Alaska Musk
Trail Report
Given by Schapiro
Juneau-Douglas Concert Associa
tion committee members received
with applause the report Saturday
of treasurer Will Reedy that tickets
sold to date—season and single
tickets at the concert last Tues
day-totaled $4,635.
The report was made at a lunch
eon Staurday in the Iris room of
the Bcvanof which honored Mr.
and Mrs. Maxim Schapiro before
their departure for Petersburg,
Wrangell. Ketchikan and Prince
Rupert where Schapiro and Donald
Gramm will • complete the circuit
of the first concert of the Alaska
Music Trail's new season.
At the luncheon meeting, presided
over by Mrs. John McCormick, pre
sident of the concert association,
Mr Schapiro explained the workings
of the Alaska Music Trail circuit,
started two years ago and now cov
ering ten Alaska towns and Prince
Rupert. “Each town contributes ac
cording to its ability to pay,” Schap
iro explained, “the larger towns be
coming the benefactors of the
smaller towns—and in a measure,
the smaller towns, contributing also
by reducing the total cost to the
larger towns."
Bookings must be made a year
in advance, Mr. Schapiro said, and
last season, because he had no guar
antee that the Alaska Music Trail
would continue another season, “I
had to sign contracts myself so, I
‘stuck my neck out’ and don't know
what would have happened had
I had contracts for six artists and
no place for them to appear.”
The artists Schapiro books for
the Alaska Music Trail are top art
ists. “Maybe not the ‘Olympians,’
which some of the concert groups
ask for, but they are the best. Even
if one could find one of the ‘Olym
pians' with time for a three and a
half week trip to Alaska between
the Metropolitan and concert en
gagements for which they are book
ed a year in advance, their man
agers would not allow them to ac
cept the small fees you are able
to pay.
"How do I manage to get the mu
sicians who have come to Alaska
for the Alaska Music Trail? It is a
trick," Schapiro explained. "I take
advantage of my friendship for
the musicians. I tell them about
romantic beautiful Alaska and won
derful people they will meet here,
and appeal to their charity, tell
them how much it will mean to Al
askans to have the Music Trail
bring them concerts. . then they
come, and are delighted with Al
aska, and tell their friends among
muscians—. You see, it is getting
easier as time goes on.”
Opera in Miniature
The next concert will be vocal |
duo, Tomiko Kanazawa and Cesare
Curi. "Kanazawa is the world’s
greatest Madame Butterfly,” he said,
“and Curzi is one of the finest ten
ors of the country. Their program
which will be in costume is terrific.
There will be a scene from La Tra
viata and another from Madame
Butterfly; while they are changing
costumes, piano solos by Richard
Cummings, their very exceptional
accompanist. Then some light
opera.”
Bronislav Gimpel will be the artist
for the spring concert, and he is one
of the six great violinists of the
world, Mr. Schapiro said. “He will
be the soloist with the London
Philharmonic under Sir Thomas
Beecham's direction in December.
He has a friend who had been to
Alaska, he was interested in my
little trick, and he is a friend of
mine, so, we have him on our
program for this season.
Program possibilities for next
year were discussed and Schapiro
said he would let the Alaska Music
Trail members know within the
next few weeks regarding possible
artists for the circuit.
Management is handled in Seattle
by Mrs. Cornelia Turner.
“All the way, we are getting
something for nothing," Schapiro
said. “Mrs. Turner manages the Al
aska Music Trail for less than usual
fees, the artists come to Alaska for
their expenses and what little we
can pay them," and Schapiro then
explained that he came this time
as accompanist, with no fee and
only his expenses paid.
“I asked you not to judge this
project until after two years. We
have started our second year—and
I think it is no longer an experi
ment. It is a tremendous success—
due to the enthusiasm and coopera
tion of the concert association here
and the others in Alaska. And your
Wildcat Strike
Of Longshoremen
/LI N. Y. Spreads
NEW YORK, Oct. 22—UP!—The
mushrooming strike of rebel long
shoremen spread today to Staten
Island and threatened to tie up
the entire port of New York by
nightfall.
Police headquarters reported dock
work almost at a standstill in Man
hattan, Brooklyn and Staten Is
land. A general work stoppage also
was reported on the New Jersey
waterfront, but the full impact of
the strike there was not immediately
clear.
Idle longshoremen, wildcatting
since Monday against the orders
of their union leadership, gathered
in large groups—sometimes as many
as several hundred—at pier en
trances.
Tire strikers are protesting the
terms of a new wage contract rati
fied recently by a majority of the
65,000 ILA members from Maine
to Virginia.
They v ant a 25-cents-an-hour pay
increase and a revision of sev
eral other contract clauses. The new
contract gave them a 10-cent hourly
boo: t, bringing average wage to
$2.10*
wonderful country to which famous
musicians will come—just to see
Alaska, ' the "father” of the Al
aska Music Trail said.
Studying For Ph. I>.
With Mrs. Schapiro, charming
wife of the famous pianist, who like
her husband says that she has “fall
en in love with Alaska.” Schapiro
and Donald Gramm complete their
Alaska tour during the coming week.
Mrs. Schapiro then sails from New
York for Paris where she is study
ing under a Fullbright fellowship
for her doctor's degree in education
under Columbia University. A cell
ist, her field is rehabilitation of the
newly blinded adult through music.
During two years in the army dur
ing the war, she worked with blinded
soldiers and their rehabilitation
through music.
Aim of Schapiro is to increase the
Alaska Music Trail circuit to offer
four concerts a year—two in the
fall and two in spring.
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Girl Is Cut in Two
In creak Accident
CASA GRANDE, Ariz., Oct. 22—
.PI—The projecting edge of a knife
like bulldozer blade slashed across
a truck carrying 19 Papago Indians,
killing nine and injuring four.
