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Daily Sitka sentinel and the arrowhead press., 1955-10-05

Stripes were raised and for the first time the American Flag unfurled over Alaska.
 Because it was an extreme ly significant time. we cele- brate it in an extremely big way. Everyone is urged to join in the festival fun. The men grow boards for the oc- casion, and the women pro- duce 1867 period costumes for themselves and the entire fam fly.
 The Alaska Day Festival is fast becoming one of Sitka's most charming traditions, and we hope you newcomers will join with us and have a great time celebrating a great day.
Daily Sitka sentinel and the arrowhead press., 1955-10-05
Society and Clubs
ALASKA DAY NOTES
by Mary Frances Hall

by Mary Frances Hall
 What is Alaska Day. Why dc we celebrate it? From person al experience l know thai these questions are not always answered, and so newcomers to our fair community of Sitka and Mt. EdgecumIbe sometimes like the weather, remain in fog.
 Welcome then to all of you who have not had the pleasure of anticipating and participat- ing in Sitka's biggest produc- tion of the year; the annual Alaska Day Festival. We hope the historical synopsis that fol lows will help brief you on the significance of Alaska Day.
 151 years ago Baranof. a vii vacious little Russian, found ed New Arehangel, now called Sitka, to serve as a fur trad ing center for the Russian American Company.
 100 years ago, when San Francisco was still an infant, Sitka had evolved into a ma ture. thriving community with its own sawrnill, flourmill and iron and brass foundries.
 In 1854 the Emperor of Rus sia offered to sell the Alaska territory to the United States. We finally accepted their of- fer, and on March 30, 1867 the treaty of purchase was signed, and Alaska cost us approxi- mately 2 cents an acre.
 The Alaska Day Festival commemorate the formal transfer of Alaska from Rus sian to American hands on Oc- tober 18th, 1867. On this mem orable day the Russian flag was lowered and the Stars and
Daily Sitka sentinel and the arrowhead press., 1955-10-05
WOMEN OF LUTHERAN CHURCH TO MEET

Meeting of Women of the Lutheran Church will be held at 7:45 P. m. Thursday at the Service Center. with Mrs. Ed Reed as hostess.
 Miss Helen Frost will have charge of the program and is to show slides of Shishmaref, where she was stationed for many years as missionary worker.
Daily Sitka sentinel and the arrowhead press., 1955-10-05
Sports TruiI

a cool competence. And it was not until the ninth inning that you were aware the deliberate, yet unhesitating, lefthander was fairly seething beneath that unruffled surface.
 You saw it first when. cap- turing Bill Skowron's hard-hit ground ball in the ninth. he rushed halfway to first base with it as if he was going to hand it to Xii Hodges So there would be no tumble.
Daily Sitka sentinel and the arrowhead press., 1955-10-05

\ dlctOrian Ot her nigh school l class, it will chronicle this ev-
 ent. It also will chronicle the fact, even though you are a
 leading advertiser, if you sho- ! uld run away from home with I the strawberry blonde wife ot ! the mayor.
 Birth, marriage ..... life, { and death ... crop failures. :. new buildings visits ,... appearances in court all these are standard news items in every newspaper. A good newspaper will go farther. It will chronicle the dreams and defeats of the com munity and its members. It won't wait for elected author ities to uncover and attack wrongdoing. If it discovers wrongdoing, it will cry for re medy itself.
 A good newspaper will re- fleet it's community as it is, good or bad. It is the commun- ity conscience.
 The public often doesn't un- derstand it's newspaper. It rare ly appreciates the drudgery of newspaper work. It throws a false glamour on newspaper men and overemphasizes their financial rewards.
 The truth about the average newspaperman is that he is a harried man trying with all the energy and understanding he has to find out and tell what is going on in the most complex civilization the world has ever known.
 His final reward for all the world or his widow can see is usually a small tombstone; his real monument is the mem ory he leaves to his friends.
 "A patient craftsman in the world of news cannot in his heart wish anything better than to be remembered after he is gone by someone in the same business, saying after the last edition like:
 ''Now that was a story Jim would have liked to have handl ed" or You think that was a good headline? Let me tell you about the time Jim. "
 And, for a moment, Jim is a. live again at the typewriter. or bending over the copy rim.
 The legends of newspaper men are wonderful things. ''Such interesting people" The most interesting people news papermen meet in the small est, widest field a man can en- ter = are fellow newspaper men.
 The shop talk of newspaper men is the best conversation in the whole wide world i5a- cause it covers the whole wide world. Wives of newspaprmen are often lonely and never quite share their husbands realm altho-rh they usuallv share their husbands pride ir it. They rarely wear fur coatz but I never heard one say she would have preferred to marrv banker.
 What is news? Like truth. it is hard to say. The best defin ition I know was written year- ago by Gerald Johnson, than of the Baltimore Sun.
 News" he said, lis what interests good newspaper man"
 Any nation that has good newspapermen will have good news.
Daily Sitka sentinel and the arrowhead press., 1955-10-05
WOMEN OF MOOSE MEET WEDNESDAY,

