The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 19, 1946, Page 8

PAGE EIGHT CITYTOASK | FORUTILITY the lap of City Howard D.'ing of month-end departmental r Stabler. ports, the Councilmen were given, to Nielsen wants a Boat Harbor or- persue, a year-end comparative re- dinance, clearly defining use of port prepared by the City Clerk on stalls and providing for removal of budget allotments and expenditures sunken or derelict craft, also toithrough the first nine months of clamp a lid on skiffs interminably|the current City term. ! or-Inspector J. parked about in the boat basin. | 1In his report, Asst He also had an idea that an all-'G. Shepard stated an assessment weather place should be provided record system is being set up; that for posting the new ordinance right tax districts D, E, F and G have under boat-owners' noses at the Har- been checked on assessment, using a bor. He wants both as soon as possi- yardstick patterned after that of the ble, and the Councilmen thought he city of Montreal, and that the in- should get ‘em. | spector half of Mr. Shepard is keep- Ask New Harbor Funds ing an eye open for violations of PRICETAGS Appraisal RTapBrl Due from THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA SATURDAY, JANUARY 19, 1946 (CITYPONDERS ‘GIFT OF SITE (Continued from Page One; General Superintendent, (OM. GRAY SETS o |LADIES (LIMB 420 ALLEYMEN DOUGLAS Mr. and Mrs. Loren A. DeMeres and granddaughter of Mr. and M August Aalto. Mr. Emerson, form- erly of Albion, Washington, is at present in the Coast Guard, sta- tioned in Seattle. NEWS GUESTS OF DeMERES TRAPPERS IN Wm. Cuthbert and Clancy Hen- - FORHOSPITAL is plan- | - THISAFTERNOON U. S. Commissioner Felix Gray i yesterday afternoon forestalled the District Court’s stepping into the preliminary stages of the case of the | United States vs. George Harrison | Meeks. Commissioner Gray signed a prev- denied order presented by | fously Black & Veatch on Reading of official notification Health and Sanitation Ordinance from the U. S. District Engineer of No. 209 at the same time as Assess- ning to leave for the National Cap- ital on the sanatorium question defense counsel William L. Paul, Jr., DROPFARTHER Juneau'§ Fair Rollers Still Have Chance in Inter- City Kegling 'and 8 months old son, arrived on the Alaska from California to make their future home on the Channel. Prior to Dec. 15, DeMeres title was | First Lieutenant DeMeres, a pilot of a B-24, Air Corps, with a lot of service in the South Pacific, being kins returned Thursday from a sev- eral weeks trapping expedition in the Snedersham district. The pair left here after a visit home during the holidays, on Dec. 27. With mink and otter, their best catch, they re- port a good season. Ja“"afY 28 {approval of the City's permit coyer- or Shepard makes his rounds. right after the first of next menth,|of & Writ of habeas corpus for o Lial s {ing the site of the proposed new In addition to the usual list of|ang that he should carry with ;‘“m' Meeks then, after a huddle with | Approach of a showdown in (l\l‘;sma!l boat harbor, brought a motion bills approved for payment, the‘“ Juneau offer to present the ANS newly-appeinted U. S. Attorney Pat{ Already practically over ineir | present City Administrati cam-!from Councilman Nielsen that the Councilmen voted six yeas to write| with a suitable site—ready b<»uxr1{x Gilmol set this afternoon at 2| heads, Juneau Elks Men bowlers | paign to take.over public utilities City start an application moving a check to Architects Foss and Mal- | a4 tied up in a gift parcel S o'clock as the time for preliminary | wound up an alley session against in Juneau was indicated by Mayor right away, for Federal funds for colm for their first payment due on| pne Mayor also asked (""_ ex. |hearing on the charge against|ihe Ketchikan lodgemen yesterday,| Ernest Parsons at last night's »nd | construction of the additional basin. presentation of preliminary plans on| sression of opinion’ from the tax- Meeks cutting with intent to kill orfsust: about completely :s\mk~422f regular January meeting of the Ju- In one of the v few votes taken the projected new fire hall, the paying public of the City dmf”'), d pins behind with but one more | neau Common Council. last night ix Gounsilmen atfirm- money Goming’ out of | Federal g [ RRFRE P & e »s action sidetracked a peti- [ mateh round to roll. Referring to the fact that the ed — without controversy ~|vance planning funds already oni ... ¢, accept possible CXpendnu;u tion Paul yesterday presented to the tes of While still on waterfront busi- hand. The Councilmen were left | of from $10,000 to.