Bustling Cities In Midwest
BY CARRIE McLAIN
Napa, California
In crossing over to the state of
Indaian, you wonder what this
country had to off dr besides roll
ing plains f covered with vast
fields, of corn-stalks, for Illinois
and Indiana as well are really the
com states.
The large railway stations are
no longer as forbidding as they
first appeared to me and you
soon realize they are all patterned
on a general basis. Still a famil
iar face is mighty welcome and at
this time it was Mary McDonald
Haynes of Candle, who greeted
me at the Indianapolis station.
Mary’s boys are as big as she
was when she left Candle twenty
two years ago. Mr. Haynes is
copy editor on the Indianapolis
Times and I had the pleasure of
meeting the editors and feature
writers who comprised one whole
floor of the Times Bldg. The
city’s population is some 600,000
and the Times is one of the two
evening papers in circulation.
I had noticed the flag of In
diana in its similiarity to Alaska’s
—having the dark blue back
ground with nineteen golden
stars. Not all of Indiana knows
that it was the' nineteenth state
to enter the Union, in 1816.
Visits Museums In Indianapolis
Knowing that visiting museums
was my long suit, Mary first
took me to the Museum of Art,
very lovely for its paintings,
mainly of Dutch artists and dis
played equally as well as at the
National Gallery of Art at Wash
ington, D. C,. We had time that
morning to also visit what is
called “The Children’s’ Museum”,
so named because of its popular
ity with school children and the
fapt, that it offers “display draw
ers” to classrooms all over the
city for geography classes. This
is a private museum and I met
Grace Golden, curator for thirty
years, who told me what Eski
mo artifacts were here, were
donated by Dr. and Mrs. Greist
who had spent several years as
Presbyterian missionaries dur
ing the ’20s and earlier at Wales
and Pt. Barrow. Mrs. Golden
gave me some helpful suggestions
even in as much this museum
has artifacts from all over the
world while ours would be
Seward Peninsula and Alaskan.
In the heart of the business
section of Indianapolis, one sees
the World War I Memorial Bldg,
shaped like a Mexican ancient
temple, with long flights of
stairs on the four sides. You
enter beautiful marble corridors
with meeting rooms for .civic or
ganizations, Boy Scouts, Ameri
can Legion, the largest being the
Memorial Hall in the center,
most beautiful and impressive
with its sixteen red marble col
umns surrounding this 110 foot
foom for height. Behind these
columns there’s a wall frieze of
1st World War scenes and peace.
A crystal star of destiny is in the
square ceiling dotted with blue
lights representing the stars.
Oil paintings of six big allied
generals are recessed in the walls
and flags of the sixteen allied
nations are in each corner of the
room. There are more details
which I have forgotten but, at
the time, I felt this memorial
building was a credit to Indiana.
There is also a Memorial Monu
ment in the town “center” that
had been built to “the soldiers of
the Civil War and Spanish Amer
ican War.” An elevator brings
one to the top where a person
gets a wonderful view of Indi
anapolis. Pictures and photo
graphs of great generals and
battle scenes can be seen on the
main floor and down in the
basement of this monument.
Shows Slides and Talks "Alaska"
From Indianapolis, in an hour’s
train ride, I was in Richmond,
where many of my husband’s
forbears had lived and I had
the pleasure of meeting a cousin
of Mr. McLain’s. I also visited
a pen-pal of years’ standing who
is an active club and church wo
man and I managed to attend
the annual dinner held by the
Reed Memorial Hospital Church
Guild, which consists of repre
sentatives of all the womens’ or
ganizations. While in Richmond,
I showed my slides to various
groups and talked “Alaska.”
This ended my stay in Indiana
and I was on my way to Opnaha,
Nebr. to visit the mother of #ne
of the Army lads we knew
quite well in 1942.
Omaha, has some 300,000 popu
lation and is a bustling city with
its stock yards and adjacent
farms rich in soil and averaging
$300.00 to $400.00 an acre. There
are fine big business places es
pecially the Younkers, a beau
tiful mdse, store a block long.
