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| WEST PRICES — LOWLOWER PRICES?RICES—LOWER PRICES—LOWER PRICELOWEST PRICES—LOWEST PRICES—LOWES PAGE EIGHT ABSENTEE BALLOTS GIVEHARRIS 6 VOTE EDGE IN HOUSE RACE Absentee ballots for the First Di- vision primary election held April 25 were counted yesterday after- noon, with 162 allowed. Four were rejected. Two precincts have yet to be heard from, according to deputy clerks in the district court oftice These are Bell Island, hot springs resort near Ketchikan, where three persons re Zle, =*# Meyers Chuck also near Ketchikan, where 35 per- sons voted in the 1948 general elec- tion. An officjal count of all votes is being tabulated now, with the miss- ing precincts to be added later. Only place disputed when the unofticia count was last tabulated was the eighth place on the Democraiic ticket for the House of Representa- tives. R. T. (Dick) Harris is still out 1t front of Eugene Lockridge by ¢ count of 1,201 to 1,285. Peter Wooc still holds an unsure tenth place. With only six votes separatin the two Juneauites for the covetec spot on the card, the two missing precincts will tell the tale. No indi- cation of when they might be in has been given. Other positions changed. CANCER CRUSADE WILL START HERE; CARTER IN CHARGI Charles W. Carter, President of the Board of Directors of the Alaska Division of the American Cancer Society, has accepted the chairman- ship of the Cancer Crusade Cam- paign for Juneau. His &ppointment was announced today by the Rev R. Rolland Armstrong, Territorial Crusade Chairman, under whose di- rection Cancer Crusades will get under way in most of the major communities of the Territory, dur- ing the next two weeks. The Crusade for Juneau will be started next week, Carter announ- ced, and plans are now being worked remain un- out for the various details that will make the composite program. A special committee meeting will be held Thursday evening at which further plans will be developed. No specific quota has been set for Ju- neau, Mr. Carter stated. | Working closely with and in the | local crusade committee will be rep- | resentatives of every Federal agency in Juneau, who while working di- | rectly under the chairmanship of | B. Frank Heintzleman, Territorial Employees Chairman, will give a| great deal of impetus to the Juneau | campaign. Pointing out that while April is | Cancer Control Month all over the United States, having been so set aside by Act of Congress and Presi- | dential Proclamation, May has been selected as a better month for Alaska, due to the seasonal nature »f employment in many of the com- munities. Armstrong added, that several communities already have conducted their drives, and still! sthers may defer them until June, according to the particular situa- ion existing in the separate com- b munities. | MEDIUM, LARGE HALIBU RICES DROP' SLIGHTLY 15 118,800 POUNDS SOL A slight drop In the prices paud | t | been signed by Frank A. Metcalt | Charles W. Demmert of Ketchikan. | float, be built, 3 SEAPLANE BASE CONTRACTS WON BY COLE OF JUNEAU Seven bases contracts for seaplane in Southeast Alaska have Territorial highway engineer, he announced today. Another contract for a small boat gridiron at Sitka was to be signed this afternoon, he said. Construction of floats and trestles in various areas throughout Alaska are done in conjunction with the Department of Aviation, but con- tracts signed independently, Met- calf explained. Money is available through the motor fuel tax. Three bases — Port Alexander, Meyers Chuck and Helm Bay—were awarded to James V. Cole, contrac- tor living on the Glacier Highway. The Port Alexander base will be first one under construction. One ase—at Klawok—was awarded tc At Klawok a trestle only will be built, to connect to the present although some addition to that structure will be made, Met- calf said. At Helm Bay a float will and at Meyers Chuck both trestle and float will be built ©Of four bidders for the work for medium and large halibut was|Cole was around $11,000 less in his seen at the Juneau Cold bwrase‘rwures for all jobs than his com- Company this morning as buyers petitors, who were from Ketchikan. bid on the 118,800 pounds of fish | | Cole did not bid on the Klawok job. landed late yesterday and early to- day. Final price for medium fish was Metcalf aciec in his capacity as | superintendent of puolic works in letting; the contracts. THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA said, so they may do the building or sublet the contract to anothgr construction firm. 2 NEW TYPHOID CASES IN ANCHORAGE AREA BRING TOTAL T0 17 Typhoid cases in the current out- break of the disease in the An- chorage area rose to 17 by the first of this week, according to word received at Alaska Department of Health headquarters here today. The two new cases developed in the Eastchester district, adjoining the Spenard suburb to which the outbreak had been confined pre- viously, the report stated. The two new victims of the dis- ease are a four-year-old girl and her six-year-old brother who had nad close contact with initial cases in the Spenard area. Ail 17 cases have been children. COASTAL FLIGHTS BRING 18; TAKE 31 Alaska Coastal Airlines flights vesterday brought 18 persons to Juneau and carried 