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MARLENE DIETRICH
IS CAPITOL’S STAR
IN ’SEVEN SINNERS’
Marlene Dietrich will be the rtr.r
of the picture at the Capitol to
night.
The feature is “Seven Sinners,"
in which Marlene is the toast of
the South Seas honky-tonks and
she plays the part as only the
lady-of-the-lovely-limbs can.
Opposite her, in the role of a
handsome young navy officer is
John Wayne, who gives an out
standing performance.
Others in the impressive cast in
clude Broderick Crawford, Albert
Dckker, Billy Gilbert, Mischa Auer
and Oscar Homolka (of "I Remem
ber Mama” fame).
There are three feature songs
sung by Miss Dietrich in her unique
and famous style. T'. ey are T Fall
Overboard,” “The Man s in the Na
vy” and “I’ve Been in Love Before.”
Tay Garnett directed the fjlm
and Joe Pasternak was the pro
ducer.
FENCES PAUL, m
REEDY GIVE CONCERT
NEXT FRIDAY HM
—
Juneau music lovers are cagcr'y
anticipating the concert cn Fri
day, March 2, which will combine
the lovely soprano voice of Frances
E. Paul and the lyric contralto of
Lois H. Reedy.
Both vocalists are well-known in
local music circles.
Miss Paul studied voice in Juneau
before she obtained a degree from
Eastman School of Music. Upon
her return to Juneau she resumed
her studies with Mary Berne Ehler.
Mrs. Reedy, who has lived in Ju
neau 2 years, studied voice in
Lincoln, Nebraska. Most of her
training, however, has been with
Mrs. Ehler.
Both artists have delighted local
audiences with their solos at the
presentations of ‘‘The Messiah”
and with their duets at the Rotary
variety show last year. Miss Paul
and Mrs. Reedy are members of the
choir of Northern Light Presbyter
ian church and of Juneau Singers.
The concert Friday night will
comprise a variety of soprano and
contralto solos as well as two groups
of duets. Both classical and modern
composers are represented in a
program that will please all musical
tastes. The program will be held
at the Northern Light Church and
will begin at 8 p.m. The reception
after the concert will be in charge
of the Trustees’ wives, assisted by
ladies of the choir. The public is
cordially invited to attend.
The Juneau Botanical Club will
show Alaslta wildflower slides rang
ing from mushrooms to paint
brushes, from orchids to dandelions,
on Thursday, March 1, in the Odd
Fellows hall on Franklin street.
The vivid color of Alaska’s skunk
cabbage, the flaunting color of her
fireweed, the beauty of her orchids,
the mystery of her carniverous sun
dews will all be shown. Over 250
slides have been selected from the
collections of Mrs. Amy Rude, Mrs.
Lucile Stonehouse, Mrs. Maxine
Williams and E. L. Keithahn.
The club will also have on display
some mounted specimens, a flower
press, reference books and the card
index file of their herbarium speci
mens, which numbers over 900.
Anyone having wild flower slides
they would like identified are in
vited to take them to the show.
There is no admission but a freewill
iffering will be taken.
FOURTH LUTHERAH
LENTEN SERVICE
“What Must I Do That I Might
Be Whole?” the fourth topic in
he Lutheran mid-week Lenten ser
ies, embodies the transition from
he earlier topics which dealt with
the factual basis of Christianity to
the study of the personal applica
tion of those facts.
These services are held at 8
o’clock on Thursday evenings in
the church at Main and Third
itreets.
There will be special music at
this- service to which the public is
cordially invited.
The Ladies Aid will hold their
regular monthly meeting immed
iately following the above service.
CASLEK RETURNS
FROM BUSINESS TRIP
Cecil Casler, owner of Caslers
Mens Store, has returned from a
business trip to the Pacific Coast
where he visited the merchandise
marts to select spring and summer
stock for his store for the coming
season.
BETA SIQMA PHI
Spring Formal, March 10 at the
Baranof Gold Room. 738-3t
A NORTHERN NOTEBOOK
By BOB DE ARM CM)
Twenty-fourth of a Series
Leo H. Saarela. who has been
Alaska’s Commissioner of Mines foi
a little more than a year, is,the
second man to hold this job anc
the first Alaska-born man to head
any Territorial department. He took
over in the Department of Mines
on January 1, 1950, succeeding B
D, Stewart who had held the po
rtion since the offic was createc
on March 14, 1935.
The Commissioner's father, Hjal
mer Saarela, was an early-day
resident of Juneau and w'as a car
penter by trade. He worked for the
Alaska-Juneau mine and on gener
al construction jobs and during the
summers he gillnetted salmon for
the cannery at Chilkat, near the
upper end of Lynn Canal.
In 1915, when the government
took over the old Alaska Northern
Railroad and began to build what
is now the Alaska Railroad, the
Saarela family moved north and
settled at Anchorage. It wasn’i
much of a town then and in fact
until about that time had been
known merely as Knik Anchorage—
the anchoring place for ships bring
ing supplies to the little trading
post of Knik, where a postoffice
had been established in 1905.
