The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-01-01

| lrlVal Of an AncLOrage oaied Siaus with plane load of gifts for the children at the Orthopedic Hospital , and the Alice Island Sanitarium. Santa, Chester Thurston, of KBYR, the Aleutian Broadcaster in An chorage. left that city on the 23rd with Miss Leslie Ferris and Miss Ed na Jernigan, also of KBYR, and lmore than 1000 pounds of gifts, planning to put on a Christmas par 1 ty for the children in the hospitals.
 They were held up by weather in Juneau and both Miss Lester and Miss Jerniean forced, because Of the time element, to return to An- chorage, but MT Thurston and the gifts and a portable wire recorder | came through on a chartered AL Iaska Coastal plane. h
 | Plans were immediately under way for another Christmas, com- plete with Santa, in both hospitals on Monday night. Dr. M. M. Van Sandt, Medical Director, Dr. Phillip Moore, Surgeon in Charge at the 'Crthopedic Hospital, Dr. Andrew i, Wehler, Medical Officer of the Sam jitarium, and Fred Geeslin, Superin- tendent in charge, at Mt. Edge Ioumbe, are in charge of arrange iments. Father Ossorgins choir will ,s'ng carols and Santa will be play ed by Leonard Allen. MT. Thurston will follow Santa with his wire lrecorder and take back to Anchor age a complete sound track of the proceedings for broadcast over lKBYR. Women from the ACCA and the Emblem Club in Sitka, will go over Monday afternoon to segre- gate the more than 400 presents which MT Thurston brought with lhim These include dolls and toys and clothing of really impressive ,quality, donated by the people of Anchorage. The project was started when Mrs Marshall Hoppin, presi- ,dent of the Alaska Crippled Chil- dren's association, in Anchorage, turned over to KBYR a number of letters addressed to Santa Claus from the children at the Orthopedic i, Hospital These were put on the air and the response from Anchorage land outlying listeners was far more than any of the sponsors had anti Icipated. The results were so gratify- ling that KBYR decided to inau- !gurate an annual appeal for these Alaskan children and to start their ,drive earlier in the future, apply ing the experience gained in this years venture. It was originally lplanned to charter a large plane ito carry the presents, Santa and helpers, and a band. direct to the hospitals, but the newness of the project and the lack of time neces- sitated putting these larger plans off until next year. .
 Under the sponsorship oT the Presbyterian Church represented by Rev. Elwell Hunter, group of eight boys met to organize a Senior Air Scout group last Monday Formal { application is being made for an Air Scout charter and Rev. Hunter will assume the responsibility of Squadron Leader Purpose of this group will be basic ground school work the building of model planes, aircraft recognition, study of the general technical backgrou of flying, weather conditions, etc
 In Seattle last week, Roy A. Ev- erson, Sitka manager of the Stan- dard Oil Co.,. of California, was hon ored at a luncheon in recognition of his 30 years service with the company S. E. Stretton, District Manager for the Standard Oil pre- sented MT Everson with a gold watch and diamond service pin. MT. Everson returned to Sitka via To- tenn on December "A.
 The seiner Empress skippered by Charles Daniels with crew of four and the Martha K, skippered by Herman Kitka, with his family and la crew of six, arrived in Sitka on the z2nd. The boats left Seattle on
 the 8th but were delayed seven days after the Martha K. lost her rudder in Queen Charlotte Sound and had to be lowed back to Alert Bay for repairs They reported poor fishing south, climaxed for the Elm , |press when, anchored off Kingston, , she was rammed by another boat, , the Chinook, which necessitated
 drydocking and a complete new stem. The Empress was insured.
 An orthopeJic cnnic will be held lin Sitka at the Pioneers Home all day Tuesday, January 4. pr. Phil | Hip Moore and Dr. Catherine s. Sherwood will conduct the clinic, and anyone desiring to attend is requested to write or call the Sitka Public Health Nurse, Miss Mazda ,lene Roller, at the Health Center lin Sitka. For telephone calls, M ss Roller will be in her office every