The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 20, 1950, Page 6

PAGE SIX ' FIRST COUNT IN QUEEN CONTEST IS T0 BE MADE THUS. First count in the contest for Ju- neau’s Fourth of July Queen will be made Thursday tween 5 and 5:30 o’clock at the Ju- neau Drug Store according to Judy Greeng who will receive at that time tabulation of the vote. There is a spirited contest veloping according to reports and the four candidates and those spon- soring them are pegging away in the selling of tickets. The four candidates are Roberta Messerschmidt, sponsored | by the Juneau' Rotary Club and | Business and Professional Women's | Club. :‘ Carmen Mantyla, sponsored by the Women of the Moose and Lmnx" Club. | Nella Jermain, sponsored by the| American Legion and Veterans ot Foreign Wars. Shirley Casperson, sponsored by | the Central Labor Council and the Filipino Community. | The candidates are all popular young ladies of Juneau. Each ticket purchaser, besides voting for his queen, may also become the owner | of an automobile. PUBLIC HEALTH NURSE IS HERE TO CONSULT ON ALASKA PROBLEMS | Mrs. for Queen Vera P. Hansel, regional public health nursing consultant from the United States Public Health Service headquarters in San | Francisco, arrived in Juneau this weekend enroute to visits with | Alaska's nurses. She explained the purpose of these visits is to bring some of the newly developed ideas in nursing and to confer on pro- | grams relating to nursing in Alaska. She is to visit Alaska Department | of Health supervisors and' public health nurses and said she has also been invited to confer with Alaska Native Service nursing personnel at Sitka and Bethel. Mental health, educational and tuberculosis programs will be among the work receiving particular at- tention during her generalized pub- | lic health nursing consultations with the nurses. Mrs. Hansel added | that the consultations will also point out in what ways the Public Health Service can best offer assist- ance to the Alaska nursing program. After a visit to Sitka, she is sched- uled to leave tomorrow for Anchor- age, Palmer, Bethel, and Fairbanks, returning to Juneau about July 13 PIONEER JUNEAUITES BACK HERE FOR VISIT Mrs. J. A. Hellenthal and Miss | Gertrude Hellenthal are house guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Simon Hellenthal. They ar- rived in Juneau aboard the Aleutian for a month’s visit to their former home town. | Mrs. Hellenthal, widow of the late | Jack Hellenthal who practiced law here for many years, first came to Juneau on December 1, 1900, as a bride. The family was active in civic and social circles here for many years until the passing of the prom- inent attorney when Mrs. Hellenthal went (o Chicago to join Miss Hellen- thal and make her home. Miss Hellenthal first came to Ju- neau in 1907, returned to Michigan shortly after and then came to Ju- neau again where she taught school in 1916 and was employed in the B. M. Behrends bank from 1918-1919. She left in 1920 for Chicago. Last August Mrs. and Miss Hel- lenthal moved to the Hellenthal ranch in Kelseyville, California, which the Jack Hellenthals have owned for 38 years, and are now making their home there. They are looking forward to re- newing acquaintances with many old time friends while in Juneau. TWO BOATS LAND 3,000 POUNDS OF SALMON HERE Two boats, the Isis and the Alrita, landed a total of 3,000 pounds ot salmon at the Juneau Cold Storage Company wharf today. Prices paid for the salmon were not released, but yesterday’s salmon prices in Southeast Alaska appeared to be hanging close to the mini- mums agreed upon by the United Trollers of Alaska and buyers at the beginning of the season. afternoon be- | de- | RAIL - STEAMER RATES ON FROZEN FiSH REDUCED ;Equalizafion of Rates Via | Seattle Same as Prince Rupert Routing Combination rail and steamer |rates on frozen fish from Alaska ports east to Chicago by way of | Seattle are now the same as those via Prince Rupert, it was announced | today by E. M. Stevenson, Northern | Pacific Railway representative in Juneau from his Seattle headquar- ters. The new equalized rates been in effect since June 17. For the last five years Mr. Stev- enson has been working on a rate that would give Seattle and the northern transcontinental