! work of the church
has raised $2,805370 for world
relief, shipped 1,481 of clothing to
41 countries and 1,732 tons of
food to eight countries, besides
thousands of C.A.R.E. and indi
vidual packages. It is estimated
that help has been given to 14,
229.645 destitute persons.
According to Pastor Zumwalt's
records, there are 330 members in
Alaska in 14 companies (and
places i, and the Alaska Mission
operates the Bristol Bay Mission
School at Lake Aleknegik. The
Juneau office is headquarters for
all Alaska work, which includes
four church schools.
President Zumwalt's “grand
tour” will take him to Seward,
Anchorage, Palmer, Kotzebue,
Deering, Nome and Fairbanks; to
Dillingham and other Bristol Bay
destinations, and all over South
east Alaska.
SEMI-MONTHLY MEET
SQUARE DANCE ASS’N.
SCHEDULED FOR AUG. 19
The regular semi-monthly dance
sponsored by the Gastlneau Chan
nel Square Dance Association will
be held at the Parish Hall August
19, beginning at 8:30 p.m.
Gus Gissberg, of the Promen
aaers, is in charge of arranging the
program and reports that all the
regular callers will be on hand tc
show their stuff on both old and
new dances.
Music will again be furnished by
the orchestra under Chuck Werner
the "fiddler from the Ozarks." All
square dancers are urged to attend
FROM BELLINGHAM
Bellingham, Wash., visitors stop
ping at the Baranof Hotel lnchidt
Jack Mellquist, H. O. Heal and C
JL Taylor.
Prize Winning Photo
This spectacular on the spot photo of an air-show stunt plane barely missing an Army B-29 was award
ed first prize for spot news pictures, metropolitan division in the California Associated Press Photo t on
test. The photo was made by Bill Crouch, Oakland Tribune staff photographer at an air show in Oak
land, Calif., last October. (PI Wirephoto.
Marines Man Vantage Point
U. S. Marine rooket launcher and machine gun crews prepare a hot welcome for the enemy from a com
manding position on bluff overlooking the plains somewhere in Korea. Pfc. Billy Weatherly (fore
ground), Greenville, Tex., aims machine gun as Cpl. Leon Rothgcb, Rileyville, Va„ prepares to feed bullets.
Pfc. Richard Wallack (left) St. Cloud, Minn.; loads rocket launcher held by Pfc. Wilfred Diaz, Flush
ing, New York; (PI Wirephoto.
WORLDREVIEW
(By the Associated Press)
ENLISTED MEN’S FOLKS
Senate and House Committees
have approved legislation designed
to provide $85 to $125 a month for
the support of families of enlisted
men in the three lowest pay grades
of the Armed Forces. The enlisted
man himself would pay $40 of the
total.
SHANGHAI CARGO HALTED
Two British shipping companies
in,Hong Kong have suspended cargo
sailings to Shanghai. The announce
ment was made after the China
i coaster Tsinan, owned by one of the
companies, hit a mine entering
Shanghai harbor. This is the fourth
ship mined in the past few months,
I and the only one to stay afloat. The
Nationalist Chinese planted the
mines to help enforce their blockade
of the Communist port.
( ROD NOT SPARED
American children can be thank
ful they won't end their school vaca
tions in England. Three American
teachers landed in New York today
after swapping jobs with three Brit
ish teachers for a year. Says Miss
Elsie Hawk, of Illinois: "They used
the strap regularly. We never use a
i switch in Peoria."
WIRETAPPING
A Senate subcommittee will re
sume hearings today in a probe oi
wiretapping in the nation’s capital
A Washington police lieutenant —
Joseph Shimon—has been called to
answer charges that he tapped the
telephone lines of Congressmen and
i other political bigwigs.
NEGRO TROOPS LANDED
Associated Press Correspondent
Stan Swinton—in a dispatch from
the .front—says the U.S. 24th In
fantry Regiment is fighting prob
ably the best and proudest battle
in the history of the American
Negro foot soldier. Swinton says
men who were in combat with the
Negro 92nd Division in Italy and
the 93rd Division.
And Swinton quotes a White
Colonel as saying: "The 24th Regi
ment fights better than any Negro
outfit in history—including the
92nd.”
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REGULAR MEETING OF
CITY COUNCIL TONIGHT
The Juneau City Council will meet
at 8 o’clock tonight in the City Hall
! and read two new city ordinances
j for the third and final time.
The ordinances (1) increase card
j table license fees, and (2) make pro
visions for collecting the city tax on
automobiles a. the beginning of
each year when automobiles are li
censed.
At present card table license fees
are $20 for any number of tables up
to four; the new ordinance will in
crease the rate to $35 per table.
Automobile tax bills are now sent
out in October.
A study of existing defense ord
inances will probably be made at
the council meeting, according to
Mayor Waino Hendrickson.
Mrs. W. J. Malor.ey of Chicago
s stopping at the Baranof Hotel.
HOSPITAL NOTES
William Casperson, a1 Overholt
zer, Mrs. Pearl Lane, Mrs. Arthur
Schuttenhelm, John Raymond Hope,
Mrs. Veva Haviland, Linda Bloom
quist, and Elbert' Brown were ad
mitted to St.'Ann’s hospital yester
day.
