The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 10, 1934, Page 8

THE DAILY ALASKA Em‘:'., THURSDAY, MAY 10, 1934 AIRPLANE MAL STILL ASSURED, DIMOND WRITES Tells Chamber Difficulties of Interior Airmail Have Been Settled Apparently a saustactory solution to the airmail operations problem in interior and northern Alaska has been found by the Postal author- ities, the Chamber of Commerce was informed today by Delegate A. J. Dimond in a letter to the local organization. He reviewed the whole history of the matter and told just what steps he had taken in an endeavor to solve the diffi- culties. : Delivery of mail by airplanes, he said, was threatened owing to the small amount of money provided in the budget for the Post Office Department. While he was not able to obtain an increase over budget figures, he has been in- formed by the department that a satisfactory solution has been found. Not Regular Air Mail There is no regular airmail sys- tem in Alaska, the Delegate pointed out. Bids are called for under the star route system for which appro- priaiions are made. Under the con- tracts ending this year, the op- erators lost money on a bid of $135,000 which was originally made by a contractor since gone out of business. The Bureau of Budget, basing its estimate on that figure, however, had set up $135,000 for next year. The House, over Delegate Dimond's protest in committee and the House, reduced that figure to $132,000. The Delegate appeared before the Senate Committee and urged a sub- stantial increase and did succeed in getting it restored to the budget estimate. Seeks Deficiency Aid Failing in his efforts to get the appropriation bill amended, the Delegate then took the fight to the Post Office Department. He urged that it seek a deficiency appropria- tion which was seriously considered | by it but later he was informed | that a contract had been awarded | to the Alaska Pacific Airways, Inc., for the Fairbanks - Nenana - Nome route and that emergency contracts would be let covering other routes. | Sometime after that, he was| further “advised that the whole matter had been satisfactorily ad- | Jjusted. | Highway Is Boosted | The Delegate also submitted to the Chamber a report from the Secretary of War on the Alaskai section of the proposed Interna- | tional Highway. Secretary Dem‘ said the project was regarded as| practical and feasible from an en- gineering standpoint and the Al- | aska section could be constructed for $2,000,000. He quoted from the | final report made by the Interna- | SALAD DRESSIN by the quart . tienal Highway Commissi ered several months ago. That body, the Secretary added, had not made any survey to de-! termine the economic justification of the project. Has Several Guests Two out-of-town members of the Board of Education, M. J. Walsh, | Nome, and P. C| McMullen, Sew-! n, rend- Nome, said the Board has many heavy responsibilities which it is trying to shoulder to a satisfactory manner. “The Board is very for- tunate to have Mr. Faulkner as its President and that he is in close touch and working with the Commissioner of Education.” The Nome Chamber of Com- merce, he added, is very thankful ard, Bishop Peter T. Rowe, M. S.;Ior the assistance given it by the| Dobbs and C. F. Sanborn Werei]oca] organization in “straightening ACTIVITIES ARE | for next year. Honors went to the Lindstrom family, with Buddy chosen to act as President of the Student Body for 1934-35 and his sister, Inga, elected as Secretary- Treasurer. Walter Scott was elect- ed Vice-President of the organiza- tion and the remaining officers are to be selected at a later meeting. It was announced late this after- Saienats noon by Superintendent that the Baccalaureate Services for | Raven| guests of the Chamber today. The Board members were pres- ented by H. L. Faulkner, President, who later spoke of some of the work and problems of the Board and declared the Governor and Legislature could have selected no more capable representatives of the several Divisions. Mr. Faulkner commented on the transportation problem -confronting the Board and other matters, ificluding its $205,000 Territorial school building program now in progress. Commissioner A. E. Karnes later gave some of the details of the program which ap- pears elsewhere in The Empire today. Recognizes Responsibilities Mr. Walsh, a 28-year resident of Trim & Slim’ | | and made of TRICOT < B Munsingwear Undies of soft, caressing Munsingwear Tricot are the perfect undie solution for the fashionable woman who wants satiny smooth undergarments that fit perfectly and precisely. They're really irresistible | ..and very run-resistible . .. and never have prices on | Munsingwear Tricot gar- ments been so appealingly low! The LEADER George Bros. ...35¢ At GARNICK’S, Phone 174 -3 (out its little problems from time to time and hopes it can reciprocate {in some way whenever the occasion |arises.” Mr. McMullen also expressed ap- preciation for similar service. “We ihave never called on you for aid that we didn't get it,” he declared. “The Third Division is getting along nicely, in a Democratic way,” He said smilingly. Others Respond Briefly Bishop Rowe expressed his pleas- ure at again befmg here. “Speed does it” ih Alaska declared