Scandinavian American. [volume], August 03, 1950, Image 1

About Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958

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:Runeberg n Natlonal Convention uflgi‘e
By Thor E. Bloomquist
Seattle Lodge No. 101.'Or
der of Runeberg (pronounced
roon-e-berg), will be host to
0. of R. Lodges from Coast
to Coast, on Aug. 16th to 20th
inclusively.
The big occasion is the Supreme
Lodge Convention held every four
years.
The O. of R. was originally made
up of Swedish speaking folk from
Finland, and now includes their
descendants. relatives by marriage
Sweden Sending
Field Hospital
'l'o South Korea
Sweden will send a fully
equipped field hospital corps to the
United Nations troops in South
Korea.
The decision follows an appeal
from United Nations General See
retary Trygve Lie for direct mili
tary aid, preferably in the form
of troops, from all member na
tions.
Sweden. in giving an affirma
tive reply, stated that it could not
send troops now because they were
needed for the defense of the coun
try. The best possible help it could
give at this time, the reply said,
was to send the field hospital com
plete with all necessary equipment
and staffed by Swedes. It will have
a maximum capacity of 200 beds
and the staff will include 10 doc
tors. 10 nurses and 86 specialists
and medical attendants. Cost of
the field hospital is estimated at
1,000,000 crowns.
Only four nations. none of them
Scandinavian, have offered to send
troops. totaling not more than sev
eral thousand men, to South Ko
rea.
Hundreds of Swedes have of
fered to serve with the hospital
and with combat troops in Korea.
according to latest Stockho1m re
ports.
Horse Government
Has Been Given
Emergency Powers
At the last meeting of the Nor
wegian stoning before sununer ro
coanion began the government
was given full pawns to doll with
any emergvncy that my arise
from the international situation.
Radio Set For
Every F on rt h
Man In Norway
A public opinion poll jwii taken
during the Nomgim Broadcast
ing Service's Niobntiom at its
25:!- Anniversary shows "at 77¢“,
listen to radio regularly. Of them
8895 are satisfied with the pro
gram and 87¢} dimtisfled.
'I‘wenty-tvw per cent want more
light music and 14% want more
talks and instructive broadcasts.
Sixteen per cent want less jazz.
swing and dance music. while 295”;
want less classical music.
There are now 750.000 radio
license-holders in Norway out of
a total population of 3.250.000.
Just before the Germans confis
cated all radio sets in April. 1941,
there. were 476.000 license-holders.
At the liberation in May, 1945:
there were only 13,000 paying lia
teners. Since then there has been
3 remarkable development, not
only In the number of listeners but
mo in the radiummufacturing in
dustry. Nanny in now semant
flclent u in u radio nets are
concerned.
and frlends. Johan Ludwig Rune
berg, after whom the Order was
named, ls greatly honored as a
Swedish-Flunlsh Poet and Com
poser.
The Convention Committee of
the fraternity has arranged a com
prehensive program, with business
sessions each day except Sunday.
August 20th. Headquarters will
be at the Olympic Hotel. Lunch
eons, banquet and entertainment
have been planned for an estimat
ed 1,000 persons. The Olympic's
Spanish Ballroom and Junior Ball
room, the Italian-American Club,
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Vol. 6, No. 15.
Swede Will Operate Norselander,
Norway Center's New Restaurant
Shown above is the restaurant on the roof of Norway
Center. We see the promenade on the west side with an
unobstructed view of Puget Sound and the Olympic Range.
with a space of 16 x 117 feet. On the south side the space
is 14 x 57 feet.
Roy Peterson. the Well known
Seattle restaurant operator, ‘has
been nwnrded the lease for open
tlon of “Norselnnder,” the name
of the restaurant to be situated
an the. top floor of Norway Center
In Seattle.
Peterson. born 0! Swedish par
mm In Seattle. in operator of the
Golden Goose (We In file Smith
Tower.
Completion of the Norway Cen
ter building is scheduled for 0c
tober 1 and the opening of the
restaurant is tentatively set for
November 1. The new establish
ment. which Peterson earnestly
believes will be one of the most
popular of its kind in Seattle.
will not be a Norwegian or Nordic
restaurant in the ordinary sense.
of the word. However. foods that
are typical for Scandinavia will be
served although the menu will
gspecit'ically feature fish courses.
both for lunches and dinners.
lwhich should have a Scandinavmn
\flavur at that. Open from lunch~
1'time to midnight, it will be classed
with the inexpensive but quality
style eating places with dinners
ranging from $1.75 to $2.50. Sun
idays are expected to provide the
occasions for "funny dinners." No
doubt the muunnt will be a {n
vorlte eating phce among Scan
dlmvum.
the SWedish Club and the Masonic
Hall have been reserved on various
dates for the entertainment of
members-and guests.
