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•Purth Avenue Bldg.. Seattle, Wash.
Tuesday, April 10, 1951
CONTROLLING RAIN
Something Juneauites should have little worry
about is the outcome of the bills in the Senate that
have to do with the control of rainmaking.
Three bills have been introduced in the Senate to
encourage more experimenting with the rainmaking
methods devised by Drs.. Vincent Schaefer, Bernard
Vonnegut and Irving Langmuir, and to stop indis
criminate rainmaking, especially by the commercial
firms that have sprung up in the semi-arid regions of
the southwest.
There are, however, disagreements between these
scientists and the Weather Bureau as to the merits
of bringing down rain with silver iodide smoke or
with silver iodide seeds scattered in clouds by airplane
pilots—an indication that more research might be wise
:fbe Washington
Merry-Go-Round
(Continued from Page One)
Philadelphia convention in 1948—
the same year Truman was rc-el
ected. Thus he is a political oppo
nent, as well as a military subor
dinate.
2. MacArthur maintains his own
personal publicity representative
inside the Republican National
Committee—Brig. Gen. Bonner Fe)
lers. Gen. Fellers is in frequer
contact with GOP leaders on Cap
itol Hill, helps to plant speeches
in the House and Senate.
'‘"’SfMacArfhUr has the vigorous
support of some of the most pow
erful leaders of the Republican par
ty, has entertained many of the
nation's leading publishers, is the
personal friend of Hugh Baillie
head of the far-reaching United
Press; also of Roy Howard, whose
Scripps-Howard chain newspapers
and United Press are controlled by
the same interests. And it is obvious
to the casual newspaper reader
from the special, copyrighted inter
views issued by MacArthur to his
friends, that his press treatment is
it a nature equalled by few other
jublic figures—certainly not by
Trumac.
The result has been that some
Truman advisers have wanted their
chief to fire the 71-year-old Mac
Arthur on the ground that he was
long past retirement age and was
paying more attention to politics
than to Korea. Other advisers have
turned pale at the thought of any
open break with MacArthur, argue
that it would only give the general
an exruse to come home and at
tack the administration.
However, all groups agree that
the political and military tug-of
war between Tokyo and the White
House probably has been the most
spectacular and difficult ever to
exist between any president and a
commander in the field.
Labor Smiles Again
Inside reason why the recent
conference between labor leaders
and their old friend Harry Truman
went off so well was a private tip
passed out to labor in advance that
defense mobilizer Charlie Wilson's
wings would be clipped.
The clipping would begin, labor
chiefs learned via the grapevine,
with the creation of the new 17
man mobilization advisory board, a
superstructure that will pass on
such hot policy questions as labor's
demand that the wage stabilization
board handle disputes over work
ing conditions as well as wages.
The labor chiefs were also tip
ped off, as they headed for the
White House, that the “disputes"
issue would be decided in their fa
vor. In other words, the wage sta
bilization board would handle hours
and working conditions in addition
to wages.
At the meeting the President
went even further, promising that
future control over all mobilization
policies would be vested in the new
17-man board, rather than in Wil
son.
To make sure that Wilson's
wings are clipped, the President
reported that he would personally
“sit in” with the new board, com
posed of four public, four farm,
four labor and four management
representatives “at least once a
month.”
His labor callers took this to
mean that Truman would act as
chairman, instead of Wilson, in
such cases, but. the President didn't
clarify what his status would be
at the meetings he attended.
Truman Listens
At no time during his chat with
labor did the President criticize
Wilson or indicate that the dy
namic, former head of General El
ectric was on his way out as boss
mobilizes He did not concur when
CIO president Phil Murray bluntly
declared:
“Wilson is unpalatable to every
man here except yourself. He is the
reason labor has not been able to
serve in its proper place in the
mobilization program. Labor wants
to &rve and would serve if Wil
son and big business hadn’t barred
us.”
AFL president Bill Green agreed.
