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is one of the largest and finest in
America"
Donated Forestry Building
He was fond of hunting, fishing
and horses, and established large
hunting preserve and stock-farm
near Sequim in Clallam County.
When Alfred Anderson died in
1914, Agnes Healy Anderson gave
this establishment to the State of
Washington for a game refuge.
She also donated funds to build
a modern forestry building = AL
fred H. Anderson Hall at the
University of Washington, and
made scores of similar unselfish
gifts. Her famous coach, complete
with uniformed driver and foot
man, was a notable sight on Sc
attic streets long after all other
horse-drawn vehicles had vanish
ed. In spite of her generosity, the
Anderson estate totalled almost
twelve million dollars at the time
of her death.
From California to the Boring
Sea, but especially in Puget Sound
waters, fifty sturdy tugs and ov-
er a hundred barges and scOws,
all bearing the name "FOss,"
transport lumber, logs, oil, gravel
and just about everything else that
can be lowed. That fleet of work.
ing boats, the largest i'm the north
west, started in Tacoma over six
ty years ago as a five-dOllar row.
boat backed by the ability and de-
termination of Andrew and Thea
FOss.
Andrew, born in FosSen, Nor
way, in 1855, went to sea at sew
enteen and came to America in
his early twenties. In 1881 Thea
Berg came from Norway to be his
bride. After working at carpentry
in st. Paul and Minneapolis, An
drew migrated to Tacoma where
he arrived in 1888 with his tool
chest and two dollars in cash.
Saved Nickels For ROwbOat
After getting established An
drew sent for his family. The best
home they could afford was a wa
terfront shack, but that didn't
bother Thea Foss. While her hus-
band was away on house-build.
ing job. she bought a rowboat with
five dollars she had saved in nick
els and dimes, then took in other
small boats for moorage and up
keep and started a boat rental
business.
Andrew salvaged floating lum-
Der from which he built more row.
boats. He split spruce logs from
which he carved light, strong oars.
The Foss boys: Arthur, Wedell and
Henry, ferried passengers to ships
and sold fresh fruit and vegetables
to deep-sea sailing vessels in Ia
coma harbor. Thea Foss, with the
help of her daughter Lillian, paint
ed the boats green and white,
color combination that is still re-
tanned by the Foss Fleet.
From 2 Horsepower To 100
The first Foss power boat, pur-
chased in 1895 for four hundred
dollars, was a 21-foot, 2-horsepow-
er naptha launch, the HOPE. The
family used her to ferry supplies
and passengers to ships. and to
tow logs, scows and becalmed
sailboats. The HOPE contrasts
sharply with the ARTHUR FOSS,
built forty-four years later
120-foot seagoing tug with 700
horsepower, a 1O,000-mile cruising
radius, automatic refrigeration,
hot-water heat, shower baths, and
oil-burning ranges in an ultra-mod-
ern galley.
Sons Took Over
BY hard work and economy the
Foss family added five more small
power boats to their ferry and
towing fleet, which proved a life
saver when bicycles became popu-
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ness on small craft for pleasure
purposes. From his own design
Andrew built the LILLIAN D.
FOSS, now the oldest boat in the
fleet, as a combination tug and
passenger boat. In the summer
she made pleasure cruises and in
the winter she worked as a tow
boat.
The boys grew up to take over
the hard work and to continue
building up the fleet. Offices and
docks were established in Seattle
and Port Angeles, and later in
Bellingham, Everett and Anacort-
es. The motto, Always Ready"
devised by their mother, was kept
on the life-ring trademark of the
Foss Launch & Tug Company.
Biggest Funeral In Tacoma
Thea Foss passed away in 1927,
and more friends attended. her
services than had ever before
gathered to honor any Tacoma
citizen. Andrew Foss remained to
counsel his sons until 1887, and
at his earnest request the Foss
boys conducted his last rites.
Today Henry manages the Ia
coma establishment, while Arth-
ur and Wedell handle the huge
Seattle business, including docks,
machine shop, repair yard and a
large and very busy office. Over
four hundred people are employed
by Foss Launch & Tug Company.
The Foss boys have served as
presidents of civic clubs, as direct
ors of national banks, and in the
Senate of Washington State. Their
mother has been immortalized in
print and film as the original hero
inc of the famous "Tugboat An
ME" stories.
Among the many Danes that
have helped to build Americas
western empire, and particularly
the State of Washington. Peter
Larson is outstanding. His name
Is little known because of his ex-
treme mOdesty and his aversion to
publicity.
In 1858, before Peter Larson was
eighteen years old, he came to the
United States from his birthplace
on the island of Fyen, almost pen
niless, with no friends in the new
world, and with no knowledge of
the language. During eight years
of hard manual labor in the south
and middle west he saved enough
to buy six-mule freighting out
fit in the Black Hills of South
Dakota.
Started With Mules
When the Northern Pacific Rail-
way Company started westward
construction through the Dakotas,
Peter used his mules on small
grading contracts. He followed
the railroad through Montana,
handling larger and larger con-
tracts until he became a prime
contractor for the Northern Pac-
ific. and according to local reports
owned a whole county full of
mules"
Larson was tall-six feet, two
inches-muscular and well-propor-
TONED. He had the most magnif-
icent physique l ever saw" de-
clared DR.. William Treacy of He
lena. He also had plenty of self
confidence but never became a
braggart, even after he had ac-
quired wealth and enormous bust
ness interests.
Employed $4,000 Men
Among his scores of large rail-
road contracts were the building
of the western end of the Great
Northern; the Missouri, Yellow
stone and Montana divisions of the
Northern Pacific, including many
branch lines: the Washington Gen.
trail, Spokane Northern, and much
of the Canadian Pacific and Grand
Trunk Pacific railroads in Canada.
lg on bolstering the fight against
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heritage OF Freedom pledge to uphodfor myself and all
mankind.
We Can't Win By Bullets Alone
Many political speeches programs
the and the that stands this the
informal talk by Henry Jackson
interesting
defeat likewise pognany
Communism can't be stopped by bullets alone"
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political uheavathe first prerequisite
play widely different roles in their
relations with
involves Many including
politicians seemingly premise upon
base struggle with international least they
description
the But only
without graphing with the problems
for trouble we are going experience many unnecessary and I'M
becoming setbacks
questions:
Why of
battle against in Greece, and
Korea while single nfanman
itself the squirting of the conflicts? Why other peoples
he fighting
peoples
than the hasn't Western
fields endeavor? United statistics
bear this and they that dls
shell compared to promised glory outside varnsh
What makes attractive
despite its conspicuous shortcomings?
S appeal is
bungngs shortcomings and
do little about putting these
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democracy pseudo
challenge today
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Scandinavian Pioneers OF Industry In Washington

