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Monday, October 8, 1951
STOP FIRE — SAVE LIVES
This is Fire Prevention Week in America. Ever>
year fire kills more than 10,000 people in the United
States and destroys 700 million dollars worthy of prop
erty. Every year more than 2,000 children under six
years of age are killed by fire.
These are sad and startling figures. More startling
however, is the fact that 90 per rent of all flies? fire>
could have been avoided—if people had not been care
less with fire. Most of the fires are started by matches
and smoking, stoves and heating devices, and the mis
use of flammable fluids and electricity. To protect
your home and your family, watch out for these major
causes of fire.
Reading the casualty reports of the Korean war,
Americans were shocked at the thousands of men
listed as killed, missing or wounded. They total over
80,000. It is hard to grasp the enormity of such a
figure. We can feel greater compassion when we read
of the sudden death of one man down the street
The tragedy of one little girl who died when she
spilled a pot of scalding water on herself will be more
keenly felt. This can be translated into our familj
Jiff. We shudder when we think the same accident
might have happened to the little girl in our owr
house or a cousin's or the neighbor's next door. Wc
can become overwhelmed with sympathy when wi
read of the death of one person or two or three whe
are near us.
But can we imagine 80,000 children burned U
death? It's almost impossible to conceive of such t
thing. It's a figure, not flesh and blood. Yet ovc
the last 20 years that number of children have beet
burned to death in the United States . . . most of then
in their own homes.
Each year the total number of fire deaths rise
into the thousands . . . approximately ten thousam
Picture 10,000 persons, among them may be a chili
suffering horrible burns ... a woman who has beet
trapped hi an upstairs room of her home when fin
broke out . . , a husband who perhaps let a tore!
slip while scraping paint off his house. Thousand
of such homely accidents, besides hundreds of indus
trial catastrophes, make up the yearly fire toll in
the United States.
How is it possible to focus our attention on this
huge destruction of human life by fire? And seriously
to do something about it?
One week each year is officailiy devoted to fire
prevention. It commemorates the terrible Chicago
fire of 1871 which shocked the Nation into the reali
zation that even its largest cities were not built
safely.
However it is not merely a week in memoriam of
the Chicago holocaust that is observed every October.
It should be the starting place for a year around
effort to remove the hazard of fire from our lives
I and from our children's lives. It is a time when we
I can stop to remind ourselves of the terrible toll that
fire takes.
This is the beginning of Fire Prevention Week,
j LET US MAKE EVERY WEEK FIRE PREVENTION
WEEK.
A GAMBLING TAX?
While it is not legal to have a lottery in the
United States, the Congress of the nation has about
decided to impose a gambling tax to secure revenue
which the nation needs.
Tlie House, which first developed the idea, esti
mated the levy on commercialized gambling would
yield $400,003,000 a year. The Senate approved the
gambling tax, although some members are highly
dubious as to how much money the levy will actually
turn into the treasury, since it deals with an activity
which is illegal in most state
The gambling tax imposes a ten per Cent excise
on all bets on sporting events, elections or other con
tests, made with bookmakers or other persons accept
ing wagers for profit. It applies to bets with lottery
operators and to wagers placed in a pool in any
sports event and a $50-a-year occupational tax on
persons accepting bets or receiving them from book
j makers.
Most of the revenue is expected to come from
off-track horse race and numbers betting. Specifically
excluded are friendly bets between persons who are
not commercial gamblers, card games such as poker,
roulette wheels and bingo games.
Admittedly, there is no question but that large
sums of money are annually wagered in this country
and the problem, as stated by Senator Walter F.
George, will be to collect the tax levied. Obviously,
.here would be administrative difficulties in getting
tre money. .
Senator Estes Kefauver, of Tennessee, argued
against the levy on the ground that a tax on gambling
would give some color of legality to enterprises the
government ought to be trying to shut down. There
is logic to his contention, of course. If the levy on
gambling gets on the statute books, the danger is
that the next step will be to legalize betting in order
to make sure that the excise tax is collected.
