The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 20, 1946, Page 8

LASKA EMPIRE —JUNEAU, ALASKA WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20, 1946 DOUGLAS ASKS CONSIDERATION IN RATE MEET Possibility afig Boost for QOuiside Areas Now Brought to Fore Passing more or less unnoticed in the Juneau City administration’s current campaign to cut Alaska Electric Light and Power Com- pany rates within munity nas been the position of and other extra-city That position and at of passibly much-increased light rates that hangs over their ads is brought out in a comm ation from the Douglas Mayor and Coun- ¢il. This communication was ad- dressed to the Mayor and Council of Junecau, but was not made pub- lic at the recent AEL&P rate hear- ing, Monday evening Here is the text of letter Douglas, Alaska To the Mayor and Juneau, Alaska ] Dear Sirs | We have been a little disturbed over the reports of the hearing which is now being held in Ju- neau for the purpase of regulating electric light and power rates with- in the City of Juneau alone. The;| reports of the hearings indicate | that in the proccedings the reven- ues and the operating expenses of the Alaska Electric Light and Pow- er Company are being separated in- to two parts, and a certain portion allocated to Juneau, and the re- mainder to Douglas and the High- ways. The result of this will be the fixing of a rate for Juneau or with Douglas rather left cut in the cold. K We know that the City Council of | Juneauy has no authority to regu- the Douglas 18. 1946, Council, March City late rates for any territory out- side the corporate limits of your city; but as a practical matter some arrangement should be made by which one rate base is establish- ed and one rate put into effect for the two towns. In order to do that it will be necessary for the City of Jupeau to consider the entire property of the utility, and the to- tal opgrating expense and all the revenuye derived from the sales of current and power. Our consumption of current at the present time is low. We have 19 ifdustries as we once had; but thgre was a time when, for many years Douglas was larger than Ju- rieau and was by far the larger con- sumer, and we venture to say that a very large percentage of the past earnings of the Electric Light and Power company have come from | our side of the channel. The newspaper reports indicate that the Juneau City Council is — -Repels and ~Pevents Mil FREE DELIVERY Pla Newest Won World of Not a fabric, (where jand tt ' NOW IS THE TIME : 10 FIGHT YOUR NO. 1 ENEMY‘ Moths Get DRY-MO Today ~Reduces Dampness NUFSAID Plocly wieely proceeding on the theory that the entire portion of the present value of the Electric Light Company’s —_— property which has been acquired HEARING ON TONIGHT from past earnings must have been The Juneau City Council thi paid for by the consumers of Ju-|evening turns to another page inj neau alone. the books of the Alaska Electric That is not so. From 1896 until|Light and Power Company this 1913, Douglas was a larger town evening, as the extended hearing than Juneau, practically all the pay roll was in Douglas and Treadwell Juneau, to a great extent, during those years, depended on Treadwell and Douglas for its existence. The Treadwell mine during those years mployed an average of over one thousand men. In fact, at one time the number of employees reached nineteen hundred Th Tglephone and Light systems sides of have always served both the channel. The Light and Pow- er system is all one, and so is the Telephone s m We have always had one base and cne rate, and we understand that in the past, in fixing the rates, the system as a whole has been con- sidered and we think that, while| perhaps if one were obliged to fol- the strict letter of the law, we have in Alaska no pro- vision for separate public utility districts unless they are formally set up, Juneau would have to fix its own rates regardless of Douglas surrounding territory, nev- s this is not practical | low erth If the theory of separating values and allocating earnings and oper- ating expenses is followed to its conclusion, we fear that this might | in higher rates for Douglas we now have We have been told that at no place in any state of the union, where two rather small towns are so close together, all served by one | common system, are there two dif- ferent rates for light and power. We do not agree that the por- tion of the earnings of the Alaska | result than | Electric Light and Power Company which were partly paid in dividends nd partly ploughed back into the system on your side of Gastineau Channel all came from Juneau Douglas has made a large contri- bution Of course, if you ciange ile rates it will have to be done by ordinance which will ke