Leo Saarela, the present Com
missioner of Mines, was born at
Anchorage on October 21, 1915, and
was the first white child born in
the new city. He finished grade
school and high scho; • in his home
town, then went to wlrnt was then
the Alaska Agricultural- College
and School of Mines and is now the
University of Alaska.
Majoring in chemistry and metal
lurgy, he graduated in 1939 and
W'ent to work for the Cleary Hills
Mines, a lode gold mine near Fair
banks, as assayer and geologist.
In 1941 Saarela moved over to
the Territorial Department of
Mines as assayer and associate
engineer under B. D. Stewart. He
remained on that job until 1945
and in the summer cf 1946, with
a couple of partners, he started his
own placer mining operation.
This was, and Is, a bulldozer
proposition on Hunter Creek, near
Rampart, and Leo was active in
the operation from 1946 through
1949. The pickings were not heavy
the first three years but in 1943
they adopted a new recovery sys
tem, known as the sluice plate
system, which has been developed
by Glen D. Franklin and his asso
ciates in the Fortymile district,
and since then the total gold re
covery has increased.
During the winter months, when
mining operations were closed
down, Saarela hired out to the ex
tension service of the University
of Alaska and taught the mining
short-course in towns from Ketch
ikan to Anchorage.
Since taking over in the Terri
tory’s Department of Mines last;
year Saarela has found that the
problems of the Commissioner are
somewhat varied. One of the more !
pressing ones of the moment is j
the virtual embargo on powder
shipments to the Territory.
This came about as the result j
of the Dangerous Cargo Act, which
became effective on August 9, 1950,
and which prohibits the loading j
and discharge of powder in excess
of 500 pounds near areas.of habi
tation. The Coast Guard, which ad
ministers the Act, has adopted the
American Table of Distances—a
table designed to reduce the haz
ards of storing powder—as its
standard for powder discharge in
Alaska, and this has, for the time
being at least, stopped the ship
ments of powder.
“You can’t carry on mining
without powder,” says Commis
sioner Saarela, and so far no meth
od has been worked out for resum
ing shipments of that commodity.
The Evan-Jones coal mine in
the Third Division is reported to
have about two months’ supply of
powder on hand now, and powder
for seasonal mining operations and
construction work throughout the
North will have to start coming
in soon.
Saarela forsees that the larger
mining operators may be able to
fly their powder in and land it
at airstrips not far from their op
erations, perhaps at an actual
saving in freight costs. But he does
not see in that solution a great deal
of help for the small operators in
isolated places.
Much of Saarela’s time is devoted
to efforts to revive interest in min
ing in Alaska, and especially in
the mining of minerals other than
gold—coal, copper, iron, mercury,
uranium and so forth.
Uranium, which has been re
ceiving a good deal of attention
from prospectors in the States and
Canada, has also created a certain
amount of interest in Alaska and
it has been determined that the
stuff is present in several areas.
The best showings so far have
been around Hyder in Southeast
Alaska and in the Kuskokwim
River and Seward Peninsula areas
in Western Alaska, but Saarela
has hopes that continued search
ing will turn up other likely pros
pects.
Although deposits of uranium
bearing ores are sometimes indica
ted by visual signs—salts of uran
ium, for example, impart a canary
yellow color to the rock—the imple
ment most needed for uranium ore
prospecting is a Geiger counter.
This is the most sensitive instru
ment yet devised for the detection
of radioactivity and a good one
for field use costs around $100.
Not all radioactive ores are
sources of uranium. Thorium, for
instance, is very widespread and
highly radioactive, but it does not
produce uranium. Thorium, how
ever, may be very useful to the
uranium prospector for checking
his Geiger counter. It is used in ihc
mantles for Coleman lamps and a
mantle, either unburned or burned,
will give approximately the same
Gieger count as uranium-bearing
ore containing one percent of ur
anium, a sufficiently high percent
age to make it very interesting.
The House of Representatives of
the Territorial Legislature has vo
ted to match the Atomic Energy
Commission's $10,000 bonus for the
discovery and production of 20
short tons of uranium-bearing ores
or mechanical concentrates assay
ing 20 percent uranium, and at
current prices that quantity of ore
would be worth another S2-.003.
To assist the uranium prospector
in Alaska, Raarcla’s department is
now preparing a pamphlet on ur
anium ores and how best to look
for them, and the pamphlet will
be available in a couple of months
now.
DENNIS WINN IS
ENROUTE SOUTH
FROM PRIBILOFS
Returning from the Pr bilof Is- 1
lands after carrying a full load of
freight for the Fish and Wildlife
Service operation and residents
there the Service ship Dermis Winn,
Capt. “Pop” Dell, arrived in Juneau
late yesterday afternoon and left
enroute to Seattle. The Dennis
Winn made the trip in place of the
vessel Penguin, now in drydock in
Seattle, usually assigned to the
run.
