NEWS ITEMS
FROM SITKA
SITKA. Alaska, (Special Corres
pondence)—The City Council had
little business to transact at its
meeting Tuesday evening. Vern
McGraw was appointed to fill the
vacancy caused by the resignation
of Councilman Clithero who is
Outside on an extended vacation.
Council voted against accepting
the offer of Ray Beach of Juneau
to act as ci'v assessor and to leave
selection to the new Council which
will be elected next month.
Alter hearing Councilman Harvey
Brown on types of government
bonds in which the Hospital sales
tax might be invested, it was de
c.dcd to deposit the monies in the
First Bank of Sitka.
On behalf of the city employees.
City Supervisor Ward thanked the
council for the recent wage in
creases.
The VFW applied for and was
granted a club and liquor license,
the club tu be managed by Howard
Smith. The sum of $1272.11 in bills
were approved and council ad
journed.
Pastor Earl Mooei* was acquitted
in a jury trial Friday afternoon of
a charge of assault and battery ag
ainst 'hree year old Stevie Me
Graw. The charge was brought by
the child’s father, Don McGraw,
Jr.
Testimony showed that Stevie
was chasing a group of older child
ren with a stick near the Mooers
home Tuesday afternoon. No child
was struck. Pastor Mooers three
times asked Stevie for the stick
then took it from him and used it
However, as assault and battery is
a criminal charge, the jury found
for the defendant.
Mvrna D. Brockmeier and James
O. Fraley were married Saturday
afternoon. September 9. at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Bailey
at the Island by US Commissioner
Frank Richards. Attendants were
Miss Dorothy Bronsema and Wes
ley Johnson and the bride was
given in marriage by Dr. Robert
Shuler.
At the wedding reception that
evening Mrs. E. C. Tibbetts. May
Anthony, Mrs. Guy Bogges and
Miss Dorothy Bronsema assisted the
hostess.
The bride, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Harry E. Brockmeier of Zion
National Park, Utah, was a nurses
aid at Mt. Edgecumbe Hospital.
The groom, son of Mrs. Hazel
Fraley, is a plumbers helper for
the ANS on the Island. The couple
will make their home in Millerville
on the Island.
A third son, Lorin Wilbur, weigh
ing seven pounds eight ounces,
was born to Mr. and Mrs. Harold
Rice early Tuesday morning at the
SJ Community Hospital. Mr. Rice
is owner of the Sanitary Dairy.
—
A third son weighing nine pounds
ten ounces was born to Mr. and
Mrs. Arthur Riggs Wednesday af
ternoon at the SJ Community Hos
pital. Mr. Riggs is a carpenter
employed by the Sitka Cold Storage
Company.
Two marriage applications were
made September 14: William M.
Brady, electrician and Isabella G.
Sing, housemother of SJJC; Ed
ward Peterson, fisherman and Flo
rence M. Willis, both of Ketchikan.
Only three have filed for city
oflice to date: D. R. Doyle, mayor;
E. E. Riggs, council and H E. Schae
ffer, SPU Board.
Frederick J. Jonassen was ad
judged insane by jury trial Friday
alternoon. Testifying were Dr. W
C. Charteris and Pastor Kenneth
French. Mr. Johnassen is a fisher
man, owner of the troller Jay.
Fifty six members and guests
attended the potluck dinner given
by the Executive Board of the Wo
men's Club at their opening meet
ing of the season last Friday eve
ning. Guests were teachers of the
Sitka Public School, introduced by
Mrs. John Salskov, presiding in
the absence of President Mrs. Wil
liam Arthur; and teachers of SJ
Junior College, introduced by Mrs.
Leslie Yaw.
After the business meeting an
interesting talk was given by Mrs.
Ed Long on the life of Korean wo
men, illustrated with native cos
tumes and handiwork.
Ken Smith, boys’ supervisor at
SJJC, and his bride whom he mar
ried this summer during his vaca
tion outside, were honor guests at
a school staff dinner Tuesday eve
ning at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
George Prescott on the campus.
The bride will "be an English tea
cher at the school.
Mrs. Charles Johnstone and Mrs.
