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Valdez news., 1950-07-28
NEW HOSPITAL BOARD IS ELECTED

The five new members Of the board of directors of the Valdez Community Hospital were an nounced this week by Dr. Ken meth Ham. The five board mem- bers are Stuart Starbuck, chair man, Harold North, Al Carlin, Mrs. Robert Kelsey. Sr., and Mrs. David Johnson.
 The four active members of the former board of directors of the hospital will act as an adVis- ory building committee for the newly elected members. The for mer board membership included Guy Hayden. George Gilson, John Kelsey and Ben Stewart.
 The new board was chosen by a poll conducted by the hospital staff. During the June open house at the Valdez Community Hospital, visitors were asked to suggest names for members of the new board. The names re- ceiving the most nominating votes then were compiled on postcard, which was mailed to all of Val dez' voters.
Valdez news., 1950-07-28

Roller skating is what a Val dezan's fancy turns to these days. So popular has the new rink be- come, since it's recent re-opening, that already there have been spe- cial sessions planned for the al most kindergarten age group and a secret practice hour for ladies who are not yet complete mas ters of their skates.
 Joy Ripley was first to test 1the surface of the new masonite floor in the gym. Skating at a secret session on Monday eve- ming, where she was demonstrat- ing her prowess before a group of amateurs, the wheels of Joys skates locked and she flew through the air to crash to the floor on her left arm.
 At first it was feared she'd broken the member, but x-rays revealed strained fragments rather than broken bones. The injury is extremely painful, and rink supervisors are hoping there will be no more unpleasant incl dents to mar the skating enjoy 1lent of the towns residents.
 Skaters are Whirling to music
Valdez news., 1950-07-28
ANTRITTERS RE-MARRY IN LOS ANGELES EARLY IN JUNE

Mrs. Margaret Antritter of Los Angeles, Calif., and Jack Antrit- ter of Valdez were re-married in a ceremony solemnized in the California city on June 1 of this year. The Antritters first were married in 1913. They returned to their Valdez home early this month.
 Following their wedding, the neWlyWeds drove to Minnesota on their honeymoon. There they were the guests of Mrs. Antritter's mother and MT. Antritter's rela- tives for two weeks.
 They returned west by way of Spokane, where they were the guests of MT. Antritter's niece, the Jesse Beals family. MT. Beals spent the summer of 1945 in Val dez, and asked to be remembered to all of his former friends here.
 The honeymooners also visited with Jack Wallis (the "sage of the Yukon'O in Powell, Wyo. He too was a Valdez visitor in 1945.
 The new Mrs. Antritter was honor guest at several pre-nuptial showers in Los Angeles. Fellow workers at the Mayfair Markets there, where she has been em- ployed for the past few years, honored her with an electrical appliance shower. She received many lovely gifts.
Valdez news., 1950-07-28
VALDEZ CANCER DRIVE
 PLANNED FOR AUG. 4-10

The Valdez cancer drive, which is headed by Miss Mable Ander- son, will start Aug. 4 and end Aug. 10, Miss Anderson said to- day. During that week members of the Glacier Club Girls, an or ganization led by Miss Anderson, will conduct a house to = house canvass of Valdez.
 Club members will attempt to reach every home in town on the drive. For each contribution that is made to the fund, the girls will give a ticket to an entertainment they are planning, to culminate the drive. Place and date of that program will be announced next week.
 For those who are missed in the door -to-door canvass, cOntrlbu- tion containers will be prominent ly displayed in all of the Valdez business houses.
Valdez news., 1950-07-28
Officials Come 10 PIan Chris+mcs Seal Sole

Mrs. Francis L. Paul, executive secretary of the Alaska Tubercu- losis Association, and Miss Agnes Gerding, representative from the national Tuberculosis Association headquarters in New York, are expected in Valdez next week.
 They will arrive on the Aleu- tian, and will be here only for the few hours the ship is in port. The pair will confer with Mrs. Kenneth Ham, local committee chairman of the Valdez chapter of the Alaska Tuberculosis Asso- citation, concerning the coming Christmas seal sale.
 The visitors are touring the Territory, planning the 1850 Christmas seal drive.
Valdez news., 1950-07-28
Woman Will Head Valdez School
 For Coming Year

