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West Point Coach
To Welcome inquiry
WEST POINT, N. Y., Aug. 6.—Ml
—Eari (Red i Blaik, head football
coach at the U. S. military acad
emy, said today he would welcome
a Congressional investigation of the
recent cadet dismissals "so that
the true character of the boys and
true relationship of football to life
at the academy can be brought be
fore the country.”
This is the first time that Blaik,
who has been coach of the academy
since 1941, had met with newsmen
since the Friday announcement that
many of tne Army football ptayer
were included among 90 cadets fac
ing expulsion.
He would make no comment on
reports that he planned to re
sign, saying he would hold a press
conference in New York on Thurs
day, outlining his plans.
Harold Loenein, captain elect of
the 1951 Army football team, has
identified himself as one of the
cadets accused of violating the
honor code.
OPIUM RATION CARDS
NEW DELHI — W — Opium
eaters of the Punjab state in India
desire opium distribution on food
ration cards.
A resolution to this effect was
passed at a recent opium-eaters’
conference at Moga in the Punjab.
The resolution, however, advised the
younger generation to "keep away
from opium-eating sin."
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highlines that bring service into your
Yes, it takes all three doing their
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to help keep our American living
standards high.
ALASKA ELECTRIC
LIGHT and
POWER COMPANY
Capitol Theatre Has
M-m-m-m Scene in
'Wake ot Red Witch'
The shooting script and the mas
ter schedule referred to it succinctly
as “Scene No. 100"—but all the con
centrated sex appeal of Ho'lywood,
past and present, is packed into
that one little scene'
Adele. Mara emerges from a trop
ical pool under the watchful eyes
of the censor’s office, dons a robe
and disappears into the shadow:,
thereby adding immeasurably to the
box office appeal of Republic's
“Wake of the Red Witch," which
is currently showing at the Capi
tol Theatre.
The shapely Miss Mara has been
posing in bathing suits from the
very inception of her screen career,
but this is the first time she has
ever gone near the water. "It's quite
different,” Adele says, “having alli
gators to contend with instead of
just wolves!"
DOUGLAS
NEWS
BIBLE SCHOOL PROGRAM
The Douglas Bible Church pre
sented an evening childrens’ pro
gram last Friday evening concluding
two weeks of childrens' Bible School.
Teachers in charge, assisting the
Rev. Donald Vertin, we re Mrs. Ver
tin, Mrs. Peterson and Mrs. Stev
ens.
VISITING DAL'GHTER, FAMILY
Mrs. Clarence Clark of Seattle ar
rived here recently and is visiting
at the home of her daughter, Mrs.
Lawrence W. Wilcox and family.
HOME FROM HOSPITAL
Mrs. George Matson returned
home from St. Ann’s Hospital on
Saturday after two weeks confine
ment. She will convalesce from a
- broken leg at her home here.
WELL BABY CONFERENCE
A Well Baby Conference will be
conducted at the Douglas Methodist
Church on Wednesday afternoon by
the Public Health Department with
hours of 2 to 4 o'clock. Public Health
Nurse Miss Proctor will be in charge.
All mothers of pre-school children
are welcome to avail themselves
of the conferences, she said.
The William Durance family
moved to their new home- on Glacier
Highway over the weekend., The
family purchased a home on the
Glacier spur road. The family has
lived in Douglas for the past four
years.
LIONS CLUB TONIGHT
The Douglas Lions Club will meet
at their semi-monthly dinner meet
ing this evening at 6:30 o’clock at
Mikes Place.
MARSHALL HOME SOLD
Mr. and Mrs. Milford Marshall
have sold their home to Mr. and
Mrs. Clifford Short and family.
Since the sale, the Marshalls have
taken temporary residence in the
City Unit formerly occupied by the
Short family, on Second and D
Streets. Councilman Marshall and
his family will leave shortly for a
visit with their families in the
states.
RETURNS FROM ANCHORAGE
Mrs. Margaret Helms returned
home from Anchorage last week
where she was called due to a ser
ious accident befalling a nephew
there. Although %t first in a criti
cal condition he is now improving
she said.
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NEWS ITEMS
FROM SITKA
SITKA, Alaska, July 23, (Special
to The Empire)—Henry Roden
and Edward Keithahn arrived
this week to meet with the third
Pioneer Home board member, J.
Gilpatrick. At the request of the
Sitka Community Hospital Com
mittee, a joint meeting was ar
tanged lor Friday evening, the
Pioneer Home board and hospit
al board being joined by Mayor
Doyle and City Clerk Frank Cal
vin.
