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RATIONAL REPRESENTATIVES — Alaska Newspapers, 1411
fenrth Avenue Bldg., Seattle, Wash.
Wednesday, October 11, 1950
ELECTION IS OVER
The people of Juneau went to the polls yesterday
In almost unprecedented numbers. The total vote,
1,719, was within 82 of the total recorded two years
ago when the fish trap referendum pulled a heavy
vote.
While the trend of the present election, in the
First Division at least, is clear, the final count will
not be in for some time yet, perhaps days. It was,
quite clearly, a Republican victory in the First Divi
sion. Delegate Bartlett, who had carried this division
In previous years by four to one or more, ran only
two to one this time.
Top spots in the legislative column for this Divi
sion are held by Republicans, on the basis of returns
presently at hand, and there are no indications that
this will change.
Juneau, too, appears to have done particularly
well with one new Senator and at least three Rep
resentatives apparently assured.
Fishery Policy Already Delayed Far Too
Long
(Seattle Times)
Much progress has been made in recent decades in
settling questions pertaining to international fisheries
relationships in the Pacific Ocean. The establishment
by treaty between the United States and the Dominion
of Canada of commissions to control the North Pacific
halibut fishery and the sockeye salmon run of the
Fraser River have beer, notable examples. More re
cently, the fisheries division of the American State
Department has concluded treaties with Mexico and
with Costa Rica, governing the tuna fisheries of their
respective ocean areas.
There remain, however, a number of problems that
are likely to produce controversy in the future unless
other international agreements of this nature are
reached. Various Central and South American coun
tries, for instance, have begun to claim exclusive
jurisdiction over all fisheries within 200 miles of their
coasts. Further treaty agreements with some of these
countries will be needed to settle the rights of American
fishermen to the fisheries, more especially the tuba
fisheries, they have developed in Pacific waters.
Of more immediate concern, however, in the opin
ion of the Pacific Northwest fishing industry, is the
question of a policy for dealing with Japan with re
spect to North Pacific fisheries. In a proclamation
issued in 194L-, the American government held that if
a nation has fully developed the fisheries in its con
tiguous waters, it should have exclusive jurisdiction
over them. The United States and Canada have done
that in the case of their Pacific halibut and salmon
fisheries.
In anticipation of the eventual drafting of a peace
treaty with Japan, the Canadian ministry of fisheries
has issued a public demand that the fisheries of the
American continent be affirmatively protected when
ever that treaty is concluded. To the disappointment
of the Pacific Coast, the American State Department
so far has failed, or declined, to assert any such
positive policy.
That such a policy be formulated and announced
is being urged by a committee on fisheries and terri
torial waters of the American Bar Association, headed
by Edward W. Allen of Seattle, chairman of the In
ternational Fisheries Commission and a member of
the International Pacific Salmon Fisheries Commis
sion. The committee emphasizes “the importance and
urgency of our government coming out in the open
as soon as possible with an affirmative and far-sighted
policy for the problems of Pacific fisheries."
•The American public, the Bar Association com
mittee holds, "has a right to be consulted in the estab
lishment of policies of this character before commit
ments are made by any government department, even
the Department of State'.” ‘
That opinion is shared by the fishing industry
and fishermen of the Pacific Coast. To have the
support of so influential a body as the American Bar
Association should be helpful in obtaining a definite
statement of United States policy on this question
that has been too long delayed
The person who turns his check in the toush
world of today runs the risk of getting his block
knocked off.
You can’t win. During a depression, the wolf’s
at the door, and during a period of prosperity, the
tax collector's there.
“A scientist is making a study to determine what
has the most voracious appetitie. We can tell him.
The human ego has.
Hie Washington
Merry-Go-Round
(Continued j^cm Page One)
treated, and later got a more hos
pitable reception from Camp Pick
ett officers. They have decided
however, that it would be a good
idea to drop in at the other camps
for Congressional inspections.
Note—What Gen. Collins was
driving at when he emphasized the
importance of rank was that every
enlisted man has a chance to be
promoted, and that junior officers
and non-coms are the backbone of
the Army.
Kaiser’s Gamble
Private enterprise, according to
some people, is dead. But the other
day, Henry Kaiser proved that it
isn’t. He paid $87,000,000 back to
Uncle Sam which he had borrowed
on a gamble that big business had
branded as foolhardy.
Back in the early stages of World
War XI, Kaiser, then building ships
at breakneck speed, was frequent
ly short of steel. Finally, he de
cided to build a steel plant in
southern California, the first of its
kind in that part of the nation.
