A NORTHERN NOTEBOOK
By BOB PE ARMCND
Twenty-second of ? Series
Earnest Bilbe Collins, who has
been elected to head the Grand
Igloo of the Pioneers of Alaska
during the next couple of years,
has been a resident of the Fourth
Division for 47 years and although
he is widely known as an attor
ney. he spent a dozen years or so
mining in that area, mostly on
Goldstream.
Ex-Senator Collins, familiarly
known as "E. B. " has been a mem
ber of the Pioneers for nearly 30
years and for the past two year
has been vice president of the
Grand Igloo. He succeeds John
Reck of Juneau as Grand Presi
dent.
Born r.t Farmland, Randolph
County, Indiana, on July 19, 1873.
he moved to California as a boy
graduating from high school at
Chico and going on to the State
Normal School and to the study
of law. After he received his degree
he entered the office of Col. Park
Henshaw, a famous California at
torney of that day. and when he
was 22 he was elected to his first
public office—Justice of the Peace
—which he held for four years.
During the War with Spain,
Collins enlisted in the 8th Califor
nia Volunteers, but he did not get
overseas. A few years later he made
a trip to the nt>’.' mining camp of
Fairbanks with tf intention, as
with so many othc. - of staying
only a short time.
But the mining bug get him and
he stayed on, engaging in placer
mining and taking an active part
in local political affairs. On Octo
ber 3, 1912, the Democrats, Repub
licans and Progressives of the
Fairbanks area held a joint meet
ing ana nominated a full ticket
fer Alaska’s first General Election,
and it was known as the Non-Part
isan Ticket. Collins was nominated
by the Republicans and on Novem
ber 5 was chosen by the voters as
one of the four Representatives
from that Division.
On tne same ticket with Collins
were Henry Roden, now Treasurer
tf Alaska, and Dan Sutherland,
later Delegate in Congress and now
living in the East, and these three
and Charles D. Jones of Nome
are now the only surviving mem
bers of Alaska’s First Legislature.
When the Legislature met in
March, 1913. Collins was named
j Sneaker of the House, and in 1915
he: returned and was again chosen
| Speaker, He is the only man twice
i elected to that office in the Alaska
| Legislature.
Collins came back to the House
i again in 1919 and in 1921 he served
in the Senate. Meanwhile, in 1915,
lie had been admitted to th° Alas
ka Bar and in November. 1 "21. he
resigned his senate scat and was
named special assistant United
States Attorney for the Four h Di
vision. a position he held unti 1?33.
He then opened a genera! law
practice as a member cf the f iv.i of
Collins and Clasby
He was mayor of Fair’oank four
terms, from 1935 until 1139. and
in 1946 was again elected to the
Territorial Senate, serving in the
1947 and 1949 session. About a year
ago he retired from the practice of
law and he end Mr?. C llin; now
make their home r.t Herding Lake,
some 75 mile? from Fairbanks.
Mr. and Mr;. Coin? an :• \1 in
Juneau a few days before tee open'
ing of the Grand Igloo session and
plan ‘o spend a week in the capital,
visitue with old ' ’ndv end tak
ing in v few of tlv .svh-x.s of the
20th Legislature.
Tue real Gold h .sh pioneers—
the men, that is, who came to the
North during the big euci ement of
1897 -1904 -have disappeared from
the Alaska Legislature in tl.is 20th
session.
Their absence from the legisla
tive halls and chambers is sudden,
too, for in the 19th Legislature,
two years ago, we had Andrew
Nerland, E. B. Collins, Charles D.
Jones and Aimer Rydeen, all of
whom came north on the gold trail
before 1904.
But to replace the old Sour
doughs, this Legislature has more
members who were born in Alaska
than any previous session.
The 20th Senate has six Alaska
born members. They are, with
their places of birth. Howard Lyng.
Sand Point; Elton Engstrom,
Wrangell; Steve McCutcheon. Cor
dova; Percy Ipalook, Barrow; John
Butrovich, Fairbanks, and William
Beltz, Bear Creek.
On the House side the Alaska
born members and their birthplaces
are J. S. MacKinnon, Juneau;
\ Frank Johnson. Kake; Waino Hen
drickson, Juneau; Andrew Hope.
