The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-05-16

munity Hospital. The baby was named Elliott Phillip. MT. Johnson is employed by Columbia Lumber Company.
 A first child, Shirley Mae, weigh ng seven pounds fourteen ounces, was born to MT. and Mrs Ole Taug, IT., at SJ-Community Hospital Thursday evening. MT. Taug is en- ! ployed by ANS on the Island. Miss Verna Huge, former popular ! public health nurse here, has an- nounced her engagement to Eric Graf, German language professor at the university in Cleveland, Ohio. Marriage date June g. Mrs. Vera Forester was married to Mel Race last Saturday evening 1t the Al Harrison home in the Coliseum Apartments. Mrs. Sam Forum and John McRoberts at tended the couple during the cere- mony which was performed by the Rev. Murlin Day.
 A wedding reception followed the ceremony and the. party then at tended the. dance at the Moose Club. The couple have taken an apartment at the Coliseum Apart ments. MT. Race left Tuesday for Seattle to bring the cannery ten der Shamrock north. He will skip per the Shamrock during the can- nery season.
 Beta Sigma Phi Sorority new of- licers officiated for their first meeting Tuesday. Appointive off cers and committees were announ- ced. Included were Mrs. William Hollywood, historian; Mrs. Pete Crews, parliamentarian; Mrs. Jack iGottschalk, sergeant-at-a Soc ial chairman, Louise Davis, with Mrs. Ben Forbes. Mrs. Clyde May cock, Mrs Jack Schaeffer and Mary Mcclure; Ways and Means chairman, Mrs. William Wyres, with Mrs Jay Coon and Miss Ava Blake; Program, Mrs. H. H. Smith and Arlene Dolenc; Sunshine, Mrs.
 George Rohrer and Jo Ann Bran- don; Membership, Dorothy Krentz, Mrs. Pete Crews, Mrs. William Hollywood, Mrs. Ben Forbes and Mrs. Prank Crosby; Welfare, Mrs. George Beacon and Dorothy Kull; Publicity, Pauline Ballinger and Mrs. Frank Crosby. '#I Dr Fred Foard. Medical Direc- tor in charge for the Bureau of Indian Affairs, from Washington, D. C., and Dr. Theodore Hynson, Alaska Medical Director for ANS, from Juneau, were special guests at the Mt. Edgecumbe Hospitals open house Saturday afternoon. About three hundred visitors, main- ly from Sitka, visited the Medical Center during the day and par ticularly gratifying was the response at the blood bank lab.
 The Hospital staff was pleased and surprised at the number of flowers which were. sent over by Sitka merchants and business men. After being taken on tour of the hospitals and clinics, the visit DTS were served refreshments. The blood typing program at the Sitka Public Schools was comple- ted this week and cards will be is sued this next week. The children seemed to enjoy the experience and the younger ones are proudly dis. playing the minute slits in their fingers from which the blood was drawn.
 Billy Jean Morris left by plane this week for Long Beach, Calif- ornia, on receiving word that her parents, MT. and Mrs. Bill Cook, have both been hoSpitalized there | for illness. Mrs. Morris's place as secretary to Supt. of Schools, T. J. Cole, has been filled by Mrs. l Elmer Johnson
 1 Mrs. Langille Morrison with her young son and twin daughters left | this week to join her husband, who has just been discharged from the Veterans Hospital in Walla Walla, and the family will go to Berkeley, California where MT. Morrisons parents live. Mrs Morrison, with her three children, has been stay- ing with her parents, MT. and Mrs. Clarence Bands.
 MT. and Mrs. Duke Mitrovich left last weekend to visit her son.
 n-law and daughter, MT. and Mrs.
 Robert Johnston, in Detroit, Mich lgan. Mrs. Mitrovichs women's apparel shop, Wis, will be managed
 by her son, George Beacome, dur ing her brief vacation.
 Mrs. Dave Ramsay, Mrs. Hugh i Nelson and Mrs. Ken Cravens left
 on the Baranof Saturday for
 brief vacation trip in Juneau, plan-
 ming to return on the Denali, Tues
 day