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The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-07-26

ator Joe Mccarthy, Wisconsin Re- publican, called at the Congression- al medical room the other day for free advice and treatment-as IS his Senatorial privilege.
 For four days Mccarthy visited the doctors and loaded up with pills. However, they couldn't diag nose what was wrong. Then the Senator happened to bump into Associated Press reporter Jack Bell who asked about his health. Me Carthy complained described his his symptoms.
 Sounds like you've got virus pneumonia" warned the reporter.
 The Senator rushed back to a hospital. Sure enough, the doctors found he had virus pneumonia.
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It Could Happen at Anchorage
Anchorage News

Tt could have happened here, said headlines in the News in referring to pictures of the arpane crash at Boeing Field that killed five persons in their homes and two others aboard the heavily laden airiner.
 And those headlines not scare lines" in the least. They spoke very much the truth.
 Local aviation officials frankly worried about the situation at Anchorage and sit with their fingers crossed, hoping against hope that nothing like the disastrous crash at Seattle will happen here before the new international express airport is completed.
 There is all the similarity in the world, except for size, between Boeing Field at Seattle and Merrill Field at Anchorage. Both have become surrounded with dwellings and habitation that has mushroomed up to their very edges and has spread out lateraly until today the airways lead away over clusters of homes stores and buildings.
 In the case of Merrill Field greater percentage of the landings and take-offs made the east west runway which brings aircraft directly over An chorage The roar of powerful engines gaining altitude or the vibration when propeors are thrown into full pitch constantly shake and rattle the homes along the south border of It has gotten to the common olace and not until an accident such the GAG crash at Seattle do we give great deal of thought to the fact that potential death is in the making every time these big machines rattle the pantry dishes.
 Anchorage pilots and plane owners realize this even more than the on the street who usually doesn't even glance upward when of the big ships 60 over There rigid government regulations Tor 7afety plane owners observe and there are very bob standards that pilot must comply with before taking ship up.
 But unless everything clicks perfectly. unless the ship is mechanically perfect unless the pilot exercses precise judgment unless every possible precaution IS observed there is danger of similar accident to the one of last Tuesday in Seattle
 The critical point of safe take-off is so small at Merrill Field that failure of any single element o1 ,recaution either human or mechanical may cause big ship to blow off the end Of the runway h'o noeS and buildings
 It is only to be hoped tha5 pilots and plane owners at Merrill will take every possible precaution until operations of the larger ships be transferred to the new airport.
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BACKED
 SCOUTS GOING
 WINDEALL LAKE
Plans Made for American Legion to Work on Ever
 green Cemetery Plot

Members of Boy Scout Troop No. 613, sponsored by Juneau Post No 4, of the American Legion, will make a three day trip to Windfall Lake next week, it was announced by Post Commander and Scout master Chester Zenger at last nights Legion meeting.
 In other business, plans were made for work to be done at the American Legion plot in the Ever green Cemetery. All Legionnaires will meet at the cemetery in work clothing next Monday in place of the regular business meeting which has been cancelled
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MODERN ETIQUETTE Ry ROBERTA LEE

O. introducing married woman and single woman?
 introduce Miss Smith?" Mrs Jones' this merely mention the Mrs Jones, Smith"
 O. write the bread and butter letter?
 home Never postpone this little courtesy lost its point.
 O. bride bouquet if she is being mar a travelling dress?
 A. would a
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-07-26
BOAT WORK AT JUNEAU
 MARINE CO, INC. SHOI

Work at the Juneau Marine Co. Inc, has been completed on the St Nicholas owned by George BettS of Hoonah. The boat was in for major rebuild and general re- pairs and was put into the water Sunday.
 Dr. c. c. Carter's pleasure craft Blue Boy was put on the ways yes- terday for bottom repairs and hull overhaul
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YEAR FOR SCHOOLS
 PROPOSED, HOUSTON

HOUSTON, Tex, July 26-B-- Houston may keep its schools open all year.
 The city's school board asked Superintendent w. E. Moreland yesterday to draft plans for keeping the schools open 12 months and estimate costs.
 Dr. Henry A. Petersen, board memter, suggested the plan as an alternative to another large bona issue for building more schools.
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Veterans "52-2O"
 BiII Appears Out
(By Associated Press)

