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The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-03-17
Sporis Briefs

NEW YORW-CCNY and Brad ley advanced to the finals of the National Invitation Basketball Tournament, Saturday. CCNY de- feated Duquesne, 65-52, while Brad ley eliminated St. Johns of Brook lyn, 83-72.
 RALEIGH, NC. - Pancho Con zales, who says he's tired, an- nounced a one year layoff from professional tennis starting in fall, when his tour with Jack Kramer is scheduled to end.
 CLEARWATER, Fla.-Flag hopes of Philadelphia Phils jared With the announcement that Russ Meyer, 17-game winner last year, suffered a fractured elbow pitching in train ing camp game.
 SAN BRUNO, Calf. = PepWell ($4.10) won the featured six lur- long race at Tanforan.
 HALLANDALE, Fla. Blazing (s12.20) captured the featured race at Gulfstream Park.
 ATT. ANITA Didrickson za- harias shot a par 36-36-72 for a three stroke lead to open the tltle- holders golf tourney.
 You don't have to send out for bulbs. Juneau Young Hardware VIII have large new selection of spring planting bulbs within few days at less than Seattle prices. 5ltf
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-03-17

Czecnoslovax,e apparently is pre- pairing to brerk off diplomatic re- lations with the Vatican. Tn the latest development, the Communist dominated government has given the Vatican's only representative three days to leave.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-03-17
Increase sn Credit

Miss Kennedy, owner of the Alaska Credit Bureau, stated that she has noted a big increase in the credit report inquiries for the Federal Housing Authority working in conjunction with the Alaska Federal Savings and Loan, indicate ing that there should be a great deal of building of homes and commercial buildings in Juneau. Miss Kennedy, Waynor advised, has received number of inquiries from applicants desiring apartment space in the new building to be construct- ed by Anderson. This is going to be great credit to the community.
 Waynor saw big improvement as the result of the paving of the
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-03-17
CARPENTERS ATTENTION

Carpenters Local No. 2247 special meeting Friday night, Mar. IT, at 8 pm. AFL Hall. -adv. 53-2t
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-03-17
CHUCK WERNER'S BAND
 TO PLAY IN PETERSBURG

Chuck Werner and his dance band will go to Petersburg tomor- row afternoon via Ellis Airlines, especially to play for the Saturday night party planned in connection with the convention of the Junior Chamber of Commerce.
 The Juneauites plan to return Sunday morning.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-03-17
ChaekasIlalllna Is Thumb DOwned as Wafer Power Source

WASHINGTON, March 17-lRl- The Geological Survey turned thumbs down today on Lake Chack- achamna in Alaska as a source of water power in the near future. It based it's conclusion on the lakes remoteness and inaccessibility. The lake is 100 miles west of Anchorage.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-03-17

Attention Suit Club members, att tend drawing at Buds Bar, 9:30 pm. Friday-adv. 52-2t
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-03-17

ATLANTA-Babe Didrickson za harias shot a par 36-36-72 for three stroke lead to open the tltle holders golf tourney.
Evening star., 1950-08-26

Close good transportation schools and shopping this home
Al condition and living dining room, Kitchen
breokfpst ond ls floor ovotor bedrooms and both
heo This house built in 1887 and hos recently been
re-decoroted
reach
Evening star., 1950-08-26
American U. Expands
Courses Offered on
s. Real Estate Study

American University's Division
of Business Studies today an
nounced expansion of it's curricu-
lum of real estate courses offered
in cooperation with the Washing
ton Real Estate Board and the
National Association of Real
Estate Boards.
/ Students may enroll as candi-
dates for the Bachelor or Master
of Business Administration degree
or as special students, taking
courses for professional advance
ment without being degree candi-
/ dates.
! In the fall session which begins
September 25, evening classes will
be offered in "Real Estate Prac-
tice," Real Estate Appraisal" !"
Mortgage Financing and Real
Estate Law"
They will be taught by Thomas
L. Phillips. a local. broker; Curt
G. Mack, assistant commissioner
for underwriting, Federal Housing
Administration, and Carey Win
ston. local broker and president
Of the American Institute of Real
Estate Management, and A. M.
|. Prothro, Federal Housing Ad-
ministration.
Glasses meet one night per
week for 16 weeks. Registration
begins September IL.
Further information and a de-
tailed description of the real
estate program is available from
Prof. Nathan A. Baily, director OF
the division of business studies,
1901 F street NV.
The courses at American Uni
tversity are being carried on as a
Estate Boards educational pro-
part of the Washington Real
gram, Oliver M. Walker, president,
lsaid.
Evening star., 1950-08-26

