The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 13, 1946, Page 2

PAGE TWO THE DAILYV ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU ALASKA 4 e WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13, 1946 allowance of $1,200 for advertising|pear as & witr income taxss. m SIUARI pUT Iuy aying that addition of manuv-|{ There were additions to the ranks ‘ . ’.;\((urrrs' contributions plus mer- ob both spectators and AEL&P r:p- | chandising advertising migbt put | resentatives at evening’s “time ABE YG“ AS!EAHED To FACE y 2 {the total up to the company’s ve-|in” on the rate hearing, the next UNDER FIRE ported amount but that the elec-|installment of which is 2t over $1,200 Present for the fi erc Back to June, 1914 AEL&P Consulting Engincer Henry AT HEARING Stuart then turned the pages L. Gray, of Seattle, and AFL&P ; g . tack to June, 1914, when a valua-|stockholder and director, J. F. Ma- THE'R l’anfiP" T“Rll ion of the light company properties | lony § ” 3 |shows up some of the values t2 Mr. Gray is expecte > 2ar rcontinued from Page Omej |ported both to the City ana the In- as a light company witnes the 5 'LL c i ST P S ernal Revenue Bureau incor- next hearing, following compgletion 5 ries with it certain privileges, :-ct. Mixed metheds were nsed in|of the cross-examination of Stuari. = = T D which he indicated are not enjo. riving at them, he said, with rhe - o 57 s cammed = /\ cd hire, such as the right of -exi- result that about 35000 of coreet| STEAMER ALEUTIAN ‘ \\\ ’// > nent domain,” Faulkner asked what | depreciation was not allowed. ' — Stuart meant by a previous re!-| About 40 percent net rofit was DUE THIS EVENING | Pleasure-mad parents erence to a Supreme Court decision showed that year, he avarred. but| upholding the original cost form-|With deduction of inflated va o A IMPECCABLY MANGONE « e e ula for fixing rates. the power house site prc After a dispute tizd up the o .. jJamming the hot Stuart cited the cas® known climbs to abo 48 percent. ! - Aleutian at Ke! n ki ki j \ * no finer suits thar Silor AHOWRD : aking reckle We of no finer its than the “Hop: Gas Company Casc’. Fing of depreciation by the cor ght and was settled yesterday spots, I 918 e \hf'n\‘ .in o © _new ,\hmyfvnc To that, Faulkner repliad that pany, he cun!inur:( did not start «y.t steamer starter nor_(h and is chances...no wonder coilection . . . Noteworthy fab- nad beeh brought under an entire- 1936, but in 1914, due in Juneau this evening on the rics, the world’s nicest . v different Congressional act No depreciation, he went on, was way west irom Seattle. they look the other way Infinately well tailored—{flawless B U he Fuderal Water Power Act. hown on the. company’s first 1o- Tke dispute concerned the work- ¥ perfcetion in styling, design . . . A Hope case, he sald, was brought Fort tothe City, in 1036, but $22,000, ing of cargo by ships' crews in when kids go wrong! They’re rare and Mangone un- A under the Natural Gas Act, whicn covering Loth 1936 and 1937, \.u Al a ports, and ;u_mrmng to an i e £ e ¥ deals with an entirely different com- shcwn the next year In 1933, Ascociated Press dispatch from mistakably . . . from seam <o 3 modity. It applies to all public 539.80 in repreciation Seattle, quoting Ed C of tac| shoulder . . 4 utilities was the substance of shown, which is about the figure Sailors Union of the Pacific, the/ - Stuart's answer. Gas is a natu reported through succeeding years, settlement is described as a truce .reated product, Faulkner point>d The 1936 report, Stuart contond- Which will remain in effect about! out. The factor of depletion is ¢d, is “absolute proof” that depre- 15 days. the only point of difference, Stuart ciation had bteen disregarded S ok v o verred. the company prior to then, result- | Asked again whether he did not ing in about $150,000 difference in pRES'DENT WOODI-EY think thexe is such a thing as in- the eapital assets and that “paadzd oF PNA VIS"S HERE tangible value—in connection with capital account