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Evening star., 1949-06-25
Hawaiian Stevedores
And Employers 10 Try
TO End Strike Monday
sy me Assoeioiss Press

HONOLULU. June 25.-Striking
stevedores and employers will try
TO get together again Monday on
an agreement to settle the water
front strike which has paralyzed
Hawaii's economy.
I They met yesterday for more
than an hour at the request OF
Acting Gov. Oren z. Long. but
got nowhere. It was their first
session since negotiations broke
on May 20.
Afterward. water front employ
ers were non-committal
New Offer Doubted.
A spokesman for the striking
International Longshoremen's and
Warehousemen's Union said it
seemed unlikely that employers
would make a new offer before the
Governors fact-finding board re-
ports Wednesday.
The board has been hearing
both sides in the strike. which
now is in It's 56th day. Its recon-
mendations will not be binding.
The walkout began May l. The
union demanded a wage Of Sl.72.
up 80 cents from the current level.
Employers offered IL cents. Later
they withdrew the offer when the
fact finding board was appointed.
Six Face Expulsion.
Meanwhile, six members Of the
Hawaii Civil Liberties Committee
were called on by the Democratic
Central Committee to show why
they should not be expelled from
the party.
The six named last night were
Mrs. Harriet Bouslog and Myer c.
Symonds, nWU attorneys: Roger
E. Green, Pearl Harbor Navy Yard
worker. and Mrs. Greene. Esther
Bristow and Rachael Saiki.
In Washington. Senator Butler.
Republican, of Nebraska called
the Hawaii Civil Liberties Com
mittee a cell of the Communist
Party" Attorney General Clark
has called it subversive.
The committee action was passed
by a voice vote near the end Of a
turbulent session. Earlier. a resolu-
ton which would force the central
committee to require all Demo-
cratic Party members to sign non-
Communist oats was referred to
the national Committee.
Butler Stirs Reaction.
A-report by Senator Butler op-
posing statehood tor Hawaii on the
Evening star., 1949-06-25
I Held in Numbers Charge
As SIips Are Tossed Aside

Two suspected gamblers who
yeportedly developed q sudden
ailergy 10 numbers slips were
under 81 900 bond today awaiting
q hearing next THURSDAY
Il. Roy Z Bllck. Vice Squad
chief. reported his men spotted
Marcus T. Dean. -. standing on
the curb a. Third and L streets
n. W. beside 8 parked car oc-
cupied by Manuel Weston, so
early yesterday.
, When the TWO men saw the
detectives. Ii. Bllck added. one
wad OF numbers slips sailed out
the car window at the same IN
Evening star., 1949-06-25

70 an American Lgaon se-.na: OF
communism today.
She Was accompanied ev Ber-
ianin Gttlow, former Comm rlnlg
Party leader. and Edward Gihoon&
California antt-Communls{ writer
Evening star., 1949-06-25

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Seward seaport record., 1949-06-24
The C,adG. Roeee.

While walking down the street this morning I noticed several groups of tourists looking around town. One elderly couple asked a townsman if there was anything to see. I could have shaken that Sew ardite when he looked vaguely around and drawled, Well, no, l guess not. There's lots of scenery; but I don't know of anything else. v
 He did not think to tell them about the Marathon Race, which at the time was the only thing that ] could have thought of myself.
 Ever since then I have been mak- ing a mental list of things of in- terest.
 We Seward people know that we have fine town: that we are more or less happy with it, that once having lived here people quite often return. But how many of us can put our reasons into words?
 The tourist business, we are told, can be built up, but surely it will be necessary to have interesting things to show and talk about The list have made so far includes:
 1. Marathon Mountain and the race.
 2. Handling of fish in season by the cold storage plant and the cannery.
 3. The waterfall and it's inlet up the canyon.
 4. The swimming pool and ad- jacent gold mine.
 }. The fine Alaska paintings and works of native art on display.
 6. Curios to be had in the shops.
 2. City water comes from glacier on the mountain.
 8. The glacier field that runs for 80 miles back of Marathon and Bear Mountains.
 9. Point out the location of the Russian occupation in the time of Baranof.
 Things that were of particular interest to us when We arrived in Seward are now so commonplace that we do not think about them. But it seems to me good idea to prepare ourselves to answer ques- tions and make suggestions for the benefit of our town and the tourist trade.
Seward seaport record., 1949-06-24
City Beautiful Award
 Goes To w. C. Erwinss,

