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BOND ISSUE FOR ADDED PAVING (ARRIES 223 45 Mother Hils Baby's oN FISHERIES TAX e wrveeass o Head on Table; Death| . ed 233 to 45 for a 260,000 bond issue | to provide paving besides that for which a contract has been let in the amount of $173.250.50. The combined contract will mean | 100 blocks of new paving. virtually nearly This will provide com- plete street paving within the city | Thane road on the boundary on which about limits, from the south to the northwest and the Glacier Highway extensive paving will begin the same time in the spring By their vote, Juneau citizens added $260,000 to the $322,000 ex- isting bonded indebtedness. to make a total of $582,000. Proceeds of the bond sale “will be used for additional street sur- facing and sewer repairs and im- provements, and for additional sur- facing and resurfacing of streets' and sidewalks within the city.” Some 1,200 taxpayers were quali-| fied to vote, but the total number of ballots cast was 269 was irregular and had to be re- Jected.) Yesterday's vote g gin of certainty, as 65 per cent— in this case, 174 votes—of the votes cast were needed to pass the pro- posal. At the last previous special municipal election, the vote was 194 for and five against a $50,000 bond issue for the municipal air- port building, which is nearly com- pleted. Before that, on April 29, Juneau voted 304 to 60 for $150,000 (One vote gave a wide mar- | for Grant Baldwin as Eva tituted clerk, in which eapacity Mrs ! also serv - >o o — Foliows; Is Arreste Jar 12, AT baby by the feet against the table that in the hos- NEW YORK | picked up the jand hit its head 'T saw them do pital Police said Rosalind Reine, 21 bor last night old daughter 'a head injury at a hospital of a fractured skull Mrs. Reine was booked on a homicide charge and taken to Bel- levue Hospital for psychopathic ob- servation. Police said she had been 1l and acting strangely for some time. this is what Mrs told a neig her seven-week- lay on a couch with — e {CASH COLES IN TOWN AFTER STORMY TRIP a business trip are from Hoo- In Juneau on Mr. and Mrs. Cash Cole nah. The trip aboard their to Juneau boat the Jazz, and it was plenty rough, with lots of ice and heavy seas, according to the former Juneau man. The Coles will be in at least a week aboard which 1is tied up a harbor. town the ‘Rllu\ 3 fisheries dustry. of a controversy over Representative this statement ing among Fisheries The baby died later | |t t was made | for | Jazz | it the small boat | - THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE JENSEN CLARIFIES MISUNDERSIANNNC WEATHER REPORT ( WEATHER BUREAU This data is €or 24-hour per- iod ending 6:3% am. PST. In Juneau— Maximum, 41 minimum At Airport minimum, F o (Jun 36 Maximum, 34 ECAST au and Vieinity) 9 Division =2 Hous Jensen, First who introduced ind 5 pertaining to tax- and licensing of commercial fishermen, fish traps 1l phases of the fishing in- himself in the middle the bills. doubts about the Jensen today Democrat ng % g Cloudy with rain occasion- ally mixed with snow to- . . . . . ° ° . . . . ° . . n fact o and Thursday. Lowest . . ° . e . . . 0 . . . ight temperature tonight near 23 degrees. Southeasterly winds as high as 25 miles per hour PFPRECIPITATION Past 24 hours 7:30 a.m. tod In Juneau 142 inches Jan. 1, 9.71 inches July 1, 85.77 inches. Airport 75 inches since Jan. 1, '4.17 inches; since July 1, 53.34 inches e« o 00000 c oo To bills. made ease ending “To clarily any misunderstand- the fishermen, as to the bills introduced, I'd like o0 say this: These bills are merely sasic bills from which to start. The ime being short, it was impossible o incol te all the problems of he mdu\u\ in these bills. It is ery possible that many amend- nents will be made to equalize the ax, and make adjustments where hey arc needed. It is our intent o make the component parts of the ax structure balance, or the result ould be as harmful to the Terri- ory as too heavy a taxation. I since since At e® o e e eesececssssces st s NO JUNEAU GAME FOR GLOBE TROTTERS; ALASKA TOUR FILLED Possibilities of Juneauites seeing be Harlem Globetrotters play here wring their Alaskan tour were nil oday 5 Efforts of the Lions Club to hedule a game here the last week in January went for naught today will make a personal effort to see that no part of the vertaxed.” industry