Sitka; Frank Degnan, St. Michael;
I James Wells. Deering; Stanley Mc
I Cutcheon, Anchorage; George Mis
Icovich, Flat; William Egan, Val
dez. and Mike Stepovich, Fair
banks.
Ten sessions of the Alaska Legis
lature rolled by before a native son
got into it, the first having been
j. F. Baronovich of Ketchikan, in
1933. And the Territory has yet to
elect its first Alaska-born woman
to the Legislature.
The average age of the members
of the 20th Senate, we find, is 49
years and nine months. The young
est member is 38 and the olde:l,
is 73. And they have, on the aver
age, lived in Alaska for 33 years
and seven months, with a range of
16 to 60 years.
Members of the House average
a little younger than the Senators—
47 years and eight months—but
the range of ages is greater—27
years to 76 years. And they have,
on the average, not lived quite so
long in the Territory as hcve the
Senators—only 32 years. Longest
residence for a House mrmber is
55 years; shortest, 5 yeuV
First Experiment
Kidney Operation
Fails to Save life
PHILADELPHIA. Feb. 23 —<*~-A |
woman whose blood stream was
channeled into a kidney taken from
the body of a traffic accident victim
died today eight hours after an un
precedented experiment to purify
her blood and save her life.
The ill-fated experiment failed
shortly after noon. The kidney
was removed from the body of
Wayne H. Deveney, 30, of York, Pa.,
killed before 4 a.m. today.
Less than an hour later the blood
of the woman patient — identified
by Frankford hospital doctors as
Mrs. Richard Irvine, 32, Philadel
phia — was flowing through the
borrowed kidney. ,
Robert E. wicnoison. managing.
director of the hospital, said it I
was the first time in history the
technique was used on a human
being.
Mrs. Irvine was the mother of
three children.
FROM MT. EDGECEMBE
—
Visitors from Mt. Edgecumbe who :
are stopping at the Baranof Hotel
are Grace Ushler, Gladys Day, I
Dorothy Bronsema, and Marjorie
Ward.
20 PER (ENT
STEEL CUT IS
ANNOUNCED
WASHINGTON, Feb. 23 ——
Steel for passenger cars and other
consumer durable goods will be cut
20 per cent during the second quar
ter of this year below the average
quarterly level of the first half ol
1950.
The reduction program, announc
ed by the National Production Au
thority (NPA), will apply to radic
and television sets, washing ma
chines and other household appli
ances, furniture, utensils and a
number of other products.
NPA officials said average quar
terly passenger car production dur
ing the first half of last year was
about 1,550,000. Manufacturers will
be limited to 80 per cent of the steel
that went into these cars. They will
be free to make as many cars with
this steel as they can.
Manly Fleischmann, NPA admin
istrator, announced the program at
a news conference.
He said it is designed to save
about a million tons of steel for de
fense and defense-supporting pro
duction.
Fleischmann said it will still per
mit continued production of con
sumer durable goods at very high
levels — “in most instances, at
levels never attained before 1949
and 1950.”
PRESIDENT MAY
MOVE FROM WHITE
HOUSE JO SENATE
Ry Associated Press!
Soisti of the President’s friends
are say?1},,' today that Mr. Truman
may try to get back into the senate
—instead of the White House—in
1952. This would mean running
again Missouri Republican Senator
James Kem.
The President spent ten years in
the senate before his election as
vice president in 1944. He has often
called those his "happiest years.”
However, there's nothing official
about the President’s personal plans
and even his friends concede his
mind may well change.
70-MILE-AN-HOUR
WIND LASHES AT
CORDOVA HARBOR
CORDOVA, Alaska, Feb. 23.—UP1—
Cordovans were busy today repair
ing damage caused by the season’s
worst wind and snowstorm.
Dozens of electrical circuits were
torn down as gale winds upwards of
70 miles an hour ripped through
this Prince William Sound fishing
community. Fishing boats bobbled
like corks in the email boat harbor
One large fishing boat snapped its
moorings, but was recovered.
