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HERE IS JUNEAU'S HAPPIEST-MOST ECONOMICAL
NEW YEAR’S EYE CELEBRATION!
_AND — THE WHOLE FAMILY CAN ATTEND!_
Cm D V T fl T Theatre STARTS SUNDAY - NEW YEAR’S EVE
NEW REGULATIONS
FOR SMALL TRACT
LANDS IN ALASKA
New regulations governing the ac
quisition of land under the Small
i Tract act provide for further
' stream-lining of the procedure, it
has been announced by Lowell H.
Puckett, Regional Administrator,
, Bureau of Land Management. Hun
; dreds of small tracts for homesites,
I cabin sites, and business are now
' under lease in Southeast Alaska,
the Anchorage area, in the vicinity
of Fairbanks, and at two points
along the Alaska Highway, Puckett
1said.
Forms Simplified
A new form has been introduced,
combining the application and the
lease into one document. Also, it
will no longer be necessary for a
veteran of World War II to make
an application in order to get his
name into a drawing for tracts
classified for filing, as he will be
required merely to fill out a card
form provided at the Land Offices.
No filing fee is required with this
card. Only the successful card hold
ers will complete the combined ap
plication and lease forms, greatly
reducing the volume of paper work
handled by the Land Offices.
In order to minimize the possi
bility of speculation in small tract
i leases, substantial improvements in
I the land will be necessary before
' assignments will be approved or
: leases renewed or tracts sold under
i an option to purchase, Puckett said.
; Subleasing will no longer be per
! mitted.
| “We feel that the revised regu
j lations and accompanying forms
I will aid the Bureau of Land Man
j agement in rendering more efficient
and expeditious services to the pub
lic and at the same time reduce the
pressure of administrative details
on the personnel of our understaffed
field offices,” the official said.
Selection of Area
To clarify a general impression
that seems to prevail that Veterans
of World War II get preference
rights on all areas opened up for
entry by the Bureau of Land Man
agement, Puckett said that while
this fact is true, there is nothing to
prevent any qualified individual,
veteran, or not, from selecting an
area of unreserved, unappropriated
surveyed land and requesting that
it be classified so that he may lease
it under the Small Tract act. If
the Bureau of Land Management
classifies the land, the applicant gets
first shot at it.”
Applications for classification
must be accompanied by a filing
fee of $10.
All applications are filed in the
appropriate land offices. They may
be sent to George A. Lingo, Man
ager of the Anchorage Land Office
or Fred Weiler, Manager at Fair
banks. As the rectangular survey net
I has not yet been extended to the
! Nome district, no applications have
1 been accepted for lands in that area,
it was explained.
A bill is pending in Congress
which would permit the Bureau of
Land Management to extend the
Small Tract classification to unsur
veyed land. If passed, many areas
on unsurveyed lakes could be opened
to cabin sites, which do not require
any specified period of residence.
AMBASSADOR TO
SPAIN IS NAMED;
SNUB NOW ENDED
WASHINGTON, Dec! 27—UH—Pre
sident Truman today picked Stan
ton Griffis to be American Ambas
sador to Spain, thus ending a 5
[ year snub of Generalissimo Franco's
regime.
Griffis, 63, and a native of Bos
I ton, has previously served as Am
J bassador to Poland, Egypt and Ar
gentina.
His appointment to Madrid was
forecast a month ago, after signs
appeared that America's diplomat
ic snubbing of Spain would be
! ended. Relations have been main
tained with Franco’s one party gov
ernment, but not at the Ambassad
orial level.
The United Nations General As
sembly voted early in November
to lift a ban in effect against Spain
and permit member nations to se*a
Ambassadors to Madrid.
Griffis’ new appointment will go
to the Senate for confirmation
when the new Congress meets ne'xt
week.
Since 1936, he has been chairman
of the Board of Paramount Pictur
es.
MORE THAN HALF
POPULATION SEOUL
EVACUATED SOUTH
SEOUL, Dec. 27— Itfl —Korean
government officials estimated to
day more than half of this capital’s
civilian population has been evac
uated southward.
Before the war Seoul had an es
timated population of 1,500,000.
Clarence Ryee, official government
spokesman, estimated the figure
was closer to 1,000,000 atfer the
Reds were driven out by United
Nations forces in September.
Ryee said: "In three days Seoul
will be quiet and southbound trains
won't be crowded. Five thousand
refugees are being shipped south
daily by train and 50,000 others
by trucks, ships and planes.”
Ryee said minor government of
ficials and national assemblymen
were evacuating but President
Rhee and his government will re
main “until ordered to leave by
the Eighth Army.”
