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The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1950-10-25
ship, SHANK AND
SHUTTER CLUB TO
ADD SNOW5K0ES

The Ship, Shank and Shutter
Club will meet Sunday evening at
8 o'clock in the Odd Fellows Hall
to see what about adding snowshoes
for coming winter activities, Dr.
1. ]. Montgomery said today.
At 8:45 club members will show
the best of their slides taken on
various trips sponsored by the club
during the past summer. Plans are
being made to build club album
CT the best slides and to make cop
les available to those who wish
them. The slides showing will fol-
low brief evening worship SER
vice by the Rev. II. E. Boyer, who
was guide on many of summer
hikes.
A social hour with refreshments
will wind up the evening. Members
may bring guests and those who
are unable to attend the service
are urged to be present for the pic
ture showing and social hour No
reservations are necessary.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1950-10-25
BIDS BEING RECEIVED
FOR NATIONAL GUARD
INDOOR RIFLE RANGE

Bids are being received for an
electrical indoor five position LOO
inch rifle range by the acting ad
jutant generals office, Alaska Ma
ticnal Guard, Juneau SUPPORT until
2 O'Clock the afternoon of Novem-
Der 7. The overall measurements OF
the rifle range are to be 80 feet
in width and 100 feet in overall
length with false ceiling.
The sealed triplicate bids must
be addressed to the Departments
Of the Army and Air Force, Nation
al Guard Bureau, Acting U. S. Pro-
perty and Disbursing Officer for
Alaska. In the directive issued oy
the National Guard it is specified
that the sealed bids are for fur
nishing all plant, labor, equip
ment. materials and performing ali
work for the above project. Draw
ings will be part of the contract.
Drawings and Specifications may
he examined or requested by a
bidder with a deposit of $40 per
set to maximum of five sets
with deposits returned with return
of the sets. Late bids will be cen
sidered provided they are received
iefore the award is made and pro-
vided the failure of bids to arrive
en- time was due solely to delay in
mails. The right is reserved to re-
ject any and all bids.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1950-10-25
ELECTION Is HELD
BY NTA; PURPOSES
GIVEN EXPLANATION

The Juneau Classroom Teachers
Association met in regular session
Tuesday in the grade school audi
tor-ium Highlight Of the meeting
was talk by Supt. Sterling Sears,
concerning aims of education. M SIS
Genevieve Mayberry, third grade
teacher, is the new President, and
she was in charge OF the meeting.
TIL new Vice President is Miss
Dolores Mattila, school nurse. Sc
cretary- Treasurer is Miss Harriet
Berg, first grade teacher.
The budget for the year was
presented by Miss Juanita Wilson
member of the financial committee
Miss Wilson is a second grade
teacher. Membership in the JCTA
is made up of all members Of the
Juneau Public Schools teaching and
administrative staff, IS persons
Their annual dues are used 10 take
care of professional and cid
Obligations, as well as social pro-
gram fer the year.
To acquaint new teachers with
aims of the organization, a brief
history of the JCIA was given by
Ralph Wright, seventh grade teach
En-.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1950-10-25
TWO FEATURES
Open TOMORROW
AT 10Th CENTURY

Starting tomorrow the Gross Goth
Century Theatre will return two
epic screen productions that have
made history individually as ire
mendous entertainment spectacles.
Preston Foster, the hero in Last
Days Of Pompeii," is a blacksmith,
gladiator. racketeer. horse thief
slave dealer and human butcher,
but who is repentant and sacrifices
his life for those he loves.
Enacted amid a seething mael-
strom of ancient races and against
a magnificent background, the
temple of Jupiter and the Pom
peiian forum; the arena with it's
nerve tingling gladiatorial combats
with its seats for the wealthy and
its stone benches, tier upon tier,
for the common herd; it's rs foot
tall colossus straddling the fighters
entrance-way; luxurious banquets
amid barbaric splendor contrasted
with the slums of the Roman re-
sort; stampede of wild horses
beautiful dancing girls at a patri-
clans revels, scenes of a touching
episode in Jerusalem and finally the
great climax, the rain of lava on the
classic city and its maddenec
throngs fighting to flee from de-
struction.
Among the wonders witnessed IL
She" the second attraction on the
bill, are perils encountered by or
expedition led by Randolph Scott
Helen Mack and Nigel Bruce, be-
ginning with an encounter with {
savage tribe of Amahaggers, IL
which Bruce is subjected to 6
threat of torture with a white hoi
crucible lowered to envelop his
head.
! There is also a curtain of living
steam through which Helen Gaia
gen in the role of an immortal queen
of rare beauty makes a dramatic
appearance to her visitors from the
civilized world. A saber toothed tiger
is discovered sealed in tomb OF
glacial ice, and an avalanche Of ice
carries animals and humans to de-
struction.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1950-10-25
Mrs. Dyer Honors
WISHING Women
With Luncheon

