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fourth Avenue Bldg., Seattle. Wash.
Monday, January 29, 1951
JUVENILE DELINQUENCY GROWS
The curbing of juvenile delinquency is becoming
a more and more serious problem not alone in Juneau
but in nearly every sizeable community in Alaska.
The number of juvenile cases that law officers
and the courts have had to deal with in recent months
leads one to think in terms of crime waves.
It is easy to say, and we believe it is generally
true, that the basic fault is a lack of control and atten
tion and supervision by parents.
But once the juveniles get out of hand, they
become a problem for the whole society and the burden
j usually thrown directly upon the law enforcement
officers and the courts, which are not always equipped
to assume the load.
‘ What to do with a youthful offender is the
biggest problem that a judge in Alaska has to face,”
Judi AnUionj J. Dimond of the Third Division told a
group at Anchorage recently.
“There is n way of checking them or helping
them onoe they leave the court,” Judge Dimond said.
"We can suspend sentence in the hope that the
offender will mend his or her way, but we have no
organization or personnel such as probation officers
who can keep track of these cases to guide and help
the individuals become honest, upright citizens.
“The other choice we have is to sentence them to
confinement—not to an institution where they can lie
taught to take their rightful place in society, but to
a local jail where they are taught to become more
accomplished criminals.”
Judge Dimond said he considers the Territorial
law governing the treatment of juvenile delinquents
an excellently^ **
He declared, however, that in addition to a good
law and good will, money is needed.
“There must be money to pay probation officers
who are absolutely necessary in the treatment of
juvenile delinquents and tlicre must be money to build
institutional schools where they may be separated from
older criminals.”
PALMER MAKES THE COLUMNS
Commenting on the recent hearing in Washing
ton. D. C„ before the Senate's Executive Expenditures
Committee on the cost of the Palmer, Alaska, airport,
Fred Othman, columnist for the Scripps-Howard chain,
had this to say in the Washington Daily News, Janu
ary 20, under the following head:
AIRPORT FOR 800
I have here the harrowing tale of how some trans
planted city slickers almost nicked the rest of us inno
cent taxpayers for a $150,000 airport in the tiny village
of Palmer, Alaska. How did it happen?
Well, the leading citizens of Palmer, which now
numbers 800 souls, decided they need a new airport.
They chopped down the trees, cleared out the stumps
and graded the runways. This airport they then sold
to the Alaska territorial government for $150,000. They
got a check for this sum. Then they "donated” $145,
000 back to their government.
The far northern statesmen then applied to the
Civil Aeronautics Administration for $150,000, under
the law which allows the Federal Govenment to
match local funds for the building of airports. The
CAA took this application, including mention of the
phantom $150,000 fee, at its face value and was about
to hand the Alaskans $150,000 more to match the
money that wasn’t there, when the Senate began to
investigate.
* * *
Now an assortment of Alaskans have been hauled
down here to testify before the Senate’s Executive
Expenditures Committee about their shenanigans with
our money. With no comment from me, let's listen
to Roland Snodgrass, slim young man in khaki
shirt, who was secretary of the Palmer Airport Asso
ciation.
Having paid $6,753.96 for the land, plus $53,000
more to turn it into an airport, his problem was to
get some of that Federal money.
Said Snodgrass: "I wanted to get as much Federal
money as we could, within reason.”
"Why didn't you make it $250,000?” Sen.. Mundt
continued.
“That wouldn't have been reasonable,” Snodgrass
replied.
"So you were trying to give the old heave-ho to
Uncle Sam for $160,000,” the Senator observed.
Alaska’s aviation director, George S. Schwamm,
who helped write up the deal whereby the territorial
treasury paid $150,000 for the airport and then got
all but $5000 of it back, continued in the same pa
triotic vein. “I was duty bound to get every cent
possible, legally, from the Federal Government,” he
i said.
* * *
Thanks to the committee and to Sen. Hugh Butler
(R., Neb.), who first turned up this hank-panky, he
didn’t get it. I doubt if he ever does. As for the
CAA officials, who approved the deal without investi
| gating it, they said they guessed they’d made a
: mistake.
And as for the Palmer airport, it’s bustling with
; business. Snodgrass says a big freight plarte flies in
there three times a month with nieat, while once the
"b-17 of an Army general landed there.
“And the pilot told me that he would be back,”
said the man who almost, but not quite, got us tax
payers to foot the bill.
