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Evening star., 1950-01-01
STILL UNSETTLED
By Stanley Baitz

yards of bygone years? All,
yes, they had some humding-
ers in 1899 and 1900, but the
worst in Washington's weather
history was in 1922. the So
called "Knickerbocker Storm"
because Of the disaster asso-
ciated with it. Twenty-eight
inches Of snow fell, breaking
the previous record of 2O.5
inches, set in 1899.
The third greatest snow
storm of record was In Feb
ruary. 1896. when IA inches
of snow fell In less than II
hours. Another notable bliz-
zard-the eighth heaviest of
record--occurred at the end
of March. 1912.
The Knickerbocker tragedy
was born of the record snow
fall that began at 4::20 pm.
Friday, January a, 1922. It
continued through the next
day, bringing the city to a
virtual standstill. BY 7::3O pm.
Saturday, 26 inches of snow
had fallen. The Knicker-
booker Theater, Eighteenth
street and Columbia road
NV. was showing Get Rich
Quick-Wallingford" to a ca
pacity audience of approx
mately l,70O. Shortly after 9
p.m., the roof suddenly caved
in, burying hundreds in the
debris. Ninety-eight were
killed and about $50 injured.
Warm weather figures are
as iriconclusive as the winter
statistics. The hottest spell
Washington ever had was
August So. 1918. when the
temperature got up to 1855.
On July 20, 1880, the mercury
scared to 1O6. and it got to
los again in July. 1895. How
ever, the records show there
were a number of times in
the '80s and '9Os when the
temperature was we'll above
100.
While the Weather Bureau
carefully refrains from taking
any stand on local trends"
some of its experts privately
pooh-pooh the idea that
winters are getting warmer.
It's just wishful thinking"
says one skeptic. IF the
climate had grown notice
ably warmer in only one or
two generations. Washington
would burn up before long"
Another offers this explain
alton: It's usually colder in
the suburbs than In the city.
Since at the turn of the GEN.
tury and before. Washington
and environs weren't so
densely built up, townSfolk
undoubtedly did feel the cold
more then than now.
I M
Evening star., 1950-01-01

nLD-TIMERS who insist
" Washington winters have
become warmer in the past
half century may have some-
thing there. And then. again.
maybe not.
The statistics don't prove
anything conclusively. except
that Washington weather Is
not a thing of great ups and
downs. At the Weather Bu-
reau, they simply smile enig-
matically when anybody
comes looking for trends"
The oldster who likes to
think back on an era of ear
muffs and knee-boots could
conceivably make a case that
Washington winters have gone
sissy. The coolest year so far
this century was 1904 with an
average temperature of 52.2
degrees-3.3 below the annual
mean temperature for Wash
ington based on records for Is
years. The same figure was
recorded In 1875, but the low
est years average ever was
SIS in 1886.
The warmest year Of record
in this century Excluding
l949, for which figures are not
yet available) was quite re-
cent-l946-when the annual
average was 58.5. However. the
Weather Bureau says 1t was
practically as warm In 1922
58.4. A comparatively recent
year-1934-recorded the cold
est February to date.
The temperature hasn't
dropped to zero or below very
often in Washington's weather
record, but the reader with a
long memory will be quick to
recollect 1912, when the mer-
curry went to Is below for two
days, and say. "Ah, that was
a winter ;" But how about
the winter of l933-34. when
the temperature was 6 below
zero, and again the following
year when 1t hit 2 below?
Is Washington warming up
as the Ice Age recedes? Is
the Gulf Stream swinging our
way to give us a breath of
tropical winter? The other
day an elderly cab driver con-
fidentially told a passenger:
There's no question about it.
Washington winters amt
what they used to be-" But
what does the record show?
In 1910, the temperature for
January. ordinarily the coldest
month. averaged 24.9 - and
there we're only three Janu-
arys when 1t got any colder
in 1856. 1896 and 1918. The
lowest 1t ever reached here in
January was 2l.3 in 1856.
And how about the big bliz-
Valley frontiersman., 1950-04-14
R% Grites Seeks Job Of Manager Of 1850 Fair

