The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 27, 1951, Page 8

PAGE EIGHT Wrangell fo Have New Lumber Mill SEATTLE, July P—The President of Alaska Wr vpn Mills Inc., announced in Seattle today his company will reopen an old lumber mill this- fall at Wrangell, and build a new mill on the same site C. T. Takahashi, who heads the corporation, said the new mill will cost “in excess of one million dol- lars” and have a capacity of 120,- 000 board feet of lumber in a single shift daily. He said it will employ approxi- mately 50 men, who will be hired at Wrangell or the surrounding area. All will be mill workers. The company does not plan to operate a woods crew but will buy logs de- livered at the mill. Takahashi estimated that the old mill will be in operation within 60 days. He expects it to produce from 55,000 to 60,000 board feet daily. Work on the new mill will ge under way while the old plant i being rehabilitated. It is scheduled to be in operation early next year. The old mill will be shut dowr when the new one is completed Takahashi said C. W. Hall Portland, a director of the corpor- ation, will leave Seattle by shin today to open an office in Wrang- ell, where he will be resident man- ager. Hall said before his departure his first job will be to get work started on both the old and new mills. Much of the machinery need- ed tor tne new plant is already on hand at Wrangell, he said The Alaska Wrangell Comp: took over the old mill in July, 1 after it had been idle for sever years. ‘When operations are resumed, the mill will turn out both rough and green and finished lumber, mostly of spruce, hemlock and cedar. Takahashi said, his firm hopes | to market much of its output in Alaska to defense contractors en- gaged in a huge construction pro- gram, but will also do a heavy ex- port business. of al " Four Weeks of This | | Charlotte l"".tl\, 7-months-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. LaVerne Fitch, of Slater, Ia., will have to remain four weeks with her legs hoisted up like this. She suffered a broken leg, fractured ribs and cuts’ in an automobile accident. Student Nurse Lois Christiansen shown with her in a Des Moines hospital says the baby is a good pali:nt (P Wirephoto. Senate Conferees Grant Renf Rollback Stablization Director Eric John- ston had appealed to the committee last' weekend to adopt the Senate plan. The version approved by the con- ferees authorizes the Secretary of In Defense Areas Defense. and. the Mobilization Dir- cctor to designate critica AI defense TACOMA, Wash., July 27, —M— | areas. | The administration, won a round hese areas, such as sections near | today when ‘Senate-House confer- | military posts, could then be brought ees voled o permit rent rollbacks to the May 24-June 24, 1950 lov<! newly declared eritical defsnse s under rent control Most of the world's wool, accord- | Geos the southern ing o the National ¢ wzy, comes from misphere. The conference committee appr. l-d that provisica in the econom. ¢ {control bill passed by the Senate and decided to junk a House bill| '\ Samana and Santiago Rail- provision which would have bar- |road or Haiti reaches neither Sa- mana nor rm U'u-n red rent rollbacks in those areas. FISH BAIT Mrs. C. Irving Guyer, mother of five children, shown in her home after the White House made pub- lic a letter to her from President Truman in which he said “big paid lobbyists” best to Mrs. Guyer, wife of a small btssi- are doing their wreck price controls. nessman, had written the presi- | dent that she had heard about | lobbyists for various big interests but none for the housewife con- fronted with mounting food costs. (P Wirephoto. a refreshing pick up? DuBARRY | Rose Cream Mask ' will give you that quick “lift” The DuBarry Demonstrator is Now in Our Store JUNEAU DRUG CO. Box 1151 — Phone 33 | Bill Smith, | ! THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA ' On Lobbyisis Smith Denies " Guilt in Girl'sDeath WASHINGTON, July 27, —(®— Jr., held in Redwood Calif. charged with the first ee murder of a young Tacoma girl, denied yesterday that he was involved in her death. The News Tribune, in a special | dispatch from Redwood City, quot- ed the red-haired, 28-year-old car- hop as saying he knew 17-year-old Noreen McNicholas “but I didn't | kill her—I never took her out.” The murder charge was issued by a Justice of the Peace and sign- ed by Prosecutor John J. O'Con- nell after a friend of Noreen's— Flla Mae Cooper—told authorities she was an eye witness to the slay- ing. The girl's body was found nude in Spanaway Park, Jan. 16, 1949.111,000 feet, She disappeared Nov. 5, 1948—the day Miss Cooper said the killing | ocecurred. Investigators said she had been raped and strangled. Jailed in Redwood City after his arrest Tuesday, Smith said he was in Tacoma when Noreen’s body was found and remained in Tacoma tor several months before leaving to be- come a carhop in Beverly Hills, Cal- ifornia. “I wouldn't say I was fond her,” Smith told a reporter. “I just knew her because she was quite attractive and was a student at the beautician’s S(hlu»I in Ta- coma the same time I was. The investigation also was broad- ened yesterday to include two sol= di who may be in Korea. One was identified by Miss Cooper as “Bob”, who she said was her com- panion with Noreen and Smith the day of the slaying. 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