On its return to Seattle the ship
crew will prepare for its annual
assignment to Bristol Bay in May
Capt. Dan Drotning, skipper of
the Penguin is First Mate on the
Dennis Winn for the present trip
Passengers for Seattle on the
Dennis Winn were Mrs. Florence
Gronholdt from Sand Point and
Mr. and Mrs. Blake Klnnear and
their little son from Juneau.
FWS officials said in Juneau to
day that advices have been re
ceived from Director Albert M. j
Day that the Dennis Winn will
continue to headquarter at Seattle
when the Service fleet moves to
Juneau. This is due to the fact
that the ship is used to transport
freight from Seattle and would
necessarily make several trips a
year to that port and to the fact
that loca' facilities are inadequate
for hauling the big ship out for
overhoul.
FROM SITKA
Carl Kerr of Sitka is at the Bar
anof Hotel.
FROM ANCHORAGE
Russel Swank of Anchorage is
staying at the Baranof Hotel.
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JUNEAU
W. BEERY PICTURE
ENDS AT THE 20TH;
GERONIMO COMING
"Alias A Gentleman,” the MGM
comedy-drama starring the late
Wallace Beery, will have its last
showings at the 20th Century
treatre tonight. In this hit picturt
the famous actor plays the part of
an ex-convtct who turns high hat
Coming to the 20th Century
Thursday for a two-day run wtl
be the story of "Gerontmo," the
swaggering Apache Indian chief
who opposed the United States
Army in a death struggle on the
parched plains of the great south
west.
In "Geronimo!” fans have the
stirring story of the w'hite man's
last great redskin enemy, a ven
geance-drivfen outlaw who mass
acred, plundered and burned a
trail of error through the west.
Heading the cast of “Geronimo!”
are Preston Foster, Ellen Drew, An
dy Devine, William Henry, Ralijh
Morgan and Chief Thunder Cloud,
the latter, a full-blooded Indian, in
the title role. With its basis in fact,
and its fact running faster than
fiction, "Geronimo!" brings to the
screen a thrilling chapter of Amer
ican history.
DOLORES MATILLA
IS ACCOMPANIST,
SINGERS CONCERT
Miss Dolores Manila will be the
accompanist at the Spring Concert
being given by the Juneau Singers
Friday evening March !) at the
20th Century Theatre.
Miss Mattila came to Juneau
from Mountain Iron, Minnesota, in
September of 1948 to take the po
sition of school nurse, in which ca
pacity she is still serving.
Miss Mattila studied the pianc
“most of her life" to quote her own
words. She was the piano soloist
with the Juneau City Band in ifr
concert in March 1949, and is the
same artist who received so many
complimentary comments for her
excellent work with The Juneau
Singers when this organization par
ticipated in the Rotary Show last
year.
In the first act of the forthcoming
concert, Miss Mattila has an op
portunity to display her musician
ship in “A Hymn to Music" which
is a beautiful Fred Waring arrange
ment of Chopin’s Etude in E Major.
The chorus of Singers will furnish
the accompaniment to Miss Mat
tila’s solo.
One native born Juneauite who
is an adent music lover claims
this will be the very first present
ation of this type in Juneau.
The first act will aiso include
such well-known and much loved
music as “Tales from the Vienna
Woods,” “The Spirit of Music,”
“Prelude” (Ronald-Cain) and oth
ers.
The second act is a riotous com
edy affair, designed to tickle the
most indifferent funnybone. Some
of the numbers and cast for this act
will be announced later.
HOSPITAL NOTES
Patients admitted to St. Ann’s
hospital were Mrs. Margaret Wood
and Lillie Fitzgerald.
Discharged from the hospital
were Master William Lund, Mrs. Joe
Waddell and baby boy and Arthur
Riendeau.
At the Government hospital Mary
Starr of Angoon and Rosie Theo
dore of Kanik were discharged.
DOORS OPEN
7:00
LAST Time
Tonight
SHOWS AT
7:20 and 9:30
HI'S "HIGH CUSS"... and it's Highly Hilarhnl
twimtt Gmtfoman
with Tom Drako • Gladys Georg#
Dorothy Patrick
Plus 20lh Century Variety Hour
DRUNKEN DRIVING — GOLDILOCKS ANI) BEARS
PETE SMITH — WORLD NEWS RY AIR
STARTS TOMORROW
KINNEARS TO MIDWEST
Mr. and Mrs. Blake Kinneai- and
their little son were passengers on
the Fish and Wildlife Service ship
Dennis Winn yesterday for Seattle
on a vacation trip for a month in
the midwest. They will visit with
1 relatives and friends in Rock Is
land, 111., and in Park Falls. Wis
consin. Kinnear is an enforcement
[ agent with the Fish and Wildlife
Service in southeast Alaska.
TIDE TABLE
March 1
Low tide VIA-', a.m. 0.5 ft.
High tide P:OH a.ir.. 15.1 ft.
Low tide «:'5 p.ol. 1.6 ft.
High tide o'.;V p.in. 11.2 ft.
G. H. Giiscr. of Valdez ic a guest
at the Barouof Hotel.
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Study o! Metaphysics
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Sunday-5:30 lo 6:30 p.m.
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