31 from here to Joints in Southeast Alaska. To Sitka: Mr. Fuess, Miss Bry- ant, Louis Elliott, Doris Lindquist, Martha Sam, U. Blankenship, Wil- ma Sandburg, Mary Paul, C. R. Griffin, Henry Moy, and Mrs. A. Hope; to Chichagof: Henry Stra- zier; to Haines: Mrs. Louise Mil- nes, Mrs. McGowan, G. R. Allen, gotiate with the town itself, Metcalf | DOUBLE PROGRAM FOR KIWANIS CLUB FEATURES ALASKA The program for today’s lunch- eon meeting ofe the Kiwanis Club was in two compleie units. Both featured Alaska, and one was of local and immediate importance to ! this civic-minded group. Dr. Joseph O. Rude, board presi- dent of the Juneau Independent School District, gave a comprehen- sive talk about the proposed school construction on which Juneau pr->- erty-owners will vote Tuesday. They will decide for or against a $750,- 000-school bond issue. “We think that will be more than | we need,” commented Dr. Rude, “but we want to be sure of having | needed.” 5 Indicating each feature ‘on scribed the proposed structure, com- plete with auditorium-gymnasium, | rifle r.\nge classrooms and ‘spe- | cial use” rooms. A swimming pool had been considered, he said, but the idea was abandoned hecause ot the great expense. Dr. Rude said the building wouid be set at an angle to get the most possible light, also to allow for a roadway which will permit safe loading and unloading of school buses. In the standard-size gymnasium, play on two ‘“cross-wise” courts will be possible at one time. Dr. Rude said the foundation of the enough. Bonds will be sold only as the | ]architect's drawings, Dr. Rude de+ 17.85 cents per pound, a .05 cent irop from yesterday's price of 17.90. Large halibut, which sold at 16.75 Seaplane bases construeted by the Department of Aviation are -ents yesterday, went for 16.65 cents | under jurisdiction of the Civil Aero- per pound today. Chicken halibut | hautics Administration, and must prices remained at 14 cents. | be okehed by them prior to bids Today's 118,800 pounds of fish is being issued. Those not okehed may the largest amount to be handled | be constructed by the Territory it- in one day since the opening of the | self through the public works super- season. ‘ intendent. High boat was the Norland, skip- | Metcalf said he was considering pered by Ed Jacobson. It brought|a contract with Metlakatla for a 27,000 pounds to Juneau. Next high- | base there, because C.A.A. officials est was the Tundra, Peter Oswald |turned aside a contract for that skipper, which landed 20,000 pounds | place, because it cannot enter into of halibut. a contract with an organized village, The June K of Angoon, skippered | but must have a contract from an by Joe Bennett and manned by an | individual or company. The reserva- entirely green crew, brought in|tion organization at the town pre- 12,000 of fish. vents an individual acting in his capacity to accept such work. The Territory, however, may ne- SCHWINN BIKES AT MADSEN'S SRR L B St SRR B R A S B B > & and George Osage. To Petersburg: Ethel Campbell| and Gladys Becker; to Ketchikan: Slifford Louis; to Hoonah: B. F. Thompson, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Austin 2d Austin Jr, Mrs. M. Sarabia, ind Mabel Ann Johnson; to Gus- avus: O. J. Johanson and J. Fry- concrete puilding is planned to ac- commodate later additions. Dr. John Montgomery, program chairman, announced the second feature, a showing of the new Alaska documentary motion pic- ture, “Alaska, U.S.A.” with Eckley K. Guerin at the projector. The color film, now having pre- view showings throughout the Ter- ritory before “going on tour” in the states, was made by Fred and Sara Machetanz. It is narrated by George Sundborg, consultant to the Alaska Development Board, which had it made. President Stanley Bn.skm pre- sided at the meeting in the Bara- nof Terrace Room. SOURDOCEY (LUB The Sourdocey Square Dance Club will meet at 8:30 Saturday night at the Parish Hall. Tickets will be 'on sale for the Square Dance Festival fo be Held in the Douglas | High School Gym May 20. MISS ANGERMAN HERE Miss Helen Angerman of Wran- gel, who has just completed a busi- ness course in Seattle, is in Juneau overnighted in Juneau due to un- fayorable weather in the Ketchikan | area. She hoped to get to Wrangell via Alaska Coastal today. She 1s a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fritz Angerman of Wrangell, who ope- rate a tax service in that town. FIBBER McGEE CLOSET SALE Dygout—May 13—1 to 5 p.m. BARN DANCE TONIGHT . Dreamland Bar at 11:00 Sewing machines for rent at The White Sewing Machine Center. 52-tt Fresh Herring Now c~yvaiiabie At STURM’'S LOCKERS llo; to Pelican: Bud Phelps; and o« Skagway: Mr. and Mrs. Clff ogers, and G. R. Rich. From Sitka: Mr. Southard, L. H. 3mith, Shelly Reed, Lt. Pasciuti, Robert Mooring, and Harmon Loug- her; from Hood Bay: Mr. 0wens.‘ Ray Bolden, and Dean Bolden; from Haines: Steve Fiest, Frank Behrends, Bud Berry, Jack Bennett, and Wesley F. Seebart; from Pv-l V. F. W. Sponsored tersburg: ~ William Wood; from Hoonah: Ernestine Metz: from Funter Bay: Ann Dorman; snd} from Pelican: Ann Broom. Special Games C. L 0. Hall — Thursdays 9 p. m. Everybody Invited T0 DANCE SATURDAY | | awaiting weather in order to tly | home. 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