ENROLLMENT IN
ALASKA SCHOOLS
WILL BE LARGE
Five Miliion Dollars Will
Be Needed for Educa
tion, Lions Are Told
There w 11 be approximately 14,
OOO children to enroll in Alaska
public schools which opfen next
week, Dr. James Ryan, Territorial
Commissioner of Education, told a
regular meeting of the Juneau
Lions at the Bar an of Hotel this
noon.
The program in charge of Val
Poor, paid tribute to educators by
having short talks given by' Dr.
Ryan, Supt. of Juneau Schools
Sterling Sears, and Supt. of the
Douglas Schools Martin Peterson.
Ryan pointed out that the public
schools cost to the Territory this
year would exceed $3,000,000, while
incorporated school districts would
spend about $2,000,000 more for
education. There will be 93 public
schools in operation employing 667
teachers, he said.
“The greatest problem now facing
the Territory is in supplying ade
quate buildings and facilities to
care for the increased numbers ol
children,” Ryan stated, "An esti
mated $20,000,000 is needed at pres
ent to build up to care for the
present load. Only a few schools
have adequate plants and facil
ities.''
Populated areas like Fairbanks
and Anchorage are already oper
ating on double shifts due to build
ing shortage, and Sitka and Juneau
may be on the same basis shortly,
Ryan said. While the Federal
Public Works program on school
buildings is definietely of some
help, it is slow*.
sears announced tnau uieie wumu
be three additional teachers in the
Juneau schools bringing the total
number to 16. He said that ar
rangements had been made for the
rental of two church basements to
care for first grade classes. The
plans for the new school building
are nearly completed but the situ
ation remains static until a court
decision is given on the proposed
site for the building.
"There will be a breakfast for
the teachers on Monday. Regis-!
tration and classes will be held
Tuesday," Sears said.
Peterson told of plans for ex
pansion in the Douglas schools,
with an increased seating capacity
in the gym, introduction of more
subjects, eliorts toward building a ]
better library to meet the needs of
the growing Douglas residential
community.
Guests were Lion Arnold Soley,
Winlock, Wn., the new Juneau
coach who recently arrived here;
Slim Schwartz, Forest Service
supervisor from Seward, and Elwin
Wright, son of Lion Ralph Wright
of Juneau.
Announcement was made that
the National President of Lions
would arrive in JUneau Sept. 16.
CANADIAN STRIKE
MAKE ADVENTURE
OF ALLENS' TRIP
T h e Canadian transportation
strike made the trip to Alaska an
adventure for Mr. and Mrs. Rodney
B. Allen who arrived here last week
to visit Mrs. John Krugness, Mrs.
Allen’s sister.
The Allens drove from Seattle to
Prince Rupert where they were to
take a Canadian National ship to
Juneau. Strike—no ship—so through
the kindness of Cliff Gilker, they
were able to make the Prince Rup
ert-K^tchikan trip by fish packer,
then planed from Ketchikan to Ju
neau.
The Seattle visitors are at the
home of Mrs. Krugness, Fifth and
Kennedy and will leave for the south
this week. Their car is in Prince
Rupert and how they will reach the
Canadian city is a problem.
“For Better
\ppearance”
CALL
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CLEANERS
30-Litter Ambulance in Operation
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An American soldier, wounded in Korea, is taken from a C-97 transport plane at the Fairfield-Suisun
(Calif.) Air Force Base and placed in a new 30-litter ambulance built at the base. Th eambulance, built
on a 40-foot bed trailer, was designed so that the number of vehicles would be reduced around the
evacuation aircraft. Iff) Wirephoto.
3 MORE ARE
ADDED, LIST
OF COMMIES
Claims Those Named Were
New Deal Employees
Attorney Gives Info
WASHINGTON, Aug. 28 — tfll —
Attorney Lee Pressman testified to
day that John Abt, Nathan Witt
and Charles Kramer were fellow
Communists with him when all
were New Deal employees in the
early '30's.
The 44-year-old attorney, formdr
lawyer in the Federal agencies and
later general counsel for the CIO,
denied that Alger Hiss was a mem
ber of the Communist cell while
Pressman was in it.
Pressman gave the names to the
House un-American Activities Com
mittee although he said it was
offensive for him to have to do
so. He testified he gave up his
own Communist connection after
one year.
Like Pressman, Abt was a lawyer
in the Agricultural Adjustment Ad
ministration who later held other
government jobs and then became
active in Henry Wallace’s third
party campaign in 1948.
Witt also worked for the AAA
and later became. an official of
the National Labor Relations Board.
Kramer's position in the Agri
culture Department was not
brought out.
The names of Abt, Witt and
Kramer went into the record after
Rep. Nixon <R-Calif.> said he
thought Pressman should be re
quired to identify them.
Pressman was called for a re
peat appearance before the un
American Activities Committee with
the hope of filling in “missing
links” in the Hiss-Chambers case.
