The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 12, 1948, Page 8

9 PAGE EIGHT BUDGET ACCEPTED AT CITY COUNCIL MEET LAST NIGHT $375,440 Will Be Spent by Juneau Municipal Government A special meeting of the City Councu was heid last evening and the city budget for 1948-49 was ac- cepted unanimously. The tax was set at 20 mills on each assessed dollar, which is the same rate as last year. The expenditures listed on the budget amounted to $375440 and the estimated revenue was $375;: 000. A 1ecapitulation of the city bud- get is as follows: general and ad- ministrative expenses, $130,825; po-1i lice department, $34,480; sehool, $85,~ 0C0; libra $4,850# health and san- itation, $10,510. ! Municipal wharf and City Float, $7.275; cemetery operations, $6,500; umall boat harbor, $8,455; Street| Department, $49,000; parks and play- | grounds, $2,950; Fire Department, $16,245; hydrant maintenance, $6,- 350; Gold Creek $10,000 and new | equipment, $8,000. Estimated revenues for the period are: taxes, less discounts, tax penalties and interest, Territorial appropriations (out-of- town school tuitions), $4,000; li-{ cense fees, $60,000; other revenues, $28,000; bank loans, $35,000. —————— CEMENT FACTORY IS PLANNED FOR ALASKA RR BELT ANCHORAGE, Alask: Aug. 12, —(®—A $2,500,000 project calling for the transfer of a cement plant from mid-California to Windy on| the Alaska Railroad, was put be- fore the Alaska Development Board | VW T0 DISCUSS FUTURE OF JEEP | CLUB TOMORROW | A special mu(ln” has been cn]x- The regularly scheduled Scratch y after the| will be held immed; VFW meeting. is scheduled for 8 p Jeep Club. m. at the' - - Legion Auxiliary Selects Delegafes To Sitka Convention The American Legion Ladies Aux- iliary selected delegates and alter- nates this week, from Juneau to j represent the local chapter at the annual Alaska convention in Sitka next month. It also endorsed three candidates for Departmental offices: Nema Ellis, President; Maricn Hendrick- son, First Vice-President; and Ed- ith Da Secre ‘Treasurer. The Auxiliary also announced+ that Herbert Bennett, of Douglas, had been awarded first prize in the Department'’s Class III Poppy Post- er Contest Delegates Named Chosen as delegates at large are Anita Garnick and Anna Day. Oth- er delegates are Elsie Sosoulis, An- na Bodding, Agnes Kiefer, Midred Martin, Helen Jewett, Marjorie An- trim and Mabel Lybeck. Alternates who were selected are: Silva Zenger, Leona Lincoln, Lil- lian Harris, Edith Shrink, Helen ‘Rmo. Vena Crone, Diane Beach and Selma Vukovich. -~ yesterday. Read Salisbury, RFC consultant on lean to the railroad, told the | Board the project promises a sub- stantial reduction in building costs | for Alaska. He said the price of cement at the railhead was now about four times the retail price at. Seattle. Most o1 the raw materials needed by such a plant are close to the proposed site, Salibury said. The plan called for of the plant, now located on Sacramento River, for moving to Windy, 20 miles south of McKin- ley Park. Salisbury said the pres- ent owners, whom he did not name, were in debt to the RFC and would | have 'to borrow another $800,000 to: make the transfer. The Board also considered pro- posals on: A road from Cordova to Chitna, over the route of the old Copper River and Northwestern Rallway. John Lefevren of Cordova said e roaabed cost $20,000,000 ori- ginally and could be converted into a highway for about $1,000,000. Assistance for Seward in finding a way to survive the impending abandonment of the south end of the Alaska Railroad. Don Carlos | Brownell said 90 percent of the