With decisions on weekly prizes in thesCity Beautiful Campaign be- coming more difficult each time, due to the vast improvement in so many homes, the prize was given this week to MT. and Mrs. w. C. Erwin. They have one of the best kept homes in Seward.
 While the city authority does not extend beyond the legal city limits, the City Beautiful Committee feels at liberty to extend it's appreciation to the fine landscape work done by MT and Mrs. E. L. Senft, MT. and Mrs. West, and Mr.. and Mrs. Leo Douglas at their homes out on the highway.
 Those within the city who are especially commended this week are MT. and Mrs. Bernie Wilkinson, MT. and Mrs. Frank Kelly, and MT. and Mrs. William Allen.
Seward seaport record., 1949-06-24
THE DESIRABLE PROGRAM
COUNCIL ACCEPTS ELECTION BALLOTS. AUTHORIZES MAYOR TO NEGOTIATE FOR BONDS

The City Council voted to accept the ballots on the election for issuance of S104000 in revenue bonds for improvement of the citys power plant.
 The ballot count showed that only 132 people had voted in the election. but the bond issue had carried by a wide margin, since only IF votes were cast against it.
 The council authorized Mayor Lanier to negotiate with some bonding company to float the sl04,000 loan. One New York firm had shown an interest in the deal earlier and it was hoped that the interest might be revived. The mayor said there is a possibility the bonds might be handled by an insurance company.
Seward seaport record., 1949-06-24
Catholic Information
Is the Golden Rule Sufficient?

"Creeds and dogmas mean noth- ing 10 me. The Golden Rule is my religion" A common statement. A growing sentiment. A danger ouS tendency which bodes i'll for the human soul and for the good of our country.
 With the Golden Rule, no real Christian has any quarrel. IL is Christs own command to Hove thy neighbor as myself" But is that all that God commands? Is that all that Christ taught in His three years of missionary life?
 No Bible student-no true Chris tian-iWll concede this, nor can he help but deplore a condition today which enables mere man, with his vaunted freedom of conscience, to cast aside one by one Gods eternal truths, finding himself at last with only the Golden Rule-which he too often follows merely from an innate sense of decency and from e desire to maintain the respect
Seward seaport record., 1949-06-24
of his fellOW-men.

of his felloW-men.
 The Catholic Church with it's positive creed, it's absolute dogmas, it's hcompromising adherence to eternal truths, has not only existed basically unchanged throughout the ages, but has flourished in all parts of the world, under all sorts of conditions and prosecutions. To the unbiased thinker all this must cause a wonderment and a desire to know the Catholic secret of success.
 There is no Catholic secret. Everything Catholic is open to the world to inspect, dissect, to ask questions about, with a demand for the authority and reasonableness of the answers.
Seward seaport record., 1949-06-24

ever There is no point in waiting till dire necessity requires tenn porary and makeshift repairs. Plans should have been formed even before this.
 FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS is a lot of money, but the fifty thousand which the city is spend ing on the addition to the power system will just about give Seward adequate power for next winter. If there is sudden growth in population the city will be right back where it started. A planning committee should be working now to provide program for in- expensive water power, instead of expensive engines that burn ex pensive fuel and require repairs as well as number of operators on the job. It is easy to see the people of Seward spending well over million dollars in the next ten years for which they will have little or no return.
 THE DESIRABLE PROGRAM would be one which would tie in with expansion programs of neigh boring cities, thereby making it feasible to employ the best of engineering and legal help on such projects.
Seward seaport record., 1949-06-24
THE HIGHEST BUDGET in the

