5UGIAS LIONS
HAVE ROARING
CHARIER NIGHT
• orty Douglas residents became
rter members of tlio Douglas
| . is Club at a “roaring” Charter
;i- ht ceremony in the Douglas
| , h school gymnasium Saturday
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71 DRESSES
7 OVERCOATS
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71 TROUSERS
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Nionii and served to more than
.. hundred members and guests,
wa (he first order of business, af
ter the meeting was called to or
■ tier by J. Gerald Williams, Presi
! dent of the Juneau Lions Club, the
■hiving i.f America, pledge of alleg
iam ( and invocation by the Rev.
Walt r Sotolcff.
Va: A. Poor, recent president of
the Juneau Lions Club, and one of
[the directors and organizers of
lie new Douglas club, gave the
j welcr me address and introduced
tesai naster Alva Blackerby.
In the address of the evening,
Alfre i Lawrence of the Mt. Edge
rum! e club and deputy district gov
ernor told of the founding cl the
Lions in Chicago in 1917 and the
ciov. li of the club until it now
I has 100,000 members in 0.09J clubs
in 2f. nation: and has been calico
"the fastest growing servile club
in the world. He advised the new
■ lou.i a; to its responsibility to
I its members, its community service
and tli1 ■ leadership, inspiration and
oodfellowship" expected of Lions.
The charter for the Douglas
; ; .n ; Club was presented by Mr.
Lawrence to Ed C. John o.i, jnra
i cent of the Dou^lo.; ci.-J, ■ *aoi
j led;,i d the ecopc:alien of Df iclos
Lion ■ lo ecmtnunlv gicv.v ■ a. .
tetterm lit.
Officer:; cf the new <! ib, installed
by Juneau Lion rnr e Danner
wire Ed. C. Johnkun, president;
lorn N. Cashcn, first vice presi
dent; Tan T. O ’. re:.id vice pres
ident; Joe A. Kcndier, third yice
I resident; Steve B. Ford, Secretsr\ ;
j Chris J. Ehrendreich, tr usurer,
Eck F. Guerin, I,ion Tamer and
Aine Shu'1 shift, Tail Twister and
iirectoi . Val Poor, Mike Pusich,
klwin Dill and William Boehl. i
Members of the new club are:
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Fred W. Alberts, Douglas Blanch
' aid, William Boehl, James Burns,
ThcmasN. Cashen, William Cuth
bert, Elwyn Dell. Edward Dietz.
William Dore, James Doyle, Wil
liam Dunham, Chris J. Ehrend
reich, George E. Fleck, Stephen F.
Ford, Clarence Gildersleeve, Rich
ard Godman.
Charles M. Gray, Eckley Guerin,
Clancy Henkins, Leslie Hoisington,
Robt. tssac, Marcus Jensen, Wil
liam Johnson, Edwin C. Johnson,
Leonard Johnson, Joseph A. Kend
ler Jr.
William Kerns, Ralph Kibby,
IL void Kruger, George Matson, Ian
I ■ Ogg.
Martin Pederson, Val A. Poor,
Mike Pusich, Michael Pusich, Rud
l.iii Pusich, Lawrence Richards,
m Roberson, Arne Shudshilt,
krwrence Wilcox.
Guests of the evening included
Territorial Treasurer Henry Roden
: d Mrs. Roden; George Sund
v who represented the gover
nor's office, and Mrs. Sundborg,
Mayor and Mrs. Waino Hendrick
son of Juneau; Rotarian president
llis Reynolds and Mrs. Reynolds;
Kiwani.s president Larry Parker
and Mrs. Parker.
From the Juneau Lions club were
these members and their wives: L.
Avail, Sterling Sears, Wes Overby,
Pete Wood, C. Rusher, Dr. Rude,
G. Danner, R. Wright, Jack Guc
iir, Robert Scott, Alva Blackerby,
... Ransome, Walter Soboleff, An
y Robinson and J. Nyman and
President Jerry Williams.
The Douglas Liens Club, first
service group to be formed in
Douglas, was assisted in its organ
ization by Gordon Smith, traveling
representative of Lions Interna
tional recently in Alaska.
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TIIE PIONEERS’ HOME
Today is the 38th birthday of
the Alaska Pioneers Home, the first
public institution created by the
Alaska Legislature.
