The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 7, 1946, Page 8

POLARIS-TAKU PREPARES FOR BIG INCREASE McPhersonE)aeds toHave Mine in Active Opera- tion Next Month Preduction at ‘hr Polaris-Taku mine, closed since April, 1942, will begin this summer at a highly-in- creased rate over its pre-war scale, according to Frank H." McPherson, manager of the mine, who has ar- rived here accompanied by his wife. Unless impeded by labor prob- s, shipping of necessary sup- s and equipment will be com- plmed this month, and the mine ready for active operation in June, he said Three new steel barges to be used at the mine are now completed and two others are under construction at Bellingham, Wash. The five barges will take the place of six pre-war scows which were taken cver by the Government during the war. McPherson said the new barges are improved models and will have a combined work capa- ¢ity of the six earlier barges. The; wellknown mine tug, Taku Chief was also commandeered by the Government and will be replaced this year by a new and more mos dern tug, Taku Chief No. 2, Before the war 200 men were em- ployed at the mine and the last Funter shipment of concentrates from the | Goddard Tulsequah river mine totaled 6,000 Port Alexander Kake tons. | W indham Tenakee Fanshaw Baranof Hoonah Angoon Juncdu No. Juneau No. Juneau No. Thane | satmon Creek | Lynn Canal | Petersburg | Craig Klawock Ketchikan No. 1 'Ketchikan No. 2 Hydaburg Pennock Island Mountain Point Wards Cove Wacker Gravina 3 le ka Metlakatla { Wrangell agway Haires Btikine Douglas Mendenhall Douglas Bridge Jamestown Bay Revilla Scow Bay Gustavus atat an Hyder Chilkat Flying Men In McPherson said more men would be employed in postwar operation of the mine and production “con- siderably increased.” For the past several weeks planes have been 10 60 35 % 'l‘ms (.om Labor 30 UNOFFICIAL 'RETURNS — DEMO(RATI( PRIMARIES flgl DIVISION Semllon Representa uosuyog | ooITRINg ymeys uasIapuUND uiysnoo uesuBH sSuruuag || 86 107 97 5 10 8 20 21 10 142 0 102 S o Swvaa £ soeS8Svuvcuvoan 5 .. ESsvoobabeovcanan = GormoaBRlewian R caBSwbd @ - 8 oBaocawn o . | B8 weaBao ® 8 flying men to the mine and at ¥ o8 2103 present there are 65 men doing re- pair work and making other pre- parations to begin gold production operations. Since the miné closed down three watchmen have been kept on duty to care for the idle equipment. One | watchman, a radio man, has re-| layed monthly reports of mine con- ditions to the Vancouver office. Heavy Snow McPherson, manager of the Bri- tihh Columbia mine for the past | five years, said that duringthepast| DR. RAE LILLIAN (ARL&OV severe winter on the Tulsequah,| Optometrist is now in Juneau at snow accumulations had caved in} he\ office in the Blomgren Build- one warehouse which is now un-\mg to examine eyes and fit glasses. der repairs. ]Phone 636 for appointment. , Last summer a small crew was (264-t1) TOTALS 133! mine to build and repair roads this year's open- employed at the 2ht new bridges in anticipation of {ing Originally started by the Cong-! dons of Duluth, Minn,, the Polaris- Taku was purchased m Canadian |interests a year ago. | of Vancouver, B. C. is Presxdem Lf ‘mc new compan\' Prewar NORWEGIAN Type BRISLING SARDINES 2 ans §5¢ LIMIT SEED POTATOES Early Rose White Rose Netted Gems Matanuska GET THEM NEW DELIVERY SCHEDULE MINIMUM ORDER $2.00 MORNING DELIVERY CLOSES DOUGLAS DELIVERY CLOSES .... AFTERNOON DELIVERY CLOSES .10 A. M. PHONE 104 CASH GROCERY 885 FIRE DEPT ANSWERS TWO CALLS LAST EVE. Two fire alarms yesterday eve- ning added up to a total of five runs in less"than 24 hours for the {Juneau Volunteer Fire Department, wnhnu! any serious damage result- ’ing from any of the fires. 