pensate for the period of ineffl-
cient combustion while the fire.
bricks soak up heat.
Air-On Ratio.
With the use of this new insu-
lating f1rebrick, the air-oil ratio
can be adjusted to peak firing
efficiency and oil is not wasted.
Furnace roar has become par
ticularly Objectionable to owners
of those small homes recently
built without Easements. In these
homes the oil burner is usually
installed in a utility room seper-
ated from the rest of the house.
usually the kitchen, by thin par
tition.
Because of their porous con-
struction, the insulating refrac-
torres of the new type friedrich
minimize the noise of combustion
The noise reduction coeficient is
comparable to that in better grade
accoustical materials.
A combustion chamber of in
sulating fire brick can be easily
assembled and installed in a resi-
dental heating plant without
special knowledge, tools or brick
laying skill. Almost anyone can
install one of these combustion
chambers in his own furnace.
All bricks are factory precut to
proper dimensions for the three
sizes Of combustion chambers
which correspond with the most
common oil burner units in homes
today. Occasionally some fitting
and cutting of the corners of the
fire brick may be required be-
cause of a particular furnace de-
sign but this is easily done with a
rasp or old saw blade.
For information on where TO obtain
product mentioned above. please write to
Room 724. Star Building. inclosine
stamped, self addressed envelope. Please
do not telephone.
Evening star., 1950-08-26

of this year, a IL per cent increase
over the average cost of all new
houses started during the same
months last year.
For apartment units, construc-
tion cost this year averaged $6.400
per unit, a drop of II per cent
from the January-Jul 1949,
average which reflected the large
number of apartments in luxury
elevator-ty structures.
Average construction cost is
affected not only by changes in
the cost of materials and labor
but also by variations in the size
and design of the houses and in
the type of projects started. It
does not represent the cost of a
typical unit.
"Construction costs exclude
sales profit, selling costs, the cost
OF land and site improvements
and all such non-construction
Evening star., 1950-08-26
Lewis
Continued From Page BID

totaled exactly 100 fewer than
the number started the previous
month, BIS figures showed.
The switch away from apart
ment construction started late in
1949, when the Washington FILA
Office began to favor construction
of medium" and "low' rental
projects and generally began to
tighten up on apartment project
approvals.
The decline in the number of
apartments put under construc-
ton was accelerated subsequently
when FHA called a halt on all
apartment financing for the
present.
Due To Shift In Policy.
The shift in FILA policy brought
about a big change in the con-
struction picture here. In the first
seven months of last year. for ex-
ample, apartments accounted for
10 per cent of all new units put
under construction, while in the
corresponding period this year
apartments accounted for only 20
per cent of all new units started
BIS said:
Although single-family houses
predominated in all parts of the
area, as indicated by residential
building permits issued during
January-July, 1850. over half the
one-family houses authorized
were to be built in Montgomery
and Prince Georges Counties. and
one-fifth in Fairfax County. The
majority of the apartment units
were authorized for construction
in the District.
"The construction cost of pri-
vately owned one-family houses,
as reported by builders, averaged
$4,000 for the first seven months
Evening star., 1950-08-26
Shopping Center Set
Near Bus Terminal

The Chevy Chase Land Co. is
planning the development of q
large shopping center on Wiscon-
sin Circle, at Wisconsin avenue
an dthe District line, Thomas J
Fisher & Co., a Washington real
estate firm, announced today.
The center will be across Wis
consln avenue from the new
Woodward & Lothrop store now
under construction. and opposite
the bus and Streetcar terminal.
The firm said there will be
about II stores having about Co.
900 square feet of space. plus
upper floors in part of the de-
velopment to have about 10000
square feet of Office space reached
by automatic elevators. The Of
fees and stores will be air-condi-
toned.
The development will have
about 10000 square feet of Gus
tome, parking space.
Evening star., 1950-08-26
New-Type Fire Brick
On Gadget Counter
Aids Combustion
By D. M. Derwin