Just where Alaska would come in, is hard to
j determine. Alaska, to date, has not been blessed with
the numbers racket, or policy betting. And playing
the ponies has never caught on here — for several
. good reasons. No bookmaker in his right mind would
( handle wagers in Alaska as long as lie runs the risk
( I of being past-posted via short wave radio.
About the only contribution Alaska could make,
. would be on the annual Nenana ice engineering proj
I ect. And that, of course, isn't even legal enough to
l discuss.
i We’re willing to bet a dime (providing its a tax
. free dime) that a little economy in the administration
would save much more money than any gambling
; levy could produce.
THESE DAYS
POST OFFICE
The only solution that the pas
office seems to have for its deficit:
and inefficient operations is to gei
Congress to raise rates. That used tc
be true of some monopolistic enter
prises, such as public utilities, unti
the federal and state government:
established regulatory agencies tc
protect the public. Mere rate-rais
ing or price-raising does not enc
deficits as any department store
manager can tell you.
The post office is entitled to in
creased rates, not on the basis of tin
deficit it produces, but only li, aitei
providing advancingly efficient ser
vices, it establishes evidence thai
higher wages, greater benefits fc
its employees and costs of supplies
and operations require them. Up tc
now the post office has rejected the
most construction suggestions of the
Hoover Commission; it has reduced
its services; it has not done much
,|or its best employees, the ordinary
mailman.
Post Office bookkeeping is diffi
cult to read because of the high
cast of hidden subsidies. If the
government desires to subsidize
the various carriers for their ser
vices, Congress should pass sub
sidy acts with due discussion as
to their relative merits.
The post oifice got the Senate tc
boost second class mail on maga
zines 60 percent, over a three-yeai
period; 30 percent on newspaper
It is doubtful whether this increase
will reduce the total deficit, which
is estimated at $550,000,000. The
increase on magazines and news
papers could reach a lair figure,
unless, with good management, the
newspapers and magazines develop
other means of distribution that
might be less costly.
Perhaps the Senate dislikes maga
zines, having made this distinction.
This i., not important one way or
the ether, because what is urgently
needed is the application of modern
management methods to the opera
tions of the post office. Dodging
that necessity and putting an ad
ditional load on magazines and
newspapers (mostly weeklies, for the
latter category! does not really deal
with th' post office deficit.
If the argument is that the
post office is a social and not a
business institution, then it is not
Accessary to increase rates at all.
The post office deficit is less than
wc are spending to improve the
standards of living through our
various generosities over the face
of the earth. As a social institu
tion, the post office could be op
erated at a deficit out of the
goodness of our hearts.
If, however, this agency of gov
ernment is to be managed as a
business that pays its way, then a
reorganization is essential in meth
ods of operation, bookkeeping,
mechanization and so on. It is only
after the engineering and account
ancy problems have been worked
out that the postal scale can be de
termined on a scientific basis. This
the Hoover Commission tried to im
press on the Congress, with little
success. Both Congress and the ad
ministration have resisted the Hoov
er Commission’s recommendations,
probably because efficient operation
I would eliminate the relations be
tween politics and the post oflice
which neither Congress nor the
i administration is anxious to bring
I .. ’ ’
The law of diminishing returns
i still operates and the raising of
rates on many special services
(which the Hoover Commission re
commended) may abolish those ser
vices. For instance, the service call
ed “special delivery.’/ Often a letter
marked “special delivery” arrives
' after the regular mail. It has to be
delivered by hand and the manpow
er is sometimes not available for
such purposes, it is not impossible
that if the “special delivery” ser
vice costs too much, users will ab
andon it’ altogether.
As for third class mail, which
includes advertising circulars, the
use! s of this service will probably
discover that for the money spent,
they can get a better return if
they advertise in newspapers.
Every morning, I receive a heap of
such circulars, most of which I
throw away without reading them
: at all, and the sender is out that
i much money. Maybe the post ofiice
j could save itself lots of trouble
by abolishing this category alto
| gether.
