The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 4, 1941, Page 4

Daily Alaska Empire Published every evening %fle&:}m by the Second and M#fin Streets, Juneau, Alasks, HELEN TROY BENDER R. L. BERNARD tered 1o the Post umce in Juneau as Becond Class Matter b % CRIPTION RATE; I‘l" i S delivered by mrunn:-m d Douslas for per meo! By mall, postage pa the following rates: One year, in advance, $1 ix months, in advance, $6.00. th, in advance, $1.25. OB Bobscribers will conter & favor if they will promptly motity we Business Office of any tallure of irregularity in the de. 1 thelr pa; l“r‘-{‘ll‘:nlu'u:eu Ne l Otflu. 602; Business Office, 374, MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS Associgted Press is exclusively entitled to the use for cepul ’?mm-ammw:mmnumm n-omlm:nmuuurmuwm-muun nerein. - - . . - President Vice-President and Business Manager CTRCULATION OUARANTEED TO BE LARGER THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION. GEORGE D. CLOSE, Inc., National Newspaper Mn—fl- Mves, with offices in San Prancisco, Los Angeles, Beattle, Chicago, New York and Boston. Prank J. Dunning, 101’ ATIVE — SEATTLE REPRESENT. Americap Bank Buflding. ALASKAN NEWSPRINT? First copies of Australian newspapers have re- cently arrived in New York printed on paper pro- duced in the new Tasmanian plant of the Australian Newsprint Mills. Financed by the newspapers of the continent “down under,” the new plant produces print, a lit- tle darker than the newsprint from U. S. and Cana- dian mills, and processed from swamp gum, a giant native tree of Tasmania, mixed with Canadian sul- phite. Because newsprint imported from Canada was costing the Australian publishers around $100 a ton, the Tasmanian mill, owned cooperatively by the publishers is probably destined to pay real dividends in lower cost for the raw material of which news- papers are made. The plant now has a capacity of 27,000 tons of paper a year, about one fourth of the requirements of Australian newspapers. Eventually, it is expected to turn out 108,000 tons annually. Well—Alaska has a newsprint industry stand- ing along the shores of the Inside Passage, await- ing development, which would furnish a half-million tons of high grade newsprint a year. And if the forest lands from which the paper may be made are managed as outlined by the Forest Service, mills could turn out that half-million tons of paper a year in perpetuity, or as long as the mills care to operate. Alaska's potential newsprint industry lies in two regions. In both sections, timber stands are made up of about 75 percent western hemlock, 20 percent Sitka spruce and five percent western red cedar and Alaska cedar. Paper makers know that a pulp mix- ture of 80 percent hemlock, sweetened with 20 percent spruce, makes a superior grade of newsprint. Knowledge of the potential newsprint possibilities in Boutheast Alaska is nothing new, so you may be perfectly in order in asking why we bring the sub- Jject up right now. One of those potential paper making forests stands along the shoreland around Ketchikan. The other, and largest, holding of timber suitable for paper making is on Admiralty Island, near Juneau. And that's why we bring the subject up right now. Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes has been making recent overtures in the direction of Ad- miralty Island with the proposed purpose of con- verting it into a national park.. When Secretary Ickes names a national park, all industrial develop- ment possibilities in that area cease to exist. Just ask the people of the Olympic Peninsula in the State of Washington, where formation of a nationa’ park sewed up valuable oil, mineral and forest re- sources, which were scheduled for development in the near future. Alaskans have already had real evidence that their pulp timber is eyed by paper making interests with the serious intention of starting newsprint mills in the two areas mentioned, as soon as busi- ness conditions justify the huge expenditures neces- sary for building and equipping modern pulp and paper mills. In 1927, the Forest Service advertised for com- Washingfon — e et St ot e el U e “No indeed,” he was told. need nobody here. petitive bids on the pulp’ timber fh the two ‘areas. They set a minimum bid figure of 60"cents pér 100 cubic feet of Sitka spruce or cedar and a minimum price of 30 cents per 100 cubic feet of western hem- lock, to be used in pulp making. On the Ketchikan area, bids were received from the Crown Zellerbach Paper Corporation, of San Francisco, and the Inter- national Paper Company, of New York, with the Zellerbach Interests submitting high bid. Only one bid was received on the Admiralty Island area, com- ing from George