$15,000 to make District Court for the habeas cOrpus| third round against Ketchikan's awaited return from the W. 8. Pullen light company man- ness, Mayor Pars: reported on a a nice shiny set of plans to look at, ager has now occurred, the Mayor conference he had with Alaskan De- in their leisure. launched his remarks by relating partment Area Engineer James W. ———— — the events of a recent meeting be- | Huston, as to what might be ex- tween himself, City Utilities En-|pected of this City under the heading pARENIS loosE gineer Walter T. Stuart and the light 'of *“local cooperation” on dredging 'RE AT ANTI(S Mrs. Krause Threatens to company attorney, H. L. Faulkner.|of Gastineau Channel, one of the At that time, Mr. Faulkner said that | Rivers and Harbors items now be- Emulate Atomic Bomb If | Baderging Continues proxies from absent directors were fore Congress for appropriation against | being awaited before the Alaska | Little would be asked of Juneau, is Light and Power Co. can hold a|the answer the Mayor brought back. meeting to set an asking price for Little Be Required its properties. Mr. Faulkner furth- A place to dump dredged mater- ér declared that he expects theljs js5 what is ordinarily asked of l0- proxies to arrive by the end of this|calities benefitting, Mayor Parsons month reported, and, as the Federal gov- Mayor Parsons added that Black|emment already owns about all the and Veatch, Kansas City engineer |and along both sides of the Chan- firm which appraised utility PTob- pel, the Army should te able to find erties here on the City’s behalf, h&s‘mflmy of dumping spots. The Mayor promised to have its report ready on referred back to a former engineer- January 28. \ing recommendation, for combined tung, hurled by Mr. and Mrs. Ed; Stage Is Set improvement of the Channel and Krause, last evening dropped a flash The stage is therefor set to com- airport by using the dredged dirt to of fire into an otherwise sedate City mence price negotiations with the ! fill the field area. That’s still a pos- Council session. utility firms and the City should |sible solution, through the Civil After recounting incidents which so inform the ASL. and P. Co.| Aeronautics Authority probably isn't she considered evidence of police- and the Jurneau Water Company, the much interested in airport enlarge- womanly “picking on” her 17-year- Mayor concluded. He received no ment anymore, he offered. Any- old daughter, Mrs. Krause flung al objection to his request that he be|way, he thought he'd write the CAA wrath-whetted challenge at the cur-" authorized to write letters to both to make sure about it. few enforcer, declaring: “If these firms, setting a date for open-| J. B. Burford countered a Nielsen makes any more trouble, she’ll think ing the dickering. | suggestion, that the new boat basin an atomic bomb hit her.” The present administration will | might as well be dredged at the Mr. Krause took up the cudgels havé to “act fast” to get its program |same time as the Channel, by point- on behalf of their 15-year-old son, over, as the end of its term is com- ing to former occasions when the whom, he declared, has been “con-| ing around quite soon now, Mayor Channel dredging job had been side- tinually badgered” by the same Parsons pointed out. | tracked by too many other projects Policewoman Hartung. Mrs. Krause | being tied in with it. We're on the charged that her daughter had been | road to getting the Channel fixed up fired from her job as cashier at the | Change Bus Route ‘novxx he said. Let's not put that in Coliseum