railways the same chance at Alaska’s frozen fish business as Prince Rupert and the Canadian railways. The new rate, worked out in col- laboration with #he Transconti- nental Freight Bureau and the have competitive basis with through Prince Rupert. Through rates include handling at wharfage and handling in Seattle and take into consideration the 3 percent federal excise transporta tion tax required in this country. Announcement by Stevenson gives these new rates: To points Chicago and west on minimum of 36,000 pounds for & standard freight refrigerator car routing land 46,000 pounds for a car 2200 cubic feet or larger: Ketchikan, $2.44, per hundred pounds; Wran- gell and Petersburg, $2.47; Juneav and Tyee, $2.52; Sitka and Pelican $2.53%. Fifteen million pounds of frozen fish out of Juneau alone, is an esti- mate of the freight that will have the advantage of the new combinen rail and steamer rates provided by the Northern Pacific and Alaska Steamship Company, according to Stevenson. The NP man has been in Juneau for the last week and is to leave today on the Aleutian to cover other parts of Alaska for his company. MAX GOOTHERTS, BAHA'I TRAVEL, MEETS OTHERS \OF FAITH IN ALASKA Traveling for pleasure and te inform people along the way of the Baha'i faith, Max Gootheris, of San Mateo, California, was a passenger aboard the Aleutian in Juneau today. While in Juneau, Mr. Gootherts endeavored to contact people in- terested in Baha'i. He will be here on his way south aboard the Al- aska in about ten days. Mr. Gootherts is one of many Baha'is who travel throughout the different countries of the world spreading a universal program of world unity through world faith and advocating a universal lang- uage, currency, weights and meas- ures, script and literature and a world tribunal. He has recently completed travels in South America where he met many of his faith, He will remain in Anchorage for several days. ANGELO ASTONE HERE; WITH BEHRENDS BANK Angelo Astone and Mrs. Astone arrived on the Aleutian and he will join the staff of the B. M. Bek- rends bank tomorrow. Astone was formerly on the bank’s staff but left about two and one half years ago and has beén making California his home since then but the lure of the north callea him and his wife back again BREHM HERE Edward Brehm of Fairbanks, re- cently appointed to a position here with the Territorial Veterans Af- fairs Commission, is stopping at the Gastineau Hotel. WANT ADS BRING RESULTS Northbound Plane Turns Back, Fiffy Men Irans(e(red SEATTLE, June 20—®—A Pan American World Airways transport | enroute from San Francisco to Bristol Bay, Alaska, turned back |to Seattle today from Port Hardy, B. C.,, when the aircraft develo a “rough engine.’ Pan American officials said 50 salmon fishermen aboard the Nak- nek-bound plane were transferred to another transport for the flight north. Baby Daughter of Alaska Worker Is SEATTLE, June 20—(®—The 10- week-old daughter of Mr. and NYs. Lorenzo Ortiz, 418 E. Northlake Ave, was found dead in her bLed this morning. Mrs. Ortiz, who said her husbend is working on the Alaska Railroad, | Alaska Steamship Company Will putly;1q coroner’s deputies she fed the | frozen shipments to Seattle on “lbaby last midnight, she appeared lco be all right then. CORPORATION TAX 700 MUCH. SAYS COMMITTEE HEAD WASHINGTON, June 20 — ) —! Chairman Doughton (D-NC) of the tax-framing House Ways and Meins Committee said today he believes a $433,000,000 tax boost the commit- tee has voted for corporations “goes too far.” The top Democratic tax manager disclosed in an interview that the committee put the boost into its general tax bill over his personal opposition. He said 14 committee Democrats voted for it. He and 10 Republicans were opposed. Doughton did not indicate what position he would take when the bill goes to the House floor next week for a vote. If he openly opposes the rise then, his position might be decisive in event of a close division in the House. As chairman of the comriit- tee, Doughton will be in charge of the bill. He also wields considerable personal influence with legislators on tax matters. The bill cuts excise taxes by S, 010,000,000. The boost in corporate taxes was designed to offset this cut in part and win Presidential ipproval of the measure. 