Women of the Moose vii. hold regular meeting at 8 p m. Wednesday evening at the Moose Hall. Mrs. John Swear ingen is to be initiated.
 Mrs. Vern McGraw is chair man of the refreshnnent com mittee, while chapter night program will lbe presented by Miss Rosemarie Kinberg Mooseheart chairman.
Evening star., 1955-05-02
Big PIoy Center Project
Set at Four-MiIe Run

Plans are in the works in Alex
andria for widening Four Mile
Run, building two new bridges
across the stream and for trans
forming a 44-acre swamp into
a recreational area.
First on the agenda is con-
struction Of a $150,000 bridge to
replace the present structure on
Mount Vernon avenue. This JOINT
project of Alexandria and Ar
lington is expected to get under
way this summer.
The present 32-foot bridge will
give way to a 240-foot structure.
The project is designed primarily
as a flood control measure to
prevent water from backing up
behind the bridge during heavy
rains and flooding the Arlandria
area.
The second project for which
100000 already has been made
available is a bridge at Glebe
road. This 130-foot bridge would
replace the present structure
which is 80 feet long and wide
enough for only one car. 1t
Evening star., 1955-05-02
Woman Gets
U.S.. JobAwurd

The Civil Service Commission
today made the first award un-
der the new Federal Incentive
Awards Program for a suggestion
which resulted in a savings OF
more than $4,000 annually to
the Government.
The cash award was given to
Mrs. Rose A. Joyce, an editorial
specialist in the pamphlet Sec
ton of the Commission's public
information Office.
Mrs Joyce, who lives at 5992
Suitland road, Morningside, Md,
received a certificate and $50 for
suggesting that the Official Reg
lister of the United States, which
lists Administrative and Supervis-
ory employees of the Government,
be bound with a paper cover. In
making the award, the Commits
sion pointed out the savings
will affect Federal departments
and agencies as well as private
individuals who buy the book
from the Superintendent of Doc
uments.
Evening star., 1955-05-02
Carpenter Pay
MediutionD Due

A Federal mediator was to
meet today with representatives
of AFL carpenters and area con-
tractors in an effort to head of
a strike in new contract dis
pute.
The meeting was scheduled
for 10 am. in the Tariff Build
ing with negotiators for the
Carpenters District Council, rep
resenting $500 carpenters, and
the Construction Contractors
Council, representing the en-
ployers.
Carpenters authorized a strike
in a vote taken Thursday and a
union spokesman had said a
work stoppage this week ap-
peared likely unless agreement
could be reached soon.
The union is seeking a 30
cents-an-hour wage boost on the
present scale, which provides tor
pay of SO an hour. The en-
ployers have offered renewal OF
the contract which expired Sat-
urday with no wage increase.
Contracts covering 5000 la
borers and nearly 800 operating
engineers have also expired but
negotiations are expected to con-
tinue with these groups. Neither
union has taken a strike vote.
Evening star., 1955-05-02
Explosion Traced
To Hand Grenade

Police said today that a loud
explosion which startled resi-
dents near Thirty-seventh and
S streets NV. last night was
caused by a simulated hand
grenade.
Police were deluged with
phone calls just after 80 pm,
reporting a bomb explosion. "
Their investigation turned up
only small pieces of cardboard
and wadded paper in the middle
Of the intersection.
1t. Sheldon R. Mckee, the de-
partment's bomb expert, today
fitted the fragments together
and found that they came from
q 3-inch egg-shaped missile. He
said the simulated hand grenades
are used as training devices by
the military.
Evening star., 1955-05-02

would eliminate a sharp curve
in the road.
The Glebe road bridge project
is expected to be started next
year. according to Philip Hall,
director of public works.
Mr.. Hall said funds are being
included in a proposed bond
issue for the widening of the
streams channel. This is ex-
pected to cost between SIS, 900
and 100000 and is primarily a
flood control project.
Mr.. Hall said a wider channel
would permit water to run of
faster during heavy rains.
The Alexandria Sanitation Au-
thority plans to build a sewage
pumping station on Common
wealth avenue which would pre-
vent raw sewage from running
into the stream and stagnating
in the swamp area.
These projects are preliminary
to the plans which have been
worked out for transforming the
swamp into a recreation area
complete with a lagoon for boat
ing.
Evening star., 1955-05-02
u. of Nd. Warns Borrowers
As Pigs Crash Frat Purty

