The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-01-25

Street between llle AettlSSOi AP"- ments and Ernies Bar; and ordered l that the balance of the city's share
 or support of the city schools foi this school year, approximately $l4,- coo be turned over to T. J. Cole, 1
 superintendent of Schools.
 The l02-ft. APO g, originalll purchased by the Alaska Naive
 Service for use as a training shll md superseded shortly after by tlle
 MS. Mt. Edgecumbe (ex-FS 46) has for the past two years teen ly-
 ng idle at the ANS dock on Japon- ski Island. A short time ago she was declared surplus by ANS and solo through War Assets Administration
 to c. D. Payne and Jerry Oak smith of Seattle, and the new own CTS nave had some difficulty in de- livering the boat to Seattle. Early in December Hans Peterson, six D. per of the tender Susan, made an attempt to tow the ship south but
 vas forced to return her to Mt
 ldrecumbe because of icing condl-
 ions and the fact that the freezing
 weather broke tow lines almost as fast as they were secured.
 Last week the Seattle packer
 Acme, skippered by Harold Hof- stad, arrived in Sitka to make the tow
 Sitka was pleased a the new arrangements of the Police Depart rent which entail that curfew shall
 nceforth be sounded by the Sitka
 Cold Storage Co, rather than by tne fire sren as has been the prac- ice heretofore.
 f Most Sitka residents are convinced at anything would sound better han the fire siren.
 | Dr Phillip Moore, Surgeon in
 Charge at the Orthopedic Hospital, with his wife and two younger children, Hanse and Kathleen, left this morning on Totem Air Lines. Dr. Moore is due to attend the an-
 nual meeting of the Academy of Crthopedic Surgeons at Chic a o which opens on January 20, and fol- lowing that conference will visit the hospital center for spastics in Springfield. Illinois. He has several
 other hospital stops scheduled fof h,s return trip to the cast. !. Mrs. Moore does not expect to
 accompany her husband on the c icaeo trip, and with the children will spend the time visiting her
 mother, Mrs. c. R. Tilley in Port land until Dr. Moores return. They expect to be hack in Sitka about the middle of February.
 The same Totem plane which car ried the Moores, also had on board Ben Forbes, City Councilman and nartner in Webb-F or b e S Marine service, going south on business; Fed Harris, foreman of the power ] plant at Mt. Edgecumbe, going south sn search of new boat; Leo F. Flynn, personal representative of IWm. L. Green, and c. w. Bilder- sack. representative for the Steam lfitters Union, both returning to Se- title after attending the A.T.F.L. convention here; Mrs. G. M. Her rick. and MT. and Mrs. Nick Lind cuist and their daughter Doris.
 Inbound on Totem were Mrs. Wal | ter French, wife of the plumbing contractor on the island; William carson of Carson Construction Co.,; irorothy Brouillct, and w. S. Blank enzhip, owner of the troller Sea Rose.
 MT. and Mrs. Charles Didrickson are being congratulated on the tlrtn of a daughter, Patricia Ann, who arrved last Sunday night at the Salvation Army Home weighing ten p,unds and complete with two teeth nd a third tooth almost through Both Major Lowella Knuth, nurse in charge at the Salvation Army Home. and Dr. w. c. Charteris, who tended, were delighted with this latter precocity, which Major Knutf avs does not occur frequently. Christmas arrived again with the Denali Friday afternoon when she I ischarged some $50 sacks of maj lor Sitka and Mt. Edgecumbe, con aiming numerous pr Christmas mailed packages and Christmas ards. Something of the orlgina value of the gifts is lost in this
 late delivery but Sitkans are at
 oss to know just what they can oe bout it.
 Also arriving on the Denail were
 MT. and Mrs. John Frazer, Mrs
 Fred Manley, Mrs. Bernita Roaci
 with her daughters Karen and WICK
 ", MT. and Mrs. Peter Sylte, own
 CTS of the troller Ruth A.; MT. Bof Tickner. MT. and Mrs. Fred ArnolC