MANY FLOATS RATE
SPECIAL MENTION,
JUNEAU'S FOURTH
Few persons watching yesterday’s
colorful Fourth of July parade
could envy the judges their task,
so clever and varied were the
numerous floats, decorated cars aut)
individual entries. Juneau's tra
ditionally outstanding holiday par
ade was called "bigger and be’ter’
by many of the spectators who
lined the downtown streets. With
the extra "loop" in the line of
inarch, the parade was half an
hour passing any given point.
Reigning over the festivities,
Queen Juneau IV and her court
rode on an all-white float, making
a charming picture. Queen Rob
erta Messerschmidt, in a turquoise
green gown with a bouquet of red
and white flowers, was enthroned
on a high dais, attended by Prin
cess Shirley Casperson. wearing an
aqua-colored frock: Nella Jermain
in pale yellow, and Carmen Man
ly la in white.
Color bearers leading the parade
were Oscar Pearson, G. E. Alm
quist and George Clark. At Front
and Seward streets, they and other
marchers had to step carefully, as
several 5-gallon cartons of ice
cream mix had been spilled when
an over-enthusiastic truck driver
was getting out of the way in a
hurry.
Four bright red fire trucks all but
spilled over with happy youngsters
wrho threw candy kisses to the
crowds. Besides two trucks from
the Juneau Fire Department, the
Douglas truck paraded, with smiling
Mayer Mike Pusich aboard, and the
Corps of Engineers truck added to
the impressive group.
Jimmie Fox, noted Thlingit chief,
walked alone, wearing the tradi
tional costume of red fox skins,
and was applauded all along the
way.
Instruments of the Juneau City
Band sparkled in the bright sun
shine, and their music from the
Front and Seward intersection
timed the marching of other units
the second time around. Led by
three pretty drum majorities
bandsters wore their attractive blue
and gray uniforms.
Moose Lodge No. 700, which was
in charge of all parade details,
made an impressive showing, the
Women of the Moose drill team
parading in purple and white uni
forms between two Moose floats.
The Teen-Age Club was among
organizations having outstanding
floa’s, although not among the
pme-winners. All types of teen
agers, graduate, athlete, etc., were
grouped around a large replica of
the Liberty Bell.
No digestive casualties were re
ported in connection w;ith the entry
of B.P.O.E. Lodge N. 420, although
the Elks float portrayed a young
sters’ camp, the gang eating all
the way to the ball park.
"Service Above Self,” the Rotary
International motto, wfas lettered
high on the entry of the Juneau
Rotary Club, with another slogan
"This is no bull" underneath.
Ralph Sherwood rode the jackass
a Shetland mule, from his farm
which kicked and stomped between
the two banners.
Among other effective floats were
those of the American Federation
of Labor, its identifying words
spaced across an enormous Alaska
map; the clover-theme float of the
Auk Bay 4-H Club, and the Amer
ican Legion.
Outstanding commercial floats
were the three-unit silvered entry
of the S. E. Thurpe Construction
Company, and the Union Oil Com
pany display in which an oil well
was being pumped.
Kimball Jensen headed the Moose
committee which made all parade
arrangements, assisted by Kelly
Larson and John Moser.
Judges, none from the Moose
Lodge, were Mrs. R. J. Sommers,
Lisle Hebert and Sid Thompson.
P. H. Brooke, registered from
Phoenix, Arizona, is staying at the
Baranof Hotel.
From Tulsequah, B. C., Joe
Choeneyko, is registered at the
Baranof.
ACS PICNIC ON
NEXT SUNDAY AT
RECREATION AREA
Personnel of the local unit ot
the Alaska Communication System,
j their families and invited friends,
1 will hold a picnic Sunday, July 9.
I at Auk Bay recreation area, the
1 lime to be from 1 to 8 p.m., to
j allow all shifts to enjoy the event.
