ICY BLASTS, SNOW
HIT JUNEAU HARD;
AIRPORT WINDLESS
Old Man Winter breathed cold
and white and mean on Juneau this
weekend, and the Weatherman had
to go back in the records 33 years
to find such heavy snowfall on
record so early in the season.
Snow began falling at the Juneau
airport at 10:04 p.m. Saturday. At
10 a.m. Sunday, just 12 hours later,
there was an even seven inches.
This is the heaviest snowfall on
record so early since the 13-inch
snowfall November 1, 1917, in Ju
neau.
Yes, a soft* teau.iful 7-inch
blanket of snow—at the airport,
where there was no wmd.
Repeat: There was ro wind.
Of course there was no wind—it
was all right here!
Best guesses by the experts are
that Juneau winds blew in gusts
of 3 > to 45 miles an hour. (The U.
S. Weather Buieau has no wind
measuring instruments in the city.)
However, it seemed like 80 or
SC m;ih to pedestrians slipping and
sliding, cai ening and dodging, and
to inuii.riM blinded by the lury
of r.i.iid snow flurries.
Bi drs. when it blows in Juneau
—Taku or otherwise—the wind com- i
es from every direction and goes |
in fer every kind of contortion ,
Claude V. Brown, meteorologist ;
in charge of the Juneau Weather I
Bureau station, said, "Winds in!
town always seem higher than j
they are, because of the many
and quick changes of direction.”
Brown also said that the rough
weekend weather emanates from
the storm centering just north of
Dixon Entrance, which is moving
slowly southeast.
He said winds have decreased
hers steadily, but there will con
tinue to be occasional gusts in
town tonight.
In Juneau, Saturday evening sleet
became real snow about 4 a.m.
Sunday and by 7 a.m. there was
from one-half inch to an inch of
snow on the hills Brown estimated
this would have been a three-inch
snowfall, had it remained. As ev
eryone within hearing or feeling of
it knows, the wind was high all
day, while the air got colder and j
colder.
Speaking of cold—the tempera-1
ture at the airport dropped to 20 i
degrees early this morning, com
ing close to the previous low for
early November. That was Novem
ber 1, 1946, when the mercury drop
ped to 19 degrees.
In Juneau, the wind ripped off
shingles and loose fixtures, hurling
them sometimes blocks away.
The flagpole at the Governor’s
House was blown down, and fell
across the drivew'ay.
Motorists needed no urge to drive
cautiously. To the surprise of both
city and territorial traffic experts,
there were no real accidents.
Highway Patrol Chief Prank A.
Metcalf was inclined to give some
credit to the fact that vehicles are
in unusually good condition, as the
result of the recent general mech
anical check-up.
Bert Lvbeck, Juneau Street De
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partment superintendent, and his
staff did some sanding yesterday,
then a thorough job starting early
this morning. Wind blew the snow
off the icy streets so there was no
use for a snow-removal equip
ment. • t
Besides the scoopmcbiles and
city equinment used last
winter, a new force-speed snow
loader is now being assembled by
Uie Northern Commercial Com
pany. With this machine, snow
is lifted onto a belt and dumped
into trucks.
In the matter of wind velocity, a
Weather Bureau storm warning is
for winds of 32 to 38 miles per
hour; a gale, 39 to 54; a whole gale
55 to 75. Above that winds are of !
hurricane, force. I
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BY ALASKA COASTAL; |
NO FLIGHTS SUNDAY
Flights Saturday by Alaska Coast- j
al Airlines carried a total of 62
with 12 on interport, 22 arriving (
and 28 departing. Weather yester-1
day cancelled all flights.
Departing for Sitka were: Frank
Purdy, Rev. R. Mosey, Mrs. Mark
Jacobs, Jr., Mrs. Jennie O’Brien,
Mike Otte, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Otte,
A wan Mazcuna; for Hoonah: Gil
bert Mills, Francis Marvin, Julia
Lindoff, Mrs. Frank Johnson, Shirl
ey Johnson.
For Funter Bay: Mrs. H. Har
graves; for Pelican: Mrs. Jack
Stearns; for Petersburg: Beverly
Kearney, George Lloyd, Frances
Lloyd; for Wrangell: Charles Ol
sen ; for Ketchikan: Mrs. Florence
Thornton.
For Skagway: R. E. Paulin, Jean
nette and Janet Paulin, Dorothy
Jackson, Nancy Leaper, Mr. and
Mrs. Art Sargosky; for Haines:
Anthony Bernhardt.
Arriving from Skagway were:
Stan Whitely, Rev. R. Mosey, M. L.
Anderson, J. M. Wanberg; from
Haines: Capt. M. A. Johnson, Tom
Dyer, Jack Sutherland; from Ket
chikan: H. C. Scudder; from Wran
gell: William Binkley, Daryl Miller.
From Petersburg: Mrs. Pettigrew;
from Swanson Harbor: C. C. Au
bert; from Angoon: Mr. Kiel, C. J.
