The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 15, 1949, Page 8

PAGE EIGHT RATE INCREASE BY WATER COMPANY STAYS IN EFFECT The City Council, sion last night, tion on the water rate question. But it found it could not stop an increase with a word. H. L. Faulkner, Juneau Water Company, told the! Council that under City Ordinance | 306 the water company is allowed to set rates which are fair and rea- sonable without the council’s ap- proval Ordinance 306 which the water company lowed its 20-year franchise. He suggested that the new rate| schedule go unquestioned until the | end of the fiscal year when a full financial report would show the true picture of the expenses and gains of the company, and Justify the recent increase. H Alternative action by the city un- der the ordinance, he said, would be | to bring the matter to court—ask | for an injunction against the new | rates. Then the whole matter| in special ses is the one under is al- took no further ac- | attorney for the | fully | | would b€ tried out in court Faulkner presented fina nrml‘K statements of the company at thi regular meeting of the Council last | Friday. During the past week, C.| J. Ehrendreich, certified public ac- countant, prepared a report for the Council from the water company statement. Net Profit Per Cent Ehrendreich’s report, read by the | council last night, showed that the water company’s net profit over the past four years has amounted tol little over two per cent. i A brief financial report was su mitted to the council by the w: m company in September, after water | rate increases had been announced. | Ehrendreich said at that time he could see no justification of an in- crease. 2 Rate Increase O.K. After reviewing the more re full financial statement, he that, although he found the counting method a little faulty believed an increase in rates was | justified to give the water com- pany's owner, R. F. Lewis of San Francisco, a reasonable return on | his investment. | “A difierent accounting must be set up, I agwc said. Ehrendreich argued that to in- sure no unjustified rate increases | in the future a sound basis for de- termining rates should be set up. Mayor Waino Hendrickson sug- gested that Ordinance 306 be! amended to define a sound basis for determining the rates. Althcugh the Council took no | action on the matter at the meet- ing, it appeared that the water rate increases would be in cffect for | the present. TEACHING PROGRAM IS T0 BEGIN SOON AT EDGECUMBE CLINIC| Education for Alaska’s underpri- ileged children, the ill and crippl- ed, is about to become a reality, as the planning of two years is re- sulting in the inauguration of the Mt, FEilgecumbe Hospital School. Children from far-off and iso- lated points such as King Island, the Pribilofs, Unalaska, Wain- wright and others are already in the medical center there, totalling) approximately 40 from throughout Alaska. Four civil service teaching posi- tions have already been established for the post, two for bedside teach- ing in the orthopedic unit and two for the tuberculosis sanitorium. Two teachers for the orthopedic unit have already been recruited and will be on duty within a short time, according to Martin N. B. Holm, education specialist. The two others will te employed as soon as facilities are available—probably after January 1, he said. The initial employment of four teachers will develop slowly into a larger program, Holm said. A sep- arate school building for orthopedic classes is in the building program for Mt. Edgecumbe for completion in the near future. INDIVIDUAL WORK Especial qualifications are needed for teachers in the school. Not only is the usual degree in educatio necessary, but hospital experience is needed. Much of the work will be on an indivilual rather than class basis. ac- he | em Faulkner The educational program will be |, a cooperative effort between educa- | tional and medical administrators, | koth the Alaska Native Service Aml Territorial Service. The expanding facilities at Mt Edgcumbe is making the post an important medical and edu(.muxmly center. With the opening of the| new T. B. Hospital within a few months, 400 beds will be available The academic and vocational high