Robert w. Critics, physical edu- cation instructor at Palmer High School, this week made applica- tion for the position of manager of the coming Matanuska Valley Fair. MT. Critics appeared before the fairs board of directors last Monday evening, to make per sonal application.
 The board asked MT. Critics to submit his application in writing. At the same time, it was an- nounced that written applications rom all interested applicants will be received until April 24.
 Candidates interested in the po- sition should outline their back ground and experience in promo tional work, state the salary they expect to receive, and should give some plan of how they feel the fair can be best developed into an all-around agricultural, indus trial and entertainment show.
 At the fair board meeting of May 1, all applicants will be asked to appear for personal interview. The board will make its selection at that meeting, or shortly there afteg.
 April 20 was set for the pro- posed meeting between fair board members and representatives of all Valley organizations. At that meeting, the board hopes to dis cuss fair plans, and to hear criti- cism and suggestions from all local organizations. It is the boards hope that this meeting will result in the development of a fair that will be of interest to everyone in the Valley.
 The income half of the budget was drafted at last Mondays meeting. Board members antici- pate a gross revenue of S20,000 this year. They expect gate re- ceipts, concessions and book ad- vertising to account for most of this sum.
 The budget is scheduled for an other scanning at next Mondays meeting, when amendments and revisions may be put into effect.
Valley frontiersman., 1950-04-14
Chcmber Board Studies Newest Booklet

The Valley Chamber of Com merce revision of the booklet pre- senting Valley facts and figures was completed in rough draft form this week. It will be re- viewed tonight by the Chambers board of directors, according to Clair Stock, Chamber president.
 Once the publication receives the final okay of the directors, printers estimate that it will be off the press and ready for distri- button by May 1. This years pam phlet will be an estimated 16 pages in length, and will carry a complete listing of all Valley mer- chants, in addition to a section of display advertising.
 The Chamber of Commerce plans to have 10000 of the pam phlets printed. It is hoped that all Valley folks planning a visit to the states this summer will carry a supply of the books with them
Valley frontiersman., 1950-04-14
STILL MORE BONDS
 REDEEMED AT WASlLLA

w ASIL A - Several more lunchroom bonds were redeemed, following last Thursdays special bond dinner in the school cafe teria. All of the evenings dinner and entertainment profit was ap- piled toward the redemption of lunchroom bonds.
 Each month, more of these bonds are redeemed, as lunchroom profits continue to roll in. <. :.
Valley frontiersman., 1950-04-14
Doctors Urge Measures Against Typhoid
RECOMMEND VACCINE. PROPER PRECAUTIONS FOR VALLEY FOLKS

The outbreak of typhoid in the Anchorage area should be warn ing to all Valley residents, local doctors cautioned today. Anyone who has not been immunized for typhoid, or whose immunization has expired, should take steps to have the inoculations immedi- ately.
 That is the joint warning is- sued by Dr. Vernon Gates, Dr. Clarence Bailey, and Miss Mar jorie Myren, local public health nurse. #=>
 Regarding the time period elapslng since former immuniza- tlons, the Territorial Department of Public Health has the follow ing recommendations to make:
 If the individual has had a booster shot, or a series of tY- phoid shots within the last two years. then booster shot only is all that is necessary. If neith- CT booster shot nor the full series of shots has been given within the past two years, then the series of three should be given" .-..
 No typhoid cases are yet sus- pected in the Valley, but "the possibility of some cases develop ing is not remote" according to pr. Bailey.
 Dr. Joseph Stickler, epidemiol- ogist for the territorial depart ment of health, visited Palmer on Monday of this week to check de velopments here. Dr. Stickler an nounced that if any Valley resi- dents have visited in the Spenard area recently, or have entertained guests from that area in their homes, Miss Myren, or his office, should be informed
 Source of the disease has not yet been traced. At press time there were 12 known cases in Anchorage. all of them either from the Spenard area or hay
 Continued on Back Page)
Valley frontiersman., 1950-04-14
PIONEER ALASKAN SUCCUMBS HERE EASTER MORNING

George Duncan, long time Alas kan resident and a Palmer-ite for the past five years, died at Valley Hospital last Sunday morning af- ter a brief illness. He was 68 years old.
 Funeral services for the pioneer Alaskan, who had been prospec- tor, freighter and homesteader, will be held at the Church of God at o'clock tomorrow afternoon.
 Mir. Duncan apparently left no survivors. He had lived in Alas ka for many years. He freighted with horses over the Richardson Trail at the time of the Fairbanks gold rush, and later delivered mail by dog-team to points in the h. terior.
 At the time of his death,> which was caused by pneumonia, MT. Duncan was employed as dish washer at the Ron-Da-Voo Cafe and as night attendant at. HagS. ley Brothers Garage.
Valley frontiersman., 1950-04-14
PHS Band, Chorus, Soloists Prepare
 B Numbers For April 22nd Concert