effective in Juneau only, but if, in fixing the rates, you consider the two towns together, taking into consideration all the property of the system as a rate base, all the earnings, both past and present, and the entire operat- ing expense, and then fix your rates, applicable to Juneau alone, as that is the extent of your juri diction, we are sure that Douglas can adopt the same rates. It will be impossible for Douglas to arrive at fair rates if we are confined to the value of all the property of the system in giving us service, as a rate base, much of which is on the, Juneau side, while at the same time getting credit only for the earnings from Douglas consumers. Very Respectfully, Marcus Jensen, Mayor; T. N. Cashen, Eail Miller, Erwla Fleek, Mike Pusich, Clarence R et non R R A T T A e Kills Moths dew Lt CALL 16 or 24 = g Special on Pastic PURSES BLACK and BROWN Pouch and Envelope Styles Some Have Zippers stic KALON Trade Mark HANDBAG der from the Chemistry not a leather, but smarter and more durable than cither. ° Won't sculf—Won't rub JONES - STEVENS The House of Swansdown £ SEWARD STREET 'man of | fellow | | — Members Common Douglas, Alaska Walters Council, on AEL&P rates unreels towards an end prophesied for next week. Tes- timony on tap for this evening is expected to open with more ques- tioning of C. B. Holland, light company cashier, who held sway through the latter part of the pre- vious session Monday night mencing time for tonight's ing is 8 o'clock, in the City Hall. BPWC T0 CONDUCT RED CROSS DRIVE IN THIS VICINITY, The Busincos and Professional Women'’s Club listened to a plea said Joe Koralchik, chief of the| for help for someone to take over the Red Cross Drive, and today at their noon luncheon meeting in the Baranof's Gold Room, stepped into the breach made by the unavoid- able absence from Juneau of George Folta, General Chairman of the drive for the Juneau district. Miss Elsie Werner agreed to take market, the killing of beef would | * the responsibility of being chair-' the club’s committee, as- sisted by Mrs. Betty McCormick, ' Mrs. Reba Hardin, Miss Jeanne‘ Haas and Miss Margaret Welsh, and they in turn were assured the whole-hearted cooperation of their | club members. Just as a start, a total of $71 was collected | in a brief interlude following the, business meeting Home Service Activilies Mrs. McCormick gave a condensed report on the work covered by the Home Service Office of the ARC.‘ which takes care of the needs of servicemen, veterans and their fam- | ilies, and some civilians. Among other things she stated that since the office was opened last a total of $2,967.90 had been loaned to ser- vicemen and veterans, of which $1,205 has been returned to date., Baby clothes have been furnished | in many cases to wives of service- |men, in addition to help in cases | of necessity among civilians, The enthusiastic response given by club members to the appeal fo help, and the speed shown in out lining the plan for conducting concerted drive should ensure com: plete success in the undertaking. | | The Teen-Age Club also came in| for its share of discussion, with| the result the BPWC agreed to guarantee $100 toward the needed budget as estimated to carry out the plans for a year. Packages For France Mrs. Irma Purington, Vice-Pres- ident, presiding in the absence of | Mrs. Lillian Uggen, announced that | Mrs. Hardin and Mrs. McCormick will handle the packing of the box- es being sent by BPW members and friends to fellow-members in the International Club in France. Ar-| ticles for these packages may be left at the Red Cross office in the Shattuck Budg.,, Room 12. ‘ There are many items, such as| soaps, dried vegetables and fruits,! coffee beans, candy bars for the! nutritional value, which may be |included, as well as good used { clothing, shoes, underwear, etc., all in( which are pitifully scarce in all | | European countries. Donations of | lany of these things will be greatly | appreciated. Mrs. William Paul, Sr.,| |club secretary, has a list of names/ {of members in France to whom |the packages will be sent directly. | ‘Thesv: are “key” members who will| |'make sure that everything will be| | distributed equitabl where the | need is the greates | The press of business and lack of ! | time at today’s luncheon which was | |attended by about 40 members and visitors, prevented Mrs. McCormick | giving a report on her recent trip; east, during which she represent- ed the City of Juneau by request of Mayor Ernest Parsons at the commissioning of the new cruiser Juneau, and also of her meeting | with officers of the National Fed- eration in New York City. Guests of honor today included Reps. Bess Cross and Alaska Linck, Mrs. Ernest Gruening, Honorary member of the State