Theatre due to pressure Under the heading of remarks| from the audience, Lloyd L. Reld, hazard. brought by Mrs. Hartung; while her | Channel Bus Lines operator, re-| To settle the point, it seems that spouse protested the policewoman’s | quested Council endorsement of a there will be no dearth of outfits action in calling at the Juneau High | proposed youte change for the city|ready to dig out the new boat basin, Schocl to hail their son into ju- bus. The suggested change would once the money is on hand. In the venile court. That incident, which| Strongly-voiced charges Juneau’s Policewoman, Isabel Har- involve the Casey-Shattuck district|list of communications to the Coun- occurred last week, cost his son| and would add two more blocks to cil was a letter from the Puget school credit in Citizenship, M)‘ the area tapped. Sound Bridge and Dredging Com- Krause alleged. Has the police- Mt. Reid proposed that the buspany, asking for a chance to bid on woman authority to do that? he ask- should -eliminate the present turn|the job. ed. off E Btreet at the congested junc-| | Mr. Krause further stated that, | ture with Tenth Street. Instead, the, Outlet Cost High Another Boat Harbor topic that though he and his son had been | the ford, as a taxpayer, declaring his out” to secure the hospital here perhaps By taking an option on the selected site to send along with Mr. Foster to Washington. That suggestion was compared by the Mayor to action already taken by Ketchikan. The ANS has other | sites offered it by other Southeast Alaska cities, he said. Ketchikan to sale of the property for such use. Councilman Dick Williams wani- ed to know if it might be possible for the ANS to have its engineers test the Douglas Island location right away to see if it will measure up to the cemetery site as a sana- torium spot. Dr. Norris replied that it is desired to have construction men come out from the Indian Af- fairs’ Chicago office to make the aetermination. To another query, the doctor re- plied that he thought a minimum of 10 acres would be required for institution. Architect Harold Foss wanted to know if the sana- | torium site would be taxable if it could be included within the, city route now asked would take the bus| came up was the previously discuss- called into juvenile court to ANSWET | ivc mhe answer to that was: off E Street at the corner of Ninth, |ed installation of electric outlets to & charge that the boy had been in eastward along Ninth Street to Cfprovide juice for boat repairs. Coun- cn the pilfering of a food locker,: it three other lads who admitted their | Street, north on C to Tenth Street,|cilman Nielsen reported that then along Tenth across E townrd:w,m the cost of installation may guilt on the same charge had exon: the Douglas Bridge and the pres- run pretty well up. He wanted to erated the Krause offspring. Yet ént Small Boat Harbor terminnL/ !know if he is authorized to go ahead “that policewoman,” without evi- The bus operator stated he is suy> or whether the Council had better sit ‘dence, continued to maintain that the suggested route change will re-;mgm should the bill top the $100 his boy did it, Krause alleged. “My quire no franchise revision, but may mark. It was thought that the boy was at home all that night,” he be approved merely by Council ac-|Council had better re-sit on iy in that further avowed. tion. It was referred to the Streets|casc. The worst things that could be Committee for study. Interest in the proposed Airport found on his son’s record, the irate| Administration Building was evin- father continued, are that he “blows b pw“m’;’:;:‘;";’e p’:f:i,r: e er_%f:cd in a letter from the CAA regard- his nose” as he passes the police- | ing meter proposal was presented ing space requirements for that Woman on the street, because he| last night by Streets Committee Chairman Don Skuse. He offered no recommendation at present, as his committee wants more time for study of the matter. However, he did state that Juneau businessmen seem to poll about two-to-one in favor of the meters and there seems no doublt they