rod, educational principal and Dr. Schuler, med is in immed, opedic Mr. and Mrs. I Hornbostel walk their dogs outside new home they took pessescion of at Bellmore, N. Y. Mrs. Hornsbostel who whs afflicted with Hansen'’s dises (leprosy) was released recently from the national leprosarium Carrville, La. During her stay at Carr- ville her husband made his home on the grounds and the couple came north after doctors fcund Nrs, Hornbostel's condition sufficient- ly improved. (® Wirephoto. FEARING MIXUP IN BABIES born in Ravenna, Ohio, hospital, doctor ordered blood tests which proved Mrs. Robert Strayer (left) had her own baby, Michael, and Mrs. James Shanley likewise pos- sessed baby Gerald, to whom she gave birth Sept. 21. (International) quate. They added it was not keep- ing pace with the dams they say will block spawning grounds. lLLl\Olb VISITOR Dr f the Moore | orth- ical director 2 charge o section. attention to suitable for the children is made—the latest books will Particular supplies | being e made:is a guest at the Baranof Hotel. Hornbostels Outside New Home Harry Prccunier of Elmhurst, Ill., THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA Rajk Swings From Gallows For Treason BUDAPEST, Oct. 15.—(P—Laszlo Rajk, 40, Hungary’s former No. 2 Communist, died on the gallows to- |day for treason. A Foreign Ministry spokesman, | announcing Rajk’s death, said two | other men sentenced with the form- | er Foreign Minister, also were hanged. All three had confess- ed abjectly before a five-judge Peoples’ Court that they plotted to | overthrow Hungary’s Communist | regime with American help and Mrs. America and Family, ; | substitute for it a government | which would knuckle under to Pre- | mier Marshal Tito of Yugoslavia. | Those hanged with Rajk, | | Foreign Ministry spokesman said, ' | were Dr. Tibor Szoenyi, 46, director | |of the Cadre System of the Hun- | garian party, and as such the supervisor of the party’s rank-and- file; and Andras Szalai, 32, Szoen- | yi's deputy. | Their trial ended Sept. 24. The| death sentences were confirmed only yesterday by the Court of Ap-| peals, The same court last July| confirmed the sentence of life im- ! prisonment upon Josef Cardinal Mindszenty on treason charges. MERIT SYSTEM T0 HOLD EXAMS | ONDECEMBER 13 To fill vacancies in the Alaska Department of Health, Department of Public Welfare and Employment Security Commission in six Alaska cities, the Alaska Merit System will conduct examinations for clerical and stenographic positions Decem- Ler 3. The three agencies have offices | in Juneau, Anchorage, Faircanks, Ketchikan, Nome and Wrangell. I. J. Montgomery, Merit System Supervisor, announces that applica- | tions must be filed before Novem# Ler 16, and that open competitii® | examinations will be conducted in centers convenient to the appli- cantz, i Persons earning places ‘'on a re-! gister will be notified when 'vacan- cies develop. Candidates have the | right to choose where they will werk and when they will report for employment. Available categories, with each| salary range, are: junior clerk, $240- | $200; junior clerk-typist $250-$300; j juniox clerk-stenographer,” $260- $310; senior cierk, $275-$325; sen- ior clerk-typist, $275-$325; senior | cleik-stenographer, $285-$335, nnd ,uenrctary $300-$350. An additional 15 percent is pa‘d { cmployees at Anchorage, Fairbanks | and Ncme. Working conditions in- |clude a 38-hour week and 30 days' annual vacation. { Further iniormation may be ob-| | tained by writing the Alaska Merit‘i ‘System. P. O. Box 201, Juneau, or| lin a call at the office, Rocm 10, | shattuck Building, Juneau. | With Montgomery on the Menc‘ | System Council are the Rev. | Hercert Hillerman, Chairman; !