Retired Honolulu Realtor
Visits New 49th State
James Taruya, retired real
estate man from Honolulu is visit
ing here and enjoying the 49th
state he has heard so much about.
Mr. Taruya marveled at the I
speed travel having left Honolulu
at eleven o’clock a.m. with Pan
American Airways and arrived in
Fairbanks at four o’clock the fol
lowing morning. He has been in
Anchorage, where he spent sever
al days, and from Nome will go
to Kotzebue before returning to
the states.
TUESDAY BALL SCORES
National League
Milwaukee 2, St. Louis 1
American League
New Pork 13, Detroit 3
•Chicago 4, Baltimore 2
Kansas City 4, Boston 3
Washington 4-3, Cleveland 2-5
Pacific Coast League
Portland 11-3, Sacramento 0-13
Vancouver 2, Seattle 1
Phoenix 10, San Diego 6
Spokane 7, Salt Lake City 6
Cost of Living Index
Rose to New High in Jane
WASHINGTON, (A — The gov
ernment today' reported living
costs rose in June by less than
one-tenth of one per cent to an
other record. But the tiny in-*
crease held a promise of a de
cline later in the summer or early
fall.
The Labor Department’s Bu
reau of Labor Statistics said its
index rose to 123.7 per cent of the
1947-49 average. This means it
costs about 24 cents more to buy
what could be purchased for a
dollar a decade ago.
It was the 20th time the of
ficial index has risen to new
records in the past 22 months.*
There has been, no decline since
August, 1956.
Ewan Clague, Labor Statistics
commissioner, said all signs
pointed to a modest living cost
decline in the next few months,
particularly as food items become
more plentiful.
Food prices normally decline in
the summertime, when local
vegetable crops come in and
temporarily cheapen costs for
housewives. But other costs have
been mounting steadily, despite
the recession.
Novice Distillers Were
Just Experimenting
OLYMPHIA, Wash., (A —Hov
ering over a bubbling still fired
by a hot plate, two novice dis
tillers were caught in the act by
police here Monday.
But they quickly convinced of
ficers of not having plans for
going into the bootleg business.
Juvenile officer Roy Snyder said
the culprits were 12 and 15 years
old and told him they were “just
experimenting.”
Convinced they were telling
the truth, Snyder said the boys
could henefit by their studies.
“The still showed signs of expert
workmanship.”
House Subcommittee
Approves Subsidies For
Mineral Producers
WASHINGTON, — A House
Interior Subcommittee Tuesday
approved subsidies for minerals
producers.
It approved portions of a Sen
ate passe# bill, made some
changes, and added incentive
payments for certain minerals.
The measure is expected to be
taken up by the full House In
terior Committee in a few days.
The Senate bill provides sup
ports for lead, zinc, tungsten, and
acid grade flourspar as well as a
purchase program for copper.
The House subcommittee ap
proved the proposed stabilization
prices and copper stockpile plan,
however, it rejected a proposal
by which the Secretary of the
Interior could borrow 350 million
dollars from the treasury to fi
nance the 5-year price support
program. Annual appropriations
would be required by the House
bUl.
The House subcommittee added
to the Senate bill a section to
provide incentive payments for
chromite, beryl, and columbium
tantalum. This proposal was
recommended by the Eisenhower
administration and offered by
Rep. A. L. Millern (R-Neb).
Under the support plan the
government would pay domestic
producers the difference between
market price's and stabilization
prices set for lead, zinc, tung
sten and flourspar.
Alcoa’s Net Income
Drops 50% For
First Half of 1958
PITTSBURGH, U?> — Alumi
num Co. of America, the nation’s
top producer of aluminum, Tues
day reported net income of
$19,471,908 in the first half of
1958 compared with $38,038,979 in
the similar period 6f 1957.
Earnings per share of common
stock amounted to 88 cents for
the first six months this year.
This compares with $1.79 for the
first half last year.
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Showers Reduce
To Whitehorse
WHITEHORSE, Y.T., (A —
Skies over this Yukon capitol
Tuesday were clear of smoke, fly
ing ashes and clouds for the first
time in a week.
The return of sunny Weather
after a weekend of showers and
light winds brought a greatly
reduced threat from the forest
fire that led to last week’s state
of emergency and evacuation
plans.
Today, the fire was reported
checked, though still burning in
spots despite a half-inch of rain.
Its 9losest point from Whitehorse
was six miles. A firebreak now
separates the town from the fire’s
four-mile front.
Spread of at least 20 other fires
burning in the territory also was
checked by the three-day rain,
which was heaviest in regions
north of Whitehorse. Mayor re
ported nearly a third of an inch
Monday.
Tuesday’s sunshine was to be
; followed by more showers fore
casts said.
REED FILES FOR
SEAT IN STATE SENATE
,1
Another candidate has filed
for a state Senate seat from the
central Alaska district, this time
for the one seat from voting dis
tricts 19 and 20.
Irving McK. Reed, former
territorial highway engineer, re
cently filed for the seat on the
Republican ticket. Reed came to
the Aleutian Islands in May 1900
and to Nome in the same year, at
tending school there and then
graduating from the University of
California with a degree in min
ing engineering.
Matter of Pronounciation
BAYREUTH, Germany, (A —
“Cancelling festival ticket because
of street fighting reports.”
That was the gist of a cable
sent by a Texan music fan to
the management of the Wagner
Opera Festival here.
Startled festival officials puz
zled over the text and finally
drafted a reply. Bayreuth, they
said, should not be confused with
Beirut—almost 2,000 miles away
—although some Americans tend
to pronounce both towns the
same way. Bayreuth is Bye-royt.
Beirut is Bay-root.
The Texan cabled back from
Paris that he would attend under
the circumstances. His name was
not disclosed.
Originator of Movie
Travelogue Dies
HOLLYWOOD, (A — Burt|n
Holmes, the man who cgigina
the movie tjgyelogue,. die# ,Tuis
day. I
Holmes, whose organization in
vented the Word travelogue, spdnt
more that* half of his 88 years in
travel and ondl was referred to
by Lowell Thomas as “the mpst
sophisticated traveler of them
all.”
Death .cgrae at |»isHpllywc^d
home, ojiice the>|resldehce of
movie kfol Francis X. Bushman.
He had been in ill health Jfor
months. -— --- 3
Holmes, a native of Chica'go,
got the travel, bug in 1888, when
his grandmother took him on a
trip to Europe. He returned
with her to the continent four
years later and this time he took
a box camera with him. |
On his return to Chicago, he
showed lantern slides fropi his
travel negatives to the old Chi
cago Camera Club. He wrote a
script and read it as the pictures
were being shown "to take the
edge off the silence.”
The club decided to hire a hall
and present Holmes in his first
travel lectu*e. ■; g
Two years later Holmes per
suaded his family to finance’ a
five-month trip to Europe and
his career was in full swing. |
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Doris Barnes Candidate
For State Senate
Wrangell, (A — Doris M.
Barnes, the first woman elected to
the Territorial Senate, announced
she would be a candidate for jtShe
first Alaska State Senate. g
Mrs. f /Barnes, a Republican,
will seek$ nomination in the A»g.
26 primary as a”1 Republican can
didate from the Wrangell - Peters
burg - Sitka district.
She served in the Territorial
House from the First Division
in 1949 and 1951 and in the Sen
ate in 1953 and 1955. She won
nomination as a GOP candidate
for the 1959 Territorial House in
last April’s primary election.
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Order of Eastern Star
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Worthy Matron
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