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The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-02-09

Kinnon of 612, Charles Mcclellan of 613 and Albert Guino of 614 This was followed by Candle Light Tenderfoot Investiture for Jeffery Pegues and Robert Hildre, both oi Troop 613 The recommittal of the Scout Oath was combined with the Investiture and the awarding oi ' the Badges by Mrs. Pegues.
 Second Class Badges were award ed to Dick Keithahn, Julian Riv- CTS, Duane Arlowe and Jerry Hill by their Scoutmaster, Harold zeng- CT of Troop 613. The finay award that of Star, was awarded to Senior Patrol Leader Dale Rolf by District Committee Chairman James 0. Ry- an, with Mrs. Rolf giving the coy- eted Badge.
 City Officials
 The hard-fought election for City Officers, to take over today was eventually solved in a truly Ameri- can way-no casualties and eyery- body friends.
 Final returns: Mayor, Charles Mcclellan; City Clerk, Steve John son; Asst. City Clerk, Julian Riv- CTS; City Engineer, Albert Guino; Asst. City Engineer. Joseph Wilson; City Health Officer Milton Fur ness; Fire Chief, Gerald Shaw: Fire Truck Driver, Dale Rolf; Asst Fire Truck Driver, Jim Jahoda; City Magistrate, George Barril: Chief of Police, Albert Shaw; Chief of Police Assist, Dick Wing erson; Patrolmen: George Gilligan, Lon Wingerson. Bill Johnson and
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-02-09
NAVY lsTO TRAIN
 BIG AIR RESERVE

WASHINGTON, Fet g. = Tn e Navy plans to train an air reserve of 28,700 Navy and Marine men, ready for any emergency.
 Vice Admiral Arthur w. Radford, Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Air, disclosed today that the program provides for the exclusive use of Is Naval air stations, and of seven other stations in part.
 The Navy plans to start training about July l. Pilots will receive about 100 hours of flying and two week tour aboard a carrier.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-02-09

Donald MacKinnon Councilmen, Ed Brostrom, Dick Keithahn, Duane Arlowe, Frederick Wyller, Jeffery Pegues and Kermit Bowling.
 Thirty-four Scouts were in att tendance last night with a number or parents and seven Scouters. Scouters were: James c. Ryan, Dis trict Committee Chairman; c. L. Wingerson, District Commissioner 1; Milton Furness, Committee Chair man for Leadership and Training; Leo Jewett, Chairman of Troop 613; Lyle Langston, Scoutmaster of 612; Harold zenger. Scoutmaster of 613; Donald Hungerford, Asst. Scoutmaster of 613; and Lester Roberts, Scoutmaster of GA.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-02-09
DOUGLAS CAGERS TAKE TWO GAMES

Douglas High scored wins on both games played last night in Douglas gymnasium.
 Douglas Highs first string defeat ed Pan American Clippers A to 34, and Douglas second string iluskies defeated Signacs 34 to Is.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-02-09

~t43C "a. yesterday to 4:30 a.m m
 WEATHER SYNOPSIS The Prince William Sound has continued fallen Rupert Ianana Valley and along the slope of Canada Canada the United States the ccld and Alaska lowest temperature this morning
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-02-09
MARINE WEATHER BULLETIN Reports from Marine Stations at 10 30 A. M Today

MARINE FORECAST Inside waters north of Sumner strait-sowly
  Satlight variable per Yakuat
  entir
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-02-09

DRINK KING BLACK LABEL
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Old Revolutionary
Nine Discovered

DOVER, N. J.-Discovery of an
old iron mine in an unsurveyed
wooden section of Picatinny arsenal S
reservation recalled Revolutionary
war period mining in this area.
The old mine was found by two ar
senal guards while posting mo gum
ming" signs.
Abandoned mine workings nave
been discovered in the four northern
New Jersey counties of Morris, War
rem, Sussex and Passaic. Seldom,
however, are large workings uncov-
cred that have gone unnoticed for
years.
Arsenal engineering division maps
reveal that Chester Iron company
was one of the early owners of the
abandoned mine site. Officials be-
lieve the workings may have been
either the Copperas mine or Green
Pond mine. Ore for cannon balls
for Washington's Continental army
was taken from both mines.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1946-12-06
Scientists To Note
A-Bomb Anniversary

WASHINGTON.-The Atomic Age
was born December 2, 1912, accord
ing to official decision of the army
On that day, under the west stands
of Stage field at University of Chi
cago, scientists in the Manhattan
projects metallurgical laboratory
made a nuclear reactor work for
the first time, proving that man can
release and control energy.
AS a result of the army's deci-
sion, December 2 will be observed
as the anniversary of an event
(which was a milestone in the adj
varcement of SCIENCE" according to
Maj. Gen. Leslie R. Groves, direc-
tor of the Manhattan project, the
army's atomic energy organization.
A special anniversary meeting will
be held in Chicago December by
the Argonne laboratory, successor
of the Chicago metallurgical labora-
tory, and Is participating universe
ties
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80 was $1O6, 846, 521, representing a
cost of $3.50 a year per patron.
Transportation Varies.