Browder, Ex-Commie
Leader, Is to Adas
Own Defense Lawyer
By Associated Press
The man who once headed Amer
ica's Communist party —Earl Brow
der—is visiting Washington court
rooms these days. Browder plans
to act as his own defense attorney
at his coming trial for contempt
of Congress. A reporter spotted him
at th-3 trial of a union official
charged with the same offfcPse.
RECK FAMILY HOLDS
REUNION IN JUNEAU
With the arrival of Mrs. Dorothy
Green from Fairbanks on yester
day's Pan American clipper the
pioneer Reck family of Juneau is
holding a reunion here this week.
Mrs. Green is the eldest daughter
of John Reck, prominent Juneau
business man and chairman of the
Board of the First National Bank.
Mr. and Mrs. Armond Duncan,
formerly in business in Juneau and
new residing in Ketchikan, arrived
■lere earlier tli'-s week. Mrs. Duncan
>s *he yooigest member of the Reck
family.
They are being welcomed to the
family homo by John Reck, their
sister Miss Mamie Reck and brother
William Reck, who reside here, and
by Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hurley and
their sons Robert John and Ray
mond Leroy, son - in - law and
daughter and grandchildren of Mrs.
Green and by Mr. and Mrs. Steve
Sheldon and their daughters Coralie
and Lesley, son-in-law and daughter
and grandchildren of the Duncans.
Mrs. Green plans to be in Juneau
at least a month and the Duncans
will leave Sunday for Ketchikan.
CHURCHILL
STARTS ROWj
IN COMMONS
LONDON, Feb. 23 —W* Winston
Churchill kicked up a ro.. in the
House of Commons today over the
nomination of an American Admir
al to command the Naval forces cf
the North Atlantic Treaty Nations
Seizing an opportunity to harass |
Prime Minister Attlee, the Tory j
leader asked, amid cheers, "Was j
there not a British Admiral capa
ble of discharging these functions?”
The uproar, in the coursee of
which even Labor members shot
unfriendly questions at the Prime
Minister, came as Attlee announced
the Atlantic Pact Defense Com
mittee had nominated Vice Adm.
William N. Fechteler to be Supreme
Allied Commander at Sea. Fechtel
er, 54, now is commander in chief
of the Atlantic fleet.
Churchill, fiercely proud of Brit
ish sea power, even questioned the
American Navy’s record agains;
German submarines.
"It is not possible for one coun
try to insist on its right to some
particular command,” Attlee de
clared.
__
N. ATLANTIC TREATY
STRONGER THAN RED
DOMINATED NATIONS
VALLEY FORGE. Pa., Feb. 23—
UP)—Gen. Omar N. Bradley said to
day the United States has “ample
strength” to share with its free
world Allies until they become “self
sufficient and independent of our
aid.”
And the combined industrial:
production and skill of the free i
nations “will assure our military |
supremacy if we need it,” the chair
man of the joint chiefs of staff said.
The North Atlantic Treaty or
ganization is a stronger combina
tion than “the compulsory league
of Soviet Satellites,” Bradley said.
in a speech prepared for the Free
doms Foundation’s annual present
ation of awards for “outstanding
contributions to the cause of free
dom.”
The foundation awarded $100.
000 to more than 800 American in
dividuals and organizations. The
ceremonies were held in a flag
draped hall not far from the hal
lowed grounds where General
George Washington and his soldiers
spent the bitter winter of 1776.
Some of the top awards went to:
Boy Scouts of America for its
International Jamboree at Valley
Forge on the theme “Strenghtening
the Arm of Liberty.” ($1,000).
Weirton (W. Va.) Chamber of
Commerce fo.- crganizing and con
ducting an “Americanism Week.”
<$1.000>.
Tournament of Roses Committee,'
Pasadena. Calif., for the 1950 Rose
Parade dedicated to “Our Ameri
ca a Heritage.” ($1,000).
National Commit’ ee for a Free
Europe, for its “Cru ade for Free
dom” program designed to counter
act Soviet propaganda. ($1,000).
Lorr in Singer of Mt. Edgecumbe
is at -he Baranof Hotel.
L. A. ARCHITECT HERE
Adrian Wilson, prominent Los
Angeles architect, arrived here
yesterday from Seattle to spend two
days conferring with Federal Hous
ing Administration Director C. C.