It looks like the out-of- work 'eteran is also out of luck so far IS special unemployment pay is concerned. The "52-20" provisions of the CT. Bill of Rights expire
 onight. Seven bills have been in- troduced into Congress to keep the payments of $20 week for 52 weeks of unemployment but none of them is anywhere near final Congressional action.
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ter jealousy for Secretary of Agri- culture Brannan. Kline had ex- pected to be Secretary of Agricul- ture himself under Dewey. However, neither Kline's feelings nor his views are shared by rank-and-flle farmers-as they demonstrated at the polls last November.
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out mishaps. But these, unfortunately are likely to be forgotten in the intense drama of major crash. The proportion of these infrequent disasters, for tunatey, grows smaller and smaller. We can look ahead confidently to the day when it will all but have disappeared.
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BACKSTAGE WITH HUGH
 SCOTT

Backstage debates over the oust- ing of Conqressman Hugh Scott as chairman of the Republican Ma tional Committee were more signifl- cant than the fra9mentary news leaking to the press. Featuring the debates were two important high liphts.
 l. Bitterness was almost as in- tense as that between the Dixie crat and Truman wings of the Democratic party-especially be- tween Taft and Dewey cohorts.
 2 The party leaders. figuring a Republican victory certain in 1852, already are feverishly moving for position.
 That was why stubborn MT. Scott -Deweys man-was not finally busted until IS states signed a petition for busting purposes; also until a secret meeting of party leaders in the Mayflower Hotel in- lllclCQ d NOill llQGi4Nidl liiCll4C lJlCAtS = ing themselves to bring about Scott's exit.
 These party leaders included; Senatcr Owen Brewster of Maine, Senator Ed Martin of Pennsylvania, Texas Committeeman Rentfro Gre ager, who has wabbled hack and forth between the Taft and Dewey camps; and Pennsylvania Commit teeman Mason Owlett, who repre- sents Joe Grundy's high-tariff Pennsylvania Manufacturers Asso- ciation and originally put Hugh Scott in the chairmanship.
 The fact that Owlett finally in- itialed a memo agreeing to Scott's exit meant that h.s end had come
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TAFT TOURS POLITICAL OIL

But just as victory was within the Taft crowds grasp their leader wavered. The Senator from Ohio indicated that he wanted the new chairman Of the COP. to be ac- ceptable to all factions of the par ty. He wanted harmony, not a row with Dewey over the chairman ship.
 This caused another feryid meet ing in the Mayflower Hotel-once, incidentally, the camping ground of bigwig Democrats The meet ing took place in room 453, occupied by the delightfully."- talkativ1, MT. Creager Of Texas. and thcte present included: Harrison Spangler of Iowa, an ardent Taft man: West Virginia's committeeman Walter Hallanan, also for Taft; Commit teeman John E. Jackson of Louis jana, one of the few admitted Re- publicans in that state; faithful Carroll Reece Of Tennessee, who was made National Committeeman
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LOOK and LEARN S%y. c. GORDON

Where airport the United States  g. died at the oldest age? the blood of the average huma through the lungs?
 held the left hand the Statue of Liberty?
 Which fish has greast cubic inch? 
 Tucson Arizona the landing November 2O  of ninety.
  4, 1776."
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"The smSrtest machine is dumber than the dumb est man." declares scientist. We disagree An act ing carbureator easily ouwit half nacre of garage mechanics
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The Washington kerry-6e-Round
By DREW PEARSON

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MOUNT JUNEAU LODGE NO. .14,

SECOND and FOURTH Monday of each month /T\ <, in Scottish Rite Temple % j beginning at 7::30 D. m. ~W GLENN O. ABRAHAM, " Worshipful Master;
 JAMES w. LEVERS, Secretary.
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Capt Santy the Princess Adelaide the of Com nd Mrs Edward
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George Rice and two children, Betty and Hallie, visit The Dalles Ore, where they be the MT Rice's mother, Mrs A. E. Clough.
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J. Anderson, Juneau florist left for Cheyenne Wyo, convention the Horticultural Society planning to visit Lincoln Neb, and in Ohio.
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Weather: High, 59; low, 52; cloudy.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-07-12
SERVICES FOR HILDRE,
 HARBoRMASTER, TO BE
 HELD TOMORROW AT ]

