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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1950-11-16
Attend Council Convention


The annual convention of the
Maryland Association of Student
Councils was held at Towson High
School on November and 3. Two
D. H. S. students, Gay Harding
and Mary Ann Ward, were for
tunate in being able to attend this
meeting.
Ten discussion groups were set
up for the purpose of talking over
Student Government problems and
exchanging ideas for better Stu
dent Government. The theme of
convention was the role of the
Student Council in high school.
F. T. A. Trip
Nine girls from the Byrtle Y.
Bates Chapter of Damascus F.
T. A. went to the State Teachers
Convention at Towson on Friday,
November 3. Election of State F.
T. A. officers, group discussion,
a tea dance, and banquet were
attended. These were held at the
college and Newell Hall. The girls
stayed all night Friday at Newell
Hall and came home on Saturday.
Everyone had wonderful time
and even now, members of F. T. A.
are anticipating next years trip.
The Senior Class Play
"Three Old Maid Aunts," by
James c. Parker will be given by
the senior class on November II,
8:15 pm. The cast includes: Mary
Ann Ward, Patsy King, Pearl
King, Jane Rogers, Forest Mac
Nab, Ellis Cline, Ruby Pearce, Gay
Harding, Peggy Metz, Clifford
Davis, and Rachel Green. Also,
there will be an added attraction
as curtain raiser. A short one-act
play will be presented by Betty
Jean Mullinix and Evelyn Day.
County Winners
Quite a few Damascus students
are on the All Club winners list.
The following have winning
achievement records in Montgom-
cry County:
Lillian Arnold Food Preparation
Pearl King Food Preservation
Mary Ann Ward Leadership,
Clothing
Ellis Cline Soil Conservation
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1950-11-16
City Water Problems Vary
With Environment Factors

Droughts in New York state in
1919 and in California in 1947-48
have imposed severe tests on two
msFvels of American engineering
the fresh-wster supply systems
Of New York City and Los Angeles.
The dry spells illustrate how local
factors determine each city's. meth
cd of water supply.
Each of these cities borders a
salty ocean Moreover. the mighty
Hudson flows past New York. But
with water. water everywhere.
Father Knickerbocker's metropolis
and Los Angeles must reach far in
land to fresh mountain streams for
drops to drink. Z
Wells served Manhattan Island
colonists from New Amsterdam
days until l776. when a reservoir
was built. and hollow-log water
pipes were laid for a New York of
22.000 souls. Derision greeted state
governor Dewitt Clinton in the
1905 when he proposed going 10
miles north 10 the Crotch River for
an ''inexhaustible' water supply.
Croton water, reality since 1912.
now supplies about one-fourth Of
New York's daily demand.
Most of the rest Of the city's nor
NAL draft Of / 200. 900. 600 gallons a
day comes by giant aqueduct near
ly 100 miles from the Schoharie
and Esopus watersheds in the low
er Catskills. BY 1856. reservoirs
now under construction will i'm
pound upper Delaware River wa
ter. adding vast new reserves to
New York's mountain-water stor-
age system.
Los Angeles, out of reach of Aleu-
tian storms that drench Americas
west coast farther north. in early
years quenched its thirst from its
Los Angeles River. The rapid rate
Of growth by 1907, however. die
tsted construction of a 238-miIe
aqueduct TO bring in Owens River
water. product of melting SHOWS on
the high Sierra Nevada.
Today's greater Los Angeles popu-
lation, 10 times the 100000 of 40
years ago, is still largely supplied
by the Owens River. Its vast new
reserve is the Parker Dam. 155
miles downstream from the Hoover
Dam on the Colorado River. About
one-sixth Of the current daily draft
Of Los Angeles and II neighboring
cities comes 1892 miles from the
Parker Dam via the Metropolitan
Aqueduct. a gigantic construction
achievement
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1950-11-16
ROCKVILLE METHODIST
CHURCH