Mrs. Tom Dyer, wife Of the local
manager of the Standard Oil Com
pany, was hostess at luncheon yes
terday noon III the Iris Room of the
Baranof Hotel to group of STAN
dard Oil agents wives who are here
with their husbands during meet
ing CT agents Of the Territory being
held in Juneau this week.
Wives CT the Standard Oil men
were Mrs. William Erwin Of Seward,
Mrs. Walter Corliss of Cordova, Mrs.
Tommy Meyer of Dutch Harbor and
Mrs. Curtis Bradford Of Juneau
Other guests were Mrs. Ernest
Gruening, Mrs. Anna Mae Murphy,
Mrs. Simon Hellenthal and Mrs.
Wilbur 'Burford.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1950-10-25
TREE FOR ALL" IS
COMEDY FEATURE AT
CAPITOL TONIGHT

Free For All' opens tonight at
the Capitol Theatre and here is
the story:
Chris Parker (Robert Cummings
young Ohio inventor. arrives in
Washington, DC, to patent tablet
which turns water into gasoline.
He stays at a boarding house OPP
Grated by Henry Abbott percy Kill
bride), patent office employee.
Parker falls in love with Abbott's
daughter, Alva (Ann Blyth, Oil
company employee.
Abbott tries to interest the army
and navy in Parker's revolutionary
invention-but to no avail. Oil ty-
coon A. B. Blair Cray Collins) hears
Of the invention which might easily
ruin his vast oil empire and asks for
a demonstration. The secret formula
works perfectly. A tablet is stolen
from Parker by Dr. Thorgelson
(Mikhail Rasumny), scientist for
the Blair oil firm.
When Henry Abbott discovers the
oil company had stolen a tablet, he
tells Parker he is defeated man.
Parker leaves Washington and young
Alva, the latter in the arms of
Roger Abernathy donald Woods
oil company public relations counsel.
When the formula can't be broken
down by the oil company scientists,
the company's head and Alva Alb
bolt pursue inventor Parker in a
company helicopter.
The detected Parker is overtaken
and completes two deals-one with
A. B. Blair for the gasoline formula
and the other with the beautiful
Alva Abbott - a march down the
wedding aisle.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1950-10-25
FROM WEITEKORSE

A. G. Wilkins OF ThiteaorSe is
at the Baranof Hotel.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1950-10-25
Teen AGE CLUB TO
RECEIVE CITATION
BY POST OF WV

Commander Robert M. Suite,
Ta,,u Post $3.50, Veterans of Foreign
Wars, announced today that ci-
tat.on will be presented to the
Teen Age Club tomorrow night on
the Teen Age radio show on KINY
at pm.
The citation is for the wonder
full cooperation that the Teen Age
Club has given to the VFW and It's
auxiliary in the past on the var
ious projects that the Post and the
auxiliary have had 1t will be pre-
sented to Zach Gordon by mem
bcr of the WV during the Teen
Age Twenty Questions" radio show.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1950-10-25
FUNERAL FOR AUSTIN
TO BE HERE THURSDAY

Funeral services for Nelson Will
liam Austin, SO. will be held at
pm. tomorrow in the Carter Chapel
with the Rev. A b. Morgan con-
Quoting the service. Interment will
be in Evergreen Cemetery.
Austin died suddenly with a heart
attack at the Juneau sawmill two
weeks ago. Born in Missouri
Get. "a, 1897 and is survived by his
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Henry c.
Austin of Piggott, Ark, and four
children, Wanda and Mary Austin
of Piggott, Neala Austin Stahl of
Jonesbourough, Ark. and Nelson
william Austin, Jr. CT Memphis.
Tenn.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1950-10-25
YACHT CLUB MEETING

Baranof Hotel, Thursday 8 pm.
641-2t
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1950-10-25
NORTH STAR DUE

The North Star, Alaska Native
Service supply ship. is scheduled to
dock here this afternoon enroute
to Seattle after a supply run to
Point Barrow and other ANS sta
tons. Master of the ship is Capt.
Charles II. Salenjus.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1950-10-25
ELKS ATTENTION

