Scandinavian American. [volume], May 09, 1950, Image 1

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Biggest May 17th Festival in Seattle
INSIDE:
Read About The
New Norse Home
Scandia Dancers
Leave For Sweden
Ole and Nels
Discuss Taxes
Fight For The
Common Man
Vol. 6, No. 9.
SCANDINAVIAN SEAMEN'S HOME IN SEATTLE IS
GREATEST NORTHWEST INSTITUTION OF ITS KIND
When two visiting or stranded seamen get together in
Seattle they’re apt to ask any one of the following questions.
Got a job? Got any mail? Got a room ashore? Played any
soccer ball? Got a tough problem? Having trouble with
something? Got anything to read? Need some help? Hungry?
Swedish llospifiteifi!
Graduates Nurses!
'rhé 1950 graduates of the Swed-l
ish Hospital School of Nursing in‘
Seattle received their diplomas‘
and pins at a ceremony in the‘l
Mission Covenant Church. Seattle.,
\\‘eilnesdny. May. 10. l
The clnss includes 17 girls: John:
Soderberg, president of the hmrd
of directors. was presiding ”Hive!“
and presented the diplomas. )Ilss
iierina I. Eklind. it. N. and
superintendent. presented the pans ‘
Dr. Edward H. Laurr. I'mversity‘
of Washington, delivered the princ
ipnl address. Dr. Edward P. Palm
ason. tenor, was soloist. ‘
Scandinavian Countries Are
Creating Common Labor Market
The plan for a single labor mar- ‘
ket In Scandinafia. now lEnulunlly
being mallzod. is denrri ‘d in an
editorial In the Holyoko Glass.)
Transcript-Telegram. of April 4.
1960. "The Scandinavian roun
lrios," it begins. “who hau- laughi ,
us it lot about oo—operath'o onlvr
prison of varlom; kinds. are pro
viding a sort of demonstration
project in inti-rnuilonal economic
('o-opomilon which nhouki be of
grout value to RCA plannvrn and
thou who will come Mia-r E(‘.-\.l
Openiing outside- iho Marshall
Plan. the {our countries oi north-g
ern Europe Il'l‘ caisbllxhlng a oom- ‘
non labor mullet-molt; thelr ml
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Food For Soul and Body
(Pastor Siquoland is standing)
,mllllon people.
, "The four countries —- Swedvn.
jNorway. Denmark, and Finland’-
Thm'e much in common, but they
1have dit‘t‘orent economic struc
ttures. They do not have economic
lups and downs at the same time.
‘do not as a rule all get hit with
i unemployment at once. The idva is
i that the most prosperous countries
'can employ the victims of unem
! ploymont from the Countries that
‘lare temporarily less well off.
‘ "During the war. Sweden was
' able to absorb some 57,000 Scandi
lnnvian refugees, plus 33.000 oth
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Seattle, Washington, May 9, 1950
I! the reply :5 negative they
needn't worry long. The Seattle
Seamen's Center, formerly Scan di
navian Seamens Mission, 107 (‘o~
lumbia Street, can answer in the
affirmative. It has for years. Last
year with operational expenses
running up to $25,000. it performed
wonders. The seamen know it,
too. especially the foreign seamen.
including mostly Scandinavians.
Backed by the Evangelical Luth
eran Church and friends. the Cen
ter performs a humanitarian serv
ice which is quite unique in these
regions. The extent of its work
also surpasses that of any other
institution in the same field in the
Northwest. In fact, it is the great
Northwest focus point for activi
ties aimed exclusively at promot
‘ing the good and welfare of sea-
Emen, particularly those that come
there from foreign ports.
Blm-kest Year For Seamen
J Pastor Harald Siqueland. super
iintendent of the Center, is the pri
(mus motor in this well-organized
{effort to extend a helping hand
1“at all times to all seamen. regard
less of creed. race or color. The
center provides a. Seamen's home
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iAnnual' N.W. Event largest ‘
f Of Its Kind In The World
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" Seattle is perhaps the only!
llarge city in the United States 1
where all the Norwegian so-i
cieties unite in one big cele-L
bration of Norway’s Inde- '
.pendence Day, May 17. t,
l. Every important Norwegian or-i
[ganization in the city (15 in ali)i
[is represented on the committee?
‘which is arranging an elaborate]
Iprogram for this year's festival
ito be held at 7:30 p.m. Saturday.i
jMay 13, in the Civic Auditorium.f
1. Andrew Bjerkeseth. who has'
“served on the committee for ten,
consecutive years, is this year‘s
chairman and promises a program i
suitable for the occasion.
; The main speaker will be Gov
:ernor Arthur B. Langlie. Consul
lC‘ A. Stang will bring a greeting
;from Norway. There lel be songs
{by the Norwegian Ladies' Chorus.
fdirected by Mrs. Gertrude Werner;
Ethe Norwegian Male Chorus. di
rected by Professor August Wer
ner; Viola Johnson Caring. so
‘prano: violin solos by young Olaf
WMalmin; music by a 15-piece or
.chestra directed by Emil Hansen
, and dancing by a group of young
ifoik dancers.
‘1 The program will be opened by
the Children's Pageant. which in
most peoples“ opinion is the “big
.gest thing' in the festival. From
’250 to 300 children in colorful
costumes, each with a Norwegian
lor American flag and several drill
.teams with banners from the dif
ferent societies, participate in the
big parade through the aisles of
Ithe gigantic auditorium and as
'semble on the stage smging na-
Repatt For Scandinavian American:
Sweden Gets Its First Latmdercttc,
Once-A-Month Wash Doomed?
Attractive Reading Room
By Cliff Danielson
Seattle Student And Observer In Scandinmia
' Stockholm In Ma}
tionai anthems of the two coun<
Etries.
1 “There is nothing quite like this
{indoor festival anywhere," says
iChairman Bperkeseth. "In fact
Andrew Bje-rkr-wth
'ISeattles 17th of May festival is
I; . . l
.‘the blggest Indoor celebratlon of
lits kind in the world with an av
,;erage audience of close to 4.000
liand about 500 persons participat
~-ing in the program. We have
mchecked with attendance records
llat similar festivals elsewhere and
lfhave found that not even in Nor
l;way or in New York has an in
wldoor May 17 {rstn'al achlevod the
‘ proportions of our annual Seattle
"event. It seems we have the blI~
- gest auditorium or at lvast the
- best ‘indnm-‘ response}
Business is rushing for one
of the city's newest enter
prises—Svensk Auto Twit. a
Swedish version of the Amer
ican launderette. As the first
and only nne in Sweden. :1 his
been heartily welmmed by Stadi
holmers accustomed to swedtx'u;
out ten days or even 1“» week“
to get the iami'iy iazimlry done up
> “'hlle the ~hnp has bum in
opentlon for several vu-«ks. N N
still something of a ('III'IM“) M
3the citizenry. Little knots u! side
’wnlk superintendents mnflnm- to
'nthfr It the \\indcms lu \\‘atrh
iihe mllfylng «pH-tach- at rlothvs
being “named in jig-Univ.
. "\\‘e'ro Just -x;~.iv::cx.1.:ig riif’t
‘nm\'." says [immigrr Nit'k A Num
‘hnrg. "but if 1‘43 attempt goo;
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