Most of the civilian evacuees are
walking.
ATTENTION REBEKAHS
Meeting tonite at 8:00 o’clock
followed by social. 693-lt
Isabelle Jorgenson, Noble Grand.
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Reservations with checks attached will be accepted in
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NO INFORMATION
TO FEW ARMY IN
NEED DEERSKINS
The Fish and Wildlife Service
has received no information from
Washington or military sources con
cerning the need of the Army for
deerskins for combat troops in
Arctic climates nor has it received
any request to reopen or extend the
deer seasons in Alaska, Clarence
Rhode, Regional Director said to
day.
Rhode made the statement in re
gard to a press dispatch dated De
cember 22 from New York, which
reported that the Tanners Council
of America said the Army needs
deerskins and that game-hunting
states are being asked to reopen or
extend their deer seasons.
Rhode said that he is reasonably
confident that no one of importance
in military authority had made the
suggestion. He said that on previous
inquiries the military has stated
that it would not be interested in
the skins of game animals unless
the skins were produced in exceed- j
lngly large quantities.
The Regional Director said he
considers it would be the height j
of folly to open the deer season
again in Alaska when the deer are
on the beaches to furnish an un
known market, particularly at this
time when the deer population is
at an especially low point. Rhode
said it is known that 99 percent of
the skins taken from deer killed
during the open season are de
stroyed, both in Alaska and the
states.
It is the processing of the skins,
not the product that Is important,
Rhode pointed out. He said the dry
tanning of skins is the secret of
proper leather wear for Arctic cli
mates. The dry tanning permits
leather to breathe. The oil tanning,
as is generally used .seals the
leather, making it entirely water
proof but not so desirable for use
in the extreme cold.
Rhode said he could see no rea
son why the tanners could not adopt
the dry tanning process for leathers
to be worn in Arctic climates.
LOW NUMBER AUTO
LICENSE PLATES
ARE SPOKEN FOR
Applications for certain low
automobile license plate numbers
are being received by M. P. Mul
laney of the Territorial Department
of Taxation. No. 1 goes to Gover
nor Ernest Gruening. No. 2 to
Delegate E. L. Bartlett. Tony
Schwamm, director of the aeronau
tics commission, gets No. 3. Terri
torial Highway Engineer Frank Met
calf has No. 4.
Five Juneau doctors have the 8
to 12 group with No. 8 going to Dr.
John Stewart, No. 9 to Dr. William
Whitehead, No. 10 to Dr. C. C.
Carter, No. 11 to Dr. William Blan
ton and No. 12 to Dr. John Gibson.
Larry Meath, former Fairbanks
legislator, always speaks for No. 13.
Dr. Iva Lorraine Fisher, for
merly with the Alaska Native Serv
ice here, has written from Milling
ton, Tenn., for No. 99.
The well known 76 goes to the
Union Oil Company car driven by
Robert Akervick and 176 will be on
the Union Oil truck.
MRS HAMLIN RETURNS
After a six months vacation in
the States, Mrs. Maude Hamlin has
returned to Juneau. Mrs Hamlin
visited in Minnesota, Portland, Ta
coma and Seattle. She has opened
her store over Stevens Cotton Shop.
TO PORTLAND
Dorothy Thibodeau left on yes
terday's Pan American plane for
Seattle enroute to Portland, Ore.,
where she will continue with her
work in the Girl Scout organization
there. She came to Juneau earlier
this month to visit with her family
and to spend Christmas here.
BING AND WALT
BRING ICHABOD
CRANE TO CAPITOL
Walt Disney's achievements in
screen entertainment have followed
musical lines as well as visual. And
he has coordinated the score and
action in “The Adventures of Icha
bod and Mr. Toad.” his current all
cartoon musical feature film in color
by Technicolor which comes to the
Capttol Theatre tonight for show
ings tonight and Thursday.
The narrative and trio of songs
delivered off-stage by Bing Crosby
depict character and situation and
comic predicament of Ichabod
Crane. Katrina, a sweet ballad; Ich
abod, a light rhythm chant; and
The Headless Horseman, a fantastic
jitter song. Words and cleffing for
the three are by Don Raye and Gene
de Paul.
There is also heard the Merrily
Song, music by Frank Churchill and
Larry Morey, with new lyrics by
Morey and Ray Gilbert. It comports
with the adventurous nature and
exploits of Mr. Toad, in the latter
sequence of the Disney production.
Basil Rathbone is heard narrating
the Mr. Toad adventure.