Continued from Page y
is one of the largest and finest II
America"
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We Can't Win By Bullets Alone

Many political Scandinavian
the the
informal talk by Congressman Henry Jackson the Swedish
Festival Vasa Park July The interesting
then that well Russia mitariy
could defeat likewise poignantly,
Communism can't be stopped by bullets alone"
Evening star., 1951-05-26
Realtors Will Hold
Outing June Z al
Annapolis Roads

The 14th annual stag outing of
the Washington Real Estate Board
will be held at the Annapolis
Roads Club, Annapolis Roads, Md,
Tuesday, June IL, J. Garrett Belt
zell, president of the organiza-
ltion, said today.
Entertainment is being arranged
by Program Committee Chairman
w. Laird Dunlop, 3rd. Among the
guests will be District and Federal
Officials and local businessmen.
An attendance of approximately
500 is expected. +
Races and other sporting events
are scheduled during the day, with
a golf tournament which tees off
lat 10 am. Arrangements for the
Igolf tourney are being handled by
H L. BouScaren.
Special events will be handled
lby Carlton U. Trexler. Novelty
entertainment features are being
developed by Lloyd r. Coates. j.
Lee Donnelly is chairman of the
dinner committee.
Other committee members are:
Edward T. Offutt, jr., Edward r..
Carr, Bernard E. Cooper. J. Ver-
mon Thomas, Frank Paroni, STAN
ton Kolb, Charles E. Burr, jr.,
Leo M. Bernstein, Edward L. Stro-
lhecker, Thomas H. Schaffert,
William N. Cafritz and J. Hawley
Smith.
Evening star., 1951-05-26
Five Hours Work Can Dress Up Window Area
By GIudys Miller
Seerefory. New York Chapter, American
Institute OF Decorators