Ed Littlefield were honor guests
at a surprise stork shower given
by the &t. Peters Guild Tuesday
evening. The affair which was in
corporated into a regular meeting
was held at the home of Mrs. C. L.
Butcher on the Island with Mrs.
H. H. Smith as co-hostess.
The shower gifts were presented
in two baskets, one pink the other
blue. The refreshment table was
decorated in pink and blue. Eight
een members and two guests were
present.
Mr. and Mrs. Bert Hildinger were
hosts at a farewell dinner for Mr.
and Mrs. Walt Welch last Satur
day evening, at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. John Cushing. Places
were laid for eight.
Mr. Welch, manager of radio
station KALA since its opening,
left with his wife this week for
Kodiak where they will make their
home.
Mrs. Prank Ricards entered Mt.
Edgecumbe Hospital Wednesday for
an emergency major operation. She
is expected to be back home on
Monday.
Students leaving to enter or re
turn to school this week were:
Jack Reed, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Edwin Reed, to enter WSC at
Pullman as a freshman; John
Thompson, son of Mrs. Ken Cra
vens. to enter WSC as a sopho
more. He will be joined by his
wife, the former Joy Taubeneck.
and infant as soon as he finds
housing for them; Betty Jo Yaw.
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Leslie
Yaw, to enter Wooster College in
Wooster. Ohio, as a sophomore;
Jim Calvin, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Frank Calvin, to WSC where he is
a junior; Harold Hodgins, son of
Dr. and Mrs. H. H. Hodgins, for
his second year at UW medical
school.
Mrs Hoke Olson of Juneau was
in town this week to visit her son.
Jimmy, a patient at the Ortho
pedic Hospital.
Dr. Harrison Lear, nephew of Hal
Finch. Vita Foods buyer, was in
town this week on a tour of Al
aska town. Dr. Lear, an eye spec
ialist, is seeking an Alaskan loca
.ion. While here he is a guest at
the home of Dr. and Mrs. Phillip
Moore.
Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Isaacson left
this week aboard their troller Gota.
snroute to the States to spend the
winter Mr. Isaacson will be oper
ated on for an injury resulting
from fishing this summer. They
were accompanied by Mr. and Mrs.
Gus Savella and Mr. and Mrs.
George Pikkar on their boats.
Mrs. Charles Whittimore and
sons Ricky and Kermie returned
Thursday from a visit with her
parents in Oregon. While south
Mrs. Whittimore purchased stock
for her dress shop "Connie’s.”
Mr. and Mrs. William Arthur and
two sons returned Wednesday from
a summers vacation with relatives
in New Jersey and Oregon. Mr.
Arthur is an ANS employee on the
Island. ,
Elmer Johnson, son oi Mrs. Teddy
Johnson and owner with his bro
ther Ted of the Reliable Transfer
Jcmpany, left this week for a vaca
tion in the states.
Mrs. Bonnie Flemming, ANS em
ployee on the Island, left by plane
last weekend for California where
she has been transferred.
PORTLAND FIRM
BIDS LOW FOR
BIG PAVING JOB
Considering that there often art
big-percentage differences between
even the lower group of bids on
construction jobs, Bureau of Public
Roads officials were amazed at the
closeness of estimates opened to
day on a project totalling nearly
two million dollars.
For grading, surfacing and bit
uminous surfacing 51 miles of the
Alaska Highway between Big Delta
and Sears Creek, these bids were
offered:
Babler Brothers and Rogers Con
struction Company, Portland, Ore..
$1,884,391.00; Lytle and Green. Des
Moines, Iowa, $1,896,354.00; Stock
and Grove, Anchorage, $1,919,583.00;
I McLaughlin Construction Company,
Great Falls, Montana, $2,044,437,
• and S. Birch and Sons with Mor
rison-Knudsen Company, Seattle,
$2,190,029.50.
On behalf of the Alaska Road
Commission, for which the BPR
is handling construction. Col. John
R. Noyes, Commissioner, said the
contract would be awarded to the
low bidder.
With fulfillment of this contract,
paving will be completed the en
tire 200-mile length from Fairbanks
to Tok Junction.
