The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 8, 1950, Page 8

PAGE EIGHT = THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA THURSDAY, JUNE 8, 1950 LOCAL PLANT MAY |U. S. Commissioners' BERAW MATERIAL Stafus, Other Court] ASSESSMENTS; JUST Problems Examined) WHOMTOSENDTO Granfed FOR NEW MEDICINE 150,000 Pounds of False Hellebore to Be Gath- ered, Chamber Told A large-leafed forest plant found j in the Juneau area may be the raw material from which a new drug, Veriloid, will be produced This was announced at the noon meeting of the Chamber of Comi- merce today by Dr. P. K. Bates of the Reiker Laboratories, a subsi- diary of the Rexall Drug Company. The plant is false hellebore, and is found in the moist soils of Southeast Alaska. Although the extracts from the local plant have yet to pass strin- gent tests under the Food and Drug Act, Dr. Bates’ company is so confident that it will prove sat®- factory that 150,000 pounds of dried hellebore root will be produced here. Dr. Bates would not reveal the use of the drug extracted from the root, but said it is being testcd as a remedy in an illness affecting one out of every 10 persons in the United States. He said the root extract has proved successful in about one-half of the cases treated. The Forest Service here first prought to the attention of the scientists the fact that the plant grew .in this vicinity. For test purposes, 1,000 pounds of the réot found in the Juneau area was sent to the Reiker Laboratories last summer. Extracts from the root is of a species of veratrum and is found in the eastern United States; had been tested and found satisfactory, but the product of the Alaskan variety has proved to be slighZy different. “We had hoped to be able to produce more than 150,000 pounds of the root here = season, but since the differences have been found we must cut back on the extent of our ‘ante’” Dr. Bates said. Joe Smith, a local lumberman, will be in charge of producing the raw material in Alaska, He said after the meeting today that any- one will be able to dig the root. The root-digging program will be announced sometime next week, ©mith said. Diggers will have to| clear with Smith, who will tell| them where to work, because tlie Farest Service is limiting the areas in which the root can be taken from the ground. Smith said the root gatheircd will be kiln-dried. Lemke Bill Opposed Opposition to the Lemke bill, a measure which would grant vet- erans 'more than 1,000 acres of Alaska land, was apparent today when the Chamber passed unani- mously a resolution which will be forwarded to the Senate commit®ze on Interior and Insular affairs. The committee is to consider the bill in the near future. It has been passed by the House of Rep- resentatives already. Norman Banfield, Juneau attor- ney, drew up the resolution op- posing the bill and presented 1t to the Chamber. He termed the bill a “piece of vicious legislation.” Kenneth Kadow, Interior De- partment official, called attention to the Congressional Record and said that the opposition to the bill failed to get its point over during the hearings in the House. He said 50 persons had spoken in favor of it and four against it. Mayor Waino Hendrickson said that none of those favoring the bill at the hearings were from Alaska, “It is just another case of long- distance government,” he said. Banfield said that the Juneau American Legion post will enter- tain a resolution opposing the bill when it meets Monday night, and it was decided to send a copy of the Chamber’s resolution to the veterans' organizations here. | Complicated problems faced by U.S. Commissioners in Alaska will receive top attention from the first high administrative official ct v.he' federal court system to visit thej Territory in the 11 years the agency has been in existence. Elmore Whitehurst, assistant di- rector of the administrative offices of the U.S. Courts, left Juneau to- day enroute to Anchorage and Fairbanks to confer with judges in these divisions prior to calling a'meeting of all four judges in Anchorage on June 19. ‘Whitehurst describes his job as that of a “housekeeper” for the fed- eral court system, supervising all budget matters, supplies, appropri- ations, and advising in court ap= pointments. Because commissioners are in- volved in so many tasks and are paid only by the fees they cillect for performing certain tasks, Whitehurst promised a complete survey of the 60 precincts over which they preside, in an etfort to seek ways to improve their status. Their procedures, staff, equipment and systems of doing certain work will be examined, he said. He will discuss the present fee schedule with judges, to see if it might stand a change, and will pre- sent before all district judges 2 manual written by District Judge Joseph W. Kehoe of Nome Ior ap- proval, and possible publication for issuance to all commissioners. The manpal would be a sort of “dope sheet” on how to do certain work required, and would Aassure like efforts by commissioners from Ketchikan to Barrow. For instance, U.S. Commissioner Gordon Gray in Juneau—while not doing everything most commission- ers take care of in Alaska — has seven jobs: justice of the peace, coroner, juvenile judge, ex-otficio district recorder, ex-officio notary public, and ex-officio probate judge, besides being commissioner. In smaller communities, the com- missioner is also deputy clerk of the district court, collector of cus-| toms, and has other federal tasks. Whitehurst, because courts here do things differently from the states, has his briefcase full of docu- ments and papers involving unique problems faced by both district judges and commissioners. He was amazed to see the tremen- dous files on hand in both offices, and said he would like to see dupli~ cation methods changed to micro- film, if