The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 6, 1936, Page 8

8 COUNCIL LETS CONTRACT FOR NEW PIPE LINE! Building Ordrirnam\e Finally Passed—Permit for Show Asked The contract for installing an iron pipe water main along Gas- tineau Avenue was awarded to the R. J. Sommers Construction Com- pany by the City Council at the first July meeting held Friday night| in the Council Chamber. Four bids were opened at the meeting, inc ing the following: Dan Cole Walter Bindseil, $7,500 mers Construction Company, $7.- 084; Alex Adoff Company, $7,900 and Hans Berg, $7,658.10. City Ordinance No. 231, amend- ing the Building Code ordinance No. 228, was read and approved for THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, MONDAY, JULY 6, 1936. [ == An Event on the Channel 20 Years A go R. J. Som-| i the third and last time and is now| ¢ effective. J. H. Scott, representing the Can- adian Crescent shows, now playing in Ketchikan, appeared at the meet- ing to request permission for his company to present their tainment in Juneau starting on July 16. Mr. Scott requested that his company be allowed to use a por- tion of Eleventh Street near the enter- | € Here is the winning team, Douglas Fire Department, No. 3, in the hose racing contest staged at Treadwell on July 4, 1916, just 20 years ago last Saturday. Can you pick out the members of the team? For instance, there is only one member now in Juncau and he is that tall moustached man— Harry Davidson, at present with the Alaska Juneau force. There twelve teams entered in the contest from the Treadwell mines, Douglas, Juneau and Thane. The above team won the big prize in time of 19 minutes and one-fifth seconds. were NEW DEPARTMENT JUNEAU BIRL 'GETS EASTERN - SHOW CONTRACT Alesce Graves: Blars Ju-| — neau Man on Radio in Philadelphia Miss Aleece Graves, talented harp- ist and daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. S. Graves, has been engaged | with eight other girls to play at the | Fox Theatre in Philadelphia. Miss wves went to Philadeiphia a few ' weeks ago to play for the Democrat- | ‘e Convention and was so enthusias- tically received that she received a | contract with the theatre. During the convention, Miss le\Ps heard Robert W. Bender, Editor of The Empire, speak over | the radio. She went up to the ra- | dio station to see him, but he had already left; however, she did see| and talk with Arthur Chamberlin, | one of the Alaskan delegates to the| convention . e MRS. BEESON ~ ON VACATION STEWARTS LEAVE ON TRIP TO WESTWARD - MORE MATANUSKA LUMBER ! A total of '262/000 feet of lumber iis being loaded at Ketchikan today |for the Matanuska colony, accords 3 5 ing to the Alaska Rural Rehab= COUPLE WiD ilitation Corporation. The lumber Paul Thomas of Kake and Mary bought from the Ketchikan mill§ James of Angoon were married this |goes to Palmer where it will be morning by U. S. Commissioner J.|used in further construction work F. Mullen. |eral weeks. Mrs. Stewart will ac- company him as far as Anchorage, stopping over there, until his re- turn from a swing through the In- terior. Stewart, Territorial Com- missioner of Mines. and Mr: art left for the Westward on Baranof Saturday. Mr. Stewart fon his annual inspection trip to imining properties throughout the Tflrn,ory and will be gone for sev- - e is ‘at the colony. Upholstering Department Now Under the Direction of RALPH RIECK UPHOLSTERED FURNITURE MADE TO ORDER Also Guaranteed Recovering of Overstuffed Furniture Fair Building, adjoining two vacant | lots, for amusements including a Ferris wheel and other rides. The matter was referred to Mayor Goldstein who was given full pmu»r to act for the City by the Council - PASTOR W0OD RETURNS WITH - MANY GUESTS Juneau Man Plans Trip to Arctic and Bering Missions Soon Pastor H. L. Wood and party re- cently attending the World Confer- ence of the Seventh Day Adventists at San Francisco arrived here Sat- urday aboard the Welfare Yacht Messenger. Postor Wood had thir- teen guests on his return trip which was the smoothest he had ever had from the States to Alaska. At the San Francisco conference were delegates from all parts of the world, many in native dre and officers for the General World Con- ference were elected for the next four years. Pastor E. L. McElhaney of California was elected General Conference President No changes were made in the per- sonnel of the Alaska Mission, and one missionary was added to the staff. Pastor Wood plans to locat- ing the new missionary and his wife, Mr. and Mrs. Merle Smith, both graduates of Walla Walla Col- lege, at Dillingham in Bristol Bay Those returning to Alaska on board the Messenger were: Pastor and Mrs. Wood and daughters Wanda, Virginia and Ione; Mrs. Charles Frederickson of Ketchikan; Mr. and Mrs. R. F. Owens and son Brooke; Mrs. E. A. Owens and daughter Dawn of Wrangell, who disembark=d at Wrangell; Pastor and Mrs. M. J. Jackson, who re- turned to their work at Anchorage on the Baranof Saturday; Mr. Lee Stagg of Nashville, Tennessee, a sen- ior medical student from the Col- lege of Medical Evangelists at Los Angeles, who will accompany the yacht on a welfare trip Lhro\u,hout Southeast Alaska Miss Ione Wood is returning after taking a post graduate nursing course in Los Angeles. She will also accompany the boat on its South- east