The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 30, 1951, Page 8

PAGE EIGHT ~ Congress Group Due Here Next Week, Chamber Teld At the Juneau Chamber of Com- merce this noon at the Baranof Ho- tel, it was reported that the Pet- ersburg and Ketchikan chambers had endorsed the Juneau chamber’s resolution regarding the immediate settlement of Indian claims. There was some discussion of the proposed Taku road project. Gov. Ernest Gruening announced that a subcommittee of the Con- gressional armed forces committee would be in Juneau Sept. 8. He sug- gested that the Taku road project and the extension of the Juneau airport be taken up with the sub- committee at that time. He said that Delegate E. L. Bartlett would be with the committee. President Herbert S. Rowland called for a volunteer to attend meeting of the British Columbia Boards of Trade meeting in Prince | Rupert Sept. 6, 7, and 8 to pre- | sent a resolution urging the con- struction of a Taku highway. Joseph McLean said that he| though it would be possible for him | to attend. | Meet Scheduled | Alaska Road Comissioner A. F.| Ghiglione reported that he would attend a meeting Sept. 20 in Van- couver, B. C., which is to be held with E. C. Carson, minister of pub-| lic works for British Columbia. | | Governor Gruening will also be in attendance and the Taku road project will be presented at that| time to British Columbia omcmlsi Norman Banfield, local attor- | ney, told of his recent trip to At- | lin and the Yukon Territory and said that the people of Atlin were optimistic regarding the possibil- | ity of obtaining a highway from | there to the Tulsequah mining dis- trict at the head of the Taku | River. | Rowland announced that the Bar- anof Hotel had given $68.50 toward a fund for the promotion of the ‘Taku highway project. Tod Powell, outdoor writer for the San Francisco Chronicle, expressed his appreciation for the warm greet- ing he had received in Juneau and contrasted the fishing of California with that of Alaska. He said that he| was leaving this afternoon for Taku | Lodge where television pictures would be taken dramatizing the fishing of this area. Guests were C. A. Gustafson of the Forest Service from Washing- ton, D. C. and J. J. Kenny, west cofist supervisor of the Crown Life Insurance Co., from Vancouver, B. C. Keichikan Firm Wins ‘Wrangeli chool 3id A bid of $319,369 by McGilvray Bros, of Ketchikan was low yes- terday on a Wrangell school addi- ton and alterations. ‘The Department of Public Works_ said work would consist of two classrooms, a gymnasium , shop, lockers and a shower room. Other bidders: J. B. Warrack, Seattle, $320,000; Hall Atwater Co., Seattle, $331,000; Brady Construction Co., Seattle, $345,300, and Pacific Construction Elkins Says Deer Prospeds ‘Fairly | (Good" for Hunfers | Deer prospects for hunters this fail look fairly good, W. A. “Bud” | Elkins, game management supervisor for the Fish and Wildlife Service, said today. The deer season opens Sept. 1 with | the bag limit two bucks. | Elkins said a brief survey show-| ed the animals were not too hard hit last winter except in the Icy Strait region where severe weather | took a few more animals than usual. | Kills from wolyes were rather | heavy in the Ketchikan area but | were not above normal around | Wrangell and Petersburg, he said. This morning Sig Olson, wildlife management biologist, left aboard | | the service vessel Penguin for Ket- | | chikan where he will make a com- | plete study of deer population, sur- | vival and conditions in southeastern | | Alaska. | Animals seems to be in good con- | dition in the southern portion of the first division, Elkins said. The Penguin arrived in Juneau| this morning from the Pribilof Is-| lands where it was stationed dur-| ing sealing activities. It is Seattle bound. Aboard as passenger is Miss J\mv‘1 Eliason, who has resigned from the Wildlife Service and will make her home in Seattle. | | Theodore Danielson Killed in United Airlines Crash ; Maj. Theodore Danielson, for- mer Juneau resident, was a victim | in a United Airline crash at Oak-| land last Friday, it was learned here today by Mrs. Edith O'Laugh- | lin of the local Selective Service