The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 27, 1946, Page 2

PAGL TWO about a return of the Natives' ir old homes. bring low cost operation of sand-pump- iy to t hr City of Doug s stat- r, the point was brought is ready to furnish w elec- up by George Kurtilla, Engineer ric service and fire protection for m Charge of River Harbor NEL the harbor. Also, it owns all the Reports for the Seattle Engineer . shoreline property and rights District, that mat 1 removed of way for two approaches in addi- from projects undertaken by tk ticn to the present dock approach Army Engineers is disposed of ir RBOR line ting any necessity for the least costly manner; which BOAI HA ondemnation or purchase of land. might not be that of back-filling to Inclided in the proposal pre- the shore in the case of the Doug- (Continuec jrom Page Omey | Sented by the City of Douglas was las harbor He received a negative| use of dredged sand to back-fill reply in answer to his query if the ed C el pcpution—from 6,000 1st the shoreline, thus creating ' City of Douglas can contribute the to an estimated 8,500 or 9,000 in the nn(‘ area which would be cost of bulkheads for the back- ten years—and the constantly | turned cver to the Office of Indian filling expanding ranks of boats based ' s deral government, No Douglas Money here—more than doubled in the'{ d rehabilitation of In fact, that question brought up last ten years, he said h Indian Village what appedrs to be the pivotal is- ment of the fish- Indian e Plan 1e regarding Douglas’ chances for on Ge au Chan- ANS Superintendent Foster de- getting its boat harbor eld by lack c ce is now giving It was shown by financial state-| C s for more boats, | consideraticn to such a develop- ments and stated by several wit- ment and it was further stated nesses that the City of Douglas is, ed to the ct that that 24 Quonset huts now be- not in position to make any con- nee had good tural ing erected in Douglas for emer- tribution to the initial cost of the e, but due to no fault of |gency veterans housing are expect- Larbor ond furnishing utilities, | ts, that natural harbor 1 to have outlived their utility approaches and land rights. The now filled in by w;:v of fine that purpose in two years and city has no money to spend for| and tailings from the old Tread- uld then be turned over to the mooring fleats or other terminal| well mine workir such extent settlement. Foster also ex- facilities. hat now only the shallowest draft the desire of his agency, Col. Hardy then stated, that to can lie in the area behingd its charges economically his knowledge, the War Department | ayflower Island where Douglas' self-sufficient. thus achieving re- has never provided floats for such! ses the harbor be located ited gains in standards of living harbor projects. 39-Acre Harbor Asked and health among the Indian After dore aldchsslon: that he| A sketch was submitted to show This, he said, is done to consider- y.,.acing question was passed over| the ,m)y{.x\-mmn\ (lr':):wt‘ A 30-|able ‘,V\..““[ by making loans to re- with the vaderstanding that Do acre basin dredged to a depth of sponsible India for' fish bbats. 1, "roo 1k able to find Home 'way fourteen feet below mean low tide, However, it is necessary that the o o). uide float facilities—one float | » be created by constructing a covernment's security be protected .