The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1949-07-16
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GUSTAVUS, Alaska, July O.
The Fourth of July was celebrated
here, in true holiday style. With
beautiful weather for the affair it
was opened with a picnic on the
Archie Chase homestead near the
river banks. After a picnic lunch
and ball game and time just
spent visiting and enjoying the
day. the group went to the airfield
where another ball game took place
and then there was another lunch
and a fireworks display. Ten OF
the Toys from the camp in Glacier
Bay came over, They experienced
some difficulty in making it. First
their outbcard broke down and
after parking it in Bartlett Bay
they took off on foot but became
lest on one of the large marshes
between there and here. Eventually
though they found the range
towers where they were picked up
in a truck and brought over to
the settlement. After their long
hike they were found to be in
excellent trim for the base bail
James, however, and took their
nssfortunes in a great spirit OF
fun.
M s. Glenn Parker went to Jul
neau to spend the holidays with
her sister, Miss Mary Louise
Crowen.N She expects to return
Thursday.
Word has peen received that Mr..
and Mrs. L Dwell Trump and baby
son, Kris, III formerly of Gus
tavus, expect to leave Alaska and
go to Spokane where Mr.. Trump
will enter a tel sgraphers school.
Jess Jones suf. cred severe in
juries on the Foul tn when Ro-
man Candle explode q in his hand,
burning him painfully and deafen-
ing him, for the tim : being. TIE
candle shot out it's first star and
then the other fourteell exploded
at once in his hand.
VIM. Lehman went to Juneau
over the Fourth to join his wife
and little Larry who were ueady
in town. Returning on the With,
he was accompanied Icy his little
son and Mrs Lehman will ret, Urn
home here later in the week.
The Civair 10 is expected to re-
turn here on Wednesday of this
week. Station Manager Francis OF
Juneau is returning the Civair 10
here after it has undergone ex
tensive repairs on the Northern
Commercial Marine Ways.
Eugene Chase has his boat Kitten
now equipped for fishing and ex-
poets to take off in the near flu
ture for the fishing grounds
Mr.. and Mrs. Archie Chase ex-
pect to have their daughter, Miss
Anne White, as their guest from
Seattle for the summer months.
Friends Of young folks who have
made their homes in Gustavus
have been delighted to learn of the
successes that have come to these
young people in their various lines
of endeavor lately Miss Shirley
Casperson of Juneau who was
chosen to go to the Girl Scout
Camp in Michigan lived in Gus
tavus while her father was cook at
the NIX. construction camp here,
while the airfield was being built.
Miss Joan Erbland, who so ably
d>oloIC<l tiChCCo III viz WV
to raise funds to make the camp
project a success, lived in Gus
tavus during the time her father
Johnnie Erbland was in charge OF
the maintenance of the airfield
upon it's completion. We wish to
congratulate both girls, an orchid
to each.
Also, an orchid goes from us to
Mrs. Charles DeBoer, resident OF
Gustavus from her Tot to Teen
days. Mrs. DeBoer was formerly
Dorothy White, daughter of Mrs.
Archie Chase. Recently while at
tending the Seattle Northwest Pa
cific Teachers College, Mr.. and
Mrs. DeBoer were chosen to rep
resent their college at a conven-
ton held in Bellingham, Wash, OF
the Northwest Future Teachers
Association. While at this conven-
ton, Mrs. DeBoer, Dorothy, to us,
was chosen as the Northwest Dele
gate to go to the National Conven-
ton of teachers in washington
DC.
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