Mr. Sanborn, engineer for the Warrack Construction Company, who has |been commuting between here and Sitka by plane since his arrival early this week from Seattle. Mr. Dobbs, Deputy Collector of Customs in charge of the Ketchi- kan station, and a former resident of this city, laughingly reminded ; the Chamber that “Ketchikan is still the First City.” BARANOF MAKES FIVE FLIGHTS IN TWO DAYS The seaplane Baranof of the Commencement to Be Held the graduating class will be held on Evening of May 31 | the Presbyterian Church. Dean| in H. S. Gymnasium . will be the speaker of the evening. | Members of the 193¢ graduatine. TOURIST BOOTH JOB class of the Juneau High “School | have just three weeks to prepare | A_PPLICANTS SHOULD for their Commercement Exercises, | NI ! which will take place in the mignh| FILE BEFORE MONDAY School Gymnasium at 8 o’clock 1n| the evening, May 31. | Applications for position of _at- As an innovation this year, four |tendant at the Tourist Information students of the Senior Class have|Booth during the coming season been chosen as speakers at com- | Will be received until next Monday | mencement this year, Superintend- | €Vening, it was announced today by | ent R. S. Raven announced. iCurus Shattuck, Secretary of the The first annual event on theJuneau Chamber of °°mme(fi°e& | spring calendar will be the Glee| The booth will be °Per“‘;°l 5 Club Concert to be held in the!ing the months of June, July an grade school auditorium under the August. All applications should be direction of Miss Alice Palmer to-|Submitied in_letter e morrow evening. Other important dates which mark the close of| C. E. Rice of Trinity Cathedral,| | Jensen, | Alaska-Southern Airways, with pilot Gene Meyring and Mechanic Gordon Graham made a trip this morning to~ Twin Glacier Camp ,with L. H. Smith and Miss Mary Joyce, leaving at 7 o'clock and re- turning at 9 o'clock. | A trip to Ketchikan is project- jed for 5:30 o'clock this afternoon | With Winn Goddard, Frank Du- | fresne, and M. S. Dobbs scheduled as passengers so far. The plane will return tomorrow morning. | The Baranof with Pilot Gene ! Meyring and Mechanic Lloyd Jar- ! man made three flights yesterday, {one at 10:30 o'clock in the morn- |ing and the others at 1:15 o'clock 'and 5:30 o'clock in the afternoon. On the morning flight the Bar- anof went to Funter Bay, Hoonah, Excursion Inlet and Strawberry | Point, with the following pas- | sengers, Sam Pekovich for Funter Bay, F. C. Nelson for Hoonah, R. | W. McCrary and John Erickson for | Excursion Inlet, and Hawley Sterl-| |ihg for Strawberry Point. On the | return the plane brought Carl | D. Hupp in from Excursion Inlet. In the afternoon the plane went |to Port Althorp, Chichagof and Sitka. Passengers for Chichagof were Lawrence Freeburn, Henry | Wood, and Calvin Bagby. A full load was brought in from | Chichagof, and the Baranof made | | another trip dt 5:30 o'clock to pick | |up J. B. Warrack and C. F. San-| | born at Sitka and Hawley Sterling } at Strawberry Point. The Baranof carried first class mail for all ports of call yester- | day. ——————— JOE HILL LEAVES FOR CHICHAGOF AND SITKA Joe L. Hill, ploneer fox rancher and prospector, who has been win- tering here left today on his gas- boat, the Nugget, for Chichagof | and Sitka. He will be absent sev- ! eral months. Here’s Where You Saveon the Purchase of a Spring DRES Regular $9.95 Values for FRIDAY and SATURDAY SELLING® A $5.95 THIS IS A CASH PRICE ONLY—Large sizes, ‘llnost]y j:;cket styles and are brand new arrivals. COLEMAN'S ~.STORE OPEN UNTIL 9 O’CLOCK TONIGHT school will be May 27, when the Baccalaureate Exercises will be held in the evening at 8 o'clock; M 19, on which day at 10 0'clock in the morning, tennis matches will be held between teams of the Juneau High School and the Douglas High School on the Juneau Tennis Club courts; May 21, when intra-mural baseball games will begin.between various high school teams and be held during the week; and last, but not least, June 1, on which day school officially closes until next fall. There are 29 members of the Senior Cl this year, all of whom are looking forward to don- ning their caps and gowns and receiving a diploma signifying completion of their high school education and a passport to college or university next fall. Student Oificers Elected At a meeting of the student body held Tuesday afternoon, election ZYNDA HOTEL IS 1 TO BE BRIGHTEST SPOT IN JUNEAU Bright aluminum paint will soon | transform_the entire Zynda Hotel LOCAL BIDDERS GET CONTRACTS ~ FOR 3 SCHOOLS Karnes Awards Bids on Seven and Rejects 3— No Bids on 4 Others Bids on seven school PWA and Territorial school building projects were accepted today, rejected on three and no bids were received in four others, it was announced by A. E. Karnes, Commissioner of Education. It is expected, he said, that arrangements will be made shortly for construction of the seven on which bids were ac- cepted and that all school houses on the program will be completed before the snow flies next fall, he added. Successful local bidders were: R. D. Peterman, Gorham, Baldwin & and D. N. Dishaw. One Nome and one Anchorage contrac- tor were also awarded acceptances. Bids probably will not be sought on the Nome school building, for which $50,000 has been allotted until next year. Peterman Gets Three R. D. Peterman of this city was low bidder on the buildings at Portlock, Port Graham and Sel- Wasilla school for $8402.95. It is a three-room structure. Undem Gets Golovin Carl Undem, Nome, was the scle] bidder on a building at Golovin, | tendering $4,850. It, also, is a one-| room building with quarters for the | | teacher. Two bids were received on the Ouzinkie school house and one Schilling aevPpPe;.