The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-01-19
NEWS ITEMS
 FROM 5ITkA
ESPECIAL CORRESPONDENTS

ESPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE
 SITKA, Alaska, Jan. 15-As us- lal, the weather continues to be unusual. Water pipes and dra.ns .reezing up faster than Mark Rig ing can get around to them The Sitka Public Utilities has put a ;rew on the job, digging streets up o find pipe connections to main ines but as all markers are bur- ed under ice and snow, they're iaving a rugged time And people will continue to be forgetful and urn the water off for just few minutes, all it takes for pipes 0 freeze.
 A surprising number of people in own still burn wood, not only in ireplaces, but in kitchen ranges. it's real problem these days with he sawmill closed down for two months. Pioneering, and hating ev- cry minute of it.
 The Lions and pctarians met last night, continuing ,lSir athletic ieudin'. This time it was basket oall of twenty years ago, played at he High School gym. There seemed 0 be occasional confusion about he game, some of the players play ng basketball while others were jlaying football
 Dr. Ccddington and Dr. Moore
 cted as referees while Dorothy 3ilbo, president of the Soroptimist. attempted to keep score with the aid of Mrs. Ella Muir. Quarters were limited to three minutes, with many rest periods called by the re- ferees.
 Both teams wore fetching uni forms but Rotary won the. style jhow with it's assortment of union suits in many colors.
 The Rotaryann cheering section did fine job of encouraging it's team under the precision-like lead- ership of Jerry Nordby and An nabelle Appling looking ravishing n middys, Black bloomers, black stockings and high lace shoes, top ped by tortoise shell glasses and perets.
 Mrs. Mary Walton, wife of Ru- dolph Walton, died Thursday af- ternoon, at the SJS Community Hospital after a three week illness She was 68 years old.
 Funeral services were held al the ANB Hall Friday afternoon followed by services at the Presby- terian Church. Burial was at the City Cemetery.
 Survivors are her husband, three daughters, Mrs. Nick Kasakan, Mrs Merle Enloe and Mrs. John Law renee, and two sons, James and William Walton, and several grand children.
 A son, Wayne Louis, weighing ten pounds, was born Thursday morning, January 12, to MT. and Mrs. Louis McGee, at the SJs Community Hospital. MT. McGee is an employee of the Columbia Lumber Mill The mother was form erly a nurse at the Orthopedit Hospital.
 Mir and Mrs. Lloyd Flames who were married last Saturday eve ming, left aboard the Denali or a two week honeymoon at Mt. Nc Kinley Park.
 Mrs. Charlotte Groves, clerk at Comics Dress Shop, left by plane last weekend for medical treat ment in the states. She will have some work done on her ankle which was broken in fall last winter The work could have been done here were hospital facilities avail able.
 Twenty-three patients from the Juneau Government Hospital we're returned from the Alice Island Sanitarium over last weekend after having spent several weeks there during the rebuilding of the TB quarters in Juneau.
 Mary Ann and Minnie Abloogloc. left by plane for Cordova Tuesday to enter the Lutheran Home. Mary Ann was patient at the Alice Island Sanitarium and Minnie was a patient at the Orthopedic Hos pital. Both little girls are fu.cy recovered.
 Mir and Mrs. Bill Smith, owners of the Smith Bottling Works and cannery, returned by plane last weekend after having spent the holidays with relatives in the states.
 Mrs. Ernest Somers, accompanied by her daughter Janet, left by plane Wednesday for a two weeks visit with her mother in Snoquala-