The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 7, 1949, Page 8

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PAGE EIGHT ALCOA WILL SEND ENGINEERS HERE ONPOWER STUDY Diversion orYHkon Part of $300,000,000 Alumi- num Project The Aluminum Corporation ot | some. America seems in earnest about| wick and a crew of two aboard establishing a huge reduction plant}in. Mary R. arrived May 8 in at Skagway—to the tune Of &|getcnikan with a 16,000 pound £300000000 initial investment—ac- | catch, all but 1,600 pounds of whic cording to ouncement of PIADS a4 peen caught in the- high seas. for the summer. Alcoa proposes 10/ pish puyers refused to purchase it lop its own power, through ecause the men had not paid the on of the head waters of the | oy ne catch was sold at Prince Yukon through two tunnels in the€ pupert B.C., where the vessel was | Coast Rang outfitted for the next trip. received here.| partinsen and a crew of tive consultant to the | men arrived in Ketchikan May 12 Development coa has contracted | ,ung halibut catch. all taken 35 ring field party 0 mjes out. | investigate the gway area | - Although the Polar Fisheries | TESTS FEES FOR OUTSIDE " FISHERMEN (Continued from Page One) tion is unreasonable and burden- Alaska closed that 2 for an en Board, diS-|gp0arq the Tatoosh with a 35,000- | Hirichinbrook light stations. NAM CUPPER FLIGHTS TAKE 17 Seventeen passengers arrived and departed from Juneau airport by Pan American Clipper yesterday as follows: | From Seattle: Lovetta Zumwalt | Eldon . Nicholl, R. G. Concoran, | Russ Conlong, Janice Butzach. To Seattle: Elvira Ruotsala, James Ruotsala, Carl F. Christo- phersen, Mrs. S. P. Radunovich, Stella Radunovich, Peter Knudson, Louis W. Roehm, Dr. Horace Pope, | Elgin Barrow, Albert Erickson, W | E. Hamilton, Emily Kingsbury. ' STORIS LEAVING SOON, 2-WEEK SERVICE RUN On June 14 ,the CGC Storis leaves on a two week service run te the Cape St. Elias and Cape The PA ship will stop at Ketchikan yearly delivery of fuel oils to the two stations. Dr. Warren J. Mead, head of th€ jgicneq to purchase the catch, the Geology Department at MasSa- feompany was unable to do so be- chusetts Institute of Techuology:|caygse the six men had not obtained | will lead the expedition. The scieD- the g50 non-resident licenses. The | tists will study the general ge0loBY | matoosh sold the cateh at Prince | of the area to be transverst_ed by‘RuperL i the tunnels, to make certain no | 12 STIPULATIONS 1 feults or other conditions exXist! 1, the friendly test case, both| which would make tunnel €OD=porties agreed to 12 stipulations, Herbert Moore (TN) has keen transferred to the Coast Guard Commissary School at Groton, Connecticut. James R. Martin (8N) has returned from a seven day leave and Joseph E. Franken (RD2) left today on an eight day ieave. Elmo Bittle (QM1) has re take an oil barge in tow for' the THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASEA- e L A Agpe o L CITY COOPERATION PLEDGED FOR NEW WEST JUNEAU APTS. Planners of a 100-unit apartment house development in West Juneau were assured cooperation “in any way the city may lawfully do so” by the City Council last night at a special meeting called for 8 o'clock in the Council Chambers. In two letters to Cash Cole of the Bayview Apartment Housing Company, the Council answered with several proposals, the com- pany’s request for commitments to help meet Federal Housing Author- ity conditions. | The Council recommended taking | over public utility facilities for {the new housing development if | |such action is within the lawful| | | | | i powers of the City of Juneau and | ih presently and prospectively feas-! ible without expense to the city, | and on appreval by a majority or | the qualified voters. Utilities would‘ include water, lights, ete. <1 In answer to a request for fire | protection for the planned apart- | ments, the council took