Many a proud owner of an
automatic oil burner furnace
would be severely jolted if he dis
covered that his home heating
plant yielded a poor heat return
In terms of oil consumed.
Yet such is the case in many
oil burner furnaces where i'm
properly designed fireboxes or
combustion chambers take con-
siderable quantities of oil which
are never completely fired.
If complete combustion does
not take place, a lot of fuel
passes right through the combus-
ton chamber and on out the
fiue, as all heat for the l-f1red
furnace is generated within the
combustion chamber located in
side the base of the furnace.
Savings Can Be Had.
Substantial savings of annual
costs can often be obtained by
the simple installation of a prop
erly designed combustion cham
ber which assures the efficient
firing of atomized OIL
The most spectacular design
modification of combustion cham
bers has been the recent SUBJ
Stitution of a light insulating re-
fractory for the standard type of
heavy friedrich or dense pre-cast
refractory which was used in
early combustion chambers.
This new-type, insulating, fire.
brick heats up to maximum oper-
ating temperature almost in
stantly. This results in more eff
flcient combustion of fuel oil over
q longer period of the heating
cycle owing to the insulating re-
fractories of this f1rebrick, which
do not absorb heat nearly so fast
as the heavier type.
The immediate heating charac-
teristic of insulating friedrich is
particularly important because of
the Enthusiastically controlled in
termittent cycling of the furnace
while in operation, and it also
has a direct effect on the mixture
of oil and air which can be sprayed
from the nozzle of the oil burner
gun. With the use of a denser
refractory in the combustion
chamber. the efficiency of the air.
oil ratio must be reduced to COM
Evening star., 1950-08-26
Producers Group Plans
.YeurIY Session Sept. u

The annual meeting of the
Producers Council. national Or
ganization of building products
manufacturers, will be neld from
September n to % in New York
City, Charles M. Mortensen, man.
aging director, announced today.
Delegates will hear discussions
on the effects the defense produc-
ton program will have on the Sup
ply and distribution of materials.
Evening star., 1950-08-26

expenses as architectural and en-
gineering fees. They cover only
the cost of labor, materials, and
subcontracted work. and that
part of the builders overhead
and profit chargeable directly to
the construction project"
Evening star., 1950-08-26
CHEVY CHASE
Pinehurst Section
3z56 Chestnut St.

A comfortable, we'll
planned home of white
brick built in lo4l
and in excellent con-
dition. Situated on q
forge lot, it eontoins
center hall Iivino
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-06-29

in them, and children perhaps fall- ing in, too. This problem has been faced with difficulty by St. Anns hospital. which installed wells on their new addition.
 4 Install grills to be knocked out later after the basement is finished at future time and ready for oc- cupancy
 Whatever the move will be, it must be done soon. Dr. Ryan said, as time draws short. On top of this, plan must be made for entrance into the basement from the build ing's interior-not planned on be- fore. because it was assumed the city hall would be next door and a community" entrance could Es made up
 Now that the city hall will rise on lower Seward Street. separate heating plant and the inside en- trance must be figured out. no mat ter what happens to the pillars in the basement.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-06-29
BALLS OF FIRE
 10 ILLUMINATE
 4TH FIREWORKS

About the middle of last August when no one else in Juneau could even tell what month the 1850 4th of July was going to occur, an astute observer could have seen Curly Davis driving his big red truck down the street hauling a couple of huge crates. The ob- server would not have had to have been too astute to notice a wild gleam in Cmly's eye The two crates contained a most hetrogen- eous collection of rims, hubs, spokes, shafts, spindles, hoops and yokes.
 Under the delft touch of Davis and his assistants, this material was converted into what is one of the most impressive and extensive arrays of revolving pieces ever to be assembled for one fireworks ex- hibition. There will be 20 four foot wheels spaced at about 20 foot in- tervals presented in one firing. These are fitted with high speed wheel drivers and exhibit every color of the. rainbow as they fill the night with fire.
 Another feature is a long row of four foot revolving globes which create an optical illusion that must be seen to be appreciatde.
 Both the above features are on the big Monday night show and for Tuesday night, Davis has plan ned "a unique piece which will be lighted at the beginning of the show and which will present var ious types of wheels at irregular intervals without further attention.
 Davis has been assisted in his work by Erling Pearson.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-06-29
JAPANESE MINE, BODY FISHERMAN
 FOUND ON BEACH

CORDOVA, Alaska, June 29-tH- \ Deputy Marshall found a Jap- anese mine and the body of an Oregon fisherman today on the beach at Cape Sucking, 75 miles ioutheast of here.
 The fisherman was identified as Richard Albert Drisner, 24 Papers )n the body indicated his home was at Milwaukie, Ore. Deputy J. s. Marshal Edmonds said the body was just few hundred yards from the hulk of a fishing boat wrecked May 24 with Drisner ab- oard.
 Discovery of the mine led local fishermen to theorize that another such may have been responsible for the mysterious disappearance of the fishing boat Midget, a Se- attle craft lost a month ago in the same area with four men ab- oard.
 Edmonds said. the mine, painted red and weighing about 500 pounds, bore still-legible Japanes charac- ters. It had floated across busy steamer lanes and through an area used by man fishing vessels to reach the beach at Cape Sucking.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-06-29
GET
 WALL0pING,
 15.3 SCORE
Rabbit Ball HurIers Max. ing Records Headed
 for Big Year
(By the Associated Press)