All present agreed that a sen
sible solution to the Sitka Hospi
tal problem was its inclusion in
the proposed new Pioneer Home
Hospital, the city to finance its
share of construction, furnishing'
staffing and operation of the pro
ject. This, in turn, would be of
help to the Territory in the con
struction of a new wing on the
home which has been contempla
ted lor some time.
It was decided to get in touch
with the J. B. Warwick Construc
tion Company, who built the
Home to get a set of architect's
plans of the present building from
which to figure floor space needed
lor the new hospital. The city
felt that ten beds for community
use would be ample.
Tentative plans for the new
wing include a hospital on the
third floor; men’s quarters on the
second floor and women’s on the
ilirst.
Mrs. Allison P. Tharp and Wal
ter L. Smith were married Sat
urday evening, July 14, at the
home of Rev. Robert Rowland who
performed the ceremony. Cleo
Campbell and James Harrigan at
tended tile couple. After the cere
mony a buffet supper was served
the wedding party.
The bride, daughter of A. M.
Christy of Spokane, Washington,
is the home economics teacher at
Sitka High School. Mr. Smith,
son of Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Smith
of Kalispell, Montana, arrived
eight months ago as a Columbia
Lumber Mill employee but re
signed to run a small mill for the
ANS on the Island.
The couple are at home to their
friends at 408 Lake Street.
Miss Lillian Brown is leaving
this weekend aboard the North
Star enroute to Alameda, Calif
ornia, where she will be met by
her Hither Georgy J.* Brown and~
her fiance Lawrence Powers. Miss
Brown and Mr. Powers will be
married there in about three
weeks then take a six months tour
of South America.
Miss Brown came to Sitka two
years ago as teacher for the Or
thopedic Hospital and for the past
year was property clerk for the
ANS.
Powers came here from the East
as engineer for the Pioneer Home.
The couple plan to return to Sit
ka after the Christmas holidays.
Marriage license applications:
July 12—Robert E. Countryman,
crewman on the USCG Cahoone,
and Agnes Laiblin Porter.
July 12—George 3. Woodbury,
crewman on the USCG Cahoone,
land LaVerne Pauline Ballinger.
A second child, first daughter,
Jodie Kathleen, weighing six
pounds fourteen ounces, was born
to Mr. and Mrs. Charles Nichol
son, Sunday evening, July 15. Mr.
Nicholson is employed by the
Sitka Cold Storage Company.
Herb Clark, 'office manager of
the local Columbia Lumber Mill,
left last week to meet his wife in ,
Seattle and return with her early
this week.
Mrs. Brooks Hanford arrived
last weekend for a brief visit with
Mr. and Mrs. Orville Paxton at
their home on Ojo Street. She
has been widely entertained dur
ing her stay.
Mrs. James Brightman and son
Timmy left Thursday for their
home in Pelican after spending
ten days visiting Timmy's grand
mother and aunt Mrs. Marie
Brightman and Louise Brightman.
Frank Price, Jr., returned this
week from a visit of several months
around Puget Sound. He is the
eldest son of Mrs. Jessie Price.
Mrs. Stanley Eckhart arrived
recently from her home in Wen
atchee to spend the summer with
her son-in-law and daughter, Mr.
and Mi Wally Volz, Sr., at their
home on Japonski. Mr. Eckhart
will Join the family later in the
summer.
Miss Ruth Herron, head nurse
at SJ-Community Hospital, and
home nursing instructor at SJJC,
left last weekend on a months
visit with relatives in Portland,
Oregon.
Miss Mary Jerome, head orth
opedic nurse at the Orthopedic
Hospital, returned this week from
a six week visit with her family
and friends on the East Coast.
Mrs. Maud Wakefield and Mrs.
Luella Campbell arrived by plane
last weekend to spend the summer
at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Neill
Andersen. Before coming north
they made a motor trip to Calif
ornia. On their trip north from
their home in Seattle they stopped
over in Ketchikan to visit friends.
Mrs. Duke DeLaHunt left by
plane last weekend enroute to
Hoonah, after spending some weeks
visiting her parents Mr. and Mrs.
Fred Schrey. The DeLaHunts are
operating a crab cannery in Hoo
nah during the summer.
Accompanying Mrs. DeLaHunt
was her nephew, Bobby Hendersen
on a brief vacation.
Rotarians held a banquet at
the Trading Post Dining Room
last, night for James Lightbody,
district governor, who arrived in
the morning from his home in
Vancouver, B. C.
After enjoying a turkey dinner,
Lightbody spoke to the members
on his visits to Rotary Clubs
throughout the country.
Oldtimers Baseball Teams from
the Moose and Elks met Wednes
day evening in mortal combat. No
member under forty was permit
ted on either team but no maxi
mum age limit was set.