Institute OF Decorators
Any homemaker who can sew
a straight seam on sewing ma
chine and has a fairly handy
hand with a hammer can make
five hours of work change the
entire appearance. of her room.
How?
BY making a focal beauty
mark of her windows. Here's
the hour-by-hour work schedule
=, to follow:
l. Where two or three windows
are huddled not more than 8
inches apart, unity the set with
one Venetian blind in any of the
new decorator colors to match
either walls or the rugs (since
blinds have as long a lifeline as
these two rather stationary
itemS).
Order blind to cover the entire
outer frame of the window. No
special hardware is needed and
the two steps of direction for
putting up the Venetian blind,
which will come with your order,
are amazingly easy to follow in
less than 10 minutes.
Plyw0od Base.
Ordinary plywood is the base
OF the cornice. Let the board ex-
tend across the entire width of
the window unit and foot, 6
inches out on either side. 1t is on
these one-and-one-half foot ex-
panses that you will later hang
your draperies.
Put this board into place by
merely mailing four strong blocks
Of wood as support into the top
OF the molding. Once the four
blocks are secure, nail the length
Of plywood to them.
2. Use another board, preferably
o to IL inches deep, to stretch
across and beyond the radiator,
but only as wide as the actual
window unit. Make a small cut out
for the radiator cap. This creates
a window shelf on the top of un-
slightly radiators.
To disguise the front of it, you
will find at any hardware store,
machine guarding wire. Carpet
tacks suffice to apply it against
the top board on the radiator.
Give it coat of paint the same
color as the Venetian blind. Either
oil or water paint will adhere and
one coat is sufficient.
3. Now. to sew the draperies.
Measure for length from the bot
tom Of the cornice board to the
floor; add 4 inches for hem and l
inch for that top area which,
when completed. will be tack
pressed to the back of the cornice.
Simply turn back the selvage
edge Of the drapery and sew a
straight seam; no lining against
sun-fading is needed, since the
draperies will be hanging against
Evening star., 1951-05-26

overcast, press the material and
begin your finishing touch to the
window.
Stretch 1t faulty.
5. Tack-press the cornice around
the corner and into the back OF
the plywood cornice. Stretch il
faulty across the entire front OF
the board and then around the op-
poSite corner, again tacking ii
into place.
For those homemakers who may
have a large floor area on which
to operate, it may be easier to
keep your cornice board right on
the floor. In this case, your first
step would be to cover the board
first with the strip of cornice fab
ric.
Sew the draperies and tack them
into place. Then mount the entire
Evening star., 1951-05-26

the wall. Sew the 4-inch hem at
the bottom and turn over the
1-inch hem at the top, sewing
down / inch to allow for a length
of cord to be drawn through for
gathering the drapery.
Press all hens. Hang the
draperies from the back of the J.
foot, ,6-inch expanse Of cornice
board allowed on either side of
your window.
4. For the cornice you will need
a 7-inch strip of fabric, long
enough to cover the entire width
of the board. Cut your fabric 13
inches deep to allow for hem,
being careful to match your de-
sign together properly If it's an
Iup-and-down and, therefore
necessarily "pieced" strip.
Once the 3-inch hens are hand
Evening star., 1951-05-26

Ideas for stretching the home
furnishing budgets are given in
Gladys Miller's booklet No. 402,
entitled Budget Stretchers." To
obtain a copy, send 10 cents and
a 3-cent stamp to her, P. o. Box
SO. Times Square Station, New
York 18, New York.
Released by Consolidated News
Features, Inc.
Evening star., 1951-05-26

unit onto the wooden support
blocks of your moulding.
Materials needed: Two 4-inct
deep plywood boards for cornice
and one nine-to 12-inch board fol-
radiator. hammer, Venetian blind
matching paint, one pint; length
of inexpensive machine guarding
wire. sewing machine and drapery
fabric.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1951-11-02
BRITISH

,Continued Frorn Page Ones
AldfIdse Of london. whose raid
Ing experience extends back ~
years IN The Royal Marines.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1951-11-02
Retail Merchants
To Hold Meeting

The Key West Retail Mer-
chants Association will hold its
regular meeting Monday at $3.50
pm. at the Chamber of Com
merce rooms.
All members and other mer-
chants in the retail field on Du-
val st. and immediate vicinity
are urgently requested to attend
this meeting.
Saturday, November 3rd. will
be the first Saturday the new
opening and closing hours of 8
am. to 8 pm. will be observed
by all Retail merchants on Duval
St. and vicinity.
Joe Pearlman, president OF the
association earnestly requests
all merchants to observe these
hours which were voted on by
the association at its last meet
ing.
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$1,000 NEEDED TO
BUILD wICKERS'
STADIUM ROOF

