The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 29, 1949, Page 8

PAGE E{GHT COUNCIL SETS UP CITY'S BUDGET AT SPECIAL MEETING Meeting in a special session’ last | night, the Juneau City Council set up a budget for the coming year. Total expenditures under the proposed budget will be Largest item is debt retirement, which comes to $196,000. Mayor Waino Hendrickson said this item comes high because the city has been forced to operate 18 $451,355. | months on 12 month’s revenue “The city is absorbing in budget expenses for the past mnmhs plus those for the coming vear,” Mayor Hendrickson said. | “And all of that on income for one | year.” | This was made necessary by a| Territorial law which changed the| beginning of the city’s administra- tive year to October. Administrative expense is ex- pected to come to $37,120, and police | protection will cost the city $35,010 The city's share of the school budget is $84,000, largest item on the budget with the exception of | the debt retirement. | Street Department activities are | expected to cost $25,000, and Gold Creek maintenance $3,000. Estimated revenue for the pn-nud is $410353 44 of which $254,000 is| expected to be gained from taxes, | and $30,000 from business licenses. | Following is the proposed budget | and estimated revenues: [ | this six | Administrative expense City Hall operation City Clerk and Magistrate’s Office Tax Assessments City Election Police Department Schools (City share of School Budget) City Library Lower City Float Health and Eanitation Cemetery operation Small Boat Harbor Street Department Activities Parks and Playgrounds Gold Creek Maintenance Fire Department Hydrant Maintenance A.B. Hall, Garage Debt Retirement: Bond Payments, and Interest 45,000 | Loans, notes and interest 151,000 Total $451,355 ESTIMATED REVENUE ‘Taxes $254,000.00 Business Licenses 30,000.00 Boat Tax 10,000,00 Liquor Licenses 23,000.00 Auto Licenses 5,000.00 Police Fines 15,000.00 Dock Profit 5,000.00 Cemetery 1,500.00 Boat Harbor 2,000.00 Water Franchise 1,200.00 AB. Hall 3,500.00 Int, on Govt. Bonds 900.00 School Bond Refund 8,253.44 | Miscellaneous 1,000.0¢ | Airport Bonds (To repay City funds previously advanced) Prin 50,000.00 Total SUCCESSFUL DUCK HUNT A hunting party consisting of Norman Banfield, Mr. and Mrs Harold Bates, Hunt Gruening, Mr. and Mrs. Sheldon Simmons and John Quilico, has returned to Ju- neau after a successful' duck-shoot in the Farragut Bay area. Quilico reported that several of the hunters got their limits in ducks and a few Canadian geese were taken Snake Pit Back Page Just two moments! HOW MUCH of your money is invested in prop- erty that may be destroy- ed and what will you have left if that happens? Spend a moment fmurmg this out and another in calling us to check up. We will make sure that you have insurance to reimburse you if your property is destroyed. Shattuck Agency Seward Street Juneau _ i | g THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA Blasl Wrecks Aparlmenl House . | man, This pile of rubble is the .l'ner’mnth of an explosion that wrecked a four-unit apartment house in North Dallas, Tex., injuring 14 persoris. The walls went outward and the roof collapsed. /# Wirephoto. Wrecked by Blast Firemen and volunteers search through wreckage of the Frank Rusell home in Grandvxew, Wash., which was wrecked by a blast and flash fire. Six persons, including a one-menth-old baby, were injured in the explosion. Note bed springs and mattress atop wreckage at right. Cause of the blast was un- determined. P Wirephoto. FOR SALE I. Goldstein's Juneau Marine Supply Company Due o illness, I must sell this weil.es.!ahllshed business. The Juneau Marine Supply Company has been the fishing headquarters in Juneau for over fifty years. A steady, reliable business. —1I. GOLDSTEIN P. 0. Box 916 - Juneau - Black 381 CITY EMPLOYEES | NAMED AT COUNCIL MEET LAST NIGHT The following city employees were approved at the special ses- sion of the Juneau City Council last night: Only changes are in the position of harbormaster and street fore- man. The position of harbormaster was given to "George Martin, who! was chosen from among 12 appii- cants. Street foreman and building inspector positions were combined with the position of City Engineer, fand the position was given to J. ‘L McNamara with no change in | pay. | Street Commissioner, W. E. Hend- | rickson; City engineer, street fore- and building inspector, J. L. | McNamara; City clerk, C. L. Pope- Joy: | Moody; chief of police, Bernard E. |Hulk; assistant chief of police, Frank D. Cavanaugh; patrolmen, |Roland V. Edwards, Fred E. Bond, |A. E. Genthner, Ernest Dennis and |Hartley Crosby. City wharfinger, Cleo Commers; sistant City wharfinger, Tom | Hall; librarian, Edna H. Lomen; | City atorney, Howard D. Stabler; City health officer, Dr. C. C. Car- ter; master, George Martin; retaker, Olaf Bodding; cemetery sistant, Arvid Anderson; fire truck drivers, Lars Sorenson and George L. O'Brien; |Minard Mill; assistant fire chief, | William Niederhauser; alarm care- taker, H. M. Porter. Street department will consist of cne grader man, two truck drivers and two laborers. In case of need, men will be hired on a short-time | basis. Airport building caretaker, Har- |ry Murray; hydrant caretaker, R. |W. Marshall; and garbage dump | caretaker, Emil Lang. {Wouldn't Have Unpacked Bag If She Knew Marriage Would Go Bust So Soon LOS ANGELES, Oct. 29.