(Girls' Chorus)
 III Drumsticks Drum Novelty ..,..-,,,-,..,,,, Edwards Poem ....................... Fibich Indiana State Band .....-. Farrar
 (Band)
 W None but the Lonely Heart -...........-....,. TschaikowskY Vocal by Ramona Davis
 V 1N1dNO1d ------...----.--..--.-.--.---. .O1Del1uS Shortnin' Bread .........,..,. Riegger
 Vocal Ouartetl
 VI Little Bluebird of My Heart ......-...............T Twohig- Grey
 Vocal Trio)
 VII Whispering Hope Hawthorne Trombone solo by Bonnie Ross
 VIII Country Gardens ..,,,. Zamecnik High School Cadets ...,.........Sousa Band directed by M. Stater)
 TX There's Music in the Air Post Old Folks at Home Foster Stars of the Summer Night ...........................W WoodbuxY Now the Day Is Over .....BarneY Boys Choxus) | < Andante from the Fifth Symphony .... TSchaikowskY Trumpet Solo by Mike Stater) Sabbath Day in
Valley frontiersman., 1950-04-14

The annual spring concert of the Palmer High School band will be presented on April P this year, 1 band leader Paul Bushong an- nounced today. The concert will begin at o'clock in the Gymna- sium.
 Students will pay fifty cents ad- mission and adult tickets will cost one dollar. Concert proceeds will go to the bands uniform fund, | MT. Bushong said.
 The coming program will be the joint production of PHS instru- mentalists, vocalists and soloists. 1 n addition to band selections, the A Capella choir has prepared sev- eral numbers.
 Band numbers will include marches, waltzeS and semi-class- ical numbers, in addition to MT. Bushongs own Northern Lights Overture" which was so we'll re- ceived at last falls concert.
 In all, l24 students will partici- pate in this spring concert. The complete program includes the following numbers:
 Salutation March ............... .Sei4x Granada Overture McCauohev American Patrol Maxch. .Maacham (Band)
 II
 To Wild Rose ...... Mcdowell Ama1YllS ...........--..-...-.......Ba Bancroft Cxechoslovakian Dance
 Song .........-.......,....A Anonymous
Valley frontiersman., 1950-04-14

Annual spring concert of PHS music depart ment ali Gym April 22.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-06-02
C0N(ILIAT0R TO
 ANCHORAGE FOR
 CARPENTER TALK

FAIRBANKS, Alaska, June 2-tR -Albin L. Peterson of Seattle left yesterday for Anchorage to act as conciliator between the striking carpenters union (AFL) and the Association of General Contractors.
 Peterson has been conciliator here for the strike of the Inter- national Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (AFL) and the Fairbanks Exploration department of the United States Smelling, Mining and Refining Co.
 Peterson said he was not leaving here because of any breakdown in negotiations. He echoed R. B. Earl ing's statement of a hope for set clement.
 Earling, Vice President of the F. E. Department, said progress had been made in negotiations. but that 70 further meetings were scheduled for the present. The union seeks union shop.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-06-02
Alaska Statehood
 Approved by CIVIC

BOSTON, June 2LR-Support of statehood for Alaska was reaffirmed by the General Federation of Women's Club at the close of it's five-day 59th annual assembly to- day. Delegates representing 1l,000,- 900 clubwomen throughout the world attended.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-06-02
ILWU CLAIMS ALL CANNERY WORKERS;
 KETCHIkAN NJ ERGES

Ketchikan members of the Food. Tobacco and Agricultural Workers Union, recently purged by the na-
 tional CIO for Communist tenden- cies, have voted to join the Inter
 national Longshoremen's and Ware
 housemen's Union. it was an- nounced today in a press release
 from the First City by Bob Kinney,
 the ILWU's international represen-
 ative for Alaska.
 Kinney said the old local there
 now becomes an autonomous loca,
 of Harry Bridges group, joining
 with the warehouse local in Ket- chikan which has contracts with cold storage houses there.
 This merger" he said, will bring all workers in the fishing and canning industry in Alaska into one union. For years these workers have been scattered about in smal! groups whose jurisdictions and con- tracts have overlapped. By being in one union the fishermen and can nery workers will receive better service than they have had in the past" r ETA locals in Juneau, Hoonah, Petersburg, Craig and old Local ' in Seattle have already voted to go into the ILWU, Kinney claimed. Some of the Seattle workers joined the United Clearinghouse Workers, with whom the Alaska Salmon In- dustry, Inc, signed contract this year.
 The current hold-up in getting I supplies is because the ILWU, with some of the old union members in new local known as 7-C of the longshore group, is now picketing activities in Seattle.
 The International Fishermen and Allied Workers Union has already
 voted to join the ILWU, in ballot i held last year.
 The biggest vote for the merger with the ILWU," said Kinney, came from Alaskans, who have for years been clamoring for one union in the industry. In the past the
 Alaska workers have been regarded
 as second class citizens by the in dustry, which has refused to grant the same wages and working condi-
 tions as those paid to nonresident
 workers" Pointing out that longshore wages
 in Alaska are IS percent higher
 than similar wages on the west
 coast, Kinney said that fishermen
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-06-02
FISH PRODUCTS
 IMPORT DUTIES
 RAISE REQUESTED

