The Daily Alaska empire., 1943-07-29
extends grateful thanks.

Most Scrvicemen secme to be baseball fans. Certainly several of the staff of our Club are nearly as rabid enthusiasts as you'll find anywhere. So it was a particultr pleasure for us over the past week. end to act as hosts to the mem bors of the Army team from Skag way down here for games with some local Service teams. Their captain, Earl Baker, and his team mates proved to be good players and very likeable fellows. We hope they'll be returning this way before long.
 , The Clubs Formal Dance for July will be held at the Masonic Temple this coming Saturday night. The last time this column made special mention of one of the formal dances was in May, we believe. That note began; Dreamy values, soft lights, gorgeous girls in formal dress and an ultra hair do, full moon, Saturday night. ?, followed by a challenge to any Serviceman to resist that com bination if he couldl Here an q now we repeat that challenge, first guaranteeing the presence on next Saturday night of that same cata logue of charms all, that is, eX- cept the full moon After carefully studying tho calendar and the al- manac, and after a futile wrack- ing of this columns memory to recall when there EVER was a visible full moon in Juneau, we risk our reputation as a reliable weatherman by predicting posi- lively that outdoors in the neigh borhood of the Masonic Temple on Saturday night no moon, stars or other heavenly bodies of any variety will be visible with even the most powerful telescope, and that thick fog will envelope the building and a minimum of ten inches of Alaskan rain will deluge the entire community the whole night long But, Servicemen, that will be outdoors INDOORS, in- doors on the dance floor, for all to enjoy without benefit of teles- cope or almanac, there will indeed be many heavenly bodies, there will be twinkling stars alight in count less lovely eyes, there will be ra- diant sunshine in the smiles of innumerable fascinating dancing partners, there will be-But come and see for yourselves, fellows. What we're trying to tell you is that Saturday nights Formal Dance is sure to afford you the chance to experience the double feature of an escape from very bad wea- ther and the enjoyment of a very good party in most attractive setting
 JUST TIME FOR THE : BRIE FEST MENTIONING . DEPARTMENT; If there weren't such disagreeable things as news paper headlines to meet, we'd like to comment at greater length upon several of the Clubs recent head liners But at least we've the time and space to say that the USO Forum Club members on the last two Monday nights, impressed as they were by the undoubtedly nourishing food for thought dished up in generous quantities by their fellow members, certainly will re- member even longer and more gratefully those very delectabIc crab-meat sandwiches and cake served by Hostess Mrs. David Ram sey and that delicious straw berry shortcake making memorable our evening With Hostess Mrs. Hans Berg. and we compress much affection and good will into sev- eral lines in saying that newlyweu GSO girls, Jirdes Winther (and her husband, Fred Baxter an d Mayis Nikula (and her husband. Coast Guardsman Jack McMahon) have the Clubs warmest wishes for lifelong happiness.