Miss Ruth N. Foy has been named superintendent of schools at Valdez for the coming year, a spokesman for the school board announced this week.
 We are very fortunate to get her," the spokesman said. "She has had great deal of expert ence, both as teacher and super visor, and she is particularly we'll equipped to organize youth ac- tivities. She also has done spe- cial work in music and dram atics."
 The teaching positions on the Valdez faculty all are filled now. Teachers who will occupy the desks in the local classrooms next term include:
 Miss Mable Anderson, Mrs. Ruth Dolan, Mrs. Johnson, Buck Stout, Mrs. Harold French and Miss Foy. Miss Foy is bringing an unnamed teacher to Valdez from Pennsylvania, to complete the staff.
 The board is now preparing the school plant for the fall term of school. The gymnasium floor and the new roof both have been installed already. Work is to start in the near future on reno vation of halls and classrooms.
 Among the new equipment or dered for the school for the com ing term is piano and additional sports material.
Valdez news., 1950-07-28
Valdez Defense Plan Formulated by Council
PROCLAMATION

WHEREAS, American troops are now engaged in hostites in Asia; and
 WHEREAS, war or the threat of general war is of direct concern to Alaska as it is to every other part of the United States; and
 WHEREAS Aosku's vulnerable position, geo. graphically ond.ogisticoIIy, suggests the Possi- blity of it's involvement in any major foreseeoOIe war; and
 WHEREAS, AIoskons generally, mindful of such circumstances and alert to such possibilities, and conscious of their responsibilities as citizens of free nation, should, for their mutual protection and weII-beng, organize themselves against any threat to their security, health or welfare:
 NOW THEREFORE, 1, ERNEST GRUENING, Governor of Alaska, do, pursuant to national policy and in the discharge of my official re- responsibilities, hereby direct that the Director of Civilian Defense for Alaska, establish and orgo- nize Civilian Defense facilities on Territorial wide basis; and that he cooperate with the various communities in Alaska in promoting sim
 liar preparedness and organization within their boundaries. And hereby commend to the sev- ero communities the desirobiIty of preparedness for any eventuoIity and urge that they avail theno- selves of whatever facilities may be ProcurobIe.
Valdez news., 1950-07-28
EVACUATION OF CITY
 WILL BE HANDLED
 BY LEGION, FIREMEN

The American Legion. the Val dez fire department, and all own CTS of cars and trucks play an inn portant part in the civil defense plan announced for Valdez this week. The plan has been worked out in response to the request for such action from Gov. Ernest Gruening and from Col. J. O. Alexander, territorial director of civil defense, Mayor Guy Stith announced.
 It was emphasized that the city council, which formulated plans for Valdez, feels there is no cause for immediate alarm. The plan has been developed in order that city residents may be informed and prepared for action, should disaster strike here.
 An enemy attack, either by sea or air, will be signalled by re- peated short blasts of the fire siren.
 As soon as this signal is heard. every resident of Valdez is in structed to extinguish fires and turn out lights in his home, He should dress himself in warm clothing, assemble a stock of pro- visions, blankets and tools, and pack these articles, and his fam fly, in his automobile. The car should be driven outside of the immediate area of Valdez, but not to any great distance away from the city, and parked off the highway, there to await the all- clear signal on the fire alarm.
 Persons without transportation should make arrangements to go with friend or a trucker. Op- orators of large freight trucks are requested to take as many persons as possible outside the immediate area of Valdez.
 The Valdez post of the Ameri- can Legion is to formulate it's own plans for a rear guard" group Legion members will be the last to leave Valdez. It will be the responsibility of this organization to assure the complete evacuatICra of the city.
 The members of the Valdez fire department are to make certain that there is no footing of aban- doned homes.
 The mayor of Valdez will be in charge, should an emergency arise. In the event of his ab- sence from the city, the senior member of the city council will assume control.
Valdez news., 1950-07-28
Bucklands Visit in States

Mrs. Louis Buckland and chil- dren plan to leave Valdez tomor- row, July 29, for a two months visit with relatives in the states. The Buckland family will fly to Minneapolis, Minn.
Valdez news., 1950-07-28
BAKERY GETS MORE NEW MACHINERY

StiII more new equipment IS being added to the Valdez Bak- eFy, owner Jack Suttich an- nounced this week. Latest ma chinery to be installed there is a modern bread molder and a bread -slicing machine.
Valdez news., 1950-07-28
Mrs. Jorgenson in Minneapolis

Mrs. Isobel Jorgenson is Visiting with her sister, Miss Lydia Thompson, in Minneapolis, Minn. She plans a stay of two months in the Minnesota city.
Valdez news., 1950-07-28
B1LLUM HoSP1TAL1ZED HERE

Harry Billum, employed by the Alaska Road Commission at Mile 25, received a lacerated finger last week, when he caught the digit in cable. MT. Billum was hospitalized in Valdez.
Valdez news., 1950-07-28
Visitors from New York Start Home Last Monday