—M—| Mrs. Loretto F. Allen of S8an Fran- cisco has her final divorce papers today but it took her 43 years to et them. On Oct. 16. 1906, Mrs. Allen filed for divorce from Jesse Lec Allen on charges of desertion. She was granted an interlocultory degree. Today, she's a free woman, but | Victor Kapalan, her Los Angeles attorney says he doesn't know why it took so long. He got the case from a San Francisco law firm. Mrs. Allen didn’t appear in court. cemetery WEEK" =8 Hula for the 00000 assistant City clerk, Milliej treasurer, John Reck; harbor- | fire chief, A.{ { senator Morse (R-Ore) wdsy iblamed the big steel companies f failure to settle the industry strangling steel strike. both the steel walkout and the lequ'\ll\ important coal strike—and the nation’s industry showing the effects—Morse called on steel pro- fare package proposed Ly Presi- Iut‘n[ Truman’s fact-finding board. The major steel companies have expressed willingness to put a pen- only if the workers contribute to it. Federal Mediator Chief Cyrus Ching, calling three more steel firms into peace talks starting irf ported no “tanglible evidence” ot progress toward ending the strike. Similar reports came from coal talks, as negotiators put off further while, government reports showed output shrinking and layoffs rising in the industries which feed on coal and steel. Labor Committee, told a reporter: 1 “United States Steel Corporation must be blamed with major re-| sponsibility for the economic dam-| “The American people should tell Mr. Fairless (Benjamin F. Fair- less, President of U.S. Steel) and} other steel industry leaders to start; their own blind stubbornness.” The Republican Senator declared it “most regrettable that the steel companies do not put the fact- | into effect.” I ! \WASHINGTON, Oct. e with negotiations deadlocked in ducers to grant the 10-cent wel- sion-insurance plan into effect, but Washington Sunday or Monday, re- discussions until Tuesday. Mean- Morse, a member of the Senate age being done to the country. placing the public interest tefore| finding koard’s recommendations| i i SEATTLI\ Ocvt. 29.*[M-—Slale Fisheries Director Alvin Anderson reported today the 1949 Puget 'Sound salmon catch was the second largest -since 1933. The take through Oct. 24 was list- ed at 7,331,000. The only better catch in recent years was 9,015,000 in 1947. Anderson said purse seiners had caught 5,671,000 of the pinks, gill- | local office that SATURDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1949 netters 1,076,000 and reefnetters 453,000, The Puget Sound catch of sock- eyes gained from 730,000 in 1945, which was the brood year for this year’s returning salmon, to 1,205,000 { this year, The sockeyes, predom- inantly a Fraser River, B. C, run, return on four-year cycles. Cliff dwelling in New Mexico were inhabited by Indians until about 350 years ago. Millipeds or “thousand legged worms” have developed many dif- ferent species in moist lands” in the deserts of the U. S. South- west where they were isolated from other similar “islands.” MRS. PAUL EXPECTED| HERE COMING WEEK ‘Word has been recewed by the Mrs. William L.!| 1 Paul, Sr., Executive Secretary of the Alaska Tuberculosis Association, will leave Seattle for Juneau Mon- | day. Mrs. Paul who was invited to New York to attend a training class ; for Executive Secretaries at the ex- pense of the National TB Associa- tion, expected to leave for the coast Thursday after conferences with| officers of the NTA staff. Meanwhile, the work of the head- quarters office here has been car- ried on by Mrs. Paul's assistant,' Mrs, Joyce Howell, and the Christ- mas seals by which the fight aginst tuberculosis is carried on are be- ing mailed all over the Territory, and the local mailing list is being | revised. The first returns from distant parts of Alaska were canvassed and recorded yesterday. With the cur- rency and checks were many words of commendation for the work ac- complished and good wishes for the ! workers, and a meeting of the| Board of Directors will be called| immediately vpon Mrs. Paul's re-| turn. : Neil S. French of. Wrangell is stopping at the Baranof Hotel CHRISTMAS CARDS are here! EMPIRE Annoeuncing the opening of Yo ur Parcel Delivery Hourly Office opens Service at 8:30 A. M. beginning Monday, October 31 Phone 803 - Office in Alaskan Hotel The Snake Pit Bar “Aloha Week” A fun-packed week beginning Tonight at the SNAKE PIT . . . Join the millions all over the world celebrating “ALOHA tribute to Hawaii. ———Special Attraction Talented — Dancer Performs at 11 P. M. and 12:30 A. M. v¢ Hawaiian Music Yc Flaborate Decorations v Genuine Hawaiian Poi early birds Free Orchids and Leis for the first 50 Ladies EVERYBODY WELCOME! Tonight’s a big nightatthe SNAKE PIT