people of Seward would lose their | source of livelihood with the closing | of the road. Housing problems and a new transportation system offered Al- aska by the Coastwise Shipping Co., of Portland, Ore., were also considered. S e 30 PERSONS 60 SOUTH VIA PAN AMERICAN, 18 FLY TO FAIRBANKS 1000 cases of Bristol Bay salmon, The + Alaska | Anchorage | dismantling | the | i MS§ REEF KNOT DUE AT SEATTLE TODAY SEATTLE, Aug. 12—#—The mo- torship Reef Knot is scheduled to arrive here today for unloading 150,- said it will cargo for Steamship Co., with a full and Whittier. > LARGE ANIMONY MINE FAIRBANKS, Aug. 12—The sec- jond largest animeny mine in Al- |aska will soon be in production. 1 This was the word breught to | Fetbaxs {hin shock by Pat X. McGahey, Fairbanks resident and jone of the three partners of the | tirm, The Alaska Animony Mining Cempany. Other members of the new min- ing firm are Quentin P, Harris and | David H. Joesting. sail north cated on the headwater tributary to Tok River, Boulder Creek, about 15 air miles irom the Tok-Salinas road. e MR. AND MRS. JERNBERG ON Former Juneauites, Mr. Robert Jernberg arrived here Wed- nesday afternoon and continued to- day by PNA plane to Anchorage. Business before the District Court engaged the Ketchikan in Juneau. They will be south again Smurday and will visit Sitka, where they lived during the war years before returning to their home in Ketchi- kan. - POLLEYS ON VACATION Thirty passeng::s flew south yes- terday via PAA Clippers. Fourteen arrived from Seattle and 18 left here for Fairbanks. Arrivals were George Dooley, O. C. and Ruth Connelly, Cliff Wilson, Ida Bock, Nellie Emme, Ida Miller, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Peter, Chuck Davis, Carol Waddell, John Vander- bilt, Catherine Vanderbuilt and Laura Bolton. Leaving for Seattle’'were Mrs. Vic Power, Robert Bell, Sr. Zalmain Gross, H. S. Rean, Alvin Sargent, Lyala Jackson, Robert Fox, Beatrice Fox and infant, Albert Lyford, Ben Mullen, Roy Johnson, John Brock, Edward Baake, Col, Lyman Talbot, A. Anderson, A. MacKenzie, Carl Asplund, Vern Conley, Ray Wood, Alfred Mason, Mac Rennort, R. Mc- Land, J. E. Weslie, Dan Farley, M J. Johnson, T. Barman, A. B. John- son, G. S. Olson and E. V. Estes. Going to Fairbanks were Walter Heisel, J. W. Leivers, Howard Stab- ler, K. G. Merritt, Meredith Gus- tard, Freeman Schultz, H. F. Cheney, Jens Jorgengon, George Galbraith, Dr. Joseph Aronson, Howard Hilbun, Dr. Edward Bloomquist, Dr. Elaine Swinge, Carl and Laura Lomen, Clarence and Gertrude Trigg and F. 8. Gordon To Annette—Adelaide Kimball, Richard Willis and Elroy Ninnis To Whitehorse—A. C. Wood and Mary Bnmbem > KETCHIZAN BUSINESSMEN William A. Bates, President of the Miners and Merchants Bank of } Dr. and Mrs. Clayton L. Polley will leaye here tomorrow morning on board the S.8. Princess Norah for a six weeks trip to the States with their two sons. Dr. Polley said his dental office will be clos- ed until his return around October rst. The Polleys will visit the Pen- dleton Roundup, a dude ranch and many other points of interest in the Pacific Northwest. He will also attend a dental convention at Portland in September. FWS OFFICIAL Darrell V. Shuffler, representa- tive of the Fish and Wildlife Ser- vice, Blue Point, Long Island, is in town and is stopping at the Hotel Juneau PR RIESIE T PETERS RETURN Mr. and Mrs. Richard L. Peter returned here via PAA yesterday from a one-month vacation in the States where they visited their families and friends. Peter return- ed to his post at KINY ed for tomorrow night by Tdk\l Post, Veterans of Foreign Wars, in order to discuss the future of| the VFW Jeep Club. Post Com- mander every possible member meeting. of the Military Order of the' Cootie | The large animony deposit is lo- TRIP TO ANCHORAGE | and Mrs. | attorney ! |Wame Says . Krug Neve OKd Irapsi | ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Aug. 12.