Heretofore, the big steel companies
of the Pittsburgh-Cleveland-Young
stown area had dominated all mar
kets, even supplying the west coast.
They argued that the west was
too sparsely populated to supixirt a
steel industry of its own, flatly re
fused to expand in that region. At
Geneva. Utah, the U. S. Govern
ment, contending that the big steel
companies were wrong, pioneered its
own plant for western operation.
But even farther west, and with
out government subsidy, Kaiser er
ected the Fontana Steel Mill, whol
ly owned by himself though financ
ed with a wartime loan of $123,805,
000.
Alter the war, when competitors
expected Fontana to close down,
Kaiser expanded. He has paid $21,
000,000 to the RFC on interest
alone, expanded his plant with $30,
000,000 of private funds, and the
other day repaid all the money
borrowed from the government.
Kaiser’s gamble in private enter
prise is in contrast to various other
private steel companies which wait
ed for the government to set up its
own plants, then bought them in
after the war, for a song.
U. S. Steel, for instance, pur
chased the government’s Geneva,
Utah, plant for 20 cents on the
dollar. It also purchased Uncle
Sam's steel mills at Homestead
and Duguesne, Pa., for 33 cents on
the dollar, and a blast furnace at
Duluth, Minn., for 24 cents. The
GENERAL CONTRACTORS PHONE 357
Glacier Construction Co.
New Building — Remodeling — Cabinet Work
Plastering — Concrete Pouring
Sand and Gravel Hauling
! total government investment in
| these plants was $527,000,000. The I
| price paid for the by U. S, Steel
I after the war was $148,000,000.
Republic Steel also bought the
government's South Chicago plant
Tor 30 cents on the dollar, while
Inland Steel picked up two govern
ment blast furnaces at Indiana
Harbor, Ind., for 38 cents on the
j dollar.
I Meanwhile, Kaiser, the. man who
believes that private initiative is
not dead, paid 100 cents on the
dollar, plus interest.
Taft's Press Relations
Ohio Senator Bob Taft is not al
ways smart with his public relations
but he was smart enough the other
day not to get caught in a radio
debate with forthright and pos
sibly unfriendly newsmen.
Scheduled to appear on a ccast
to-coast network "reporters round
up,’’ Taft was to be interviewed
by Joe Loftus of the New York,
Times, Sam Stavisky of the Wash- j
ington Post, and Cecil Brown of the !
Mutual Broadcasting System. At
the last minute, howeviV', Taft
telephoned the program director,
and refused to appear unless he
could name his own reporters, i
In order to save the program
from cancelation, Taft was given
his way. He selected four Ohio
newsmen whom he knew personally
—Alvin Silverman of the Cleveland
Plain Dealer, Jack Kennon of the
Cleveland News, Richard Maher of
the Cleveland Press, and Clingan
Jackson of the Youngstown Vindi
cator. They dealt with him gently.
Texes Tax Haven
If you want to cheat Uncle Sam
on your income taxes and not go
to jail, you should arrange to do
vnur cheating in Texas. That is tfie
private advice sorrowfully given by
Internal Revenue agents as a result
of lenient convictions handed
down by Federal Judges in Texas.
The latest of these came from
U S. Judge T. Whitfield Davidson of
Dallas, when he imposed a fine of
only $20,000 on E. P. Mead, mil
lionaire Texas bakery owner and
onetime President of the Gideon
i Society which distributes Bibles in
I hotel rooms.
Mead had cheated the govern
ment of $245,593.78—though part
of this had been outlawed for crim
inal prosecution due to the fact
that the T-Men were a little slow
in catching up with Mead and
the statute of limitations#had run
out.
Mead had operated a neat fraud
scheme whereby invoices for bak
ery products bore instructions to
pay Mead personally, rather than
the bakery. Thus he concealed a
large part of his income.
When he went to trial however.
Mead hired one of the most polit
ically potent attorneys in Texas, J.
Percy Rice. And when Mead ap
peared before Judge Whitfield, the
Judge asked him this amazing ques
tion:
••It is difficult to arrive at a
penalty, but the court will ask Mr.
Mead, for the purpose of determin
ing his financial ability—would you
rather pay a $20,000 fine, or pay
$5,000 to $10,000 and take a short
probated sentence?”
“I would rather pay the $20,000,”
Mead replied.
Whereupon the Judge assessed
the fine and Mead walked out of
court.