Rev. Wesley Dodge, Pastor
y Church School Glasses for all
ages, $3.50 A. NJ.
Mems Bible Class meets at $40
A. VI. for opening session and at
10 A. NJ. for class session. All men
not affiliated with any other class
are invited.
Mrs. Geneva Franklin, organist.
Mrs. Louise T. Evans, choir
director.
Owings England, Church School
Superintendent.
Morning worship IL A. NJ.
Nursery during worship hour)
2 P. NJ, Youth Fellowship.
Holy Communion first Sunday
each month.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1950-11-16
Unusual Accident

Boston, Mass. = Mrs. Catherine
Heenan, 81, was injured in an
automobile accident recently, al
though she was sitting in her sec
ond-foor apartment. John entails,
81, was struck by a car as he was
crossing the street below. His left
shoe was wrenched loose by the i'm
pact and was hurled 25 feet through
window in Mrs. Heenan's apart
ment. The shoe hit her on the head
severely cutting her scalp.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1950-11-16
ASHTON METHODIST CHURCH

AoH ION mLlhODlol OnOhNh
Merrill w. brennan, Minister
9:45 a. m, church school for all
ages.
11:OO a. M, worship service.
Women's Society of Christian
Service, first Thursday of each
month.
Young Adults meeting, third
Monday of each month.
Adult Bible Class business and
social meeting, second Tuesday
each month.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1950-11-16
Baby Plays With Snake

Rangoon. XVI Shein, II
months old baby boy, has a strange
playmate-an 18-foot snake, which
has been his constant companion
since the child's birth. The snake,
then merely 8 feet long, slid from
the matched roof of the parents
home into the baby's cradle.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1950-11-16
POTOMAC METHODIST
CHURCH

G. E. Allis, Minister
Gas A. NJ, Church School with
classes for all ages.
IL A. NJ, Worship Service.
7 P. NJ, Youth Fellowship.
Wednesday, s P. NJ, Adult Choir
practice.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1950-11-16
Gaithersburg

Rev. Raymond p. Black, Rector.
Services $50 A. NJ, morning
prayer and sermon.
$3.50 A. NJ, Church School.
Holy Communion, First Sunday
in each month.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1950-11-16
CHRIST CHURCH, Rockville
(EoiseOpal)

Rev. Raymond P. Black, Rector
8 A. NJ, Holy Communion.
$3.50 A. NJ, Church School organ
ization.
IL A. ", Morning Prayer and
sermon.
Nursery open during servicel
Holy Communion, First Sunday
in each month.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1950-11-16
+ IN THE CHURCHES +
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
Rockville

Howard c. Cobbs, Minister
9.45 A. NJ, Church School. Mems
and Women's Bible Glasses.
IL A. NJ, Worship.
Z P. NJ, Young Peoples Chris
tian endeavor.
Nursery open during Worship
hours).
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1950-11-16

Another example of private en-
te1prise is the 48,000-ton liner,
United States, now under construc-
ton with the government paying
the major share of its cost.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1950-11-16
WASHINGTON GROVE
METHODIST CHURCH

]. Huddleston Tackett, Minister
9:45 AM, Church School.
IL AM, Morning Worship.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1950-11-16
ROCKVILLE CHRISTIAN
CHURCH

Rev. Ernest R. Bryan, Lit. d.
Acting Minister
Gas AN, Sunday School.
Graded Glasses for all ages.
11:00 A. NJ. Morning Worship.
Nursery.
$3.50 PM, Christian Youth
Fellowship.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1950-11-16
EPW0RTH METHODIST
CHURCH
Gaithersburg

Gaithersburg
Arthur W. Ewell, Pastor
$50 A. NJ. Church School.
Departmentalized. Organize
Adult Glasses.
IL AM, Divine worship.
8 Pm. Wed, Prayer Meeting.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1950-11-16
PINES COMMUNITY CHURCV
Trayilah Road

Thawley Holmes, Pastor
10 AM, Sunday School.
IL AM, Worship Service.
Thurs, 8 P. NJ, Gospel Hour.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1950-11-16
COLESVILLE ANDREW
CHAPEL METHODIST CHURCH

