LYLE E. MANSON
BAND DIRECTOR,
, PUBLIC SCHOOLS
Lyle E. Manson of Marlon, Iowa,
will be the new instrumental direc
tor of the Juneau Public Schools,
according to anouncement made to
day by Superintendent Sterling
Sears. Manson will direct the bands
of the public schools and will very
probably take over the directorship
of the Juneau City Band.
Joseph M. Shofner, who has been
instrumental director, resigned on
the last day of school. Superinten
dent Sears said today, and we had
to take quick action contacting
available music directors in order
to complete the teaching staff for
the beginning of the school year.
Manson, young and unmarried
and with a band directing back
ground, exchanged favorable com
munications with myself and the
School Board with the result that a
contract was sent to him, which was
immediately signed, and returned
here, Sears said.
Manson is a graduate or the
famous United States School of Mu
tic in Washington, D.C. For some
time he has been director of the
wellknown Coe College band which
has made many prominent appear
ances in eastern musical concerts.
Besides band director he has also
directed symphony orchestras. He
plays the bass horn, clarinet and
also bass viol. He is also a vocalist
appearing as soloist in various
choral groups.
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I. GOLDSTEIN
LOWELL THOMAS,
GLOBAL EXPLORER,
ON ALASKA JUNKET
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Heady for the next adventure in
his eventful life, intrepid Lowell
Thomas arrived from Seattle yes
terday, but declined to discuss his
further destination. i
The famed global explorer did say
he is glad to be on his way again;
glad, too, that, despite his serious
i accident in Tibet, he is able to walk
I and climb without crutches or cane.
He did say he was to meet his old
friend. Col. Bernt Balchen "for an
other junket.”
Thomas said. “The Korean busi
ness upset my long-laid plans. How
ever. it is nice to know that, In
Alaska. I am half-way to the Orient.
In this uncertain world, who can
say what my destination is?”
Colonel Balchen, long commander
of the 10th Air Rescue Squadron
and recently named also as Arctic
advisor to the Alaskan Air Com
mand. was to come here from El
mendorf Air Force Base, Anchorage,
this afternoon.
Lowell Thomas returned repeat
edly to that personality.
"Balchen is a tremendous figure
in aviation,” he remarked. “I have
been on the fringes of flying since
1924, when I was historian for the
first flight around the world. This,
will be fine—I haven’t seen him for
several years."
Shortly after leaving the Pan
American airplane which brought
him here, Lowell Thomas was in
his room at the Baranof Hotel
rigorously going through the muscle
exercises prescribed by a noted New
York “ski-doctor” who wants to
make Thomas’ injured leg stronger
than the good one.
Thomas worked hard at the leg
exercises so he could get off crutches
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| in time to be best man for his son,
Lowell Thomas, Jr., at his recent
wedding. Thomas, Jr., was on his
first expedition with his father in
Tibet and according to the injured
man, "Without question, he saved
my life.”
Thomas is a lean, trim, somewhat
slight-figured man with steel-blue
eyes, and wavy dark hair in which
a trace of silver barely glints. He
looks ready for any venture that
may show up—and usually does,
when the Thomas family is around.
"Why, when my son and his brido
were in Hawaii on their honey
moon," he said, “Mauna Loa put on
that show. Things always happen.”
He added that his son had ex
pected to go back to Central Asia
but, with developments in Korea,
"that door was closed, so he is stay
ing home to write the greatly needed
book on Tibet."
First Visit in 35 Years
This is Lowell Thomas' first trip
to Alaska in 35 years. When in the
North in 1914 and 1915, Thomas was
one of the first persons ever to
take moving pictures in Alaska. He
made long journeys—down the Yu
kon; shooting the rapids at treach
erous Miles Canyon near White
horse; into the Klondike; to Fair
banks and Nome, often with such
famous pioneer figures as General
Richardson and Bishop Rowe.