Board. Information received by Mrs. O'Laughlin said that army offi- cers identified Danielson’s remains la: Sunday. He had returned to active duty with the U. S. Army and was stationed at the Presidio | of San Francisco. He had recent- | ly completed a course of study in the East and was returning to| teach classes at the Presidio. His wife Mrs. Edith Danielson is living at 2327 44th Ave. in San Prancisco. | The Danielsons were well known in Juneau where Danielson had | been with the Alaska-Juneau Min- ing Co. for a number of years. He | left here in 1942 to join the army. | After the last war he ran a tour- ist resort at Quilcene, Wash. | Avenue School, as well as kinder- ™ W THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA Bell Poised to Sound Soon; New All schools in the Juneau Inde-# The School City Bus pendent School District will open Sept. 4, the day after Labor Day, Sterling S. Sears announced today. He said this includes the Juneau grade school, Tee Harbor School, Juneau High School, Willoughby garten and first grade classes in the various recreation rooms and three churches. Sears anncunced that the fol- lowing will be class hours for the various schools and grades: Grades 1 and 2 9 to 11:30 am. and 1 pm. to 3 o'clock in the afternoon, Grade 3 9 to 11:45 am. and 1t03:15pm. Grade 4 9 a.m. to 12 noon; 1 to 3:42 p.m. Grades 5, 6, 7 and 8 8:45 am. to 12 noon; 1 to 3:42 p.m. High School 8:45 am. to 12 noon; p.m. 1 to 3:42 Tee Harbor School 9 a.m. to 12 noon; 1 to 3:40 p.m. with the exception that younger children will leave earlier at ap- propriate times. Bus Schedules School bus route No. 1 will leave the 15 mile marker at 7:35 a.m. and will leave from the school at 3:45 pm. Bus route No. 2 will leave Auke Lake bridge at 7:35 a.m. and will leave from the school at 3:45 p.m. Bus route No. 3 will leave the school bus garage in Auke Bay at 7:45 am. and from the school at 3:45 pm. Bus route No. 4 will leave Thane | at 8:15 am. and Wwill leave from the school at 3:45 p.m. those residing between Johnson Home and the city limits will leave the Johnson Home at 8:25 am., will leave from the Grade School at 11:15 a.m. and again at 3:45 pm. Children riding this bus must purchase tickets at the office of the Superintendent of Schools. Enrollment Sears said that all high school students who are registering for | the first time, except those who were in the eighth grade in Juneau | last year, are to register in the | office of the principal of the high school building at 10 a.m. Friday, August 31. A book deposit of $1.50 is required at the time of regis- tration. Registration of all other high school students and element- ary students will be Sept. 4. Elem- entary students should bring with them a report card or transcript of credits from last school atten- ded. Sears added further that child- ren enrolling in the first grade must be 6 years of age on or be- fore Nov. 1, in order to be eligible, All first grade children will reg- ister in the two first grade rooms of the elementary school and from there will be assigned to their var- ious rooms. A birth certificate is required. Kindergarten Registration for kindergarten children will be from 9 to 11:30 a.m. on the first day of schooland also from 1:30 to 3:15 in the af- ternoon of the same day. A parent must accompany his child to school and must take the child’s birth certificate. Classes will be held, he said in| School Schedules Announced to servethe Church of Christ in the High- lands Division and in the Luther- | an Church located on Third and Main Streets. All those residing on the west side of Gold Creek will attend the Church of Christ and the remainder will attend the Lu- theran Church. Kindergarten chil- dren will be divided into two groups at each church. One group will at- tend from 9 to 11 o'clock in the morning and the second group will attend from 1 to 3 p.m. | Free Materials | Sears said that as in the past | two years, all materials used by | pupils will be furnished by the | schools. This includes paste, ink, art paper, pencils, construction paper and work books. However, each pupil is required to deposit $1.50 at the time of registration. This deposit is returned at the end