would pay out. What is still needed to complete the committee's report, Skuse said, is a count of the parking stalls in| the downtown district, to see how many meters it should take to doj the job. Principal objections pop- agency. The letter, in reply to in- knows it “gets her goat.” Also that quiry by architects Foss and Mal- she caught him out after curfew colm, also suggested a location for once; attending a bond rally where the building and set forth the usual tt:e boy bought a $50 bond. terms on which the CAA receives Handling children requires spread- | occupancy of such quarters—one ing “a little oil” as well as scat-| dollar per year, in light of services tering sand. She’s all sand—no oil, | rendered toward airport operation. The Mayor reported that about Of Policewoman Hartung. “If an the best price he can dig up on in- unpopularity contest was to be held allation of a handrail on First in Juneau, she'd win it!” street by the Baranof Hotel is Mr. Krause's question as to wheth- around $180. He was told to go er the policewoman has authority ahead, as authorized (to take a child out of school was | \referred to City Attorney Howard Street Sander on List D. Stabler, who replied: “She’s be- Mr. Krause concluded his indictment | ping out of central area shopkeepers —Belly-dragging cars have resulted jng educated in her duties and au- are: in complaints of the deeply rutted g e 3 1—Thast meters will be no solution| condition of Star Hill streets. Solu- ;,2?,2":;,3 Img,"e"{m‘.?,;flf- 390 Shate to traffic congestion without more|tion proposed by Streets Foreman The charges against Mrs. Hartung rigid enforcement. Roy Thomas is a filling of crushed were referred by Mayor Ernest Par- 2—Beefs at having the proposedrock—which he was ordered to Pro- sons to the Council’s Police Commit- “guinea pig” meters plopped in front ceed with. A futher suggestion for tee, Chairman Harry Lea immed- of their own stores to nick their cus- | winter-time streets improvement jately suggested that he'd like to tomer for a nickel whenever they| came from Councilmen Nielsen and have a meeting with the Krauses take a notion to shop around in-|skuse — a sander. The Mayor and Mrs. Hartung to dig into both side. thought he recalled one shown on &n gides of the affair, The Krauses . Over-Pass Needs Overhaul | Army surplus list and the City En- were agreeable. On the general Juneau improve- | gineer was directed to look it up - -, mieht agenda, the Streets panel list- | for later consideration. | M. ASKA AIRlIIIES etl needed repairs to the Calhounj Passed along to the Council n_'om HAS 7 FROM WEST Avunu{ oyer-pass at Fifth Street. the District Court was an applica- Engineer ordered out to take operator, to take in a partner in his | “No.” Mayor Parsons closed the discus- | be able to provide Mr. Foster, with | assurance that the City of Juneau | off for Washington. Emblem Club Holds Big Affair Tonight The Emblem Club will install the | officers for the year 1946 at cere- | monies to be held at Elks Hall to-| night, to be followed by 2 delight- | ful evening of dancing, with the/ Elks and their ladies as special| guests. The installation ceremonies,| which start at 8 o'clock, will be! conducted by Mrs. L. R. McDonald, | District Deputy of the Supreme Emblem Club, assisted by Mrs.| Justin Lind as installing marshal. | Both ladies are from Petersburg, | where Mrs. Lind is President of the Emblem Club of that city. Dancing will start at 10 o'clock, and all preparations are made to assure everyone a most enjoyable time. ———— HOSPITAL NOTES Admitted to St. Discharged were: John Eisen- berg, medical patient and John Blackwell, surgical. belief that the City should “go alln ion by declaring that he hoped to! I will be in position to provide a! Jsui'.able site before Mr. Foster sets| to be returned in the District Court | the current matches; but he| sooner than thz Commissioner’s | qiqn't get enough support from his Court hearing this afternoon, ”_“\‘(nhnrts. Of them, only Bob Davlin calling of that heading automatically topped 500. The 420-men didn’t kr m-kf the props (;ut.frnm under fail too badly yesterday, however, Mecks' demands for observance of slipping back only an additional his Constitutional rights 39 pins. whcle writ business is now just | Kegling results at Ketchikan yes-, a side issue with no further stand- | terday were: ing. Determination »uf \_xh"thcr‘ JUNEAU Meeks is to continue in jail on a| (Fourth Round) MEN | has a site adjacent to its city lim- bind over to the Grand Jury, or be | Carnegle 609 its which it has placed at the bu- freed, now is up to the decision of | N“'Q"fil 430 reau’s disposal—without a price the Commissioner’s Court. i]lqcfl;)"s 5-,(; tag. Paul has indicated that he will call | po. s Regarding acquisition by ‘Juneau four “alibi” witnesses at the hearing | pod 18 3 of the Douglas Island area approv- this afternoon, while the District Ralge s ed by Dr. Norris, Councilman Attcrney is expected to place hi { 2514 Skuse answered Councilman Stan main reliance on the statement of | 3 952 Grummett that steps have already Kelso B. Hartness, who accused Match~$atal J b been taken to determine the cost Meeks of wounding him more than EBRCEERAN DN of the property. As to possibility of a score of times in a knife assault TEa . reundl & purchase, Skuse said that Mrs. 2nd who is being held in custody as 1ici. fae she "Mildred ' Hermann is the legal a material witness. It has been LunPeck S guardian of the owner and she has stated that Hartness now wants to Yinoens ?12 expressed herself as very favorable withdraw the charge he signed g:::c}' g;i against Meeks—but that dcesn’t 3o. The United States government is the plum}}fl in the cause. Match ‘total 10374 JUNEAU LADIES BEISTLINE TO U. ALASKA (Third Round) To resume his studies a* the Uni- yroimauist 454 versity of Alaska, Earl Beistline, y,venik 481 son of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Beist- gimmons 396 line, has left by plane for Fair-' guqson 434 Lanks. Beistline, a Major in the Waugh 372 Army, has been visiting his parents and friends while on terminal leave 2,137 which completed about four years! arateh total 6,145 service KETCHIKAN LADIES (Third Round) ~ o RETURNS TO SEATTLE Pedersen 490 John Hoff, who has been em- i ployed by the Austin Company as L&ne - 434 an expert concrete finisher on the Moore 367 Snow White Leundry building and Oaksmith 4 later on the Juneau Cold Storage Bailey 4 | addition, left on the steamer Alas- EpTary ka for his home in Seattle. i 3,081 O e # | Match total 6,338 | G. A. Hyner, a resident of Ket- — - | chikan, arrived here yesterday. He Use art gum to remove sooty feotprints on light colored rugs. is regiitered at the Baranof. PROMPT . . . COURTEQUS 5 DELIVERY SERVICE Do your shopping BY PHONE these winter days . . . All orders carefully filled. JUNEAU DELIVERIES I0A.M. 2P.M. 4P.M. Douglas Delivery 10 A. M. Thane Delivery on Tuesday and Ann’'s Hospital i Fridlayat2P.M. BOAT ORDERS DELIVERED ANY TIME 1 0 yesterday for medical attention were Fred Fulgencio, a minor; PHONE John H. Clauson, and Mrs. Bert 704 Laschua. chixmun Skuse asked to have the|tion from Fred Carrillo, Dreamland cit, a N for what must be done.!liquor® dispensing establishment. By Ih the “must” category — but fol- | vote on a Nielsen motion, it was re- lowed by an “if" — Skuse chalked | ferred to the Police Committee for up laying of approximately 300 feet | investigation tefore approval. of 24-inch concrete sewer line at| Three Want Police Job the Small Boat Harbor. The “if”| Three new applications for Police is that it's necessary only when the | Patrolman jobs were also referred to Northern Commercial Company goes | tha Police Committee and the Mayor ahead with its projected marine | asked a meeting of that group for ways. Then costs will be small, as|next week. New applicants are: excavating is eliminated and filling| 1—Orville C. Johnson, ex-service- will automatically follow after ’I‘hejman who served in the Eleventh Air pipe is already in the City’s pile of | Force Communications in Alaska, stores. |and was an M-P at Anchorage. City Engineer J. L. McNamara re- 2—Laurence Wickland, once a de- ported