Federation of BPW, and Mrs. Amelia Gundersen, of Ketchikan, who told how Ketchi- kan put over the Red Cross drive in two days. Other visitors in- cluded Gradelle Leigh, .Cora A. Brouillet, Hospital Consultant with sephine Carter of Sitka, Mrs. Jamie Paredis, member of the Dallas, Texas, club, Miss Dorothy Whitney, Miss Lois Jung 'and Mrs. Frances Worobec. The next meeting of the club will be an April Fool party, the place later. S L iy ® 0 00 09 v e WEATHER REPORT (U. S. WEATHER BUREAU) Temperatures for 24-Hour Period Ending 6:30 o'Clock This Morning o o o In Juneau—Maximum, 37; minimum, 31. At Airport—Maximum, 37; minimum, 32. WEATHER FORECANT (Juneau and Vicinity) Snow tonight, sncw show- ers Thursday. Lowest tem- perature earl Thursday morning about freezing. SHORTAGE - OF MEAT (BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS) Capt. Lathrop | Visiting Here | Capt. Austin E. Lathrop, often | called “The Builder of Alaska” be-| | cause of his outstanding pioneering | suce s in almost every field of | onomic and social activity in the the Kotsina district in 1901; found- €d the Alaska Transfer Company at Cordova in 1907; constructed & large apartment house and theatre there in 1917; constructed a can- nery in 1935; built a large airplane hanger and shop next to the government’s airfield at Cor- dyva; presided as president of the First Bank of Cordova, and presi- dent and owner of the Cordova Commercial Company. In the years that followed he ex- tended his interests to Anchorage A beef crisis that threatened to| Territory, is one of the few Al-|,nq Fairbanks and today is one empty American meat Com- 'stretched out from the midwest to- hear- day, where the drastic reducion in| at|when we get them he: the supply of slaughter steers promise of the 1946 tourist trade. | “What can we do with them| he said | counters | iskans completely unexcited by the|gr the most influential and esteem- ed residents of interior Alaska. Still active in pushing Alaska’s culture as well as her business, “Capt..” packing companies started an OPAfvmm)‘ when the tourist prospect pathrop regards the Territory as & investigation to determine the cause of the serious shortage. Four OPA investigators were at work in Kansas City after slaughter rate in the city’s major | packing companies dropped to ap-| proximately 10 percent of normal. “We are making a pretty thorough investigation of the whole thing,” food enforcement section of the OPA’s district office in Kansas City. i Two Kan City pagking com- pany officials stated that unless the OPA could ease the situation, which they said was caused by OPA price ceilings and a growing black be halted indefinitely. > Shoofing Resulfsin Love Cas SEATTLE, March 20.—Detective Captain Richard F. Mahoney said | last night John Richard Lindsey had signed a statement saying he had wielded the gun which earlier | Peer, killed Erwin Bufford Tiffany, 24, and wounded his own wife, Mrs. Marie Lindsey, 24, in a shooting at a west side residence. Lindsey, recently paratrooper, was held at the city jail on an open charge. Hospital attendants said Mrs. Lindsey, de- cribed as a former beauty contest winner from Wenatchee, Wash., was 1 unsatisfactory ip wound. “Mrs. Lindsey had been separated from her husband for about three weeks and was in love with Ti fany,” said police patrolman Har- mon Ensley. -eo TREFFERS SEEKING PIER, LYNN CANAL SEATTLE, March 20—The Se- attle District Army Engineers re- the estranged | discharged | condition with a! for this year was mentioned | him. “Alaska’s present housing sit- | \ation is such that we can't take| care of our own people. It's true that in Anchorage, Fairbanks, and; many other large Tities ‘big plans are underway for postwar housing to ease the present congestion, but | these projects are still mostly in the planning stage. They won't be ready for occupancy in the next two months.” In Juneau for the meeting of the | | Board of Regents of the University | |of Alaska, of which he is a mem-| ber, and “to take care of a few | business matters,” Capt. pects to return to his home in | Fairbanks in the next day or two.