80 was $1O6, 846,5 2l, representing a
cost of $3.50 year per patron.
Transportation Varies.
For years the mail was carried in
buggies drawn by teams. Later
specially-built, weatherproof wag-
ons were utilized. Now, most per-
sons on rural routes get mail deliv-
cred by automobile, of course, but
there still are many routes in north
ern states where horses and sleighs
come into use in winter and some in
mountain states where horseback
delivery still is in vogue.
Rural free delivery proved itself
a boon to rural jewellers from the
first, relieving the isolation of farm
life. With more rapid distribution of
newspapers and magazines, it
moved not only the town but also
the state, nation and world into ru-
raj communities. 1t saved farmers
trips to towns.
Varied Services.
In the best tradition of rural
mail delivery, carriers have secured
aid for sick people, notified farmers
that their stock was out, put in fire
alarms, helped with stalled vehicles
and performed innumerable other
services.
The main job of RID, however,
is to get the mail through, and in
these so years carriers have more
than carried on the postal mandate
given in the New York post Of
fees free translation from Herodo-
tus, ancient Greek historian:
mot snow, nor rain, nor heat,
nor gloom Of night stays these
cOuriers from the swift compile
ton of their appointed rounds"
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1946-12-06

NEW TRAINER Represent
ing the greatest advancement in
naval primary trainers since
World War l, the Fairchild
Knoll, the navy's newest primary
trainer, made its first test fight
at the Fairchild Aircraft division
in Hagerstown, Md. Built along
the lines of a fighter, it embodies
several major improvements.
AIRMAIL POST OFFICES
From a single unit operated by a
lone clerk in 1927, the list of United
States airmail field post Offices has
multiplied to 81 with lob clerks. 1t
was less than 10 years ago that
the first field station on record
opened its doors at Cleveland for
the purpose of expediting flow of
airmail, then a comparatively new
domestic service although the gov
eminent had been experimenting
with it since 1918. Additional air
mail field post Offices soon were set
up in ether strategic cities.
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to search the world over tor serene
and peaceful community as world
model, it could not have arrived at
a more perfect choice than Pownal
Center.
Peaceful Community.
The old, white New England
church lifts its octagonal steeple
above a community in which there
is neither juke box, pool hall, hot
dog emporium, corner drugstore or
motion picture theater.
Its handful of old homes, its
church, a one-room schOOlhouse,
garage, a couple Of filling sta
tions, a little grocery store, a
roadside souvenir shop, some
neat tourist cabins, crumbling,
pre-revolutionary cemetery and
an ancient inn strung along the
highway - these comprise the
center.
No one is very rich in Pownal
Center and no one is very poor. 1t
is essentially farming community.
The township meeting is held an
nually in March. People from all
over the township crowd into Pow
nal Center's union church, built in
1889. There the citizens of the town.
ship elect the three selectmen, who
govern the whole community, as
we'll as all other elective officers. In
open meeting, they thresh out the
matter of local taxes, road improve
ments and school matters.
Peace Is Unmarried.
In the six years he has been sher-
if, Arthur H. Bourke hasn't had to
Jail anyone.
While the rest of the world is
plagued with juvenile delinquency,
Pownal Center with her $50 inhabi-
tants sits back and wonders why the
center has never had a case of ju-
venile delinquency.
1t would be quite true, in one
sense, to say that nothing ever
happens in Pownal Center. Moth
ing, that is, but the ebb and flow
of the seasons and the cub and
flow of life itself, of births, mar
riages and deaths.
NGSllGo III 11OOSlS NdllGy dIlo
hemmed in by mountains on both the
east and west, Pownal Center is
linked with postwar realities only
through the rushing traffic Of Ethan
Allen highway.
Servicemen Return.
But there is no isolation in the
world today, even for community
that epitomizes peace. Out of the
community's $50 inhabitants, II men
and one young woman served in the
armed forces during World War II.
Now all the men are home again,
the community rejoicing that all are
safe, and the girl, married to a ma
val officer during the war, lives in
Virginia.
Few residents of the center be-
lieve that the atom bomb will ever
shatter the peace of their own little
valley. What really worries them is
what the bomb will do for the rest of
the world
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$4,000 G.I.s abandon War Brides

