The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 31, 1940, Page 32

PROGRESS AND DEVELOPMENT EDITION 15 NEW JUNEAU HOMES RISE IN YEAR; BUILDING PERMIT TOTAL $293,491 Over a quarier of a million dollars in building permits were issued by Juneau City Building Inspector Mil- ton Lagergren in 1939, but never- theless building activity during the year was less than half that of 1938. Fifteen new homes were built here during the year. The total for 1939 was 128 per- mits worth $293,491. Largest of these was to the 20th Century Theatre Co., Inc., in August for construction of another portion New Homes of its large Front Street hulldmg at a cost of $80,000. The J. C. Cooper Building m. Fourth and Main required a $25 000‘ permit in July. | New Apartments A $21,000 permit was issued in February to Mrs. Katherine Nye for. construction of the Evergreen Apartments at 302-12 West 1lth | Street. A new Forest Service depot ad- | joining the agency's warehouse re- | quired a $12,000 permit in July. for Juneau Construction is to be started some time t his summer on this modern steel THE DAILY ALASKA FJVIPIRE SUNDAY MARCH 31 reinforced concrete Goldstein Building to take the place of the once largest structure in Alaska, the cld Goldtsein Building, built in 1914 and consumed by fire last year. The new building will be a combination office and apartment building with five stores on the street floor and an entire floor to be devoted to fur manul'ncturmg Othcrs of the lmgm 1939 pcrmlts were as follows: Alaska Dock and Storage Com- pany. $9,000 for alterations; Gastin- eau Hotel, $2,500 for alterations; Harry Ellingen, 336 Third Strext, 2,500; First National Bank, $2,500 to remodel old bank building; Stan Grummett, $7,000 for new home at | CONSTRUCTION TOTALS DURING RECENT YEARS 607 West 10th Street. Business Residential i Clifford Swap, $6,100 for new home at 610 West 11th Street; Mills and | Biggs, 218 Front Street, $3,000; Mrs. | C. 8. Jenne, 633 Front Street, $2.500; Arthur Adams, $5,500 for new home at 711 West 12th Street; Tom Morgan, 4 Willoughby Avenue $2- 500; Mrs. Katherine Lea, $3,000° for new home in Seater Addition; W. D. | Gross, $1,200 for family mausoleum | at cemetery Many New Homes George Shaw, $6,000 for new home at 511 West 12th Street; James Lar- sen, $5000 for new home at 704 West 11th Street; C. H. Metcalfe. $8,000 for new home at 835 Gold Belt Avenue Walter Sharpe, $7,500 for new $171,306 $246,107 102,775 136, 381,395 153,950 $417,413 I | [ | | | | | s | | | 239,202 | COURT CRUISES CARRY LAW TO heme at 603 West 11th Street; |S. C. Bassett, $3,000 for new The “court cruise” by one of Al- home at 603 Seater Street; James | Larsen, $6,150 for new home at 705 ° West 12th Street; Juneau Hotel, unusual institution of the North. Re- $3,000 for remodeling front. cently it was announced that the L. W. Turoif, $8000 for home at 322 Seventh Street; Joe | Kaher, 321 Bulger, $2,500; Baranof | Hotel, $2,000 for alterations; George | Brothers, $2,000 for new front; J. G Shepard, $5,840 for new home at ;522 West 11th Street; Harry Ellen- |gen, $4,000 for home at 419 Wil- loughby Avenue; J. B. Warrack, | 83500 for remodeling U. and I | Lunch location | > | NORTH COAST SALMON BAKE (Serves 6) 1 pound canned salmon new cruise in Southeast Alaska. Similar cruises are made in the other ju- dicial divisions. Cutters become veritable floating courts to dispose of cases of all de- scriptions which have accumulated | in out of the way places. Besides justice, the Judge presiding over each floating court dispenses mar- riages and divorces along the way as called upon mon. Blend in slightly beaten eggs. | Form mixture into a fish shape, These three homes are typical of new residential con- struction in Juneau in the past year. All financed under the FHA plan, they are (top) the home of William '\ldnlhev on Behrends Avenue, (center) the home of orge Shaw on 12th Street and (bottom) the Norman Cameron home on the Glacier Highway. Automobiles Few, Far Between In Alaska Alaska, the last trontier, has fewer automobiles per capita than any | State. Auto registrations in_the | Territory last year totalled 4,056, or about one automobile for every 15 persons. Nearest thing in the States to this is the one automobile per 123 persons in Mississippi. ~Cali- fornia, the most ‘“automobilious” State, has one car for every 28 persons. | Alaska's bright orange 1940 li- cense plates, though startling to the eye by contrast with the conser- | vative steel’ gray of 1939, are far| from distinctive. No less than six States and the District of Columbia have similar black on orange plates | for 1940. The States are California, | Louisiana, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, | South Dakota and Iowa. - e Ketchikan recelves a larger ton- | nage of raw fish direct from v,he sea fisheries than any other port on the Pacific Coast and packs a | greater quantity of canned salmon | than any other city in the world. 