The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 2, 1950, Page 8

PAGFE EIGHT e P S R SRR o A SO CANADIANS STRIVE FOR OPENING HAINES CUTOFF ALL YEAR { report on road kept open is now in the! A comprehensive 160-mile Haines Cutoff its potentialities if throughout the year hands of two members of the Ca- n an Parliament, ready for pre- sentation at C this year. The report was prepared by Ralph Browne, assistant manager of the Alaska Development Board, and de- livered to Aubrey Simmons of Whitehorse and E. T. Applewhaite of Prince Rupert. Both drive for funds to be granted so the road may be kept open all year In 1947, when the cutoff was first} opened to traffic, more than 1.()00' persons traveled the route. Last year this number had soared to more than 6,000. And this increase was in spite of the fact the road and ! men will| did not open until June 9, Bm\nw(‘ pointed out. | Residents of the Yukon nl? Southeast Alaska are particularly interested in seeing the route main- tained during winter months be-{ cause it is the only route over which a two-way haul is practicable. Ore concentrates coming south from Dawson over the new highway from | Tok Junction to Jack Wade could be loaded aboard ships at Haines, and supplies go north over the same route. Four Transfers At present, ores are mined very little during Dawson’s winter, and } during summer months it must be} sacked, loaded aboard river boats,! trensferred to the train at White- | horse, transferred again to a ship, then transferred at the Prince Ru-| pert railhead of the Canadian Na- tional Railway. } The highway's use would cut out ' one of these transfers, plus the saving of time by use of semi-| trailers which could be loaded direct from a truck to a ship docked at| Haines and then loaded upon tlat- cars at Prince Rupert, saving long- shore costs and demurrage charges, plus the expensive train haul. The Canadian government hopes | to open the raad sooner this year, | as they left a grader and other equipment at the top of Chilkat | the| _ NINE APARTMENTS FOR 986 FAMILIES T0 GO UNDER FHA (Continued from Page One) |BETTER POLICING ' IN ALASKA URGED - BY CHURCHMEN | (Continued from Page One) was named sponsor of the Queens Court apartment project for which loan insurance for $854,500 has been committed. The building is planned to house 73 dwelling units. Also committed for Fairbanks was loan insurance for $691,200. This loan insurance was given J. R. Dixon, Leslie Nerland, and R. W. Ferguson, all of Fairbanks, who will sponsor the construction of the | Dixon Apartments, & 64-unit build- | h ing Commitment was made for insur- ance of a loan of $1,561,400 for the construction of the 1200 L Street Apartments in Anchorage. Sponsor- ing the project are C. Ted Brady and A. C. Swalling, both of Anchor- C. Ted Braay Wis i1s0 namec as one of the sponsors of the Coffey House apartment project in An- | chorage for which a loan insurance | { commitment for $1,547,000 was made | by F.H.A. The apariment -building will house 143 dwelling units. Ed- ward D. Coffey was named as the other sponsor. The third Anchorage apartment project for which loan insurance commitments were made was Jet- ferson Court. A loan of $949,000 will be insured. Harry Lewis and Myer Lurie, both of Seattle, Wash., were named sponsors of the 84-unit pro- ject. The building will be for the exclusive use of Alaska Railroad ; employees The Cathedral Apartments pro- ject in Sitka will also be built with } the aid of a F.H.A.-insured loan. Loan insurance for $439,800 has | been committed by F.H.A. John and Martha Cushing and Dr. W. C. Charteris are sponsors of the pro-| ject which will provide 37 dwelling | units. ced by private money, with loans to buiiders insured by F.H.A., Staples said. He praised the three Alaska banks, including the B. M. Behrends Bank of Juneau, which will lend money for the construction of three apartment buildings. Pass, to enable an early start. No estimates have been made as to costs of maintaining the cutott | all year, but successes already ob- | tained in the Richardson Highway point that it wouid not be over- burdersome. Winter operation would also en- able mining at Dawson to continue on a larger basis. The Road Commission will have the Jack Wade connection com- | pleted this summer or fall, it is be- | lieved. Work