Bids will be opened tomorrow in
the Alaska Road Commission office
for another large road construction |
job.
This is for the 36 miles at the '
Valdez end of the Richardson High
way which goes through the famous j
Keystone Canyon. It is spectacular
country, with high waterfalls and 1
steep cliffs. In slippery rock be- '
neath overhanging cliffs, the ex- j
isting tunnel will be finished and
a standard highway completed.
$52.50 FORGERIES
BRING FIVE YEARS
ON THIRD OFFENSE
_
Charles Chester McDermott, for
merly of Ketchikan and recently
working at Haines, will spend five
years in the McNeil Island Federal
Penitentiary or a similar institution :
for a third penitentiary offense of
forgery.
After pleading guilty today on
two forgery counts, McDermott was
sentenced to a five-year term on
each count, to be served concur
rently.
McDermott was accused of forging
a check of Nick Bez for S15 August
16 and of Andrew Gunderson for
S37.50 the following day. He was
arrested by Acting U.S. Marshal
Walter Hellan, August 17, since
when he has been in the federal
jail awaiting disposition of his case.
With Mrs. Mildred Hermann rep
resenting him, McDermott waived
indictment by the Grand Jury and
consented to prosecution by infor
mation filed by the United States
Attorney.
He pleaded guilty this afternoon
before Judge George W. Folta in
District Court.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Stanley
D. Baskin represented the govern
ment.
NO AWARD MADE
ON H. S. ADDITION
The Juneau School Board is con
sidering two bids on an addition |
to the high school building. The
bids. S67.000 by Valle-Sommers Con
struction Co. of Seattle and $70,254
by the Berg Construction Co., of
Juneau, were considered too high
for the two-story addition that will
provide a band room and music
room on the Sixth street entrance
side of the present building.
SURVIVOR OF PLANE
CRASH AWARDED $19,000
Rector Land, sole survivor of an
Alaska Airlines crash near Homer.
Alaska, in January, 1949, has been
awarded approximately $19,000 in
total disability payments by Henry
Benson, Territorial Commissioner
of Labor, it was learned here from
the Department of Labor today.
The hearing was held in the U.
o Commissioner’s Court in An
chorage.
Land was pilot of the plane,
and disability paymen’s are to be
made by Alaska Airlines. The hear
ing was held under the provisions
of the Workmen’s Compensation
Act.
Five persons died in the crash.
• TODAY'S LANDINGS
One landing was made today with
the White Eagle, skippered by
Hjalmar Savikko, bringing in 1.200
pounds of salmon for E. C. Johnson.
SCOt'T FINANCE CAMPAIGN
The 1950 Boy Scout finance cam
paign in Juneau and Douglas will
kick off about October 15, accord
ing to announcement by M. J.
Whittier district chairman. Plans
for the campaign were made at a
recent meeting of members of the
Boy Scout executive board in Ju
neau Whittier said, other details
will be announced later.
FROM ANCHORAGE
Among the Anchorage residents
now guests at the Baranof Hotel
are David Duncan, Kathleen H.
Klindt. and A. A. Lyon.
//ove
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SEVEN DIE
IN(RASH
OF BOMBER
Four-Engine Privateer
Plans Goes Down in
Puget Sound
SEATTLE, Sept. 20—'TPi—Seven
men from a recently reactivated
Willow Grove, Pa„ naval reserve
squadron were killed in the crash
of their four-engine privateer bomb
ing plane into Puget Sound late yes
terday.
Three hours after the crash into
250 feet of water near Whidby Is
land, the Navy listed the men as
“missing."
Identity of the seven was with
held pending notification of next of
kin.
Thirteenth Naval District offi
cials said the plane spun dizzily
from a 3,000-foot altitude, and, por
tions of it ripped off at 1.000 feet
on its death plunge.
Rescue planes and crash boats
sped to the scene, in mid-channel of
Saratoga Passage. Only a debris
littered oil slick was found.
There were three pilots and four
enlisted men aboard the bomber.
The plane was based at Seattle’s
Sand Point Naval Air Station, and
was on what the Navy called a
routine training flight.
