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Evening star., 1950-08-27
Authority Sought TO Build
New Geomagnetic Station
Robert Baker.
James Z. Lee.
Associated Press Staff Writer

The Commerce Department yes
terday asked Congress for author
ity to construct a geomagnetic
station near Fredericksburg, Va,
at a cost TO $1,200,000.
Thomas w. S. Davis, acting
Commerce secretary, said the sta
ton would replace the obsolete
coast and geodetic station now
located at Cheltenham, Md.
The Cheltenham buildings, Sec
retary Davis wrote House Speaker
Raybuln, are nearly SO years old
and are without adequate fire pro-
| lection.
THE site is within a few hun
dred yards of a state correctional
institution and is frequent target
of vandalism by the inmates" he
said.
Secretary Davis said the Army
has made available a site of 174
acres on the A. P. Hill military
reservation near Fredericksburg
for the proposed new station. 1t
woald include an observatory. la
boratory buildings and observers
Quarters. Z
I s+t !.
Evening star., 1950-08-27
U. S. Employees
Continued From First Page.)

job, Federal officials feel that few
employees would give up the per-
manent status security of their
present jobs to take a promotion
to a temporary position that paid
more money. Wage board work
ers are not affected by the rider.
The House also approved an
amendment that is designed to
end "job jumping" in Government
House Appropriations Committee
members said it would end the
practice Of the last war when en-
ployes transferred to different
agencies to get two and three
grades higher paying jobs.'
p Could Call for Key Employees.
The Houses provision forbids
Ia higher salary for any employe
IWhe transfers to another agency.
Also approved by the House was
a provision that employees losing
their jobs in economy programs
in non-defense agencies be given
consideration for Defense Depart
lment jobs. ~
And the House gave the Defense
Department authority to call on
other departments and agencies
for key employees that it deems
necessary for the defense program.
Hope to Defeat Riders.
The supplemental measure now
goes to the Senate, where admin
istration officials hope to defeat
the personnel restriction riders.
Administration spokesn1en con-
tend that the. Civil Service Com
mission and the White House
should have discretion in limiting
promotions and transfers. They
say the House restrictions will
hamper the defense and security
agencies in obtaining and retain
ing essential employees.
The administration has no OBJ
lection to the provision giving dis
placed employees in nondefense
agencies job rehiring rights in the
military agencies. officials say
that such a program is now under
way.
Evening star., 1950-08-27
bar High; son Of Mrs. Edna Jack
Thomas Sparks.
Emmett Cooper.

bar High; son of Mrs. Edna Jack
son.
Richard A. Dameron, 1921
Fourteenth street NV; gas ap-
pliance serviceman at B. A. Coe
Co.; a brother killed in last war.
Alvin Frazier. lit Third street
|SW.; Washington born employe
of Census Bureau: rejected from
military service seven years ago;
married last April.
Jack r. Smith, 2219 Washing
ton avenue, Silver Spring; Wash
ington-born graduate of Central
High; secretary in Post ONCE De-
partment.
Bennie C. Barnes, colored, 2112
X street NV; attended Arm
strong High: bus boy at the May
flower Hotel.
Ex- Merchant Mariner Called.
William F. Holmes, TIC F street
N.F.; construction worker; came
20 Washington from Newtona Va
Robert E. Baker, 914 H street
N.F.; Capital Transit Bus driver;
served three years in merchant
marine last war; married last
month; son of Mrs. Dorothy r,
Barberio.
Charles T. Litsey. 1927 Lamont
street NV; Bureau of Standards
chemist; attended Howard Col
2lege, Birmingham, Ala. - d
Draft board headquarters also
listed these inductees at the fol-
lowing addresses, some of which
appeared, on checking, to be out
of-Gate:
Cyril B. Cummings, 305 Ninth
street Sc; James H. Barnett
$40 Fourth street NE; James O.
Pettiford, 1850 Clinton street
NV; Roderick E. Peterson, l4O6
Perry place NV; Joseph Rokosh,
619 Park road NV; James Hern-
don, 2300 First street NV.
Also, Robert L. Bausch, 1892
Fourteenth street NV: James
Lawhorn. 1888 Linden street NE;
Howard S. Wilson, 325 Seven
teenth place NE; Tom G. Lewis.
"142l Twelfth and L streets
NV; Granville j. Dunn, 1118
F street NE; Benjamin E,
Thomas. 313 Fifty-ninth street
NE; Leonard Timmons, S22
Fifty-second street NE.
Also, Andrew Franklin. 14OS
New Jersey avenue NV; John w
Winston, 1876 Thirteenth street
Sc; Nebraska Woodfolk. 4371a r
street NV: Nicholas C. Small
wood, 5000 Georgia avenue NV.
and James P. Beatty, 219 I street
NV.
Out-of-town residents were
given as: Herbert H. Dawson
kinston. N. c.; Thomas j. Cough
Evening star., 1950-08-27
G.. e. Jefferson.