WASHINGTON, June 2-R R- Rep. Tollefson (R-Wash.) told the House yesterday that import duties on fish and fish products should be raised rather than lowered.
 He called attention the reciprocal trade agreements conference sched- uled for September in England.
 He said the fish liver oil in- dustry in this country has been demoralized as the result of inn ports from Japan.
 One-fou,th to one-third of the income received from bottom fish comes from the fish livers, he safd.
 Fishermen in the Pacific North west, he recounted, had marketed from $3,000,000 to $5,O00,000 worth of fish oil annually from 1944 to 1948, but last year imports cut the value of their product to $2,000, 900.
 He said he doubted that North west fishermen would market more than $800,00O of fish vitamin oils this year.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-06-02

omic weapons and stronger conven- tional forces are expected to lick this problem.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-06-02
241,3oo LBS. LANDED AS HAuIBUT SEASON
 CLOSES IN AREA TWO

As the halibut fishing season in Area Two closed, 30 boats pro- ceeded to Juneau today bringing a total of 241,300 pounds to market.
 It was the biggest day of the season in number of boats unload ing and amount of fish brought to port.
 Price pa,c TOT mediums was sub stantially the same yesterday with all going at g cents. Large went for g cents, showing a rise of .lc to IS cents per pound. Chickens sold for 19 cents.
 High boat was the Emma, which landed 18,000 pounds. The Tundra and Mayflower each landed 13,0C5 pounds, and the Viking Bertie II, and Hazel S., each landed 12,000 pounds.
 Several of the Juneau fleet witch has been fishing Area Two are expected to go to Area Three to the Westward to fish until July.
 Other vessels from Area Two will probably reach here late to- day to unload.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-06-02
CARMEN MANTYLA QUEEN CANDIDATE
 FOR JULY FOURTH
Popular Juneau Girl Nomi nated by Women of
 Moose, Also Moose

First candidate for Juneau's Fourth of July Queen was nomin- ated last night at a meeting of the Women of the Moose at Moose Hall. She is 19-year-old Carmen Mantyla, daughter of MT. and Mrs A. Mantyla, who live in Waynor Addition. She will also have the Moose Lodge as her sponsors.
 Miss Mantyla was a graduate of Juneau High School with the class of 1850, and is popular member of the teen age group. She is Worthy Advisor of the Order of Rainbow for Girls and a member of Eastern Star. During her high school years she was active in the Rifle Club and the Girls Athletic Association.
 Miss Mantyla also graduated from Juneau grade school having come here with her parents to start in seventh grade work. At present she is employed at Warfield Drug store,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-06-02
MESSAGE FILE
 FREEZE" ASKED
 TN CRIME QUERY
Biq Crackdown on Under : world 10 Be Started by
 Government

WASHINGTON, June 2 - R - A Senate investigation of crime and gambling appeared to be snow-ball- ing today into the biggest govern ment crackdown on the underworld since prohibition days.
 With the full support of President Truman--reaffirmed at his news conference yesterday special Senate Committee moved toward a series of fast breaking inquiries stretching all the way from New York and Florida to California.
 In the latest move, Chairman Kefauver D-TennD asked the Fed eral Communications Commission to freeze" all Western Union mes sage files to prevent them from being discarded.
 The EGG has ordered such a freeze on telephone toll slips at the request of the Kefauver com- mittee. Normally the telephone companies destroy toll SnpS aIter holding them for six months. Vest ern Union keeps it's message files for the same period.
 The investigators hope, through these communications records, to establish that big-time gamblers and racketeers are 'using interstate communications to conduct their operations.
 At his news conference, MT. Tru- man pledged his personal support and the full cooperation of federal agencies-to the Senate committee
 He opened up whole new field of inquiry by promising to give the Senators access to information which usually is highly confidential material.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-06-02

and allied workers face the same higher living costs which longshore- men themselves face" but the il- dustry has bucked any request for a higher wage and have insisted on wages being lower than those they pay outsiders"
 "The union insists" said Kinney, that industry officials stop telling workers what union they should belong to and who their officials should be, and get down to serious negotiations with the union for agreements to cover the 1850 season.
 "The industry has blocked a set clement by blocking out Local T. apparently Kinney here means ILWU's Local 7-C, as Local T was in the ETA, now outlawed by the CIO-which is asking for three year agreement that will eliminate unrest which crops up each year at this time. -"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-06-02
FROM KODIAK