Jenne; from Hoonah: Mr. and Mrs. I
Edward Metz; from Sitka: John
Sam, Joe Otte, D. W. Dean, G. j
Reading, Mrs. B. Wyres' from
Barge: E. A. Watson. |
ROY SWANSON BACK
Roy L. Swanson, chief archi
tectural examiner in the local Fed
eral Housing Administration office,
returned Saturday from the states
where he has been for the past j
month. While visiting in Oklahoma j
City, his former station, he was
honored at a garden party at 95
degrees in the shade. Swanson did
a little Alaska public relations work
by showing a collection of colored
slides of the Territory.
ONE-WAY VIADUCT OPEN
The viaduct from Distin Avenue
to Eighth Street is now open to
one-way traffic, according to James
McNamara, City Engineer.
Ski Tow in
Place Now
Good news for local skiers. . .
the ski tow on the Douglas ski
trail is now in operating condition
and if it snov.'s a little more dur
ing the week’ skiers will be trek
king up the trail for the first try
out and limbering-up skiing at the
second cabin on the trail this com
ing Sunday.
The tow rope was installed for
the season by a group of the Ju-:
neau Ski Club who hiked up the
trail frunday in a near two feet of i
snow. The workers had met earlier J
with many other ski club mem- j
bers at a very successful skiers' j
breakfast at the Baranof Hotel.,
Besides working on the tow the;
group also chopped wood and clean- j
ed out the three sided shelter there.
Officials decided to install Celo
tex in the fourth side of the shel-1
ter in order that skiers will have j
a warm place to rest.
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REBEKAH BAZAAR IS
SUCCESSFUL EVENT
Rebekahs report their 12-hour an- j
nual bazaar Saturday as highly sue- |
cessful, especially in view of the
fact that proceeds were for their
Memorial Library pledge, as well as
for lodge philanthropies.
Rebekahs already had paid their
5250 pledge, and an extra $50, too,
but the treasury had to be re-im
oursed.
The bazaar committee awarded
the electric blanket to Helen Roff
Saturday evening at the festivities
in the I.O.O.F. Hall.
The 1950 bazaar committee asks
to thank members and everyone else
who helped make the annual event
so successful.
PORTLAND VISITORS
ARE ALASKA BOOSTERS
On arrival in California from a
three-month voyage to Guam, Ko
rea and Japan, Capt. Nat Hender
son of Portland, Ore., a merchant
marine skipper, telephoned his wife
and asked, "How would you like to
go to Alaska?”
They arrived Tuesday on the
Princess Louise, and will return on
the same ship, sailing southbound i
November 17. It has been years
since the captain had been to
Alaska, and it is Mrs. Henderson’s
first visit. Both are enthusiastic
Alaska boosters already.
They are visiting Lt. Comdr. and
Mrs. C. V. Rudolph and Mr. and
Mrs. E. L. Mallory. (Mrs. Rudolph
and Mrs. Mallory are sisters.) The
Rudolphs have a home in the High
lands and the Mallorys live in the
Baranof Hotel.
The officers of the Juneau Camps
of the A.N.B. and A.N.S. announce
a meeting in the hall this Monday,
7:30 p.m. 650-2t
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situation with mounting concern.
Fifty-three non-Communist na
tions are sponsors of the U.N.’s first
armed peace enforcement action
waged against North Koreans who
invaded the Republic June 25.
A number of these countries have
supplied troops, air units and war
ships for the Korean action.
Red Planes In Action
Theoretically, Red Korea has
fought alone. Actually, her troops
were armed with vast amounts of
Russian weapons. Russian-made
planes have fought Allied air power.
And the Red Chinese fighting in
Korea already have been estimated
at betw-een three and six divisions.
Their appearance last week drove
back the plunging rush of Allied
forces toward the Manchurian bor
der. One South Korean regiment al
ready had reached the boundary
An American tank-led column then
was within a few miles of Man
churia.
Grim Defensive
But Allied troops in the north
west today were waging a grim de
fensive fight on the Chongjin rivet
line less than 50 miles from the old
Red Korean capital of Pyongyang
This represented a retreat of 5C
miles or more in the face of heavy
Communist attacks.
In the northeast, however, an
American regiment was striking in
zero weather within 24 miles oi
the Manchurian border. This force
reported no Red resistance.
MacArthur said the Communist
aggressor has massed “a great con
centration of possible reinforcing
divisions with adequate supply be
hind the privileged sanctuary of the
adjacent Manchurian border.”
PNA ON SCHEDULE
SUNDAY WITH SIX
ARRIVALS, 13 OUT
Pacific Northern Airlines were
on schedule yesterday with six
arrivals from the westward and 13
outbound.
From Anchorage: Mr. and Mrs. J.
M. Clifford, Linn Forest, Harvey
Hildre, and Robert Baer. ■
From Cordova: Paul Robinson.
To Anchorage: Paul Greimann,
Art Hedges, F. M. Tyvoll, R. L.
Anderson, W. L. Smith, Tom Eden.
M. P. Mullaney, Helen and Dennis
Halliday.
To Yakutat: Mary and Bill
Thomas, Mr. and Mrs. Bremner.
