The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 18, 1951, Page 8

PAGE EIGHT -« THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASK QUESTION ARISES ON CERTAIN PHASE ALASKA MINE LAWS ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Jan. 18— (P—Is gravel a valuable mineral? | Does ‘ts presence on school section lands permit the staking of min- ing claims? | On those questions may hinge court decision that could affect Al-| aska's financial structure and de- | prive its schools of large antici pated funds issue came to light Lowell Pu | i vester- 3 o Bi ska fam claims on school land rator the Man Land d four well k had staked placer acres of valuable ment | ;n was viclent. Anch- | t officials ('on-i ferred with attorneys on ways to avoid the claims. The city planning be 1 a study of the City Manager Robert i he would any halt claims. the Interior De- tment i hington, D. C., had | en the matter under advise- commission ar join ment The land, on the outskirts of this rapidly growing Alaska city, has heen estimated as worth more than $2,000,000 if divided into 3,200 lots. Similar bringing $70( apiece. | The families contend they dis-| covered gravel in the area, and| mining laws allow filing of claims | on school sections if they L.ml.;m! valuable minerals. | Mining authorities here say pre-| vious court decisions have held| that gravel is a mineral The claims were staked in the names of Mr. and Mrs. Warren| Cuddy, Mr. and Mrs, Daniel Cuddy, | and Mr. and Mrs, Dolan G. Wil all of Anchorage, and Mr. and Mrs. | Howard Wilcox, of Fairbanks. Warren Cuddy is an Anchorage banker and attorney; his son, Dan- iel, also is an attorney here. How- ard Wilcox for many years headed | the school of mines at the Univer- | sity of Alaska, Fairbanks; Don Wil- lots Joe Meherin, prominent Al Mrs. Mehe Maui in Juneau, and famous Hotel Han: Juneau couple ws baseball team, (second from left.,) <howed the Meherins and O'Doul waiians use in their exotic native flew to the islands via Pan Americ SHRINERS BUSY ON SCOUT FUND DANCE SATURDAY | Juneau Shriners are putting in | cox is his son. |2 busy two days in preparation for What would be the outcome if|the free public dance next Satur- their interpretation of basic min-|g4ay night, January 20, in the Elk ing laws is held valid? | Hall, sponsored by the Shrine Clut All Alaska school sections would | to rajse funds for the maintena be open to such claims. Claim-|ang expansion of the E: River ants would obtain patent to the Boy Scout Camp. lands, gain full title, and be in| he Elks lodge is contributing t position to sell gravel or use the|ine cause by furnishing its ballroo property in any way they choose.|for the occasion. Dancing will star Many school lands have been leased | 3¢ 10 pm. for private or municipal use. It i pointed out by Gene Vuille Puckett said the claim notices | president of the Juneau Shrine were staked by the four couples|coyp, that the funds raised in this| last Nov. 28, and the “mineral’|grive for a particular purpose in discovery date was posted as NOV.|pelping the Boy Scouts is in no way 21. ! connected, nor should it be confused The land in question is east of | with the annual Boy Scout fund Merrill Field, the municipal air- | raising campaign. The annual cam- port which also is on school 1and | pajgn is for the purpose of obtain- leased through Governor Grueninz's |ing funds for the normal year arour d office. The city dump, too, is on |scouting program and to help defray leased school land. | 1eadership expenses for the The 640-acre tract already has|whilo in camp yielded revenue from gravel sales., The Juneau Shrine Club, for the The Bureau of Land Management |past few years has reimbursed the awarded a b6-year contract last|Alaska Council for the normal camp vyear to the Anchorage Sand and |expense of maintenance, repair and Gravel Company to remove gravel |expansion. However, due to the in- fom 17% acres, paying a royalty |crease in needed repairs and p to the Territory on each yard taken | essential need of the addition of & out. | craft room, it is asking public sup- After granting the contract, the |port for this worthy cause In thi Bureau instructeq the Territorial |yegard, Vuille emphasi; that the Forestry division to