Because two unlimited pigs
showed up at a Theta Chi fra
ternity house party, University
of Maryland fraternities have
been warned to stop borrowing
animals from the university's
experimental farm.
The two porkers were brought
to the Theta Chi's Saturday
party by two of the brothers
and returned to the farm un-
harmed last Monday, campus
police said today.
The animals weighed about
80 to 40 pounds each.
Dean of Men Geary Epply
declined to discuss the Theta
Chi incident today except to say
that no disciplinary action was
Evening star., 1955-05-02
rs Organizations Poy Tribute
To War Dead From District

where a chain Of poppies, borne
by children of veterans. was en-
twined on a white cross at the
base of the monument.
Mai. Gen. U. S. Grant III,
(retired) vice chairman of the
sponsoring organization, intro
duced Mr.. Camalier. Robert A.
Bunch, chairman of the corpo-
ration, presided.
The program opened with q
concert by the United States
Marine Corps band. Four mu-
sical selections were sung by Miss
Maria de la Hull. Wreaths and
bouquets were placed by partici-
pating organizations.
Nelson M. Blake, chaplain of
the District Department of the
American Legion gave the in
vocation and Mai. Robert S. Nc
Carly. United States Army chap
lain. gave the benediction.
Evening star., 1955-05-02

The Districts war dead were
honored yesterday at the Goth
annual commemorative observ-
ance in West Potomac Park.
twenty-five veterans and pa
triotic organizations participated
in the services led by the Dis
trict of Columbia World War Me-
mortal and May Day Corporation.
Commissioner Renah F. Cana
lier. principal speaker, COM
mended the annual memorial to
those who placed their lives on
the altars of the cause of free
DOM"
The services were held at the
D. c. World War Memorial
Evening star., 1955-05-02

being taken against the fra
ternity.
He acknowledged, however,
that since the Theta Chi party,
he has called to the attention
of the fraternities the import
ance of the work being done at
the experimental farm"
Dean Epply said that from
time to time animals have been
taken from the barns at the
experimental farm on the Col
lege Park campus.
Evening star., 1955-05-02

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Evening star., 1955-05-02
TODAY IS DEADLINE
FOR VIRGINIANS TO
FILE TAX RETURNS

Today is the deadline for
filing State income and per-
sonal property tax returns
in Virginia.
Mailed returns must be
postmarked before midnight
tonight. Forms are available
at all city and county court
houses. No payments are re-
quired with the filing of re-
turns Taxpayers will re-
ceive bills later for payment
next fall, on the basis of the
returns.
Evening star., 1955-05-02
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Evening star., 1955-06-12
BY JAMES BACON
Associated Press Staff Writer
.uNTJVWOOD

HULL I WoSD.
One of Hollywood's biggest
revolutions has nothing to do
with wide screens, better pic
tures-or even Marilyn Mon
roe.
It's the radical change that
has taken place in Bing Cros-
by's manner of dress.
Not too many months ago,
Bing was the perennial NOM
inee for every tailor's worst
dressed list. His idea of dressy
attire was a sport shirt that
looked like a tropical sunset
during the monsoon season.
Now he is one of Hollywood's
best dressed stars. Even Bob
Hope had to burn a boxful of
Crosby sport shirt jokes. He's
switched from loud patterns to
conservative hueS, mostly Sollo
colors.
Bing credits the change to a
new tailor, Sy Devore.
Il just left everything to
Sy," says the Groaner.
Didn't Seek Business
Devore discloses that he
didn't solicit Crosby's busi-
ness-no self respecting tailor
would.
II made clothes for Bill Hol-
den and Dean Martin, two OF
Bing'S closest friends. Bing
Evening star., 1955-06-12
MunWho Owns millionaire
Did Give AwuyuM Million