NEW YORK. - At least $4,000
wartime marriages between Amer
lean soldiers and foreign women al
ready have broken up, R. G. Mas
trude, official of the international
migration service, reported on his
return to the United States after con-
Quoting survey in Europe.
In a large percentage of cases,
Mastrude said, the GIL. brides were
simply abandoned.
1.-THE soldier goes home, and that's
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the last his wife in Europe ever
hears of him. We have discovered
that a great many gave false ad-
dresses in America. Countless mar
riages were bigamous, the man al
ready having a wife in the United
States" Mastrude declared.
Branding international agree
ments on divorce laws as "unfor-
tunate," Mastrude said it is posi-
BILE for an American to divorce a
foreign wife without notifying her.
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Christmas Club Fund
Reaches Peak Figure

NEW YORK.-Christmas club de-
positors will receive a record total
of sl24,557, 464 from their accounts
in mutual savings banks this year.
according to the National Associa-
ton of Mutual Savings Banks. The
total, representing accumulations of
1,761,377 depositors, is 10 million
dollars higher than in 1915. Average
distribution this year is S70.72 per
account
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IN THESE UNITED STATES
Tiny Vermont Town Picked
AS Symbol of World Peace
WNU Features

POWNAL CENTER, VT.-For the first time in its history,
Pownal map larger than that of its township
few weeks Pownal Center not wide
road-today it is internationally famous the
epone deep and abiding the United States hopes
achieve for the whole world.
typical quiet rural symbolic peace
picture Powna Center recently reproduced the back
cover O. the United Nations Weekly Bulletin
UN had appointed learned committee of experts
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Police Join Collection
Craze; Seek Collector

BALTIMORE, MD. - Some peo-
pie collect stamps, pipes or war
souvenirs. Someone in south Balti-
more apparently collects hub caps.
AS the latest addition to his collec-
ton, he collected eight in single
block one night. Now police have
served notice they may become col
lectors themselves. They plan to
collect a hub cap collector.
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RECREATION CENTERS

Development of airports as rec
reation centers for small towns and
rural America is envisaged in an
analysis of building trends in air
ports.
With $3.50 new airports and l,625
improvements already planned from
a program of federal aid, in addi-
ton to almost an equal number to
be built from private capital, viz
tually every rural family will be
within easy distance of an airport.
To make their airports self-sup-
porting, airport operators are seek
ing out every possible source of rev.
enue. Additional attractions, &C.
cording to present trends, will in
clude bowling alleys, retail and serv-
ice stores, and amusement conces-
sions, providing recreational activi-
ties for the entire family.
The survey also revealed an ar
chitectural trend toward construct
ing airports on the "open" plan,
large window areas providing spec
tators with an unbroken view of field
operations. By encouraging specta-
tors, the small town airport will add
to its concession revenue.
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Pedals at 81

HASTINGS, NEB. - Miss Martha
M. Patterson celebrated her .82nd
birthday anniversary by riding her
bicycle. Although she no longer
likes to pedal downtown because
traffic is heavy, Miss Patterson
still cycles for pleasure and on small
errands.
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w. Va, was viewed by some as 80
cialistic" and ridiculous"
When Representative John O'Don-
nell of Michigan introduced the first
bill for a rural mail delivery system
in 1892, critics in congress declared
that sending men and horses all up
and down rural America with the
mail would bankrupt the country.
Doomed Gatherings.
Others argued that mail delivered
to the farmers door would give
him less opportunity to gather at
the post Office store and thus would
destroy his social life.
Even some farmers were re-
luctant to sign up for the expert
ment, one West Virginia farmer
who liked his toddy seeing his
regular excuse for coming into
town being snatched away from
him.
Postmasters themselves often
were unhappy about the proposal.
Many postmasters, particularly in
small communities, were storekeep-
ers as we'll and they gloomily fore
saw loss of customers as the need
to come in for the mail was taken
away.
Small Offices Closed.
Other postmasters were worried
that the new system would elimi-
nate the need for their little cross
roads post office. Actually, rural free
delivery did result, in the course of
time, in discontinuance of some 3d.
900 fourth class post offices.
Some unrealistic souls were
worried that farmers would be
spoiled by such luxury service.
They foresaw farmers emulat-
ing city folks, even to the ex-
tent of refusing to stir from the
house until the morning paper
had been read.
In 1898, however, a bill providing
for an experimental rural mail de-
livery route received congressional
approval. Three years later enough
money was available to begin the
West Virginia experiment.
Within nine months, RID. had
grown to SO routes, operating from
40 post offices in 90 different states.
Ten years later this number had
increased to 37.729 routes covering
nearly a million miles of road. Since
that time rural roads have been inn
proved, permitting a consolidation of
routes and a reduction in the num-
Der. Total miles covered by car
riers, however. have been increased.
Serve Eight Million.
Now, on the 50th anniversary
year, 32,l6l rural routes are in op-
Grafton, 426 of them being tri-week-
ly routes. Thousands of friendly
rural carriers, rain or shine, carry
mail to nearly eight million fami-
lies along RID. routes today.
Average length of RID.
routes is 44.8 miles. Longest
route, covering 101 miles, oper-
ates out Of Antonito, Colo. The
shortest is 6 miles, operating
from Glenshaw, Pa. Average
daily travel for the entire RID.
is 1,43S, sol miles, or more than
81 times the distance around the
earth at the equator.
Total expenditure for the RID.
during the fiscal year ending June
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GOLDEN JUBILEE
CULLEN JUBILEE
Dire Predictions on Founding
OF RID. Fail To Materiulize
WNU Features

