GIRL SCOUTS TO DELIVER
XMAS WREATHS TOMORROW
The Neighborhood Girl Scout
Committee announced today that
the Intermediate Girl Scouts will
start tomorrow at 3 p.m. to de
liver Christmas wreaths for
which the girls had takes orders.
Each wreath costs $1213 and the
people who ordered them are re
quested to have their money
ready for the girls.
Pictures of the recent Silver
Tea are also available now at
Polet’s Store at $1.50 apiece. Part
of the purchase price is to be
returned to the Girl Scout Com
mittee by Mr. Schulz of Polet’s
Store
Mrs. Larry Galvin arrived from
her home in Suquamish, Wn., to
spend the Christinas holiday with
her husband and other members
of the family who live here. She
was accompanied by their daugh
ter, Cherie, who is on vacation
from the University of Washing
ton, where she is a freshman.
FOOD DRIVE
A school-wide food drive spon
sored by the Future Homemakers
of America ends today. The
food, which has been donated by
students from the first through
the twelfth grades all this week,
will be given to ten families in
town. Mrs. Swanbepg is assisting
in the selection of families.
In addition to the food which
has been donated by the stu
dents, the N.C. Co. will be fur
nishing 10 chickens for the bas
kets.
Dial 2631 for
Arctic Sanitary
Service
FBI Arrest Man for
Theft of Paintings
PITTSBURGH <B — The PBI
announced today the arrest of an
unemployed salesman In con
nection with the theft of con
temporary paintings valued in ex
cess of $500,000 from the heme
of a suburban Whitehall art col
lector last July.
B. C. Brown, special agent in
charge of the Pittsburgh office of
the FBI, identified the man as
Ralph Hobbs, 45, of Beaver Falls,
Pa. He was charged with inter
state transportation of stolen
property.
The theft of the 10 paintings
occurred at the home of G. David
Thompson on the night of July
28.
Brown said the paintings have
not been recovered.
II Monday, Dec. 18
Through Dec. 24
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Less Time for Maintenance...
More Time for Handywork
Now the family handyman
has more time to accomplish
do-it-yourself projects around
the home and shop. Hours con
sumed in home maintenance
jobs can be cut to minutes.
For workshop enthusiasts
who hate to change sanding
discs on ganders, a new spray
adhesive easily sprays on the
pad and allows you to apply
and peel off a disc five times
without further spray applica
A new spray-on brush sof
tener and protector prevents
paint brushes from getting stiff
and hwmW*, great for the
“weekend decorator.”
For bothersome sticking,
binding drawers or squeaking
parts m kitchen cabinets and
baflt-in furniture, slide lubri
cant spray will be a life-saver.
Containing silicone, it
Just sprays an wood, metal,
rubber, leather and plastic, pro
duces smooth quiet action of
moving parts.
Annoying and sometimes
damaging rust problems can be
curbed easily. Just take anti
rust oil and spray it on iron
mid steel; it protects them
against rusting due to moisture.
Perfect for shop and hoof
eauimneirt.
These sre just four tools In
a brand sew line of chemical
maintenance sprays that has
bees introduced by Stanley
Tools, division of the Stanley
Works, New Britain, Conn. The
new line includes seven chemi
cals all packaged in aerosol
cans that act at the push-of-a
button. The other sprays in tha
line are the clear plastic spray.
s rq*t penetrator and a de-,
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! Keel Laid for
Alaska’s First
Ferry Boat
SEATTLE <f> — Signalling like
a veteran crane operator, Alaska’s
Gov. Wm. Egan supervised the
placing of a 10-ton keel {date
yesterday for the first of four
ferries to serve the 49th State.
After the 26x36-foot plate rest
ed on the ways at the Puget
Sound Bridge & Dry Dock Co.,
Egan donned a welder’s mask and
welded a small piece of steel to
the keel.
Egan also announced that the
ferry will be named the motor
ship Malaspina.
"I think it is a strong name,"
he said. "It is something related
to Alaska’s past and future."