lin. jr., Roslindale. Mass: John j.
Egan, Pittsburgh, Pa; Hume Jack
son, jr.,> Baltimore; Richard J.
Landon, Downings, Va, and
Charles w. Garland, johnson City
Tenn.
No address at all was available
for Draftee Earl Smith.
Evening star., 1950-08-27
Four Peuks Discovered

A group of explorers from We'll
lington recently located four new
peaks in the Bannock Brae Range
of New Zealandss Southern Alps
and q neWlake. NsHsH sgH
Evening star., 1950-08-27

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Evening star., 1950-08-27
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-01-06
WHAT YOU DO TO WIN

Here's how you take part tn this big opportunity! Every issue this newspaper will publish Alaskagrams in consecutive order, six each week for 12 weeks-a total of 72 Alaska grams.
 Each Alaskagram is a group of scrambled letters which form mean ingless words or a nOnsensical phrase. After an Alasakgram is .unscrambled the letters form the name of a place in Alaska; how ever, there is one superfluous letter -an extra, additional letter which is not needed to form the word.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-01-06

All you do is re-arrange the let ters to form a single word which IS the name of a place in Alaska, and you also show which is the extra letter. For example, the phrase FOR A CHANGE" when it is un- scrambled equals ANCHORAGE" plus the extra letter F.
 Just remember that all place. names consist of only one word and remember to show the extra letter. There is only one correct answer to each Alaskagram.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-01-06
CHIEF RESIDENTS IN F0RM05A CHINESE;
 ISLE RICH IN CROPS

WASHINGTON, Jan. 6-tR-For- mosa has a population of over 5,C00,0O0 chiefly Chinese, although it was under Japanese rule for 90 years.
 The big island is roughly between the Philippines, on the south, and Japan. It is 225 miles long and 90 miles wide at une broadest part.
 The backbone of Formosa is a mountain ridge in the central and eastern parts with peaks towering up to 14.500 feet. A coastal plain on the western side is highly pro- ductive agriculturally, yielding two rice crops a year. Other mann crops are sugar cane, tea, Jute, sweet potatoes and beans.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-01-06

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The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-01-06

Germanys U-2l was the first sub marine to sink an enemy ship on the high seas.
Valley frontiersman., 1950-09-01
Hartley Is First Pilot
 To Land On Palmer Port

Jim Hartley. formerly a part ner in the Hartley Brothers Motor Company of Palmer. was the first Valley pilot 10 test finished runway al Palmer Air port. In l946. Mir. Hartley took off from the landing strip al the Merle Anderson farm and set the wheels of his Piper Cub down on the north-south run way of the barely finished Pal mer Airport.
 Mir. Hartley is no longer a Valley resident. He recently went to Kenai. where he is partner in inc operation of a general store.
Valley frontiersman., 1950-09-01