Funeral services for Andrew Hill dre, wellknown Alaskan fisherman who had been Harbor Master for the Small Boat Harbor for the past three years, will be held tomorrow at 2 p. m. in the chapel of the Charles w. Carter Mortuary.
 Chapel services will be read by the Rev. Arthur Bauer, with Ernest Ehler singing two selections during the services. Graveside rites will be handled by the American Le- zion with interment in the Ameri- can Legion plot of the Evergreen Cemetery.
 Hildre was born in Norway Oct. 10, 1891 and had come to the States as young man. His surviving widow, Mrs. Sigrid Hildre, arriv- ed yesterday aboard Pan American plane, having flown from Norway, where she was vacationing at the time of her husbands death last week.
 Pallbearers will be Bert Alstead, Bert Lybeck, George Martin, Peter Oswald, John Korsnes and Cash Cole.
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1 SNOW (0nNICE'
 CLIMBERS DESCEND
 MCUET VANCOUVER

NDescent of the great north ridge of Mount Vancouver started last Saturday by the four man party of the Arctic Institute of North Americas Project Snow Cornlce' following the first ascent of this giant of the St. Elias Range, ac- cording to advices received here from w. A. Wood.
 Composed Of pr. N. E. Odell' William R. Hainsworth, Robert s. McCarter, and Alan Bruce-Robert- son, the party left the Projects Re- search Station on Seward Glacier June 28. Mt. Vancouver rises as the second highest point on the h. ternational Boundary between AL aska and Canada. some 20 airmiles above the head Of Disenchantment Bay. The mountain is referred to as the highest unclimhed peak in North America but is actually surpassed in elevation by King Peak, satellite of Mt. Logan.
 The ascended point is composed
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RED GROSS MEETS FRIDAY TO ELECT
 NEW DIRECTORS

Members of the Juneau Chapter American Red Cross are reminded of the annual meeting Friday noon, July IA, at no-host luncheon in the Gold Room of the Baranof Hotel.
 Purpose of the meeting is to elect new Board of Directors for the year 1949-50
 All persons who have contribut- ed at least $1 to the 1949 fund drive are urged to attend this meeting so they may participate in the election and hear reports from committee chairmen," stated Bob Boochever, Chapter chairman
 Mrs. Dan Livie, Executive Secre- tary, has asked that those who plan to attend call 883 so that res- ervations may be made.
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BIG QUESTION,
 AIR SUPREMACY
 iS UNSETTLED
(By Associated Press)

The big question in the British air games appears likely to remain unanswered for the time being as far as the public-at-large is con- cerned. Still unanswered satisfac- tcrily is the question whether Americas seven-year-old Super forts really outfly Britain's best jet fighters at high attitudes. An official answer, however, may be found in the final and top-secret report on the air games.
 So far query on the point has brought an emphatic mo" from Air Vice-Marshal Sir Basil Embry, head of the British Fighter Com- mand. He said:
 We have shown we can master the Superforts both in speed and height" After that, the official silence developed
 Meantime, some newsmen who flew with the big American bomb CTS disagree with Sir Basil. They say the B-29's flying at 35,O00 feet or more experienced only feeble and sluggish attacks from jet fighters. The fighter planes they said, barely were able to beat the bomber speed of more than 400 niles an hour at that height. Technicians involved in the games found it hard to reach firm con- clusion on the point.
 Major General Leon w. John son turned away questions with a diplomatic reply. As commander of three groups of B-29's in Eng land, General Johnson commented: : Tt is healthy sign when fighters believe they can handle the bomh- ars and tombers believe they can handle the fighters"
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of three principal surnmits form ing the boundary point 15,720 feet high and is exceeded in elevation by the point reached in the new ascent by approximately 80 feet
 The conquest of Mt. Vancouver was made possible through the close cooperation between air and ground elements of the project. On June 27 two parachute loads, each containing equipment for a camp, were dropped on the mountain at the 5000 and 13,000 foot elevations
 Each container was equipped with a self erecting flag to identify the location of the load should it become showed under between dropping and recovery. The drops, made from the Institutes Norse- man aircraft, demanded the high est accuracy. This was especially true in the case of the load drop red at the higher elevation for it had to be placed within an area Of few square yards below the snowy ridge line. If the target had been missed, the load would have dropped TOGO feet to the Hubbard Glacier.
 Up North Ridge
 The following day, June 23, a six-msn climbing party under the leadership of w. A. Wood set out from the Seward Basin to attempt
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LI0N5(LUB INSTALL
 NEW OF HCE ERyAT
 INFORMAL AFFAIR