182'1 1262 1629 1484 3 | 1155 | he 2-4 signal about’ 5 o'clock ‘was turned in when the tarpot be- Uncfficial returns from 48 of the ing used in marquee repairs on First Division’s 53 voting precincts, Seward street blazed up. The paint |tabulated to date showed the fol- on the marquee directly above the | lowing lineup on the Democratic blaze wasn't even smoked up. ballot: ! At 8 o'clock a roof fire in the For Commissioner of Labor, in- Indian Village was quickly 'extin- cumbent Walter P. Sharpe main-|guished when the fire boys answer- tained a lead of almost 200 over’ed the 2-1 call, and returned to the| K. C. Johnson. |Fire Hall, wondering what would | For the two Senatorial nomina- be the next one. tions, Frank Peratrovich of Kla- | iwork led, with Andy Gunderson of | Ketchikan second, both sure of ALASKA (oAST Al nominations. The first eight in the race for the eight House nominations were in this order: James Nolan of Wrangell, John |Smith of Metlakatla, Andrew Hope 'of Bitka, Joe Krause of Ketchikan, | Harry Newell of Ketchikan, Chris Hennings of Juneau, A. B. Cain of |Juneau, G. E. Almquist of Juneau.| | REPUBLICAN RETURNS ! In the Republican primaries the vote is as follows: For Delegate — Peterson | Grigsby 332, { For Treasurer—Cole 556, 1255, | Por Commissioner (Benson 679. For Senator—Dawes 720, Tnlbet 601. Fer Representatives — Mrs. Eng-’ strom 664, Price 651, Anita Garnick 648, Vukovich 615, McCain 612, Cramer 609, Robertson 593, Krause! 550, Paul 453. |9 e i SPORTSMEN TO MEET The, Sportsmen’s Association | newly- -organized group to promote Alaskan sports, will meet at 8 o'clock tonight in the City Council Chambers. All members and inter- ested persons are urged to attend. e HERE FROM ANCHORAGE Alice Shaul of Anchorage is a _guest at, l.he Baranof. Soholt of Labor—| TERRITORIAL 'SPORTSMAN MEETING TONIGHT AT 8 inthe COUNCIL CHAMBERS AR PRP RO ORI R I RIG TR RANT COCONCOCNRE 1640 FLIES EIGHTEEN tives o &8 NN WR S = SBERNGZmdOL vebrBlorvwoSSloakarBaaaba oy 82w reBE et wo e -3 e o = PSR C = fe i -y 6 64 43 'S 32 @ = 9 i 1641 1600 1441 following passengers yesterday: to Tulsequah, B. C., M. Bruckner, Eric Fried, H. Galloway; to Skagway, Majo A. Haas; to Haines, B. k ilton; from Haines, F. We Sitka, H. Gronroos, Mrs. Henry Hayno; from Sitka, Joe Hellor, L. Byrni to Hoonah, George Ander- son; from Hoonah, Hildi Schoon- over, Penny Schoonover, W. Lind- off, Leslie Johnson; to Pelican, Bud Phelps, Mrs. L. Jacobsen. D ALEX DUNHAM HERE A. S. Dunham, a resident of An- chorage, has arrived here for a/ visit. He is registered at the Bar-| anof. Dunham is former Principal of the Juneau High School. ———— — FROM BRAZIL Jack H. Duncan, a resident of | Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, is staying, at the Baranof during his visit mI this city. ! | | JOSEPH KELLER HERE Joseph Keller arrived here yes-, | terday from Seattle, He is staying Alaska Coastal Ahlines new the:t Lhe Baranof. o TUESDAY MAY 7, 1946 fed b 1 CALL FOR PiCNICs) ! 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