The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 6, 1930, Page 3

' All-Alaska News NEWS 6 ATHERED FROM ALL PARTS OF NORTHLAND Briet Items of Interest i Concerning Persons + and Occurences ¢ Louis Laska, formerly of Anchor- age, whose father A. M. Laska is still in business there, is in charge of the Alaska Commercial Compa- ny's business at Unalaska. Parachutes for use of airplane pi- | lpts and passengers have been re- Mived by the Alaskan Airways, the | mifpgipal base of which is at Fair- | bi s. The' parachutes will be worn planes are flying at night, in new, territory, or when conditions ar&"azardous otherwise. { | At the annual election of officers of gthe Legion Auxiliary in Fair-| bagks, Mrs. Ann Fiarbir Fairburn| Wwa..chosen President; Mrs. Ethel | Tonseth, First Vice-President; Mrs. Lugy Baily, Second Vice-President; Mrs. Lovina E. Lund, Secretary Mrs. Elizabeth Hamilton, Treasure! Mrs. Anna Youci, Historian; Mrs. Bmma McKinnon, Chaplain; Mrs. HNugget Geraghty, Sergeant-at-arms Mas, Mary White, Mrs. Mamante Hajiton "and Mrs. Agnes Hering, Executive Committee. -8 S = Rfaska is really the home of San-| ta Claus, Mary Cox, 11 years old, realized when she saw his reindeer | on her arrival at Fairbanks to join Rer father, a World War veteran. She made the trip from the States alone. = Wolves and coyotes are multiply- g rapidly and are killing moun- | fain sheep in great numbers in the €hitina region, according to E. E.| CGhamberlin, United States Com- missioner there. He advocates in-| creasing the present bounty of $5 a pelt on the predatory animals| to prevent extinction of the sheep. ZThe 200-foot mast for the United {in Aurora, Ontari be given preference on the pur- chase of such lots. Mrs. S. Thompson, stepmother of the late W. F. Thempsoen, veteran newspaperman. of Dawson and Fairbanks, died recently in Itach: Mich,, leaving an estate $100,000. She willed one-fourth of it to the late W. F. Thompson's three children — Marion, Richard and William—who live in Fai banks with Mrs. W. F. Thompson, their mother. At a special election held at Iditarod, three votes were cast to disincorporate the town, and none to retain its corporate character. Cha Lovell was Mayor. Within the last year an exodus has taken place from Iditarod to Flat. Children living on farms near airbanks will not be deprived of | s hool advantages because of lack of Territorial money to furnish them transportation to school. Bus service has been provided by the Fairbanks Chamber of Commerce. E. B. Weaver has been elected Chief of the Fairbanks Fire D: partment by the Fairbanks City Council to cucceed Arthur E. Oliver, resizned. troac Hartman, Dawson’s first Postmaster, who held the office 18 years, died recently at his old home to which he re- tired in 1915 after relinquishing the postal position. |PALACE THEATRE CHANGES ARE TO START AT ONCE Scaffolding is being erected in the interior of the Palace Theatre by the carpenters of the Morris Construction Company in prepara- tion for many ajterations to be made by the new lease holder, Lawrence H. Kubley. Erick Paulson, representing Mr. Kubley, said the later and several decorators will arrive here on the next steamer from Ketchikan and start to work closely following the carpenters. A new ventilating system is to be installed in the Palace which will valued at| THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE; SATURDAY, DEC. 6, 1930 Governor-Elect ALASKA FOREST - AREAS MAKE UP ~ VAST ACREAGE | ;Govemor in His Annual Re- I port Gives Details of | Timbered Tracts “The two National Forests in Alaska are administered by the| Forest Service of the Department of Agriculture,” declares Gov.