 Rabbit ball or no, the 20-win club for pitchers is headed for a big year.
 Johnny Sain of the Boston Braves, Bob Lemon of Cleveland and Art Houtteman of Detroit hi the 10-mark yesterday And tht season won't be half over until July 9. the All-Star Game break.
 Eight more are one step back Another dozen still have a chance
 Shain knocked the Philadelphia Phillies out of first place in the National League with his 3-l deci sion. spacing eight hits.
 Brooklyn, a 5-3 afternoon winner over New York, slid back into the lead when the Phillies bowed al night.
 Preacher Roe copped his ninth fo. Brooklyn on Gene Hermanski's first homer of the season. Hermanski's clout with a man on in the seventh inning broke a 3-3 tie.
 Chicago massacred the St. Louis Cardinals, 15-3, the Cubs biggest total of the season.
 Stan Re jeck's eighth-innine iouble enabled Pittsburgh to edge Cipcinnati, 6-5.
 Talented young Houtteman, De- troit's fine 22-year- rignthander actually was the first major leaguer 0 win his tenth. He did it in the afternoon, whipping Chicago, 6-2. Both Sain and Lemon joined him at night.
 Everything happens to the St, Louis Brownies. Now Cleveland has run up a whopping l8-2 score against them, scoring II runs in he seventh inning That made it easy for Lemon to riGe home for win No. 10.
 The Boston Red Sox won their sixth straight under the direction )f Manager Steve O'NeilI, drubbing Philadelphia, 6-2. Ted Williams hit lis 23rd homer, Vern Stephens his l7th and Dom DiMaggio his third n the attack on Lou Brissie.
 Allie Reynolds cut down Wash ington with three hits as the Tanks won a 5-1 game from rookie Al Sima.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-06-29
ONLY ONE SAMPSON l ON LIBRARY BOARD AS PLANS REVIEWED

The 24 concrete pillars planned to hold up the Juneau Memorial Library - drawn up by architects when steel was short-are posing a problem to the three library board members.
 And only one of the three - B. Frank Heintzleman, regional for ester - is willing to take on the role of Samson and move them of the buildings plans.
 The other two-B. D. Stewart, re- tired commissioner of mines. and Dr. James c. Ryan, commissioner of education-want to leave the plans as they are, pillars and all, in order to get construction started as soon as possible.
 When the plans were shown to John Argetsinger, head of the Alaska Public Works agency. he ob- jected that the pillars would knock out desirable space in the base ment which could be used in the future for meeting rooms and other purposes. The pillars as planned stand eight feet apart.
 The buildings plans were drawn up in l947, and the basement had no supporting steel girders, because there wasn't any steel to be had. So the pillars were substituted, and there the plans lay until a few months ago when the drive to get funds to erect the building was completed.
 To revise plans now to knock out the pillars and put in steel beams would take three weeks, according to Argetsinger. But pr. Ryan says that will stretch to six weeks, which means construction wouldn't start until mid-August, and then only a few months of building time remain
 And while Stewart and Ryan have Heintzleman outvoted, they hesitate to say anything definitely because the board has always made it's plans unanimously and doesn't want to stop now.
 Dr. Ryan explained that if he and Stewart go along with the Sam son plan, four ways of doing the job present themselves:
 1. Make the basement windowless meaning it would be good for storage only. Windowless rooms are good for occupancy only if air con- ditioning is used, and that's out ot the question.
 9. Dig down three feet to allow for windows. This will mean the entrance will be II feet from the street, which will make for awk- WardneSs.
 3. Install window wells. This idea would leave the ground level as it. but would allow full windows. But this involves the problem of junk falling into the wells, snow piling
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-06-29
Big Tennis
 pIay5tarts
 In England