Rev. Paul H. Groseclose, Pastor
10 AM, Sunday School.
IL AM, Worship Service.
7:15 PM, Methodist Youth Fell
lowship.
Holy Communion first Sunday
each month.
Young Adult meeting, second
Tuesday in each month.
W.S.C.S., second Wednesday in
each month.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1950-11-16
MT. ZION CEDAR GROVE
UPPER SENECA) BAPTIST

c. A. Brubaker, Minister
10 AM, Worship Mt. Zion.
11:30 A. NJ, Worship Cedar
Grove.
Z PM, Worship, Germantown.
Service at Travilah Church at 3
P. NJ. every other Sunday.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1950-11-16
ST. MARY'S EPISCOPAL
CHAPEL
ASPEN Hill.

Georgia Ave. and Aspen Hill Rd.
Knox Kreutzer, Seminarian in
Charge
II A. NJ, Morning prayer and
sermon.
Holy Communion third Sunday
Of each month.
Sunday School, beginning Sep
tembeT 10 at II A. M.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1950-11-16

GRACE METHODIST CHURCH
Gaithersburg, Md.
Karl G. Newell, Minister
GAS A. NJ. Ccurch School
Glasses for all ages.
IL AM, Worship service.
Gas PM, Youth Fellowship.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1950-11-16
ST. PETERS EPISCOPAL
CHURCH

Poolesville
Rev. Benjamin w. hewitt, Minister
9:45 AM. Church School, Adult
Class.
IL Am. Morning Prayer and
Sermon.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1950-11-16
HIGHWAY TABERNACLE
915 Viers Mill Road, Rockville

Rev. B. NJ. Slye, pastor
10 AM, Sunday School.
IL AM, Morning Worship.
8 PM. Sunday Night Evan
gelistic Service.
Tuesday, s PM, Young Peoples
Friday, 8 PM, Bible Study.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1950-11-16

ST. MARKS EPISCOPAL
CHURCH
Falkland, on Columbia Pike
Rev. VIM. P. Anna, jr., Rector.
9;l5 AM, Morning Prayer.
1920 AM, Sunday School.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1950-11-16
BAPTIST CHURCH
Rockville

BAPTIST CHURCH
Rockville
"The Church with the Musical
Tower"
Rev. w. B. Adams, Pastor
d 9:45 AM. Church School.
IL AM. Morning Worship, esr-
mon by minister.
6:45 PM, B. T. U.
Wednesday, 8 PM, Prayer Serv,
ice.
Nursery open during all services
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1950-11-16

FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST
SCIENTIST
4 7401 Connecticut Avenue,
Chevy Chase j
VII A, NJ. Sunday School.
II AM, Church Service.
8 p. NJ, Church Service.
Reading Room, Weekdays l to 5.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1950-11-16
LAYTONSVILLE CHARGE
Methodist Church

Harold B. Wright, Pastor
10 AM, Worship Laytonsville.
11:15 Am, Worship, Woodfield.
1915 PM, Worship Etchison.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1950-11-16

Load ond shock Of heavy loods ore dis
iribUted over four pinions insieod Of two In
oil Chevrolet medium ond heovy-duty
irveks-for longer oxle life ond sreoier
strength.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1950-11-16
ASCENSION CHAPEL