Fedderson said he registered
for his TV process in 1949.
Believe it or not, the studio
had tied up millions in the
process and in the picture The
Robe and had not conducted
a title search" Fedderson re-
calls. Finally. after months OF
publicizing CinemaScope, the
movie studio found out that
Fedderson owned the title
even to the capital S on Scope.
Don't Pity Him
"I could have sued and. won
a lot of money" Fedderson
says, "but I didn't want the
reputation of being a suer. The
studio asked me if I would be
interested in 5 per cent of their
CinemaScope take.
IT wasn't in that business so
I turned that down. 1t would
have amounted to a million
dollars by now. I said I would
sell for $50,000. The check was
in my hands an hour after I
hung up the phone"
But don't feel sorry for Fed
derson. He's the guy who made
a national figure out of Lib
Grace. He first hired him for a
local TV show and then filmed
the shows for national syn
dication. He and Liberace own
them Jointly.
Evening star., 1955-06-12
BY the Associated Press
HOLLYWOOD.

How would you like to lose
a million dollars?
TV producer Don Fedderson
owns the show 1.-THE Million
aire" in which a million dollars
is given away each week. He
should know how it feels.
FedderSon, a former Wich-
ita, Kans., rlewspaperman. was
one Of the television pioneers
in Hollywood. In the days of
fuzzy kinescopes, he hit upon
an idea for television record
ing that was a big improve
ment.
Instead of lighting the
whole stage as most live TV
shows are, I just lighted in
dividual scenes-like they do
in the movies"
The process needed a name.
He thought up one and had
it registered. This was in 1949.
Used and Forgotten
1--WE made a number OF
shows with the process and
then television film came in
and we forgot about it,"
Three years later, Goth Gen.
tury-Fox staked their whole
studio on a new screen process.
They called it CinemaScope.
That was the same name that
Evening star., 1955-06-12
SPORTS Shirts Were Ample
For Crosby's Hope Films

liked them and they touted
him onto me-" says Devore.
Devore discloses that Bing
pays in the neighborhood Of
$225 for a suit. having re-
Gently ordered a few in i'm
ported silk cashmere. He
liked the new fabric so much
that he asked Devore to out
fit himself, Donald O'Conpor,
Mitzi Gaynor, Jeanmaire and
all the chorus boys and girls
for the finale of Anything
Goes" They all wear tux
edos.
Much of Bing's money is in
the picture and he insisted
that the chorus get the same
quality as the stars. Each
outfit cost $685..
Just Like Ziegfeld
"Bing is like Flo Ziegfeld,"
Devore explains. HE knows
the audience can't tell but the
chorus boys and chorus girls
know it's silk cashmere. He
believes that makes them
dance better and look better"
Bing, when asked the
reason for his revolution in
dress, said:
I'm just making better
pictures now. When you make
A pictures, you have to have
an A wardrobe. Sport shirts
were good enough for those
pictures with Hope"
Evening star., 1955-06-12
BY WILLIAM GLOVER
Associated Press STAFF Writer
NEW WORK.

NEW YORK.
Victor Borge, Broadway's
most amazing Snowman, just
doesn't want So million this
year.
That's what he could make,
he says. by accepting the flood
of offers currently swamping
his dressing room.
by simple arithmetic I
could earn between SO and 81
million in a year with personal
appearances, television shows
and everything else," says
Borge, a solemn and practi-
cal businessman away from
piano and stage.
But if I did. I wouldn't end
up with anything for myself
anyway" Although top eche-
lon taxes make such tantaliz-
ing bids economically point
less, Borge derives tremen-
dous satisfaction from the big
demand for his services as a
one-man show. Alone among
upper-bracket nym e n,
Borge works by himself, with
out stooges, assistants or dane
erS.
He figures the current price
tag is double what it was just
a year ago when his Comedy
in Music" show at the Golden
Theater here had already
broken all prior boxoffice rec
ords for one-man entertain
mentS.
Comedy in Music" has
rolled steadily on ever since,
and is actually playing to a
Evening star., 1955-06-12
SECTION INDEX
THE BROADWAY WEEK
That Road ComPony's
Borge's Only Problem

stronger boxoffice today than
a year ago.
MY problem now is setting
up a couple of road COM
panies," he laughs.
Hayward Teases
The tantalizing technique is
being used by Leland Hayward
to herald his return to Broad
way production after an alb
sence because of movie chores
and illness.
Hayward is working up a
musical comedy that involves
such creative talent as julie
Styne on music, Adolph Green
on the words and Jerome Rob-
bins as choreographer.
The main things lacking are
a title-or any disclosure of
what the show is about.
Its one OF those IDEAS Cnat
sounds so ridiculously simple, "
explains Hayward. IF it ever
became known, it would be too
easy to swipe. I'll just say it's
wonderful for some girl"
Hayward, who has been in
volved in a number of Goth
ans biggest show triumphs
and has probably the best hit
percentage of any individual
producer, cites lack of title
for the new opus as just an
other instance of how he likes
to do things backward.
Another operation -in-reverse
which he has under way at the
moment is the filming of "The
Spirit of st. Louis" the movie
of Lindbergh's pioneer trans
See GLOVER, Page E.
Evening star., 1955-06-12
TODAY'S SCHEDULES
STAGE
Mousetrap": $3.50 pm.
SCREEN
STAGE