Note—Judge Davidson is the same
judge who refused to extradite
Freeman Burford, the. big oilman
indicted in Louisiana in conjunc
tion with the bribing of ex-Gover
nor Dick Leche of Louisiana. Lechc
was given a 10-year sentence, but
Burford, thanks to Judge Davidson,
Was never extradited from Texas
back to Louisiana to stand trial.
Mississippi Health Program
Washington health authorities
are watching a Mississippi country
doctor who is bringing health to
rural crossroad communities. He is
Dr. Felix J. Underwood, who has
turned down various honors and
fancy salaries to stay at home and
fight for his own health program
as executive officer of the Missis
October 11
Charles W. Carter
Allamae Scott
Greg Ripke
Yvonne Bost
Molly and Terry McauLghlin
Joanne Nowell
Arnold Savela
Rosemary Doogan
Lorene Schmitz
Alyva Fein
Andrew Sutton
Senna Powers
Alexander Miller
Lawrence Carlson
Florence Notterstad
Andrew Nelson
sippi Health Board.
Today, 26 years after Dr. Under
wood started his drive, Mississippi
has launched a medical and nursing
scholarship and hospital building
program which the U. S. Public
Health Service praises to the skies.
Thanks to this far-seeing phys
ician plus an educational campaign
by the Lions, Kiwanis, Rotary clubs
with the Farm Bureau, Mississippi
now:
1. Offers $5,000 medical scholar
ships to young men who pledge to
practice in rural communities of
5,000 people or less for a minimum
of two years. Every year that the
new doctor practises in the Mis
sissippi smail town, one-fifth of the
$5,000 loan is wiped out. Twelve
Negroes have received these loan
scholarships. A total of 229 students
have qualified and received the
scholarships.
2. Offers $3,000 graduate schol
arships to nurses who promise to
return to Mississippi and teach
nursing at least one year. The debt
is cut $1,000 a year during the
time the nurse is training other
nurses in her home state schools.
3. Set aside $40,000,000 of state
and local funds to build 03 new
hospitals and 30 health centers. The
goal is four hospital beds per 1,000
people so located that they axe
within 15 miles of 90 percent of the
state's population. Before the pro
gram got under way with an O.K.
by the 1946 legislature the state had
only 1.6 hospital beds per 1,000 peo
ple, and 24 counties had no hos
pital facilities at all.
4. Authorized a 4-year medical
school and hospital in Jackson.
This last step was taken by the'
legislature at the request of Gov
ernor Fielding Wright this year.
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FUNDS FOR HARBOR
PROJECTS CUT BUT
2 ALASKA STEMS OK
WASHINGTON, Oct. 11 — UPl'—
Army Engineers issued a new list
today paring the country's expendi
ture for flood control and river and
harbor projects in the present fis
cal year from $636,504,000 to $618,
549.000.
The list, reflecting last minute
reductions ordered by Congress, did
not affect the two Alaska projects
included. These are the Nome har
bor project, left at $800,000, and the
Wrangell Narrows project, left at
$750,000.
• TII)E TABLE
•
• October 12
• High tide 2:04 a m., 18.2 ft.
• Low ticje 8:02 a m., -0.4 ft.
• High tide 2:08p.m., 20.2 ft.
• Low tide 8:34 p.m., -3.4 ft,
Crossword Puzzle
ACROSS
I L Male duck
| 6. Issue forth
13. Stiff
i 14. Long narrow
clefts
between
heights
| 15. Genus of *
grasses
i 16. Palm leaf
17. Sea eagle
18. You and I
19. Plateaus
21. Ibsen charactei
22. Roman road
25. Color
26. Metric land
measures
27. Posts of
staircases
29. Person
addressed
SL Bird related
to the loon
32. Idolize
36. Expression of
repugnance
38. Indications of
value
89. Diplomacy
42. Japanese sash
44. “Lights out'*
45. Old musical
note
46. Lined
48. Football
positions
abbr.
49. Metal fastener
60. Third king
of Judah
61. Another tims
64. Recited
musically
66. General fight
67. Look on with
contempt
68. Newspapers
m m </>
nor
Solution of Yesterday’s Puzzle
DOWN
1. Sketch
2. Machine for
fastening
steel girders
S. Tears of one’s
life
4. Relatives j
6. Dutch seaport !
6. Uneven «
7. Disease
8. The birds
9. Symbol for
nickel
10. Close: poetio
11. Concise
12. Ancient slave*
20. Bitter vetch
23. Female sheen
24. Refute
26. Examination
of account*
28. Side of a
triangle
30. Wood 'll
propeller
33. So. American
wood soriel
34. Answers
35. Ancient Jewish
6ect
37. Structures foe
human ^
habit :i!oa
38. Some tiling
easy: an*
39. Lukewarm
40. Bring into tin*
41. 1 ips up
43. Spear of eras*
46. Hindu princes*
47. Moist
52. Stranger
d Into
a M "blew
tribe
53. Liquor
55. Mi ! works
abbr. ^
sa.