is S The port of Buft2is, N. Y. is he world’s greatest fresh-water arbor in value of tonnage—about 600,000,000 worth. JUNEAU, ALASKA of a oo telegram A M. ired that on the te no dates ¥'s north- ch will take them to n towns into action to bring ters followinz a Mon- meeting President ner wired the team in }Ccs received the following , Storis ning, ived. Certainly appre- | an opportunity present- T famous dusky Har- SsC s to show at Juneau | 1 during forthcoming Al- However, all too short v filled. Fact of the t day of tour, Jan. three engagements in Extend regrets organiza- First civic-sponsored will be held Mayor Waino unced today. dance, under the and Professional Sitka t Hall. An invitation to all ple of Juneau to attend fair has been extended Club, Plans party fqr Coa urday were was emergency The St J. R. Kurcheski, said g another emergency from the city pted with pleasure crew members. > > BEVIN IS GIVEN APPROVAL, TOUGH POLICY ON ISRAEL NDON, Jan. :I—i7— Foreign Bevin apparently won m the 11 British cabiret today wal for his get-tough policy ainst Israel A high Government sc ported there would be no Pritish Middle East pol He 1id Bevin will give parliament an t of affairs there scon after yanes Tuesday made to hola called ordered run to out retary >o moment a r permission ce re- ange in to visit Indies. up the late in the day. ‘The astguardsmen aboard the Saturday Hendrickson young the by Mayor Waino Hendrickson and the ' commanding today by dance Cutter co-spon- hip of the city and the Busi- ‘Women's Club, will be held at the CIO Union stzuardsmen last Sat- off when on Skagway. officer, 11, Storis The Dutch have rejected for the United Nations request [ Indon: republican leaders held in the East Security Council takes Indonesian question | by WEDNkSDAY JANUARY 12, 1949* CITY PLANS DANCE |Cifrus (rop Loss FOR CUTTER STORIS CREW, SATURDAY, In California Is Fully 25 Per Cent SACRAMENTO, Calif., Jan. 12.- M—A State timates less than 25 per cent of Calitornia’s 1948-49 citrus fruit crop was spoiled by last week's cold wave. Navel oranges were affected most. D DIRECTOR OF ATLIN MINING PROPERTY IS VISITOR IN JUNEAU Mrs. Neil Forbes i from her home in Atlin where she is the managing director of Col- umbia Development Limited, gold mining operation established the late James H. Zastman, Detroit aviator and manufacturer of the Eastman flying boats. While she is in Juneau, Mrs the former Mrs. Eastman ng at the Baranof Hotel. The Columbia Development was started by Mr. Eastman in 1932 when he flew north with five of his flying boats and was in Juneau for sometime before establishing him- self in the British Columbia min- ing community across the moun- tains Mrs. Forbes' operation has beern |one of the largest in Atlin. ericultural official es-| Juneau | the | AIRPLANE HELD BY WET SNOW AT COOK INLET ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Jan. 12— (#—Warren Wright is sitting come fortably—if immobile—in his four- place plane on the Cook Inlet flats, | doggedly trying to outlast the | weather. | The Tenth Rescue Squadron, in radio contact with the manager of the Northern Commercial Com- pany’s aviation department, said he was forced down on a flight from |Lake Clark to Tyonek, 55 milese southwest of here. Wet snow, which stuck to the skis on his plane, was preventing a takeoff. g s The U. N. Security Council, after receiving the Jews' complaint against Britain, heard an American attack on Holland for her “police action” in Indonesia. The U. S. de- |manded a timetable for -elections® and for the Dutch surrender of sovereignty to a projected United States of Indonesia. The U. S. ac- cused Russia of obstructing a peace- ful settlement by stirring up Indo- nesian Communists. >ee SONS OF NORWAY Meeting at 8 pm., Jan. IOOF Hall. 13 in 91 2t e et S, worth of street paving. With Jack Popejoy, City Clerk, to check the taxpayers’ list and registration records, judges and clerks had a slow day. One of Popejoy’s unpleasant tasks was to turn away about 50 persons who thought they could vote, but were not eligible to do so. Promptly at 7 p.m. the polls closed, and by 7:22, the count was completed. Judges were Mrs. Beatrice Albe- goff, Mrs. Robert Burns and Mrs. Jensen. The Rev. T PUT IN CLOTHES ADD SOAP NOW... Big Savings To Scandinavia oEa: 1 25%! Willis R. 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