on a bridge at Chicken | has been going on all winter. Jack Wade, a few miles inside Alaska | The Behrends Bank here is back- ing the builders of the Fairview Apartments in Fairbanks. | Staples gave credit to Alaska’s | Delegate to Congress, E. L. (Bob) | Bartlett, and Governor Ernest | Gruening for their efforts in gei- ting $11 million earmarked by the | bureau of budget for construction | of apartment projects in Alaska. Centennial & } Gruening thanking the Chamber of All of the building will be finan-i from the Yukon border, has long | & ‘PANCAKE been connected with Dawson by | road, some 80 miles distant. NOTICE To Douglas property owners, the second half of 1949 taxes are due March 15, 1950. 40-3t A. J. BALOG, City Clerk. | The length of the present r\il\\\';x)‘} | meets with the minimum require- | ments for landing DC-4 and Con- | | stellation aircraft. However, it does | | not meet the minimum require- | ments for taking off those aircrait | with maximum load. ‘ “We believe the CAA minimum | run length requirements are | set for normal conditions, not| the sub-normal conditions we get ere during the winter,” he said. Aircraft of the DC-4 size are be- | ing sent from here with less than | their maximum take-off load, | Benecke said, and Pan American World Airways aircraft take off | with 1000 pounds less than the | gross weight Civil Aeronautics Au- | thority rules require for this field. Investigaiion ' | He said an idea was put forward | at the meeting a means of get-{ ting the runw lengthened, but it cannot be revealed until an in-| | spection has been made of the legal aspects. The plan has been sent to CAA| officials through Governor Ernest! Gruening’s office, he said. ! Chamber secret Robert Aste | reported that a letter had been sent to the Alaska Housing Authonty‘v stating that the Chamber of Com-| merce approves a housing authority | plan to construct 75 medium priced houses here. | A letter was read from Governor I Commerce for making him an hon- orary member of the organization for 1950. The Tourist Committee reported | that progress was being made ‘in preparing exhibits for the Alnska; booth at the Seattle Times Sports| and Vacation show which will be fra R | ""il-”.~~\ : JTZGERALD ) KENTUCKY'S | Genuine SOUR MASH Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey | | I 1 | BOTTLED IN BOND #90 PROO? 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VAPORATED EED QUALITY FROM FIC NORTHWESY FARMS 4 THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA March 17 through 26, Mounted big game animal Alaska’ movies, and pictures of the Juneau region have been lent to the Chamber to be sent to the show, it was reported. Visitors at the Chamber of Com- merce meeting today were J. Ger- ald Williams, Territorial Attorney General, the Rev. H. E. Beyer, and Wayne Johnson. FORMER MAYOR OF NOME DIES AFTER COLORFUL CAREER SEATTLE, March 2—(®—The col- orful career of William A. Gilmore longtime attorney and former may- ot of Nome, Alaska, has ended with his death at the age of 80. He had been ill several years, but recently had resumed his law prac- tice. He was known to hundreds as “Judge” Gilmore, but he twice refused appointments to the federal bench in Alaska. He became known as “Judge” for his early legal work — e jheld in the Civic Auditorium there at Nome. He was born in Berkeley, Calif., rew up in Portland, Ore, taught chool in Vancouver, Wash., grad- uated from the Chicago College of Law in 1897 and commenced prac- tice in Seattle a year later, He went to Alaska in 1900 on the steamer Ohio, and for more than a decade practiced in the Ter- ritory, specializing in mining liti- gation. He was mayor of Nome from 1911 to 1913. All his children were born in Nome. Gilmorawwas the Republican nom- e for Congressional Delegate from Alaska in 1912 on a home rule platform. Some years later he was a candidate of the La Follette Party for Governor of Washington. He was a lifetime member of the washingten State Press Club, and it's legal counsél the past six years. Surviving are two sons, George V. Gilmore of Eugene, Ore, and Robert M. Gilmore of Aberdeen; a daughter, Dorothy Gilmore of Ta-| Minnie B.| coma; two sister, Mrs. Ricketts and Mrs. L. A. Parker of vancouver, Wash.,, and two grand- children. 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