Lions roared off to a new yea, of Lionism last night with installa- tion of officers at Tom George: tent-styled Salmon Creek Countr, Club.
 With a softball classic on the sports agenda, and banquet oi hot dogs and hamburgers on the menu, Lions turned out in picnic togs for the annual installation ceremony.
 Foreigner" Al Lawrence, Past President of the Mt. Edgecumbe Lions Club, not only served as in- stalling officer, but took on the hazardous joh of umpiring the hot ly contested softball game.
 With Harry Sperling and Edward Chester opposing each other on the mound, tean1s explained by Jos Werner and Norman Sommers wound up five innings (. play Il. a A tie.
 Val Poor oI Douglas was install cd as Lions President for the com ing year. Other officers to take cn duties were Joe Shofner, first vice president; Joe Werner, second vice president; Col. Joe Alexander third vice president; Ken Axelson secretary; Marc Boles, treasurer Jerry Williams, tail-twister; Car I.usher, Lion tanner; Milton Fur ness and Bill Matheny, board oi directors.
 Past President and Past Secre- tary pins were presented by Mil ton Furness to outgoing officers President George Danner and Sec letary Bill Matheny.
 Past President Frank Hermann presented special pin award for 100 per cent attendance to Leslie Avrit George Banner, John Geyer, Art Hedges, Bill Matheny, Dr. J. O. Rude, Joe Shofner, Walter Sobo- Jeff, Clarence Warfield and Peter Wood
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NEW MEASURE MAY BE BENEFIT,
 ALASKA FARMERS

WASHINGTON, July 12-tR-- Legislation passed by the House yesterday can be of real import ance in the agricultural develop ment of Alaska" Delegate Bartlett believes.
 The Territorial Delegate spoke yesterday during House considera- ton of a bill extending the opera ton of all the Farm Credit Ad- m nistration activities to Puerto Rico, Alaska and Hawaii. Bartlett said there is no reason Alaska should not be on parity with other states and Territories and the fact that such parity has not existed is one of the primary reasons why there has not been more rapid and more effective utilization of Alaskas farm poten- tialities."
 There have been obvious dis --iminations against the Alaska farmer" Bartlett said. At the pre- sent time there are available to him only the very limited faciii- ties of the Farmers Home Adminis- tration."
 Bartlett estimated that 65,00U square miles of Alaska is suitable for agriculture. He said that across the Boring Straits the Soviet goy- arnment in the same attitudes and with comparable soil conditions has built up a great and ever in creasing agriculture industry"
 If we are going to build up 2 substantial population in Alaska, he said, we must have larger 'arming population
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ADVERTISEMENT FOR BUDS