A drive to Raise The Roof on
Wicker's Stadium will officially
get underway Monday.
The campaign, with an objective
of 5000, is being spanked by the
Island City Baseball League and
win result, it is planned, to have
the grandstand at the ball park
under shelter on or before Deem
Der 1.
League Officials met yesterday
with City Manager Dave King who
gave permission to start the drive
and who told the campaign COM
mittee that the city would make
UP the deficit between the 5000
raised by the Island City league
and the cost of the structure, es-
timated at close to $1,000.
Initial meeting Of the commit
tee took place yesterday in the
chambers of Justice of the Peace
Roy Hamlin.
Officers elected we're; Roy Ham
lin, president, and Joe Russell, Sc
cretary-treasurer. The executive
committee includes Benny Fer
nandez, operator of Benny'S Cafe
terra and owner of the Island City
League entry which bears his
name and Gerald Abreu. 1t is be-
lieved City Commissioner Louis
Carbonell would soon become a
member of the committee in addi-
ton to Fernandez and Abreu.
Yesterdays meeting was barely
underway when $500 was donated
BY the committe itself. The sum
came from Benny Fernandez, 500,
Roy Hamlin, $50, and the Bermuda
Market, $50.
The committee stated that con-
tributions may be sent, or deliver
ed to Joe Russell, in care of Ben
ny,s Cafeteria, 905 Simonton st.
Russell announced, Wen accept
everything from a penny from the
piggy bank to your entire bank
roll"
Need for covered grandstand
was stressed by Fernandez who
said: "It's our business as bust
ness men to see that the younger
element is kept healthy and busy
at health-g giving sports.
II a covered stadium will in
crease the number of fans coming
to the stadium to encourage our
youngsters, then it is our duty to
see that the stadium is cover
ed.
The committee will ask the City
Commission at next Tuesdays
meeting to ask for bids. Plans and
specifications are already being
drawn up by Joe Watkins of the
Bennett construction company.
Bids are returnable on the 18th
but it is believed that the commit
tee will ask the city commission to
accept the bid in order that the
erecting of the roof can get under
way in time for completion this
month.
The structure viii probably be
Of pipe frame. superstructure with
felt paper and wood sheeting
roof to make it fireproof.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1951-11-02
|Liaison Com. Is
Named Again For
Trllman's Visit

To serve as a liaison committee
to intercede between the COM
munity and President Truman's
party. when the Chief Executive
arrives next week, will be Cham
Der of Commerce president, Ed
win F. Trevor, william M. Arm
old. Everette Russell, Earl r.
Adams, Paul J. Sher and Albert
Mills.
This same group of men has
functioning for several years and
will make plans for observing this
years visit of the Washington
party.
A highlight each year is the
Press banquet that has been ar
ranged by the committee in the
past, for correspondents attached
to the Presidential party.
All Mills, chairman of the COM
mittee last year, said that public
relations between the city and the
press party have always been of
the best. Key West has received
many publicity breaks" as re-
suit of this close cooperation.
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CONTINUED From Page Ones
AldfIdse Of London. whose raid
Ing experience extends back ~
years IN she Royal Marines.
When the raids are over the
Commanders rest up within easy
artillery range of Red batteries and
wait to go again.
There they train and rest and
hubble around stoves made Of oil
drums and old mortar shell cases.
The SHOWS already brighten the
Korean peaks to the west.
The Communists have diverted
troops from the front to guard the
area raided periodically by the
British.
we've forced them to do that, !"
Alridge said. "but it has made 1t
more difficult for us. =
The Commanders also have
primed Red fears of possible AL
lied amphibious landings on either
coast.
II Is believed the Reds have
been working feyerishly on their
coastal defenses recently, making
the shores around Wonsan into an
oriental Normandy Revolutionary
combed with trenches and gun en-
placements.
To penetrate the Communist
screen, the Commanders move in
steathily with their highest trained
scouts leading the way.
The infantry-trained scouts also
are experts in underwater demo-
lition and parachute jumps.
Even so, they sometimes 60 as
tray in the rugged Korean terrain.
Sergeant Major Roy Dodds of Ges-
port. England, along with six OF his
men. once made fruitless patrol
because they were confused by
the deceptive Korean hills.
IL was bit of a bad show for
a while" Dodds recalled. But the
trained Commanders came out in.
tact.
The other scout in Dodds' troop
is Sergeant Harry Langton Of
Liverpool, England, former mer-
chant seaman with proud black
handlebsr moustache.
Langton's training in the mer.
chant marine and as civilian
shipyard worker matches the
background of many of the Com
maiadoes. Most of them are as
much at home on the ocean as on
dry land.
Many of them have been more
than year in Korea. They are
battleseasoned from the bitter cold
fighting at the Changiin reservoir
last winter.
But We're still ready for a bit
of a skylark. = one said.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1951-11-02
Armistice Day
Services Set