The Moose won 17-14, Danny
Doyle and Verne McGraw pitched
for the winners; Earl Shennett,
T. Cole and Wally McDonald for
the losers.
Ben Forbes is leaving toorrow
in his Steelcraft on a two months
charter trip with the Fish and
Wildlife Service. Fish streams in
Icy Straits and Chatham will be
surveyed thoroughly during that
time.
The North Star is leaving for
the States this evening with many
ANS employees. Among the pas
sengers are: Doris Vecker who has
resigned as dietitian and is en
route to her home in Milwaukee.
After a visit with her family she
plans to Join a friend on a tour
of Europe.
Mr. and Mrs. Tauno and young
daughter Susan. Mr. Tauno has
resigned as librarian and will
make his home in Seattle.
MEETING TONIGHT
The American Legion
al 8 o'Clock
IN THE LEGION DDGOUT
Visiting Veterans Invited
VERNON P. HARRIS, Post Commander
JOHN GARCIA, Adjutant
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Alaskans are still waiting for
'‘official'’ comment on the report
recently released by a Senate
committee that investigated the
Palmer airport transactions.
Such comment has several times
been promised. For reasons un
known to this writer it has not
been forthcoming.
The first such statement was
expected to come from Rep. Stan
ley J. McCutcheon early this year.
McCutcheon was the attorney for
Alaska Aeronautics Commission
and was in the thick of the Pal
mer airport deal from start to
finish.
Called to Washington for the
Senate committee hearing, Rep.
McCutcheon reached Juneau sev
eral days after the Legislature
had opened its 20th session.
He immediately asked lor spe
cial privilege of the floor of the
House at a later date. The priv
ilege was granted and it was gen
erally presumed that he would
talk about the Palmer airport.
Before the hour of his special
privilege, however, the Anchorage
Representative withdrew his re
quest and said nothing.
The Senate committee’s full re
port was released not long ago
and when the first news stories
on it came through, Governor
Gruening was asked to comment.
The Governor declined. He said
he wanted a chance to study the
full report, hinting that the news
stories might not be entirely ac
curate.
The Governor's position there is
understandable. Only a couple of
weeks previously he had ventured
far out on a limb by applauding
the "validation” of the Alaska
property tax, only to discover that
the applause had been ill-advised
and that the tax had not. been
validated at all.
Several weeks have now passed
■and ccpter-of tha senate’cGirihut
tee report have become available.
And the Governor, with ample
time to study that report, has as
yet offered no comment.
George S. "Tony” Schwamm, the
former commandant of the Port
Althorp Navy Yard and present
Director of Aeronautics, is the
most recent official to offer a
statement on the Palmer affair
without actually producing one.
Schwamm not long ago told the
Daily Empire at Juneau that he
would have a statement "in a day
or two.” The days dragged out to
nearly a week before he announ
ced that he would issue the state
|ment as soon as two vacant posi
tions in the Aeronautics Commis
sion are filled.
This continual postponement of
an “answer" to the charges made
in the committee report is not
unexpected. The fact is, of course,
that the Senate report is so dam
ning that no real answer is pos
sible.
Columnist George Dixon of King
Features Syndicate, for his recent
reporting of the Gruening-War
ren debacle and for other en
lightened reporting on the Alaska
| as well as the Washington scene,
is hereby extended honorary mem
bership in the Axis Press of Al
aska.
Informed sources in Washington
report that the uproar over the
25 percent wage differential for
government employees in Hawaii
and Alaska is actually a tongue
in-cheek affair conceived as pub
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licity for the Hawaii and Alaska
statehood campaigns.
The publicity value of the "col
onialism" of these two territories,
supposed to have been pointed up
by the new legislation, was dam
aged considerably when Senator
Hugh Butler went to the support
of differential pay.
This is not at all what the Ne
braska^ Senator had been expected
to do and the result may be an
end to further quibbling over1 the
matter.
Senator Butler did point out,
however, that statehood for Alas
ka and Hawaii will probably end
pay differentials. Otherwise, he
said, it will be necessary to set up
some kind of differential for each
of the 50 states, since no two have
exactly the same cost-of-living
index.
fr'airbanksans were understand
ably and justifiably incensed not
long ago when it was discovered
that four caribou, including three
cows carrying calves, had been
wantonly slaughtered near there
Thus far no reward has been
posted to encourage apprehending
and punishing the person oV per
sons who lowered the United States
flag on the University campus on
Commencement Day or the per
son or persons who snipped the
wire that was to have carried
Governor Warren's address to th^
radio public. ' ‘ . ~!T
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