cruise which will start on Wed- nesday of this week. On the first of August, Pastor Wood will leave for a three month | trip to visit the Arctic and Bering Sea missions. AL LOWE DIES IN HOSPITAL Oldtimer of Thxs Section| Passes Away Sunday at St .Ann’s Al Lowe, oldtime Juneau Mer- chant, and long a prospector, and cook throughout Southeast Alaska, died yesterday at noon in St. Ann’s Hospital. Lowe, who was 74 years old, first came to the Territory about 1887 and was wellknown in Juneau in the early nineties when he operated a beverage store here. Since that time he has been mainly engaged as a cook in several cam in this section, being employed in that capacity recently at the Hirst- Chichagof mine. For the last several years Mr Lowe had resided in Chichagof from where he entered St. Ann's Hospital several months ago for treatment of a leg infection. Death | was attributed to gangrene, which had made amputation of the limb necessary. Lowe is survived by a sis- ter and niece in Seattle. The re- mains are at the C. w Carter Mor- tuary, SHOP IN JUNEAU! ) F|sh|ng in Full Swing Now in q 11 HALIBUTERS SELL, SEATTLE IS NOW OPENED AT The upholstering and furniture Mrs .Cleo Beeson, Occupational | Tharapist at the Government Hos-‘ pital, left on the southbound Yu-| THOMAS HARDWARE | repair department is now open on the second floor o fthe Thomas Hardware Company, according to J. C. Thomas, proprietor. Ralph Reick, expert upholstering man head of the new department which is equipped to not only recover all overstuff furniture but to construct new chairs, davenports, etc., made to order. MUIR ARRIV D. D. Muir, Jr., representing the United States Smelting, Refining| and Mining Corporation, returned to Juneau aboard the PAA Electra plane from F spection tour to Nome, Dawson, and Fairbanks. He has sailed for States, stopping over in Juneau the Gastineau Hotel -e—— DEWEY KNIGHT HERE Dewey Knight, Immigration In- spector at Ketchikan, arrived here this morning on the Yukon after a trip to the Interior in cofifiéction with his duties. He is stopping over here cn Government business. THAT TOURIST HOTEL! I have been asked so many questions lately in negard to my suggestion that we get busy and go after a big real Tourist Hotel for Juneau and the opinions expressed with the questions are so varied, I would like to give the result of my thought on the matter, ived at after discussing the subject with all kinds of tourists over several years. A great many Tourists have already looked the matter of stopping over in Juneau, aged out of it. They have been commodations were limited and besides difficulty in getting a boat out when they last question will stop them every time. CATTLE, July 6.—The following d in Seattle today: he western banks—Seattle 40,000 pounds, Eagle 34,000 pounds, Zenith 35,000 pounds, Resolute 35,- 000 pounds, Lindy 39,000 pounds, Constitution 42,000 pounds From the local banks—Texas 4,- 000 pounds, Al Junior 1,300 pounds, Arne 1,500 pounds, Swift No. 2, 1,- 500 pounds, Selma J 1,000 pounds. The average price was 8% and cents, Westward Area /\ldskd Peninsula, Cook In- let Starting with Runs is Returning from the Westward on he Yukon, L. G. Wingard, Al | Agent for the Bureau of Fishe reported fishing is ecially good in the Alaska Peninsula dis- trict and is good in Cook Inlet Portions of Kodiak are very good he reported, and Chignik is about average The Copper River with a slight above ave while Prince William starting slow, and it is determine yet just how will be as the season advances There was a spurt as fishing start- ed in Bristol Bay, he said, and pack- ers were required in several instanc- es to hoist the limit tag, cue to the danger of Arge runs swamping the machinery with green The first spurt } however, he r struck off E: ik nek July 2 Normal Pack Bristol Bay There are good indications for a normal pack in Bristol Bay unless labor difficulties, which were threat- en'ny when he left there, a ex- perienced, Mr. W s The trouble, he reported, is only with San Francisco crews There are mere Alaska resident fishermen in Bristol Bay n than ever before, he said, the largest increase being on the Nushagak river where there are 172 resident fishermen, more than in 1034, the last compar- able year. Figures on the other districts were not ailable when Mr. Wingard left there July 2 He orted a large influx of Al- aska people into Bristol Bay from all over the Territory and many have not had fishing experience. | Work is being given to the majority, he said, but operators are deluctant to trust their gear to green hands. Many Get Jobs “Mr. Elliott of the Star Airways luld me they had taken dozens nf‘ people in to Bristol Bay this sea- | son, and only one had come back for lack of employment,” Wingard said. While returning from Bristol Bay to Anchorage, Wingard had the un- | usual experience of being held one entire day at Iliamna Lake due to lack of wind. It was dead calm, he 7 the S0 NP TELLER MINER HOME BOUND H. J. Clough, owner of a mine at Teller, is a passenger aboard the Baranof enroute to Seward. A dredge was recently shipped from the States to the mine owned by Mr. i/ Clough, and the dredge crew trav- elled from Seattle to Nome aboard the Victoria season closed catch Sound too early to the catch - GOES HOME Jack Kay, who has been