¢ . iive Kurtilla remsrked that rock-fill breakwater from the south insurance and a requisite for ,° L.icequre is often followed point of Mayflower Island appr ge is safe moorage FHardy (ErmiAat AL 4rs Hibs mately 950 feet to the Douglas Is-| He stresscd the decline in, the (igeq pby the community, as requir- land shore. It was stressed that the f?f‘"‘ las Indian »(wnmum(y from ed. Several fishermen present, City of Douglas has r:l)'fva( secur- 300 ',’ more natives to a present making voluntary individual state- | ed rock-filling of 540 feet of | population of 91, caused by remo- oo ciq that they would be dock approach which would form val to other communities with sub- oo " oer “alone without floats, the northern limit of (hv prop ed sequent over-crowding of them. He it o 1o ¢ breakwater is construct. basin. V of the w dy | indicated confidence that CONSruC- o4 ang the basin dredged to give| done is approximately $30,000. Nine- ' tion of juate boat facilities at safe anchorage, percent of the-dredging needed '!) uglas coupled with Indian Vil- a0 closing remarks, counsel ould require on the relatively lage ovements there would McCarron suggested that the Doug- | las project could be -classified reclamation” of a natural h . He gave his opinion that the Treadwell mine had abused its privilege of dumping tailings intd| the Channel by allowing them to| silt up w were then navigable waters. Occasioning much interest was an old photograph showing the Douglas shoreline as it used to be, when sizeable boats were able pass behind Mayflower Island. Other facts presented by ses were: Jensen—that more than 50 boat owners now reside on Douglas Is- land with several other residents| locking for boats. That requests| have come in for moorages efor power barges and other larger craft unable now to tie up in the Juneau harbor. That the 30-acre harbor is warranted by the pre- sent need and the City of Douglas a1, be expected to grow with harbor as PURE ® anilla Homemade ice cream has that deli- cious smooth flavor that delights the whole family when you use the best vanilla-Schilling pure Vanilla. Schilling ' . \ Organizations Support » Balog—Identified communication Alaska Airplane Charter Co. | 20 0 TRANSPORTATION AIR AIR FREIGHT RVICE supporting its boat harbor pro- Ject, from the Douglas Boat Own- ers Association (signed by 65 per- sons), Juneau Central Labor Coun-| cil, Alaska Native Brotherhood and| International Fishermen and Allied Workers of America. Miller—Average pack now of the Douglas cannery is 20,000 cases of salmon. Two years ago the pack! hit 45,000 cases. Last year only 25, seiners scld to Douglas due to lack [THRIFT (0-0P for CANNERIES———MINES—— TING and FISHING PARTIES Charter Service by Day, Week, Month or Hour Rates on Request for All Kinds ¢f Chartered Flights PO Phone Red 795 Juneau Dealer DEAN GOODWIN—Pilot TOM WHITE—Pilot HANGAR—1!% miles out Glacier Highway Taylorcraft Phone Y67 FRIDAY-SATURDAY Phone 167 MT. JEFFERSON—NGo. 2 Can (REAM CORN - 2 for 35¢ @ for $1.00 TASTEWELL—No. 2 can can SLICED BEETS - 2for35¢ 6 for $1.00 SHok STHING 2 for 35¢ 6 for §1.00 CHILICONCARNE - - . 2for 55 PEAS - - - 2for29c 7for$2.00 DICED CARROTS 2 for35¢ 6 for $1.00 SHOE STRING CARROTS GREEN BEANS - 2for35¢ Glor$1.00 Tweo Deliveries 10:30 and 2:30 Phone Your Orders Early! to, witnes- | its} THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA ’IHURSDAY !UNE 27, |946 of mooring facilities. The cannery|ed-for harbor addition here d«:eszb- Keithahn, Mrs. Ray Wolfe, Mrs. ldex, Ple. Eugene Maddex, Pre. wants to put on additional tend- ! cem large enough. All the!E. S. Heiser, Mrs. Robert Treat, HUNTED FORMER Eugene Dudley, Pfe. Roy A. Ede, ers and with a boat harbor an ”‘vllnm' harbors ever built have been!Mrs. John Brillhart. “"'l‘&, Jack Lettenberg, Pfe. L. D. eased pack seems assured. !mu small, he said, “I'd like to see| A charter member and twice ,Thmkbn P.t. Jesse P. Adams, Pvt. one too large.” He was