\ Mat Gormley is general chair
man with Bert Fisher in charge
of entertainment. Willie Lewis,
j transportation and Fred Dawley,
refreshments.
This is one picnic where mothers
or wives won't have to worry about
what to pack for lunch" for the
local do'-and-dash boys are fur
nishing entire refreshments and
the program promises lots of fun
for all.
FOUR VESSELS UNLOAD
51,000 LBS. HALIBUT
Four vessels, returning from their
final trips to the Area Three fish
ing grounds, landed a total of
>1.000 pounds of halibut here today.
Largest load was brought in by
the Pioneer III, a Poulsbo, Wash.,
boat. The craft brought 20,000
pounds to port. Other vessels
landing fish were the Norsel of
Poulsbo, the Princess of Seattle,
and the Avona of Juneau.
Prices remained at 25 cents for
mediums. Large sold for 18.50
I cents, and chickens 18 cents.
Area Three fishing ends at mid
! night tonight.
STOCKTON YACHT DOCKS
AT SMALL BOAT HARBOR
Among *he cruisers which have
tied up at the small boat harbor
ecently is the 83 foot Happy Go
Lucky of Stockton. Calif.
The craft, a reconverted Coast
Guard cutter, has been cruising
Southeast Alaskan waters and tied
jp in Juneau Sunday afternoon.
The boat was to remain several
days.
The ten men aboard are all from
California. The owner is Guard;
Darrah, Stockton attorney. Ken- j
leth A. Adams is captain. Others
aboard are Jimmy Darrah, Guard j
Darrah, Jr., George Airs, Ernie;
I Bryant, Robert Shinn, Gilbert !
Jones, P. Verkayl and Merle Smith.
The Happy Go Lucky left Stock
‘on on June 9, and has visited
Seattle, Vancouver, Ladysmith and
many Alaskan towns. A visit Will
be made to Sitka before the boat
returns to Stockton w’hich it is
expected will be reached early in
August.
Capt. Adams said that much fisti
ng had been done and that the
halibut fishing had been better
than the salmon. He added that
the weather in Alaska had been
wonderful. Everyone seemed to be
agreed that Alaska was a swell
place, he said.
The yacht is all electrical and
aas two deep freezers to store food.
In addition, it is equipped with
many of the latest navigational
aids and devices.
chambeYwiluTave
"SUGGESTION FORUM"
The Juneau Chamber of Com
merce will hold a ‘‘Project Sugges
tion Forum” when it meets at noon
tomorrow in the Gold Room of the
Baranof Hotel.
Suggestions for new projects will
be presented by the members for
approval of the organization.
Color slides of the recent Cham
ber of Commerce Haines-White
horse-Skagway Goodwill Tour will
also be shown, according to F. O
Eastaugh, secretary.
FROM SEATTLE
Guests from Seattle, registered at
the Baranof, are: R. A. Arvidson,
Frank Stanton, M. D. Moiring, K.
C. Hawkes, Ray Erickson, Francis
3. Craven.
HERE FROM ILLINOIS
Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Feirish, of
Carbondale, 111., are registered at
the Baranof Hotel.
t
If our Deposits
ARE SAFE
BUY and HOLD UNITED STATES
SAVINGS BONDS
The Managemeac at *■
bank a pledged to cootow
tree aperacam. The aafetf
at depoMtW fandi m mv
primary madentiM la
addition, the bank ■ • Mem
ber at Federal Depoaec Iam
anca Corpora csoa .alack d>
Mae each ad rear depoeitoea
against lose to a aaaxeaaaM
ad SUM*
FIRST NATIONAL BANK
of JUNEAC, ALASKA
MEMBER FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION
INSURANCE MAN
PLANS OPENING
JUNEAU BRANCH
K C. Hawkes, manager in Seattle
! of Mutual Life Insurance Company
of New York, is in Juneau looking
over the town with a view toward
opening a branch of his company
! here.