receiving treatment for a burn, was dismissed from St. Ann’s Hospital yesterday crews s dropped off n The fish 1 and Nak- yorted July into told that our Hotel ac- there would be want it. The| The steamboats cannot be blamed completely for this. Some busi are like Topsy, they just grow anyhow,| but others are the result of planning. We have never made | any plans for stop-overs. And one stop-over is worth sev- | eral dozen (to the community) of the kind that just flit thru under the present system. We can get about the kind of Hotel we plan for. If we go squirrel hunting we will likely get only a squirrel ‘md if we go out for a bear, we will have more chance to iget a bear and can bring back a squirrel anyhow. There are several De Luxe Chain Hotel systems like the Biltmore that might be interested if dppmddn-xl These systems already have a wealthy clientele that they move about the country according to the seasons. They are just| as interested in Alaska as less wealthy people but usually |like to flock together. They would think they were slum-| ! ming if they stopped at one of our usual hotels. To interest one of these Systems will take time and reported, and it was impossible to|money. The proper data must be assembled and presented get the plane off the water. The il person by the right men and followed up to a finish.| pilot tried repeatedly but finally This is the most discouraging feature of the matter. We was forced to abandon the attempt|have never learned to work together in Juneau. |and the party stayed overnight at! the road house portage. The next morning a slight breeze came up and after three or four more at-| | tempts the party got aloft. — {STABLER VICTIM OF \ Where the wealthy people like to go the less wealthy trail after. These will fill our ordinary accommodations. The steamboats will give us reservations when we show them the necessity and the demand is worth while. Many years ago when the writer lived in Cal E(h\- \()mhcl‘n part of the State was the joke of the tern. We laughed at their hustling for Tourists a; UNUSUAL ACCIDENT | they had a swell desert all right. The Tourists ca i invested money in this and that and made it the bes of the State. Some day the principal resource of Juneau wil |hausted. Every day it runs it is that much poorer. | probably remote as we look at time but it will come. can drift and hope for luck to bring us something to take| its place or we can hustle for something in the meanwhile. ifornia, North- nd said | nd rt| Howard D. Stabler, wellknown Ju-| neau attorney, was the victim of an unusual and unpleasant experience| Thursday night. Mr. Stabler’s auto- | mobile and the tnachine of N. Les- ter Troast were in a minor collision in front of Shattuck building as the {result of the Troast machine getting laway from its parking place near the post office, and rolling down hill into the Stabler machine. Dam- | There are many towns in North America as large as Juneau whose principal resource is Tourists and their by- products. Because they have been worth little to us is no age was small but the exhaust pipe|reason they cannot be improved. We get a million dollars on Mr. Stabler's machine was|worth of advertisnig every year and let it go to waste. |twisted in such a manner that the| fumes could not escape. Driving| I have been asked why I am so excited about all this. {home that evening he was overcome|l am not excited but interested. Everything I own is in from gas fumes in his machine andJuneau and this is my home. It has no permanent value was forced to stop. Finally arriving| ynder the present set-up. I have had more contact with ! {at his home on the Glacier High-| way, he stepped out into his gar- S : b P sy st R 15 5 demed sdnaiion and fe ‘htdld more of their opinion of us, and have thought more HMhatew his chin, ‘{of what could be done with them. ¥ 455 L5 come back every year. It would be hard to compete with There are 37,148 national savings|them for that now, but we could build up the Tourist busi- groups in England and Wales, of into something just as good and better. which 22569 are in schools ROBT. SIMPSON. l irbanks, after an in-| but have been discour-| Tourists than the average Juneauite and therefore have! Ketchikan has fish that| kon for an extended vacation. Mrs Beeson, who has worked wonders with the children in the tubercular ward of the hospital, in a child welfare role, stated she plans to visit Mexico City, the Southern States, and friends and relatives |in Chicago and San Francisco be-| (fore returning to Juneau. -, MARRIED Ole Brendal, a fisherman, and |Anna Hope, both of Juneau, wree |married Friday afternoon by U. S. | Commissioner J. F. Mullen. Wit- |nesses were Cleo Riggs and H. E. Gath. THOMAS Hardware CoO. R SHOP IN JUNEAU! the | at| 0000000000000 (T Ilm IIIIlIIIIIIIII|||IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII“IIIIIIIIIIIIIIllIIIIIIIIIIIlIIllllIlI|IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIITIIiIIilIIIIIIIIIHNIflflII“lIIIHHIIIIII TR il JUNEAU Welcomes ISLAM TEMPLE Of San Francisco T é‘_—“llHIIIlIIIIIII“l||IHHflHIIIIII|I|II||I||ilIIIIIIIIIIIIIflI|II||I||ilIIIIIlIIIIIIIIIIIIII|I||I||II|||| All Shfifiets are requested to meet the Princess Norah arriving at 6:30 Tonight. WEAR YOUR FEZ! 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