xI1L ooASA4 III tllS history of Seward was approved Wednesday evening by the City Council. The amount of $ll9,3l9 excee last years budget by twenty-five per cent.
 THERE IS "A QUESTION as to whether the city can actually raise that much money in taxes in the coming year. There is also ques- ton as to whether the city is jus tified in asking for that much.
 INCREASED POPULATION is the key to the situation. Because of rapid growth the city finds it. self forced to accomplish in a short time what could be done over a period of years with norma l growth.
 CIVIC PLANNING is virtue practically unknown here. It is true that ten years ago Seward had less than 1000 population. At that time Seward had adequate water supply, power, sewage system, and other facilities. The city had plenty of money and administration was not much of problem.
 TODAY SEWARD'S UTILITIES are not adequate for the larger population. Every indication is that the city will grow much larger, even though the Territory never does reach the predicted popula- ton of ten million.
 A INNING COMMITTEE should be formed so that all city expenditures should fit a broad pattern of expansion. Not penny should be spent for anything that does not fit into a long range program.
 PAVED STREETS could be paid for out of the present street de partment budget if small section were paved every year or two. A street does not need much atten- tion once it is paved, but unpaved streets have to be graded contin- ually. It would take a long time and lot of planning, but it could be done.
 SEWER AND WATER SYSTEMS would have to be sound before the new paving could be laid. The present systems will not last for
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1949-03-01
Continued from Page u

sparks the activities of Ballard
High School. The bubbling, en-
thusiastic group of high school
students indeed help to give Bal
lard a name, outstanding among
the seven other high schools of
annexed Seattle.
For instance, Coach Henry Ben
deles Beaver football squad won
the most prominence by capturing
the city title. Five players, Ernie
HUMPHREYS, Lawrence Peterson,
Chuck Mullavey, Dick Zeldenrust
and Bob Feagan We're selected on
the all-city team. The Ballard
second and third teams also won
championships in their respective
football leagues.
Even the non-particpants reaped
honors through football. Don
Skartvedt competing with older
and supposedly wiser heads in a
Seattle newspapers Guest Cues
ser football contest, was one of
the two top prognosticators and
won a trip to the New Year Rose
Bowl game in Pasadena.
About the same time Don was
gazing into his crystal ball to pick
grid winners, another lad, Earle
Johnson, was concentrating on his
books. Earle won a statewide
competition in knowledge of Amer
lean history.
The school annual The Single,
always one of Billiards. prides,
won All-American honors from
the National Scholastic Press AS
ISOLATION and the Columbia Uni
versity School Press Association,
with medalist rating. Bob Kos
XII. since graduated. was editor of
that book. Mary Pelton is boss
of the new one coming up.
A pair of young artists who
graduated last June, left Ballard
with unusually bright futures.
Bill Johnson won a scholarship to
the Chicago Academy of Art and
Arthur Hanson scholarship from
Carnegie Technicals Art School.
The Ballard golf team won the
city championship last spring and
the basketball, baseball and the
track teams were fighting con-
tenders.
Principal Heber Johnson says
his boys and girls haven't stopped.
This local pride that Mr.. Olson
mentioned is not bounded by Bal
lard streets. Since Ballard was
annexed by Seattle, or Seattle an
nexed to Ballard, whichever way
you will have it, Scandinavia way
of living has seeped into the homes
of people who never heard of Lutte
fisk. but who know that so miles
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Norway's "First
Of The Sec"

Miss Tora Skaaltveit is deter
mined to be Norway's first lady
Marine Engineer and she will
probably succeed.
Coming from Odda in the Har-
danger Fjcrd, Miss SkaaltVeit
grew up with yen for things me-
chanical. While yet in school she
began to spend her spare hours in
her fathers auto repair shop, and
in time became known for her
skill at the lathe and drill press.
This skill did not seem suffi-
cient, however, to provide her with
the mans wages which she con-
sidered her due So, determined to-
show these men," she dropped
her job and began to study for
her Marine Engineers Certificate.
Once she had her papers she
could demand her salary.
Two years of study at the
Porsgrunn Technical College, with
a full night school course at the
Engineers School there, brought
her to sea some seven months ago.
Her book already shows three
months as an oiler and four
months as a stoker.
At the present time, Miss
Skaaltveit is signed aboard the
"Ternefjell,' a sleek new freighter
owned by the Norwegian shipping
firm Olsen and Ugelstad. Her
long-cherished papers are but
eight months away, when she will
finally don the cap of 3rd Marine
Engineer-plus the right to res
ceive mans wage for a man s
job.
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The Story of Ballard