1t. (jg) Edward Riley. Chap
lain Corps, US. Navy. Naval Air
Station, Boca Chica, will deliver
the Armistice Memorial Address
at the Memorial Services sched-
uled for Sunoay, November 18th
Bayview Park at 400 p. m.
All veterans organizations in
the city have been invited by
the Arthur Sawey Post %, Am
erican Legion to participate.
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place where they tie up. King
said that where boat people live
on the boat they must have a
chemical toilet.
The policeman is standing
guard at the Blight from 4:30 to
after 6 pm. daily to insure COM
pliance with these rules, King
said.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1951-11-02
NO DUMPING IN
CONTINUED from PAGE Ona,

NO"HtIIiLtu from Page One1
doesn't comply with the rules
and regulations will have his
city permit cancelled to use Gar
rison Blight"
The other rules that King is
stringently enforcing are that
boat owners must keep sidewalks
near their boats clean, that they
must carry liability insurance to
protect the city, which also COW
ers the sidewalks in front of the
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1951-11-02

believed to be $4,000, it was re-
vealed at County Clerks office
this morning.
The property was purchased by
Guido Frova II, and his wife Ar
lene X. Frova, of Allentown, Pa.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1951-11-02
Bulletin

Msnrse county road projects, IS
Of them, are the subject for con"
tractors bids at Tampa today, &C.
eordins TO up in wire just re-
selved.
The rexd work includes roads on
Big Pine Key, Boot Key, and re-
working base and sUrfseins Road
s.s3s srem read "A to road Five.
the wire states.
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fcontinueo nom Page one)

lIOntInued TONI Pdge OlieJ
Field by Navy air and returned to
Key West Wednesday. He was ac-
companied by Commander r. W..
Jackson, Executive Officer of the
Naval Air Station here, who re-
presented Naval air activities in
the Key West area.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1951-11-02
$4,000 Property
Sold On Keys

Irene r. Turner and William
Turner, her husband, have sold
property in Key Largo for sum
Evening star., 1951-03-30

They heard how 1t was found
that the Savannah River had
fewer minerals subject to radio
activity than any sizeable stream
that could be found.
They also heard a story that
President Truman had asked. DO
you have to knock out this little
town?" when shown the map of
the site selected for the project.
They heard that he was told
that the projects border lines on
the map had been changed again
and again in efforts to leave Ellen
ton out; that it would be necessary
to run huge water mains through
the town site to reach the river
to carry the Savannah River water
to the plant and back. They heard
the President was told that 1t
would be a sabotage hazard to
leave an open town existing above
those pipes. Any break in those
mains would shut the whole plant
down Immediately. They could
understand that.
The people of Ellenton f1ocked
to their churches on the following
Sunday. The little minister of
the Baptist Church, the Rev. Rob-
Evening star., 1951-03-30
Catholic Council
Will Meet Tomorrow

The National Council of Cath
olic Men will open a two-day
meeting at 10 am. tomorrow in
National Catholic Welfare Con-
ference headquarters, 1912 Massa-
chusetts avenue NV.
A mass at 8 am. in st.
Matthews Cathedral will precede
opening of the organizations 31st
annual meeting.
Delegates to the gathering will
be welcomed by the Most Rev.
Robert E. Lucey, chairman of the
NCWC Lay Organizations Depart
ment. Richard Pattee, consultant
on international relations to the
NCWC, will give the keynote
address and Stewart Lynch. pres
ident of the National Council of
Catholic Men, will give his report.
Discussions on the council and
the radio, press, screen, social &C
ton and youth will be held to-
morrow afternoon.
The Most Rev. John j. Russell,
Bishop of Charleston, will be one
of the speakers at the dinner at
8 pm. in the Hotel Statler. Bishop
Russell was pastor of st. Patrick's
Church here before being elevated
to the bishopric.
The annual election of direc-
tors for the council will be held
Sunday.