The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 5, 1949, Page 7

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 5 GOLD OUTPUT CONTINUING INTERRITORY Despite preliminary reports re- cently issued by the Federal Gov- ernment that show a diminished output of metallic m'nerals in Al- aska, and especially of gold, dur- ing the calendar year 1948 as com- pared with the preceding year, other statistics bearing on the progress of Alaska’s mineral industry during the past year that have been com- | piled by the Office of Territoria! Commissionér of Mnes tend to dis- count the importance of the appar ent decline in gold output. Also, it appears certain that fin- al figures on gold production itself will show a substantial increase above the preliminary estimates !or| the year that have been announced from Washington. It even appears possible that it may prove to havel Leen greater in 1948 than in 1947. Statistics gathered and compiled by the Office of the Commiss'oner of Mines show that during 1948 thirty dredges were in operation in the Territory as compared with 27 dur- , 1949 FATHERTAKESUP DEAD SON'S WORK WITH CHILDREN INDIANAPOLIS.—(#—At the age of 173, Louis H. Reynolds thought his life’'s working days were behind him, until he remembered the work his son left when he died. Think- ing cack over the things Police Capt. Golden A. Reynolds had told him akout the juvenile aid division, the retired railroad man offered his services free to the juvenile court's protation department. Today he's a volunteer worker in the Marion County Juvenile Center. I was always so busy rearing a amily that I didn't have time to nsider the problems of unfortu- nate children,” Reynolds said. The son had built a reputation as a friend of neglected children while he served as head of the juvenile 2id division. Six weeks after Capt. Reynclds' death, his mother died. Louis Reynolds, left alone, re- membered what his son had said: “There are so many kids who have never had anyone who really and honestly cared about them.” Father Reynolds found he got along fine with the boys at the juvenile center. He’s been a school teacher before he went into rail- ing the previous year; and that 38 jroad work. draglines were in active use as com- | pared with 35 during 1947. It is logical to presume that the increase in heavy placer-equipment thus shown will mean a larger output of gold. Active placer operations that employed smaller equipment, most- ly in the form of a ccmbination of | bulldozer and hydraulic apparatus numbered 102, as compared with 101 that were productive during 1947. Offsetling whatever decline that may have occurred in the produc- tion of gold is a substantial in- crease in the output of industrial minerals and fuels, particularly coal. Final figures on the 1948 out-} put of coal from Alaska mines show | 2 production of 409,000 tons. This| output exceeds by approximately 47,000 tons the previous all-time high annual production-record, which was established during the preceding year. During the past several years production in the Territory of sand, gravel and, stone, for use principally in airport and road construction, has taken rank in value with gold, coal and platinum in accounting for the total mineral wealth produced. The indicated value of Alaska's output of sand, gravel and stone during the year 1947, was close to $5,000,000. This sum is considerably greater than the estimated value of the coal produced and approxi- mately half that of the gold out- put for that year. Altheugh definite information on s'milar production during 1948 is not available, it is kelieved that there may have been an increase rather than a decline in production of this important group of industrial minerals. Next to the high cost of equip- ment and supplies and the scarcity and high cost of available labor that has continued to prevail during the pest year, the greatest handicap tof{ the progress of Alaska's mineral industry undoubtedly was the un- certainty and inadequacy of mari-! time shipping facilities due to the strikes and other controversies. With these difficulties apparently settled by agreements covering a period of years and with lowered cost$ of production, for which merel seems to be some hope, substantial even though not rapid recovery of the gold-mining branch of the in-1 dustry may reasonably be anticipated during the coming year. Further expansion, possibly on 8 large scale, in the mining of coal and in the production of industrial minerals during the coming year seems assured. ‘The unprecidented high prices be- ing paid for metallic minerals oth- er than gold, including lead, cop- per, zinc and antimony, affords a strong stimulus for the develop- ment of any deposits of these min- erals that may be found reasonably accessible to transportation facili- ties. Premium prices offered by the Atomic Energy Commission for uranium and related ores have al- ready resulted in active interest being displayed in the possibilities afforded in Alaska of finding and developing deposits of those atomic raw materials in the Territory and this interest is certain to grow during the coming year. Altogether the outlook for pro- gress in the mineral industry in Al- aska during the year 1949, appears favorable. PAPER ADVERTISES FOR 1 ADVERTIS ATHENS.