1 b2 1 HOSPITAL NOTES | S—r | Mrs. Dayton Fleek, John H.| Easley, Richard C. McDorman, and Mrs. Clarence W. Stevenson were admitted to St. Ann’s hospital | yesterday. 1 Jack Hackman, Nick Giatros, and Mrs. Shirley Hegge were dismissed. Jerry Cranston of Juneau was| admitted to the Government hos-| pital. | JOHNSTONE VISITS C. H. Johnstone of Sitka is -x:‘\ the Gastineau Hotel. HOONAH MAYOR HERE Mr. and Mrs. Harry Douglas are | staying at the Gastineau, Hotel. Mr. | Douglas is mayor of Hoonah. FROM HOONAH | Mr. and Mrs. Joe White and son | of Hoonah are at the Gastineau | Hotel. | | AT BARANOF HOTEL Mr. and Mrs. Perry Tonsgard | are registered at the Baranof Hotel. FROM JBARROW | Mrs. Helen M. Simmons of Point Barrow is a guest at the Baranof Hotel. A | | FROM GUSTAVUS | H. L. Jester and O. Creasemén | {of Gustavus are at the Baranof| Hotel. | WANT ADS BRING RESULTS | [ DARIGOLD EVAPORATED FOR SUM QUALITY SHES GUARAN- TEED | | Found Dead inBed |ank B. Kelsey, THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA CIVIC, CLUB MATTERS |0CCUPY ROTARIANS AT LUNCHEON MEET Civic and club matters received | major attention at the weekly | luncheon meeting of the Juneau | Rotary Club today in the Baranot Gold Room. | A lively discussion was stimu- !lated by Mayor Waino Hendrick- | son’s short talk on the proposed | sales tax to be accepted or rejected | in today's special election. After stressing the need for find- iing a new source of municipal revenue, the mayor gave statistics {on sales tax versus increased prop- ‘veny taxes and said the one percent is small compared to similar taxes | in other cities, both Territorial and | stateside. “Every sales tax dollar paid by local residents,” he said, probably | will be matched by a dollar from | tourists and transients. | “This is a reasonable and cheap tax,” he continued. “All revenue: will go immediately into production Moreover, the cost of collection will | be negligible, compared to collect- ing the property tax. And the pro- yceeds will be used exclusively for bond retirement.” Among those putting questions to i the mayor were Dr. James C. Ryan Dr. William P. Blanton, George ‘Sundbnrg. Henry Harmon, Verr | Metcalfe, Tom Dyer, J. Malcolm Greany and Jerry McKinley. Mayor Hendrickson called on City Attorney Howard D. Stabler to clarify several provisions of the ordinance. Peter Warner, program | chairman, introduced the mayor. With the presence of Miss Roberta iMesserschmldt. queen candidate, to | inspire them, Rotarians stepped up | their pace in campaign work, and | Chairman Tom Dyer called a meet- ing immediately after the luncheon | President Bob Akervick appointed | these additional committee mem- | bers: Ralph Mize, Lloyd Coe and | Hirff Saunders. Miss Messerschmidt is the joint candidate of the Rotary ! Club and the Business and Profes- | sional Women’s Club. , Committee reports included those }of Ellis Reynolds on the Soap Box | Derby, which is sponsored annually in cooperation with The Daily | Alaska Empire; Howard D. Stabler, on the annual Rotary family picnic ! next Sunday, and Edward L. Keit- hahn, on the club's float and con- cession for the Fourth of July cele- | bration. | Several visiting Rotarians were | present as guests: Karel Hunter | Sheecha of Waikiki, past president |of the Honolulu Rotary Club; Bill | Lyons of Patterson, Calif.; J. C Martin of Wichita, Kans.; Jerry ;Waf,son of St. Petersburg, Fla.; and John Day of Aberdeen, Idaho. Other visiters were Dr. E. T. Parks of the State Department and assistant admin- istrator for finance to the Veterans Administration, both of Washing- ton, D.C.; Ray Brooks of the Fed- eral Security Agency, San Fran- cisco; Ed Stevenson of the Norther Pacific Railway; H. Carl Hansen ot Everett, Wash., who is visiting his son, Capt. S. C. Hansen, and E. E. Lincoln, Alaska manager for the Veterans Admnistration. |COPPER RIVER (LOSED; RUN UP 50 PER CENT After a red salmon run almost 50 per cent over that of last year, the Copper River area was closéd today by the Fish and Wildlife Service. In the past week the run has been slow, according to Howavd |Baltzo, assistant regional director, with no interest shown in seeifig the season stay open. The overall run was the best in many years, however, he