east of Seattle at the summit of
Snoqualmie Pass there exists one
of the best ski areas in the coun-
try.
Ballard almost has a right to
maintain that it's limits include
Snoqualmie for. it was the staunch
Scandinavians who tramped into
the hills with their skis on their
shoulders before the existence of
such coddling innovations as ski
lows and warm lodges, to prove
that the Northwest contains one
of the most WONDERFUL natural
Fairgrounds in the world.
People like Olav Ulland. who is
president of the Seattle SKI Club,
and also business man of prom
inence, have influenced the skiing
sport to the extent that now on
winter Weekends, which at Sno-
qualmie extend into May, more
than 2000 experts, amateurs and
novices can be seen trying their
hickories out on the slopes, while
below in annexed Seattle the rains
torrent down and the grey mists
drift in from Puget Sound.
The club, founded in 1929, has
done much to encourage the de-
velopment of skiing in this sec
ton of the country, bringing fame
and tourists to Seattle by spon-
soring jumping meets which are
followed nationally.
Other clubs, such as the Noun
taineers, also have a high men,
bership Of Scandinavian ski ex-
perts who are followed in happy
procession by those who use only
the beginners lows.
The Scandinavian ski veterans
have helped instill enthusiasm for
the sport into the growing popu-
lace to the extent that free ski
lessons, sponsored by The Seattle
Times. and conducted by Ken Syv-
erson and his crew of teachers,
are attended during the season by
5000 high school youngsters.
These skiiers ski all day on the
snowy slopes, not only of Sno-
qualmie, but at Mount Baker,
Stevens Pass and Mount Rainier
also, all within easy motoring dis
tance of Seattle. The same skiiers
dance just as energetically, the
same evening, and half the same
night, doing the polka, schottische
and hambo at their ski clubs or
at the Swedish Club in downtown
Seattle.
BY heritage Seattle folk may
be italian, French, Canadian, Ger
man or any of a dozen nationali-
ties, but after associating with
Olav and his club members they
are singing "Ya, va, vi skal ha.
Lutefisk og lefse" at the top of
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their voices along with the rest.
This Ballard pride, which Mr..
Olson insists is purely local, but
seems to envelop the whole of Sc
attic, is furthered on the radio too,
for Seattleites are happy to pro-
mote their own subtle subjugation
by listening to War Haglund's
program, War. who is proprietor
of a waterfront sea food restau-
rant known as WARS Acres of
Clans" sings folk airs of the Pa
cific Northwest on his radio show.
Ivars theme, and favorite, Song
of the Old Settler" was one of the
Northwest's nearly forgotten
pieces of pioneer lore when War
adopted it. Now it is sung with
enthusiasm by Puget Saunders
everywhere.
True pride, however. has depth
and humbleness, and the Ballard
people remember God.
The reverence of the Ballard
people is eXemplified in the nation
ally renowned Fishermen's Festi-
val, held each year in the spring.
At the festival Reverend o. l..
Hawk stands on Fishermen's
Wharf in Ballard and blesses the
fishing fleet 1t is a short cere-
mony, with the Olympic Noun
tains of Puget Sound as back
ground and the splash of the wa
tiers providing undernotes to the
hymn.
1t is a meaningful ceremony to
Ballard folk and Seattle folk, for
they have seen how high the wind
tossed waves of the Pacific can
rise And their husbands and sons
ply those waters from the borders
of Ballard to the edges of Alaska.
Reverend Hawk initiated the
ceremony of the blessing of the
fleet in 1929 and the Fishermen's
Festival has been an important
part of Ballard life ever since.
Although the minister retired in
January, after 20 years of service
as pastor of the Ballard Lutheran
Church, he intends to continue his
spring blessing of the men who
bring the gold of the sea to Sc
attle's ports.
With pride, there is loyalty. too.
DR., II. A. Stub. pastor of Imman-
uel Lutheran Church, descendant
of countrymen of Sw d en- S
Norwegian neighbor, has been in
the Ballard community 46 years
and has received the Order of St.
Olav from Norway's King Haakon
VII for his service to humanity
and for extending goodwill among
men," and Reverend DR.. c. Nj.
Ridenour was pastor at Ballard
Christian Church for eight years
before taking over the pastorate
of West Seattle Christian Church,
then queen Anne Christian
Church, total of 21- years.
A lot of other Swedish people,
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who are listed only in the tele-
phone book, have kept Ballard 60
ing, getting its streets paved, Sc
curing new equipment for the
school, seeing that old-time Bal
lard residents are notified each
year of the Ballard picnic at
Woodland Park, or just making
good dinners.