survey the r Shrine Club merely in a ca- maining acreage tu determine its|pacity of fund raising; relinquish- value. Gravel it contained was esti- | ing all rights to voice as to expen- mated at 3,000,000 yards, worth | gjtures. $750,000. | In addition to the first award to The Anchorage Times said Don-|pe made at the dance Saturday ald Wilcox was one of the men |eyening, a beautiful 52 piece service | t assigned to the surveying project|for 8, Mi Lady silver set, the as a mineral expert. Howard Wilcox | Thomas Hardware Company recently has worked for the Recon- |4 d a second award, an v struction Finance Corporation modern Filtron Cold Water Pr the Territory. Coffee Maker, The two award The Congressional act which 0w on dlsplay in the show Wi aside the tract school section |of the Thomas Hardware. 16 provides that all revenues derived A o et T 0 e Auets\EyS AGENT ON DUTY | WITH LOCAL OFFICE Puckett said the issue has many highly technical angles, which prob- ably will have to be decided by Wi Robert H. cer, Fish and Wild- | life Service ent at Kotzebue, ar | rived in Juneau yesterday by Pan the courts. | American plane from California PUBLISHERS OF MAGAZINE HAVE i s, "o e s Ve MOVED 'I'o ]UNEA Game Enforcement Division. He has been assigned to the Juneau head- | Bert and Mary Barrer, publishers | quarters office until the Alaska| Game Commission conference and | of the quarterly magazine, The Al- askan, have moved from Haines the annual meeting of FWS agents, | to be held here starting February 12. to make their home in Juneau and | Baker will work here on special are living at 503A Willoughby. They | assignments for the game manage- have lived in Haines for the past ment division two yea originally coming | The FWS agent was accompanied Alaska sonnection Wwith the | to Juneau by Mrs. Baker and their Port Chilkoot veterans project Both were born and brought up two children. in Chicago. Barrer attended Illin- ois Normal School, St is from Northwestern University, and has followed a newspaper career. He| spent four years the U. 8.| Army in the infant in the Pa- cific from 1941 to 1945 They both | plan to work heré while continu- ing to publish their magazl B: , SAWMILL WORKERS | | Local M271, Fri, Jan. 26, CIO | Hall at 7:30 pm. All members are urged to attend T11-Tt AS HARDWARE WINDOW — SHRINE CLUB BENEFIT—EIKS HALL—SATURDAY NIGHT, Jan. 20. MRS. CHRISTENS ST. ANN'S FOR CHECKUP Mrs. Pete Christenson was taker to St. Ann’s Hospital today for a check up and some special ACTH treatments for arthritis with which she has been suffering for several years. Stearns Roff classes now enrolling—tap, Rus- ballet, baton twirling, acro- Also stenographers relaxing boys acrobatic class, and are ballet class. Dorothy dancing ba SCHWINN BIKES AT MADSEN'S Alaskans af Hana Maui n and co-owner of the Baranof Hotel vacationed recently at the world- n the Ha s Lefty O'Doul, ma > Skagway is stopping at the Homl‘ DISPLAY OF AWARDS—THOM- || A TENER THURSDAY, JANUARY 18, 1951 DOUGLAS NEWS TEEN | ANNUAL EXHIBIT IM ARTS AND (RAFTS BEHELD MAR. 16-18 al Creative Arts will be held in March 16, 17 and Vance Blackwell, house committee are the show will ind better than ever. committee chairmen John Willis are 2 Native Service Burru Ceramics, Holmquist; Wood- ir Roos; Needlecraft, Stonehouse; Textile L. Keithahn; Mrs. Robert Thorne; | MEETING A group of committees represent- | The Seve ing the several organizations of |and Craft Douglas will meet tomorrow, Friday | the Elks Hall on evening, in the study hall of the |18 according 10 | Douglas Public School to discuss | chairman of and means of providing ac- Indication | tivities for teen agers of the com- |Pe bif | munity. The The Douglas Island Womens Club Announced is the sponsoring group, and has|as follow | asked each organization to send a |Display, representative. However, all the in- Mrs. Le terested public and parents are in- | Working vited to be present with their ideas. | Mrs. H The meetins hour is set for 8Painting, o'clock, according to DIW. Club |Paintir President, Mrs, Stephen Ford. Photography, Malcolm = Greany; | Lapidary, Gil Eide; Sculpture, Max | BRU NNIE TROOP NEWS Lewis; Leatherwork, Arnold Soren- | ':v:\ Commercial Art, Harold Sal Browrte Troop No. 7, will