Korean War
At a Glance
i By Associated Press)
Korean Fronts: Communists ram
40,000 troops against the northern
rim of United Nations defenses,
striking close to Pohang airstrip on
east coast. Heavy fighting reported
all along line from Waegwan 45
miles east to Pohan. Other Red
attacks halted along 120-mile bat
tlefront. Eighth Army commander!
says Red drive signals "last gasp” j
attempt to throw U. N. off Korea.
Allied intelligence say real big Red!
drive yet to come.
Air and Sea War: U. S. war
planes rip Into Communists all
along battlefront, smashing hard
at Pohan advance. Navy reports
carrier planes smashed 11 Russian
made Yaks in attack in North Kor
ea. Other carrier planes blasted
Red corvettes tankers and freight
ers in northern ports. Appearance
of vessels on scene indicates aid
from some Communist nation.
Tokyo: Air Force denied Red
Chinese charges that American
planes violated Manchurian terri
tory and hit Manchurian villages.
Tape!, Formosa: Nationalist
China’s defense ministry charges
270,000 Chinese Communist troops
macs to aid North Koreans, some
already crossed border. Americans
report no such troop movements
spotted by air reconnaissance.
JOINT SUPPLY
JOB LEAVES
ARMYtOLD
SEATTLE, Aug. 28—(ffl—’The Job
of getting supplies to Arctic stations
normally Is a Navy show but this
summer the Army got into the act.
The "act,” for the Army’s 32-man
contingent, proved to be one of the
wettest, coldest phases of the an
nual Point Barrow Resupply ex
pedition around Alaska’s northern
most shores.
Lt. Vernon E. Bailey, who headed
the Army party, said his group
was called in because ice around
Tigvariak and Pitt Point prevent
the Navy ships from landing. Be
and his men flew to Barter Island
in the Arctic July 5 and were met
there by Col. Bemt Balchen, polar
explorer and Arctic adviser to the
Army in the north.
At the island the Army group
picked up several “alligators,” the
amphibious craft used for landing
cargo.
Bailey said the water was so cold
that a man tumbling in could live
only four to six minutes. “We were j
Jucky,” he said. “None of our men
fell overboard.”
The X-ray was so called because
its inventor, Wilhelm Rontgen,
could devise no better name for
what was then considered an “un
known quantity.”
The volt in electricity is named
for the Italian scientist, Alessandro
Volta, who died in 1827.
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JOE FESSIO TELLS OF
PAN AM'S PART IN
AIRLIFT OPERATION
Executive Is Interested in
Long-Range All-Alaska
Tourist Plan
Two reasons for the smile worn
by Pan American World Airways
Pacific Alaska sales manager Joe
Fessio are, first, PAA’s traffic re
cord for the past year and, second,
the part PA A is playing in the mili
tary airlift across the Pacific.
Pan American’s traffic record for
the Pacific Alaska division is bet
ter than ever for this past year,
Fessio said. "It is well-balanced and
there is more tourist traffic than
there has been in the past.”
“The military air lift across the
Pacific was in operation the day
after the Communists invaded South
Korea. The MATS, the Military Air
Transport Service, has in operation
out of San Francisco in excess of
100 4-engined planes running a 7000
mile airlift. While all of the major
' airlines are a part of the service,
PAA is the prime contractor,” Fes
sio explained.
Fessio is interested in the Alaska
tourist organization plans discus
sed at the Chamber of Commerce
recently by George Armitage, Hawal- I
ia expert on tourism, who is travel
ing through Alaska on the invita- I
tion of the Alaska Development
Board. j
A friend of Mr. Armitage, Fessio
plans to meet him in Alaska to talk
about long-range tourist possibilit
ies for the Territory. Plans for next :
year’s Alaska traffic are. now being
made, the Pacific-Alaska division
sales manager said.
“Though the Pacific airflift is
bigger than the Berlin airlift, it is
being accomplished by the airlines
with no cut in service,” Mr. Fessio
said.
“In Southeast Alaska we are main
taining full schedules. This is man
aged by greater utilization of equip
ment,” he explained.
A fishing trip, a flight up Tracy
Arm with Shell Simmons of Al
aska Coastal Airways and a visit
with Royal O’Reilly were on Fessio’s
program while in Juneau.
Don McMorran, Pan American re
gional traffic superintendent, ar
rived from Seattle Friday and Mc
Morran and Fessio left (Saturday)
for Fairbanks.
CAA TO USE
KNOTS FOR
AIR TRAFFIC
Conversion to Nautical
Miles Expected by
July 1, 1952
WASHINGTON, Aug. 28 — OP) —
Civil Aeronautics Administration
tCAAi air traffic controllers will
use knots and nautical miles in
all communications with aircraft
after July 1, 1952.
A similar change was made
standard for U. S. military avia
tion in 1946, CAA said in an
nouncing the move.
A nautical mile is 6,080 feet, a
statute mile is 5,280 feet.
Use of the nautical mile, the CAA
said, simplifies measuring distances
on maps and charts.
Airspeed indicators and similar
instruments aboard planes will re
quire new dials to express their
speed in terms of knots instead of
statute miles per hour.