The 352-foot, 3,500-ton ship was
named for the largest glacier in
North America. The 1,500-mile
glacier — slightly larger than the
state of Rhode Island — juts
into the Gulf of Alaska at Yaku
tat Bay.
The Malaspina will be the first
of three ferries to be used on a
run from Prince Rupert, B.C.,
to Haines, Alaska. She is sched
uled for completion next Septem
ber. All three vessels are expect
ed to be in operation by May,
1993.
A fourth, slightly smaller
ferry to serve Homer, Kodiak and
Seward, also is expected to be
ready in May, 1963.
The Malaspina will carry 500
persons and 109 automobiles; have
a crew of 40; run at 18 knots and
be equipped with 14 staterooms
for overnight accommodations.
Twice a week schedules are
planned when two ferries are in
operation, with six-day-a-week
schedules when the third has been
added. The ferries will serve
Ketchikan, Wrangell, Petersburg,
Sitka, Juneau. Haines and Skag
way.
"The Alaska ferry system will
first of all bind all parts of Alas
ka more closely together," Egan
said. "It will be an important
stimulus to the state’s economy by
providing better in-state trans
portation.”
Seattle Mayor Gordon Clinton,
H. McCurdy, chairman of the
shipbuilding company, and Philip I
Spaulding, marine architect who
designed the Malaspina, took part
in the ceremonies.
“Its effects will be so far
reaching that they will extend to
the rest of the United States, and
for that matter of the world,”
Egan said. "The visitors who are
coming to our state in increasing
thousands will be able to enter
Alaska by one route and leave
by another. Thus seeing our scenic
glories more completely than has
e\'er been possible before. Our
commerce with the other forty
nine states will be made so much
easier, that already several new
business enterprises are being
projected on the basis of our new
Marine Highway. ^ -
“Finally, both the service and
the vessels are unique, and a ride
on the Alaska ferry system will
be an experience not easily for
gotten."
George Washington owned at
least six sets of false teeth. One
set was carved from the tusks of
a hippopotamus. Another set,
made of lead, weighed over three
pounds!
Death Takes Clark Bassett
Clark Bassett passed away on
Dec. <13 in Seattle and will be
buried tomorrow from the Fork*
ner Funeral Home on 4214 Uni*
versity Way in Seattle.
Clark Bassett was born in Nome
and has been with Pan American
Airways ince 1929 and has spent
most of his life in and around
Alaska except for the three years
spent in Honolulu with Pan Am.
He returned to Seattle to replace
his brother, Emerson Bassett, who
was sent to Karachi, Pakistan, as
operations manager of PAA there.!
He then went to New York as an
executive in operations until he
became ill with cancer last sum
mer and returned to Seattle.
He is survived by his wife, Iris,
and son, Sam Jr., and two broth
ers, Emerson and Roy Bassett.
A Reminder To
A.N.B. Members
AND THEIR GUESTS
Arctic Native
Brotherhood
Christmas Party
BEGINS AT
8 p.m. Saturday
ARCTIC NATIVE
BROTHERHOOD HALL
PRIZES OF
TURKEYS. HAMS. DUCKS
Proceeds to bo Used For
Christmas Baskets
Dancing . . .
Refreshments
. . . Live Music
Grandma Mmm
Dies at the Age of 101
HOOSICK, N.Y. m — Grandma
Moses, who took up painting in
her 70s and became one of the
nation’s best known artists, died
today at the age of 101.
The witty, little artist who
achieved world-wide fame late in
life had been confined to a nurs
ing home since July.
Despite her confinement and a
doctor’s orders against painting,
she remained “bright as a but
ton” most of the time, friends re
ported.
Her physician, Dr. Clayton
Shaw, said Grandma died after
being in an oxygen tent at the
hospital most of the day.
Her death was peaceful, he
said, but she had no last words
because she had not been con
scious during the day.
“She just passed away.”
Grandma, whose full name was
•Mrs. Anna Mary Robertson
Moses, became known to millions
through her primitive paintings
of rural life in upstate New York,
which were reproduced on Christ
mas cards.
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