has been carried in| e water right—Stuart answered AEL&P reports to the City th h Arthur G. Woodley, President of hat he had done as is customary: the nine years since. Pacific Northern Airlines, arrived iven them exact values. Summeary Concius. in Juncau yesterday on a brief Pinning Stuart down on lis It was then, as a summ: L trip and inspec-| knowledge cf the status of tre Fed- clusion, that Engineer Stuari de- ticn ! cau PNA office. ral Power Commission, Faulkner clared that the 1944 rate return| Ko reports that all three of the asked: brought the AEL&P about $40,000 compar new Douglas transports, 1. If it is not true that the FPC more than a ressonable 1:turn on|are now in operation on regula has nothing to do with rates except its investment iroutes and the in_inter-state commerce? In 1945, he contmied, we com-(ton s progre 2. If it is not true that C pany was still charging as expcets to return to his An nas set its depreciation rul *- jtems that are properly o | headquarters tomorrow. cause cof the government’s 50-year to the capital account i = > > <xpiration options in FPC li repeated, tends to show a fictitiously CDA HAS BUSineSS MEET Stuart admitted then that he low profit. Wholehearted co-operation was has not read all of the act under Stuart concluded his presentation assured Miss Minnie¢ Field in a| Lich the FPC operates listing a p inary total of money-raising project for the bene- ! Cenfuses Council company operating co: r the fit of the Minfield Home by the | “I thought you knew all akout it,” base year 1944 at $131.4 15 local Court of the Catholic Daugh- | aulkner commented, continuing: total, he said, does not incl a ters of America, at their regular | You have referred to it often bit more than $37,000 of 10| business meetizg held last night in | r nough te confuse the Council” tayes, which amount L stated will,| Parish Hall | sn't it true that none of th his belief, be lowered. St Plans for the initiation of new "PC's rules apply here? Faulknr g that James C. Cooper, Certi- members at the social meeting to be | nen askzd. They can be used, was fied Public Accountant, need. | hs onginesr’s answer. — TSI s % RO ER & Referring to the fact that Stuar had written off entirely th ransformers which the light ny amanes 1o e 4c: | Escape Destruction in the Coming Juneau mine at no cost, the cc pany counsel carried that inter pretation to hypothetical absurdity C R g @ l S y asking Stuart what rate base 2 e would use in the case of an en- FLEENCW ... BUT WHERE? reply. Pointing out tnat stuari nad sep- P rated capital and operation charg- HEAR .ADDBES° BY es attributable to Juneau =alone from the full system, Faulkner then R J BAC[[MAN ) ; ) ; asked the engincer if he thought ® ® | B¢ v 7 ; ) it practical, where two small towns Representative of Watchtewer Society ‘ are as close together as Juneaw and Sturtq T@N,G"T ,Zg i a Douglas, to have two separate rate e % ¥ 5 schedules—perhaps a lower one for Th“rsda March 14 8P M : Juneau and a v high one for Yl 7 ° Qafl[/ty :/nCE —’557 Douglas. Stuart replied t two % rates, in his belief is th> only prac- c. l- o- UN!G" HALL [ e AT s sy = tical answer—that he cannct speak GASTINEAU AVE. & T R AT ek {or Douglasv, REINDEER TOTAL 65000 ment reports, there are thousands What Measuring Stick R S Eiivig WASHINGTON, March 15—A re- of reindeer in the Territory which| Baing Wil senisurion stk Mt All Persons of Good-will Are Welcome cent count of Alaska’s reindeer have strayed and are running wild proper profit percentage he had : ~howed about 65000 in herds. over tundras where a roundup is used in basing a charge that AEL FREE FREE FREE | In addition, the Intericr Depart- difficult. ’ &P profits for the year 1944 were “too - high”, Stuart admitted that DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE, WEATHER BUREAU SESSIONS ju“EAu he had based that allegation on no JUNEAU, ALASKA ] set return at all, that it's up to the WEATHER BULLETIN Council to decide what it wants DATA FOR 24 HOURS ENDED AT 4:30 A. M., 120TH MERIDIAN 1 ME . to adopt as a proper percontage of = Max. temp. 