tdCil HlDIllHs
ASCENSION CHAPEL
Gaithersburg
Rev. Raymond p. Black, Rector.
Services $50 A. NJ, morning
prayer and sermon.
$3.50 A. NJ, Church School.
Holy Communion, First Sunday
in each month.
FREE METHODIST CHURCH
.taf Rockville
c. d. Weinel, Pastor
10 a. NJ, Sunday School.
II a. NJ, Morning Worship.
7:3O P. NJ, Evening Worship.
Thursday evening, 7:45, Prayer
and Praise Service.
OAKDALE EMORY METHODIST
CHURCH
Conrad W. Jordan, Pastor
1890 A. NJ. Church School
1870 A. NJ, Worship Service.
W 7:30'P. NJ, Youth Fel.0wship.
s
~ FLOWER HILL CHURCH
OF BRETHREN
Redland
- Rev Emmert F. Bittinger
10 A. NJ, Sunday School.
IL A. NJ, Worship Hour.
ST. LUKES LUTHERAN
CHURCH
Redland
Rev. George P. Schmidt, Pastor
8:45 AM, First Service.
9:45 AM, Sunday School.
1900 AM, Second Service.
BOYDS PRESBYTERIAN
Rev. ]. P. Kerr, Pastor
10 AM, Sunday School classes
for all ages.
IL A. NJ, Worship service, Ser
mon by Pastor. music by the choir.
FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST
SCIENTIST
: 7401 Connecticut Avenue,
Chevy Chase
+. III A, NJ. Sunday School.
liam, Church Service.
8 P. NJ, Church Service.
Reading Room, Weekdays to 5.
THE DERWoOD CHURCH
Derwood, Md.
Rev. w. B. Waters, Minister
10 AM, Church School.
8 PM, Divine Worship.
MT. ZION CEDAR GROVE
UPPER SENECA) BAPTIST
C. A. Brubaker, Minister
10 AM, Worship Mt. Zion.
1870 A. NJ, Worship Cedar
Grove.
Z PM, Worship, Germantown.
Service at Travilah Church at 3
P. NJ. every other Sunday.
ST. PETERS EPISCOPAL
CHURCH
Poolesville
Rev. Benjamin w. hewitt, Minister
9:45 AM. Church School, Adult
Class.
IL Am. Morning Prayer and
Sermon.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-09-16
SaddIer Wins
Featherweight
Crown On Tk0
Of Willie Pep
Record Breaking
$4,000 See Fight

NEW YORK, N. Y.-QNS)-
Sandy Saddler, skinny Harlem
fighter won back the featherweight
championship of the world Friday
night by defeating Willie Pep be-
tween the seventh and eighth
rounds via a technical knockout
before a mountaineering crowd of
$4,000 in Yankee Stadium.
Pep collapsed on his stool be-
tween rounds to end the fight. The
game eX-champion was CORY
sight. Beat and battered to a pulp
by a perpetual motion fighting
machine in Saddler, Pops eye was
cut and bleeding and the tired and
spent fighter was unable to come
out fighting again.
The end came suddenly, but it
was never in doubt. Saddler, a
favorite to win, apparently got in
spiration from the confidence odds
makers had in him.
Saddler and Pep had weighed in
at Ia 3-4 pounds for the 15-round
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-09-16

reported. Civic leagues here are
seeking ways to break through
these new barriers erected solely
against Negro vote applicants.
Negroes for so years have been
deprived Of the ballot in Russell,
Wilcox and Lowndes counties. In
all three counties there are more
Negro citizens than whites.
New interest was being shown
by Montgomery Negro citizens in
the ballot. They flocked to the Of
flee of the Montgomery Board of
Registrars in such large numbers
the week of August IA that regis
tration officials commented upon
it. Sixty applied one day and 200
another.
On August II group identi-
fled as representing AMVETS
Post No. 16 paraded at the Court
house with such signs as Ballots
Will Stop Bullets" The demon
stration was believed to be in pro-
test of the police-slaying Of Hill
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-09-16
Baptist Leader
Urges Trade
With Africa

