Soap Box Derby
Champ and Leivers
Off for Akron
Soap Box Derby winner LeRoy
West and J. W. Leivers, who was
in charge of the derby in Juneau,
were on their way to Akron, Ohio,
today*. *
They left this afternoon via Pan
American plane decked out in
brilliant official Sourdough shirts
on which "gold" nugget butto*.
are prominent.
Leaving Seattle this eve*-in.
they' will fl; t 1 1-1
..ich rode yo u ' to v1 l":
was shipped east, a wee* agf
Leivers said it is painted white
and has "Daily Alaska Empuf.
painted in bright blue letters on
each side.
The big event is scheduled Aug
ust 12 in Akron and Leivers said
he would keep tile home folks au
vsed on how its racing champ
fares through press releases to
The Empire.
Following the races, young West
will return to the west coast to
visit an aunt at Renton but Lei
vers will go to Washington, D. C.,
for a few days to attend a con
ference of clerks of district courts
for Alaska. The conference has
been called by the Assistant Direc
tor of administrative offices of
U. S. District Courts.
He will then join LeRoy in Se
attle and the two will return
home.
Cheering young West on in the
Akron races will be his grand
mother and grandfather, Mr. and
Mrs. W. B. Converse who have al
ready gone south.
Unde Slaps Down
On Tax-Rebelling
Texas Housewives
MARSHALL, Tex., Aug. 6.—6W—
Uncle Sam moved today against
the bank accounts of tax-rebelling
Marshall housewives and found sev
eral had withdrawn their money.
Two Internal Revenue Bureau
agents showed up at the Marshall
National Bank with Federal seizure
warrants and orders that accounts
of the housewives and their hus
bands be made available for inspec
tion. . .
The agents were J. D. Langford
of Tyler, Tex., and J. P. Armistead
of Longview, Tex. They first hand
ed to William L. Young, President
of the banks, orders requiring h-m
to produce the accounts for inspec
tion. .
Then they handed over copies o:
Federal seizure warants requiring
Young to write checks for the exact
amount of Social Security taxes and
penalities due the Government
April 30.
Young then produced the ac
counts.
The housewives claim it is un
constitutional to ask them to serve
as tax collectors by withholding
taxes from the wages of their dom
estic servants. They have said they
will carry the fight to the U. S
Supreme 9°urt.
Trousers, Boen
Found on Beach
ATYakulal
A pair of trousers and what may
have been a human leg bone were
picked up on a beach near Yaku
tat by two crewmen from the Coast
Guard cutter Storis, it was learned
at Coast Guard headquarters here
yesterday.
The bone still had- some cartilage
attached and indications were that
it was fairly fresh. Marks on it ap
peared to be bear tooth marks. The
trousers with frayed cuffs, yere
Black Bear brand, 100 percent wool
whipcord, size about 30x30 inches
and bore two laundry marks. One
was "K 1096 WED” and the othei
"686.”
The report said that the object!
had been flown to Anchorage foi
possible identification. No furthei
details had been received here al
noon today. Coast Guard head
quarters here said there was nc
connection seen between this fine
and the search for clues of the miss
ing Canadian airlift plane or th<
missing Norseman craft with threi
aboard.
VISITOR FROM WRANGELL
Victor E. Hill of Wrangell is stop
ping at the Baranof Hotel.
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Pins Presented to
Seven Lions
j
C. M. Armstrong, of the U. S.
j Forest. Service here, was initiated
by Milton Furness into the Jun
eau Lions Club at a regular lunch
eon meeting at the Baranof Ho
tel this noon. Armstrong was pre
viously stationed at Petersburg.
In the absence of the president
and the first vice president.Second
|Vic President. Wes Overby pie
sided
;vii. attendance pit were
j..; to tr J‘-iges. i>'.i Alc
Glarence Wa. fi'it*, Mart.n
im Jack Popejoy, Stc.l'.ug Scats
:. . William Wood.
lieer was some discussion of
cl >:; .mittees and projects to revive
tti-iif club.
uU.a Btriekerby. Suggested that
ome member be designated to at
tend the ;inst*)l%fion of the Wnite
horse Lions olltb on Sept. 15.
Victor - Hill of Wrangell was a
guest. .
Truman Vetoes
Upping of Vets'
Pensions
• ’ S y / *
WASHINGTON, Aug. C.— <*> —
President Truman today vetoed leg
islation to increase the pensions of
thousands of war veterans who are
disabled fpr reasons not connected
with their military service.
The measure would have boosted
some pensions from ,$60 and $72
to $120 a month.
In a message to the House, Mr.
Truman emphasized that the bill
was aid only to veterans who have I
pension for non-service connected
disability.
It Would not affect compensation
for veterans disabled as a result of
militery service, he said, and added:
"Enactment of the bill could cost
the Government, in the first year
of operation, approximately $16,700,
000. This, however, is not the full
story.
“A projection of the cost on the
basis of experience on the pension;
legislation for Spanish-American
war veterans indicates that toward
the end of this century the cost
of this bill would approach $400,000,
000 a year including only the elig
ible veterans of World War I and
i World War II."
VISITING FAMILY *
To visit her family for the next
niollth. Miss Wrgltiia Shattuck ar
rived in Juneau Thursday and will
spend much of her time at the
summer home of her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Allen Shattuck.
Her arrival in Juneau was in
time to join her brother and sister
in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Curtis Shat
tuck, for observance of their elev
enth wedding anniversary Saturday.