Among' the notables who are ex
pected to attend are Governor
Langlie and Seattle's Mayor Devin.
Professor Andersson, Swedish-
F‘innish authority on folklore and
folkmusic, will be present, coming
from the International Council be
ing held at Bloomington, Indiana.
Delegates and officers from the
Atlantic Seaboard and from Can
ada will be among the visitors.
Carl Helgren of Seattle is Pres-
Sea‘ttle, Washington, August 3-8,'19SO
Air, Railroad Travel Combined for llnique Swedish Trip
The first "alr-tnln cruises" from Amen-k1 to
Sweden 9M In September through the cooper
lflon o! the Wham Alrllm System and
the Swedish State Inflwlyu. Picture. shove uhow
ident of the Supreme Lmlgn. Sv
attle officers are Geo. Hulvar,'
President: Margaret Johnson. Soc- 1
retary; Roy Johnson, Financial;
Secretary: Convention Chairmanl
is Axel Strom with Thor Bloom
quist in charge of publicity. Others i
charged with the success of the
convention i n c l u d e committee 3
chairmen, Alfred Wicks, A. Isaac-3
son, Wm. A. Anderson, Alex Koll.;
Martha Bradburn, and Dagny An- [
derson.
An imposing list of Seattle's best
musical talent is slated to enter
tain the convention. Included are,
John and Gene Sundsten, Dr. and:
Norway And The Korean War
'
By Ambassador “’llhvlm
Morgenstieme
For years the free world had
been facing the creeping. elusive
machinations of indirect commun
ist aggression. Then on June 25th
the Comminform made the fatal
mistake of letting North Korea
start an open. well-prepared and
brutal attack on the Republic of
South Korea. a country established
f“Sweden Ilas Officially Joined Front
i Line Against Communist Aggression”
! Commenting on the Swedish re
?ply to Mr. Lie. the newspaper
iDagens Nyheter states that Swe
;den, too. has now officially joined
jln the front line against (‘ommun
[lst violence.
1 Svenska Dagbladet writes that
‘Sweden's attitude is completely
Sclear and no less positive than of
'similar member nations. Morgon
jTidningen. the leading Social-Dem
]‘ocratic Labor party organ. says
lthat Sweden's reply tells plainly
‘how the Swedish people and their
government feel. "The Swedish
mum boarding the plane In New York:
Ito-(cu serving smérglshu-d In the plane; Interior
of the "flu first chug (‘omp‘rtmrnh and the
III-m hr.
Mrs. Palmasan. Gene K)“. and
Doug Setterberg and Sta: Bore
son, radio and televmim: 'H‘USCS.
Other entertainment inmi les the
popular Runobvrg chorus and the
Runeberg folk-dancers. A special«
ty will be a Puget Soun'l to Lake
Washington cruise on the S. S.
Sightseer.
The festivities will close with a
picnic, co-sponsored by Seattle and
Tacoma Lodges. Tacoma is to be
host to the Western District Con
vention for 3 days immeiiately
prior to the Seattle Supreme Lodge
Convention, and will join in spon
soring the outdoor finale.
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Eby the United Nations 8.".‘1 an in<
.tegral part of the free world.
I I Thereaction was imm-izate and
Wworld-wide. Here was something
-=concrete for all men to an. Here
nhvas open. barefaced azzrnssion
Lagainst a free. peacelonng coun
l ‘ try. in clear violation of an» loner
l‘and spirit of the Charter of the
fiUnited Nations. The fru world
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‘answer must under any farcum-
Jstances be Interpreted as m» coun
!(r_\"s \villingnoss~-»whlch :t has
ishown so many times before-to
[render humanitarian and atrox‘d
jing to its resources.“
“Action of l'. N. and l'. S.
‘ lnsplm Respect"
I The Swedish press wh-fleheart
fedly supports the stand taken by
‘the United Nations and by Presi
!dent Truman. 'hjpical of many
leditorials in the same Wm are the
ifollowing: Dagens Nyhotur‘ "News
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