SHELLEY FUNERAL TO
BE HELD WEDNESDAY
Funeral services for Mr. Jesse E.
Shelley, 39, will be held Wednesday
afternoon in the Charles W. Carter
Mortuary Chapel, it was decided to
day after arrival of Mr. Shelley's
sister, Mrs. Eva Rolf, from Albany,
Ore.
Further announcement will be
made tomorrow.
Mr. Shelley was found dead in
his fishing vessel, the Mable C.,
Thursday at Elfin Cove. His re
mains were brought here by the
U. S. Coast Guard by arrangement
with the U. S. Commissioner.
Ballots Won't
Change Demo
Majorities
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criticised those he said had “mal
iciously and falsely made charges
of disloyalty against some of our
finest public servants.” Tills was
obviously an answer to the Com
munists-in-government charges of
Senator McCarthy (R-Wfs).
“It is our party—the Democratic j
Party—that has done more to de
feat Communism in this country
than any other group,” the Presi
dent declared.
Mr. Truman called the last 17
years of Democratic control of the
White House “the greatest period
of prosperity the world has ever
seen.”
Local Conditions
Despite the furore and shout
ing over national issues, voters
in some states apparently were pay
ing more attention to local condi
tions than to nation-wide questions.
Interest in the 32 state governor
contests centered on California
and New York, where Republican
Chief Executives are bidding for
third terms.
Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New
York says he won’t run again for
the GOP Presidential nomination
which he has had twice. But there
is no such word from Gov. Earl
Warren of California, Dewey's run
ning mate in 1948. Warren will have
ito down James Roosevelt, the De
1 moeratic nominee, to win a third
term.
Split Votes
There are now 29 Democrats
and 19 Republicans in governors’
chairs.
In Congress, the Republicans
need to gain seven Senate seats
and 49 in the House to take over
control.
Most newspaper political writers
were chary of predictions—remem
bering 1948 when President Tru
man confounded the experts—but
the average forecast was for slight
gains for the Republicans in a very
close election.
There were indications of split
votes in many states, with the
possibility voiced that in soma
Democratic Senatorial candidates
would win while Republican gov
ernors were being elected—or the
reverse.
OPEN HOUSE FOR
JUNEAU SCHOOLS
7:30 - 9:00 P. M.
Open house for the Juneau high
and grade schools, Supt. Sterling
S. Sears, reminded parents today.
The purpose is for parents to meet
the teachers and talk over prob
lems in addition to seeing exhibits
of regular daily work and activities.
All schools, including the outlying
areas, will be represented. A short
band and chorus concert will be
given in the grade school auditor
ium at 8:45. Parents are urged;
to take advantage of this oppor- j
tunity. I
The hours are 7:30 to 9 o'clock
for the doings tonight.
FROM DOUGLAS
Mr. and Mrs. John C. Watkins
of Douglas are registered at the
Hotel Juneau.
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There were no Pan American
flights yesterday but schedules
were resumed today.
Eighteen arrived from Seattle
Saturday and 21 boarded for the
south; 14 went through to Fair
banks adding three here and four
flew to Whitehorse.
From Seattle: Earl Fleming, Paul
Grimann, Delma Jenkins, John
Korsnes, S. L. Owne, Mary O'Con
nor, William Day, Irene Day, Ed
ward Dietz, Helen and Dennis Hal
liday Ray Johnston, Gene Lang
ford, Doreen Melcher, Mrs. J. Otte,
Mike Otte, Williamae Robbins, and
Roy L. Swanson.
Going through to Fairbanks were:
Frank Angerman, Bernard Bring
hurst, E. H. Carpenter, Brene Can
aday, C. S. Kendall, Mona Nicholl, |
Walter Orr, Raye Orr, Albin Reif, j
Mary Spring Toni Spring, Lorraine
Spining, Edith Williams, H. K. j
Axridge. j
Boarding here for Whitehorse i
were: M. W. Bancoisne, Mr. and !
Mrs. Dick McDonnel and D. Wilde.,
For Fairbanks, Lillie Angerman,
E. N. Herbstreith and Paul Shan
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Southbound for Ketchikan was
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For Seattle: June Trapp, Lor-'
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i Kibbon, Harry Cook, Mrs. Bill j
Wyers, John Booth, R. M. Steele, i
Glen Parker, Mr. and Mrs. E. L. |
Rountree, E. L. Bartlett, Gov. Em- !
est Gruening, Dorothy Gruening, I
M. B. Longietc, Mrs. Myle Dower, |
George Dcwer, Dolores and Lyle i
Saithre and Opal Brennen.
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HOSPITAL NOTES
Admitted to St. Ann's hospital
over the weekend were: Mrs. Julia
Rezbaker, James Herbert, Mrs.
George Valle and Mrs. George West.
Dismissed were Mrs. Charles De
Boer and baby boy. Mrs. Charles
Dobbins, Mrs. Ingvald Varness, Jay
O'Sullivan and Lucy Langdon.
Agnes Johnson of Excursion In- j
let was admitted to the Government
hospital yesterday.
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