Already in Alaska. Hawkes Is
I proud of the business written in
i Anchorage since a branch was
opened there in October of last
year and stops in Ketchikan arid
Juneau have convinced him tfcat
Southeast Alaska should do as well.
He has been with his company,
“the oldest in the United States,”
for nine years and in offices from
New York to the West Coast. Orig
inally from Idaho, he said he is
glad to be in the west again in
charge of the Seattle office which
covers western Washington and
Alaska.
While in Juenau he is interested
in finding someone to sell Mutual
Life Insurance of New York. “If
the town is as good as I think it
is, it should be a good job," Hawkes
said. He is staying at the Baranof.
ARRIVE IN JUNEAU
YESTERDAY AFTER
TRIP DOWN HIGHWAY
_
Mrs. Robert Fellows, her smali
daughter Ann and brother, Tom
Stewart, arrived home Tuesday af
ternoon by ferry from Haines after
driving from the east coast and
down the Alaska highway, to Ju
neau.
They are daughter, granddaugh
ter and son of B. D. Stewart, re
tired Commissioner of Mines.
Mrs. Fellows has been on the staff
at Swarthmore University, near
Philadelphia, and will be here for
the summer vacation, returning
east about September 1.
Young Stewart graduated last
month from Yale University law
school and although his plans are
still indefinite, he will be home
with Mr. and Mrs. Stewart until at
least early fall.
JUNEAU'S PAA TRAFFIC
BREAKS ALL RECORDS
JANUARY TO JUNE
More passengers were handled
by Pan American World Airway;
in and out of Juneau in the first
six months of 1950 than in anj
similar period since the company
started its Seattle-Juneau opera
tion just ten years ago, accordin; ]
to John W. White, regional direc-1
tor of PAA for Alaska who left |
today for Ketchikan after a briel
business visit here.
“Juneau’s record is so outstand
ing that I came here to try to
find the secret of the city’s en- >
terprise so that it might be ap
plied to other stations," Mr. White
said before leaving, by PAA, of
course, today.
Fred Dunn, PAA district traffic
manager, with whom Mr. While
consulted while he was in Juneau,
modestly gives some of the credit
for the traffic record out of the
Juneau office to its passenger con
nections with Alaska Coastal Air
lines which provides Pan American
service to and from the states to
Sitka. Pelican, Skagway, Angoon.
Hoonah and other towns and vil
lages in this area.
1 “Juneau is really becoming a
transportation center,” Dunn said
“and the connections and combin
ation rates we have arranged with
Alaska Coastal have contributed to
our incresed business.”
i White’s trip to Juneau included
j a fishing expedition with his for
mer Navy comrade, J. Simpsor.
MacKinnon, aboard the Hyak. Both
were captains on the staffs of Ad
mirals Whiting and Wood in the
Aleutians during WQrld War II.
Capt. MacKinnon was chief of staff
to both admirals and Capt. Whi?t
was in charge of operations.
CORO 'S JURY FINDS
SHOOTING TO BE SUICIDE
Herbert Leo LeBaugh. 40. An
chorage longshoreman found dead
in a room at 208 Main Street Fri
day, was judged by a coroner's
jury to have "died of a gunshot
wound apparently self-inflicted.”
The inquest was held Monday
i afternoon in the U. S. Commis
sioner's Court with Commissioner
Gordon Gray acting as coroner.
, LeBaugh was found dead with a
gunshot wound in his forehead by
Roff H. Shaamoth. manager of
the apartment building at 208 Main
Street.
Deputy U. S. Marshal Walter G.
Hellan found a .38 caliber auK»
matic pistol on the bed where Le
Baugh was lying. An empty shell
case was also on the bed.
EPISCOPAL RECTOR IS
VISITOR FROM PARISH
IN ATLANTIC CITY
- •
On a vacation trip from hie home I
in Atlantic City is the Rev. C.!
Canterbury Corbin, rector of St.!
Augustine's Church in the New
Jersey resort town.