He hopes to run into some of his
old friends—Jack McCord, for in
stance, a youngster then, who now
lives at McCord on Kodiak Island
and has a cattle ranch on his own
little island. “Jack was one of Rex
Beach’s characters,” Thomas said
reminiscently.
Then there is Bobby Sheldon, i
whom he knew 35 years ago (and
saw last nightl. “He was quite a
boy," Thomas reflected. “He had
the first concession on the Fair
banks-Valdez trail.
“Guess Alaska just naturally re
mained my favorite place in the
world,” he mused. “You see, I came
from a Colorado gold mining camp
—Cripple Creek. I knew the men
who worked on the beach at Nome.
I knew them on the Porcupine and
the Kuskokwim. I always intended
to write a book about Alaska, then
the First World War came along.”
This time, Thomas came directly
! from a week in the California red
woods—the annual week-long Bo
hemian Grave encampment, where
his companions included former
President Herbert Hoover, General
Wedemeyer and such notables.
After V\ war ihnmas ■ »md u
“startling” for the airplane to land
facing Mendenhall Glacier. His
heart “popped out” to get into an
automobile and drive on a smooth
highway to the city. And in town—
"Why, the plank sidewalks are gone.
The Baranof, a hotel comparable to
the Waldorf, is unbelievable.
“I was shocked," said Thomas, "to
learn of Capt. Lathrop's death. I
had looked forward to talking to
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him, and to catch up with the great
career he built since those early
days.”
Thomas was busy last evening
looking up old friends, dining at
the Governor's House and tulking
with Maynard Miller, field director
of the Juneau Icefield Research
Project sponsored by the American
Geographical Society. He expects to
visit the Ice Cap with Colonel
Balchen.
Lowell Thomas, Jr., was with Mil
ier and Bradford Washburn on the
Brady Icefield Expedition in the
Glacier Bay country in 1940.
Thomas, Sr., is accompanied by
his cameraman, John Roberts.
Uncommunicative about his im
mediate plans, Thomas did give a
sort of reason for this trip.
"A long time ago,” he said. “I
promised my wife a honeymoon in
Alaska. We were married in 1917,
then the World War came along
and we went into that together. You
might call this a reconnaissance trip
—maybe we’ll honeymoon here next
year!”
The medieval walls and old build
ings of Helmstedt, Germany, are
well preserved.
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CRASHES IN FAR
NORTM KILLED
OTTAWA, Aug. 1—'VPI—Nine men
were killed yesterday in the crash
of a Royal Canadian Air Force
four-engine Lancaster 600 miles
south of the North Pole.
One of the dead was believed to
be a member of the U.S. Air Force.
Seven others were RCAF airmen
and one was a civilian employee of
the Canadian Department of Trans
port.
The plane, making a reconnais
sance, crashed and burned while
dropping supplies to a weather sta
tion operated jointly by Canada and
the United States.
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H lii# you should be a Member of the AlasUa National Guard
The 208th Infantry Battalion (SEP), Alaska National Guard is being formed throughout Southeast Alaska. Units have already been formed in Ketchikan and Sitka, these
units are nearing completed strength. The 208th Infantry Battalion (SLP) is a federally recognized unit, with headquarters formed in Juneau.
WHAT IT MEANS TO THE CITY
1. The National Guard unit in Juneau will add a non-seasonal payroll to the city's income. 2. An Armory Building is already in existence. 3. Maintaining a National
Guard unit as part of the federal organization adds increased community pride and prestige. 4. Juneau would take its place in defense leadership in Alaska.
WHAT IT MEANS TO THE INDIVIDUAL JOINING
1. Drills attended are paid for on the basis of one full day's pay for the grade held for each 2 hour drill period.
2. Take advantage of your wartime service by join ing the Alaska National Guard while vacancies exist by enlisting in your old grade.
3. Military training is time consuming. In case of an emergency training received now will prepare you to accept leadership and responsibility.
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