It would seem that Congress is go
ing about this business rear-end
forward. In a word, desiring to re
duce the post office deficit, Con
gress should deal with this problem
as any business would, call in the
engineers and accountants to see
! whether costs could not be cut, ef
ficiencies increased, loopholes plug
Health Center
Has New Bade
Series Mondays
Of special interest to parents
of school age children, the next
series of radio programs sponsored
by the Juneau Health Center is en
titled “Your Child Goes to School.”
I These transcriptions are recorded
| under the direction of the Ameri
i can Medical Association. Bureau of
Health Education, in the form of
interviews, done by Harriet Hester
with commentaries by Dr. Fred V.
Hein and Dr. Donald Dukelow.
Three different interviews are done
on each program, which are as
follows:
I. Should there be special classes
in Health Education?
2: To Box or not to Box.
3. Should Junior High Schools
enga'ge in interscholastic athletics?
4. How should school health
examinations be conducted?
5. Follow through on health
examinations.
C. Should excuses be granted from
physical education?
7. Who should be responsible for
school health service?
8. To what extent classes for ex
ceptional children?
9. How important is perfect at
tendance?
10. Should girl. engage in inter
scholastic athletics?
II. Proper light in the school
room.
12. How should the school lunck
rcora be handled?
13. Should vending machines Lc
allowed in school?
The e recording; will be heard
every Monday afternoon from 5:45
to C p.m. for the next two month
over KINY. As some of Uv e di—
cussions are on controversial
important subjects, parents arc
, urged to “listen in.”
NOTICE
The public is invited lo hear Dr.
A. C. Monninger, B; ltimur . Md..
and Fr. Tim Sullivan, Erie, Pa.,
steak on "Why I became a Moose.”
And Mooseheart, the Child City—
! Moosebaven. the City of Cortent
ni 'nt, Tut-.day, October 9. a* 8 p.m.
Come and trim a it.end. Moo<e
Hall, south entrance. 932-tt
ged, waste eliminated. Instead, all
that is suggested is that rates bo
rail ed. That is an ras; but not a
1 good enough solution.
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o OCTOBER 8 •
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9 Russell McGee o
9 Mrs. O. H. Hatch o
9 Gloria Floberg 9
9 Mrs. A. F. McKinnon •
# Edna Nelson •
» Kathleen Jeanne Toner #
o Sandra Dehart o
o Sheldon Simmons o
9 Ru' sell Nelson •
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Weather at
Alaska Points
Weather conditions end tempera
tures at various Alaska points also
oir the Pacific Coas*, at 4 30 p.m.,
120th Meridian Time, and released
by the Weather Bureau are as
follows:
Anchorage . 29—Cloudy
Annette Island.49—Rain
Barrow. 23—Snow
Bethel . 13—Fog
Cordova 28—Partly Cloudy
Dawson . 32—Snow
Edmonton . 44—Clear
Fairbanks . 22—Cloudy
Haines . 46—Partly Cloudy
Havre . —Missing
Juneau Airport .... 45—Partly Cloudy
Kodiak . 35—Clear
Kotzebue . 25—Clear
McGrath . 26—Cloudy
Nome . 25—Clear
Northway . 22—Snow
Petersburg . 48—Cloudy
Portland 54—Partly Cloudy
Prince George . 54—Clear
Seattle .. 55—Clear
Sitka . 47—Cloudy
Whitehorse . 39—Partly Cloudy
Yakutat . 42—Rain
Community Events
TODAY
At 8 p.m.—American Legion Post
meets in Dugout.
At 8 p.m— Juneau-Douglas Cqpiccrt
Association meets in Elks Audi
torium.
At 8 p.m.—Sons of Norway business
meeting at home of Mrs. Frank
Olson.
October 9
At noon Rotary Club meets in
Baranof Hotel.
At 8 p.m.—Moose meet to hear re
port on association meeting at
Ketchikan. Public invited.
At 8:30 p.m.—Community Center
night for adults at Teen-Age club
with square dancing.
October 19
At noon—Kiwanis club meets at
Baranof Hotel.
At noon—NFFE meets in Gold
Room. Baranof hotel.