Father Corbin had hoped A>_
travel further north, to see the
midnight sun, but found distances j
greater in Alaska than he had
thought possible—and his time lim
ited.
While here, he has visited with j
the Rev. Samuel McPhetres, of
Juneau's Trinity Episcopal Church.
Father Corbin will return south !
today.
MRS. PEARL LANE, FORMER j
JUNEACITE VISITS SISTERS
—
Mrs. Pearl Lane left Juneau 40
/ears ago but she still finds old j
iriends here and is enjoying her!
visit with her sisters, Mrs. Alma
Hendrickson and Mrs. John Tor
vinen.
Mrs. Lane came here first in
1901 from her home in Finland to
visit her sisters who were already
making their home here. She was
married in Juneau and lived here
until 1910. Her last visit north was
/n 1923. Her home is now in
Aberdeen, Wash.
Mrs. Hendrickson and Mrs. Lane
plan to spend a month at Tenakee
Hot Springs before the summer is
over.
For the 3rd time in 5 years
Pan American
CUTS FARES!
Newr*egulor,aU-yea,fore
JUNEAU TO SEATTLE
NOW ONLY
*CC»° ROUND TRIP
’66-ONE'VA*“»ax)
For 11
Now Pen A“lrSeen Mo.raod Seattle.
-K5S52T- this new. reduced err
travel fare, call
Baranof Hotel, Juneau
Phone 106
4
«••••*
ONLY THE FARE IS CUT! When you fly Pan
American,you still get all the Clipper* extras: Big
dependable 4-engine planes... the most experienced
crews... fine, free food... and stewardess hospitality,
TO SEATTLE • HAWAII • ROUND-THE-WORLD • KETCHIKAN
JUNEAU • WHITEHORSE • FAIRBANKS • NOME
RING, wrist watch
TURNED IN TO POLICE
Juneau police department re
ported today that it had one gold
wedding ring and one Gruen ladies’
wrist watch turned in. The wrist
warch has initials inside the band.
Owners of the above articles may
have them by going to the police
station and identifying.
REGISTER FROM IRELAND
Edith Carter, registered from Vir
ginia and Sheila Maher, registered
from County Cork, Ireland, are
stopping at Juneau Hotel for a few
days’ visit in town. They arrived on
the last PrinCess boat from Van
couver, B.C., and expect to return
to that Canadian city on the next
southbound sailing of the CPR.
VISITOR FROM CAPITAL
Miss Elsie Guerney of Washing
ton. DC., will leave Juneau tomor
row after a two-week visit here
where she was a guest of Mr. and
Mrs. Carl M. D’Epiro. Miss Guerney
is with the National Capital Park
Service in Washington. It »s her
first visit to Alaska.
FROM CLEVELAND
Mr. and Mrs. P. M. Darier, of
Cleveland, Ohio, is stopping at the
Baranof.
HERE FROM SITKA
Two guests from Sitka are regis
tered at the Baranof. They are
W. Westovo and C. H. Johnstone.
The latter is a son of Mrs. Russell
Clithero of Sitka.
SALMON LANDINGS
Troll-caught salmon landed at
the Juneau Cold Storage Company
today totalled 2.000 pounds.
Martha Hundley, a nurse from
San Francisco, Calif., is registered
at the Juneau Hotel.
M Glar.cn, member of the per
sonnel of the Coast Guard Cutter
Hemlock, of Ketchikan, is a guest
at the Baranof.
Two guests from Yakima, Wash.,
are registered at the Gastineau
Hotel. They are A. A. Muntz and
J. McGilvray.
167 TRAVEL WTH
ALASKA COASTAL
Flights of Alaska Coastal Airlines
I carried a total of 167 persons be
. tween Juneau and other Southeast
* Alaska points on July 3 and 4. Yes
terday 35 were taken from Juenau
and 39 brought here.