told that| ng permits block extension of Collins—The crab packing plant | is a new Douglas industry that exis! 1,‘1‘”,, to operate at least four boats| the harbor addition any farther this fall. [north aleng the Channel. Bixby—At both Douglas and Ju- Wintcring Boats Could Triple | neau hearings described over-| Tom Dyer declared that the pre-| crowding of Juneau harbor with|scnt Juncau harbor cannot handle Egn-ullv increased wind and fire|boats here now, nor can it possibly | hazards, during “off season” to|handle thcse that would like to demonstrate need for more harbor|come in. Many outlyi boat own- iacilities on Gastineau Channel. As'ers would like to winter in Juneal{, high as 400 boats have been count- | he said they have tcld him, be= led in | cause of the availability of schools, !cnv time, averaging 30 feet machine shops, etc. here. He be-' ieves thc number of boats winter-| length. In one six-week period, 365 | boats used the grid in the Juneau!.ng here can be tripled. Dyer also sed that provision must be| harbor. |:nade for seaplanes, many more of which will soon be coming into or! in and out cf Juneau. the 1l-acre Juneau harbor at in Other Wilnesses Warner—Described the operation, |iack of moorage handicaps and ex- pansion plans of his new Douglas The Juneau hearing consisted al- | boat shop. most entirely of oral statements,| | “Sandy Stevens—Related exper- Col. Hardy agreeing that written “m“\ that caused him to leave ¢Xhibits m be submitted later. | Douglas to live in Juneau where Col. Hardy and Mr. Kurtilla, with his boat could be sheltered. He the thiri member of their party, declared emphatically he would re- O- C. Falkenbury, of the Opera- [turn to Douglas to live if harbor Hons Division of the Seattle En- | facilities were available there. gineer District, were scheduled “to Voluntar witnesses speaking be in K this morning, for a hearing there. On Friday, they are! frcm the fl | Douglas hearing were: r at the close of the to complete their Southeast Alaska Claney Hig- | ‘¢ 2 g schedule with hearings at Haines gins, fisherman; Joseph Stevens, y | fisherman; Joseph Ready, fisher- in the morning and Skagway in man; Gordon Mills, fisherman; L. the afternoon. At both the Douglas and Juneau Tom Sélby, plehsure boht owner. | hearings, the matter of silting of the present Juneau small boat har- | Gorden Gray. All asked that boat harbor be constructed at DCT Was mentioned. It was sug- gested for reference to Mr. Falk- wDougln.x e enbury's department. Mrs. H. E. Smith \murd to \Hbmn atement later . | = (iven Farewell By Two Clubs | Additicnal witnesses heard Members of Juneau anc at the hearing conducted in neau by Mayor Hendrickson w | Harold Business agent of |the Deep Sea Fishermen's Union; Ernest G. Whitehead, Northern Douglas Woman’s Club mingled to- ether Wednesday afternoon at a arewell tea td honor one of the Juneau club's oldest and most loved members, Mrs. Harold E. Smith, Commercial Company local M ager; Wallis S. George, Juneau | cold Storage Company Manager; J. L. McNamara n- gineer; T. H Oil | Company Mans ¢ | ! Closest To GRowils who with h;‘:' husband will retire m to Seattle | Asse described the plight e e i {thee big hew halibut Boaés that Fcld @biths home of) Mis, A, E. {came to Juneau this spring, and Glover, the tea was a joint pro- Wi G ey 1save: ¢ fall be- Ject cf the retiring and incoming cause they are unable to find win- ?’fi;““_:xml_“‘;‘l‘feds(,l;’(fu:0*:‘ 0‘1“‘3‘:\‘_‘ ter moorings. There is no quéstion ¢UP: un AT o e 3 James V. Cole, retiring President. Fresh with the windblown fra- grance of outdoor blossoms, r ceiving rcoms of the lovely Glover home were dominated by the tea table with its exquisite centerpiece iJ. Wilcox, pleasure boat own: was se- from addi- of |but what the fishing industry |should develop greatly on Gastine ‘\(\u Channel, he said, because it is closer 1o both salmon and halibut | grounds than any other sput on the Coast except Westward towns. : | More boats }m‘n coming here he is of palest pink columbine and the Whia He dababed \)1(']1!