\Ars Dorothy Pegues, and Alva W. Black- ‘ erby. i | FINED FOR SPEEDING Jerry Godkins was fined $20 in the Magistrate’s Court this morn- | ing. He was arrested by city police | | 1ast night for speeding on Willough- | well a; acili 5 In a few years, the center will brl eularged to take care of sight-sav- Holm said. and re- | ing and other cares, POWER ENGIKEERS | SAY COLUMBIA CAN | Clea HAVE SALMON 100 SERVICE ASTORIA, Ore., Oct. 15—(P—The | men who build the Columbia River hydro-pow dams tried here yes ure the fishing 1:.1u~-l on can have both | ms and salmon. l, William Walla district en Army Corps of stifying in bet before the fisheries Columbia bas mittee He tish spotlessly maculately Walla | | Whipple. headed the oticers| dams ; of the! i r-agency com-! ne & For al outlined the McNary Dam| ay which is to cost $14,000,000. He said this large sum would not be spent to protect the fish “if we didn't believe we could maintain those runs.” S. J. Hutchinson, assistant re- gional director of the U. S. Fish ) school now has an enroliment of more than 600, Holm declared. | The hospital school will pn,\-mvi‘ education for an additional 100 | children in the 400 beds will be UH schoel age. Under the direction of Foster, genera] superintendent of| the ANS, the program of the center is being carried.out by Fred Geeslin, | administrative assistant; Max Pen- Don C. wnv idget Bureau, he said. and Wilclife Service, blamed slow rogress in lower Columbia {ish re- 1ab n on delay in congress- appropriations. Only $2,170,- mm of the $20,000,000 ten-year pro-j has been approved by the | ject Fish Commission direct- Washington and Oregon ry spokesmen said the re- | program was inade-| E; r, | ors d indus habilitation | by Avenue. E | | | The Triangle ners is what you want — and Service is what we give you! Your clothes are rushed back to you from TRIANGLE clean and im- pressed. better Appearance CALL the | ¢ Mrs. Francis L. Cloyd, 23-year-old blonde who was named Mrs. America of 1949 in the annual beauty contest for married ladies, is greeted by her three children as she returned to her home in San Diege, Calif. She has been on a mcnth-long personal appearance tour. The children are (from left) Tommy, 3; Patricia Louise, 3 months, and Terry, 2. Their husband and father is an automobile mechanic. (P Wirephoto PLANS Z'I-Mfi E CATAL!NA SWHM G GE’I‘T!NG GREASED FOR SWIM is Yvonne Wood 20, of Boston, who is training for atlempt to swim 21 mile Catalina Ismnd Chan- nel, off Long Beach, Cal, so far conqumod only three times, by men, George Young, Toronto, first swam it in 1920. (International) {There isno suhshtu!e ior Newxpaper Adverhsmg‘ Around The Corner From Anywhere Ask for it either way ...both trade-marks ... mean the same thing. BOTTLED UNDER AUTHORITY OF THE COCA-COLA COMPANY BY JUNEAU COLD STORAGE CO. © 1949, The Coca-Cola Company SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1949 FELLOWSHIP DINNER | T0 BE HELD OCT. 18, | oM ot e e dun N. L. PRESBYTERIAN i =o' PRSI RCS TR TULSEQUAH GUEST The Annual Congregational Fel- lowship dinner of the Northern Light Presbyterian Church will be held in the dining room of the Church on Tuesday evening at 6:30 o'ciock. The Couple Club of the Church will combine their October meeting with this dinner. Every member of the Church and of the Congregation and their families are urged to attend. The Rev. William Meyer, D. D:, Pastor of the Central Presbyterian Church, Rochester, New York, will be the speaker. He will be passing through Juneau on his way to Sitka to lead the Adult Worker's’ Confer- ence which will be held on the! campus of Sheldon Jackson Junior College. Miss Clair Folta and Miss Frances Paul will both sing during the dinner program. Those wishing to attend and who have not iceen contacted by the Committee, should telephone either Mrs. Robert Sommers, phone Blue 380, or Mrs. J. W. Leivers, phone Black 410, for a place at the table and regarding the menu. All members of the Couple Club should be present as this will take the place of the October meeting The Couple Club Committee will be moved forward to November. = DIAMONDS... & for enduring romance She knows that through the years these quality diamonds will be her most treasured posses- sion. See our sparkling value-priced assortment, From $50 up The NUGGET SHOP Ask About Our lAY»\‘VAY PLAN ki 3 s HeSgAEE NUNIVAK ON WAYS The Nunivak, 85-foot power barge operated by the Hood Bay Salmon Company, is on the ways of the Northern Commercial Cempany = at the Small Boat Harbor for install- ation of a new keel and various machine work. The twin-screw vessel will be sev- | eral weeks under repair. She is a former armed forces craft. 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