- ast nak. Plumbing and heating was, awarded to Charles Lechner, Sew- | ¢ ard, for the Seldovia building for | N€ OWNer is waiting for it to dry $2,805. He also bid $2,989 on thelou" before shellacking it, Unalaska plumbing and heating| AS far as could be determined, but as the bids for that school were | this 15 the first discovery of iis rejected, no award was made for kind made on this side of the this work. | mountains, and the fossil may be Rice & Ahlérs Company and J.i%lven to }}:g Territorial Museum A. Bulger, each submitting a com-| B aeabiyor vora ign, e ™0 PrOeS ey 1y TIMERS” ARE | 'TO BE GUESTS OF MASTODON BONE PIONEERS FRIDAY All old time residents of Alaska FOUND IN LOCAL EXCAVATION ..o inited to attend the informal | entertainment to be held by’ the on Unalaska. All were above the| *~———_ S amounts available and were reject- | No bids were received on the' % /. P buildings proposed for Marshall, fi [ Crooked Creek, McGrath and Arog-l rlc l” avor A lonely mostodon wandering afar from his accustomed haunts, died by the side of the sea, or something to that effect, leaving his bones to be dug up thousands of years later in an excavation for a Juneau basement, Workmen excavating for E. R. Pioneers of Alaska, Igloo No. 6, to- gether with the Auxiliary in the I. O. O. F. Hall on Friday evening immediately following the business meetings of the organizations. A short and entertaining pro- (gram will be given to be followed by cards and a general get-togeth- into absolutely the brightest spot:dovia, $4,687, $4,589 and $13978 re- Jaeger's nmew building location onier. It is hoped to have a large in Juneau, either to pedestrians on the street or to passing avia- tors. The whole building is being spectively. The. first two will be|Front Street, shoveled out part of | one room and teacher's quarters|what appears to be an enormous structures and Seldovia will have | shoulder or thigh bone, the ball crowd turn out for this affair and a good time is promised. At the end of the evening a supper will painted a shining silver with a/a 5-room building. black trim and shimmers 'in the! Johnson & Sundholm, Anchorage, cunshine as it will gleam in the!bid $6,847.50 on the Portlock and rain. This is quite in the modern Port Graham buildings. style as black and aluminum are Gorham, Baldwin and Jensen, among the favorite colors used also of this city, were awarded a by 1934 decorators. | contract for the Anchorage Bay Fred Wendt, of the Ideal Paint| building, two rooms and teachers' Store, is in charge of the painting quarters, of the hotel which is well under,the only bidders. way, and sh'ould be completed; For constructing a four-room within a few days. S. Zynda, pro-|addition to the Kodiak school, D. prietor of the hotel on Third and N. Dishaw’s bid of $9,684 was the Main Streets, said that in addi- only one received and was within tion to being bright, the aluminum the appropriation, It was accepted. 4and the elements. for $7,293.50. They were| of officers was held in preparation paint is most practical. John Lundstrom was low for the The clean Center Leaves are the mildest leaves HEREVER the finest tobaccos grow—in our own Southland, in Turkey, in Greece—all over the world, we gather the very Cream of the tobacco Crops for Lucky Strike. And that means only the clean center leaves. The center leaves are the mildest leaves— they taste better and farmers are paid higher prices for them. These clean center leaves are the only ones “It’s toasted” / Luckies are all-ways kind to your throat part of the joint and about two feet of the limb being all that re- mains after the onslaught of time be served by the Auxiliary mem- bers. RS LSS T | NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILWAY Having no use for the thigh- bone of a mastodon, the workmen tosséd the skeletal remnant on a, truck with a load of dirt and it was dumped behind Harri's Ma- chine Shop. Captain Haugen had Anyone desiring information as to room for it in his home at the|rates, etc, on general information Archway Rooms, so he salvaged the!regarding travel “outside” may Kark K. Katz, Alaska Represen- tative of the Northern Pacific Rail- {way, will arrive in Juneau ab: IMay 11, remaining for several d bone. reach him thru the offices of the At present this paleontological | Alaska Steamship Co. —adv. specimen is on display at Steve AR S Stanworth's Archway Shop, where Daily Empire Want Ads Pay used in making Luckies. Then “‘It’s toasted’’ — for throat protection. And every Lucky is fully packed with these choice tobaccos—made round and firm, free from loose ends—that’s why Luckies ‘‘keep in condition’’ ~why you’ll find that Luckies do not dry out—an important point to every smoker. Naturally, Luckies are always in all-ways kind to your throat.