'TODAY | The BU"rd_OI Pl{bhc Welfare op- pofit after all the data is DL;'IQ[“ last. | Lowest 4:30am. 24 hrs. Westher at [¢0°d its sesslon (his morning 8¢ 10 4. Station 24 hrs* | temp. temp. Precip. 4:30am. |Cclock with a meeting in the of-| Stuart had made that charge earl-| Anchorage . i -9 Clear 'fices of the Alaska Department of if in the evening when at the Bethel o | =18 Clear Public Welfare. At *n . opening of last night's session, he Cordeva % b 26 Cloudy AiEting: d 022 %) £ SXsdny had returned to the siab to throw meeting needs of ‘L. aepartment s few final curves, althougn he Dawson d Snow r for the current biennium were con- haq stated at the clos: of the pre- Edmonton 0 Pt. Cloudy Helsrea Fairbanks ' 4 2 Trace Pt. Cloudy | 2 | vious hearing that he had finished Haines .. 33 Members of the Board are Gov.|for this stage o_f the proceeding. Juneau ... 25 Cloudy !Ernest Gruening, chairman; How-| IN the beginning, last night, n : \ ¥ Juneau Airport ; Snow Showers ard Lyng, Mrs. Clara McCutcheon, |Stuart filled in a few gaps, and, L { N Ketchikan . T 2 Cloudy Mrs. M. Clifford Smith, Jr. the|Previously omitted figures and of-| itk § / N\ Kotzebue Pt. Cloudy Rev. G. Edgar Gallant, and Rus-|(€Téd some corrections fo his ex- o i \ \ McGrath ¢ Clear sell G. Maynard, Director of the Dibits. For the base year 1944, he Nome i Pt. Cloudy Alaska Department of Public Wel-|filied in the depreciation allowance | Northway -8 Snow ‘are. blank at $15,855, which is $1,093] Petersburg . 38 Cloudy | higher than the company had re- Portland i 48 Pt. Cloudy = The Rev. Gallant is still in the |ported. Meter expense he set at Prince George 29 Clear States and will be unable to attend |$3,089.71, which is less than the Prince Rupert 43 . the first meetings. The board will|company figure. Stuart reached his San Fifincisco 56 Rain meet again tomorrow at 10 a. m.| meter expense by taking 85 percent Beattle 55 30 Rain Tle length of the session is indef- |of the system amount as applicable Sitka e 39 4 10 Cloudy inite and will depend on the amount |to Juneau only and deducted ser- Whitehorse 35 2 Trace Snow of work that is covered at each vice charges collected in this eity. Yakutat 35 3 23 02 Pt. Cloudy ™Mmeeting. | Stuart then further explained his #—(4:30 a. m. yesterday to 4:30 a. m. today* SRS % P RO R e 2 e WEATHFR SYNOPSIS: A mass of cold air is moving across South- east Alaska with snow squalls accompanying the cold front. Moderate 1 rain is falling in coastal areas from British Columbia to central Cali- { fornia and extending into Nevada and eastern Oregon and Washington. | Temperatures are cold over interior Alaska and northern Canada with | | H o i e S B raepe G ey the lowest reported temperature of mirus 34 at McGrath. 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Outside waters, Dixon Entrance to Sitka— westerly winds 15 miles per hour this afterncon backing through south o'-n - v to southeast by Thursday morning and increasing to 30 miles per hour | s : to refresh yourself. aCors el sn8 e Shbroviction by Thursday night. Outside waters, Sitka to Yakutat—easterly to south- | u N NY Roo K | | » : easterly winds 15 to 20 miles per hour increasing to 25 to 30 miles per e b BOTTLED UNDER AUTHORITY OF THE COCA:COLA COMPANY BY 1 { f,,:‘:;! :',,"cf,hj_;;ff,'flfiffieg..‘;:l hour by Thursday morning. Snow showers tonight, snow Thursday over - Z e uct of The Coca-Cols 3 entire area. | Bourbon Whiskey—A Blend o Juneau Cold s“".age Co. ¢ Coca-Cola Company. Slowly. weakening of low pressure, Whitehorse to Prince William Sound, with deep but filling low of about 2890 moving eastward from || NATIONAL DISTILLERS PRODUCTS CORPORATION, N. Y.« 86.8 PROOF « 48% GRAIN NEUTRAL SPIRITS Bristo] Bay. v Coke means a good time will be had by all. It's a mighty nice feeling o know that there's Coca-Cola in the icebox ready to refresh a sociable pause with friends or just © 1946 The C-C Co.