Oliver Wallace, veteran of Dis
ney’s musical department, w'rote the
sparkling general score. Orchestra
tion is by Joseph S. Dubin. The
score conjures the style and atmos
phere of old English pastoral melo
dies for the Mr. Toad part of the
film, while the style of early Ameri
can dance music was adapted to the
farmhouse festival in Ichabod. Mu
sic also plays an exciting part in the
flight of the schoolteacher from
Sleepy Hollow.
"HOMECOMING" IS
BIG ATTRACTION
AT 20THCENTURY
A production of exceptional merit
Is coming to the 20th Century The
atre tonight. It Is "Homecoming”
with Clark Gable, Lana Turner,
Anne Baxter and John Hodiak in
the principal roles.
Based on an original story by Sid
ney Kingsley, who won a Pulitzer
Prize for his “Men in White,” the
M-G-M drama concerns two medi
cal men, one the smug, overly-suc
cessful midwestern surgeon Ulysses
Johnson, played by Gable; the other
the visionary and altruistic bacteri
ologist Robert Sunday, enacted by
Hodiak. Ulysses is so caught up with
his rich clients and the country club
set life he leads with his attractive,
young wife, Miss Baxter, that he
turns a deaf ear to Dr. Sunday's plea
for aid in rehabilitating a neighbor
ing, malaria-ridden slum area.
The outbreak of World War II of
fers Ulysses another chance to shine
when he goes overseas as a com
placent major. But his complacency
is soon shattered by the experiences
he undergoes under bombardment
and his growing love for the spirited
and valiant nurse, “Snapshot” Mc
Call (Miss Turner). It is "Snapshot”
who succeeds in making a humani
tarian out of the smug surgeon
where Dr. Sunday had failed, and
when she is killed in the historic
Battle of the Bulge and hostilities
have ceased, Ulysses returns to his
wife a disillusioned but better man.
COURT CASE CONTINUED
The case of the Haines School
District and the Veterans Coopera
tive Association concerning pay
ment of school taxes was continued
through today’s session in the U.S.
District Court.
RETURN TO U. OF A.
Home for Christmas with their
families in Juneau three young
students, Sheila MacSpadden, Jim
Sofoulis and Graham Rountree,
left yesterday on the Pan American
plane for Fairbanks to resume their
studies at the University of Alaska.
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Gorgeous George;
That's His Name
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 27 — OPI —
Gorgeous George is now the legal,
as well as professional, name of
the marcelled wrestler. He had it
changed in court yesterday from
George Raymond Wagner. His wife,
Betty, said "George” is the only
last name their two children know.
MISS GREENING IS
VISITOR IN JUNEAU
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Miss Mary Gruening, sister of
Gov. Ernest Gruening arrived In
Juneau from her home in San
Francisco on Christmas Day and is
the house guest at the Governor’s
home. Miss Gruening plans to be in
Juneau about a month and will
renew friendships made when she
visited here in the summer of 1941.
10 DAYS IN JAIL
Nancy Jackson pleaded guilty
to a charge of abandonment of her
two minor children In the U. S.
Commissioner’s Court this morning
and was sentenced to serve 10 days
in the U. S. Federal Jail by Judge
Gordon Gray. The children are in
the care of their grandmother in
Juneau.
FROM HAINES
Josephine Bonkowskl of Haines
is registered at the Gastineau Ho
tel.
SAM SHUTS SHOP
Sam Shabaldak 'Sam the Tailor),
proprietor of the Triplex Cleaners,
had announced that due to illness
he will close his shop January 2.
ATTENTION REBEKAHS
Meeting tonite at 8:00 o'clock
followed by social. 693-lt
Isabelle Jorgenson, Noble Grand.
CHIROPHACTIC
HEALTH CLINIC
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In order to complete our Annual i
Inventory and complete our “End j
of the Year” records, the R. W. j
Cowling Company hereby announces [
that its SERVICE DEPARTMENT, ,
PARTS DEPARTMENT and GEN
ERAL OFFICE will be closed all day
FRIDAY, December 29 and
SATURDAY, December 30 J
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the convenience of onr friends J
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FILM SHOWN AT
KIWANIS TODAY
"The First Forty Days,” a U.S.
Army film of early fighting in Ko
rea was shown at a regular meeting
of the Klwanis Club at the Baranof
Hotel this noon. The film was made
under battle conditions and clearly
depicted difficulties of the terrain
and supply.
Guests were P. J. Gilmore, U.S.
Attorney. Ken Morgan of the Coast
Guard. Harry Mitchell of Fairbanks
and Fred McGinnis, new Methodist
minister.
Lt. Norman Steinig of the Salva
tion Army thanked the club for its
part in the Christmas fund drive.
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