a “Juncau first” view on the subject, propos- ing that facilities of the Juneuul fire department would be made] available subject to priority calls within the corporate limits of the | city. They also stipulated that ser- vice could be abandoned at any- Béteman—Burk; i ' Wed in Evening Married Saturday evening in a quiet wedding at the home of Mi. and Mrs. R. J. Sommers were Miss Ellen Burke of Seattle and Mr. Arthur Bateman. Mr. Bateman is foreman for con- | struction of the new Coast Guard | building Miss spoke vows at 7 o'clock before Acting U. 8. Commissioner Gordon. Gray with Mr. and Mrs. Sommers as their attendants. and friends at the Baranof Hotel followed the ceremony. | SAILORS SPLICE SAILS | FOR NORTH ON JUNE 13 Announcement is made the Sail- |ors Splice will sail from Seattle next Monday, June 13. Ports of call will be Metlakatla, Ketchikan, Wrangell, Petersburg, Juneau, Cor- dova and Valdez. FROM ANCHORAGE Robert D. Watson of Anchorage is at the Baranof Hotel. Burke and Mr. Bateman | | A wedding dinner for attendants) 1 SCOUT BAGGAGE DUE " BEFORE FRIDAY EVE. Girl Scouts who plan to go to Scout Camp next week are notified to leave their baggage at the City Dock not later than 6:30 p. m. Friday. Senior Scouts will be there from 9 a.m. to 7 p. m. to receive it. Baggage will leave town Saturday morning. ¢ ACS THE WINNER “THe ACS wort a fastball gatne 6-2 over .the Cardinal Club last night to cinch second place in the first half of the fastball series. Entire game was pitched by Sperl with the exception of two unofficial innings pitched by M. Ward. Pitch- er Sperl gave up few hits. | The homerun for the game was | put out in the tennis courts by‘; ace first baseman Walker. PLAN OREGON VISIT Mrs. John G. Hagmeier and twin | sons, Lee and John, left aboard the Baranof to spend two months visiting with her mother, Mrs. Gail | Wintermeyer at Eugene, ©re. | AMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY SESSION " SCHEDULED TONIGHT Members of the American Le- gion Auxiliary are asked to be pres- ent tonight at the Legion Dugout jtor the final business ™eeting the season. The population of Argentina has a larger percentage of people ot European descent than any other Latin American republic. et Y 3 i sk et e 2 S o Wy — oLD i struction difficult. aske rour T o P i | IlEIu.I]Il‘GE nd asked the court to determine:ported aboard the Storis for duty| ... without liability to the ecity, ‘ZM . 5 i The po\x-orlprOJ:;t ;g\:: ke :r‘f‘ onstitutionality an validity of [from the CGC Citrus a5 Ketchkan.| /v 4o the apartment company of the largest on the Ameri- |, $ specific rulings A " i fhs Lol wite | 0 ¥ | the act, and specific ings on | Arriving with Bittle was his wite fidrrd public liability and property s | | | | | RETURNS FROM LA. :The miss joins a brother, |the Alaska Arts and Crafts were | Miss Elizabeth Moxley of the Al-| aska Department of Health return- and child. 1 insurance. CONRIGHTS PARENTS OF GIRL BABY TODAY Mr. and Mrs. Jack (Daisy) Con right are the -parents of a girl| y torn in Anchorage today and weighing 8 pounds and 6 ounces.| Jack, 11 old. | Conright is Democratic Repre- centative in the Territorial Lezis- ‘ature from the Third Division and | Mrs. Conright, sister of Mrs. L. Al Sturm, is a former member of th staff of the Empire. yeal DR. de LAGUN ARTS, CRAFTS MEETING | S i Last night the board members of i entertained at the home of Mr. and | Mrs. Edward Keithahn. Guest of| honor was Dr. Frederica de Laguna, | asscciate professor of anthropulogy' at Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvan- | ia. Se explained to the group the | purpose of her visit to Alaska is to make a preliminary survey of certain areas in the northern Tlin- git country. Her field trip has been made possible by a grant-in-aid from the Arctic Institute of North America and the Viking Fund. PLAN TONIGHT FOR TWO CELEBRATIONS Two celebrations