39th AMERICAN LEGION
CONVENTION TO BE HELD
IN SEWARD JUNE 4-7
SEWARD, — The 39th., an
nual department American Le
gion convention will be held in
Seward, Alaska, June 4th-7th.,
this year. ,
In the Territory, Legion posts
and auxiliary units with their
combined membership of more
than 4,000, are making plans for
the pilgrimage in June.
At 10:00 a.m. Wednesday June
4th, the Legion convention will
officially be opened by a parade
down 4th Avenue in Seward* The
U. S. 214th Army band and the
Honor Guard from the 1st., battle
group, 23rd., infantry will lead
the parade.
ANCHORAGE TO GET NEW
POST OFFICE IF 5-CENT
RATE GOES INTO EFFECT
WASHINGTON, UP) — The Post!
Office Department promised yes
terday to consider new Postoffice
buildings for many cities, includ
ing Anchorage, Alaska, if Congress
will raise the rate on out-of-town
letters to five cents.
"Trusted" Husband Loses Purse
MIAMI BEACH, Fla., UP)—Mrs.
Annie Katz of the Bronx, N. Y.,
gave her purse containing $18 to
her husband while she tried on a
dress in a shop yesterday. She
was afraid someone would take it.
Seconds later, Katz put the
purse down while he inspected a
rack of dresses himself. Some
one took it.
Gas Explosion on
Alaska Highway
Kills 1, Injures 2
TAYLOR, B.C., UP>—Gasoline
seeping 2,000 feet to where work
ers were dismantling a highway
bridge was believed today to have
formed the fuse for an explosion
punctuated fire last night at a
petroleum tank farm here, taking
the life of one man and injuring
two others.
In rapid succession five tanks
containing volatile gasoline and
diesel fuel erupted in flames at
the McMahon Plant of Pacific
Petroleum Limited at this North
eastern British Columbia com
munity, 350 miles northwest of
Edmonton.
The dead and injured were em
ployees of the firm dismantling
the wrecked Alaska Highway
bridge across the Peace River.
John Ballem, executive assist
ant of Pacific Petroleums, said in
Caleary the five tanks cost about
$27,000 to build. When full they
normally hold more than $36,000
worth of gasoline and diesel fuel.
But, he said, the tanks were not
believed to be full at the time of
the fire.
The fierce gasoline-fed fire
raged out of control for three
hours before it was contained and
allowed to burn itself out.
Flames < for a time threatened
Pacific Petroleum’s nearby re
finery and natural gas scrubbing
plant.
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Alaska Employment
Unchanged During March
Total employment in the Ter
ritory of Alaska remained un
changed in March from the Feb
ruary level of 39,600. The labor
force for the Territory began to
expand in March. This increase
was due to seasonal workers re
turning from the States and new
jobseekers arriving from the
States to look for work. This re
sulted in an ihcrease of about
400, bringing Alaska’s labor force
up to a total of 49,000 in March.
The number of persons unem
ployed and seeking work in the
Territory in March was esti
mated to be 9,400, the largest on
record. This included approxi
mately 1,510 women.
Information obtained from em
ployers in the larger areas of the
Territory indicates that total em
ployment may not reach the
level attained last year. Cur
rently, there are almost 4.5 per
cent fewer people employed in the
Territory than at the same per
iod last year.
The number of claims filed for
unemployment insurance bene
fits declined slightly during
March.
Ivan Buys Bric-A-Brac
But Gives Bye To Booze
WELLINGTON, New Zealand,
(#) — Nearly 1,000 Russians ift
i vaded Wellington today from the
Soviet whaling fleet on its way
home from the Antarctic.
The visitors swarmed into
shops to buy nylon and woolen
clothes, patent medicines and
toiletries.
Color wise, the men’s taste ran
heavily to blue. One haber
dasher who had arranged a
special window display of red
shirts remarked ruefully, “They
just won’t buy red.”
Nor was the visit a boon to one
business whicii usually profits
more than most from visiting
seamen. Not a single Russian
was seen in a bar.
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More Praise For
Successful Blast
of Ripple Rock
SEATTLE, UP) — The United
States Navy joined with Seattle
steamboaters, tugboaters and fish
ermen in expressions of pleasure
over Saturday’s decapitation of
Ripple Rock in Seymour Narrows.
A spokesman for the 13th Naval
District said: “we are happy to
see that our sisters to the North
were successful in removing this
most serious navigational hazard
in the Inside Passage to Alaska.
We are grateful to them.”
Praise also came from Alaska
■Steamship Co., Alaska Freight
Lines and Foss Tug and Barge
Co., which have already sent
several vessels through *he nar
rows since the Canadian govern
ment touched off the 2,750,000
pounds of explosives that blew
the tops off “Old Rip.”
The general feeling of skip
pers who knew the narrows when
“Old Rip” was ruler and who
have gone through since the 2,500
foot narrows were cleared to at
least a 47-foot depth was ex
pressed in a radio from Capt.
Robert Nordstrom.
Nordstrom is skipper of the
Alaska Steam freighter Galena.
After he came through the nar
rows yesterday on his way to
Seattle from Ketchikan he ra
dioed: “She’s beautiful . . . nice
and wide . . . lots of room.”
Alaska Steam operates 180
trips a year one way or the other
through Seymour Narrows. ,
The general manager of Alas
ka Freight, John Hesselbrock,
estimated ,his line sends 200 voy
ages a year through the narrwos.
He commented: “removal of the
rock adds a real safety factor for
us. Our barges had to be as
crautious as any steamship going
through there.”
Paul Pearson, Seattle general
manager for Foss Tug and Barge,
said Foss vessels go through the
narrows hundreds of times a year
and that cutting down the rock
was going to save them a lot of
trouble.
Fishermen will still have to
do some waiting at Seymour Nar
rows, but it won’t be as bad as
before Saturday’s big blast.
The USS Essex rounded the
Cape of Good Hope March 28,
1800, becoming the first U.. S.
warship ever to do so.
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Meets Every Monday Noon at
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Jerry Manning, President
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