MT. and Mrs. William J. Long of Geneva, N. Y., who have been visiting here with their daughters, Miss Helen Long and Mrs. Flor ence Ingraham, began their re- turn trip home last Monday.
Valdez news., 1950-07-28

Ray Hines Undergoes Operation
 Ray Hines flew to Cordova on Monday, July 24, to undergo a tonsil operation in that city.
Evening star., 1950-04-03
Maine Girls Body Found
Stuck Against Dam Rack
BY the ..socioted Press

PEJEPSCOT. Me-, April "a
three months mystery was solved
today with the discovery of Miss
Evelyn. Katula's body in the An
droscoggin River.
Medical Examiner Joseph I.
Smith said the attractive 23-year-
old bank clerk had drowned and
that an autopsy showed no signs
Of foul play.
Miss Katula disappeared from
a family Christmas party at a
relatives home in Lisbon Falls
last year. She said she was going
out to buy some ice cream.
The girls body was found yes
terday jammed against a debris
rack OF a paper mill dam here.
Evening star., 1950-04-03
Norfolk Trials Resume
For Missouri Officers
BY the Associated Press

NORFOLK, April 3. Navy
courts-martial resumed hearing
testimony here today in the trials
of the former operations officer
and navigator of the battleship
Missouri.
The operations officer. Comdr
John r. Millett, has pleaded not
guilty to charges of negligence
and neglect Of duty when the war
ship ran aground January II on a
Chesapeake Bay shoal.
1t. Comdr. Frank G. Morris, jr.,
the navigator, is charged with
neglect Of duty and culpable in
efficiency in the performance of
duty. He also has pleaded not
guilty.
The Mighty Mos" skipper
Capt. William d. Brown, pleaded
guilty before a court last Thurs
day to charges Of negligence and
neglect Of duty. Rear Admiral
Allan E. Smith. convening author
ity Of the court, is expected to re-
ceive this courts report today.
Naval quarters said. however
that results of all three trials will
not be made public until the
trials Of Comdrs. Morris and Mil
lett are completed.
Through a typographical error
The Star enormously reported
yesterday that Comdr. Millett had
pleaded guilty.
Evening star., 1950-04-03

which would only complicate mat
ters further. Even more serious,
if these special provisions for pea
nuts were to be regarded as a
precedent, it may be urged that
similar provisions should be
enacted for other crops, regardless
of the disruption that could result
to domestic and world markets.
believe it would be a very serious
mistake for us to embark on such
a course. and I do not regard this
peanut provision as anything but
temporary alteration from
proper legislation.
We face no small task in provid-
ing a system of agricultural legis-
lation which will serve the needs
of farmers for a fair income and
will, at the same time, serve the
needs of consumers for ample
supplies Of foods. fibers, and other
Evening star., 1950-04-03
BY the Associated Pres,

The Republicans yesterday
boiled down their 1850 campaign
statement into 80 words.
The statement was set forth re-
Gently as an outline of principles
and objectives supplementing the
1948 party platform.
The official digest:
The Republican Party stands
for:
/. Reducing taxes.
2. Balancing budget.
8. Eliminating Governmen
waste, especially along lines Of
Hoover Commission reports.
4. Fighting Communism here
instead OF condoning it.
S. Providing fair market prices
on farm products aided by price
supports-co- operative marketing,
soil conservation, reclamation,
rural electriflcation-no Brannan
plan. g..
6. Continuing and improving
Evening star., 1950-04-03

crops at reasonable prices. and
the needs Of the whole Nation for
a growing, expanding economy
and a healthy world trade. Dur
ing the present postwar transition
period. our agricultural legisla-
tion is necessarily costly. but we
obviously cannot afford to add to
those costs for purposes which
will not contribute to the real
long-run interests of farmers or
the Nation.
I urge the Congress to proceed
to consider fundamental improve
ments in our agricultural legis-
lation to make it more efficient.
less costly. and more conducive to
abundant production of farm
crops, yielding a fair return to
farmers, and selling at prices con-
sumers can afford.
Evening star., 1950-04-03
Suffering From Leg Pains,
Pope Limits Activities
by The Associated Press

VATICAN CITY, April 3.-Suf-
fering from pains in his right
leg and from fatigue. Pope Plus
XII took a rest from formal ac-
tivities over the week end.
Vatican informants noted the
74-year-old Pope retired to his
private apartment Immediately
after his general audience Satur-
day, instead of descending from
his portable throne to mingle, as
customary. with the Holy Year
pilgrims.
The Pope has been suffering
from hardening of the arteries in
his right leg.
Also. 1t was said the Pope had
limited his personal activities in
the last few days because he felt
tired.
Evening star., 1950-04-03
Republicans Boil Statement
Of Platform Into 80 Words