The Washington
Merry-Go-Round
(Continued from Page One)
Congress this week will be two sig
nificant facts which the general
public may not at first appreciate.
No. 1 is that the President has
partially abdicated to Eisenhower
the national leadership in regard to
European policy. It will be up to
Ike to sell Congress and the na
tion on sending U. S. troops to Eu
rope at a time when isolationism
is growing and when thousands of
mothers do not at all relish seeing
their sons leave home.
No. 2 is the fact that Eisenhower
though trained as a milittary man,
has now become a political figure.
Furthermore. Eisenhower's politi
cal development is bound to accel
erate for his job of welding dif
ferent nationalities into a smooth
working military machine is much
more political than military.
For some time, Ike's critics—and
he has some—have harped on his
political proclivities. Long ago, they
claim, Ike learned that the pen is
mightier than the sword. It was
Major Isenhower, they recall, who
wrote General MacArthur's fare
well message to the Army when
Mac retired as chief of staff—one
of the most appealing documents
ever issued by a chief of staff.
Political General
And though they criticize Ike for
having been a political general dur
ing the invasion of Europe, it must
be remembered that one of his
jobs was to smooth the ruffled
feathers of General Giraud. get the
cooperation of the difficult General
De Gaulle, tone down the passion
for publicity of Field . Marsha!
Montgomery and weld the hetero
geneou- politically minded armies
of Europe iiilo a homogeneous uivt.
One thin- that griped some Am
ericans, for m. 'lice, was Ike’s or
der that there was to be no crit
icism of the British during and af
ter the D-Day invasion of Nor
mandy. He also placed a British of
ficer alongside each American of
ficer in key jobs where coopera
tion was essential. This may have
slowed military movements at times
but it built Allied harmony—which
was all-important.
This is some of the invaluable
experience Eisenhower will draw on
when it comes to the present peace
time mobilization of Europe.
Ike Hates War
Another quality that will help
the North Atlantic Pact comman
der Is the fact that his hatred
of war is just as genuine as that of
the war-weary Europeans who now
dread preparing for another show
down. Probably ke gets this from
his mother, a descendant of a
Swiss-German family which fled
Europe to escape its wars. Mrs
Eisenhower never relished the fact
that her son became a soldier and
once, when Sam Goldwyn congrat
ulatd her on her son, she promptly
replied:
"Which one?”
For Mrs. Eisenhower was just
as proud of her other six sons as of
the one whose name is a byword
around the world.
"War is mankind's most tragic
and stupid folly,” Eisenhower once
told a West Point graduating class.
“To seek or advise its deliberate
provocation is a black crime against
all men. Though you follow the
trade of warrior you do so in the
spirit of Washington—not- of Geng
his Khan.
"As a professional soldier you do
not inherit a greater share than
your citizen brothers of courage,
endurance, and fortitude. Neither
does your commission confer upon
you distinctive right or privilege
. . .The arts and sciences, as well
as the profession of arms are bul
warks of society. And the greatest of
all is the spirit—the will—for free
dom and justice.”
These remarks, coming from tin
man against whom the Communists
have been demonstrating in the
streets of Rome and Paris, prob
ably would astonish the average
European However, they represent
the creed of the man who now faces
the difficult task of mobilizing the
North A .lantic Pact countries for
Democracy.
Eisenhove. -Go-Round
As a schoolboy in Abilene. K^ns.,
Eisenhower was called “ugly Ike.” .
. His father was a Democrat and
Ike's first speech was at a Jackson
Day dinner. Because he was a
Democrat. Ike had a little difficulty
getting an appointment to West
Point, but finally obtained the en
dorsement of the leaders of both
wings of the Republican Party in
Abilene. .. The Eisenhower high
school gang used to hang around
the office of the Abilene News
where they did odd jobs for editor
J. W. Howe and where young Ike
read exchange newspapers. Ac
cording to Howe: “Dwight never
complained about working, seemin':
to take that for granted. In school
discussions he was always for the
underdog and contended we needed
a somewhat better distribution of
we41th.”