It was on April 30, 1913, that
Governor Walter E. Clark signed
House Bill 94 of the First Alaska
Legislature. The bill became Chap
ter 80 ef the Session Laws of that
year and provided for the estab
ishment of the Home.
The bill itself and some prelim
inary arrangements for the Home
were largely the work of Arthur
Glendenning Shoup, Representative
from Sitka.
Early in 1912 a contingent of the
United States Marine Corps which
had been stationed at Sitka since
1880 was ordered to duty on the
Mexican border. The Marines nevfer
returned to Sitka and the barracks
and other buildings of the post
stood empty.
It was a fairly sizeable establish
ment. When the Marines were first
sent to Sitka they were quartered
in a three-story log building that
had been the barracks of the Rus
sian troops. After 1884 this building
also housed the District Court and
the Commissioner's Court, the of
fice of the U. S. Marshal for Al
aska—there was then only one
Marshal for the entire Territory—
and some other offices, and It was
badly overcrowded.
In 1891 the Navy Dcnartment au
thorized construction of a new
barracks building and picked a site
where the quarters for the Russian
officers had once stood, quarters
that were occupied by American
army officers during the army’s
rule of Alaska.
The Marino barracks was a two
story frame building, 40 by 70, de
signed to accommodate 40 men, and
near it were constructed a boiler
house for the steam heating plant,
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| coal bunkers, a carpenter shop and
I an infirmary. The new barracks
was commissioned on January 15,
1892. A few years later a residence
for the commandant was added,]
and Sitka's lirst electric plant was
installed at the Marine post about
1908.
The whole establishment faced a
parade ground, approximately an
acre in extent, which forms the
grounds of the present Pioneers’
Home.
In December, 1912, oiioup, with
the assistance of Delegate James
Wickersham, persuaded the Navy
Department to let the newly crea
ted Territory of Alaska use the
Marine barracks as a home for
pioneer men. Title to the buildings
and grounds was not granted to
the Territory until some years la
ter.
By March 3, 1913, when the First
Legislature convened at Juneau,
Shoup had prepared a bill to cre
ate the Pioneer’s Home, to set up
a hoard of three trustees, including
the Governor, to administer it, and
to appropriate $10,000 for its op
eration during the first biennium.
Shoup was particularly assisted
in the House by Rep. Frank A. Aid
rich, then of Nome, and in the
Senate the bill was supported by
Henry Roden, who is one of the
Home's present trustees.
Members of the first Board of
Trustees were Governor J. F. A.
Strong and George Kostrometinoff
end W. P. Mills, both of Sitka. Ar
thur G. Shoup became the first
superintendent and served in that
rapacity the first two years with- j
out pay.
The Pioneers' Home Act became
effective July 4, 1913, and by the
lirst of October, 12 old prospectors
had moved in. During the first
couple of years, while Territorial i
revenue laws were being fought out
in the courts, the Federal govern-1
ment assisted with the support of
of*€M, JiM.'itlz
tHcmtpaid off
YOU KNOW IT’S TRUE BECAUSE IT’S HAPPENED TO YOU
AND YOUR FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS
PROBABLY you’ve never thought of
yourself as a maker of history.
But you are. And here is how you, as
a citizen of the United States, are
creating the greatest success in all
history.
Remember hack in 1941 when the
Defense Bonds you were buying sud
denly had to become War Bonds? How
you and your neighbors pitched in to
buy them in ever-increasing numbers,
to back our fighting men and to help
achieve the victory of World War II?
After V-J Day, when those bonds
became Savings Bonds, you continued
to buy them because you had learned
bow regular saving could build secu
rity and contentment for yourself and
those you love.
Ihe face of the land has undergone
some dramatic changes in those years
since V-J Day. Now the landscape is
dotted with new homes that Savings
Bonds built Thousands upon thou
sands of new automobiles travel the
highways—Savings Bonds cars, bought
with the product of individual thrift.
On the farms, Bond-purchased equip
flient has helped produce bumper crops
and prosperous years. Everywhere in
America, man’s urge to get into busi
ness for himself has become a bright
reality. So has the ambition of loving
parents to send their children through
college. Time and time again, Savings
Bonds have made those dreams and
many others come true.
You KNOW they’ve come true, be
cause it’s happened to you or to
tome of your own friends.