i eet P Will ‘reet iy . Creative Writing, Mrs. Trever at the home of Mrs. Floyd Guertin | n . g | Davi: Pla. Bea Sheppherd; next Saturday morning g 'clock, | P ¥ & 2 1L 0 %look, hip, Mrs. Richard Peter; E. L. Keithahn; Display for their regular meeting :;\‘T""',‘! it ublic | Chairman, Mrs. William Paul, Sr. Girl | Scouts who have not yet brought their boxes to the meeting should | {54 | do so at this, it is announced | A mimeographed newsletter is in | | preparation and will soon be mailed to all members of Alaskan Arts and |, ! Crafts. This will contain informa- | tion on the coming show. Persons paving questions should address | their inquiries to the proper chair- men or ta President Edith Willis. Exl nox Pul of Pr er | various ¢ Mrs. He. int att Don rd Gunn; o LE: 20. AT HOSPITAL James Hickey was admitted Ann’s hospital on Tuesday | she is confined with pneu Mrs to St where monia. TAKU TRAVELERS DANCE we Taku Travelers, square dance group, will meet Saturday evening | at 8 o'clock in the Douglas Gym. THREE FROM HAINES | 4 3 James G. Mc | M Gullifor Thomas Ward, all the Baranof Ho'e mmond, Jr and M f Haines are at | e TO HEARING NEXT MARCH | it On motion of the attorney for the | ABSQIEN HRER plaintiffs, W. C. Stump, the Court | continued the case of Charles Early | and Ray Hammer versus Harry A !Wells and Helen E. Wells, for | March 26 in Ketchikan, at the T | hearing before Judge George W Folta in the U. S. District Court ‘wstordn_\’ afternoon. | The motion by Stump that the (ASUA[TIES' | tem restraining order asked | K the defendants by the | OREAN WAR Court. The Court also ordered that | be changed to perm- hat | order was granted by the| | the defendants be given two week | to produce documents named in a P | motion by the attorney for thele t cas- | plaintiffs filed January 10 and|g {0 45,137 today. | ordered by the court to be p ced | o by the De-|on Janu 12, to be delivered to e was based on|the office of the Clerk of tr ‘Cimx'l At Ketchikan > than the | The case involves payment of veek | judgment in the amount of $3200 d 6,500 kil'ed, | allezed due the plaintiffs by the sing in | defendants, the ment havir | teen granted in the November term of court in Ketchikan. The defen- {ants are represented by Mrs. Mild- lud- | red R. Hermann, Juneau attorney 2\ aiian Islands. With the popular ager of the San Francisco Seals Pretty hula dancer Irene Akin an island gourd which many Ha- The Mcherins and O'Doul . Lowest Everyday Prices— Lowest Everyday P A & a Owen of Ba is register- eesecsscecescessssssenes . ALASKA'S KEY POINTS anly hours away by Clipper” dance. an Clipper. an plaintiffs anent a WASHINGTON Total anno ed T ualties in Korea r ® Fast and frequent Clipper service from Juneau to Nome, Fairbanks, Whitehorse and Ketchikan. Clipper flights daily to Seattle. Aboard the Clippers you enjoy real flying comfort — excellent food, relaxing lounge seats, and traditional Clipper hospitality. For fares and reservations call Pan American at... Baranof Hotel Phone 106 *Trade Mark, Pan American World Airways, Inc. he tot i 1t di ¢ partm of Defense notifications to next of kin through Jan. 12. It wa 2 mc figure for the previous The Departm; 29,951 wounded and 8, action The who have since Total death: ing deaths known dead action. The missing figure 4 Judes| Senator Ge “Heinie” Snider 2 et e ataceire ed o | AtTived from his home at Wasilla American control and 108 known |in the Third Division, by plane yes prisoners of war. | terday for the coming session of Total Army casualties reached | the Alaska Legislature. Snider, who 36956, including 5208 killed, 23544 |Served in the House in 1047, de- wounded and 8,204 missir { feated incumbent Victer C. Rivers Marine cas.alties stand for ‘the BSnie, peal includeing 1,116 killed, 6,008 - and 208 missing, Cummulative Navy casualties | reached 496, and 56 Kill wounded and 68 missing. The Air Force total was 353, in- cluding 129 killed, 27 wounded and | 167 missing. )t ices — total died wounded amon, SENATOR SNIDER HERE at 7,332,/ 8 wounded The Well-dressed Man Remembers that SIT ALWAYS PAYS TO SHQE AT GRAV_ES” DBOMESTIC SHOP SEWING MACHINE SERVICE Repairs on All Makes Agent For Famous DOMESTIC EASYSEW D. 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