The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-01-19

''tAN NliV lIccS Ol JIle niilSlutS iidNS turned the whole place into pie ture card winter scene.
 The Rev. George Belts, pastor of the Presbyter an Church here, paid Juneau a brief visit, going in on the plane Tuesday and return ing Thursday.
 MT and Mrs. Wes lieuRance paid Juneau a visit during the holidays, gong in on Tuesday and returning Thursday. MT. and Mrs. lieuRance are both on the teaching staff of the school here.
 After days of planning on a pleasant holiday trip up the bay with her husband, Bob Baxter, who has his trap lines there. Mrs. Bax- ter found that Mother Nature had taken a hand to make the trip just as rugged as possible. First, shortly after they reached the scene of action, the weather turned bitterly cold Then as Mother Nature stir red the air violently, the wind came up pitching and tossing the boat constantly. In the night, the skift broke away and was buried under he deep fall of snow. On which ever leach it was the skiff was stranded and with the winds rising steadily, the next morning they were unable to even search for the Skiff. Finally, they returned home so find things well frozen during their absence. Mrs. Baxter is teacher in the school in Hoonah and as soon as school had opened and the holidays were over, the winds calmed down and the weather turned off, mild.
 Friday, at midnight, the lovely voices of the Russian Church Choir rang out on the clear wintry air with their Christmas Carols. Fhe' calls of Merry Christmas were heard as they caroled in the down town area while they ushered in their Christmas holidays. The McKinnon Brothers came over from Hoonah Island aboard their boat on a shopping and visit Ing trip.
 James Grant left Thursday by plane for Juneau, to be with his son Robert, who is to undergo a
 major operation. Hoonah friends are hoping for your sons speedy
 ecovery.
 We have been told the dramatic story, today, of a young woman In our community, who recently took up the art of snow shoveling. She really got up in the world, in fact, she got up to the top-of their two story store building and was yigorously shoveling the snow from it's roof. She was having splendid success in her new art. While strug- gling valiantly under the weight of an especially huge block of snow which she succeeded in balancing on her shovel she gave mighty leave and threw it over the edge of the building to the ground He- low. A man passing by received he entire block on his head and was nearly flattened out by the impact. Though she protests it was truly an acident, no one will con- s.der giving her the benefit of the doubt.
 Wes Walker left by plane Satur- day for Excursion Inlet after a shopping visit here in Hoonah.
 Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore, as he shivered and shook and luddled against the stove pipe of ] boat last week. It seems that the Raven found delightful feast in a skiff, but the skiff had a lot of water in the bottom of it with skim of ice over the top. The Raven didn't use enough caution and somehow he became thoroughly soaked with water which froze to lis feathers. The side next to the stove pipe would thaw and drip and the side away from the heat would ice down. Last time he was, seen he had given up trying to get warm on the boat and was huddled ay the side of the cement chimney on one of the houses, squawking to himself in tones and squawks that 'ounded to the passerbys as
 Never more Never more" Quoth the Raven, NEVER MORE
 Mrs. Mary Johnson left Tues- day for Juneau and returned to L