BOYS AND GIRLS
ASKED TO BEAUTIFY
MMM WITH PLANTING
The driveway for the MMM
Hospital has been extended for
safety resons and is now in the
process of being gravelled.
Opl Catlin, superintendent of
the hospita, has started a civic
project on beautifying the com
munity by sking all children,
Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts and just
boys and girls, to dig up fireweed
and plant it in the area adjoining
the hospital so that next year
there will be a field of flowers
blooming around the hospital.
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John A. “Mac^ McNees
DEMOCRAT
As a candidate for the Alaska State Senate
on the Democratic ticket, I solicit your vote
on Tuesday, August 26, but more particularly
I urge you to BE SURE TO VOTE and to
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ASPHYXIATES SKUNKS
OKLAHOMA CITY, UP— When
Policeman H. D. Bayless was
called out to remove a skunk
plaguing a local housewife, the
kitty took refuge in a garage.
Bayless backed his scout car into
the garage, left the motor run
ning, closed the door and sat
down to wait. The skunk keeled
over quickly.
STANDIN WINS RAVES
FOR MY FAIR LADY’
LONDON, UP — A $70-a-week
chorus girl in the hit musical
“My Fair Lady” won rave notices
Saturday for her stand-in per
forance in the show’s feminine
lead.
Tomia Lee, 24, stepped in for
star Julie Andrews with six hours
notice Friday when Miss An
drews was stricken with tonsil
itis.
Miss Lee, who had never re
hearsed lines with star Rex Har
rison, played the role of the Cock
ney heroine, Elza Doolittle with
out a hitch.
“Fast Mail”
NEWARK, N.J., t/P>—-Postmaster
jLousa A. Reilly received a news
j release Friday from the Post
I Office Department in Washington
announcing the speedup of mail
delivery in the ^ New York metro
politan area. It was dated for
use at 2 p.m. Thursday.
FIRST JAP WARSHIPS
TO VISIT SEATTLE
HONOLULU, UP)—Six Japanese
warships, the first to visit the
U.S. mainland and Canada since
before World War II, left Pearl
Harbor for Seattle Friday. They
were tied up here three days
while crewmen spent a busy time
sightseeing.
SLEEPING SICKNESS
EPIDEMIC IN JAPAN
TOKYO, (J1)—Deadly encephal
itis—sleeping sickness—is reach
ing epidemic proportions in
Japan and South Korea. Health
agencies report 202 dead and
1,128 ill, mostly in Korea where
only 24 of the known cases have
recovered. So far no Americans
have been reported affected.
GALENA UNLOADS
SALMON AT
BELLINGHAM
BELLINGHAM, UPi — The un
loading of a cargo of Alaska can
ned samon from the Alaska S.S.
Co.’s Galena proceeded Saturday
after a temporary injunction was
issued against pickets of the
striking- Fisherman and Allied
porkers Union.
Efforts to unload the Galena
were halted by pickets Thursday
at Blaine and here.
PORTLAND SWIMMING
CHAMP FAILS 2-WAY
CHANNEL SWIM
DOVER, England, (ff!—Former
U. S. Marine Bert Thomas of
Portland, Ore., was pulled out of
the*water early Saturday, two
hours after setting out for France
in an attempt at a two-way cross
ing of the English Channel.
Thomas swam from France to
England in 19 hours and 28 min
utes and immediately started the
return trip. He developed a leg
cramp, however, and was taken
from the water.
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PIONEER ALASKAN ATTORNEY — 53 YEARS IN ALASKA:
U.S. REPRESENTATIVE-ELECT
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DELEGATE ALASKA CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION
DISTRICT ATTORNEY, FOURTH DIVISION, 1933:1944
ATTORNEY-GENERAL OF ALASKA, 1945-1949
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