.MBASSADOR-"Tall Man Riding" lao. $40, $685. 1880
and 9:35 pm.
APITOI-Sodier Fortune; 1905 3:15 525, 7:S5 and
GAS pm.
toLoNY-Doctor the House; 2, $50, $50. 7:45 and
$50 pm
oLUMBIA-"Kss Me Deadly; 1:1o, $780, $50, 7:4o and
$50 pm
UPoNT-"Hoday for Henrietta" lis s2o 5:25 1880 and
9:35 pm.
7TTHS-"Revenge of the Creature; 1885, 445, TAO and
1925 pm.
TTLE-"Garden of Eden; 30 3:10 4:55 635. 82o and
10 pm.
cARTHUR-"To Paris. With Love-; 245, ABS 6:25, $40
and 10 pm.
GTROPOLITAN-"Tal Man Riding" 1:50, $3.50, $50, 750
and $50 pm.
1NTARIo-Marty' 1:15 4:4O 6:25, $40 and $50
'ALACE-"Daddy Long Legs $40, $685. 735 and $50 pm
PLAYHOUSE"The End of the Affair." 1lo, 315, $40. 1880
and $40 pm.
PLAZA-"House Arrow; l. 2:4O 4:30 6l5, $40 and
10 pm.
TRANs-LUX-"The Country Gr"; 12:45 1880. 42o, 6:l5
8:15 and 1918 pm.
wARNER-"Ths Is Cinerama" 2. 5 and $3.50 pm
Evening star., 1955-06-12
AT Lost Bette Gets
To Do Iibruriun'
HOLLYWOOD


Happiest actress in town is
Bette Davis, who after a dozen
years of trying, gets her wish
to appear in her own prop
erty, a story titled "The Lii
brarian." Heretofore, almost
all of Bette's Hollywood deals
were predicated on the prom
Use that the bargaining studio
would also let her star in the
tale. But something always
happened. It's about a small
town librarian dismissed for
refusing to remove a contro-
versial book from the shelves.
Columbia finally grabbed
Bette's package deal, and she'll
come out from her Maine farm
next August to make it.
Released by the North American
Newspaper Alliance
Evening star., 1955-06-12

this in a 247-seat house,
remember.
This is success pressing
not merely the walls Of the
old Hippodrome, but more
painfully upon the spirits Of
the management and the
company.
Our need" Mrs. Fichandler
says, "is not growth, which we
have had both artistically and
economically, but room for
greater and faster growth in
both respects"
To provide this, she will
make her next years work, not
the production of plays but
the provision of place in
which to produce a more
varied program for a larger
audience.
600-Seat House Seen
The theater Arena visualizes
is a 600-seat house located in
the Northwest sec tion OF
Washington, for which it has
a variety of architectural plans
subject to the requirements
of the various sites it finds
available. The economic mean
ing of a larger theater, the
600-seat building envisaged
before the opening of the
1867 season, produces some
piquant figures to drama
patrons who know nothing of
this side of theater art.
It is reflected in Arenas
most popular production of
this season, 'The World of
Sholom Aleichem." In nine
weeks of capacity operation,
this production netted Arena
a profit of $500 in its present
247-set theater. In four weeks,
which would take care of the
same numerical audience, the
larger theater contemplated
would have permitted a profit
of $4,000.
The loyalty of Arena audi
ences has been more than
matched by that of members of
its acting company. and its
production staff.
It is a factor of extreme
signicance in the decision to
expand that the average actors
salary at Arena Stage, after
five years, is a mere $65 weekly,
less than that of a secretary.
One performer, and one of the
company's most brilliant and
consistent, is making only SIS
a week more now than when
he played his first performance
five years ago.
During it's sabbatical year,
then, Arena will provide not
merely to take care of more
patrons, but better care for
the performers who have made
it one of the country's out
standing community repertory
groups.