Scandinavian American. [volume], November 22, 1950, Image 1

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

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INSIDE:
Norway Center Now
Nearing Completion
-—'Page 3
Sweden Made First
Treaty With America
—Page 2
50th Anniversary
Of Nobel Prizes
—Page 5
Norwegian Co-Ops
Show Big Gains
—Page 4
Vol. 6, No. 22.
Ballard's Christmas Festival fo Start Soon
Nordic chiefs Meet In Stockholm
The four Nordle heads of stain met for the first time in eleven
years recently In Stockholm as a result of funeral of Klng Gustaf
V. Left to right: Klng Haakon of Norway, Gustaf \‘l Adolf, Sweden.
King Frederik, Denmark. 3nd Finland's President J. Paulklvl.
Know Your Scandinavian
Organizations In Seattle
Half-Century Inventory In Thumbnail Form
PRESIDENT: Joseph P. Adams.
PAST PRESIDENT: A. E. Berg
lund. served 4 years. longest pres-
Identiai term in club's history.
OTHER OFFICERS: Victor Ly
lell, vice president: Harold Au
gustson, secretary; N. 0. Hall
strom. treasurer.
TRUSTEES: N. 0. Hallstrom,
Gus Benson. Roy Lundberg, Fred
Granstrom, H. N. Hedberg. Albert
Richardson.
MANAGER: John Nordeen.
MEMBERSHIP: Over 700 mem
bers as well as 250 members of
ladies auxiliary: largest Swedish
organization in Seattle.
MEETING TIME AND PLACE:
Second Wednesday of each month
at Club quarters. Eighth Ave. and
Olive Street.
ORGANIZED: 1892 with meet
ings held in (lubrnoms in Ranke
Building. present location of Nord
strom's Shoe store during first tea)
years; N. B. Nelson, part-owner
of Frederick and Nelsons in Sea!-
tle sold present site to club for
$3.000 on easy payment in 1902.
when Wooden structure was bmlt
at cost of $7.000: remodelled and
enlarged at cost of $18,000 in
1909. Swedish Club is oldest
Swedish organization in Seattle.
excluding churches.
PURPOSE: tn maintain a sm‘ial
function fur Swedish population.
MAIN .~\(TI\'ITIES: Annual
Swedish Day at Vasn Park with
last year's program )bnut the best
ever presented in park; Swedish
Day queen contest; Alaska Night.
once a year; banquets; programs
at each meeting with smérgdsbord
free of charge to members.
SOME ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
mowed membership enormously
(up to lut World War member
lhlp toul wu steadily around
100): math. pbco for 30 crush
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' n) Serving the Scandinavian-American Population of the Great Northwest
3. Swedish Club
izations, including nearly all Swo
dish groups; ten years ago formed
ladies auxiliary. a very significant
addition: helped foster and backs
Svea Male Choir, of which every
singer must be member of Swedish
Club; donated money to Swedish
Book fund at University of Wash
ington in past years: donated
sums to northern SWeden during
Ihardships there: received Swedish
flag with greetings from the lat-3
King Gustaf V: owns building an!
$70000 in cash and bonds besides
property.
THE MANAGER: John Nnrdeen.
one of the best km-wn and most
popular Swedes in Northwvst:
born in Krami‘ors. Swiwlen. enn
gratod to the l'niteil Stairs in
1912. arriving in Seattle in 1917:
became manager. 1933: has \vnt
ton history of dub and another
book; frequent and popular mn—
tributor to Swedish press; speaker.
singer. amateur actor, painter and
verse-writer: known as Skrellbom:
assisted in managerial duties by
Mrs. Nordoun
Tom-Tom Drums
Needed In Norway?
An ariiclo- in tha- Soviet maga
‘zino Ni'w Tin“. issue No. 33.
[written the Nonwgian commun
ists for tho-ir poor showing in
icollocting signatunw for tho so
collod Stockholm peacc appeal.
Obviously displeased. the Moscow
publication writes:
“When it is mlble to collect
16.000 slxnatun-s in an Atrium
colony like Triad. win-n- mcctingn
m called by tom-tom drums. and
when women and men sly: with
their tiny-r prints. tint in really
«soothing o! :- manna-hut."
Seattle, Washington, November 22—24, 1950
FESTIVAL GUEST TO SCANDINAVIA
PAN AMERICAN WORLD AIRWAYS STRATO-CLII’PER—On board this Giant of tho Skins a iuvky
person will be the alrbome guest of the Ballard Commercial (‘lub in cooperation with Pan Anwriran World
Airways. The guest will get a free round trip to Scandinavia.