One hospital, “Bishop Clarkson’s”
(Episcopalian) attracted my eye;
above the arcade are the draw
ings in gold of the advance of
medicine and surgery by such as
Hippocrates, Harvey, Jenner and
Pasteur. Omaha has many beau
tiful churches and we drove by
Creighton University and the
Brandeis Estate as we headed for
Boy’s Town, created by Father
Flannigan. The extent of the
grounds and the many modern
buildings at Boy’s Town, are just
unbelievable. You marvel at
what one man’s determination
"ew Dial System
For Anchorage
To Cost $1,224,172
CHICAGO, UP) — Kellogg
Switchboard Supply Co., a sub
sidiary of International Tele
phone and Telegraph Corp., has
been awarded a $1,224,172 con
tract by the municipally-owned
telephone department of An
chorage, Alaska. It calls for the
installation of dial telephone
equipment including three new
sub-exchanges and 6,600 dial
phones.
and love has brought to pass.
Mrs. Schlueter, mother of
Glenn McCart, drove her own car
and took me to Papillion, close
by, to visit Glenn and Jiis nice
fajnily of two boys and two
girls. This reminded me of an
other Army boy of ’42 whom I
met going through Memphis,
Tenn. and who boasted a family
of four—Lewis N. Hall. In
driving around Omaha and sur
rounding country, I noticed folks
burning off their yards and their
acreage before planting time and
learned this was done to burn
any grasshapper eggs and chinch
bugs. Prior to this, the ground
was tyrned under and this did
not destroy the grasshopper eggs.
. We saw huge flocks of wild
ducks in the corn-fields feeding
up, before making their long
flight north. I had noticed last
October in North Dakota the
flocks of ducks and geese that
would settle in the fields of
grain and barley, for the night
and by daylight head for the
ponds. It’s a huntsman’s para
dise in the fall.
Largest Airfield in lhe World
We drove to Ft. Crooks where
SAC is located at Offutt Air
field, the largest in the world.
Much of it is underground and
called “the fingers of the world,”
constantly working day and
night, 365 days of the year. In
driving to Bellevue: one gets a
first hand view of' Offutt Air
field and the big buildings of
SAC. This area is located in
big farming country. Western
Electric has a tremendously big
set-up at Millard, a suburb. All
this is a big boast to Omaha’s
economy.
Every place I have been has
held deep interest for me. My
travels are like a panorama of
vistas and people.
I left Omaha for California,
changing cars at Kansas City.
The railway station is huge,
especially the waiting room, near
the many gates to the tracks.
Watching all the humanity going
and coming, as George Goshaw
says, is television enough for any
one.
Alaska Airlines Schedules
Night Flight to Alaska
SEATTLE, Iff) — Alaska Air
lines has scheduled an additional
evening flight to Alaska, Richard
W. Gilbert, senior vice president,
said Monday.
The flight was added to handle
heavy spring freight movements'
to the territory, Gilbert said.
Additional schedules will be
placed in operation as seasonal
work builds up in Alaska.
NWA To Order Jet
Planes In Near Future
CHICAGO, (ffV—Northwest Air
lines is the only major U. S. car
rier which has not ordered jet
aircraft, and this will work to
the company’s advantage, Donald
1 Nyrop, president, told the annual
meeting.
Northwest will be placing or
ders for jets and turboprop
planes in the near future, lie
said. The delay has given the
company more time to study the
various types offered.
MRS. MISSES MOTH
BUT NOT MATE
SOUTH AMBOY, N. J., UP)—
The next time Mrs. Roman Fer
necz tries to bag a moth, she’ll
probably use a fly swatter.
Monday night she used a
hammer. A few minutes later
she called police and announced:
“I don’t think my V'dsband is
breathing.”
Officers who rushed to the
scene found Mrs. Fernecz’ hus
band out cold on the floor. The
woman explained she had tried
to swat the moth but had con
nected instead with her hus
band’s finger.
Fernecz wTas revived and treat
ed for the bruised finger.
The moth is still-at large.
An old man was sitting on the
porch of a little village store when
a big shiny car drove up with two
strangers in it.
“Hey, there,” one of them called
out. “How long has this town
been dead?”