Labor has tried to work with
Wilson,” Green said. "We are aware
of the seriousness -of the problems
facing the country and have pat
riotically endeavered to get along
with him, but his overbearing con
duct makes it impossible.”
Truman said he understood la
bor’s position, but added that dif
ferences with management spokes
men were not insurmountable ' and
could be worked out “if you will be
patient” until the new advisory
board gets rolling.
"We want you back in—I need
your advice and help as much as
I need that of business," the Pres
ident insisted.
"I get all the government advice
I need,” he added with a broad
grin.
REGIONAL DIRECTOR
DOROTHY PETRON OF
GIRL SCOUTS COMING
Schedule of conferences with
Regional Director Miss Dorothy
< Petron were planned at the meet
1 ing of the Gastineau Channel Girl
Scout Council in the Lutheran
church Monday night. Mrs. John
Clements, Commissioner, presided.
Miss Petron will arrive here Sunday,
April 15, and expects to spend a
week in Juneau.
The resignation of Mrs. Robert
Boochever from the Council was
accepted with regret after she stated
that her family demands more time.
However, with three potential girl
scouts, she said she will return to
scouting work at a future time. As
cookie sale chairman, Mrs. Booch
ever reported that, after expenses,
$283.20 went to the various troops;
while the profit to the council was
$455.92. The latter sum is used pri
marily to carry on the summer
camping.
Court of Awards
For the Court of Awards, Mrs. I.
J. Montgomery will be general
chairman of this event in May. The
council voted to oppose closing of
the city library until the new build
ing is completed. It was felt that the
children need the library as an ed
ucational and recreational center
even more during vacation than
when school is in session. In con
nection with the Juliette Low teas,!
Mrs. Clements said that Mrs. George
Matson is bringing a group of Doug
las girl scouts for the affair Thurs
: day, April 12; while Mrs. Floyd
Guertin will accompany her Doug
las Brownies for the tea, Tuesday,
April 17.
Mrs. John Brantner, general
chairman of arrangements for Miss
i I
Petron’s official visit, requested that
reservations for the no-host lunch
eon at the Baranof Friday noon.
April 20 be phoned to her (Red 440)
not later than April 16 (Monday)
All those interested in girl scouting
are invited to attend.
Petron Schedule
Tentative schedule while Mis:
Petron is here will be: Executive
Board luncheon at the Baranof at
noon, Monday, April 1G; meeting
with leaders of Scouts and Brown
ies, 8 p.m. Lutheran church: Tues
day noon. Baranof, Camp Building
Committee; Tuesday, 1:30, Light
Company Penthouse, camp com
mittee; 4 to 5 p.m. Juliette Low
Brownie tea, Elks hall.
Wednesday noon, Camp Commit
tee; Thursday a.m. Civil Defense
committee; Thursday evening, Exe
cutive Board meeting, Lutheran
church: Friday noon, Gold Room
luncheon, leaders, council members
parents, general public; Saturday
April 21, 10 a.m., Civil Defense com
mittee, leaders and assistants.
ASSEMBLIES OF GOD
HOLDING WRANGELL
MEETING APR. 10,12
Southeast Fellowship meetings of
the Assemblies of God are being
held in Wrangell beginning today
and continuing through Thursday.
Representatives from Juneau,
Ketchikan, Petersburg, Sitka and
Pelican are expected to attend.
The Rev. Fred Vogler, assistant
superintendent of the Assemblies
of God, whose headquarters are at
Springfield, Mo., will be present to
conduct the meeting. Alaska is un
der the supervision of the Rev.
Volger.
The Rev. C. E. Personeus is here
from Pelican and will go to Wran
gell today to attend the meeting.
Mrs. Personeus accompanies her
husband.
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ACROSS
1. Complete
collection
4. In what way?
7. Contraction of
the muscles
12. Babylonian
diety
13. Poem
14. Embankment
15. Inverted
stitches ill
knitting
17. Lecturer
18. European iris
19. Started
20. Part of a
■fishing rod
21. Degree in agri
culture: abbr.