T. Cameron, publisher of the San Francisco Chronicle, on behalf of himself and Harry Chandler, publisher of the Los Angeles Times It was understood that these two publishers intended to build a mill chiefly to supply their own news- print needs. There wes no question about the bidders being serious when they made their bids. All three of the 5ids were above the minimum price for the tim- ser asked by the Forest Service. And all were ac- companied by certified checks for $25,000, to be neld as a deposit on stumpage when cutting started. We all know what happened. Between the time he Zellerbach and Cameron bids were accepted and 1929, when the bottom fell out of the stock market, he two interests had secured waterpower rights ad- jacent to their proposed mill sites and were making olans for early development of the areas. But after the depression set in they became wary of the huge axpenditure. Forest Service officlals granted sevecal extensions on the contracts and waterpower permits, but financing the deals seemed too precarious at that time and they fell through. But the opportunity is still there, awaiting the time, which will probably be not too far in the future, when paper mill interests will again clamor for the vurchase of timber tracts, managed to assure them the producticn of 1,000 tons of Alaskan newsprint a day as long as they wish to operate their mills. Pulp timber in the States has been exhausted to a large extent, Canadian mills are furnishing the bulk of the newsprint for U. S. papers. Biggest paper development in the States is in the south, now, where southern pine, from which a new crop of | vulp timber can be grown every 20 years, is being used. But Alaska can offer featdres of economical operation which make the two pulp stands in the | Territory the most attractive propositions in pros- pect today for the paper makers. Briefly, here are major advantages: 1. In each of the two areas (Ketchikan and | Admiralty Island) the Forest Service offers a firm | contract for a 50-year supply of hemlock and spruce stumpage for a paper mill of 250 tons daily capacity at the start and 500 tons capacity after the first ten years of operation. 2. Assurance of a permanently available supply of the timber, under the government’s policy of limit- ing the timber cut to no more than can be main- tained perpetually by the growth of new timber crops. 3. Practically no investment in stumpage. The timber is to be paid for in advance installments as | it is cut. Advances for stumpage will never exceed\ $30,000 at any time. 4. Mills will be on tidewater, open to navigation the year around. Logging will be into salt water. No long logging railroads will be needed. Timber will average a higher yield per acre than in pulp- wood operations in the eastern United States. 5. Good waterpower can be developed at a low | cost per horsepower. 6. The mills will be on American soil and the newsprint can go into American markets without danger of tariffs, embargoes, export duties and the 'like. Water transportation from Alaska to Boston, via the Panama Canal, is cheaper than from Mon- | tana to Boston, over land. 7. The mills will be between 600 and 1,000 miles of Seattle by water, with reasonable freight rates wer the protected Inside Passage or the opportun- ty for the mill companies to develop their own »0at service for even more economical hauling. All in all, the industry ‘looks like a “natural” for Alaska. It will be a sad blow to the future pros- rects of development in the Territory if a national sark plan is allowed to take the largest stand of this mportant pulp timber out of circulation. While the formation of the national park on Admiralty Island is an immediate threat, which wires of protest to Washington, D. C., might even now ‘orestall, Alaskans who want to see this paper mak- ng industry organized and flourishing have a sell- ng job to perform. They must not be bashful in :alling the paper industry's attention to the advan- tages of Southeast Alaska pulp timber regions. With paper mills operating to capacity in the Ketchikan and Admiralty Island sections, the Terri- tory would find some 3,000 men at work in the new industries. Loggers, tug boat men, pulp and paper makers—they would be permanent, year-around Alaska residents, drawing weekly pay checks that would be spent in Alaska. «you | no chance to get busy until the con- tract was let. We don't want| ™ oo mander Spalding did suggest, Merry- Go-Round (Continued trom Page One) by small firms. But nine chances | all other competition. THE RUN-AROUND There are any number of build- ing projects which could be handled out of ten, they don’t get the jobs. All the paths in Washington are greased