—(®—The Athens Daily Review advertised for an advertiser. The advertiser walked into the Review office and took out an ad, offering his house, rent-free to any- one who would take care of it. But he failed to leave his name, address or phone number. The Review office was deluged with applicants. “As the days wore on, the clamor increased. We were getting pretty desperate,” says H. M. Kemp, vub-[ lisher. So the Review ran a three- | column, front page story, head- lined: “wanted: One Advertiser.” And the story fetched the adver- tiser. He came 4n grinning. ‘Maybe I can get them straight- ened out again,” he said. He was given a hearty welcome | in his new job. Juvenile Court Judge | Joseph O. Hoffman and Charles Boswell, chief probation officer for Marion County, issued a joint state- ment: “We feel that the more associa- tion the delinquent children have with mature persons, the better their chances of getting straighten- ed out.” Reynolds is happy just to “carry on for Golden.” - INDO-CHINA IS NOW FIGHTING OPIUM TRAFFIC RADIO L0G RINY Alaska Broadcasting Co. C.B. S. DIAL 1460-—JUNEAU SATURDAY EVENING 5:00—~GARDNER BENEDICT ORCHESTRA-CBS. 5:30—Here’s to Veterans, 6:45—Sportsmen's Notebook. 6:00—News. 6:15—Dinner Music. 6:30—Sport Scenario. 6:45—Church Announcements. i 6:50—Local News. 1 | 6:40—Music., 4 I- T:00—INVITATION TO LEARN- ING-CBS. 7:30—TEX BENEKE'S ORCHES- TRA-CBS. 8:00—Harry James 8:15—-MEMO FROM LAKE SUC- CESS-CBS. 8:30—IT PAYS TO BE IGNOR- ANT-CBS. 9:00—News at Nine. 9:156—Viking Varieties. 9:30—FRANKIE CARLE-CBS. 10:00—Tomorrow's News. 10:15—U. 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WHY JIST COME T'SEE HUMPHREY WE WAS JIST GONNA ) PENNYWORTH...THE GREAT HEAVYWEIGH’ HU -~HULLO, HE'S TH' FIGHT. 77 ROOM TEN. CBS. v 54 3 YoU CALLEDY THIG —THIS AH, ME!...MUST REMEMBER TO NOTE SAIGON, Indo-Caina—p—| 5S—FKYWAY TO STARS-CBS. HIGHNESS % ) PEASANT HAS IN MY DIARY THAT THIS HAG BEEN A Opium smoking will become more 9:‘15~Music‘_ DARED MAKING difficult for Indo-Chinese in 1949. A recent government decree bans sale of use of the narcotic except by confirmed addicts who must furnish exhaustive details to the police before being authorized their daily ration of one gram. Since 1946 opium has been dis- tributed only through specialized hospitals where physicians issued special certificates to those addicts whose condition made it imperative that they continue to receive a con- trolled and limited quantity of the drug. Critics argued that these hos- pitals were abused and that some of them became like camouflaged opium dens because physicians were too freely releasing the amounts of the narcotic under their control. In future those addicts who, if deprived of their daily+dose of op- ium, might die or tecome seriously i1, must undergo an intensive ex- amination from the police before 9:30—JACK BENNY-CBS. 10:00-WALTER WINCHELL-CBS. i 10:15—Sammy Kaye. 10:30—Forecasts. 10:35—8ign Off. due to conditions beyond our con- trol. oA e I ERPeBt WiE BOLANT DRNK ! N T AND YOU AND MOTHER TOOK HIM FOR A WAL K? BUT IT WAS AN ODD “WALK—YOU HAILED A CAB’ g THAT ADDRESSz: OM, MR, TRACY~L CANT HOLD IT BACK ANY LONGER. SAM PULI_ED AWAY FROM US receiving a “smoking license.” They must give their identity, age, ad-'} dress, profession, details about their | ‘amily, the amount of their income, and the quantity of opium they think they require. Photographs and officially stamped documents must accompany this information. If the authorities decide he really requires it, the addict may then receive his daily gram—but the whole neigh- borhood is likely to know about his vice. But with the official banning ot the drug, an increase in smuggling is feared. DEAF AND DUMB, PUBLISHES PAPER DUPREE, 8. D. —A newspaper publishher who can neither hear nor speak? Yes, there’s one. He's E. L. Schetnan of Du- pree’s West River Progress, a bald. ing homesteader in his early 60's. He did well in his uphill fight. He came to this country as a penniless Norwegian immigrant boy. He was striken almost immed- jately after arriving with spinal meningitis which deafened him per- manently within 15 minutes. ' Thus handicapped and alone in a strange land, he managed to learn English while washing dishes for a livelihood. He entered a school for the deaf in the lowest class, and was graduated two years later at the head of his calss. For two years he studied journal- ism at St. Olaf’s College, North- field, Minn., took one of the first homesteads in this area and 27 years ago acquired his own news- paper. Loss of hearing and consequent impairment in speaking is not so great an obstacle to newsgather- ing as many persons might sur- mise, Schetnan scribbled to an in- terviewer. “I always carry a pen and a re- porter’s pad, am not abashed over asking people for news. Since ev- eryone knows me and I know ev- eryone within 50 miles, newsgath- ering is a lark.” No one ever has accused him of misquoting. He has all remarks down in his sources’ own hand- writing. KENTUGKY STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKEY TITZEL-WELLER DISTILLERY, INC. o LOUISVILLE, KY BICKS’ SEATTLE BREWING & MALTING CO. Seoute. U. 8. A. y Distributed throughout Alaska by ODOM COMPANY AND THINK OF THE PRICE THEY GET IN THE STORES ! SPEAK UP, LUKE JOUL SOUND LIKE YOU'RE ABOUT TEN FEET FROM HELLO - JE FOR A LITTLE < AROUND RY- WHERE'S MAGGES DOG FIFt ? I THINK lLL TAKE HER IN THAT BOX IN THE BACK/ WITH ALL OF THIS, NINA, CHIPPER CAN HAVE AS MUCH AS HE CAN DRINK. NO, SKEEZIX, HE MUST HAVE PASTEURIZED I SHORE AM,VE BODACIOUS IDJIT VE THINK 1 CRAVE TO GIT "LECTERCUTED 1P AH | THERE: SHE 1S5 / I'M SLAD SHE'S AWAKE - OH- FIFI ! A PRETZEL ! WHO GAVE HER THAT 27 CAN YOU BEAT THAT ! = THIS 1S MIZ PRITCHART ON TH' PARTY LINE -1 HAINT SCAIRT Q' GITTIY' LECTERCLTED ... IT'S A GOOD THING I DIDN'T TAKE HER HOME WITH THESE PRETZELS IN HER BOX -