sibly one that would permit freight plane landings.
 Grange Acts First
 The move grew stronger, and in May, 1914, members of the Northland Pioneer Grange made the first gesture of the action that was to result in today's Matanus- ka Valley Airport. At that meet ing a committee of three, Rex Monaghan, Earl Hecker and liar old Dinkel, was named to discuss Pa1mer's airport needs with of- ficials of the Matanuska Valley Farmers Co-Operating Associ- ation and the Alaska Rural Re- mobilization Corporation.
 Changers still favored construc- ton of the strip on the ARRC- controlled land.
 By February of 1945, action had resulted in the drafting of a peti- ton, to be placed before the board of directors of the ARRC, asking for transfer of the Palmer air port land to the newly organized Palmer Airport Association.
 It vas suggested at the Grange planning meeting, preliminary to the calling of the Airport Associ- ation organizational meeting, that the American Legion, the Loyal Order of Moose, and the MVFCA appoint committees to prepare plans for founding the Palmer Airport Association.
 Four Organizations Still Function
 (Those four organizations, all still active in the Matanuska Val ley today, will play an important part in the dedication ceremonies of the Matanuska Valley Airport tomorrow. Representatives of the four organizations will be seated on the speakers platform at the ceremony. A daughter of mem Der from each of the four organ izations will participate in the christening ceremony, when tric- kles of Matanuska River water are sprinkled on airport runways in the dedication ceremony.
 The Palmer Airport Association was brought into being at spe- cial meeting held on Feb. 26, 1945, with L. C. Stock acting as temporary chairman. Committees from all of the sponsoring organ lzations were present at this 
 Officers elected at this first meeting included:
 Rex Monaghan, president; Ro- land Snodgrass, secretary; Leo Lucas, treasurer. Of the three, only MT, Monoghan has gone l
Valley frontiersman., 1950-09-01
Fair Visitors, Help Us Dedicate Our A1rpe
VALLEY FOLKS' WORK, WORRY AND MONEY BUILD AN AIRPORT

OOncelVed Dy an imaginative map-maker, in the days when the infant Matanuska Valley colony was still to voice it's first vail of protest against the rigors of life in the north, the Matanuska Val ley Airport today is visual evi- dence that determined humans, working together for common good, can bring about results through sheer effort and perse- verance.
 For the Matanuska Valley Air port, considered a newsworthy topic by several of the Territory's newspapers today, has been an airport in the public eye, almost from the moment that the vision ary map-maker set it down on paper.
 For the first few years of colo hist life here, the new Alaskans were too busy transforming a chilly and unfriendly northern Valley into homes and farms, to worry overmuch about an air port. They dreamed of the day when Matanuska Valley products would be served to many an Alaskan, and even on an occa- sional Outside dinner table, but even in their dreams they knew that was a future far distant.
 Only Emergency Field
 When airport talk first began to brew, the colonists were think ing in terms of small emer- gency field, for use when planes could not get down on the near by, but often weathered-in, air strip at Anchorage. Pilot farmers and flying enthusiasts used make shift runways on the Max Sher- rod farm or at the Merle Ander- son ranch to land their planes.
 Time went on, and colonists grew interested in a possible field to be constructed by CCC funds and forces. The map-maker's plot was slashed and cleared, and then was abandoned as the Army evil denced interest in construction of larger field, not so conveient- ly tucked into Palmer's doorstep. The land originally earmarked for an airport is property lying di- rectly behind Palmer School, and even then far too close to the school and the first Valley Hos pital for compliance with safety CThe ARA Building now stands on that site).
 First CCC crews, and then the Army, lost interest in Palmer airfield. Local pressure grew stronger to do something" about getting an airstrip here. By this time, there was even a murmur of talk testing the possibility of constructing larger field; pos
Valley frontiersman., 1950-09-01