PHILADELPHIA, Sept, IL =
(ANP)-On the even of the open
ing of the 10th annual session of
the National Baptist Convention,
Inc, here Tuesday, Rev. j. C. Aus
tin, pastor of Pilgrim Baptist
Church, Chicago and convention
secretary of foreign trade, urged
the establishment of business re-
lations by Negroes with Africans.
The well-known Chicago minis
ter, with 10 other Baptist leaders,
made an extensive survey of West
Africa early this year. In propos-
ing trade relations with Africa
Rev. Austin said:
I'VE know Africa to be the rich
est continent in the world. We also
know that the backbone Of Eng
lands wealth is the raw materials
of Africa. An industrial represen-
tatlve of Great Britain said recent
ly that Britain had gathered out of
Nigeria in 1949 more than S17O,-
100000 in materials. This is by
far less than what she has taken
annually from the Gold Coast and
Sierra Leone.
The natives are enSlaved by
lack of knowledge and vision, bv
contracts to which they are bound
Tor 80 years at time, by salaries
which keep them forever on the
starving list. What they need is
missionary program and mis-
sionary leadership that can go to
the front for them in their eco
nomlc as well as spiritual needs.
Il found in Africa Industrious
men and women in all tribes, MANY
genluses in the fields of art and
craft. | discovered that Africa
needs the wisdom and sympathy of
the American Negro in establish
ing a market and opening chan
mel for expectation for her produc-
tons. At present, under the influ-
ence of our missionary program,
we can export the materials and
art work of the natives free of
taxation, with the understanding
that money realized from the sale
OF this goods will be returned for
the development of schools and
churches.
81 am hoping that the foreign
mission board of the National Bap-
tist convention will make the Of
flee it created, secretary of foreign
trade, a reality through which
there will be established shortly
stores in all Of our great centers.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-09-16
Moscow Blasts
Appointment OF
Mrs. Sampson

WASHINGTON-(SNS)- Mos
cow radio doesn't think much of
the appointment of a Negro wom-
an to the American delegation to
the United Nations.
According to Communist prop
uganda, the appointment was just
Lying maneuver" to conceal ra-
cial discrimination in the United
States.
Mrs. Edith Sampson, a Chicago
attorney, has been named an al
ternate delegate to the UN Gen
eral Assembly that meets in New
York September 10. President
Truman also named Sen. John J.
Sparkman of Alabama, to the dele
cation. Of the appointment Mos
COW Radio said:
Truman and Secretary of State
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-09-16
Ala. Registrars
Still Seek To Bar
Negro Voters

MONTGOMERY, Ala, Sept. IL.
Boards Of registrars in six Ala
bama counties repeatedly are either
totally denying the ballot to Negro
citizens or resorting to fractional
registration.
Thirteen World War ii veterans,
college graduates, teachers and
land owners were among those re-
poftedly refused registration for
the seventeenth time August q in
Henry (Abbeville) County. No
Negro has been permitted to reg
lister and vote in this county in so
years.
j. B. Newman, of Clopton, Ala,
has waged a three-year fight for
the ballot. The Abbeville post of
the American Legion, the NAACP
and fraternal groups have all
joined in the bitter and unsuccess-
full fight.
Zone Of the applicants was
cursed out in the Courthouse, New
man said, in trying to get regis
tered. Courthouse officials on
other occasions are said to have
intimidated Negro applicants, some
even displaying firearms.
In Macon (Tuskegee) county the
board of registrars repeatedly
have been resorting to dilatory tao
tics. First they run out of appli-
cation forms, then they protest
against vouchers and suddenly
they find themselves showed un-
der by a back log of work, it is
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-09-16

S POR rs

lesson in meatcutting before an
all-time crowd for this weight.
The crowd paid more than 100000
to see the first outdoor feather
weight title match in q years. 1t
was the Johnny Dundee Eugene
CIRCUIT fight in 1923 which set the
existing featherweight gate record
of $134,416.
The odds favored Saddler 2-1.
Most experts had figured that the
classy, tricky Pep couldn't stand
the pace.
Pep had looked bad in getting
back the title from Saddler in their
second meeting, when he came
back to win the crown 104 days
after he had been kayoed by Sad
der in the fourth round.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-09-16

lard Brooks, 25-year-old war vet
eran. Spokesman for the group
suggested that the implication OF
the sign were not limited to the
killing of Brooks. He did not elab-
crate further.
In contrast to this, Birmingham
Negro citizens during an ight-day
registration period were scarcely
seen during any of the days at
the registration booths. Only from
10 to Is white and Negro were ap-
plying on any day according to
registration officials.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-09-16

Deaen Acheson have appointed a
Negro woman in an official dele
cation to persuade public opinion
that the 14,00O,000 Negroes lead a
free life in the United States.
"The lying maneuver is also UNI
masked by the fact that the same
delegation will include the we'll
known racist, Sparkman, from
Alabama, which is the cradle of
the Ku Klux Klan land of the
lynch judgment this new prop
uganda maneuver is doomed to
failure"
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-09-16
FAMILY AFFAIR