Taft Hartley law to protect public
from excessive power of labor and
management.
7. Developing an adequate social
security system that does not
limit opportunity or discourage
initiative and saving.
8. Protecting rights of veterans
and minorities.
9. Developing l united Ameri-
can foreign policy for peace
world trade without undermining
American living standards.
10. Safeguarding liberty against
socialism. 80 -.
Consisting Of single typewriter
sheet, the digest was prepared at
the suggestion of Senator Brew
ster, chairman of the Republican
Senatorial Campaign Committee,
and Representative Leonard w.
Hall, chairman Of the Republican
Congressional. Committee. It, was
prepared in cooperation with
Guy Gabrielson, chairman of the
Republican National Committee.
Evening star., 1950-04-03
Mrs. Benton, Daughter
OF Wall Street Journal
Editor, Dies al 3

Mrs. Jane Benton, 80, daughte,
of William H. Grimes, editor OF
the Wall Street Journal, was found
dead yesterday in her room at 1915
Eighteenth street NV.
Her body was discovered about
noon by S/Sergt. John j. Payton
OF Fort Belvoir who, police said,
had come to visit her. DR.. Chris
topher j. Murphy. deputy District
coroner, issued a certificate of
death from natural causes.
Mrs. Benton had lived in Wash
ington most of her life. Her IA
ther was manager of the United
Press Bureau here in the 1920s
and was with the Wall Street
Journal Washington Bureau be-
fore going to New York to become
editor.
An associate of Mr.. Grimes at
the Journal bureau said Mrs.
Benton was estranged from her
husband. R. B. Benton. They had
two children, John Henry and
Nancy Jane. Neither lived with
the mother.
Mrs. Benton had moved to the
Eighteenth street address two
months ago after a fire at the
apartment she formerly occupied
at Twentieth and P streets NV.
Besides her parents and chill
dren, Mrs. Benton is survived by
a brother. JOHN Alan Grimes, who
works on newspaper near Hous-
ton, Tex. Another brother, Will
liam H. Grimes, jr., was killed in
military service during the war.
Mrs. Benton's body was taken
to Gawler's funeral home. Funeral
arrangements have not been COM
pleted.
Evening star., 1950-04-03
Arab League Bors Separate Peace With Isroei

King Abdullah of trying to make
such peace with Israel. with
whom his country divides the Holy
Lsnd, Jordan. however. joined the
other six Arab nations-Egypt,
Syria. Lebanon. Iraq. Saudi Arabia
and Yemen-in voting the ban.
Egypt. Syria. Lebanon and
HaShemite Jordan all have sep
arate armistices with Israel. The
other three Arab League members
did not join in the Palestine war;
Evening star., 1950-04-03
BIO RefueIine Group
Leovinq for British Isles

The ID Air Refueling Squadron,
based at Davis Monthan Air Force
Base in Tucson. leaves teday for
routine training in the British
Isles.
The squadron. equipped with
B-29 Superfortresses, viii Join its
parent organization. the I'd Bonn
bardment Group tmediump. The
latter Is on q 90-day training tour
in England.
Evening star., 1950-04-03

Continued From First Page.

NonCulueo from First PageD :
Corn Belt Livestock Feeders AS.
ISOLATION, supported this view.
Farmers have been -rushins
hogs to market in the past few
weeks, anticipating a lower sup.
port level" Mr.. Pickell said. Nov
that there is a temporary lapse in
the support program. they'll
probably hold hogs back until a
new program Is announced"
H. M. Conway, analyst for the
National Livestock Producers As
sociation. said hog prices cur
rently were "unduly low" and
that elimination of the uncer-
tainty over price supports should
cause an improvement in prices.
I'VE feel it would be better just
to let supply and demand govern
the market at all times" Mr..
Conway said. The trouble is that
when the Government trys to con-
troll prices it gets in deeper and
deeper and winds up trying to
control production, too"
Hog price supports were set ur
In 1941, to encourage farmers tc
increase production during the
war. A ceiling of $14.85 a hun.
dred pounds also was imposed by
OPA. One of the curious devel-
opments was that the floor
which was allowed to lapse last
week was higher than the former
ceiling" The lapsed floor" was
$500.
Hog prices scared to an all-time
high of $31.85 in 1948, after re.
moval of OPA ceilings. Prices thi!
year have been the lowest sine,
1916, the year the OPA ceiling,
were lifted.
The Agriculture Department
was forced to yank price props ou
from under hogs. over the weel
end, because it lacked funds tt
continue the supports. However
except for a few occasions marke
prices for hogs in the past hav,
been above support levels.
Evening star., 1950-04-03
Mems Club to Meet