The 3,600-pound blade was being
hauled on the back of a flatbed
trailer. The accident occurred Sat
urday night on a bridge 16 miles
south of here.
One victim, a 16-year-old girl, was
cut in two at the waist.
Loen W. Joquin, 20-year-old
Papago Indian, gave this description
of the accident:
“There was a big crash, a lot of
scraping and then a lot of screams."
British Royalty
in Victoria, then
lor 3 Days Rest
VICTORIA, B. C.. Oct. 22—(B—
Another round of official inspec
tions, followed by three days of
welcome rest, were on the sched
ule today for Princess Elizabeth
and Prince Philip.
The royal couple, nearing the
halfway mark of their cross-Canada
junket, arrived here from Van
couver yesterday aboard the Can
adian destroyer Crusader.
Today’s round of activities in
cluded a reception at the city hall,
a meeting with members of the
Provincial Legislature and their
wives and with chiefs of various
Indian bands, a tour of the Es
quimault dockyard and a visit
to the Royal Roads Armed Ser
vices Academy.
At 6 p.m., the Royal party heads
for Eagle Crest Lodge, 125 miles
north of here, for three days of
undisturbed rest.
Staid Victoria abandoned its tra
ditional reserve yesterday to wel
come the Princess and the Prince.
Guns boomed salutes as the des
troyer sailed into the harbor. A
crowd of 15,000 jammed the water
front to cheer the royal party as
it debarked.
The destroyer's officers said the
Prince, a Lieutenant-Commander
in the Royal Navy, spent several
hours inspecting the Crusader dur
in the voyage here from Vancouver.
Chief of Staff
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in lour of Front
Of Indochina
SAIGON, Indochina, Oct. 22—jP)
—Gen. J. Lawton Collins, U.S. Army
Chief of Staff, arrived today for a!
three-day tour of Indochina fight
ing fronts and conferences with
French and Vietnamese officials on
progress of the war against the
Communist led Vietminh.
His trip to this strategic south
east Asian country is accepted here j
as another indication of steadily |
broadening American support and J
concern for the French-Vietnamese I
war effort against Ho Chi Minh’s
Soviet-recognized regime.
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College Boy Tops
Males in Earnings;
He Came lo Alaska
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass., Oct. 22
_ & _ williams College students
earned a 'record $248,959 during
vacation, the student aid office re
ported today.
Biggest single earner among 748
summer workers was Peter Cosgriff.
Denver, Colo., student, who made
$1,350 working on the railroad in
Alaska.
University Test
Uncovers Hew
Salmon Habits
SEATTLE, Oct. 22— UP) —Eleven
college-bred silver salmon have
found their way back "home” to
a concrete vat on the University
of Washington campus.
And they did it even though they
lfadj to "climb" back into tty
ground tank up a fish ladder that
wasn’t there when they left.
Dr. Lauren R. Donaldson, direc
tor of the university’s applied fish
eries laboratory, who staged the ex
periment to study the migratory
habits of the fish, said its success
gives scientists new tools to work
with in solving the problem of
maintaing salmon runs in the face
of continued dam construction.
The returning salmon actually
were reared in another concrete
vat in a fisheries building on the
campus. As fingerlings in the spring
of 1950, they were placed for a few
days hi the outdoor vat on the uni
versity golf course. Then they were
dumped into Portage Bay and went
out through Lake Union and Ballard
locks to the sea.
At that time there was no water
passage from the vat to nearby
Portage Bay. They had to be dump
ed by hand into the bay.
Dr. Donaldson expressed belief
that odors associated with the con
crete pool as well as memory of the
surroundings were factors in the
return of the fish. Further experi
ments, he said, will shed more light
on the nature of the homing tend
encies.
Freak Syslem is
Announced, Yugoslav
BELGRADE, Oct. 22—1^1—Yugo
slavia boosted transportation fares
today but lowered the price of cig
arettes, sugar and lard as part of
wholesale readjustment of its fin
ancial and economic system.
Rail, air and water passenger
faies and freight rates tripled. Si
multaneously the government an
nounced postal rates and local bus
and trolley fare; will be increas
ed but did not disclose the amount.
The price of cigarettes dropped
from 90 dinar ($1.08) to 70 dinars
or a package of 20.
RUMMAGE SALE
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Ore Purchasing
Depots in West
Urged by Regan
HAILEY, Idaho, Oct. 22—Wt—Es
tablishment of more ore purchasing
depots throughout the west is ad
vocated by Rep. Ken Regan (D
Texas) chairman of the House
mines and mining subcommittee.
“Stockpiling of ore is a good
answer to the reactivation of old
mines and the development of new
ones,” lie told reporters. “If the
miner knew he had a long range
program—five years or so—we
could develop a considerable stock
pile of strategic and needed min
erals.
“Expansion of the present pur
chasing depots is really the answer.
Instead of trucking his ores long
distances to smelters, the miner
would have a nearby, ready market.”
Regan indicated that an in
crease in the number of govern
ment purchasing depots would
be the most likely result to come
from r, two-day Congressional
lieari.'g into the problem. It was
one K the principal requests made
by small mine operai>rs.
However, Regan said he didn’t
see any way to meet another re
quest—that the government “grub
stake” prospectors in return for an
interest in any ores they discovered.
"I don't believe much would be
accomplished.” he s^iid.
Several of the miners asked gov
ernment aid in building roads to
their mines.
“That isn't up to the federal gov
ernment,” Regan said. “We should
not get into an all-out road pro
gram.”
Regan predicted that Congress
would approve the full $40,000,000
requested by the administration for
mine exploration loans, adding that
he thought the defense materials
procurement agency would be able
to commit that much within a
year.
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