CAMDEN, Ark. - The Jeffus
family has a lot to do with running
16-member Fellowship Home
Demonstration Club in Ouachita
County. There are eight members
of the family in the club and seven
of them hold offices.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-09-16

The Fighting Third" Infantry
was the only division to fight
Nazis on every front-North At
RIGA, Sicily, Italy, France, and
Germany.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1950-11-28
BRUSH FIRES
ARE RAGING IN
ALASkAAREAS
(By the Associated Press

The raging flames of two widely
separated Alaska brush fires raced
through a small Matanuska valley
community and threatens fishing
village on Kodiak Island.
Both fires still burned uncontrol-
led at last reports.
A combination brush-foreSt blaze
swept through Wasilia Flats in the
Matanuska Valley. 1t destroyed
three sheds, a cabin and a barn.
Two below zero weather ham,
pered force of 200 men brought
from the Elmendorf Air Force base
at Anchorage, so miles away.
On Kodiak Island, flames famed
by a strong wind advanced on a
15-mile front toward the tiny vii
lage of Ohkiok. The village of 200
population was less than two miles
from the flames. The million dollar
canneries of Pacific American Fish
cries and Libby MCNEIL and Libby
also lie in the path of the fire.
A force of 100 men was flown in
hastily from the Navy base at Ko-
diak to man the fire lines.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1950-11-28
IL ARRIVE FROM
FAIRBANKS; SIX
FROM SEATTLE

Thirty three passengers were car
ried by Pan American World Air
ways yesterday. Three went to Sc
attic from here; six went through
from Fairbanks; 10 arrived here
from Fairbanks and six arrived
from Seattle.
From Seattle: Lou Berman, D. NJ
Dillon, Robert Fuller, William Har-
die, Mary Hutchinson and Leo H.
Saarela.
From Fairbanks: Mr.. and Mrs.
Ralph Rivers, Mr. and Mrs. Roy S.
Erling. Fred and lone Becker, Her.
man Elkstrom. Ivan, Iris and Kay
Frederickson, Andrew Nylund, Pat
rick Murray. Isaac Juneby, Adam
John, Martin Westwong, Harriet
Cooper, Edwin Kjere and T. S.
Bachelor.
To Seattle: H. Everson, Burke
Riley and Gov. Gruening.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1950-11-28
Dozen Barges, Millions Of
Dollars Worth Of Material
Lost in Bering Sea Storms
BY LACHLEN MACDONALD

ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Nov. %
R-Bering Sea storms have claimed
more than dozen barges and mil
lions of dollars worth of military
sea transport service cargo this fall
and winter.
Reports received here several
days ago, but delayed pending a
check with the remote seacoast viii
lagos, indicates that one barge is
believed to have fallen into Russian
hands. Laden with lumber. con-
struction steel and fuel oil. it be-
came separated from its tug during
a gale and drifted steadily toward
the Siberian shore
Nine barges leased by a Seattle
construction firm we're ripped from
anchor at one project location and
scattered along 500 miles of coast
line. Four others were separated
from tugs, two grounding in iso-
lated and the other two laundering
in the high waves.
Contractors have hired bush pilots
at from $40 to $50 an hour to find
the grounded barges' and fly salvage
crews to the scene.
All of the losses apparently have
occurred since Sept. /, although mil
itary officials would not say SO be-
cause of security.
In part the losses stem from the
military necessity of defying an
age-old tradition which has closed
the Bering Sea to navigation each
year on Oct. Is. That is the date on
which marine insurance ends on
vessels in the Boring Sea and the
us. Coast Guard officially declares
the treacherous waters closed.
This year, however, when the
deadline arrived vessels of the
MSTS were bringing cargo from
the deactivated airbase at Nome.
Others were heading north with
vital construction materials for
new installations being built along
the coast line.
A raging storm on Nov. 10, with
gusts up to IS miles an hour, caught
many of these vessels at their
and others at sea.