of wide civic in- | terest will be advanced tonight, at two planning sessions in the Coun- cil Chambers. At 7 o'clock, Mayor Waino Hen- drickson will meet members of the committee planning Sunday's cere- monies for dedication of the new Municipal Building at the airport. At 8 o'clock, represectatives of all Juneau crganizations are askea Included in their proposal was ! payment by the apartment compsny |of a $10¢ annual fee and a $100 per call fee for fire protection. Various Juneau street work pro- jects to be finished before comp: tion of paving were discussed by Councilmen. They agreed to adver- ise for bids today cn the construc- fon of two retaining walls, one at he top of Ninth St. hill and an- ther on Distin Avenue. Paving of everal short spur streets and the »aving or Sixth Street from Ken- edy to Park was agreed. Councilmen concurred on a side- | walk building proposal by property ywners on Seventh Street between eward and Franklin Streets. Own- rs agreed to deed three feet of land to the city for sidewalks pro- ing the city pay one-third the cost of putting in the walk. Coup- ilmen agreed to the same proposi- ion for property owners on Fifth Street between Gold and Franklin if so desirable with owners. A suggestion that the Coungil make provisions for repair of new asphalt paving was voiced by Coun- cilman W. Burr Johnson. He recom- mended earmarking of bond issue funds for the purpose of stockpiling | asphalt and for the purchase of re- | pair equipment. He recommended that 300 tons of MC stockpile asphalt be obtained while the Lytle and Green mapu- facturing plant is set up at Lemon Creek. He also recommended that | 200 yards of Type 3 cover aggregate | be obtained along with the city's i purchase of a three to five ton maintenance roller and a power broom and sweeper. Action on Johnson’s recommenda- tion was tabled until the next regu- lar council meeting. FROM PETERSBURG Mrs. Melvin Jole and Marilyn and | to meet, to work out details of the big Feurth of July ceiepratiun Muriel Jole of Petersburg are at the Baranof Hotel. AND LO in solid money’s wort New decorator-fabric upholsterics o body colors » Self able ratio “extra-leverage” steering o can continent—as large as Grand i ..i,q circumstances presented in combined! Water from Lnke‘Link; A similar suit against the Terri- deman would be diverted "h;ougd story, seeking an injunction against tunnels in the vicinity of famed | ,p.cpon of the non-resident fish- Chilkoot Pass, where men SUUE-|eyon fees, was filed May 26 by Rush days Fishermen’s Union, a CIO labor The Alaska project “its in wign | union acting on behalf of certain 5 Aloos Mini |of its members. Anderson is Sec- t tern of Alcoa Mining Com- - phtan retary-Treasurer of the union. Plaintiffs All of them have been devoted to % a search for energy—drilling ol | resented by Attorney William L.: fields in Texas, and trying to do-:“fi‘” Jr. velop coal and power elsewhere. * b p 2 AT velcpment Board prepared a pre- pEARl pHmSO" liminary survey of the Skagway| area’s development po:smumns\. open to both Canada and Alaska, | 0“ HAWA“A" 'I'R'p Power Giant.” The Taiya is a small| A river drajning into .Lynn Canal | A 7,000-mile vacalion trip by air The Development Board has is just a memory now to Mi been persistent in promoting this | Pear] Peterson—but a most pleas- Sundborg has had frequent con- a two-month leave in which she ferences in Washington, D.C., and made her second visit to the Haw-| New York, with L. W. Wilson, | aiian Islands. | cenior vice president of Alcca:| Miss Peterson visited her sister, | ‘lectric engineer; Oscar Chapman,| Wahiawa, 20 miles from Honolulu Under-Secretary of the Interior, | Where she arrived on a Pan Ameri~ and Gov. Ernest Gruening. Grow- | can Clipper from Seattle. to Alaska two years ago to recon- dress—in flowery beauty and nice, noitre sites. WAIm. weather, o7 Everyone expressed great