safd. Robert Shuman, fisheries manage- ment agent, is now in Cordova in- vestigating the pack and gathering information concerning the run. The river will open again t2 fall on cohoes, Polls close at 7 pm. VOTE! 157,000 POUNDS OF HALIBUT LANDED; PRICE OF MEDIUMS INCREASES With two weeks of halibut fishing | remaining before the fishing season ends in Area Three July 5, tive vessels landed a total of 157,000 pounds today, and prices paid for the two boat-loads sold were high. The Crest, commanded by E. L. Berg, landed 20,000 pounds, and buyer Elton Engstrom took the load, paying 2550 cents per pound for raediums, 24.50 cents for large, and 20 cents for chickens. The Commando, skippered by Elmer Telnes, landed 42,000 pounds, and Alaska Coast Fisheries paid the same prices as Engstrom. The vessels were being readied for another trip to the Area Three grounds after unloading. The Princess, commanded by Olaf Westby, landed 21,000 pounds* the Nova, skippered by George Mathisen, landed 35,000 pounds; and the Urania, L. B. Jensen in com- mand, landed 39,000 pounds. Loads from these last three boats had not been bid upon by buyers at noon today. The prices paid today were the same as those paid yesterday for the Pamela Rae’s 42,000 pound load but they represented a slight change from the highest bids on the Emma’s 9,000-pound haul and Mae West's 22,000-pound catch, both landed Sunday. Prices Sunday were 25 cents for mediums and large and 18 cents for chickens. Saturday the Sandra L.s catch ot 46,000 pounds brought the same prices as werz paid Sunday. SOFTBALL LEAGUE The A.C.S. was the victor over he Interior Department team in he first game last night in the Juneau Softball league by a score of 13 to 7. The second game found the Town Criers far out in front of the Cardinal Club by a score of 16 to 2. The powerful Town Criers team has been invited and has accepted a tournament invitation at Haines on the 3rd and 4th of July. They will play against such strong teams as the Whitehorse Elks, Haines Rea Caps, Lytle and Green, Skagway giants. The Town Criers won the tour- nament last year without losing a game and have a smooth running ‘eam this season backed up by the steady pitching of Walt Speril and John Scott with Tom Powers doinz the catching. The team will make ‘he trip on the mailboat Yakobi. The following are the standings of the league ‘to date: Town Crier Cardinal Club Interior Dept. Employment Security .. BOAT SURVEYOR T0 60 WESTWARD FOR WILDLIFE SERVICE Delano Brusstar, naval architect \nd shipbuilder on temporary duty with the Fish and Wildlife Service and in Juneau the past 10 days surveying the service's boat pre%- lems, will leave for the westward tomorrow to further his survey. Brusstar, a distant relative of the late President Franklin D. Roose- velt, was sent here from Washing- ton to look over the service's boats used in fisheries work, and to zather information pertinent to improving their use. He will spend some two weeks in Cordova, Anchorage and Kodiak, each an important fisheries sta- tion. AT GASTINEAU HOTEL william David and R. E. Randle, both of Seattle, are among newly registered guests at the Gastineau Hotel. Sewing machines for rent at The White Sewing Machine Center. 52-ti Fares Reduced One Way Anchorage Kodiak Homer Naknek A. B. 104.50. Round Trip 113.40. 176.40. 144.00. 188.10. 206.10. 63.00« 98.00- 80.00« UDGE HITS MINE CLAIM PROVISIONS (Continued from Page 1) ) around those two seclions (Section Three, covering mining claims and Section Four, on the means of levying and the disposition of the tax monies) so “there is nothing re- maining in the chapter (the law) ot any force so the whole chapter is invalid.” Judge Said ‘No’ In connection with the section on levying, and collecting in cities, Assistant Attorney General John FRED SCHMITZ PASSES AWAY AT SEATTLE HOSPITAL Frede Schmitz, wellknown Junea 4 man, passed away Sunday, June 8 at Virginia Mason hospital in Seat- tle, according to word received here Schmitz, who had lived here since 1927, went south six weeks ago for medical treatment. He was formerly employed at the Alaska Junea mine and more recently by the Beri Caro Company. He came to Alaska from Seattle. Surviving him, besides his wife are a son, Freddie and a daughter Lorene