to give the little fellows the run-around as speedily and noise- lessly as possible. Officials are so skilled in this that they do it auto- firms have frozen out practically matically. Here, for instance, is the actual story of a small contractor and what | happened to him, play by play, in|pPlied Commander Spalding. trying to get a Government con- tract. Everything printed below is factual except the name. If the name was published, this contractor wouldn't even get in the door. “John Dawson” is Vice-President of a general contracting company with offices in New York, has han- dled jobs as big as 2% millions in the past, but is not hig enough to have a representative in Washing- ton. So Dawson came to Washing- to deal with agents. Just write us a letter to say what kind of work you've done and we'll get in touch | with you.” Dawson thought he could do even | better than writing a letter, so he | prepared a display book with photo- | graphs of works his company had | done, together with the records of his engineers. It was a most im- pressive booklet, and on May 8 he filed copies with the Navy, Army Engineers, Public Building Admin- istration and National Defense Ad- visory Commission. Then he waited. But nothing hap- pened. After a month he came to Washington again. Going to the Navy first, he told Commander Spalding that he would like to dis- cuss his companys fitness to handle contracts. “Sorry but I can’t discuss it,” re- “M: hands are tied.” And he produce()i, a letter from the Secretary of the | Navy saying there could be no dis- cussion of future projects because it might reveal their location and | character to the enemy. This sounded fine from the pub- lifs viewpoint, but obviously it meant that a contractor had no way | of getting business unless he hap- | pened to have a friend on the inside. If you had a friend in the Navy, for ton himself, asked officials whether he ought to retain a representative who gguld help him bid on projects. instance, who could tip you off when a project was under consideration, you were O. K, Otherwise you had | however, that Dawson make the | rounds of public works offices han- | dling Navy projects along the At- | lantic coast. Dawson followed this suggestion and traveled all the way to Savannah, Ga. But it turned out | to be merely a goodwill mission, | THE “VICE-PRESIDENT” Meanwhile, from a friendly source in the Army Engineers he got a tip that a new Air Corps project was to be bullt in New York State. So Dawson hustled over to Rome, N. Y., to put in a bid. “Sorry, my friend,” he was told on arrival, “but you’re about a month late.” Another contractor had just been brought into the picture and the job was assigned, although no an- nouncement had been given until a few days before. Dawson was defeated in Washing- ton, lost time in Georgia, and missed a contract in New York. Now he was back in Washington to start the unhappy merry-go-round all over | again. But meanwhile a bright light came to Dawson. He decided to get a local agent, However, contractors are obliged to take an oath that they employ no agents, But he had heard of a neat scheme whereby an agent ‘was. given a title in the company, per- haps of vice-president. Then the agent or “vice-president” is pald $500 & month, and if he Jands con- mr AUGUST m: HAPPY BIRTHDAY‘ AUGUST 4 John McWilliams George P. Kerin Royal Arch Smith George Bach Edward Bach Mrs. Lawrence Carlson Jack Martin Dodo Clark Glenn Mielke Norman Cook Florence R. Miller Alvin Weathers F. F Fisher Victor Johnson HOROSCOPE “The stars incline but do not compel” -— o~ TUESDAY, AUGUST 5 morning hours today but later benefic planetary active. Again there is an evu pdr tent for labor. HEART AND HOME: The stars smile upon families long acuy: tomed to prosperity. They are mns them foresight and inclines them to share advantages with less -for- tunate groups. The spirit of de- mocracy will rule in summer re- ing should prevail. exigencies. Girls should train for practical vocations most important to the general good. BUSINESS AFFAIRS: The first of the war fortunes now will be mentioned with more or less resent- ment, for notwithstanding Govern- | ment safeguards wealth will accrue, to numbers of far-seeing Ameri- cans, Money will be so plentiful ward extravagance on the part of wage-earners. The desire to travel will eontinue to be general and States generous profits due to thé national wanderlust. NATIONAL ISSUES: Public de-~ mands for information regarding international policies will be .ep-. couraged by undercover enemy agencies. Unthinking persops 'wifil criticise the Government for secre- cy which is imperative. Astrologers remind the public that it ig' n!:c- essary to rely