IMPRESSIVE FUNERAL
FOR JOHN RECK AT
ELKS HAL] FRIDAY
Friends of John Reek crowded
the Flks hail Friday a tcrnoon to
pay last respects to the man who
had done so ir :ch for Juneau,
whose i"fli:en''p ms felt in every
communitv enterprise and whose
death Tresdaj ha left a void in
our town
Flowers the* MVt ! the lure hall
and surrounded the bronze casket
indicated the extent of h.s friend
ships.
During the Elks service, presided
over by John H. Walmer as exalted
ruler; these friends pronounced
the ritual Arthur .(Scotty) Adams
as leading knight; Norman Ban
field, lecturing kni.ht; Howard E.
Simmons, esquire: Ellis Reynolds,
secretary and Victor Power, chap
lain.
H. I Faulkner, who as a friend
of rr.c -e than forty years, was cho
sen to give a eulogy fo • Jolui Reck,
mentioned h !o:i span of life,
his birth two c.a s a .her Preident
Lincoln was ihji' ’ an 1 tily c short
time after tire ’ of the civil war;
his long residence in Juneau; his
life that yeas exemplified by the
principals of the Elks Lodge of
whLh he had been a member for
33 years- elyarit", justice, b.otherij
love and fidelity.
1 His devotion to the o.ue" loJ '
to wh* h h ..?• •: ' .r
years 71 .0 1 • r.!'■
ps ft m^rpjpet ■ ,t ,:i
the Piwi .1.. ! «
a member r r.
and which Jie 0 e
prt- l-u nt oi ; Cr...:
were the thin s o " . :
Faulkner t.cU, as we!. as cl his
service to t Ch :i c!
meree, to the ipm tunny and 1
public wo:k., his »c ; as c t o
with th Fi rt ' Ik 1.ai Br.iV. oi
which he lmd torn president r:.d
chairman o. the bc>ad of directors.
Mr. Faulkner mentioned his devo
tion to his family and nis wife
during the long years 01 n validi tm
that ended in h-r der t!' rwi yea-s
ago.
Mr. Reck was an organizer of the
Resurrection Lutheran church and
it wes this church that conducted
the spiritual part of the service.
With the aid of the church’s
vested choir, the Rev. G. H. Hill
ermau conducted the funeral ser
vice of his church in which was in
cluded, Christiansen’s arrangement
of Bach’s “Come Soothing Death,”
by the senior choir.
The choir and the Rev. Mr. Hill
errtian entered the hall in proces
sion proceeded by young people of
the church carrying the church
cross and candelabra.
It was an impressive service as
was the committal service by the
Rev. Mr. Killerman in the Odd
Fellow’s plot in the Evergreen
cemetery where Mr. Reck was laid
to rest beside his wife.
Pallbearers we^e Grant Baldwin
and G. E. Almquist of the Moose;
William Biggs and A1 Zenger, Sr.,
from the Pioneers; Pete Christensen
and Art McKinnon from the Odd
Fellows, and George Parks and Wal
lis George froni the Elks.
Honorary pallbearers were H. L.
Faulkner. Allen Shattuck, Charles
Goldstein, Minard Mill, Joe Wil
liams, Earle Hunter, Charles F Car
ter, J. S. MacKinnon, Sam Paul,
Arthur Uggen, John Krugness,
Waino Hendrickson, Felix Gray, R.
E. Robertson and Ray Nolan.
Mr. Reck is survived by his son
William, Juneau, and daughters,
Mamie. Juneau, Mrs. B. B. Green,
Fairbanks, and Mrs. A. R. Duncan,
Ketchikan, two granddaughters and
three great-grandchildren.
Hoag Kong is an important cen
ter for reshipment of goods from
other Asiatic ports.
Refugees on Move South Again
For the third timr in le.'s than a year, Korean refu ,ecs, young and old, plod southward along a dusty
toad to escape new Communist offensive. This group, carrying what belongings they could, fled the
Red advance on the western front. '/P> Wirephoto.
Tie vacant *r n ■"/ e oi the
S'1- rar-nld Citv nail are lookin '
f.atllv at Jun.-iu these bus as sal
vaging operations are underway by
a city crew. Scon Uie old building
will be just a memory when dem
olition is completed to make way
for the new Alaska Office Build
ing.
The City Hall building was the
outgrowth of a twinkle in the eyrs
of a city library committee on July
1, 1913. The twinkle spread to the
volunteer firemen who joined for
ces for the purpose of erecting a
building to house the library and
the fire department.
| On August 10 of the same year,
the City council caught the spirit
j and decided to build a city hall.
The next day City Engineer B. D.
Blakcslec had a crew wrecking the
j old jail which steed on the corner
of Fourth and Main streets and
j started excavation while architect
Richard Wulzen drew up pians.
There was no fooling around.
Concrete was poured fur the foun
' dalion on September 8 and con
■ struction started 12 days later. On
November 22 the lire department,
city offices and library moved in.
All work was done under the dir
| action of the city engineer.
Crowded conditions in the schools
1 were as acute in 1913 as in 1931
| and part of the Juneau Public
1 School moved into the upstairs of
lithe new hail until a new school
building could be built,. About 50
pupils, of the 249 in the schools
then, pursued their studies in the
new building which was rated “one
of the finest buildings in the city”
and cost about $20,000.
j Lester D. Henderson was city
I superintendent of schocls then,
I Crystal Jenne recalled today. He
! later became the first commis
Isioner.of education for the Terri
tory.
GIRL SCOUTS MEET
Girl Scout Troop No. 8 met in
the Moose Hall Tuesday evening
We are giving a dinner for our
; mothers on May 15. The court of
awards will be May 10.
Violet Pekovich, reporter
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