I At 1:39 p.m.—WSCS Circle rivets
at home of Mrs. Harold Schultz.
I At 1:30 p.m.—Juneau Garden club
meets at home of Mrs. Elton Lng
| strom.
At 8 p.m.—Elks Lodge.
October 11
At noon—Chamber of Commerce
meets, Baranof Hotel.
At 8 p.m.—Juneau Ski Club meets
in Gold Room, Baranof Hotel.
| At 8 p.m.—City Council meets.
At 8 p.m.—VFW Post meets in CIO
Hall.
At 8:45 p.m.—Juneau Singers re
hearsal at Methodist church.
. October 12
At 1:30 p.m.—Martha Society meets
N.L.P. church.
At 8 p.m.—World Service Society
meets N.L.P. church.
I At 8 p.m.—Square dance for 7th,
j 8th and 9tli graders at Parish
! Hall.
October 13
At 10 pin.—Elks annual Purple
Bubble Dance.
October 15
At noon—Lions Club meets in Bara
nof hotel.
Two ^ijprcpriaSion
Bills, Larcesi in
History, faken Up
WASHINGTON, Oct. 8—At—Two
of the biggest bills of the 82nd Cou
rt. - a $56,937,803,030 defense bud
,ei and a $7,483,400,000 foreign-aid
mea un—are slated for a high pri
mly when the Senate meets Mon
i . Administration leaders are con
fident they will be pushed through
• apit'.ly and with little trouble.
. :.i defense budget measure, big
t . t peacetime appropriation bill In
nation’s history, cleared the
House yesterday. It previously had
p ■ s; d both branches but differenc
es over amounts forced a second
trip through Congress.
Its total includes $19,883,032,030
for the army, $15,377,891,000 for the
navy and marine corps, $20,642,
! 785,CC0 for the air force and $529,
[ 00,030 for the offices of Secretary
A Defense.
ATTENTION
Watch for good bar- .tins in our
fur sale. Martin Victor Furs. 23-Ct
MAKE IT A DATE AT MIKES
JONNI-LOU-DL O - Make the:r
first appearance at Mb,-. Wednes
day night. 932-lt
ATTENTION
Juneau-Dougla Concert Associa
tion needs your support. Bv a sea
son ticket. 932-ti
20 YEARS AGO tiie empire j
OCTOBER 8, 1931
To commemorate annual Fire Prevention Week, the Chamber of
Commerce were hosts to the members of the Juneau Volunteer Fire
Department at its luncheon.
The Chamber's members paid a standing tribute to B. M. Behrends,
who was celebrating his 40th anniversary as a Juneau businessman.
Mr. Behrends recounted some early tales of the fire department,
saying that the saloon men acted as firemen because they kept open all
the time; once when the bucket brigade turned out in full dress regalia
because they were caught in that garb while attending a “swell party”;
ol how one man, who put out a fire in the business district, was “roast
ed" by an editor of a local newspaper, took a shot at him and was sent
to the penitentiary and then pardoned.
H. A. Pryde, United States Fisheries Warden and Mrs. Pryde had
arrived here from Yakutat where they had been since early last spring.
High school basketball teams had been organized and the first games
were to start this week.
Passengers arriving on the Admiral Evans from Seward and Kodiak
included: Mrs. D. Huffman, Miss Barbara Huffman, Herbert Coleman,
C. W. Adams, F. Sunbeam and H. Frederickson.
Michael Zizich fell from the second story window of the San
Francisco Bakery when he was washing the window. He fractured his
pelvis and suffered numerous contusions.
Weather: High, 50; low, 41; cloudy.
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| Daily Lessons in English tv. l. cordon j
W’ORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “I didn’t.figure on going to
work today.” Say, “I didn’t INTEND to go to work today.”
OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Attribute (noun and verb). Accent
the noun on the first syllable, the verb on the second.
OFTEN MISSPELLED: Manageable; retain the E following the G.
SNYONYMS: Gummy, sticky, sticking, adhesive, cohesive, glutinous,
viscid, viscous.