MT. and Mrs. Leo s. Johnson of Kodiak are registered at tne Baranof Hotel.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-06-02
ATOM ARTILLERY DEVELOPED FOR
 USE OF TROOPS
By MAX BOYD

WASHINGTON, June 2 - tR -| The United States has developed atomic artillery shells and atomic warheads for guided missiles, it was learned today. .
 News of these revolutionary wea- pons comes in the wake of Defense Secretary Johnson's report to Presi- dent Truman on March 31 that this country is developing a variety of new atomic missiles which may have tactical as well as strategic sig nificance.
 That means they can be used against troops in the field as well as against industrial targets.
 Reports of the new weapons are giving Atlantic Pact military plan ners new confidence that Western Europe can be made secure against possible aggression without bank rupting the United States and its allies.
 Atlantic Pact planners do not regard tactical atomic weapons as substitute for stronger conven- tional ground and air forces in Western Europe, or for stronger air and naval forces in the United States.
 They believe that strengthened ground and tactical air forces in Europe are essential to force the Russian army, in case it attac.Hs, to concentrate in mass formation and thus be vulnerable to atomic weapons.
 Atlantic Pact military planners have feared that the absence of real military strength in Western Europe may invite Soviet attack few years from now-unless the void is filled in the meantime.
 An attacking Russian army could defend itself against atomic attack by dispersion, unless strong allied ground and air forces were present to force it to concentrate. Rus sian soldiers spaced 100 yards ap- art, they say, could walk entirely across Europe without prohibitive losses if faced only by atomic weap- ons.
 The combination of tactical at-
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-06-02
COASTAL FLIGHTS
 BRING 29;; TAKE 56

Alaska Coastal Airlines flights yesterday brought 29 persons to Ju- neau and carried 56 from here to points in Southeast Alaska.
 To Hood Bay Carl G. Pederson Allen L. Johns, Ernest Gmeiner and Francis Mute; to Hoonah: Mar lene Greenwald, Rosie Greenwald and T. P. Hansen; to Excursion h. let: A. Cayre; to Pelican: Vern AL bright, Gibson Young, Mrs. Jack Stearns and infant, Mrs. Ulrich and infant, Ed Gwinn, Jack Schroeder Delmar Ward, and MT. and Mrs Gerald Hageman.
 To Ketchikan: John Kieler, w A. Wood, MT. and Mrs. J. Devon and A. Owens; to Sitka: Cecil Mc- Clain, William Bullick. Alice Bullick MT. and Mrs. J. M. Thompson, Mrs Owe, Cliff Elmore, MT. and Mrs Henry Cropley, Hugh Doogan, Dave Graves and Orville Paxton.
 To Haines: D. w. Clayton, Joe Hotch, B. J. Bouillon, Eugene White, Ken Bowman, and MT. ane Mrs. Tom Morgan; to Skagway Jimmy Berry, Thomas Nelson Jr Al Kuehl, George Collins, Dav' Andrus, J. E. Schruth; to Port Al thorp: Donna Gibson; and to flaw Inlet: James Sample, Trygve Lee Robert Burns, Mrs. Fred Harris Fred Harris Jr.. and Katherine Kitka.
 From Gustavus: John Tanning and Angle Peterson; from Hoonah Anita Duncan and Harry Douglas from Pelican: Grace Hartley Brooks Hanford. and Pat Robinson from Ketchikan: Jack Talbot; iron Taku Lodge: F. D. Claus and L. c Taylor; from Sitka: MT. and Mrs Wurster, Emily Wurster, MT. Arm. strong, P. McNulty, Patty Rohrer Violet Rohrer, Louise Davis, Georgia Conley, Julia Milton, A. Polet. ane Eleanor Miller.
 From Colby Camp: R. Colby ane Lowell Colby; from Haines: Ear Gracey and Betty Heinmiller; ane from Skagway: Pete Lundy, Mrs H. Pribbenow. and John Schruth.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-06-02
FORESTS IN OREGON ARE
 IN BLAzE5
(By Associated Press

Two fires ragged out of control in Western Oregon forests today as a hot, dry wind turned trees to giant matchsticks.
 Lesser blazes dotted the woods.
 Flames, that by noon had cov- cred 180 acres, were swept before an east wind toward Detroit Dam site in the Cascade Mountains east of Salem.
 On Humbug Mountain, south of Port Orford on the Oregon coast, up to 1000 acres had been covered this morning by a blaze that started Wednesday and was out of control with no check yet in sight.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-06-02
POLET HERE

Antony Polet of Nome is a guest at the Baranof Hotel.