interest in Alaska, according to the Juneau- RoIARY AYES PlA“ “We'll have a real influx of visit-| ors,” she said, “if all the people come here who said they would.” Miss Peterson is back at her Also pARADE FloAI where she Is administrative assist- ant. Rotary President Charles Car- ter's parliamentary procedure kept1 “brother” Rotarians hanging onto 2 Al | ed by Pan American Airways during :; mBea club’s luncheon meeting at| ;o weekend from attending a con- :v,ou:xam-' tobped lsughing long|1eoHon of the American Publlc] ans stopped laughing long| geaypn Association at Los Angeles. | enough to vote a loud “yes” on the the Fourth of July celebration. Hank Harmon, Ed Keithahn and Bill Hughes were named by the president to pick a candidate for Rotarians also voted “aye” on putting a float in the Fourth pa- rade. Capt. Svend Hansen rose to express his sincere appreciation for| chairman of the float construction committee. Vern Metcalfe, Bill Ellis and Lee Lucas were named to lend a hand. | Girls, guests of Carson Lawrence, received their share of attention| from the membership. The girls,| who leave today for Ketchikan | visiting the Juneau Order of Rain- bow Girls, are Pat Wolverton of Goldendale, Wash., Grand Worthy | Advisor; Barbee Nesbitt also of of Paulsbo. | Program Chairman Del Miller | introduced Frank Heintzleman as| luncheon speaker of the day. of his work in Washington during| the past five months. | With the annual Soap Box Derby | less than a month away, Dr. Wm.| practice runs for derby racers will] be held Friday evening on the 12th Street race hill. | answered the call for mv.roducuon‘ of visiting Rotarians. Guests upl cluded Clarence Anderson, direc- tor of the new Territorial Fish- and Kenneth Fores-| man, U. S. Children’s Bureau rep- Coulee and Hoover dams COM-|in. thirteenth point. gled through srow and ice in Gold | gar Anderson and the ‘Alaska pany's activities for the past year. SRR L Ralph Browne of the Alaska De- FLIES 7,000 MILES a treatise titled “Taiya, Northwest development. On his present trip, | ant one. She returned Friday from James P. Growden, chief hydro- Mrs. H. L. Child, and family at, den headed the party which came The Islands put on their finest ite. FOR FOURTH QUEEN, desk in the Forest Service office the sides of their chairs this noon| . question of sponsoring a queen fof| queen honors. the “honor” of being appointed Three Alaska traveling Rain-ow| after spending the weekend here | Goldendale and Carmen Hansen Heintzleman gave a brief resume | Blanton - announced that first| Al Peters of Bellingham, Wash,, eries Board, resentative. models. ® Automatic overdrive, Cl tizer heating and ventilating, white wall tires and wheel trim rings or REBEKAHS TO MEET, —————————n e ————————— Following the regular semi- monthly business meeting tomorrow S ST 2 W s d Fel- lows wil ] hold a joint memorial | service: - All' members are urged -to| attend. X Studebaker's the stand-out djusting brakes o Vari- oramic vision ® Seats centered between the axles » Low center of gravity ® Glare-proof “black light” instrument dials e Auto- matic hill holder—available on Champions at slight added cost, but standard on other are optional at extra cost on all models. KERS REALLY ROLLING! IT'S A CHAMPION IN STYLE W-COST MILEAGE! at an all-time record rate! UST a look at the st know a Studebake the country. All America is thinki h New Pan- production. ima- side- discs 1 | | | | | | | | | | | | | J CAPITOL AUTO SALES 194 baker, buying Studebaker as never before right now. 1949 is all-time-high year in Studebaker sales and Take a proud place of your own in this Studebaker success parade. Get Studebaker style that sings and Studebaker savings that count in your new car. Stop in and treat yourself to a close-up eyeful of a *49 Studebaker—it's far and away the most for your money in any new car. 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