WORD STUDY: "Use a word three times and it is yours.” Let us
i increase our vocabulary by'mastering one word each day. Today’s word:
| SUSCEPTIBILITY; capability of receiving impressions. “The particular
odors which act upon each person’s susceptibilities differ.”
| MODERN ETIQUETTE ROBERTA LEE !
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Q. If you happen to meet someone who obviously seems to know you,
but whom you have forgotten, and that person says, “You don't re
member me, do you?” what should you do?
A. Since it is rather hurting to one’s pride to be forgotten, the
kind thing for you to do is say, “Of course I do.” And then find out
later, and as soon as you can, just who that person is.
Q.What is the proper length of time that a hostess should wait i
for a belated dinner guest?
A. Not more than 20 minutes. To wait longer would be showing
lack of consideration to the other guests for the sake of one. ,
Q. When does a girl correctly wear her engagement ring for the
first time? i
I
L A. The engagement ring is worn for the first time “in public” on
the day of the announcement.
Ii and LEARN t C. GORDON |
1. How often may a U. S. Senator be re-elected?
2. How fast must wind travel to be a hurricane?
3. What American President was the first to speak over the radio? i
4. Where does the famous Gulf Stream originate?
5. What sea mamnlal never walks and what sea bird never flies?
ANSWERS:
1. There is no limit.
2. At least a mile a minute.
3. Warren G. Harding (1923).
4. In the Gulf of Mexico.
5. The whale and the penguin.
53 Passengers
Carried by PAA on
Sunday Flights
Sunday flights of Pan American
Airways through Juneau carried 53
passengers with 24 persons leaving
for Seattle and 12 arriving.
Among those leaving for Seattle:
Mr. and Mrs. Larson. A. K. Stod
dard, L. W. Notimeyer, Arnold Sor
enson, Richard Gilder sleeve, Emma
Sutton, Lulu Davis, Gordon Warto,
Don Guimani, Mrs. Crystal Jenne,
I
Verna Bristol, William Porter,
Charles Bowman, Lawrence Lytle,
Andrew Kovaleski, E. Cote, Frank
McConaghy, Herb Hilscher.
From Seattle: Darrel Barkdoll,
Mr. and Mrs. W, J. Nanger, M. and
Stanley and Mrs. Burrows, Norman
and Mrs. Banfield, Cliff Gardiner,
Frank Heintzleman, Robert Mc
Manus, Martin Peterson, Hannah
| Peterson, Keith Weiss, Jack Wise.
FROM TULSEQUAH
Thomas Morrison, of Tulsequah,
B. C., is in Juneau at the Gastin
1 eau Hotel.
ACROSS
1. Destiny
5. Culftnnatlon
9. Prosperous
periods
12. Italian coin
13. African tree
14. Rodent
IT). Jewish month
1G. Celestial
15. Preceded
by nine
20. Sleigh
21. Brief
23. Fathers
27. Headpiece
29. Maid
31. Be concerned
32. Positive
electric poles
34. Kind of herb
3G. Beaming
37. Make well
39. Took a seat
40. Subsequently
42. Oriental cart
44. Equal
46. Mother-of
pearl
4D. Those used
by others
63. Outer covering
64. Spenser
character
65. Continent
66. Gave tempo
rarily
67. Sack
6$. Burglar: slang
69. Margin
DOWN
1. Level
2. Assistant
3. Carry from »
one place
to another
Solution of Saturday’s Puzzle
4. Third planet
from the sun
E. Kind of wood
6. Strong boxes
7. Repast
8. Edges of a roof
9. Vase
10. Chum
11. Pigpen
17. Decree
19. Aperture
22., Ov^rhasty
24. Searched
thoroughly
25. Silkworm
26. Social unit
27. Summon
28. Wild ox
30. Mark of a
wound
33. Abysses
35. Masculine
name
38. Insect ,
* supposed to
creep into
the ear
41. Do something
in return
43. City in
Switzerland
45. Facility
17. Resound
18. Grafted:
heraldry
19. Young of
certain
animals
50. Literary
fragments
51. Label
52. Droop
MEMORIALS
MARBLE and GRANITE
Monuments and Markers
JUNEAU MARBLE WORKS
Phone 426—302 Franklin St.