that Gold Creek bottom clean- | tective lieutenant with the Minneap- ing has progressed as far at v.h~‘ous city police; for the past two Ninth Street bridge and forecast months working for the Army at that about 10 more days would be, the Subport here. needed to finish clearing the creek 3—Ernest L. Mayfield of Juneau, bed. More undercuts have been former Colorado State Highway Pa- disclosed,; necessitating additional | trol sergeant concrete work, he said. Application by Ole Brensdal for a Harbor Ordinance Asked Wa- Department clearance to con- Ed Nielsen, Boat Harbor Commit- | struct a boat house and storage shed tee chafrman, came up with a recom- 'at the Channel end of the Seventh i mendation against City purchase of street spur met with no objection Pannie L. Robinson’s $4,500 house from the City Fathers. at the Small Boat Harbor; then, Financial Report In dropped a new ordinance request in In addition to the regular read- Arriving on tne Alaska Airlines | Starliner Fairbanks, with Captain Peterson, Flight Officer Thompson, ! |2nd Stewardess Stevens were the | | following passengers from Anchor- age; Jack Chisholm, W. J. Pege, | George Duke, Allene Wheeler, Mar- | tha Offenbacker, Peter Muth, and Les Greening. On the return flight, the follow- ing were carried to the Westward city: Eleanor Sinclair, Nancy Sin- | clair, C. A. Rushton, Ellen Rife,| |Gladys White, G. S. Clark, Pfc.| | Marvin Ward, Joan Petters, and | yCol. Melvin Snyder. | — e - STEAMER MOVEMENTS Taku, from Seattle, scheduled to arrive 5 pm. Sunday. | North Sea scheduled to sail from | Seattle today. | | Princess Norah scheduled to sail | from Vancouver Tuesday night. | Tongass scheduled to sail from | Seattle Jan. 25. { | Baranof, from west, suu(hboumi.‘ i due Tuesday or Wednesday. : Alaska sailed south last evening FOR THE JIGGS AT THE Good Eats! GET YOUR TICKET NOW DINNER GIVEN BY AMERICAN LEGION 0DD FELLOWS HALL MONDAY, FEBRUARY 4 AT 6:30 P. M. Entertainment! discharged from service on that o e date, at Camp Beale, California. ® ® 00 00 v o000 00 The DeMeres, are formerly of ¢ Idaho, but plan now to make their ! home here. While awaiting housing ‘YUE BA?NQELIERRPVEQKT facilities, they are house guests of Temperatures for 24-Hour Perlod brother, James DeMeres and fam- Ending 6:30 0'Clock This Morning ily. | e o o e s In Juneau-~Maximum, 36; STORK NEWS minimum, 26. Word was received today that At Airport—Maximum, 30; iMr. and Mrs. James Emerscen, are minimum, 14. The Juneau ladies, rolling thei{|tne proud parents of a baby boy ¢ i P born January 17 in a Seattle hos- procedure—a petition which Presid- | fajr ones, did some better, slicing |pital, The young man at 7 pounds 15 ounces and has been belle Edwards, of this city, certain that the sanatorium will b be located here. ing Judge J. W. Kehoe had agreed |55 pins off the First City ladies’ City “All Out to consider this morning. Attorney|jead down to i margin. By & ut” Paul withdrew his petition this fore- ' mpat'g i " N ! . . That’s not impossible to overcome Y | Mayor Parsons received one noon. i sl s g . Mrs. Emerson is the former Anna prompt answer from the floor of | Since the writ order signed by| claude Carnegie, Juneau captain, ter of Mr. and ithe Council Chamber: J. B. Bur- Commissioner Gray called for Meeks | o the first roller to go over 600 i L e SRR SV SN S SR S R I RS S A B L D WEATHER FORECAST (Juneau and Vicinity) e o o Cloudy this afternoon with snow tonight and Sunday. Continued cold. ® @ 0 0 00 0 00 0 0o weighed in named Michael Anthony. daugh- | Mrs. Alex Demos,' . ° © . . - . . ) . . . . . . . ° . . Flying Instruction- To Qualify for Commercial License ——CAA APPROVED—— INSTRUMENT RATINGS—LINK TRAINER TIME Waco Model YKS Two Way Radio and Primary Group Moter Modernized and Aircraft Majored last June Waco Mcdel DQC-6 285 Wright—Just topped No Time Since Major on Aircraft WALLACE AIR SERVICE "ELTS FIELD — SPOKANE, WASH. WATCH FOR OUR RE-OPENING / Women's AppAreL BARANOF HOTEL BUILDING “It’s the Nicest Store in Town” For the Time of Your Life! 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