‘{‘5811! Ju. clubs flower, forget-me-nots. Presiding at the tea table during the afternoon were Mrs. Robert E. Coughlin, incoming President of the Juneau club, and Mrs. Leigh Grant, retiring club; Don y one-third been, i both | neau boat harbor | what it should have | size and facilities. Whitehead described the exten- | sive new marine ways development | his company is installing here and | 2 h - declared the N. C. Company is al- N D Fohdson. Mk 3D, ready wiorried a arbor facili- ¥ ready viorried about harbor faclll- i, c ws Marcus Jensen, ilrs ties and has inquiries canner- <ot ,(IJ‘“ e o k Ray Peterman, Mrs. Mildred Her- |jes as far away as Cordova regard- as « President Mrs. Ernest of the Douglas Gruening, Mrs. Foster, Mrs. Burras Smith, ing getting their boat repair work AN, Mrs. Bess Winn, Mrs. D. W. {dotie here. Herron, Mrs. John McCormick. Gecrge stated that with the 5- Assisting hostesses were Mrs. E. iU[)'J.()()(! pounds capacity extension JOHN McKANLD now being completed at the Ju- john McKane is supposed to have it ol iy Company, the' come to Juneau in about 1900 and | Juneau plant will be the largest in H ska, with 9,000,000 pounds capa- | city. He also told of further expan- ;smn plans of his company which | will result in elimination of a large 4])art of the arpa now used by the geld rush either into the Klondike or interior Alaska. McKane previously residel in Montana and left there to come to Alaska. {cm Float, making harbor facili- If living he would now be about ues even more inadequate. 87 years old. Coordinated Projects ! Anyone having information as to | George also expressed his firm McKane's present whereabouts, or belief that correlated projects the date and place of his death, is werthy of consideration are dredg- requested to advise me. ) ing of the north end of Gastineau! R. E. ROBERTSON. Channel to shorten boat runs and First publication, June 13, 1946. dredging Young’s Bay through to Last pubhcmtlon June 27, 1946 Hawk Inlet, which would also shorten runs and cut out the ha-| zardous rounding of Point Retreat. Both of those projects gwere aiso| suggested as needed coordinated developments at the Douglas hear-| {ing. Col. Hardy stated that the‘l Gastineau Channel dredging is only waiting upon Congressional appro- priation, but that consideration of the Hawk Inlet cutoff was out of place at this hearing. \ t The City Engineer was called to state contributions the City of Ju- neau is ready to make toward the second boat basin here. Those con- sist of filling Harbor Way through to the highway, forming the shore rim of the harbor, and installation of mooring floats, with utilities. Col. Hardy remarked that the ask- -"CALLING ALL VETERANS" “First Among Fine Whiskies” THE V. F, W. PUBLIC SERVICE PROGRAM FOR VETERANS AND THEIR FAMILIES . TONIGHT AT KINY § 7 to 7:15 P.M. then apparently to have joined the! e ent of the Juneau club; past NAZI COMMANDER (‘hn\ L. R.\) Pvt. James F. Robi- esident and co-founder of the | nett Cordcva club, where the Smiths IAKES OWN l!F: Passengers to Cordova were E. A. made their home for several years; («- tes, H. J. Campbell, Pat Hodge, 2s well as local director for cloth- ISR, e! ¥ Anchorage, Ear! ing relief drives and numerous DACHAU, c<cima June 27— zivt,:l:e‘ P.I!