The Navy late today identified
the men as:
Lt. S. Red of Harrisburg. Pa.; Lt.
(jg) S. C. Tovoskin, Hartford,
Conn., an instructor at the Sand
Point Naval Air Station here: Lt.
(jg) L. W. Schmidt. Philadelphia;
J. D. Cook. Woodlyn, Pa.: D. G.
Chandler, Hatboro, Pa.; E. W.
Monell, Philadelphia: V. D. Alex
ander, Oak Harbor, Wash.
COURT ORDER
FREES LIFER
AFTER 12 YRS.
SOUTH PARIS. Me.. Sept. 20—<£l
—A Superior Court Justice today
ordered Francis M. Carroll, central
figure in the celebrated Carroll
Dwyer murder case, free from life
imprisonment after 12 years.
Justice Albert Beliveau granted
the 54 year old Carroll's request for
a writ of habeas corpus.
The state has no appeal from
the order, which shattered Maine
court precedent.
•Boy, that's wonderful news,"
Carroll said when he heard it at
the state prison in Thomaston from
Warden J. Wallace Lovell.
Carroll, a former Oxford County
Deputy Sheriff, was imprisoned 12
years ago for the 1937 bludgeon
ing of Dr. James G. Littlefield at
South Paris.
Carroll and Paul N. Dwyer, 30, a
onetime boy friend of Carroll’s
daughter. Barbara, were both con
victed of the Littlefield slaying.
; The doctor’s wife also was slain, but
nobody ever has been tried for her
death.
BPW OF KETCHIKAN
ELECTS OFFICERS
The following officers have been
: elected by the BPW at Ketchikan:
Roberta Rich, president: Marge
Paulus, vice president; Jane Mc
Crory, second vice president; Myr
tle Bryant, treasurer; Ka'henne
McElderry, recording secretary;
i Clara Tobin, corresponding secre
| tary; Margaret Hyde, parliament
arian; and Teresa Cordell, organist
BELL RINGS TWICE
A 6 pound 10 ounce boy was born
to Mrs. Paul Bell at St. Ann's
Hospital yesterday and a girl was
born to Mrs. Stephen Bell this
morning. The girl weighed 8 pounds
and 10 ounces.
TAX ROLLS SHOW
ONE-ARM BANDITS
ABOUND IN TEXAS
—
WASHINGTON. Sept. 20 — (/H — j
Texas far exceeded any other state
in the number of establishments
paying federal taxes last year to
operate slot machines.
Out of 66,278 such establishments
in the United States and its terri
tories, 8.134 were in Texas, it was
disclosed by a report of the Internal
Revenue Bureau for the year which
ended June 30.
In second place was the state of
Washington with 6,479.
By states and territories, the num- 1
ber of taxpayers purchasing special- ■
tax stamps covering the 1950 fiscal j
year for "coin-operated gaming de
vices included:
Alaska, 202.
FIRE BALL
EXPLODES;
JARS AREA
Meteor Flashes Through
* Sky, Then Crashes to
Earth-Blows Up
NASHVILLE, Tenn., Sept. 20—(Hi
—A meteor flashed through the sky
to the west of here early today and
apparently exploded in the air jar
ring an area from Paducah, Ky., to
Memphis, Tenn.
The Illinois Central Railroad dis
patcher in Paducah said reports
from all along his line to Memphis
told of a jar of an explosion.
He said a railroad signalman at
Covington, Tenn.. 40 miles north of
Memphis, told of seeing a ball of
fire in the sky getting larger and
larger, then exploding.
At Memphis. 220 miles southwest,
the Shelby County radio officer said
one car reported the meteor hit in
the vicinity of Hatchie Bottoms, a
semi-swamp area .between Memphis
and the Millington- Naval Base,
about 20 miles away.
A report of the sky flash was
given in Memphis by American Air
lines Capt. H. J. Carman, of Dallas.
Tex. Carman had just landed a
DC-6 with 41 passengers from Wash
ington.
-We sighted that thing about one
thirty <1:30 a.m., CST) some 50
miles east of Nashville,” Carman
■ said.
‘1 was flying at 18,000 feet and
I it looked as though it came right
across our nose.