3 ANNUAL ROLL CALL TONIGHT
ct o'clock, entertainment. fried
chicken feed. Visiting Elks welcome.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1950-12-21

in its defense. The chief one is that
mostly the depressing facts thus pre-
scented are true and that nothing short
of the truth will arouse the people,
the Congress and the Administration
to the sort Of action for which this
crisis cries. Failure fully to describe
in detail our military feebleness and
shortcomings, it is claimed, would do
more harm than good. In no other
way than full revelation Of our weak
nesses, shocking as they are, can the
nation be Jared out Of a false sense
of security, prepared for the sacri-
fees that must be made, forced to
grasp the realities and move toward
the bipartisan unity which is so es-
sential.
Coneeding all this. there neverthe-
less is strong feeling that some
limits should be laid down and some
restraints imposed. No one wants to
suppress news and it is important to
give the American people the facts.
But it does seem that some way
might be found to lessen the hysteri-
cal and panicky outpourings in the
press and on the air. A considerable
part Of this emanates from high-level
officials of the Government-incl
ing some in the armed forces-who
for personal reasons ought to be
above feeding this sort Of stuff to
their favorite columnists and com
mentators. They got into this habit
through the long fight to drive Louis
johnson out Of cfTice-and it now
seems to have become ingrained.
Probably the Johnson resignation was
but the continuation of
that kind of campaign, involving COM
plete exposure of our internal disa-
bilities, is certainly not desirable.
1t is easy to identify some Of these
sources" and a growing number Of
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1950-12-21
Restraint Needed


In the war we are fighting in Korea
soday and the immensely vaster and
more terrible one with which we are
threatened, very considerable fac
tor apparently has not been noticed
by the public nor given the attention
it deserves by either our civilian or
military leaders
This is the exceedingly grave mat
ter of censorship in the interests Of
national security. In no other war in
our times has this been so conspicu-
ously absent. In no other period has
it seemed so vitality needed. This is
not the fault Of the newspapers or
the war correspondents. Actually the
only request for censorship has come
from the reporters in the field and
the only unfavorable comment on its
lack has been made by one or two
first-class journalistic military anal
ysts. These are men who yield to no
one in their devotion to the freedom
of the press or in their adherence of
unnecessary censorship. Nevertheless,
they are shocked at the unbridled
license that so widely prevails here
and abroad They feel deeply that
some kind of restraint is essential,
ashamed it does not exist.
Neither the Russian nor the Chin
csc Communists seem to need a spy
system here. All they need is to tune
in their radios and read our news
papers. Nearly every day and nearly
every night these spill all the inside
information there is. They make life
easy for the spy. He no longer has to
practice bribery and corruption. He
no longer has to dig, intrigue and
work. There is nothing he wants to
know he cannot get merely by read
ing the press columns and listening
to our air commentators. All of our
weaknesses are there displayed-de-
tailed and documentcd. Literally, the
covers are pulled off Of everything.
The number of divisions we lack to
have an effective army; the obsolete
character of our weapons; the shoddy
nature of our equipment; the reasons
we cannot under present conditions
hope to win either in Asia or in
western Europe against Russian ag-
gression; the hopelessness of our
position should the Soviets start
something else somewhere else while
the great bulk Of our military power
is locked up in Korea; the futility of
our representatives at the United Ma
tons and the frightful way in which
we are bleeding to death economical
ly-all this and more is being
trumpeted to all the world everyday
That it gives vital information to our
enemy is undeniable; that it spreads
confusion and alarm at home is
equally so.
There are several things to be said
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1950-12-21

Martha Shelter and Rachel Stoltzfus,
Ernest Schrock and Uria Shelter
visited him on Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harold White were
in Cumberland one day last week.
Mrs. Fannie Stutzman spent Sum
day with her aunts, Misses Leah and
Fannie Beachy.
Miss Elinor Schlosnagle, Sam and
Lena Slabach and Mr.. and Mrs. AL
bert Sisk spent Thursday evening
with ms. Rosa Paugh, at Lynndale.
Ernest Shreve, who has been a pa
tient in the Garrett County Memorial
hospital, Oakland, for several weeks
following stroke, was able to re-
turn to his home near Lynndale.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harold White and
children spent an evening with Mr..
ana Mrs. Merlin Gnegy.
The coasters have added skis to
the fun. Miss Ruth Lichty drove a
load of coasters to Lynndale on
Thursday evening.
Ernest Spoerlein and family spent
Sunday in Oakland with his mother,
who remains i'll.
Miss Betty Swartzentruber is home
from Salisbury, Md
Ralph Beeghly has returned to
Seattle, Washington, after a 30-day
furlough with his home folks at
Sunnyside.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1950-12-21
GORTNER