22. Downfall
25. Seat without
arms
28. Before
29. Depart
31. Heat
33. And: French
34. Make a mistake
30. Proselyte
38, Converge
40. Command to a
horse
41. God of war
4 4. Concede
40 Happening
47. Tropical fruit
4l». lie agreeable
50. Make into law
51. Possesses
52. Payable
before legislation is enacted to control the rainmakers.
Now, if rainmaking control would only work both
ways, we in Juneau would be a little more interested
in the problem.
Could clouds be seeded over the ocean so that
they would be free of rain before they reach our coast
line? After a long wet winter, that sounds like a
dandy idea. But it wouldn’t work. No rain, dried-up
streams, no fish.
And, in a short time we web-feet would be tired
of the sunny weather and wanting rain again.
Greek Independence
(New York Times)
The villages that were overrun and reduced to
ashes in the recent war are todny the centers of the
most fervent celebrations of Greece’s Independence
Day. Greece has paid a high price to keep this holi
day, and is ready to pay it again. No action has yet
been taken on proposals to include Greece and Turkey
in the Atlantic Defense organization, but the Greeks
are proud of the tributes paid to the vigor of the
people and the stamina of their army by General
Bi&enhower and General Hoyt Vandenberg. They are
j spending 45 per cent of the national budget on mili
tary preparedness and have ottered to increase tneir
present army of 147,000 men to 500,000 if the neces
sity arises.
As one small nation that has stood the test of
Communist invasion, from without and within, the
Greeks have manifested the will to national inde
pendence and earned the aid they have received from
this county in their Homeric battle to preserve It.
In or out of the Atlantic Pact, they are sure to re
ceive further aid if the attack is renewed. On their
Independence Day they have a right to feel that
I they have fought their way to the vanguard of the
1 free peoples and to be assured that the rest of the
free world recognizes the debt they owe to the tough
I little warriors who held the front line against heavy
odds.
Almost Forgotten
(Seattle Times)
Few maladies that beset humankind have been so
nearly eradicated as smallpox. Only 41 cases were
reported in this country last year. Until two decades
ago, the number exceeded 30,000 a year. Most of the
| incidence of this disease in 1950 occurred in the
i Middle West. There were no cases whatever along the
I Atlantic Seaboard. Oregon spoiled the Pacific Coast’s
I record by reporting one case.
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• April 10
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• Ann Louise Henning
• Joseph Harmon
• Jackie Pace
• Mabel Sprague
« Mrs. T. M. Marshall
• Ira T. Jackson
• Irene Kimball
» M.-I s. T. I. Wheaton •
• Clarice Clemenson
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COMMUNITY EVENTS
TODAY
At 8 p.m. — CD A meets in parish
hail.
At 8 p.m. — Odd Fellows meet in
IOOF hall.
At 8 30 p.m. — Community Center
night for adults at Teen Age club
with square dancing.
At 8 p.m. — Civil Defense Council
meets in City Council chambers.
April 11
At noon — Kiwanis Club, Baranof.
At 1:30 p.m. — Garden Club dessert
luncheon at home of Mrs. James
Larsen.
At 7:30 p.m. — Civil ^Air Patrol,
members and interested parties
meet at subport.
At 8 p.m. — Scottish Rite special
meeting, 24th degree conferred.
At 8 p.m. — Elks lodge.
April 12
At noon — Chamber of Commerce
meets at Baranof.
From 4 to 5 p.m. — Girl Scout
Juliette Low World Friendship
Tea, Elks auditorium.
April 13
At 7:30 p.m. — Piano recital of
grade school pupils of Mrs. Davis
in NLP church.
At 8 p.m. — Scottish Rite regular
meeting, 30th degree conferred.
April 11
At 8 p.m. — Two piano recital oi
High school pupils of Mrs. Davi
at Governor’s House.
At 8:30 p.m. — Sourdocey Square
Dance club meets in Grade school
gym.