The second meeting of the re-
Gently organized Northeast Hebrew
Congregation Mems Club will be
held at 8:15 pm. Wednesday at
Haywood Gardens, 43l6 Twenty
eighth place. Mount Rainier, Md.
Evening star., 1950-04-03
sy the Asseeiassd prsss

CAIRO, April 3.-The seven
nation Arab League Council has
voted to preserve a solid front in
negotiating peace treaties with
Israel.
In a move directed at King
Abdullah's Hashemite Jordan, the
league council voted unanimously
to- expel any Arab state negotiat-
ing separate peace with the jew
ish nation.
Other Arab states have accused
Evening star., 1950-04-03

A firm in Ecuador is setting up
mobile film units to tour remote
districts.
Evening star., 1950-04-03

Malaga has a big forest-road
program to make its rich timber
accessible.
Evening star., 1950-04-03
FOUND.

p0G-Young female, large, fawn, long
hair; vic. Hot Shoppes, Wash St., Alex.
Owner or good home. OV. 4043.
PUPPY, partly German shepherd, female;
found vic. Macarthur Theater Sun. night.
Cal I'm. 1lS4,
Evening star., 1950-04-03

Other Arab states have accused
Evening star., 1950-06-19
This and That
By Charles E. TroceweH

some plant material in the guppy bowl.
Nature gives them the instinct to hide
the moment they see the mother or
father swimming toward them.
One of the oldest experiences in home
aquarium keeping. it is still one Of the
best, though one must look closely to
spot the young at first.
Often guests, shown the young guppies.
utterly fail to see them, although they
claim they do.
In displaying new group Of baby
guppies, therefore. it is necessary for the
proud owner to point them out time and
time again.
At last, when the guest gives a gasp,
he may be sure he sees them. they are
that small. and SO water-colored.
Reptiles are placed by scientists be-
tween amphibians and birds.
They are cold blooded, like the am
phibians. "Cold blooded" means that
the blood is about the temperature Of
the surroundings. For this reason, snakes
can go long time without food.
We love the definition of snakes as
given in the Encyclopedias Britannica:
They are elongate animals without
limbs, or with claw-like rudiments of the
hinder pair: without eyelids or external
ears, with pointed re-curved teeth fused
to the supporting bones. with Q forked
slender tongue"
Evening star., 1950-06-19

So if you see an elongate animal with
out limbs coming toward you. give It
plenty of room!
Scientists regard them as degenerate
because of the lack of limbs and the
absence of a well-differentiated neck,
body and tail.
Wonder If the snakes would agree
with that?
Because of their reputation for wis
dom, perhaps they would say:
To the contrary. we regard all humans
as degenerate because Of the presence Of
limbs, and especially because you babies
(maybe we should spell 1t differently
have well differentiated neck and body,
and no tail at all, ha, hal"
Another difference from us is that
snakes do not have larynx or vocal
chords. and so have no true voice, al
though they can hiss, and plenty, at
times. Still, you can't exactly call it q
voice.
Most Of the snakes we are likely to
run into In civilization 1--WE can hear
the snakes kissing at that are not
poisonous.
It is q good idea. however, to give
them all wide berth. as the saying Is,
although this does not mean killing them
Unfortunately. especially when on va
cation. The blacksnake, for instance, is
rather terrible looking creature. but
entirely harmless and killer Of vermin.
Evening star., 1950-06-19
Low-RentoI Problems
Modesto Lucer0.

noticed your recent editorial on rent
control. and was particularly interested
in that part wherein you concurred with
Mr.. Cogswell. the Rent Administrator. in
his statement that there are not enough
of low-priced rentals in D. c. and area.
have been interested in constructing
some rental property which would rent
for $50 to $50 as suggested by Mr.. Cogs-
we'll
Since you are interested in this type
Of rental, would you and Mr.. Cogswell
be kind enough to inform me as to the
location I might secure, together with
the materials and tradesmen, to erect
such apartments whereby my investment
might be somewhat secure? Will you also
inform me where might secure tenants
to rent such apartments, such as they
might be?
I think it is up to your editorials to
educate people to the fact that it is i'm
possible to erect decent living quarters
that make a secure investment for the
property owner who places his money in
such rental property. Do you honestly
feel that apartments renting for $66 and
$50, including utilities, are too high?
These rentals are prewar, and I can re-
member when one-bedroom apartments
rented for more than these prices-right
after World War I, when carpenters,