Come to Church on Sunday morn
ing. Pastor Galen Fike preaching.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harold White and
family, Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Swartz-
entruber and daughters were guests
to the White family Christmas get
together, at Mr.. and Mrs. William
DeBerly's, on Sunday.
Woodrow Jackson has gone to
Masontown, W. Va, to be employed
in the mines.
The following were among those
visiting Mr. and Mrs. John Yoder:
Mrs. Noah Beachy, Mrs. Noah
Schrock, Misses Freida Lichty, Lydia
Schrock, Mary Beachy, Mrs. Joni
Miller, Mrs. Norman Schrock, Mr.
and Mrs Noah Lichty, Mr.. and Mrs.
Allen Petersheim and Mrs. Emanuel
Miller.
Mrs. Fannie Stutzman and Mrs.
Albert Sisk were dinner guests of Mr..
and Mrs. Noah Schrock, on Thursday.
Henry Petersheim is i'll. Misses
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1950-12-21

newspaper men are FESTIVE about the
situation. They do not, Of course
want another absurd Office Of In
formation in charge Of another Ell
mer Davis They don't want rigid
restrictions that hamper straight re-
porting. But most Of them would well
come such a censorship as that con-
Quoted in the last war by Mr. Byron
Price, who managed to guard the ma
tional security by securing the CO.
operation of newspaper publishers
and reporters without even making
them feel the weight Of censorship.
In brief, under Mr.. Prices intelligent
direction they developed a sense of
responsibility and censored them
selves Incidentally, most of them
would also welcome some action to
keep the so-called Voice Of America,
which operates under the State De-
partment, from such asininities as its
recent silly boastng of the extra
ordinary effectiveness of its propa-
ganda beamed to Communist China
just before the Chinese Communist
armies poured over the border. That,
of course, was worse than the beam
ing to western Europe of the music
Of New York jazz band as a sample
of American culture and progress.
Put both were stupid.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1950-12-21

A number of our folks enjoyed the
Christmas message in the pageant
devised by Harvey Swartzentruber,
at St. Marks Lutheran church, Oak
land, on Sunday evening.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1950-12-21

Mr.. and Mrs. Ed. Schmidt' Of Sand
Flat, spent Friday evening with Mr.
and Mrs. Cecil Snyder.
y. l.. Swartzentluber was in Eli
colt City, on Friday.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1950-12-21

HOO to 1870.
Ewes, $50 to 1880; Lambs, $3.50
to $500; Horses, soc to $40 per cwt.,
Chickens, Broilers, 1900 to $50;
Hens, 1900 to 1880.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1950-12-21
f. s. EVANS STOCK YARD. INC.
Terra Alta, West Virginia
Market Rennri December IL IQln

Calves, good to choice, 29.1O to 35.;
Common to medium, 1850 to 1925;
Feeder Calves, good, 24.25 TO 29.10;
Medium, 1850 to 20.50.
Hogs, choice weights, 1895 to
2O.30; Sows, 1900 to 1925; Pigs and
shoats, $50 to 1926 per head.
Steers, good, $500 to 2S.9G; Com
mon to medium, 20.75 to 24l0; IIeif-
ers, good, 25.70 to 2740; Common to
medium, 1925 to 23.70; Cows, good,
1850 to 21.10; Common to medium.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1950-12-21
THE GREAT
GAME OF
POLITICS
BY FRANK II. KENT

Copyright by The Baltimore Sun and
reprinted in The Republican by
permission.
Evening star., 1950-09-16
I axe NV Word for 1t

@. Will you please explain what a
"grue" is? It seems to be some sort
of poem or verse.-Mrs. w. E. P.
A. A "grue' is a shocking, four
line Jingle. Robert Louis Steven
son is said to have named them
"grues" from the word gruesome, or
the Scottish noun grue, which
means "a fit of shivering."
Grues usually relate the horrible
fate of Little Willie, or Little BERTHE
A grue that was popular during my
youth is:
Little Willie, in the best of sashes,
Fell in the fire and was burned to
ashes.
Although the room grew cold and
chilly,
Nc one cared to stir up Willie.
A more recent version is:
Little Willie on the track
Didn't hear the engines squeal:
Now the engines coming back,
Scraping Willie off the wheel.
Similar to the grues are short
gruesome anecdotes in prose about
Little Audrey and the Little Moron.
Evening star., 1950-09-16
Greek Sponge Industry.