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20 YEARS AGO the empire
OCTOBER 11, 1930
In the presence of a host of friends, Miss Gertrude McGrath,
daughter of Mrs. Charles M. McGrath of Sitka, became the bride of Mr.
John Joseph Conway, son of Mrs. Martin Conway of Skagway. The
Rev. G. Edward Gallant, pastor of the Catholic Church in Skagway,
officiated at the ceremony and nuptial mass In the Church of the Na
tivity. Mrs. Theodore A. Hellenthal attended the bride, and Mr. Pros |
Ganty of Skagway was best man. Messrs. James E. Barragar, Jr., and
James McNaughton were ushers. Violin, organ, ’cello and vocal music
•was by Mr. Willis E. Nowell, Mrs. Trevor Davis, Miss Stella Jones and
Mrs. C. P. Jenne. The wedding breakfast was In the home of Mr. and
Mrs. John A. Hellenthal. Mr. Conway and his bride were to live in
Skagway, where he was postmaster.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Christman and child, formerly of Douglas, were
making their home at the Meadow Shop, Third and Franklin. Mis.
Christman was assisting Mr. Fulbright in his shop work.
I _
Deer were plentiful in the Keku Islands district — no lack of venison |
anywhere — said Judge V. A. Paine, who came here on business from his j
Keku Island fox ranch. ,
Frank Snyder of Vancouver, Wash., arrived on the Northland to
visit his sister, Mrs. A. E. Goetz, in Dougins. Among other Northland
passengers were Mrs. Ed Martinson, son Evert and baby, who returned
to their Douglas home after a four-month visit in Puget Sound cities.
Arne Shudshift of Douglas learned that his wife had undergone
surgery in the Virginia Mason Hospital, Seattle.
Weather: High, 42; low, 39; misting.
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I Daily Lessons in English tv. l. cordon |
WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “Having eaten our dinner,
1 the waiter bowed us to the door.” This implies that the waiter ate our
dinner. Say, "When we had eaten our dinner, the waiter bowed us to
the door.”
OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Ceramic. Pronounce se-ram-ik, E as
i in SEE unstressed, A a sin RAM, acent second syllable.
OFTEN MISSPELLED: Eyelet and eyeing; observe the E following
the Y.
SYNONYMS: Gainly, graceful, shapely, well-formed.
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:
PARADOX; a principle, belief, or doctrine contrary to received opinion;
a self-contradictory statement. “The fact that he is a very religious
: man makes his statement a paradox.”
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by
ROBERTA LEE
Q. Do you consider it good manners for one to keep opening and
closing his mouth while chewing his food?
A. No. It most certainly is not difficult to keep the lips closed
while chewing food, provided the bites taken are of normal size. It
reveals considerable ill-breeding when one persists in taking huge mouth
fuls of food at a time.
Q. How soon after a visit should a house guest write a “bread and
butter” letter?
A. Immediately upon arriving home, the same day if possible.
Under no circumstances should such a letter be delayed for a week or
more.
Q. In what way should a divorced woman distinguish herself from
the second Mrs. James Gray?
A. By prefixing her maiden name to her former husbands's sur
name, as "Mrs. Helen Smith Gray.”
LOOK and LEARN a! c. GORDON
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1. What is the basic, essential difference between paste and glue?
2. What is the largest inland sea in the world?
3. What colony in America was settled by people who came here in
boats called “The Ark" and “The Dove”?
4. Through whom does an American author or publisher take out a
copyright — through the Patent Office, the National Bureau of Standards,
or the Library of Congress?