and four brothers, Bill ang Gus of Juneau; Pete of Seattle anc Frank of Bremerton and four sis- ters, Mrs. Ned Albright of Junean Mrs. Lloyd Hillinger, Mrs. Ann Not( j Dimond had argued May 16 that the | o4 Mrs. Dorothy Gilmore, all of alleged lack of uniformity in taxing | goo o was actually the “innate exercise of the Territory’s freedom of classi- ' fication.” The judge said “No.” He said a classification on prop- ’u erty as within or without a city| “would not be a classification” at, .. nushand south, will return tc all. He held that ‘“classifications ac- cording to location of property are invalid.” Dimond had argued also that the Territory was free to levy non-uni- form taxes as long as discrepancies were not based on “hostile diserim- ination against certain taxpayers.” ‘The judge aga d “No.” TAX BOX SCORE The boxscore on the legal tests ot major tax laws enacted by the 1943 Legislature: General property tax of one per- cent ruled invalid in Fairbanks dis- trict court yesterday. Income tax—(10 percent of fed- eral tax)—held legal in district court and affirmed on appeal. Non-resident fishing license tax— held invalid for halibut fishermen; upheld on salmon fishermen in case brought by Alaska Fishermen's Union and now being appealed. Another section was challenged by salmon canneries and upheld; there has been no appeal on it. Salmon fishermen have another court chal- lenge of tax pending. Fishtrap tax — quadrupled tax held to be so high that it consti- tuted regulation of fisheries con- trary to the Organic Act, but tax on traps themselves was upheld; there has been no appeal. in €8 NO REFUNDS — YET ‘Tax Commissioner M. P. Mullaney was advised by Assistant Attorney General John Dimond not to re- fund any property tax paid by those hit by the legislation. Many resi- dents have not paid the tax pend- ing outcome of this case, although it actually represents only the Alaska Juneau Gold Mine and Luther Hess of Fairbanks, Dimond said. Refunds would be made all tax- payers if the decision is upheld in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Dimond must await Friday’s mail from Fairbanks to obtain the deci- sion and will go to work imme- diately on preparing the appeal, he said. SEATTLEITES HERE Among Seattleites newly regis- tered at the Baranof Hotel are C. M. Mullaney and H. G. Heaton. FIREPLACE WOOD—S$20.00 a cord delivered. Phone 333, 29-1mo Polls close at 7 pm. VOTE! lm The remains will be brought & Juneau, arriving on the Alaska Funeral services, which will be nder the auspices of the EIk< Lodge, will be announced later. Mrs. Schmitz, who accompaniec Juneau by plane. PACIFIC NORTHERN FLIGHTS CARRY 27 Ten persons arrived yesterday vie Pacific Northern Airlines, whict carried 17 passengers outbound. Edward T. Keithahn and M Heaton arrived from Yakutat; Tonnes Hanson and Mary Nathess from Cordova, and these persons from Anchorage: D. M. Kantola. ester Halvorsen, William Craig, the Rev. Baker, Joan Cyrus and H. L. Arnold. Westbound, Charles Parker went to Gustavus; Evelyn Converse and Jack Hackman to Yakutat; Don Miller, W. B. Morse, Gregg Mc- Donald and Guie Coehring to Cor- dova. Laura Lee Porlier and Gary went to Anchorage, as did Otto Kasko, and H. J. Lutz, while Mrs. Dolores Myhill, Bradnor and the baby werc booked to Homer, and A. M. and Arvid Isacsen and Alf Fester to Kodiak. Polls clese at 7 pm. VOTE! 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There large red kings brought 40 cents, small reds brought 27 cents, and white kings brought 23 and 24 cents. ‘These prices were equal to above Beattle prices, which were 3750 to 3850 cents for large red “kings, 26 to 28 cents for small reds, and 21 to 23 cents for whites. FROM WASHINGTON, D. C. J. W. Johnson of Washington, D. C., has returned from the Interior and is again stopping at the Bara- nof Hotel. or| Polls clsse at 7 pm. VOTE! £ | Ask Your Grocer for “STRIKE A NEW NOTE" four delicious recipes by Carol Baker, Darigold Home Economist *Plus Tax " Daily Flights — Passengers, Mail and Air Cargo Lictric Nokt Connections at Anchorage for all Interior and Westward Points Tickets and Reservations BARANOF HOTEL Phone 716 Lisce LEADING BRANDS in SPORTS WEAR S CLOTHING STORE '’ n 177 to 179 So. Franklin T LEADING BRANDS in WORK CLOTHING