The Fairbanks School District. an independent school district corpora ton, acting by and through the President and Clerk of the Board of Directors, will receive sealed bids at the office of the Superintendent of Schools, Fairbanks School Building, Fairbanks, Alaska, until 800 o'clock PM, August Is, 1949, at which time said bids will be publicly opened Said bids are to be for the con- struction of new high school build ing and civic center according to plans and specifications heretofore prepared by Manley & Mayer, Archi- tects, Anchorage. Alaska, which plans and specifications may be seen and examined in the office of the Superintendent of Schools in the Fairbanks Public School Building, Fairbanks, Alaska, or copies thereof may be obtained from the architects upon deposit of $50.00. Prospective bidders are hereby directed to read
 
 carefully and consider the plans and specifications and to visit the site of the work so that they may thor oughly familiarize themselves with the conditions, particularly the diff faculties, existing at the site; no consideration will be given to any claim that a bid was made without full comprehension of the conditions to be encountered. The Board of Directors of the Fairbanks School District reserves the right to reject any and all bids
 DATED at Fairbanks, Alaska tnis 7th day of July, 1949.
 FAIRBANKS SCHOOL DISTRICT By FRANK CONWAY
 Clerk of the Board of Directors. First publication, July l2. ls4S. Last publication, August ?, ls4s,
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sioner of Education Dr. James c. Ryan, and Department of Welfare Henry Harmon on the securing of surplus food supplies for certain Alaskan institutions.
 Randall and the Territorial offi- cials are setting up channels through which surplus food can be obtained to assist in supplying food for school luncheon programs and for institutions for homeless children. Randall will leave to- morrow afternoon after a four day stay here.
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Commies 1ieup 5teel Industry,
 Northern ItaIy
(By The Associated Press

Most of northern Italys steel industry is closed today because ot a strike by Communicated steel workers. About 100000 Italian steel employees are involved.
 Members of the non- Communist Free General Federation of Labor refused to join the walkout. The strike appears to be show-of- strength maneuver designed to in fluence contract negotiations ir Rome.
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It was also undertaken to collect geological and meteorological evil dence. The testing of cold wealth CT and high altitude equipment was made in conjunction with the overall Snow Cornice' program of research in Arctic and sub Arctic characteristics.
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AGRICULTURE MAN HERE;
 CONFERS ON SURPLUS FOOD

George Randall, representative from the food distribution division of the Department of Agriculture
 is here conferring with Commis-
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SONS OF NORWAY TO
 ATTEND HILDRE RITES

Members of the Sons of Norway are requested to attend the An drew Hildre funeral services to- morrow afternoon at 2 o'clock in the Chapel of the Charles w. Carter Mortuary.
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an ascent by the great north ridge. Over this route had been the abor- tive attempt in August, 1948. On June 30 the climb was renewed but before great progress had been made. Wood was forced to descend owing to a severe attack of fuel poisoning. He was accompanied by his son, Peter, thus narrowing the climbing party to four.
 Camp At 1000 Feet
 Following the steep and heavily corniced ridge, the party establish ed a camp at l1,0O0 feet. After g day of poor weather, they contin- ued past the l3000 foot north shoulder of the mountain and re- covered the high load parachuted on June 27 This portion of the climb demanded the greatest care and skill owing to loose snow over lying hard ice. At times, steps had to be carved to permit safe upward progress. Tn the last two sections of the ridge, 500 feet of rope was made fast and left behind to assist and secure the descent.
 Shortly after reaching this camp, the Norseman flew over the party and confirmed their arrival and safe establishment
 On July 4 the party remained immobile due to heavy clouds mask ing the upper slopes early in the day. Again in the afternoon, the Institutes plane patroled the up- per reaches of the mountain ard returned to report all well With the party.
 Summit Reached
 The next day an early start was made. After traversing the gently rising ridge for several houls, the foot of the final summit pyramid was reached This last climb was made over rock. hard snow, and ice to the highest point.
 Due to unfavorable weather con- ditions which held the Norseman inactive at Yakutat, it was inn possible to consumate the plan by rhotographing the party from the air at the highest point.
 Dr. Odell, who gained mountain eer's fame on Mt. Everest in 1924 and 1888, is geologist of Project Snow Cornice" He is professor Of geology at the University of Brit ish Columbia MT. Hainsworth is president of Servel Inc, and a mountaineer of long experience. MT. McCarter, a member of Snow Cornice" in 1948, is a graduate stu dent at Stanford University Med ical officer of the project is Dr. e-Roherts, whose home is in Toronto.
 IT. ascent of Mt. Vancouver was not basically a climbing venture.
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Livestock is produced by 5,00O,0OO growers.