5. What British ruler ordered Mary, Queen of Scots, beheaded?
ANSWERS:
1. Paste is of vegetable origin, while glue is of animal origin.
2. The Caspian Sea.
3. Maryland.
4. Through the Library of Congress.
E. Qaeen Elizabeth.
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Weather conditions ana temper
atures at various Alaska points
also on the Pacific Coast, at 4:30
a.m., 120th Meridian Time, and
released by the Weather Eureau
sre as follows:
Anchorage . 33—Cloudy
Annette Island . 48—Rain
Barrow .21—Cloudy
Bethel ... 26—Clear
Cordova . 41—Rain
Dawson . 26—Clcudy
Edmonton .35—Partly Cloudy
Fairbanks . 19—Snow
Haines .... 44—Rain
Havre, . 44—Clear
Juneau Airport .... 45—Rain
Kodiak . 36—Partly Cloudy
Kotzebue . 21—Clear
McGrath . 15—Clear
Nome . 25—Clear
Northway . 26—Snow
Petersburg . 49—Rain
Portland ... 54—Fog
Prince George. 36—Clear
Seattle 47—Partly Cloudy
Sitka 47—Rain
Whitehorse . 37—Cloudy
Yakutat .*. 49—Rain
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Phone RG7 Juneau, Alaska
Home Office Colman Bid"., Seattle
V. F. W.
Taku Post Ho. 5559
Meeting every Thursday in
the C.I.O. Hall at 8:00 p.m.
UteErwiaFeed Co.
Office In Case Lot Grocery
Phone 704
HAY, GRAIN, COAL
and STORAGE
§TE¥ENS9
LADIES’—MISSES’
READY-TO-WEAR
Seward Street Near Third
The Charles W, Carier
Mortuary
f *
Fourth and Franklin Sta.
PHONE 138
Casler's Men's Wear
McGregor Sportswear
Stetson and Mallory **»*•
Arrow Shirts and Underwear
Allen Edmonds Shoe*
Skyway Luggage
BOTANY
"500"
CLOTHES
NUNN-BUSH SHOES
STETSON HATS
Quality Work Clothing
FRED HENNING
Complete outfitter for Men
R. W. COWLING
COMPANY
Dodjre—Plymouth—Chryuler
DeBoto—Dodge Truck*
SHAFFER’S
SANITARY MEAT
FOR BETTER MEATS
13—PHONES—4»
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MOUNT JUNEAU LODGE NO. 147
SJtUOND and FOURTH
Monday of each month
In Scottish Rite Temple
beginning at 7:30 p. m.
Carson A. Ijtwrence,
n
Worshipful Master;
JAMES W. LEI VERS, Secretary.
B. P. 0. ELKS
jvLoetins every vveanesaay at 8
P.M. Visiting brothers welcome.
WALLIS S. GEORGE, Exalted
Ruler. W. H. BIGGS, Secretary.
Moose Lodge No. 7G0
Regular Meetings Each Friday
Governor—
ARNOLD L JUANCIS
Secretary—
WALTER R. HERMANSEN
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Brownie's Liquor Store
Pheec IN 131 S«. rrukUa
V O Boi U*M
"The Rexall Store"
Tour Jtellable Pharnwlst*
BUTLER-MAURO
DRUG CO.
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Alaska Music Supply
Arthur M. Uggen, Manager
Pianos—Mnsicu. Instruments
and Supplies
■Phone 206 ..Second and SewurdL
j
GENERAL PAINTS
and WALLPAPER
Idea! Print Store
| Phono 549 Pred W. Wendt
Card Beverage Co.
Wholesale 805 10th St.
PHONE 2J6-DAS1 or NIGHT
for MIXERS • t SODA POP
The Alaskan Hotel
Newly Renovated Rooms
ut Reasonable Kates
PHONE SINGLE O
PHONE 688
Thomas Hardware Co.
FAINTS - OILS
Bonders’ and Shelf
HARDWARE
Remington Typewriters
SOLD and SERVICED by
J. 5. Harford Co.
“Our Doorstep Is Worn *y
Satisfied Customer*'’
FORD AGENCY
(Authorized Dcaiera)
GREASES - GAS — OIL
Jeasaa Motor Co.
Foot of Main Street
MAKE
JUNEAU DAIRIES
DELICIOUS ICE CREAM
a dally habit—ask for it by name
Juneau Dairies, Inc.
Chrysler Marine Engines
MACHINE SHOP
Marine Hardware
Chas. G. Warner Co.
HOME GROCERY
Phones 146 and 342
Dome Liquor Store—TeL 699
American Meat — Phone 38
To Banish “Blue Monday”
To give you more freedom
from work — THY
Alaska Laundry
H. S. GRAVES
The Clothing Maw
LEVTS OVERALLS
for Boy*
BLACKWELL’S
CABINET SHOP
117 Main St. Phone 771
nigh Quality Cabinet Work ,
for Home, Office or Store