of the year if all books are returned in satisfactory condition. | Students withdrawing will also be refunded their book deposit. Students taking chemistry, kzio}-X ogy, physics or other laboratory | courses must deposit $1 as a break- | age fee. This is also refunded less| any deductions for breakage caused ' by the student, he stated. ‘Tuition Students whose parents main- tain legal residence in other in- dependent school districts of Alas- ka will not be admitted to the Juneau Schools unless they first have a written release from the board of directors of the district in which they are legal residents. In addition, such students must| pay a tuition fee of $62.50 per se-} mester, Sears concluded. — EMPIRE WANT ADS PAY — — Lowest Evéi;day e ¢ JSPRETIVE Jums |, 1988 bBi leans -were charter mem- bers of the Juneau Ski Club and | he had served as head of the Of-| ficers Reserve Corps unit here | prior to his return to active duty in 1942, STARTS SERVING 1 30-DAY JAIL TERM | Ronald Shaw, of Cordova, was | brought to Juneau yesterday after- |noon by Ralph Smith, deputy mar- | 1shal of Petersburg, to begin serv-l ing a 30-day sentence in (ederal‘ Jail. | Shaw, who has been working on | Co., Vancouver, Wash., $478,000. " EMPIRE WANT ADS PAY — a floater in Scow Bay, was arrested | yesterday in Petersburg on a dis-1 orderly conduct charge. AND TO MAKE SCHOOL WORK MORE INTERESTING FUN EVERY NEEDED ACCESSORY From Kindergarten to College Get Your Supplies from J. B. BURFORD (0. OF JUNEAU “Our Doorstep is Worn by Satisfied Customers> ¥ "ATRTIA \ c.gasm ATI\E&ES /4 HoOL J'UpPLIES For 30 Years the Horpe of School and Office Supplies SITKA, 1CY STRATS® AND__ T CHATHAM STRAITS o1 1| revaee T 1 T 1 | | fex | Gomeaw T 1T T 1 I x 1 | C= STQUENCE OF STOPS VARIABLE W=5TOP MAY OF OMITTED IF TRAFFIE | i DOES NOT WARRANT X= ARRIVAL TIME VARIADLE STHURSDAYS QMY . POINTS ) ALAD DOWM -- Lowesr Everday Prices — Lowest Everyaay Free Cemefery Plof 0ffer from Sictix City WINNEBAGO, Nebra. Aug. 30—® |—The widow of a Winnebago Indian Soldier, whose burial was halted by la private cemetery, prepared today for her husband’s interment in Arl- ington National Cemetery as ar- ranged by President Truman. Pretty Mrs. Evelyn Rice, 29, widow of Sgt. 1/C John R. Rice, quietly accepted an apology from the Sioux City, Ia, Memorial Park Cemetery last night but declined its change- of-heart offer of a free burial lot “Were it not for the greater honor which has come to my hus- band I would accept,” she said. The President offered a Virginir resting place among the nation’s hero dead for Sergeant Rice after learning that Korean war victim’s body was removed from the Sioux City graveside Tuesday because he was “not caucasian.” THURSDAY, AUGUST 30, 1951 Widow Turns Down |Confracts Awarded Ketchikan, Sitka Contracts have been awarded for road construction in Ketchikan and Sitka, according to Hugh Stoddart, division engineer of the Bureau of Public Roads. Manson-Osberg of Seattle were low bidders and were awarded the contract for grading and surfac- ing 6.9 miles of road in Ketchi- kan. Stock and Grove were suc- cessful bidders and were given the contract on 3.4 miles of Sitka road. Manson-Osberg bid was $1,939,350 on the road from Ketchikan to Whipple Creek. Stoddart said this is exclusive of a section at Ward’s Cove which was recently comple- ted by Reed and Martin, contrac- tors of Fairbanks. The bureau’s work extends to Ward’s Cove and hen beyond the Reed' and Martin ection for a few miles. Stock and Grove bid was $675,- 410. It includes grading and sur- facing and a bridge over Indian Creek. Gold Stampeder, Former McCarthy Resident, Dies SEATTLE, Aug. 30—P— John Henry Baltuff, 81, a veteran of the Alaska gold rush and former Seattle resident, died Wednesday at Auburn, Wash. A mining engineer, Mr. Baltuff made his first big strike at Hunker Creek where he took $30,000 out of a mine. Later he made and lost fortunes several times. A mountain near named for Baltuff. He lived for a number of years at McCarthy, Alaska, where he owned and operated a large ware- house and a hotel and built and |ran the power plant for the mother lode mine. 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