LAKE GEORGE BALL
WILL RAISE MONEY
FOR AID OF ACCA
From Alaska Crippled Children's
headquarters in Anchorage comes
the story about McKinley Founda
tion. The two members of the
foundation are Don C Knudsen and
Mrs. Marshall Hoppin, president of
acquire money for charity, and the
the ACCA.
Object of the foundation is to
Alaska Crippled Children's Associa
tion Is one cf the organizations
the foundation sponsors.
A project of the McKinley
Foundation is the Lake Geotge
Ball, designed to raise money for
the ACCA.
Tickets to the ball include the
opportunityi to guess the time of
the breakup of Lake George at
the Knik River Bridge. Half the
proceeds will be returned for the
ACCA.
Attendance at the Lake George
Ball, which will be in Anchorage
in August, is not necessary to
qualify for the award. The distri
bution and check of all tickets will
be under the supervision of the Mc
Kinley Foundation, Inc.
Mrs. John McCormick, chairman
of the Alaska Crippled Children's
Association is handling the Lake
George Ball tickets in this area,
and tickets are on sale in down
town spots.
Mrs McCormick has furnished
this information about the famous
Lake George break-up:
Lake George and its phenonemal
action of self-dumping, each year
around the first of August is one
of the world’s great wonders.
Lake George is a body of water
1G miles long, 5 miles wide and
over 200 feet deep, trapped in the
glacial legions of the Chugach
mountain range, northeast of An
chorage.
The giant Knik Glacier, moving
over 100 feet each year runs directly
into a mountain of solid rock 6,000
feet high. It acts like a tremendous
dam sealing off a huge natural
bowl. This bowl is filled every year
with water from melting snow and
glacier ice. The trapped water be
gins to eat at the ice of Knik
Glacier where its 300 foot face
presses against the rock mountain,
and slowly tears through seven
miles of ice. Then the waters of
Lake George begin to dump
through the channel, tearing away
600 foot slats of the great glacier
face.
The din and roar can be heard
f-T miles. Ice is carried to the sea
60 miles away in August.
The spectacular display of great
icebergs rolling and tumbling
through the Channel continues for
three' weeks to produce one of the
truly great natural "wonders of the
world".
“This is the Lake George break
up that, is more exciting than
Nenana,” Mrs. McCormick said.
The Alaska Crippled Children’s
Association is counting on the Lake
George Ball becoming one of Alas
ka's interesting annual events, she
said.
0. W. TIPPER. NEW
MENDENHALL APTS.
MANAGER ARRIVES
Applications for rentals in the
new Mendenhall apartments are
now being taken by O. W. Tupper.
manager, who arrived yesterday
from Seattle. His office is tempor
arily in the construction office in
the east end of the building on the
first floor. In a few days he will
move to the lobby which is now be
ing finished.
Tupper is no stranger to Alaska,
having lived in Sitka from 1939 to
1941. “It is good to be back in Alas
ka,” he said today Mrs. Tupper
will join him as soon as his living
quarters are ready in the new apart
ment building. At present he is liv
ing at the Gastineau hotel.
Originally from Minnesota, Tup
per has a background of business
management in banking and manu
facturing. From 1941 to 1947 he was
assistant to the president of the
Boeing Aircraft Co. in Seattle.
Dates for rental occupancy of the
Mendenhall will be set as soon as
possible, Tupper said. Those who
have signified interest in rentals
are requested to contact him if they
are still interested.
FROM SACRAMENTO
Hal L. Ellis of Sacramento. Calif.,
is registered at the Baranof hotel.
30 IN, 3 OUT ON
ALASKA SUNDAY
Thirty passengers arrived on the
Alaska northbound Saturday after
noon with three embarking for the
Westward. Master of the ship is
Capt. Henry Burns with A. H. Ban
well, chief purser.
Disembarking from Seattle: Mrs.
Nina Anderson, ‘Dr. William Baird,
Miss Betty Jane Brown, Mr. and
Mrs. Charles E. Dailey, Miss Edna
Filer, Sanford Hill, Mr. and Mrs.
R. C. Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. Lyle
Kelsey and daughter; Ellen La
Lande, "Miss Dorothy Mullin, Mr.
and Mrs. W. A. McAdams, Gerogann
and Bill McAdams, A. E. McFarland,
Dr. John F. Nevitt, Mrs. Kay Tau
beneck, Karen Taubeneck.
From Ketchikan: Capt. M. A.
Johnson.
From Petersburg: David Charles,
L. E. Elins, Comdr. C. LeFevre, Gil
Rich, Roy Williams, Mr. and Mrs.
John Young.