(::‘BI:‘ Ij’.DScott. Jngmes Rl4 other patriotic projects during both Captured by American agefits, the| guoty Della Calvidge; to Fairbanks, World Wars, Mrs. Smith has been, former Nazi Commander, of the| p .} ivinacion y through. the years, one of the two Flossenberg concentration camp| " Noyner: Ed Auer, Sig Wester- committed suicide in the Nuernkterg! « , jail this morning as 52 of his sup-| PGy SIE Westernelm, Jr., ordinates continued (on trial Ior“imo“dd' J. S FEewRY] their lives before the Allied Military | Tribunal. . Col. Mu* Koegel, long-missing camp commandant wanted ‘in con- \ nection with the murder of 40000‘ or three great motivating spirits for civic improvement and social betterment projects throughout the, Territory, carried out both within and outside the Federation of Wo- men’s Clubs. Her final official duty for the Juneau club was to act as installing officer at the annual in- C. 'Beky to Kodiak: W. Ensign L. A, D'\ub B F. P. iF. Gibferd, Art Fact, W, Wilhelmsen, S. Jaans, * JOSEARINE DOWMIN 10 stallation dinner, held in May. s e o = his arrest, Army authorities an- E"D Hm V'S" HERE lUM SEE R"ES Hpi g - Twe '_gunrgs found Koege: un-' ppps. Josephine Downin, a house- conscicus, his neck encireled by & guest of Mr. and Mo Kelth Wildes HERE IoMoRRow noose attached to a door hand for the past ten days will leave this He was given adrelin but |three hours later. |itak, Kansas. ame to Juneau in 1915. hew, and Stewardess Pat Bowers: died | {w2ek end: for her home in Wich- Mrs. Downin is Mr. Funeral services for Lum See, ol sl TR He had been lolund :u a Bavarian | Wilde’ aunt and is on her first trip , Ieadnyi will he Bad ‘“|““"'(‘ FPrie ip 8 _<"7m_h‘“d to the Territory. She has express- 2 pm. tomorrow in the Charles W. ; :‘!d grentAlp:‘(ahuxc with her . vaca- Carter Mortuary chapel, 18 pASSE“GERS IN jtion in & e The Rev. Ralph R. Fick of the; 1. Sy ot s Bthel Tabernacle will officiate at| [ HERE FHOM STATES the last rites, which will be fol-| FROM wEST BY pNAJ i T R 4 AR i é | Arrivals from ‘the States regist- Zrnpl(c‘-l\erbg o ered at the Baranof yvstefdav See began his Alaskan career in| ‘Pucmc Northern. A_mmes vester ‘wr!c‘. Mr. an.d Mr‘_ L. A. Demers, the Bristol Bay area, later working | 32V flew the following passengers | Eugene, Ore.; Doris Dorons, Thi- ‘M’(‘ka‘ HER IR mix;m" camps. Me | to and frcm Juneau with Captain cago, IlL; Mr. and Mrs. Harry ¢ y <t ; | Maury Keating, First Officer Meri- Tcwnsend, C. R. Mifflin, D. C. Mcffatt, Seattle; Albert J. Koeppe, mi‘;{l .‘,”[‘,:,,‘ Ii\(::lf G;:'S“‘:x:;u(”;:fii From Anchorage: Duncan Camp-'Pcrtland, Ore.; Jesse G. Vickery, later ‘“ “hc Imperial 'under Bob bell, Frances White, Edward White, Maramee, Okla.; Westly C. Mon- K. mm;,“,n $ |A. J. Laurence, J. G. Vickery, Mrs, !mc. Seattle; Mr and Mrs. P. Wein- w2t detithi | Tom Jones, Charies A, Whrte ~-~-'cll, New York City. Surviving See are his children,|cond Lt. John Kelly, S-Sgt. Ken« RIS BT 5 R S bt Pk and Prafioli iiEs aae neth M. Albright, T-5 Paul Mad- Empire Want Ads bring resulis! Mrs. Laura Montero, all 0f JUNEAU; | peas—————— - e - and Ben, George and Thomas See!}| B ) " > of Doug |}l AUDITS SYSTEMS TAXES e i @ eee.oo.. ... NEILL, CLARK and COMPANY * WEATHER REPORT e |{| 4 7 . (U. 8. WEATHEK BUREAU) 3 | 3 ES‘““‘“M? 1940 o Temperatures for 24-our period o |{] 1’ublic Accountants — Auditers — Tax Counselors Ending 6:30 o’Clock Thi: i 3 oo b 208 Franklin Street — Phone 757 e In Juneau—Maximum, 66; e § ¥AIRBANKS OFFICE—201-2 LAVERY BUIEDING ° mum, 54 oy ° At Airport—Maximum, 66; e §| & 3 ) d & mibhnim. 44 + 1l Kinloch N. Neill John'W. 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