At 9 p.m. — Douglas Junior Class
prom in Douglas gym.
April 1<>
At noon — Lions Club, Baranof.
At 8 p.m. — American Legion post
meets in Dugout.
April 17
At noon — Rotary Club, Baranof.
MERCHANTS ARE TO
MEET TONIGHT, OPS
The Office of Price Stabilization
has scheduled another meeting to
night for the purpose of aiding
merchants who still have problems
concerning their record-keeping
requirements un4er Regulation 9,
FviU G. Hanford, territorial direc
tor, announce-'.
The meeting will be held at the
high school at 7:30 in Room 1
downstairs.
Restaurant owners and petroleum
dealers will receive their regula
tions sometime this week, Hanford
said. Copies have been received
at the territorial office and are be
ing mailed out as fast as possible.
Instruction sheets are being mailed
out with the regulation to explain
what is required in each type of
business.
New quarters are being made
available for the territorial head
quarters, Hanford said. The larger
facilities will be in the Triangle
Building and it is expected several
offices will be moved over this
week, with the entire organization
scheduled to move as soon as the
new offices are ready.
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j 2 0 \ E A R S AGO t h*e empire ]
I APRIL 10, 1931
: W. C. Grabau, vice-president of the Northern Radio Telegraph Co.,
(predicted that Alaska will have telephonic connection with the outside
j world within six months. Ketchikan and Juneau have made applications
i lor tations and Grabau said his company plans ultimately to extend the
service so "residents of all parts of Alaska may lift a microphone, as one
dot a receiver, and talk directly to persons in the United States, Canada,
or Europe.”
• -
Making her first trip of the 1931 season the Canadian Pacific liner
Princess Alice, Capt. T. Cliffe, arrived in port from the south. Passengers
lor Juneau were: Mr. and Mrs. Carl Carlson, Missiona Carlson, Mr.
and Mrs. O. D. Cochran, "Lily Kronquist, Mrs. Carol Goldstein and son.
Vera Pearson, Mrs. H. Robinson.
Miss Dorthee Somers has joined the office force of the Juneau
Lumber Mill. She is a niece of Roy Rutherford, president and general
manager of the mill.
I .
■ Delegates to the All-Alaska Chamber c.r Commerce were to meet
April 11, in the City Hail chambers.
Bringing C. B. Gill of Ketchikan and R. C. Brooks of Seattle as
passengers, the Alaska-Washington seaplane Petersburg, pilot Bob Ellis
and mechanic F. J. Wadman arrived from Ketchikan. The seaplane
I Sitka. Pilot Gene Myring and mechanic Bryant Harland was scheduled
j to arrive this day.
'. Mysterious disappearance in February of the fishing vessel Monroe
of Juneau bound from Seward to Juneau was explained by a wire from
John McBride, Collector of Customs at Katalla which said the craft
was wrecked on a reef March 21, on the south end of Wingham Island.
The captain, O. P. Brown and his crew were safe at a fox ranch on the
island. _
Weather: High, 40; low, 33; generally fair.
Daily Lessens in English & L. GCiu>on
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j WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Either “disembark” or "debark” is cor
rect usage, but since “bark” means "a ship," we should not say that
the soldiers debarked or disembarked from a TRAIN. Use the word only
in the nautical sense.
OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Savant fman of learning). Pronounce
sa-van, first A as in SAT, second A as in AH, accent second syllable.
| OFTEN MISSPELLED: Cist (a box; chest) . Cyst (a sac of morbid
| matter).
SYNONYMS: Beautiful, beauteous, bewitching, attractive, charming,
! handsome, pretty, picturesque.
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:
METICULOUS; unduly or excessively careful of small details; finically
scrupulous. “She was meticulous in her housekeeping.”
[modern etiquette kOSERTA LEE j
Q. What are the rults a man may follow for removal of his hat in
an elevator?
A. The well-bred man removes his hat when in the elevator of a
hotel or apartment building. But it is not requored in the elevator of an
office building or department store. In the latter place, it is optional;
i many men do.