It's true, all right, Mr.. Olson
admits, that Ballard folk have had
quite an influence on Seattle. But
then, Seattle, says Mr.. Olson, is
just another city in this United
States and people in Cincinnati
don't know about Ballard. There
are no records of Ballard men be-
coming statesmen, or of Ballard
women becoming movie stars. Bal
lard folk just stay in Ballard and
don't become really famous
They do just ordinary things,
the same things people all over
the United States do, like Bob
Herthneck, who was in the Navy
and was taken prisoner by the
Japanese-and died in the death
march of Bataan. Bob left a wife
in Ballard
And John Ingraham was lost on
Guadalcanal. He left his brother.
Allan, in Ballard.
And John Eugene Thogerson, a
lieutenant (jg) in the Navy was
killed during the war also. His
friends are all in Ballard. Nobody
in New York or Philadelphia
knows about John. His name is on
the honor roll at Ballard High
School, though.
Carl Holmgren served in the
Marines in the Pacific That's his
claim to fame. And too, he was
the best yell chief Ballard High
School ever had, boys advisor
Earl McComb recalls.
Holmgren. driving a tank, had
to quickly dive into a foxhole for
protection from enemy fire, and
who should he almost quash in the
jump. but his brother. Stan. a
Seabee, who was using the fox
hole also. That was a pretty in
teresting eXperience-at least Bal
lard folk who know the brothers
think so. OF course people in New
York or Philadelphia or Holly
wood wouldn't be interested. They
wouldn't be interested either in
hearing about Trygve Ekrom who
was in the Navy in the Pacific
and was mighty good at basket
ball in school, nor in hearing about
how Don Soens won a gold star
in service.
There were 81 b al ard High
School boys lost during the Second
World War. most of them of Scan
dinavian descent Ballard knows
there are other communities which
lost more of their young men
That just makes Ballard more a
part of the United States instead
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of making it outstanding in any
way.
We've grown with the years.
We don't have timber in our back
yards now. We're progressive; we
like to see Improvements and new
businesses come to Ballard. That's
the way any worthwhile commun-
ity operates, is the way Mr. Olson
explains it.
But as much a part of Ballard
as the winter miSts that swirl in
from Puget Sound, the tarc smell
and fish smell and the web of
ship masts that point straight up
in proud assurance, is the hardi-
ness of Ballard pioneers and their
descendants This hardness Bal
lard folk take for granted because
it is a part of til e III changing
growth.
Yes indeed. Ballard has come a
long way. 1t has had a hearty,
friendly influence on annexed Sc
attic, if not the rest of the world,
ever since the days of which War
sings:
I've travelled all over this coun-
try
Prospecting and digging for gold,
I've tunneled, hydraulicked and
Graded
And l have been frequently sold.
So rolling my grub in a blanket
left all my tools on the ground,
And started one morning to shank
it
For a country they called Puget
Sound
Arriving flat broke in mid-winter
l found it enveloped in fog,
And covered all over with timber
Thick. as hair on the back OF a
dog.
I took up a claim in the forest
And set myself down to hard toll,
For two years l chopped and l
labored
But l never got down TO the soil.
tried TO get out of the country,
But poverty forced me to stay,
Until I became on old settler,
Then nothing could drive me
away.
And now I'm used to the climate,
| think that if man ever found
A place to be peaceful and quiet,
That spot is on Puget Sound.
No longer a slave of ambition,
laugh at the world and its
] shams,
AS l think of my happy condition
! Surrounded BY Acres of Clamsl'
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Seventy-five large prefabricated
houses will be delivered by the
Swedish kCrsnas works, at Gavle,
to the oil fields on the Persian
Gulf.
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1949-11-21

chinery is in constant operation,
should employ the non-inflam-
mable, more expensive substi-
tute mixtures.
Gram fumigation should be
looked upon as insurance to be
carried out only when necessary,
bat before serious losses occur.
This requires weekley inspec-
tions of grain that is under seal
to be held-over the entire sum-
mer.
Infestation Of grain moth to
mature corn in the fields can. be
largely prevented by avoiding TOO
early planting, or by planting a
later maturing hybrid. The earlier
the corn natures, the heavier the
infestation it will develop in the
field, or crib before cold weather
arrives to check the pest.
The 1949 increase in corn bor-
er damage in many counties is
also connected with too much
early planting last spring. The
two pests are thus held in check
by the same method.