Bernard O. Boettcher, Robert Dit
man, and Margaret Mize were dis
missed.
James Duncan of Douglas was
admitted to the Government hos
pital, and Mrs. Elizabeth Lawson ol
Mt. Edgecumbe and her infant son
were dismissed.
CALIFORNIANS HERE
Among Californians newly regis
tered at the Baranof Hotel are Dr.
and Mrs. Hilton Lusk and Mr. and
Mrs.-George K. Ramsey, of Sac
ramento; Mr. and Mrs. D. C. Van
Dyke of Pleasant Grove and Jean
Coman, San Francisco.
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ARMY, NAVY
STAFF CHIEFS
OFF FOR TOKYO
WASHINGTON, Aug. 18 — (i« —
General J. Lawton Collins and Ad
i mlral Forrest P. Sherman, the top
Army and Navy leaders, will leave
| by air Saturday for Tokyo.
' Announcing this today, an Army
i spokesman said the trip will be
made to "determine needs and see
what's going on.”
“It's nothing extraordinary," he
said. "The trip is in line with
i the practice of visiting the field.
■ All of the chiefs make such trips
j as frequently as they can.”
In reply to a question, the spokes
i man said there had been no re
i quest from General MacArthur for
! Codings and Sherman to make the
j trip.
1 The Army chief of staff and the
: Navy chief of operations are to
j leave Washington at 7 a.m. (EST)
Saturday.
| Collins and Gen. Hoyt S. Van
denterg, chief of staff of the Air
| Force, made a similar trip to Jap
an and Korea in mid-July.
Lost Vessel Found
Afler 3-Day Search
A three-day air search for a 40
foot vesesl ended late yesterday
when the craft, which broke away
from the power-barge Chatham in
the Barren Island area of the Gulf
of Alaska, was found by a West
Coast search aircraft from Kodiak.
The craft was sighted 20 miles
south of the position where it was
reported lost, according to Coast
Guard headquarters here. It broke
away from the power-barge Mon
day.
CAA MAN HERE
Joseph Frydlo of the Civil Aero
nautics Administration staff at Gus
tavus is registered at the Baranof
Hotel.
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WARREVIEW
(By the Associated Press)
Eastern front: South Koreans re
capture Kigye and Pohang, permit
ting U.S. planes once again to use
important air strip.
North central front: Allied planes,
tanks and troops stall drive by 30.000
Reds on Taegu and then counterat
tack. rolling up gains. Evacuation
of Taegu ordered to turn it into all
military base.
South central front: American
Marines and Doughboys give Red
Fourth Division a "hell of a lick
ing” in Changnyong sector, 23 miles
southwest of Taegu, taking back
strategic high ground and chasing
man? Reds back across Naktonp
river from their bridgehead.
Southern front: American repulse
enemy attack, take back lost ground
in fierce. close-quarters battle
west of Masan on extreme south
of battlefronts.
Air war: U.S. and Australian
planes give close and heavy support I
to ground troops, rip up enemy
equipment. B-29’s take off for new
raids on enemy communications.
U.S. cruiser raids Tanchon in far
North Korea, hitting rail yards
with heavy guns.
Lake Success—United States de
mands unified, independent Korea
as Security Council delegates try in
vain to break Soviet procedural
blockade on Korean situation.
Washington: Army announces G.
J. Lawton Collins and Adm. Forrest
P. Sherman, top Army and Navy
leaders, will leave by plane for
Tokyo tomorrow, to “see what's
going on.”
24 ARRIVE, 8 GO
ON PNA FLIGHTS
In yesterday’s opeartions, Pacific
Northern Airlines brought 24 pas
sengers from the westward and car
ried eight outbound.
Arriving from Anchorage were
Bart and Melvin Anderson, Miss
Chambers, Dick Miller, Mr. and
Mrs. Zoberst, Thelma Clark, Mrs.
Margo Britch and infant, Mr. and
Mrs. J. A. Lanigan, Kenneth J.
Xadow. Mr. and Mrs. C. Cole, Mr.
and Mrs. W. A. Rushlight, F. L.
Kerzie, Ben Stone, D. K. Josselyn,
Mr. Riley and Mr. Booth. Board
ng at Cordova were Homer John
son, Mr. Huhn and H. O. Heal.
Westbound, these persons went
o Anchorage: Mrs. W. W. Welch
MRS. BURDICK, BESS
O’NEAL OFF FOR CIRCLE
Mrs. Charles Burdick, wife of the
assistant regional forester, and Miss
Bess O’Neal, arrived in Whitehorse
today after driving over the Haines
Highway, where they will visit sev
eral days before driving on to Fair
banks and Circle Hot Springs.
They will meet Burdick in An
chorage and after several side trips'^
will return to Haines in mid-Sep
ember. Burdck will spend his tlille
in the Chugach National Forest
area working with R. A. 8chawrtz,y
new division supervisor recently
transferred to the post from, Ket
chikan. ft*)
and infant; L. M. Hagen, Mrs.
Mary Miller, J. Klose, S. A. Gib
son, S e t o n Thompson and Carl
Christiansen.
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