Q. When should announcements be sent for a marriage that ha.'
been kept secret for several weeks or months?
A, As a secret marriage is not a prescribed affair, there is no defi
nite time for sending announcements. This is entirely optional.
Q. Should a napkin be held above the edge of the table when un
folding it?
A, No; the napkin should be unfolded on the lap.
| LOOK and LEARN A. C. GORDON |
1. What is the highest city in the world?
2. What Vice-Presidents have become Presidents of the U. S. sines
1900?
I 3. In' what year did the first airplane fly across the Atlantic
Ocean?
4. Does water expand or contract when it freezes?
5. What was the longest wartime siege in the history of the
United States?
ANSWERS:
1. Phari, Tibet; altitude 14,300 feet.
2. Theodore Roosevelt, Calvin Coolidge, and Harry Truman.
3. In 1919.
4. Expands.
5. The siege of Richmond by the Federals in the Civil War, which
lasted 287 days.
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Weather at
/Uaska Points
Weather condition? end temper
atures at various Alaska points
also on the Pacific Coast, at 4:30
a.m., 120*h Meridian Time, and
released by the Weather Bureau
are as follows:
Anchorage . 25—Cloudy
Annette Island . 40—Rain
Barrow . -10—Partly Cloudy
Bethel . 10—Snow
Cordova . 32—Snow
Dawson. 26—Partly Cloudy
Edmonton . 22—Clear '
Fairbanks . 23—Clear
Haines . 36—Rain
Havre.29—Partly Cloudy
Juneau Airport . 37—Rain
Kodiak.32—Partly Cloudy
Kotzebue ... 8—Cloudy
McGrath .26—Snow
Nome . 15—Snow
Northway 23—Cloudy
Petersburg . 38—Rain
Portland . 40—Clear
Prince George . 32—Cloudy
Seattle .. 39—Clear
Sitka . 42—Cloudy
Whitehorse. 31—Cloudy !
Yakutat . 33—Snow j
COMMUNICATION
Editor Empire,
Dear Sir:
Wish you would publish this:
An open letter to Mr. Frank
Metcalf, Territory Highway Engin
eer:
A few weeks ago I wrote you a
letter, an honest letter and meant
every word of it. The other day, I
opened the paper and saw where
you had published an answer to
it. I wonder, Mr Metcalf, if you had
the same smile on your face when
you answered the Legislature’s
questions? I am still sure the
women would make good on the
Highway patrol, at least they would
be very glad to draw from four
hundred to five hundred a month
for doing’ the awful hard work
your patrolmen do, and have plen
ty of time left over for hunting
and fishing. Look, Bunny-duck, I
am not mad at the patrolmen, only
at you, for being so smart and
smug in answering my letter; but,
I am dam sure I will do my very
best to obey all traffic rules and
regulations from now on.
Sincerely,
(signed) Josephine Bonkowski
Haines, Alaska
P. S.—Some day I may tell you
to your face what a Bunny Duck
is.
The above relates to a letter to
Metcalf in which the request was
made for a woman on the Highway
Patrol Staff.
DOROTHY FARRELL IS
ACTING RENT DIRECTOR
Dorothy Farrell received word
that effective today she has been
appointed acting area rent director
for the Territory of Alaska. She
announced that Ketchikan now has
a full time rent office in addition
to Fairbanks and Anchorage as well
as the office here. She succeeds
Walter Walsh who is now with the
Alaska Native Service as area at
torney.
ATTENTION REBEKAHS
Business Meeting and election of
D. D. P. Wednesday night 8 p.m.
Don't forget to bring a wrapped
white elephant. Entertainment fol
lowing meeting.
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Regular Meetings Every Friday
Governor—
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Pianos—Musical Instruments
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Phone 206 Second and Seward
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Wholesale 805 10th St.
PHONE 216—DAY or NIGIIT
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i
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To give you more freedom
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