\ N D E B UT A B R O A D
—Jeannette LaBianca, 16-year
old Buffalo soprano, arrives in
New York on Queen Elizabeth
alter making her debut in “The
Barber of Seville" at Rome, j
January 28
(We missed the 28th and
here it is)
Thomas N Cashen
Edward P. Madsen
Mrs O. Hanson
Verna E Smith
Edna Swap
January 29
Mrs. Anna Webster
Robert H Rowland
Ralph Swap
Herman Bakkon
Christine Clise
FRANKLIN FOUND
NOT GUILTY OF
KILLING BROTHER
FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Jar. 29—
PI—Herbert Franklin, 33, charged
with second degree murder in the
fatal shooting of his brother, Duane,
was found innocent Saturday.
A Federal court jury of nine men
and three women deliberated nearly
13 hours before returning a ver
I diet.
The accused man testified at his
trial that he shot his brother in
! self defense during an argument
here Dec. 2.
He is the son of Mrs. Nettie
Cooper of Hoquiam, Wash.
JOHN SILVER DIES
IN FAIRBANKS FIRE;
OLD ALASKA MINER
FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Jan. 29 —
A \eieran Alaska prospector,
j John Silver, about 75, burned to
| death yesterday when his frame
| cabin was razed in an early morn
; ing fire.
Silver was a night w'atchman for
the Northern Commercial Co
Neighbors said he returned home
about 6:15 a.m. They saw smoke
rising from the cabin about five
| hours later.
Neighbors tried to rouse him but
! the cabin door was locked from
i’he inside.
SURPRISE FEATURE
AT AUK BAY MOVIES
—
“Wings To Mexico and Guata
| mala” was a surprise feature at Sat
urday’s free weekly movies for the
Auk Bay community at DeHart’s
store sponsored by the provisional
Auk Bay post of the American
Legion. This colorful scenic motion
picture, loaned by Pan American
World Airways, was received at the
last minute and substituted for two
short U. S. Forest Service movies
which will be shown at a later date.
Another capacity audience turned
out Saturday evening to see this
picture plus “Radiant Rockies,”
loaned by Canadian Pacific Rail
ways and “Tricky Troubles,” loaned
by the Territorial Department of
Health.
This weekly Auk Bay American
Legion project has taken immediate
hold with local residents and has
become a popular permanent fix
ture in community activities.
TO KETCHIKAN
Mrs. Dan Ralston, wife of the
Game Enforcement Supervisor of
the Fish and Wildlife Service, has
left for a visit with friends in
Ketchikan.
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9 High
mountain
12 Ostrich-like
bird
13. Positive pole
14. (Ira-sy field
1 Talked idly
17. I’r. pared
19. Couch of a
wild animal
20 Fruit
21. Prim ipai
actor
23 Transfer
27 Outer coat
of a seed
21 Absent
30. Proi I in
ternational
lanuuaKo
31. Those who
hold office
33. Triturate
34. System of
rules
35. Word of
negation
30. Mottled with
various
colors
37. Growing; out
3!). Largest
42. Lrai.i passage
43. Small glass
container
41. Lineage
4(i. Comm* ace
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Rfi. Serious
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DOWN
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At* Kew&iej.urcs l —
2 Wine
receptacle
3 Heavy sword
like weapon
4. Saor.-d
Buddhist
language
5. Sluggish
6. Bow
7. Masculine
nickname
H. Evening song
1) Frighten
10. Conducted
11. Remuneration
10. Small pastry
18. Facile
20. Ch' -s piece
21. Smart
22 Male voice
24. Forays
2’i. Wrathful
20. Citadel
28. Stirs
30. Lively dance
34. Pertain! g to
the side
30. Couple
38. F t itlious
40. l’ludo
41. Fiaure ot
speech
4.’. St I -itively
4*1. .'..i ral spring
47. Drag
4s. Male swan
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20 YEARS AGO tiTe empire |
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JANUARY 29, 1931
The Postmaster had announced that mail boxes in the postofficc
quarters in the new Capitol Building would be bigger and better and
in some instances costlier than heretofore. The average size box would
be 75* cents per quarter, the next size larger $1 and the largest boxes
would be $1.50. Also any box renter inadvertently leaving his key for
his box at home would have to return to his place of abode to get it
or wait until all mail was distributed to buy another key, for no boxes
would be opeend from the inside or mail delivered from them.
’ ---
Jack Kearney was acting resident agent of the Pacific Steamship
Company in the absence of Agent Brice Howard who left the previous
evening on the steamship Queen for a month’s vacation in the States.