| He has just returned from a buy- ing trip to Washington ‘where he; | purchased coal mining equipment | for his Healy River Coal Mine. | | In addition to the dozens of pro-; jects and industries with which he | | is now connected, Mr. Lathrop has a new theatre in Anchorage “The| ' Fourth Avenue,” which he expects | |to open the latter pgrt of May. The theatre, a 1,000-seat house, wiil{ | be one of the largest and most mo- | |dern movie houses in the city. | Capt. Lathrop, actively engaged | | in business throughout Alaska for | the past 51 years was born in La- | Michigan, and came to Alas- ka when he was Aroused by news of the gold strike | at Homer on Cook Inlet at the turn |cf the 19th century, he purchase: |a half interest in the steam schoon: ler “L. J. Perry” and for some years | operated the vessel in Alaskan wa- | ters. It was this connection with | | the sea that won for him the title of “captain.” Since that time his| friends and acquaintances have | called him *“Capr.” Known throughout the s “the boy with an eye opportunity,” Mr. Lathrop” | early days were studded with one| pusiness coup after another. His| activities covered almost every pos- | sible phase of prospecting, | Territory | | for busi | ness real es- | ‘ate dealing, mining, and general | business. He organized the Califor- nia-Alaska Mining and Developing Company to prospect for copper in a young man of 25.1 4 10| true “land of opportunity” and “the | greatest country in the world.” “There are still tremendous op- portunities for business pioneering in Alaska,” he said today. “In a way I'd like to start over again. 1t was a lot of fun.” COASTAL AIRLINES, ELLIS AIRLINES ON FLIGHTS ON TUESDAY Ellis Aiizacs anc Alaska Coastal Lathrop | Airlines yesterday flew the follow-| ing passengers to and from Juneau: Ellis Airlines: to Ketchikan, Pe- ter Nickel, Joseph Tassell, R. F. Peake, J. H. Wakefield, Pat Neeley, | Mr. and Mrs. M. Hougen, Joe Korn- wall, H. F. Buckalew; to Petersburg, Miss C. A. Heller, From Ketchikan: Alvin Youn:; from Wrangell, Miléred Herman: from Petersburg, Bud Nock and A. Otness. ACA., to Sitka; P. A. Hansen, P. L. Edwards, Roy Bucy, G. P. Jones, John Young, Mrs. Jopn Young; to Tenakee: Sam Asp; to Hoonah: William Sheakley, Al- ‘red Horton, Kelly St. Clair, Capt. E. Knifong, E. L. Flannegan, Rich- ard Moses, Goldie Moses, Emma Mercer, P. S. Ganty, M. Malcolm, O. Peterson. From Hoenah: W. E. Hixcon, Helen Hixson, Robert Norton, Al- ert Burrell, Jerry McKinley, A. O. Peterson, M. Malcolm, P. S. Ganty; from Sitka: Dan Moller, Dr. Block, C. B. Tunningan, Dr. Sappington, Dr. C. E. Albrecht. - e ANCHORAGE. Alaska, March 20. - Councilman Winfield Erwin re- signed yesterday to accept the jap- pointment as Mayor of Anchorage or the period preceding the April 2 election. Erwin is the only candidate so far for mayor in the coming elec- tion. ———,-——— POLICE COURT FINES Eva Wilson and Frank B. Wilson, Loth charged with being drunk and disturbing the peace, have been partca todss. the.granting ot war (NIRRT Department construction permits to F. K. Dent, to dredge for gold in the Niukluk River near Council, Alaska, and to Ralph Treffers, to onstruct a pier with rockfill ap- proach on the Lynn Canal north of Juneau. Permit applications acknowledged included (with dates by which ob- jections must be filed): Libby, McNeill & Libby, floats, i E E | DARIGOLD i CANNED MILK No Shortage at BERT’S CASE PET dolphins and gridirons in Kenai River, Cook Inlet, near Kenai, Al-| the Alaska Native Service, Mrs. Jo- | and other details to be announced | aska; April 13. Fidalgo Island Packing Co., Se- attle, wharf additions, marine ways, flume, gridirons and dolphins, Bay of Pillars, west coast Kuiu Island, southeast Alaska; April 18. ———e——— - BADMINGTON (LU TO BEGIN PLAYING Beginning next week, .the Juneau Badminton Club will meet on' both Monday and. Thursday nights for an indefinite period, officers of the club apnounced today. Juneau High gymnasium Monday night at 7 o'clock. \ing will be the same. Previously the club has met in the every' Time and place for its Thursday meet- CARNATION ‘ BORDEN'S NEW DELIVERY SCHEDULE | MINIMUM ORDER $2.00 | MORNING DELIVERY CLOSES . | DOUGLAS DELIVERY CLOSES ... AFTERNOON DELIVERY CLOSES - i TONIGHT! ENTERTAINMENT and FEED NOTICE...ELKS Initiation (P. E. R. HARRY SPERLING, Presiding) March 20 sP.M EORGE BROTHER Ligquor Store Phones 92-95—2 Free Deliveries Daily CHAMPAGNE ROMA GOLD LABEL Case HETH - $3.50 (Sa%s, B e VS U CHAMPAGNE COOK’S . Case HFH - $3.50 oSa%, Sparkiling Burgundy FIFTH - $4.35 (Sase 847.75 RUM---Timothy FIFTH - 2.50 Sase $29.00 BENEDECTINE DOMESTIC HALF FIFTH-SPECIAL $1.95 Regular Price 8$2.75 Cherry Cordial DINNER AT 8 BRAND HALF FIFTH-SPECIAL $1.20 Regular Price $1.95 CREME DE CACAO0 LIQUEUR FIFTH-SPECIAL $3.25 Apricot Ligueur GARNIER BRAND FIFTH-SPECIAL $3.60 Regular Price $4.60 TRIPLE ORANGE LIQUEUR GARNIER BRAND SPECIAL-- $4.95 REGULAR PRICE—$6.95 APRICOT-CHERRY PEACH—BLACKBERRY BRANDIES BARONET BRAND FIFTH'SPECIAL $3.95 Regular Price $4.95 Annessetie . . Peppermint Schnapps Orange Curacao . . Plum Brandy . . Vodka - Yellow Charireuse Manhattan and Marlini Cockiails Creme de Menthe . . Tequila . . Kummell and many others! Phone., Write or Wire EORGE BROTHER Liquor Depariment open fo 12 p. m. every night . . . Until 2 a. m. Saturday Nighis 2 Free Deliveries Daily 10:30 a.m., 2:30 p.m.