The old man looked at them
over the rims of his spectacles.
“Well, not tongj* I guess. You
are the first buzzards I’ve seen.”
Stassen’s Bid For
Penn, Governorship
Shattered In Primary
IBu The Associated Press)
Harold E. Stassen’s bid for a
political comeback was shattered
Wednesday after Pennsylvania’s
Republicans handed him a
crushing defeat in his quest to
become the second man in his
tory to govern two states.
The 51-year-old Minnesota na
tive, admittedly facing an up
hill fight, was swamped by a
tide of votes that gave his guber
natorial primary opponent, Ar
thur T. McGonigle, a victory mar
gin of two to one.
McGonigle, a Reading pretzel
maker, achieved victory in his
first election try, beating a man
who had his first taste of major
political success when he was
elected governor of Minnesota at
31. Stassen twice was re-elec
ted governor of his home state.
NOT THE BEST—
BUT THEY'LL DO
DETROIT, — Wayne State
University now is requiring first
year medical students to furnish
their own skeletons.
Prices range from $70 for a
“low quality second grade” skele
ton to $375 for a premium **grade
skeleton.
Several freshmen said they are
trying to swing a deal with a
New York Science wholesale
house to get skeletons for $140
each.
“These are not the best,” said
one freshman, “but they’ll do.”
TUESDAY BASEBALL SCORES
American League
Baltimore 6, Detroit 4
New York 5, Chicago 1
Kansas City 7, Washington 3
Boston 6, Cleveland 1
National League
St. Louis 5, Philadelphia 0
Pittsburgh 12, Chicago 3
San Francisco 4, Cincinnati 2
Los Angeles 6, Milwaukee 3
Pacific Coast League
Portland 4, San Diego 3
Sacramento 9, Salt Lake City 8
Phoenix. 7, Seattle 6
Vancouver 8, Spokane 6
Fine Job Printing At The Nugget.
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STARTING AT 9 O’CLOCK
Sadie Hawkins Night Wednesday
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MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY
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Ar. Kolz. 6:50 a.m. Ar. Nome 11:45 a.m. Ar. Kolz. 8:50 a.m.
Lv. Kolz. 7:30 a.m. Lv. Nome 12:45 p.m. Lv. Kolz. 9:30 a.m.
Ar. Nome 8:45 a.m. Ar. Kolz. 2:00 p.m. Ar. Nome 10:45 a.m.
Lv. Nome 9:45 a.m. Lv. Kolz. 2:40 p.m. Lv. Nome 11:45 a.m.
Ar. Fair. 2:00 p.m. Ar. Fair. 6:30 p.m. Ar. Fair. 4:00 p.m.
BUSH FLIGHT
Lv. Kolz. 8:30 a.m.
Ar. Nome 11:30 a.m.
Lv. Nome 12:25 p.m.
Ar. Kolz. 3:20 p.m.
THURSDAY
Lv. Fair. 5:00 a.m.
Ar. Nome 7:15 a.m.
Lv. Nome 8:15 a-m.
Ar. Kolz. 9:30 a.m.
Lv. Kolz. 10:10 a.m.
Ar. Fair. 2:00 p.m.
Lv. Fair. 4:00 p.m.
Ar. Nome 6:15 p.m.
Lv. Nome 7:15 p.m.
Ar. Kolz. 8:30 p.m.
Lv. Kolz. 9:10 p.m.
Ar. Fair. 1:00 a.m.
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FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY
Lv. Fair. 9:30 a.m, Lv. Fair. 7:00 a.m.
Ar. Kolz. 11:20 a.m. Ar. Nome 9:15 a.m.
Lv. Kolz. 12:00 p.m. Lv. Nom$ 10:15 a.m.
Ar. Nome 1:15 p.m. Ar. Kolz. 11:30 a.m. NO SUNDAY
Lv. Nome 2:15 p.m. Lv. Kolz. 12:10 p.m. FLIGHTS
Ar. Fair. 6:30 p.m. Ar. Fair. 4:00 p.m.
- UNTIL
JUNE 8. 1958
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