Dorothy Mahone, former Juneau girl and daughter of Dr. and Mrs
P. J. Mahone, was one of seven leading entrants in the University of
Washington coed beauty contest. Their bid for pulchritude would be
passed on by Florenze Ziegfeld, theatrical producer of New York City.
The membership fees of the Chamber of Commerce this day had
passed the $2,000 fund from mail registrations, it was announced by
Secretary H. G. Walmsley. The total of cash and pledges was $2,127
from 122 membership renewals.
A press dispatch from London said that from the Balkans to the
British Isles an epidemic of influenza was increasing in intensity and
violence with thousands of new cases appearing daily and the death rate
mounting rapidly. Spain appeared to be the hardest hit. There were
260 deaths the week ending January 24. One English town reported 240
deaths in one week.
The U. S. Customs office was to be the first government agency to
move into the new Capitol Building on Fourth Street. The building
was ready for occupancy and all agencies were to move to their new'
quarters w'ithin the week. The Customs House had occupied offices on
the ground floor of the IOOF Hall on Second and Franklin streets since
1904 and moving the large accumulation of official papers and books was
an onerous and exacting task.
Weather: High, 40; low, 38; rain.
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J Daiiy Lessens in English tv. l. cordon !
WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, "We shall be there Satur
day evening at 8 P. M." There is redundancy here. Say, "We shall be
there on Saturday evening," or, "We shall be there Saturday at 8 P. M.
OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Lever. Pronounce first E either as in
LEE or in LET.
OFTEN MISSPELLED: Evenness: observe the two N’s.
WORD STUDY: "Use a word three times and it is yours.” Let us
increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today’s word:
PREDICTIVE; foreshadowing the future; prophetic. “His statements
are predictive of dire happenings.”
MODERN ETiGUETTE &»»» lb*
* ' I
Q. What should one take into consideration when planning the!
centerpiece of the dinner table?
A. That tall ornaments which obstruct the view are not in good
taste, as the guests naturally like to see each other across the table. It
is far better to have a simple flat bowl of flowers or fruit, flanked per
haps with a pair of candlesticks.
Q. In restaurants where the tartar sauce is served in little paper
cups on the plate with the fish, how is this eaten.
A. You can either transfer a small portion to the fish with your
fork, or you can remove a quantity of the sauce with your fork and
place it on your plate.
Q. What would be a good closing to a business letter when one
wishes to be as informal as possible?
A. "Sincerely yours” is the accepted form.
i LOOK and LEARN A. C. GORDON |
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X. which nations fought each other at the Battle of New Orleans?
2. Is aluminum a basis metal or an alloy?
3. What modern game originated among the North American In
dians?
4. What are the names of the three principal types of poetry?
5. What horned animal appears on the British coat-of-arms?
ANSWERS: —
1. United States and England, in 1814.
2. Basic metal.
3. Lacrosse.
4. Epic, dramatic and lyric.
5. The unicorn.
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Weather at
Alaska Points
Weather contritions ana temper
atures at various Alaska points
also on the Pacific Coast, at 4:30
a.m., 120th Mtrldiap Time, and
released by the Weather Bureau
ire as follows:
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Anchorage 8—Cloudy j
Annette Island . 19—Cloudy *
Barrow . -22—Ice Crystals
Bethel .. 31—Cloudy
Cordova . 22—Cloudy
Dawson . -29—Partly Cloudy
Edmonton . -10—Partly Cloudy
Fairbanks . -17—Clear
Haines . 5—Cloudy
Havre. -2—Partly Cloudy
Juneau Airport 5—Partly Cloudy
Kodiak . 35—Snow
McGrath . -18—Partly Cloudy
Nome 24—Cloudy
Northway . -27—Cloudy
Petersburg . 11—Snow
Portland .. 23—Clear
Prince George . -34—Clear
Seattle .i. 17—Clear
Sitka . -26—Cloudy
Whitehorse .. -36—Fog
Yakutat .. 15—Cloudy
COMMUNITY EVENTS
TODAY
At 7:30 p.m.—Creative Writers meet
at home of Dora Sweeney, Bob
DeArmond will speak.
At 8 p.m.—American Legion post
meets at Dugout.
January 30
At noon—Rotary Club, Baranof.
At 7:30 p.m. — Annual meeting of
Alaska Division of American Can
cer Society, Gold Room, Baranof.
Election of board of managers.