| ‘George A. Parks in his report to/ the Secretary of Interior. | “The Chugach, the smaller of the two, is located in the Prince William| | Sound region, and has an area of| | 4,800,000 acres. The commercial tim- ber stand here is estimated to be 16260000000 feet board measure. | o \ Associated Press Photo 1 Forest cov- Arthur Seligman, Santa Fe bank- | The Tongass National ers the great art of Southeast \ 3 P o er, is the democratic governor-elect of New Mexico. Alaska. It has an area of 16,547,000 |acres and a commercial stand of _ | timber of approximately 78,500,000, /000 feet board measure. The trec specles of these Forests occur in|lional |about the following percentages: | Year “Western hemlock, 73, Sitka spruce 20, Western red cedar 3 j Al a cedar 3, and others 1 ps able for Alaska some $500,000 addi- road money for the Fiscal | r 1931. This sures an even Imore ext a road building pro- gram than has been followed in the past. | “The Forest Service is continuing cent. “Porest Service officlals estimate 1% Policy of putting land to use through the medium of leases at {that it is possible to cut 1,000,000~ $ oY : -l 000 board. féet ‘shioh Jekr in per.! HOMINAL sums to acilvitles such #5 petuity from the Alaska National fur farms, ,rf:;"l"" Gl e Forests, The last calendar years DNeTies. etc. 812 special use permits, cut was only 47500000 board feet, | UUiZInE nearly 150000 acres of I'This material was used to supply 1and, wererin effect at the end of | the local needs for sawtimber, pil- 9% ing, ties and various other pro- Mmmeral Development | ducts. No great increase in the cut ' «pineral development is encour- |can be looked for until the puld ageq on ‘Natignal Forest land. The and paper mills now in prospect b= hrospector and operator is not bur- | come a reallty. dened by restrictions other than| Water Power Applications those provided in the general min-| “Applications for licenses to tl(‘~l“m laws. Newly discovered mineral- | {'velop certain water power sites in|izeq regions have recently stimy- | connection with pulp and Paper|jated prospecting to a marked de- Imills to be established near Ju-|gree. i | neau and Ketchikan have recently| wrpe Act of March 3, 1927, par-| {been made to the Federal POWEr|mits the leasing of land as a home- | | Commission by large and responsi- | cige not exceeding 5 acres, which | | ble firms. There is every reason 0| can be patented at the end of 3 | believe that construction work en- years if used as a home during that | {tailing the development of a totallperiod to the exclusion of a home| | of 110,000 horsepower will be Start-| elcowhere, The desivability of this| ed this year. law is shown by the fact that 263 “National Forest roads are €ON-|gppications for homesites have, |structed by the Bureau of Public|yeen made under this act to date | Roads, the road building agency of | «galmon canneries and other in- | the Department of Agriculture, With | qugtrial enterprises occupying sites | funds appropriated under the fores! | ynqer jease on the National Forests | road section of the Federal High-|gare now largely taking advantage jway Act and in cooperation wita|of g yecent regulation under which | | posed available to the Territory schoels and roads, and ten percent, or $11,032, is returned to the local branch of the Forest Service for expenditure on trail construction.” FLYWEIGHT AND HEAVYWEIGHT BATTLE SUNDAY Lahikainen - Council Match Will Feature Midget Golf Play Between the champion flyweight and the champion heavyweight a be will be waged to datarminas the “champeen” of champions. Toivo Lahikainen, 10 years old and 90 pounds in his woolen sweat-' er and ccrduroy trousers, and Dr W. W. Council, who must be crowd ing 47 Christmastides, nd 225 ols is in linen outing rt and knickerbockers, will mee 3 tomorrow afternoon on th Midget Golf course in the Cha Goldstein Building to see which ean sink the pill in the 18 holes in the least number of shots. At various| times both have broken the course par of 50, and the match should be | interesting. It is sure to draw a large galle Boys and Girls To Play Boys and girls of the high schoo! and of the grade school will also engage in play tomorrow. ‘The high school boys’ team, com- of Capt. Hilding Haglund, Wiley Parsons, Horace Perkins, Toi- vo Lahikainen (included in the high school team although only a {grade school pupil) and John Hel- lenthal at 3 o'clock in the after- noon, will play a picked team, the personnel of which has not ye been completed. Grade school boys will play at 10:30 in the morning. Entries are Buddy Lindstrom, Archie Gubser, Henry Behrends, Harold Hanson Roy Smith, Harry Sturrock, Phillip Berthol, Harold McLean and Joseph McLean. | Fair High School Students High School girls who will ¢n gage in play at 1 o'clock in th afternoon are Barbara Simy Annabell Simpson, Elizabeth