it were feasible. This re- duces space needed for other things and reduces time taken up by ste- nographers in necessary copying. Whitehurst's office was set up in 1939 to take over duties from the attorney-general, and he holds of- fice by appointment of the Supreme Court. The late Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes swore him in after naming him to the position. SOROPTIMISTS T0 HEAR RODEN TALK ON TAX STRUCTURE A good speaker on a timely topic will be the program tomorrow at :he regular weekly meeting of the Soroptimist Club, in the Terrace Room of the Baranof Hotel. Ter- itorial Treasurer Henry Roden se the speaker, and he will discuss she present fiscal situation of the Territory, dealing not only with the funds now becoming available to meet previously frozen appro- priations, but also what may be 2xpected in the way of future tax revenues, based on the present tax structure. In the absence of President Ger- trude Wetzell, who is still in the gan will again wield eggs than any other state HERE 1S DOPE OR Edenls [BULKY BILL I APPROVED BY Shaffer’s 49-Phone-13 \ This year, there are six different tax assessing and collecting author- ities in the Juneau area including| the City of Juneau, Auk Bay Public Utilities District, Juneau Independ- ent School District, City of Doug- Former British Foreign Sec- CONF. COM. Defense Construction Pro- Divorce SANITARY | district [* las, Douglas District and the Territory of Al- aska. for personal and real property in their allotted areas, If you own property within the city limits of Juneau, assessment | All of these collect taxes| Independent Schodl | re'ary Says Wife De" serted Him in U.S. LONDON, June 8—{P—Former Foreign Secretary - Anthony Eden |$600,000,000 program of won a divorce decree today by |construction was agreed upon to- gram of 600 Million Dollars Okehed WASHINGTON, June 8—(#—A defense :e'“m Sl;“’“m&beh“led with City | testifying that his attractive bru-|day by a Senate-House conference ssessor Ray Beach in the Juneau|pette wife deserted him in 1947 to|committee. City Hall. If you own property within the live in America. | Eden, whose political Chairman Vinson (D-Ga.) of the ambitions | House Armed Services committee boundaries of the Auk Bay Public|gas geputy Conservative leader may |said the bulky measure should cover ! Utilities, (District, assessment Te- | pe jeopardized by divorce in strait-|all Army, Navy and Air Force :;;x;:a sh;u}lld be lr:led Bwnh M"*Elnced Britain, was granted a de-|projects needed during the next m Johnson, Auk Bay Public| . ee NIST in a five-minute hearing |two years “unless there is some Utilities District Assessor, at the REA office in Auk Bay. Tax assessment blanks that were Bay Public Utilities District by the Juneau Independent School District Assessor should be returned to the Auk Bay Assessor instead of the School District Assessor. If you own property in ‘the Ju- neau Independent School District, outside of both the City of Juneau and the Auk Bay Public Utilities District, assessment returns sho<d be sent to Robert N. Druxman, | before Justice Francis Hodson. ‘The dapper, greying Eden—still emergency.” Eliminated from the bill wa% ap- | handsome at 53—told the court in|proximately $105,000,000 worth of mailed to residents of the Auk| . gy yojce that his wife insisted | family military housing in the Con- jon visiting the United States in | and that she then refused to return to her native Britain. Mrs. Eden, who has spent most ot her time since 1946 in the U.S. and { the hearing. She did not contest | the action. | At her New York apartment Mrs, | Eden said “there really is nothing tinental United States' which had | 1946, that he accompanied her there | seen voted by the Senate. The House had stricken this out| m the theory that the so-called Wherry Act should provide amplt military housing in this country. | Bermuda, was not represented at This act provides, government in- surance for rental projects built »y private investors. 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This will hap-|Party—and the post of Prime Min- | ister when and if the Tories regain | pen, for example, if a person lives‘ |in Juneau and owns a summer POWer man” to sail June 14 for the Prib- ilof Islands with freight and pass- engers. The Zussman replaces the supply | ship Penguin, which was damaged badly by fire Saturday night. The new vessel is 148 feet long, has a some for your freezer or locker, BUY THEM THIS WEEK. Rhode Island Red states, Vice-President Bernice Mor-|in general surgery, including chest the gavel, but this being a social meeting, business details will await next FROM YAKUTAT week’s action, Mrs. Morgan stated.| Mr. and Mrs. Zeb V. Wilson are all Towa produces more chickens and | the Civil Aeronautics Administra- |cabin at Lena Beach. In this in- stance, returns will be filed with| TWO ANGOON WEDDINGS}yscargo capacity of 50 tons and ac- the City Assessor on property in| Two marriages were recently péf- | commodations for 12 passengers. | Juneau and with the School Dis-|formed at Angoon by Commissionex | trict Assessor for the property at|Samuel G. Johnson. Dan Brown | ‘Lena Beach, ;Jr. married Mabel Willis nn!%d, Mr. and Mrs. William Dick of |George Anderson Paul and Annle Hoonah became the parents of a | iR R N e i s o E & = ‘Albert were married. The con-|daughter early this merning at the DR STEWARTDUE |tracting parties are Angoon resi- | Government hospital. The child! . | dents. . ! weighed six pounds six ounces. | Dr. John H. Stewart, a surgeon of extensive training and experi- ence, will arrive from New York | next month to join the Juneau Medical and Surgical Clinic. Wil- liam Ellis, manager of the clinic,| is trying to locate a house or large | apartment before. 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