At 8 p.m. — Volunteers in Emerg
ency group meet in Red Cross
offices
At 8:45 p.m. — Community Center
night for adults at Teen-Age club
with square dancing.
At 7:30 p.m. — First practice alert
starting with short blasts for 2
or 3 minutes.
At 8 p.m. — Odd Fellows meet in
IOOF hall.
January 31
At noon—Kiwanis Club, Baranof.
At 7 p.m. — Cub Scouts, Pack 311,
monthly meeting Parish hall.
At 8 p.m. — Elks Lodge.
February 1
At noon — Chamber of Commerce
meets at Baranof.
February 5
At noon — Lions Club, Baranof.
JWC RDMMAUE SALE
Tues. 10 o'clock. Joe George va
cant store, South Franklin. 718—3t
waltThatlih
ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR
Experienced Heuse Wiring
Electrical Marine Repair
Phone Red 355 Juneau, Alaska
V. F. W.
Taku Post No. 5559
Meeting every Thursday in
the C.I.O. Hall at 8:00 p.m.
The Erwin Feed Co.
Office In Case Lot Grocery
Phone 5M
HAY, GRAIN, COAL
and STORAGE
STEVENS’
LADIES’—MISSES’
READY-TO-WEAR
Seward Street Near Third
^ J
The Charles W. Carter
Mortuary
Fourth and Franklin itk
PHONE 116
Caster's Hen's Wear
McGregor Sportswear
Stetson and Mallory Bats
Arrow Shirts and Underwear
Allen Edmonds Shoes
Skyway Lngfage
^mmmmmmmmmm>^’
BOTANY
"500"
CLOTHES
nunn-bush shoes
STETSON HATS
Quality Work- Clothing
FEES HENNING
Complete Outfitter for Mea
SHAFFER’S
SANITARY NEAT
POE BETTER MEATS
IS—PHONES—4t
Preo Delivery
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MOUNT JUNEAU LODGE NO. 147
SECOND and FOURTH q
Monday of each month , /A\
in Scottish Rite Temple
beginning at 7:30 p. m.
Wm. A. Chipperfi'eld,
Worshipful Master;
JAMES W. LEXERS, Secretary.
B. P. 0. ELKS
Meeting every Wednesday at 8
P.M. Visiting brothers welcome.
WALLIS S. GEORGE, Exalted
Ruler. W. H. BIGGS, Secrstai7.
Moose Lodge No. 700
Regular Meetings Each Friday
Governor—
ARNOLD L .FRANCIS
Secretary— _
WALTER R. HERMANSEN
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Brownie's Liquor Store
FhMM IW l» So.
F. O. Box UN
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"The Hexall Store"
• Tour Reliable Pharmwlate
BUTLER-MAURO
DRUG CO.
Alaska Music Supply
Arthur M. Uggen, Manager
Pianos—Musical Instruments
and Supplies
Phone 206 ..Second and SewarfL
GENERAL PAINTS
and WALLPAPER
Ideal Paini Store
Phone SIS Fred W. Wendt
Card Beverage Co.
Wholesale 835 10th St.
PHONE 216—DAT or NIGHT
tor MJXEKB or SODA POP
The Alaskan Hotel
Newly Renovated itoonsr
at Resoobabir Rater
PHONE SINGLE O
PHONE 555
Thomas Hardware Co,
FAINTS - OILS
BalUen’ an# Shelf
HARDWARE
Remington Typewriters
SOLD and SERVICED by
J. B. Burford Go.
“Our Doorstep Is Wm by
Satisfied Customer*"
FORD AGENCY
(Authorized Dealers)
GREASES — GAS — OH,
Juneau Motor Co.
Poet of Main Street
MAKE
JUNEAU DAIRIES
DELICIOUS ICE CREAM
a Sally habit—aak for It by maiar
Juneau Dairies, Inc.
Chrysler Marine Engine*
MACHINE SHOP
Marine Hardware
Chas. G. Warner Co.
HOME GROCERY
Phones 146 and 342
Home liquor Store—TeL M
American Meat — Phone 18
To Banish “Bine Monday”
To give you more freedom
from work — TRY
Alaska Laundry
_i—
H. S. GRAVES
The Clothing Man
LEVrS OVERALLS
for Boys
BLACKWELL’S
CABINET SHOP
117 Main St. Phone 771
High Quality Cabinet Work
for Home, Office or Store