Ter- hune, rbara Winn, Jean Faulk- ner, Bodding, Dorothy Rutt Helen Magill Grade School girls will play at 1 o'clock in the afternoon. The en- tries are Delores Tarr, Sybil God- frey, Pafricia Harland, Marjorie provide for a change of air every| % - i J9¢ 5 se roads are an séven minutes. Fans will be erected| the Territory. The % these sites can be eliminated from; Eleimmsenflyomomnflomsenflpsmenfpomnenfy e ROBERY AMES WILLIAM HRRRIGAN MAUDE FULTON COLISEUM SUNDAY and MONDAY 9:30 N AnALLTALKING MOVIETONE WITH SONGS LONG ON LAUGHS! A comedy of wo- men-hatersin love. Here is the stage without ackstage—a story of actors home, of real people ¥ hind their pr ssional masks. DONALD | GALLAHER Willam. Fox- | = fi¢ CEORGE M.FARLANE LAST TIMES TONIGHT—GARY COOPER in “THE TEXAN” JALLLEU UL LU TR U R UL UV BRI LU UL LU LT CALIFORNIA GROCERY States Army Signal Corps radio | important factor in the. develop-|the Forest and then patented. statipn at Anchorage is expected toibe érected within a month by| John Ryder of the F. C. Ferrell @onstruction Company of Seattle which has the contract for thej ob. Six years ago Ryder was as- 1istam master methanic and Fer- fell master mechanic on the Alaska Railroad. { Town lots at Seldovia will be sold by the Government next| gpring. The minimum price will be 4t the rate of $1.25 an acre with ddded cost of survey, which totals| jon each side of the proscenium I'ment of the National 'Leest, Beatrice Bothwell, 3,000 for the entire townsite. Bona | lide occupants of improved lots‘ prior to December 4, 1929 still will +—— arch, under the balcony and on g cach side and rear of the balcony.|tion of Alaska since they connect Horns will replace the loudspeak- | isolated agricultural scttlements and ers used for the sound pictures. small ' towns and mining districts The box office will be changed,|With the larger communities and likewise the entrance to the bal-|main traveled waterways. ‘cony. New draperies will be hung| 227 Miles of Road and many other innovations made.| “Up to June 30, 1930, 227 miles .- {of road were constructed and main- NOTICE ;tained at a cost of $4,500,000. The ‘tralls open up new regions for min- The parties holding number 388 eral prospecting, as well as for and number 15 for the MOOSE- | many other kinds of development. HEART HOPE CHEST will pleasc"A total of 375 miles of such trails present them at once to Mrs.| has beén built to June 30, 1930, at Radalet. | a cost of $420000. A recent appro- adv. Hope Chest Committee. priation by Congress makes avail- VST Ry oo oe Ordway’s Photo Shop In the latest styles, make an appropriate gift for any occasion. I R e (LU T T D T LT LT A T LT " PHOTO ALBUMS AT ALASKA SCENIC VIEWS Forest | Aerial Photography | “The fall of 1929 saw the com- ipxmm of a project started in 1926 | that means much to the Territory. | This is the mapping by aerial pho- | tography of Southeastern Alaska. | The work was done by the U. S.| Navy with the cooperation of the| inuronu of Public Roads, Geologi! | cal Survey, Forest Service and of | er Government agencies in Alaska. | The ‘photographs obtained are of | inestimable value in showing tim- Ibpr stands, water power lakes, pos- | sible road and trail routes, water | courses, and the outline of uncha ed coasts. Two very important water power sites, heretofore unreported, | one on Baranof Island and the oth- er near the mouth of Taku Inlet were mapped by the Navy fli | The latter, known as Dorothy Lake is expected to be used immediately | for power development near Ju- neau. “Any of the aerial photographs are available to the public at the cost of printing. Almost Self-Supporting “Except for money spent on roads and trails, the National Forests in Alaska are almost self-supporting In the Fiscal Year 1930 a total of $110,320 was received by the Gov- ernment from the sale of timber and as rentals from special use per- | mits and other activities. This amount is slightly less than the administrative expenditures for the year. Twenty-five percent, or $27- 580, of the net receipts is made ‘Winn and Vivian Powi L3t e Rt ©0ld papers at The Empire o { amuuuuumuuuumuuuuuumuuuuum Why INDIAN Lump-N ut Is th’e Outstanding Coal First—INDIAN Lump-! 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