The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1950-08-25


Mrs. Henry Williams of Seattle
is spending the summer in Skag-
way with Mr.. Williams, and her
daughter, Mrs. Beulah Ward.
Mr. and Mrs. Sam Woods of Seat
tie visited Mrs. Beulah Ward for
several weeks.
Mrs. Louise Kolinbaum and her
daughter, Mrs. George Bond, OF Al
bany, California are visiting the
w. w. Patterson family for a month.
They brought home to Skagway
with them young Collins Patterson
who had been in California seven
months.
Ruth Dees of Seattle is visit
ing her sister, Mrs. Loren Brechbiel.
A son, Eddie Beauford, was born
to Mr.. and Mrs. Lloyd Romine of
Haines July 30. at the White Pass
Hospital. The baby weighed 8
pounds ounces. Mr.. Romine is
civil engineer with ARC.
Mrs. Ruth Theurer of Fort Wayne
Ind, is acting as cook at the White
Pass Hospital while Mrs. Edna Bemis
is on vacation for two months. Mrs.
Bemis is making the trip to Dawson
and then will visit in Tenakee.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Feero, Jr.
and small daughter Bonnie Jean
have returned to make their home
in Skagway. Mr.. Feero will be with
the CPR and will manage the Coils
cum Theatre.
Miss Cecilia Selmer is employed as
stenographer in the CPR office.
Mrs. Harry Fraser spent week
in Juneau for medical attention.
Mrs. H. WEIGH, who was called to
the states because of the serious
illness of her father, returned home
recently reporting him much i'm
proved in health.
Mrs. Gordon Chandler, who had
been visiting her daughter, Mrs. Sid
Freshman in Arroyo Grande, Calf,
has returned to Skagway.
Mr.. Francis Saachi spent last
week in Coos Bay, Ore, attending
his parents Golden Wedding cele-
bration
The Governor of Alaska, Mr.. Geo.
| Sunndborg of the Alaska Develop
ment Board, and George Armitage,
Director of the Hawaiian Travel
Bureau, visited in Skagway last
Saturday and Sunday morning. They
came up from Haines with Louis
Rapuzzi on his boat Hi 70 Silver"
and were entertained at dinner by
the president and executive board
of the Skagway Chamber of Com
merce. A public meeting was held at
the Community Center that evening
where the Governor introduced
Armitage and advised that Skagway
make an effort to get its share in
the large tourist income that is
coming into the Territory. Armitage
discussed the tourist business briefly
and told of his hope that more
visits would be exchanged between
Alaska and Hawaii He suggested
that; an, .All Alaska Association" on
tourist business would offer many
advantages. Sundborg told the aud
fence of the work. that the Alaska
Development Board was doing, par
ticularly with the thought of trying
to develop some of the out OF way
places. The Alaska Development
Board had requested that this meet
| ing be called because it wished an
| authority on the tourist industry
| to be heard in towns where this in
dustry might be developed to a
greater extent. Later in the evening
the travelogue Alaska. U.S.A."
/ which had been made this year by
/ the Alaska Development Board, was
shown. Sunday morning the visitors
made trip to Dyea.
Rev. and Mrs. John Dodge re-
| turned on Saturdays train from
Whitehorse after a trip over the
Haines cutoff and over the High
way.fto Anchorage and Fairbanks
with Dodge's parents. Mr.. and Mrs
Bud Erikson left Saturday to join
the ,Dodges inN Whitehorse and ire