"I tell you, I never saw such a
brilliant flash of light before.”
AIRLINER'S CREW
MAROONED ATOP
ICELANDIC PEAK
REYJAVIK, Iceland, Sept. 20—
| —Rescue teams hoped to begin
the removal today of six men and a
I girl marooned atop a 6,000-foot
j glacier since Thursday, when their
I Icelandic Airline Skymaster crashed
j on the frozen peak.
The rescuers' were converging
I on the spot by air and on loot. A
ground party of seasoned moun
taineers was working its way up the
j steep slopes toward Vatnajkoell
Glacier. An American rescue plane,
one of several dispatched to the
scene, landed on the glacier yester
day.
The Skymaster crew, which in
eluded a young stewardess, receiv
ed supplies and a portable radio
' transmitter by parachute drop
Monday.
The stewardess and second pilot
were slightly injured in the crash
Their plane, carrying a cargo of
10 sled dogs, was enroute from
Luxemburg to Reyjavik.
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sures each of our depositors
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fanned out into nearby low-lying
hills to knock out Communist
I strongpoints.
“When we get high ground north
| of Seoul, there won't be anything to
it," said Marine Col. Lewis (Chesty)
I Puller. "He (the enemy) can’t
1 stand up against our air and artil
| lery"
As the Marines tightened their
■ grip on Seoul, the other end of
the Allied nutcracker moved on re
treating Communists on the south
east beachhead. South Koreans se
cured Pohang and started mopping
up the surrounding area.
High Ground Taken
Other South Koreans captured
high ground overlooking Kigye.
nine miles northwest of Pohang. A
spokesman said they had recaptured
virtually all ground lost in the Com
munists’ September breakthrough.
Four American bridgeheads have
now been secured across the Nak
tong river. Infantrymen fought for
a major breakthrough in the north
west corner of the perimeter. After
capturing Waegwan yesterday their
objectives now were Kumchon and
Taejon, important rail and road
junctions on the way to Seoul.
The U.S. Second Division drove
to the junction of the Naktong and
Nam rivers. Allied airmen reported
the Communists were fleeing across
the Naktong at this point.
West of Masan on the southern
coast, U.S. 25th Division troops met
stiffened resistance.
Pounding by Superforts
B-29 Superforts pounded at Ko
rean Communist lines of retreat
from the southeast battle perimeter
to prevent the Reds from reinforc
ing Seoul. U.S. Fifth Airforce
fighters in large numbers joined in
the attack. The planes sealed a
train in a tunnel, smashed convoys
and broke up troop concentrations.
The airmen fought in good weather.
The B-29’s encountered some anti
aircraft fire over Pyongyang, Red
i capital, where they hit at troop
I training centers.
ABSENTEE VOTING
Voter: Be sure to vote Republican
*icket under absentee law before
you leave for tha States.
Republican Club of Juneau, Al
aska, Commissioner’s Precinct.
603-lmo '
“For Better
Vppearance”
CALL
TRIANGLE
CLEANERS
RUBBER OUTLOOK
BETTER THAN '40
SAY U. 5. EXPERTS
AKRON, O., Sept. 20—<Jtl—The na
tion's present rubber supply posi
tion is much better than it was in
1940, according to figures compiled
by B. F. Goodrich Co.
In 1940 the United States con
i 'Umed 650.000 tons of rubber. 97 per
| cent of which was imported from
the Far East. At that Lime this
country had the capacity to pro
duce only 4,500 tons of man-made
rubber of all types.
Today .the nation is consuming
rubber a*t a rate of more than
1,000,000 tons a year but has facili
ties for producing 940,000 tons of
American rubber. Output of man
made rubber will be at the rate of
740,000 tons early in 1951.
LUTHERAN AID TO
HOLD FOOD SALE
The Ways and Means Committee
of the Lutheran Ladies Aid an
nounces that they will hold a Food
Sale on Friday. September 22. Many
fine home baked items will be of
fered at the sale, which begins at
11 a.m., in the Sears Order Office.
The National Geographic Society
says a possible ancestor of the word
tpyhoon is the Arabic tufan, mean
ing tempest.
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