— terday that interior Secretary Krug has taken a stand in favor of fish traps for Alaska | Warne said: “Quotations s have | ers to perpetuate their fish trap and to indicate support by the ! Seeretary of Interior fer their posi- tion. “The letter from which the que tation actually was taken propuflc(l to Congre a limitation upon the number of fish traps and the num- ber of years they could operate. Warne said the “Department urged action on the issue and urges an untrammeled expression of op- inien by voters at the polis.” A Territorial referendum will be held October 12. - 54,000 LBS. SABLE LANDED AT STORAGE Three iishers were in with 54,000 pounds sable as follows: the Aegir,! skippered by Francis Hyde, tied up at Cold Storage with 19,000 pounds ! sable and 2,000 pounds halibut; the | Dixon, headed by Emil Samuelson, was in with 10,000 pounds cod and 1,200 halibut and the Oceanic with Ole Westby at the helm came in with 25000 pounds cod 1,500 pounds halibut. The Eifin II, skippered by E. O.! Swanson, was in with 10,000 pounds salmon and the Teddy docked at Storage with 2,000 pounds of salmon ir the hold - PORTLANDERS HERE Visiting from Portland, Ore., Mr. and Mrs. H. K. Coffen are at the Baranoi Hotel. sy bl ot 7 HEINZ ¥ 7 You M& - | \at Your Grocers INED VEGETABLES scientifically cooked and padad 40 assure uniformly high vitamin retention HEINZ STRAINED FRUITS AND. DESSERTS rate high Hor fine Flavor and texture HEINZ STRAINED MEAT PRODUCTS are rich it Flavors Baby likes HEINZ PRE-COOKED CEREALS are light; flutfy, easy o digest 'JACK O'CONNOR - * - GETS ONE YEAR. JAIL SENTENCE This morning in the U. S. Com- missicner’s Court, Jack O’Connor, Jr., 19-year-old Juneau youth, as sentenced to serve one year in the Federal Jail He was given Vern Metcalfe urges that (P—Assistant Secretary of the In- a cne-year suspended sentence .in attend this terior Wiiliam E. Warne denied yes- January for destroying Govern- meint property, and since that time has been twice convicted of city | offenses. Judze Pelix Gray re- voked the suspended sentence and The first meeung been used by the (fish trap) own- O'Connér will scrve one year in the Federal Jail in Juneau, e — H. 0. ADAMS GETS TRAVELLING JOB WITH ALASKA S5 SEATTLE, Aug. 12—®— H. O. | Adams, agent of the Alaska Steam- ' ship Company at Juneau, has been , appointed travelling freight and passenger agent in Alaska, the company announced today. Juneau will be his residence. Adams, who has been with the Jcompany for 24 years, is expected ‘ln leave Seattle Saturday and to arrive here next Tue%day 'RECOVER B0DY OF ANCHORAGE PILOT { ANCHORAU., ug. 12.—(P— The {body of Clint Johnson, who w: and ' giiled when his light plane crnshed{ south or the city last weekend, was recovered yesterday from eight | feet deep in swampy ground. The plane engine was recovered at the' same depth. Johnson's mother and family live in Ketchikan, Funeral arrangements will be made at a later da - e - FROM SEATTLE G. S. Treadwell, of Seattle, is a guest at the Gastineau Hotel. jum-for the best= HEINZ! Baby §2.5 Ketchikan, and Ketchikan Attor- ney Robert L. Jernberg, arrived here yesterday on business in con- nection with a suit concerning Wacker City property, site of the Ketchtkan pulp mill. 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