unquestioningly u)on the leadership of the President and the Congress. Poisonous propagan- da will increase and will be eircu- lated - through channels belonging to church and state. The label “Peace” will be used effectively, INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS} Since Britain entered the world war the seers have warned that reverses would be suffered, and they have hinted that again his- tory would repeat itself by record- ing full aid rendered by the Unit- ed States. There is a sign read as can lives. A disaster on the high seas, probably on the Pacific Ocean, has been foretold. Those who read that isolation is an lmposslbmty fh this great nation. Persons - whose birthdate lt!s vancement and gpod fortune. Happy memories will be impressed updh the brain this year. Children born on this day should’ be brilliant in mind and strong in, character. Many will win fame and fortune, (Copyright, 1941) e tracts he gets additional pay amounting to ten per cent. John Dawson sat in his shirt- sleeves in a hot hotel room, his head in his hands. It was typical summer weather in the nation’s Capital, and he thought of his family on the coast of Maine. So far he had spent three months knocking on Govern- ment doors and cooling his heels in ante-rooms. Finally Dawson decided: like this lobbying business. But otber people are doing it and sign- ing the contracts. So I'm going to employ a lobbyist myself. you're in Rome, do as the do.’ " NOTE: This s not an isolated case. On the contrary, several score of small business men have been given the same War and Navy brush-off every day since the De- fense program first got under way.,| (Copyright, 1941, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) A floating bridge in the Ki tha Lakes district of Onta a mile and a quarter long and., said to be the longest floal |bridge in the world. 1t is anchored to conerete phons sunk in the lake, 4t ! ————— -..BUY. DEFENSE BONDS _THE DAILY 'ALASKA EMPIRE, MONDAY, AUG. 4, 1941. D e e L LA Adverse aspects rule through the| influences argl: der a planetary direction that gives | sorts while among workers for na-| tional defense the best understand- | The wise will| begin now to prepare for future | that there will be a tendency to-| Canada will share with the United; indicating inevitable loss of Amerip, the stars emphasize the messagef have the augury of a year of ad¥| i AUGUST TEHT 30 YEARS AGO o = vorne AUGUST 4, 1921 B. F. Heintzleman, Logging Engineer for the Forest Service, was a | passenger on the Jefferson for Ketchikan, where headquarters for the service was located. | George A. Parks, Chief of the Alaska Field Division, General Land Office, left Fairbanks for Cordova. He was not expected back in Juneau until October. The American Relief Administration announced that all American | prisoners held in Russia had been released, and were heading for the | border. Completion of the branch road from Glacier Highway to Mendenhall Glacier was announced by the Alaska Road Commission. The road forms a part of the proposed loop, which was to be completed by the end of this month. Weather: High, 60; low, 52; cloudy. e e e e e B D e s S e Daily Lessons in English ¥ 1. corpon e - D - -t WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “Mr. Johnson died from pneumonia.” Say, “Mr. Johnson died OF pneumonia.” OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Desperado. Pronounce des-per-a-do, first E as in SET, second E as in HER, A as in HAY, O as in NO, accent on third syllable. OFTEN MISPELLED: Occurrence; three C’s and two R's. SYNONYMS: Have, hold, own, possess. WORD STUDY: “Use a word three times and it is yours.” Let us increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today’s word: CHASTISEMENT; act of punishing. “Mental chastisement is often more severe than physical.” MODERN ETIQUETTE * poprrra LEE | | | Q.- If there is to be no entertainment after a dinner party how long sheuld the guests remain? A. From one to two hours after leaving the dinner table. Q. Is it necessary that the flower girls wear hats if the wedding | is to take place in a church? | A. Yes, the flower girls may wear hats, caps, or wreaths, Q. Is it correct to say, “Will you accord me permission”? A. It is preferable to say “May I” or “Will you let me.” { LOOK and LEARN % ¢ corpox e i 2. Where is the rainiest place in the United States? 3. What two men did President Jefferson select for the task of explmmg the territory included in the Louisiana Purchase? 4. What animal is often referred to as a “wood pussy”? 5. What is a “sandhog’? ANSWERS: 1. A combustible gas generated by coal or cther carbonaceous 'matter. 2. 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