Girls Urged To Participate In Lucia Bride Contest
This year’s Scandinavian Christ
mas festival in Ballard. will start
December 6 and continue until De
cember 25. The storm of Ballard}
are being decorated in Scandina-i
vian style. Accordionisia and sing-l
era in nativi- costumes will be on
the streets. Smorgasbord will beI
se-rvod by restaurants M the dis-r
(riot.
Two of the main highlight» of‘
this )‘Par‘s celebration will be ill»
University of Washington Lucia
Chosen For Christmas Program
.‘Iury Do'rrivult. Scuttle. i~ thv
I950 (-Imim- ll\ Lucia I'ur thin )var's
(‘hristnnh program spunsorml h_\'
llu' Sulmllmninn club of the Scull—
dimn‘iun dvpartnn-nt. ruin-nit)
of “‘nshingtun. 'l‘hq- awn-n! Hill In-
Iu-ld at 8 p. m.. liq-m-mlwr 71h. in
Magnum-Icon
awarding of a free. air trip for
some lucky person to Scandinavia
under sponsorship of Pan Ameri
can World Airways and the ermnI
ing of the Lucia Bride at 8 p. m..
December 12 in Seattle's (‘ivic au
ditorium. Lueia will be given a
free trip to Hollywood. where she
will be guest of major studims and
stars.
The Lucia Brldv contest will he
decided by a pane-l of judges this
llw new Studvnt I'nion building. on
the campus.
Miss Dvrricott. diiughtcr of Mr.
and Mrs. l-irxm~t B. Dori-icon. 175.10
Dayton AVA. is half-Swvdish 1W
tlvscmit. A sei'nnd-yoar studvnt in
chdish zit the university. slin
plans to be an olonii‘ntary grutlv
school tt-uchvr. She also plans to
continue her study of S\\'l'(Ҥh an!
hoprs to make a trip to Swvdcn
in 1952. She has partitipatoil m
several student shows and was
featured dllnl‘t‘r in the All-I'ni
\‘ersity Show last year. Sho is a
photographir model at the Que
(‘hins photographic school anil
works part time at Matson Navi
gation Lines.
Her attendants at the program
will Be Bat-bro Carlson. Seattle;
Ethel Compton, Tacoma; Edith
Dalman. ChicagO: Emily Neat, Ta
coma; Bernice Nelson. Seattle; El
na Peterson. Preston; Loin Peter
son. Seattle: Betty Ring. Seattle;
Nancy Skoglund. Seattle: Gloria
Stand. Port Angeles.
' Students and their families are
’lnvited to this event. Coffee will
be served and dAnc'mg will round
|out the eventng’s entemmment.
There will be no Won chute.
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year. However. Lucia will not
[travel to Srandlnavia Ls during
1the past two years.
The contest is open to all single
women between 18 and 24 years
of age in Washington. Contestants
must be of Swedish. Norwegian.
Danish. Icelandic or Finnish des
cent. or one parent of contestant
must be of such descent. Each
contestant must send application
arrompanied with photograph of
herself to office of Johnson and
Jonson. Suite 221. Ballard Bldg.
2208 Market St. Seattle. not later
than midnight, December 4. Scan
dinavian societies throughout the
«Continued on Page 12v
Denmark’s First
Woman Minister
Juslim- )llni~h~r lh‘lga l‘mh‘r
wn. Do-nmark‘s first “-mmn
minhh-r of jlhtit-v. ‘3}: qu
dmwn't lwlivn- "thv “urld \Hlultl
lw the flighh-al hit ha‘th‘r nff if
i‘ \u-n- mwvrm‘d by unmrn."
5hr (old a valh'rs ('urrvv
pondvnt tmlay that "\uImI-n in
governmvm wmlld nmke- vuu‘t
l)‘ as many mhxaku-s a~ lhv
lm-n du."
“A portal!" qualifirzuiuns
~hunld he the fluid". n”! that
[n-Non‘§ new." sh“ addmL
An ullrm'tiu-. ~l|m “umun w!
39. Miss l'u-drm-n said ~hv um
"as wurprlml m ambmh a-Iw"
\\ hen sh» wa~ lulu-d tn hum-nu
jnnthv minister 3 fr“ day. ago.
She- preferred nut in ('mnnwn!
on her new job ““an l hau
ntthd down." but she (lid mam
than general remarks:
The hall: “I do not Illu- H at
“I."
“a death WI‘IN‘DK‘G‘: "I “MIN
lib to m I! thou-Ind through
out tho world.“
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