AAAS SSoA D. AAC AO" IIldhSS III home Outside.
 Ask ARRC For Land
 Following the establishment 0 the association, M D. Snodgras asked that the ARRC be present ed with the petition which hal been circulated by the Grang committee, and which asked tha the airport site, 300 feet wid, and 5000 feet long, runningnortl and south along the east bound ary of the Palmer townsite, b, transferred to the Association.
 It was further decided to asl the MVFCA to transfer the saw mill site Qocated near the pres ent Valley HospitaD to the As Sociation, for use in the construc. ton of the proposed runway Easements were requested iron Jack Cope and Roland Snodgrass to slash timber in a 500-foot wide strip from the approachways al the north and south ends of the planned runway.
 In March, 1945, representatives of the Palmer Airport Association met with Marshall Hoppin, then head of the Civil Aeronautics Ad- ministration, to plan Palmer's airport. MT. Hoppin advised Pal mer representatives to plan for the field of their future needs, and to appoint a committee to study possible locations. He rec commended that the airport be To- cated at least two and a hal. miles from Palmer.
 CAA Approves Site
 Later that month CAA engi- neer inspected Palmer sites and approved a location east of the town, requiring purchase of prop erty from A. Egtvet, Roland Snodgrass and the MVFCA. MT. Egtvet agreed to sell 40 acres of land at $70 an acre, because of his deep interest in the airport. (The Valley farmers brothers and cousins were principal own. CTS of the Boeing Field proE-+' near Seattle, and the family interested in the develop ment of aviation). The MVFCA gave a small parcel of land need ed at the north end of the run way.
 Under date of May F, 1945, members of the Palmer Airport Association first sold stock tc subscribers, to create fund for land purchase and for the devel- opment of the landing strip. First names on that subscription list
Valley frontiersman., 1950-09-01

 CONSTRUCTION STAT
 OF THE MATANUSKA VALLEY AIRPOE

Eost-West Runway Length Gin feet) ...... North-South Runway Length Gin feet) -. Runway Width (both strips in feeN ..... Acres cleared for opproochwoys ....... Acres grubbed and IeveIIed ..
 Cubic yards of excavation .... Yards of stabilized gravel spread ........ Working days to complete contract .
 MAN HOURS OF WORK ON BOT Clearing ................. Excavation and Sub-Grode .......
 Engineering .................
Valley frontiersman., 1950-09-01

Palmer in its pecolonY days of the early l930 looked like this
 from the of the Alaska Railroad station The few early settlers then, whom Felton
 concerned with adequate roads than with The residence. barns and outbudngs located in the Feons modern white rooning todaYPhoto courtesy of Clyde
Valley frontiersman., 1950-09-01

from the Valley in the interven ing years. He now makes hi home Outside.
Valley frontiersman., 1950-09-01

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Evening star., 1950-06-05

and Mrs. Henry o. Goodwin and
Miss Laveta Stewart, alternates
for the delegate.
Dinner Tomorrow
A dinner for newly elected Off
GERS will be held by the Judge
Lynn Chapter of the District OAR
tomorrow night at the officers
Club of the Bethesda Naval Medi-
cal Center.
A highlight will be the presen-
tation to the National Society of a
silver urn in. honor of Mrs.
Charles Carroll Haig, national
chairman of Building and
Grounds and a member of the
chapter. Mrs. John Morrison
Kerr, treasurer general. will pre-
sent the gift.
The new chapter officers are
Mrs. James S. Mclean, regent;
Mrs. William E. Forbes, vice
regent; Mrs. Shirley Treadwell,
chaplain; Mrs. Lewis w. Machiar,
recording secretary; Mrs. Robert
B. Hall, corresponding secretary;
Mrs. Martin H. Kinsinger. treas
urer; Mrs. Robert B. Hall, regis
trar; Mrs. Dora B. Waters, his
torian; Mrs. Leigh Nettleton,
librarian, and Mrs. George B.
/ Hartman, delegate.
Evening star., 1950-06-05
Club
Elects Officers

Mrs. Roberta Laughton has
been elected president of the
Soroptimist Club of Prince
Georges County.
Other new officers are Miss
Christine Hensley. vice president:
Miss Lois Havens, treasurer; Mrs.
Helen Morrison, recording secre-
tary; Mrs. Dorothy Zundel, cor
responding secretary and Miss
Gertrude Poe, board member.
The new officers will be in
stalled June 10 at the Prince
Georges Golf and Country Club
by Miss Ella Werner.
Evening star., 1950-06-05
Wonen's
Clubs
District OAR.
Meeting Is Set
At G. w. HOSPITAL