For Seward: Mrs. Eino Michelson,
T. R. Curtis, H. H. Goodrich.
WATER-SKIERS,
AQUAPLANERS GET
READY FOR FOURTH
For the last three evenings the
crowds have lined the rails of the
Douglas Bridge watching the water
skiers and aquaplaners run through
practices.
Thrills, spills and chills awaited
the dauntless souls who performed
their stuff in the chopoy waters in
front of the small boat harbor.
Although practices arc generally
being held north of the bridge, sev
;rul made the run to the Alaska
Dock where the actual show will
ake place.
Several speedboats are participate
ing, but the big thrills occur when
the 40 mile per hour speed is at
tained behind the boat of Kibby
and Bonnett.
According to Jo McLean, a special
act is being planned with some dif
ficult maneuvering, which should
offer even more spectacular thrills
for the audience than the boat races.
SKI CLUB WILL
SPONSOR SNOWBALL j
THROW ON JULY 4|
The Juneau Ski Club will sponsor j
a baseball (snowball) throw during
the Fourth of July Celebrations. I
[This year the Ski Club has many
plans for improving th skiing
area among them are: a new shelter
! cabin with views of the ski area
[as well as good warming facilities;
clearing of more timber above the
present hill; repairing the present
tow and the eventual purchase of a
good engineered tow.
Tlie club feels these projects will
benefit the whole community and
improve the Douglas Ski Area for
wirtter and summer recreation. Any
persons or clubs desiring more in
formation concerning these projects ,
contact Tom Stewart, the chairman.
MILLIONS OKEHED
FOR MILITARY WORK'
IN ALASKA SECTION I
WASHINGTON, July 2—UPi—1The
House Armed Service Committee to
day tentatively approved authoriza
tion of $61,223,800 worth of general
military construction in Alaska.
The committe is considering the
Defense Department's request for a
$6,561,262,387 global building pro
gram.
Most of the project requests were
reduced to the amount estimated to
be needed in the year beginning
July 1.
The authorizations as approvedi
by the committeemen with amounts
originally requested shown in paren
theses, also included;
Madigan, Wash., army hospital)
$1,875,000. ($2,075,900).
Work on the bill is being pushed
hv the committee as the Defense
Department has asked quick action
so it can get the program underway.
LOIISE MILLER HERE
Louise W. Miller, member of the
Board of Commissioners of the
Alaska Housing Authority from
j Ketchikan, is in Juneau to attend
a special AHA meeting. She is
[stopping at the Baranof Hotel.
'HERB" S. ROWLAND
Alaska Manager
Baranof Hoiel-Juneau
Telephone 419
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Bulldozer Droooed From Plane
A C-119 cargo plane is shown successfully dropping the heaviest piece of machinery to date by the Air
Forces. The small extraction parachute left .already open ami the platform has cleared the plane.
Behind the nine and one-half ton bulldozer are six deployment hags containing larger chutes. 'If) Wire
photo.
IS KILLED IN
AUTO PLUNGE
VALDEZ, Alaska, July 2 —tPI—
rheima Iva Smith, 44, whose family
operated the Smith bakery and
fountain at Valdez for many years,
was instantly killed yesterday in an
automobile accident 12 miles up the
Richardson highway.
Authorities said Mrs. Smith was
a passenger in a car which appar
ently missed a detour and plunged
end-over-end from the highway.
Les Siever.s was identified as the
owner and driver of the car.
Mrs. Smith came here in 1938
from Casper, Wyo. Survivors includ
ed two daughters, Iva Lee, Valdez;
Mae Steel, Santa Rosa, Calif., and
a son, Earl, of Valdez.
AT THE G A STINE Al'
Fred Henning is stopping at the
Gastineau hotel for a few days. He
plans to meet Mrs. Henning and
Anne in Haines and drive to the
states on a fall buying trip.
TIDE TABLES
High tide
Low tide
High tide
Low tide
July 3
.12:57
7; 33
2:03
7:37
a.m. 16.1 ft.
a.m. -1.0 ft.
p.m. 14.2 ll.
p.m. 4.5 ft.
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HOSPITAL NOTES
Admitted to St. Ann’s Hospital
Saturday was Mrs. Signe Homer;
admitted Sunday was Mrs. Lillian
Godson: discharged Saturday were
Mrs. George E. Williams, Mrs. Bet
ty Curry, Mrs. Charles Gamble, Mrs.
Hazel Hope, Mrs. John Lowell and
baby boy; discharged Sunday were
Mrs. C. Paddock, Mrs. Nels Ahl- j
strom and baby girl; baby Darrel
Austin, Michael Dude.
Admitted to the Government
Hospital Saturday were Robert
Prokopiof, Juneau, and Willie
Eluska, Alitha. There were no dis
charges.
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