Staples, Wilson is enroute to An
chorage in connection with several
housing projects there and also a
large apartment house for the
Alaska Railroad at Whittier. He
are the plans for the Architect's
Building, New Chinatown and
everal hospitr.ls !.ti Los Angeles. He
is stopping at U. ■ Baranjf Hotel.
FROM SEATTLE
L. W. Williams of Seattle is re
• stered at the 3aranof Hotel.
RUMMAGE SALE
Methodist Cnurch, Sat., .Ceb. 24—
1 to 4 p. m. 739-3,
TAKE GILLNETTERS MEETING
2:00 p. m. Sat., Feb. 24, A. F. of
Hall. Please attend. 740-2t
A LECTURE
devoted to the
Study of Metaphysics
Marjorie Mauren Meeks, B. S., D. D.,
who arrived February 13th aboard the
Baranof from Los Angeles, California,
is here at the invitation of local people
interested in Metaphyics. It is her
purpose to establish the Center of Uni
versal Truth where all races and creeds
may come to share their thinking on the
most constructive ways of establishing
Brotherly Love and World Peace.
Subject
“In The Beginning...
...COO”
Gold Hoorn - Saranof Hotel
Eleven o'Clock
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Reg 14.95—19.95 Now 7.95
Ski Panis
Odd Lots NOW 13.09 i
LARGE SELECTION
NOVELTY
Sport Sweaters
Jackets
Sport Shirts
ALL PRICED TO CLEAR
25 to 50%
Reductions
DRESSES
5.00 10.00
15.00
Casuals. .. Dressy Rayons
Prints
FORMALS
27 ONLY .. Reduced to Clear
25 to 50% Off
MILLINERY
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Regrouped priced at
1.50 3.50 6.50
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FROM OUR REGLUAR STOCK - NOW
25.00 35.00 45.00
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Women's Pure Silk Gowns 6.96 each
Regular values 10.95 and 17.95
Colors—blue, black, yellow, white.
Rayon Taffeta Half Slip - - - 3.47
Regular 6.95
Flounce Bottom, black only.
Bed Jackets, HS8% Wool • • 3.47
Regular 11.95
Soft pastel shades.
Gosser-Deb Girdles • - 3.47 each.
Priced to Clear NOW—While They Last
Sizes 35 to 34.
Children's White Blouse
50% Off
Slightly soiled, first quality.
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Snow Suits.7.95 suit
Chldren’s sizes — All Wool — Regular_
filfADF OUTSTANDING SAVINGS ON EVERY
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Beys' Sport Suit
Tweed coat, solid color
36.77
Bays' Snow Suits
All wool, sizes 10 and 12
4—ONLY
4.77_
Boys' Slacks
Tweeds and Coverts
2.77
Beys' Sport Shirts
‘‘White Stag” Plaids
Regular 6.93
2.77
Boys' Flannel
Bath Robes
All Wool
Regular 8.95
2.77
men-s SUITS I
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HICKEY-FREEMAN |
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HICKEY-FREEMAN A
TOPCOAS. 47.00 j
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I Regular 18.50
■special purchase
HATS . . 5.50
GENIUNE FUR FELT
Others 8*50
MEN’S KNIT
PAJAMAS. 2,77
Reduced to Clear—Reg. 5.90
MEN’S
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Drawers 6Tc ea«
LONG SLEEVE
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*
Ready Made Drapes, Lined 4.77 ea,
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, Regular 3.95 and 5.95
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, Ideal for kitchen or bathroom
Drapery Fabrics ■ ■ ■ 77c yd.
t Fancy prints—tops for drapes or square dance skirts
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Beautiful hand screen prints
Values 4.95 to 13.50 yard
Rayon Strutter Cloth • - 1.47 yd.
Colors—green, tan, blue, grey
Wool Plaids • • • • • 2.97 yd.
REDUCED TO CLEAR
Regular 5.95 and 6.95 yd.
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Jerro Shoes for Women • • 5.60
Regular 17.05
Sandies and sling styles. Suedes and Calf in
assorted colors.
Girls' House Slippers 87c
Regular 3.05
Chenille, fur trimmed, leather soles Sizes 5 to 13, lto .»
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MEM’S j
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