1939 BUILDING PERMITS LISTED MONTH BY MONTH | Business Residential $ 2950 $ 2700 | 2,950 21,850 11,700 4,530 1,650 18,825 725 217,500 8,150 15,181 42,350 81,000 700 500 550 3,675 $153,950 8 inches long, 3 inches high, Top with bacon strips. Bake in long shallow baking dish in hot oven| (400°F.) 20 minutes. Before serv- ing, place stuffed green olive in head of fish for eye and pimiento strips in fan shape on tail. Serve hot buttered green beans. | | l 1 teaspoon lemon juice | 2 tablespoons chopped parsley 2 tablespoons melted butter { Small package potato chips i | 3 esgs. | | Combine | parsley c]np.t. salmon, butter. mix lemon juice, | Crush potato| lightly with sal- | with and and One Hundred Years Of Wood Preservation By the PRESSURE PROCESS The year 1938 marked the 100th Anniversary in the science of preservation of ‘timbers by the pressure process | | : USING. n Coal Tar Creosote dr Zinc Choloride We operate the two largest treating plants in the West and mainfain large stocks of piling. We are fully equipped at both plants fo incise, frame o blueprints and pressure ireat with Zinc Chloride-Chromoplated Zinc Chloride Creosote ~Creosote Petroleum Mixture WEST COAST WOOD PRESERVING (0. 1118 Fourth Ave. SEATTLE EL 3602 West Seattle * Eagle Harbor * | Juneau September | vear when the local Alford John FARHIDEAWAYS ~ AMERICAN LEGION CONVENTION S SET FOR SEPT. 4 TO 1 i Juneau fo Be Host to De- partment Delegates- Committee Busy Legionnaires from . throughout the Territory will be the guests of 4 to 7 of this Bradiord Post is host to the Alaska Department convention of the American Legion. The Baranof Hotel has been dev‘ signated as convention headquarters. The convention chairmen are as follows: George Gullufsen, Post Comman- er and General Chairman; William O. Johnson, Post Adjutant; A. E. Karnes, Publicity; John McCormick, | News Issue; Tom J. Petrich, Treas- urer; E. M. Polley, Finance; Bert tion; W. E. Hendrickson, Gare, 40 and 8. Esther Gullufsen, Unit President; Ethel Anderson, Secretary and En-| tertainment; Dollie Kaufmann Convention Chairman; Ruth Met- | calf, Distinguished Guests; Beuv McCormlck Reglstrntlo Aileene Chef de | | | Ketchikan Wrang AI'I’ICUXIMATELY one year ago the Alaska Transporta- So sel SS TAKU 1940. mfi—m'-vfl F g Newest Juneau Building BUILDING ACITY : 3 z N z z | B e . 58 NEW FHA HOMES RISE DURING YEAR Alaska Office Shows Large Gains in New Homes and Improvement Loans | Alaska last year showed a gain of better than 50 percent in the number and dollar amount of new homes financed by the Federal | Housing Authority, according to an announccmmt from Administrator art McDonald in Washington. lede: Alaska, seven States and the District of Columbia showed gains of 50 percent or more. During the year the Alaska office accepted 58 mortgages with a dollar | valuation of $314600 as compared with 35 and $199,500 in the previous year. Lu Liston photo. The J. C. Cooper Building at Fourth and Main Streets, across the street from the City Hall and from the Fed- eral Building, was built last fall. It houses two offices and a beauty shop on the street level and four apart- ments above. National Gain For the country as a whole, new home mortagages accepted for insur- | ance numbered 123,731 and amount- |ed to $561956,702 as compared to 97,645 and $450,962,208 in 1938. The Alaska increase represented 66 percent in the number of homes and 58 percent in their value. In addition, Alaska reported 62 property modernization and im- wprovement loans under the FHA| havlng a total of $67,984. Since 1934 | there have been 311 such loans made |in the Territory for a total of $311,- 248.92. Altogether, the amount of mort- <ka’s Coast Guard cutters is an Car Raffle; John E. Pegues, Special |888es Insured by the Federal Hous- ‘ing Authority in Alaska from 1934 | to December 31, 1839, was $1,048,000, Haida would make this year's court Lybeck, Housing and Transporta- Of Which $620,000 have been for new homes. | Olson, Publicity; Flo Mutch, Hous- | Ing Mabel Lybeck, Welcome; K.| Davenport, Finance. | | e o — | Columbus discovered the Island | of Trinidad on his third voyage Hn 1190 | LIQUEUR BLENDED SCOTCH WHISKY PACIFIC BOTTLERS’ SUPPLY CO., INC.,, Seattle, Washington. Exclusive Alaska Distributors. ATCo. SS TONGASS Freight — Passengers — Refrigeration Serving Petersburg Juneau Douglas ° ® SS TYEE o Tenakee 1’ ell Sitka Hoonah tion Company. augmented its service between Puget und and Southeastern Alaska with two modern steel ves- s, the steamers “TAKU” and “TYEE.” HESE ships, of ideal size and draft for the run, were completely overhauled and renovated to efficiently handle and care for the complex movement of cargo to the Territory Th e remodeling included the installation of refrigeration space capable of caring for large quantities of north and southbound perishable commodities OMFORTABLE passenger. quarters are available to the travelling public We wish to express our appreciation for the support tendered us and to assure Alaska Shippers of our desire to efficiently serve them KETCHIKAN Talbot's AGENTS PETERSBURG Reliable Transfer WRANGELL Joel Wing JUNEAU B emmer ALASKA TRANSPORTATION (0 WINSTON J. JONES Traffic Manager ' ' NEAL SITKA 7 i D. B. Femr ]. ]. 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