The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-03-05

WlJl LIlt dlIlNdl Ol iIldtSiAaio oii the Cricket last week. construction of tuna fishing boat started at the Andrew Hope boatyard. With a I length of 55 feet and beam of 16 feet, the boat will be completed this summer and taken south for this seasons fishing.
 John Townsend, owner, civil
 service employee on Japonski, has put the construction in the hands of
 Stanley Sutton, and the operation of the boat under Big Pete' Ho- gan of Pudget Sound.
 The Marine Ways, at Jamestown Bay under the partnership of Wally Simms, R. A. Wheeler and Richard Crueger, is well under construction, and will be ready for business some time this summer, if not delayed by supply difficulties.
 The completion of the ways, with the reorganization of the Rigling Machine Shop and the Webb Mach inc Shop, will make Sitka first class port for small boat repair work, as it was during the Russian oc- cupation when the town was the boat building center of the Coast. Arriving by plane from Ketchikan
 recently were MT. and Mrs. Henry
 Renshaw, on their honeymoon, and 1 Del Freeman, to take possession of two Navy planes, for the Wild Life Service.
 They left later for Juneau, en- route for Anchorage, where the planes will be overhauled before be- ing put into regular service. MT. Freeman is expected to return to Sitka immediately to fly the plane in which the party arrived back to Ketchikan.
 Mrs. William Sarvella flew to Ju- neau on Wildlife plane to meet her husband, a navy chief, on 30 day leave. They returned to Sitka to- gether on the North Sea. Mrs. Sar- vella plans to accompany her hus- band to the States at the expiration of his leave. She is a civil service employee in the Public Works office on Japonski.
 Mrs. Jack Calvin has returned from Seattle by plane after a three day visit there. Mrs. Calvin ac- companied her husband south on the Chichagoff. MT. Calvin will re- main in Seattle on business for sev- eral weeks.
 Arriving from Juneau by plane
 were Jack Gucker, on business trip, Miss Justine Wolfe, WIPE em- ployee from Juneau, and John B. Moon, Army Ordinance, on a three week business trip.
 Phil Kettle, butcher at the Sitka Mere, lost a third of one finger and the tip of another in the electric
 meat saw recently. Al Richter is taking his place in the butcher shop until MT. Kettle is able to return to work.
 Miss Margaret (Peggy) Schrey, daughter of MT and Mrs. Fred Schrey, and Bernard Joseph Rig ling, NM Iic USN, were married on February 27 by Commissioner w. w Knight Mrs. George Henderson. sister of the bride, and Mark Rig
 ling, brother of the groom, were matron of honor and best man.
 Following the ceremonly which took
 place in the Court Room in the
 presence of relatives, reception was | held at the Schrey home for reia- tives and intimate friends. The bridal couple left on the North Sea for short honeymoon following which MT. Rigling will re- port to Bremerton for orders. Pete Banner, civil service employee
 on Japonski, has been confined to 1 his home for several days with tte | flu
 Al Wiseman, reporter for "Yank" Magazine, spent Monday to. We'd nesday in town, collecting materia. for the magazine. The young ladies who met the gentleman during his
 flying trip through town, on being asked for comments, replied crypti-
 cally, He said he got material for 6
 fine story on Sitka. He's 3l and
 unmarried
 Frank Metcalf, a city engineer, re-
 turned on the North Sea from a
 brief business trip to Juneau.
 The City Council, in special
 meeting .last week, endorsed the Health Council Bill and opposed all
 other similar bills now before the Territorial Legislature.
 Dinner and bridge guests at the
 home of Dr. and Mrs. H. J. Hod-
 gins Saturday evening, February "A were MT and Mrs. w. w. Knight
 Mir and Mrs. E. M. Goddard, and MT. and Mrs. Clarence Bands. High