And this is only the beginning of the
story. Even after accomplishing so
much, millions of American families
still enjoy the financial security of
owning more than fifty billion dollars—
fifty thousand million dollars in
Savings Bonds. More than at the peak
of war-time Bond holdings! 1
How much money is that? It’s enough.
to build a new $10,000 mortgage-free
home for every family in San Francisco
—and Sacramento—and Salt Lake
City—and Denver—and Kansas City—
and St. Louis—and Indianapolis—and
Cincinnati—and Pittsburgh—and
New York City—and the whole state ,
of Texas!
And every week, everywhere in Amer
ica, new millions of dollars are
added to the total—as crisp new
Savings Bonds are typed up with your
name on them.
Kind of a king-size success story, isn’t
it? Your success story because you
and the millions of your neighbors are
living it right now. Your own faith in
America—your own desire for the
warmth of family security and in
dependence—have made the story
of United States Savings Bonds
the thrift miracle of all time.
For your security, anti your'
country’s too, save now - throuyh reyuiar
purchase qf F,B. Savings Bonds
TkeV.S. Government does not pay for this advertising. The Treasury Department thanks^
for thtU patriotic donation, the MverUsing' Council and
The Daily Alaska Empire
WATER FROLIC — Seven! 'en-year-old Joyce Wi-'wn.a 1 $ ' ’ • ■ ■ arcs!
St. Petersburg. Fla., Cl.arm School, frolics in the turf dai\,e ; . fy ?: ";r •. beech.
the Koine. Since then it has n
operated entirely with Territo. :-vl
funds.
By September 1, 1314, the i n
in the Heme had ir.i. -. i to
tlie total for which the bnikliii , iv.J
been designed. But more v. e
crowded in, and in subsequent
years various additions were made
to increase the capacity to about
75.
Meanwhile, there had been chan
ges on the Board of Tru ;?rs. E..
C. C. Oeergeson, special agent in
charge of agricultural c;:.- ’Auer:'
stations in Alaska, became secre
tary in place of George Hast’ v.'.et
inoff*and Alien Shattuck of Jun eu
took over the treatsurer’s job f .m
W. P. Mills.
Stiil later under Governor Ti: ;m
as Riggs, Jr., Shattuck became sec
retary and W. W. Casey, also of
Juneau, was nam'd treatsurer.
Harry F. Morton, who i now an
attorney for the Henry Kaiser in
terests. was the Home’s second su
perintendent.
The Board of Trustees in th sc
years al-.o operated the Territory’s
pension system. It wasn't a: much
of a job then as it is. now—in 1920
there were 12 women and 124 men
on the pension rolls.
When Scott C. Bone became Gov
ernor of Alaska in 1921 he named
R. W. Do Armond and Eoc.-m. Mac
Kinnon to the Board of Trustees
and they continued to serve under
Gecrge A. Park who became Gov
ernor in 1925. Theodore Kettleson
became superintendent on Octobei
1, 1921.
In 1920 a new building was con
structed for the hospital and laun
dry and this, with a couple of
other annexes to the main building .
increased the total accomodations
to about 100.
The Hone remained at that ca
pacity until the present building,
a fine concrete structure, went up
m 1933.
But i he planning for the new
Home, its building and th. growth
of the Pioneers’ Home under Su
perintendent Filer Hansen and the
present Superintendent, William YV.
Knight, are another chapter and
must wait another time for telling.
AT THE GA8TINEAU
Dr. and Mrs. Wilbur E. Baird of
the Aiaska Native Service .-,re stop
ping at the Gar-tinea u .
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Corps will maintain 2 1 3 divisions
and other supporting units;. The Air
Torce wi!I continue to build toward
)a war wings.”
Spending New i’unds
Of the nev. funds, he said, about
531,700,000,COO will be used to buy
heavy equipment, such as ships,
planes, fa. , artillery, trucks, am
nunition, c aided missiles, and elec
ronics. A total of 14.5 billion will be
ised to buy planes.
Mr. Truman said the military and
other ecarity programs would take
•bout 20 par cent of the nation’s
,oW itput by the end of the next
1 year (June SO), or by com
p:.r: cn, ha .-.aid. 15 per cent of total
output was going to security pur
P: . ;;t the peak of the last World
War.
He said:
The level of preparedness winch
this budget i: designed to create is
ore which 1. well within our ability
to maintain for many years, if nec
essary.”
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