Miss Shattuck, home economics
supervisor for the Pacific Gas and
Electric Company, lives in San Ra
fael, Calif.
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Niemi Named
Chief Engineer of
Road Commission
I
W. J. Niemi has been appointed ;
chief engineer of the Alaska Road |
Commission, it was announced this
morning by A. F. Ghiglione, com
missioner.
Niemi is moving up from the
position of chief of operations but,
Ghiglione explained, will also carry
out the duties of that office until
the end of the construction season
when a man i expected to be named
to replace him.
Niemi i- a irmer Douglas boy.
!fc moved there in 1910 with his
family from the Panama Cana!
ne where his father worked on
i onstruetion. His father had prc
i cded the family to Douglas by a
year, coming up to work at the
Treadwell Mine.
After Niemi graduated from the.
Douglas elementary school the j
family moved to Anchorage where,
Niemi was graduated from high J
school and won a four-year schol- i
arship to the Colorado School of
Mines.
He graduated from that institu
tion in 1926 and came back to Al
aska to work for the Kennicott
Copper Company and later, the
Fairbanks Exploration Company.
Just preceding the time he joined
the Alaska Road Commission in
1930, he was working for the Al
aska Railroad.
He was made assistant engineer
in the Anchorage district of the
road commission and worked up
through the offices of assistant
superintendent and district en
gineer.
In 1940 he helped organize the
Alaska National Guard and fol
lowing Pearl Harbor, went into
active service. He was stationed i
at Fort Richardson and then was ^
transferred to the Corps of En
gineers, V. S. Army.
Following his discharge Niemi
served three years with the Bureau
of Reclamation, working on the
Columbia River basin project.
In November 1949 he returned to |
Anchorage and the road commis
sion and in 1950 was transferred
to Juneau as chief of operations.
In 1929 Niemi married Bernice
Kingsbury, an Anchorage school
teacher and they have two daught
ers, Miriam, a junior in business
administration at the University of
Washington and Celia, a sopho
more in Juneau High School.
. Moscow, jvas .built by Juris,.or
George I, Duke of Kiev (1149 A.
D.)
James Buchanan, 15th presi
dent of the United States, was a
Federalist. His successor, Lincoln,
was a Republican.
In 1917, Congress passed a law
requiring literacy tests to limit
immigration.
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Middies 'Come Aboard'
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Midshipmen from the Naval Academy at Annapolis, Md., line ramp
leading up to United Nations Secretariat Building in New York City.
The 73 middies, half ol a contingent of 141. on a summer tour of
east coast air installations, visited the buiding while the other half
went on liberty. It was the first group of Annapolis men to visit
the nlew headquarters. Iff) Wirephoto.
'Missouri Valley
Authority' Asked
By Truman
WASHINGTON, Aug. 6, — tPI—
Prsident Truman said today the
midwest must elect more "for
ward-looking, liberal-minded mem
aers of Congress” to assure crea
:ion of a Missouri Valley authority
to control floods.
Mr. Truman expressed this view
n a letter to CIO President Phil
p Murray. It was in response to
jne in which Murray asked him
,o set up immediately an emer
gency commission to draw up a
•iver management program for
he ’Missouri Valley.
The White House made public
he President’s letter. Murray had
areviously released his own.
Mr. Truman declared that three
zey flood control dams proposed
or the Kansas River and its trib
itaries have not been started,
‘All because of opposition by the
officials and Congressional rep
resentatives of the state of Kan
sas.”
ENGAGEMENT AND CRUISE
TO EUROPE ARE TOLD BY
MIDSHIPMAN SPERLING
Midshipman David Sperling has
just completed a cruise aboard the
U.S.S. Johnston. The story of the
cruise—a rough one—and his very
exciting June Week during which
he became engaged and gave a
miniature of his class ring to Miss
Mildred Michelberg, reached Juneau
in a letter written to Mr. and Mrs.
Keith G. Wildes while he was en
route from Holland to Cuba.
David’s brother Bill is in Juneau
this summer employed by Bill
Manthey, building contractor. They
are the sons of the late Mr. and Mrs.
Harry Sperling.
The young midshipman and Miss
Michelfaerg, stho.-had. come to Ju
neau from Canada to join the nurs
ing staff of St. Ann's Hospital, met
last summer and she is now working
in Baltimore. Their marriage will
be next June following David’s
graduation from Annapolis.
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400 Grayling
Planted in Lake on
Admiralty Island
I About 400 grayling have been
j planted in Lake Kathleen, 30 miles
j from Hawk Inlet on Admiralty Is
l land, Clarence Rhode, regional di
i rector of the Fish and Wildlife
Service said today.
Rhode flew into a lake near At
lin, B. C„ and brought the fish
out in 5-gallon cans iast week. He
said that three other locations in
Southeastern Ala ka are being con
sidered for grayling planting.
The project, he said, is being car
ried out by the Alaska Department
of Fisheries, the Territorial Sports
men’s Association and the Fish and
Wildlife Service.
Ed Sweeney and Louie McDonald
accompanied Rhode. McDonald,
with the Territory’s fisheries de
I partment, stayed at the lake to
; capture fish for another planting.
Stabilization, was taken as an ob
servor, but was kept busy on the
return trip pumping air into the
cans of fish to suppiy 'them with
oxygen. Rhode said mortality on
Sweeney, with the Office of Price
the trip was less tnan 2i> nsh.
The fish ranged from two to ten
inches and the trip from the lake
near Atlin to Lake Kathleen took
one hour and twenty minutes, Rhode
stated.
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