The District Daughters Of the
American Revolution will meet at
the George Washington Univer-
sity Hospital at noon tomorrow
to dedicate a room in memory of
Mrs. Howard L. Hodgkins, for
merly an honorary vice president
general and a charter member of
the society.
Mrs. David L. Wells, past state
regent, and Mrs. j. Edwin Lawton
will unveil the marker. Mrs. Will
fred j. Clearman. former State
regent under whose administra-
ton the movement to establish
the room was inaugurated, will
conduct the ceremony.
Mrs. James D. Skinner, the
present regent. will present the
room to Maj. Gen. Ulysses S.
Grant, 3rd, chairman of the hos
pital equipment campaign for the
new building and vice president
of the university.
Anniversary Observance
The Marcia Burns Chapter will
celebrate it's 43rd anniversary at
reception to be held from 9 to II
pm. Saturday at the home of Mrs.
John Joseph Tamborelle. National
and State officers and chapter
regents will be among the guests.
The occasion also will honor the
20 new members taken into the
chapter during the past year.
Entertainment will include a
musical program by Charlton
Meyer. pianist.
Mrs. John Anderson Horton,
who recently was reelected regent
of the chapter, will head the re-
ceiving line.
Other officers include Mrs.
Roger E. Purchase, vice regent;
Mrs. c. C. Knight, chaplain; Mrs.
Carl Longley, recording secretary;
Mrs. John E. Marshall, cor
responding secretary; Miss Eliza
beth Bunner. treasurer; Miss
Pauline Deatherage, registrar;
Miss Ruth McDonough, historian;
Miss Helen Sunday, librarian,
Mrs. Tamborelle, delegate; Mrs.
Nelson E. Hubel and Miss Naomie
Scoville. alternates for the regent.
Evening star., 1950-06-05

of re gion a ]
leaders today at
the Hotel 2400.
The regional
! e a d e RS, who
r e p r e S e n t
80 chapters in
six States. in
cluding the Dis
trict, are meet
ing to decide
policy and plans
for the coming
year.
T h e overall
program of Ha-
Evening star., 1950-06-05

QaSSan Will De
considered, with emphasis on the
Seaboard Region Youth Aliyah
village to be built in Israel.
Plans also will be made for the
education institutes and leader
shin courses.
Evening star., 1950-06-05
Meeting Is Set
.ForHodussuh

Mrs. Hilary M. January of Suf-
folk. Va, recently elected president
of the Seaboard Region of Hadas-
sab, will preside at a conference
Evening star., 1950-04-12

man out Of a publisher-if only
for a little while-he thought he
might seek something with a more
inviolable dignity about it.
Writing might not be It," he
recalls. but it was handy. The
popularity of the book was en-
couraging financially and the
Hollywood offer for it was even
more encouraging. Moreover, as
compared with publishing news
papers, it seemed a fine carefree
way to live. After all, a writer is
responsible only for himself and
his immediate family. A publisher
has to think in larger terms. He
has worries that a writer never
realizes"
With the money rolling in and
the worries rolling off him, Mr..
Stern envisaged a new life.
"It was not to be, however" he
says. With Francis out of my
system, as a book and a screen
script, I began to remember pub
fishing newspapers. 1t gets into a
mans blood. He goes on thinking
it is a good life in spite of its
harassments. So, I bought an
other newspaper. The Army had
not taught me how to be a man
who can avoid buying newspapers.
4 thought it had, but I was
wrong"
Actually. it only took him q
few months to recover from the
notion that he wanted to be a
writer. Writers can be fine types.
and a great many Of them are.
No man, he feels, knows that
better. He personally would rather
be something else, say a man who
employs writer's.
AS a publisher in such q tradi-
tion-loving town as New Orleans.
Mr.. Stern finds it an amusing ex-
perience to have been the author
of Francis"
Its promotion values were
good" he says. There we are in
a lively competitive battle with q
firmly entrenched opposition. Ma
turally, along comes the world
premiere of the picture in my new
home town. The movies make
quite a municipal event Of these
things. Festival occasions, you
might say.