Greece is troubled about her
sponge industry. Since the war the
United States has been the prin-
cipal buyer The high cost of
production and the interference by
Britain caused the Greek sponge
industry to suffer.
Prehistoric man probably had
more uses for the sponge than we
know of today Roman soldiers
soaked a sponge in vinegar to slack
the thirst of Jesus during the
crucifixion. Glaucus of Anthedon,
mentioned by Homer in the Had
and Odyssey, was sponge diver.
There are many passages in the
Bible mentioning the sponge.
Up until 1841, bath sponges came
from the Mediterranean Sea. After
this, the sponge fields of the Ba-
hama Islands were discovered and
later sponge fishing was carried on
off the coast of Florida. Greek
priests are on hand each year to
bless the sponge fishing of the
feet of boats anchored in Florida
waters.
Fishing for sponges is a highly
specialized job. The diver carries
a curved hook or long V-handled
prong with him to pry the sponge
loose from its moorings.
When brought to the surface, the
live sponge is a Shiny animal the
color of beef liver or a dirty gray,
brown or black. The harvested
sponges are tossed on the deck
Divers tramp the live sponges to
Evening star., 1950-09-16
Natures Children
By LiIIion Cox Athey

kill them, letting them lie in the
sun until the soft parts decay. The
next step is to wash them, string
them on wire to dry out. Finally
the dry sponges are strung on strong
ropes in great clusters. Sponges
come in great variety of shapes
and sizes. Elephant ears an enor-
nous species and the honeycomb
come from the Mediterranean Sea.
the urn, cup, candelabra and other
shapes are from other sponge fields.
Sponges commonly reproduce
themselves by means of buds which
remain attached to the parent and
thus bring about the formation of
large masses. During the autumn
some species have cells that gather
to form a gemmule which separates
from the parent and developes into
a sponge the following spring. Eggs
and spermatozoa may also be formed.
The fertiliZed egg develops into a
young sponge with ella or hairs by
which it goes swimming about to a
new territory. Some settle on the
floor of the sea, others on the back
Of crab, oyster, brittle star or such
foundation. The burden bearer be-
comes so rooted over 1t is unable
to forage for food. Finally it starves
to death.
Sponges are too slippery, smelly
and unattractive for neighbors to
sample. Fishes do seek shelter
among them.
Sponge fishing in Greece repre-
sents about 20 per cent of the fishing
industry or SO million out of the
Is million fishing income.
Evening star., 1950-09-16
By Frank Colby Word Come

Little Audrey stories have been
passe for some time: the Little
Moron stories are still more or less
current.
A forerunner of the grueS was the
once very famous limerick popu-
larized by Edward Lear in his Book
of Nonsense Q846). Limericks are
still to be seen occasionally in news
papers and magazines. Many of q
ribald nature circulate privately.
The late Woodrow Wilson is said
to have been a collector of linn
ericks. His favorite was written
by Anthony Euwer:
AS beauty I'm not great star.
Others are handsomer far;
But my FACET don't mind it
Because I'm behind it;
It's the folks out in front that I
jar.
I remember especially well a linn
erick that was current during my
boyhood:
There was young gal from Paw
tucket
Had a hustle as big as a bucket.
Evening star., 1950-09-16
Library Appointments
Sought in Bethesda

Civic and community associa-
tions in Bethesda have been
asked to name delegates and al
ternates to the Bethesda Public
Library Advisory Council.
In a letter sent to more than
10 organizations. Mrs. Elwyn j
Rowell, secretary of the library's
Board of Trustees, asked that the
appointments be made by Oc-
tober /.
The annual organization meet
ing of the Advisory Council has
been set tentatively for October
10. One of the first tasks of the
council will be to advise the board
on whether citizens groups in the
area favor joining the newly
created County Library System.
Mrs. j. w. Mohler. board presi-
dent, said that the boards goal
is to have "all geographical areas
of the Bethesda Library Tax Dis
trict represented on the Advisory
Council"
Any community association
which may not receive a letter
from the board has been asked
to write or call Mrs. Mohler.