From humble beginning 1896 when four horse
back boy bicycle embarked the first experiment
rural the rural free delivery service
post department has expanded to $500 00O 900
the 50h anniversary of its establishment
this year. ,
Financed by congressional appropriation of $4,000 the
of free mail delivery Jefferson county,
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FARMS AND RANCHES
STOCK RANCH FOR SALE

Try to DUPLICATE this One
That's it-Ten Dollars
A most extraordinary stock ranch con-
1890 ACRES
Highly improved with $4,000 worth of
buildings and corrals. 700 acres of this
paved highway. miles from sunnyside:
substantial advance in value as the whole
country around it Is soon to develop; The
ne mics eo 4wire Of and the ie saIn9ee e
wire. The stock water situation is excel
lent with many springs, throughout the
is carried 10 the buildings and corrals
under gravity pressure. The main house
house. bunk house and food storage are
extra good. $4,000 4. of shed. 40 2i0'
great amoun' Of pipe ines. is our pleas
ure TO show you this wonderful cattle
and shee ga. Ga ms at the extremely low
Ii. W. BIRD SELLS FARM LANDS. INC.
liz E. Chestnut. Yakima. washington.
A NO. 1 EASTERN Oregon COW ranch
Ten thousand acres. Cuts thousand tons
of hay and lot of grain. houses modern.
high School and store. Some nice timber
Fine outfit of machinery. and horses to run
ranch. Price Of ranch, sl25, 600, good
term 9So hfad c ne ef nt 500 pe SV9
with ranch. Have to sell. E. A. kIRKEN-
DALI, 1720 Sd ST., Baker, Ore.
15-ACRE POULTRY ranch on Pend Orcille
river. Oiled hiway. Mail. school and milk
rts. 4-room semi-modern house, other build
ings. lights in all bldgs.. berries, Close TO
store. 5000 part terms. miles from
Newport. SIS miles N E. Spokane.
o. c. HOFFMAN Furport, Wash.
SMALL RANCH-16O ACRES, 40 acres
farm land. Small amount irrigated. bal.
pasture with some timber. Spring in pas
ture. Creek through place. Fair buildings,
2 wells, electricity, on gravel road. mi.
from good town. Possession May l.
II. p. HALSTEAD Bridger, Montana
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7MINtS@!G&S
AVIATION NOTES
AIRPORT CHATTER

AIRPORT CHATTER
Former combat fiiers in the Phila-
delphia area have formed a pilots
club. Purposes of the club are to
give veterans an opportunity to keep
abreast of latest aviation develop
ments and to participate in hangar
flying, air carnivals and barnstorm-
ing tours. :. . The word Fleetwood"
has been painted on top of the Glen
wood, Iowa, armory for benefit of
air traffic. The sign includes nu-
merals giving distances to the near
est airport, Council Bluffs, and the
nearest paved landing field, Omaha.
:. Using materials salvaged from
two barracks on an old civilian con-
servation camp site, Montrose, Colo,
is constructing a new hangar at its
municipal airport. The hangar's
specifications are designed for stor-
age of eight planes. The airport
operated at Clarinda, Iowa, by Ray
Schenck has been approved by Civil
Aeronautics commission, and 10 stu
dents are learning to fly under the
CT. Bill of Rights. Sundance,
Wyo., has completed its air marker,
the first in that section of Wyoming
and third in the state for non-com-
mercial airports. The marker has
the name "Sundance" in letters 10
feet high and information indicating
direction and distance to the Sum-
dance airport. Nevada, Mo-,
dedicated its new municipal airport
hangar with an air circus sponsored
by the Junior Chamber of Com
merce. Prizes were awarded the
oldest and youngest visiting pilots
and the pilot coming the longest dis
lance. Spot landing and paper cut.
ting contests were other attractions.
When Clayton Myron and
Pearl Westerman of Seattle de-
cided to get married, it was
only natural they should want to-
exchange vows in a plane $500
feet above Lake Washington.
They met while working in the
Boeing plant; their first date
was a plane ride.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1946-12-06

MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
PIANOS-New. used and rebuilt. Write
for prices and catalogues. J. NJ. WYLIE
PIANO CO.. I15 Broadway. Fargo. N. D.
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HELP WANTED-MEN

WANTED - All-around slaugh.er-house
man. also experienced meat cutter. State
age. qualifications. former employers and
salary expected in letter. 44-hr. wk guar.
CARTER PACKING CO.
Bull Idaho
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CLASSIFIED DEPARTMENT
FARMS AND RANCHES

FOR SALE-320 acres. Rosebud County,
Montana. One-half mineral rights reserved,
Price 81 90 per acre.
c. E. MATSON. Box OF, Shelby, Mont.
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FOR SALE
1873 acres miles south of Noxen. Mont
Good soil with good creek running through
place. Plenty of timber for post and build
ing material. Good fishing and hunting
Priced at $1,000. Timber will nearly pay
for place.
ED IRVINE
Lonepine Montana
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-10-03
Cotton Scars

NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 2-P-
Heavy trade and speculative buy
ing raised cotton futures nearly
S. a bale here Wednesday to the
highest levels in 26 years.
Much of the demand that pusheo
up prices appeared based on SINAI
private crop estimates. One OF tne
guesses was for 8,946, 600. Another
guessed that the government flg'
ures as of Oct. l would be two pei
cent smaller than the Dec. l Of
fetal estimate.
Contracts were furnished mainly
by profit taking longs and hedge
selling. Closing quotations wee
strong at the highest levels O
the day, ee to 80 points net higher
Oct. close l at 1894 cents a pound
Dec. 38-62-65, March 1881, May
37.s1 to 80 and July at $500 to s.
This represented $3.50 to $3.50
bale higher than Tuesdays close
Spot cotton closed 1925 a bale
higher, with middling 15-16ths-incf
quoted a. 1885 cents a pound.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-10-03

SLAMS came so quickly the scientists
could not escape, the story said.
Names Withheld
The Constitution added:
Zone scientists was master d.
rector Of the entire proect. Six
others, all eminent Japanese SCENT
lists, we're in charge Of six phases
Of bomb development. Each of these
six men was kept in Ignorance of
the other five. Names of these
scientists are withheld by Army
censorship"
Smell said the Japanese captain
told him that one of the scientists
escaped from the Russians in June,
1946 and fled to the American zone
of occupation in Korea. He said
U. S. Intelligence officers had Sin
terrogated this man."
This story may throw light on
Stains recent statement that
America will not long have a MOI
opoly on atomic weapons" the
Constitution story said. And Der.
aaps it will throw new light on the
shooting down by the Russians of
our BIG on Aug. 20. 1s45 in the
Roman area"
Smell said he interviewed the
japanese captain mot as a mem.
Der OF the armed forces but as a
newspaperman he was advised.
and understood thoroughly, that
ne Wa speaking for publication"
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-10-03
MORE ABOUT
DREDGE
FROM PAGE ONE

Army Engineers by the Pusey :
Jones company, of Wilmington,
Del, in 1912 at a cost of approx
mately 81 $500, 600. After extensive
war service, she returned to the
United States and was later as
signed to the Wilmington district,
arriving a few days ago from Phil
adelphia. Under this arrangement,
she will be employed on projects
in this and other South Atlantic
states.
She carries a total compliment
OF 16 officers and so men, now all
civilian employees of the Army En-
gineers. During the war, her crew
was in uniform with ranks ranging
from major for her master to pri-
vate for unskilled e members.
The dredge was named in honor
of Brig. Gen. George M. Hoffman,
well-known Army Engineer who
died in 1888.
The Hoffman is expected to ar
rive off Morehead City tonight and
will begin work on the bar shortly
afterwards. The project is scredul-
ed to last so days and, upon COM
pletion, the dredge will be assigned
to other similar tasks,