EVACUATION
TEST MADE, 1
ANCHORAGE
ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Aug. 28—
(B—On thing appeared certain to
civilians and military officials alike
here today:
An attack or threat of an attack \
by any enemy on Alaska could be
followed by a short order evacuation
of civilian dependents of military
personnel.
Dry run tests at military instal- j
lations here and at Fairbanks re- !
suited in smooth, rapid removal of
the civilians Saturday, with only
slight hitches.
In all, 766 women and children
were evacuated—theoretically by air
but actually in automobiles.
The evacuees assembled at a pre
arranged signal at oollection points
about 10 a.m. Three hours and 45
minutes later the last carload was
checked through Palmer, “capital",
of the Matanuska Valley some 60
miles away. The elapsed time in
cluded processing through registra
tion centers.
Seventy-five women and children
were processed for theoretical air
plane flight in three minutes al
though none took to the air.
j An attack probably would divert
all avilable aircraft, officials said,
and it would be necessary to utilize
other means of travel.
In theory, the civilians who were
processed Saturday were continued
on the road by motor convoys over
, the Glenn and Richardson highways
to the Alaska Highway. Their event
ual destintion, had the practice run
been carried to its ultimate conclu
sion, would have been the United
j States. All were returned to Anchor
age as soon as the test was finished.
Fairbanks reported much the same
results as 50 families at Ladd and
I 10 at Eielson Air Force Bases partic
ipated in similar activties. A power
failure delayed notification of the
participants at first but the test
was declared a success once this
trouble was cleared up.
PASEY MFG. MAN HERE
AAios J. Jones of the I*asey Mfg.
Co., of Hoquiam, Wn. is a guest at
I the Baranof Hotel.
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TOM GEORGE invites YOU to the
COUNTRY CLUB
Seafood... Steaks
Chicken Dinners
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Dining... Dancing
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Liquor Store in Connection
Open All Night
HARRY BRANDT IS
LEAVING UNIVERSITY 1
FOR SITKA SCHOOL
Harry A. Brandt, Dean of Men
at the University of Alaska since
January 1, 1948, has said "goodbye"
to his friends in College and Fair
banks. He and Mrs. Brandt left
August 26, driving to Haines en
route to Sitka where he will take
over his new duties as Administra
tive Executive of the Sheldon Jack
son Junior College.
Mr. Brandt has spent the last
nine years in Alaska and has had
wide experience in the Territory. A
native of Wisconsin, he was grad
uated from the University of Min
nesota, has spent many years in
educational YMCA work.
When World War II started,
Harry Brandt joined the USO
Overseas Staff, in 1942 was assigned
to Seward, a year later to S'kagway.
He was director of the Fairbanks
USO from 1943 until the USO's
were closed December 31, 1947.
At this time Mr. Brandt came to
the University as Dean of Men and
Administrative Assistant to the
President. While with the USO he
i had helped to set up college edu
cational courses for men in uni
form; in his position at the Uni
versity he continued these pro
grams.
Harry Brandt will be inducted
into his new position as Admin
i istrative Executive of Sheldon Jack
json Junior College on September 1,
1950,
LOSS OF GEMS
REPORTED BY
SCREEN STAR
NEW YORK, Aug. 28—(.41—New
York police have arranged to ques
tion screen star Hedy Lamarr today
about her $250,000 worth of missing
j jewels.
The actress reported the gem.%
missing Saturday while visiting New
York City at the Sherry-Netherland
Hotel. She has been staying at a
summer resort at Southhampton,
Long Island, about 100 miles east J
of here.
Hedy Lamarr had delayed re
porting the loss, thinking she might
! have left the jewels at Southhamp
ton.
WOMAN, CHILDREN
REMOVED BY PLANE,
GROUNDED VESSEL
! A woman and two children were
| removed from the grounded motor
vessel Mahina Ho Saturday by a
light plane from the Cordova Air
Service which landed on the beach.
The vessel was grounded off Cape
Suckling 80 miles southwest of Cor
dova last Thursday. The three men
aboard remained, Coast Guard head
quarters reported here today.
Eows and arrows are the only
weapons of the Siriono Indians of
Bolivia.
BUSINESS FOB SALE
CROCK’S BOAT SHOP — All equipped and
ready to go with a fully furnished, residence
next door. Boat Lumber, Plans, Table Saw,
Jointer, Band Saw, Sanders, Drills, Paints,
etc. etc. Mechanical Tools—enough to start
a garage — Sockets, Box Wrenches, Pipe
Threaders, Cutters, Vises, Tap and Die Sets,
Floor Jack and many more tools and miscel
laneous parts too numerous to mention.
That’s not ail — There’s a 16 H.P. Outboard,
1939 Pickup, Skiffs, Punts, etc.
Put them all together and you’ve got one
• of the biggest second hand stores in Alaska.
Priced far below the actual inventory—$3,
500.00 Cash or may talk terms. Call 9 or
777.
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