Arriving in Juneau from Rob
erts Island was Henry Paavo.
Here from Sitka are R. L. Piatt,
J. Ripley, Alice Johnson, C. Johns
tone, Mabel Ronze, Art Littlefield.
M. Ylanan, S. Westover and Ger
ald Long.
From Chiijcat Laxe: B. Hanford,
N. Banfield and F. Nagel. From
Petersburg: Martha Wendling,
Herbert Wendling, Jack Daum;
from Angoon: Mrs. Davie Johnston;
from Haines:- J. M. Hanson, Tex
White, Oscar Jensen, Lew Nuna
maker, Ken Martin, Mrs. K. Mar
tin, T. I. Ravines and Olive Trower.
Arriving from Chichagof: Ole B.
Twedt; from Hoonah: J. McNa
mara, Happy Jackson, Sid Benson'
from Baranof: Flo Mansey; from
Hawk Inlet: W. Klinefelter, R. M.
Costlaw. William Tucker.
Here from Excursion Inlet are
Agnes Johnson and Ray Johnson;
from Pelican: Reverend Lewis, Rev
erend Vogler, K. Y. Ramseyer and
Fred Emerson.
Leaving Juneau on yesterday’s j
flights to Petersburg were Murlin!
Spencer, Jack Daum, N. F. Weber; |
to Sitka: Dr. Murray and Mrs. D.
Woods: to Baranof: Joseph Pippin:
to Ketchikan: Joe Dunlap; to Sitka:
Cpl. G. Luen, Mr. and Mrs. L. H.
Hansen and Maxim Schapiro.
For Skagway: Darlene Jacobs, W.
D Campbell, Lester Frick, Mrs. L.
Frick, Loren Frick, Maverne Frick;
to Gustavus: William Keep, Mar
tin Neilsen. Marshall Keep, Martin
Antonsen and B. Ibertson.
To Pelican: Janet Simpson and
Carlos Blanco; to Hawk Inlet: Fred
Nelson; to Superior: M. Chilton
and Mrs. Chilton; to Tenakee:
Georgian Heins.
Monday’s flights took 40 people
from Juneau and brought 53 here.
Fresh Herring—Sturm’s Locker.
42-lmo
MRS. GENE SLOAN IS GUEST
OF THE TOM i'ETRIC'HES
Mrs. Gene Sloan, wife of Pan !
American Capt. Sloan, is visiting
in Juneau at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. J. T. Petrich. A friend <.f
Mrs. Keith Petrich, who is also
visiting here and whose husband
is another Pan American pilot, ISrs.
Sloan is enjoying her second ti'ip
to Alaska. The visitors have been
fishing — successfully — and tiave
been guests at holiday parties here.
For faster,
closer shaves,
comfort, too . . .
Get GLIDER
Brushless
Shaving Cream
i
Dr. Ted Oberman
Eyes Examined
Visual Trainino
Optometriit
• Telephone 266
Simpson bldA., Juneau
Make your floors shine this easy way!
use GLO-COAT-it
stays bright up to
4 times longer!
mfar ll II n u»
Keep your tile, linoleum or wood- floors
bright and gleaming with Johnson’s Glo
Coat. It’s so easy to use! Just apply-it
dries in twenty minutes to a beautiful
durable finish.
And now Glo-Coat is positively water
repellent! Even when you spill things,
they wipe away without marring the shine!
Save money—buy larger sizes. Get won
derful water-repellent Glo-Coat today!
JOHNSON’S GLO-COAT
/
1
I
Assorted
Hand Bags
Many Styles '
■ and Colors
to choose from.
All on Display!
Ladies' Shoes
Sizes 3 to 10
High, Low and
Medium Heels
Plenty of
Wedgies
137 Pairs
Broken Lots
At $1.00
Anklets
3 Pairs $1.00
only!
Red
Blue
Black
Green
' Brown
White
Slarts 9 a.m. Thursday
HUDSON'S
m