WIMBLEDON, England, June 29 -R-The polite introductions be- ing over, the all-England lawn tennis championships enter the slugging stage today with the third round matches of the mems singles play.
 The seven American seeded play CTS all are due for action along with top-seeded Frank Sedgman, the Australian pre-tournament fav- orite.
 Sedgman's stock has been drifting down steadily, however, since he turned up the first day with a strained wrist, and he faces trouble in the person of Belgium's Philippe Washer, who is one of the most improved European players of the season.
 If Sedgman advances, he may come to grips with his first Amer ican opponent, Fred Kovaleski of (ItlOAl, NilO SllOult tOpl)it lNidi hath of India in today's round.
 Billy Talbert, the New Yorker gho is rapidly making friends and influencing wagers on his chances of copping the cup, tangles with 5weden's vastly improved Torsten Johansson in one of the top match es of the day.
 Another humdinger is the meet ng between Irv Dorman of New York and Australia's Adrian Quist.
 Budge Patty. the expatriate from Los Angeles now living in Paris; Vic Seixas of Philadelphia, Gard nar Muiloy of Oiami, Fla, and Art Larsen of San Leandor, Calf, all should have little difficulty in get ing past their third-round foes.
 The women, having cleaned up their second round play, have a day off from singles competition.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-06-29
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BANNERS
 SHUT OUT
 SAN DIEGO
(By the Associated Press)

(By the ASSOclaJeu TIeSSl
 The Oakland Oaks are on fire in the Pacific Coast League and Holly wood needs a fireman. Maybe it'll be Frank Kelleher, who is being honored by the fans tonight.
 The Stars find the Pacific Coast league lead they've held since June l burned away to two games by the red-hot Oaks, who whipped the Stars 8-7 in 10 innings last night for their second in row at Gill more Field and their seventh straight victory.
 Worse still, for 1869 groaning fans, Kelleher struck out with a man on base to end the ninth in- ming in a 7-7 tie. But in the Oakland half of the ninth Kelleher nailed Roy Zimmerman, trying to score from second on a single, at the plate with an heroic throw from center.
 Elsewhere in the league, Seattle shut out San Diego, 80, on Jim Wilson's three hit pitching; Los An geles edged San Francisco 8-7 and Sacramento trimmed Portland 5-4.
 San Francisco and Los Angeles engaged in a swat fest. The Seals getting l3 and the Angels, IF. Each side scored five times in the sixth.
 Sacramento took 3-l lead over Portland in the second on three walks, Jim Steiner's single and an error, and stayed ahead.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-06-29

terday It was onree-pound beauty which measured 9 inches from nose to tail.
 Russell Richardson took over sec- ond place in the Dolly Warden di- vision with fish l8 and one-half inches long. Rudy Maier is in third spot after entering l6 and one half inch fish.
 R. Ciari, who topped the list until yesterday, now holds down fourth place with his 15-inch entry.
 Meanwhile. in the cutthroat di- vision Dr. c. E Albrecht is still tops. with Jerry Beason second and Glen J. Kirkham third
 The derby does not end until August IS. All fish entered must be caught with rod and reel in the fresh waters of Southeast Alaska, according to Pete Warner, head ot the derby committee. No charge is made for entering the contest, and anglers may enter as many fish as they wish
 Derby officials warned. however, that anglers should get their new licenses, since 1949-50 licenses be- cone outdated Saturday.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-06-29
LEADERS IN B. B.

Leaders in the major league base oall games are:
 National League
 Batting Robinson, Brooklyn, 368; Musial, St. Louis, 1858.
 Runs Batted In = Kiner, Pitts burgh, 54; Sauer, Chicago, 53 Home Runs - Kiner, Pittsburgh, IS; Campanella, Brooklyn, Is. Pitching Miller, Philadelphia, 60, 1000 Lade, Chicago, Al, 300.
 American League
 Batting Kell, Detroit, 376; Dolby, Cleveland, .364
 Runs Batted In - Williams, Bos- ton, "A; Stephens, Boston, II. Home Runs Williams, Boston, 23; Rosen, Cleveland, 20.
 Pitching = McDermott, Boston, 5-1, .833; Gray, Detroit, 9-2, .818. FIREWORKS on sale at Douglas Service Store, beginning July 1st. Complete Assortment. 42-2t
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-06-29
GAME TONIGHT

The last scheduled game Of the first half of the Gastineau Channel Baseball league is scheduled tonight starting at 6:30 o'clock between the Coast Guard and Elks. A win by the Coast Guard will result in a first half tie for first place. Probable starting pitcher for the Elks is Palmer, with Krause starting for the Coast Guard.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-06-29
B. B. SEARS

Stars of major league baseball games yesterday are:
 Batting, Roy Smalley, Cubs - hit for cycle with single, double, triple and homer in Chicago's 14-3 rout of St. Louis.
 Pitching, Allie Reynolds, Yankees stopped Washington with three hits, 5-l.