© B.P.O.ELKS
Meeting Every Wednesday at 8
P.M. Visiting brothers welcome.
LeROY WEST, Exalted Ruler.
W. H. BIGGS, Secretary.
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Moose Lodge No. 709
Regular Meetings Every Friday
Governor—
LOREN CARD
Secretary—
WALTER R. HERMANSEN
L-- -^
""vT f w! """""
Taka PosI No. 5559
Meeting every Thursday in
the C.l.O. Hall at 8:00 p.ru.
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NASH
SALES and SERVICE
CHRISTENSEN BROS.
909 12th Phone Green 279
L--—— -'
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Brownie's Liquor Store
Phone 103 139 So. Franklin
P. O. Box 2596
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NICHOLSON’S WELDING
SHOP
Tanks. and General Welding
AIJj WORK GUARANTEED j
P. O. Box 1529-Feero Bldg, j
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STEVENS’
LADIES’—MISSES’
READY-TO-WEAR
Seward. Street Near Third
The Charles W. Carter |
Mortuary
Fourth and Franklin Sta.
PHONE 136
Caslers Men's Wear
McGregor Sportswear
Stetson and Mallory Hat*
Arrow Shirts and Underwear
Allen Edmonds Shoe*
Skyway Loggage
BOTANY
"509"
CLOTHES
NUNN-BUSH SHOES
STETSON HATS
Quality Work Clothing
FRED HENNING
Complete Outfitter for Men
SHAFFER’S
SANITARY HEAT
FOR BETTER MEATS
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Free Delivery
J. A. Durgin Company, Inc.
Accounting Auditing Tax Work
Room 3, Valentine Building
JUNEAU, ALASKA
P. O. Box 64J Telephone 919
• EMriRE WANT ADS PAY •
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"The Rexall Store"
Your Reliable Pharmacists
.
BUTLER-MAURO
DRUG CO.
Alaska Music Supply
Arthur M. Uggen, Manager
Pianos—Musical Instrument*
and Supplies
Phone 206 Second and Seward
Card Beverage Co.
Wholesale 805 10th 8t
PHONE 216—DAY or NIGHT
for MIXERS or SODA POP
I
The Alaskan Hoiel
Newly Renovated Rooms
at • Reasonable Rate*
PHONE SINGLE O
THOMAS HARDWARE
and FURNITURE CO.
PHONE |55
PAINTS - 011 8
Builders’ and Shelf
HARDWARE
Remington Typewrit 2rs
SOLD and SERVICED by
J. B. Burford Co.
“Our Doorstep Is Worn by
Satisfied Customers”
FORD AGENCY
(Authorized Dealers)
GREASES — GAS — OIL
Juneau Motor Co.
Foot of Main Street
BLAKE
JUNEAU DAIRIES
DELICIOUS ICE CREAM
a dally habit—ask for It by name
Juneau Dairies, Inc.
HOME GROCERY
Phones 14B and 342
Home Liqnor Store—TeL 699
1 American Meat — Phone 3#
To Banish “Blue Monday”
To £ive you more freedom
from work — TRY
Alaska Laundry
H. S. GRAVES
The Clothing Man
LEVI’S OVERALLS
frfr Boys
BLACKWELL’S
CABINET SHOP
117 Main St. Phone 773
High Quality Cabinet Work
for Home, Office or Store
MRS. HAZEL HOLMES
as a paid-up subscriber to THE DAn.Y ALASKA
EMPIRE is invited to be our guest THIS EVENING
Present this coupon to the box office of the
CAPITOL THEATRE
and receive TWO TICKETS to see:
"ROSEAMA McCGY"
Federal Tax—12c Paid by the Theatre
Phone 14-YELLOW CAB CO.-Phone 22
and an insured cab WILL CALL FOR YOU and
RETURN YOU to your home with our compliments.
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