The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 27, 1951, Page 6

PAGE SIX 1 Road Engineer Defends Ferry With Report Frank Metcalf, highway engineer, today released a financial report showing expenses and earnings of the territorial-operated Haines ferry for the past season which, he says, refutes a statement in another newspaper that the ferry was cost- ing® the Territory $6,000 a month to operate Metcalf referred to the Periscope column of November 16 in the Wrangell Sentinel written by Lew i Williar former Secretary of Al- aska. Willlams stated that the Road Board paid $38,877.74 for the Chil- koot last June, and said that it had ! been costing the Territory some $6,~ 000 a month to operate, “far in ex- cess of receipts.” The report released by Metcalf showed a net profit of $277.98 for | | the season—from June 19 through November 8. Only gross earnings, expenses and profits were shown. There was no amortization of *the original investment. Connecting Link “If we had lost money on the ferry, I wouldn’'t have been surpris- ed,” Metcalf said, “but the purpose of the Territory taking it over would have been justified. It had | been heavily advertised all over the east as a connecting link with the Alaska highway.” The report showed 339 vehicles and pieces of equipment carried, and 562 passengers. It showed the Chil- koot covered 3,024 miles from Ju-; neau to Haines and skagwn)r and return. Gross earnings on freight| and equipment carried were -$18,- | 738.75; for passengers carried, gross earnings were $4,427, for a total; of $23,165.75. Expenses totalled $22,887.77, in-| cluding salaries of $16,392.65, fuel oil costing $1,517.60, agents com- missions costing $1,966.18, insurance totalling $1,533.35, and other mis-i cellaneous expenses. The report was entitled, “Tenta- tive Report Subject to supplemem.”l Metcalf said that this meant there were a few minor items not yet listed but that the figures would remain. “essentiplly the same.” “A private company could not op- erate on this margin, and that is why we took it over,” Metcalf said. He compared it to a 65-mile stretch! of highway, saying, “this is the| cheapest maintenance cost of any ! highway I know of.” | Blr‘ds,_Planes Are Flying on Schedule The birds and planes were back | in the air again yesterday with| Pacific Northern Airlines bringing | in 31 passengers and taking 19 to the westward. | From Anchorage: R. Johnson, A.| Woolridge, J. Fenton, E. Jamestown, G. Gardner, L. Roundtree, W. For- ward, C. Hollingstad, A. Williams, | G. Degman, G. Hoard, W. Hernan- do, W. Kornum, R. McMulay, C. Bell, Karl Brunstad, A. Maning, A. Hughes, C. Ashe, M. L. Manring, B: Russell, Col. Mahoney, L. Hud- son. From Yakutat: R. Coffin, B. and R. Frankforter, John Williams. From oCrdova: E. Lian, E. Elis, | E. Ollis. 1 From Gustavus: Harry Cole, Scott Bottaroff. To Anchorage: Ralph Marsh, Robert McKinley, A. Ambrose, G. R. Kyes, Erma Wainer, A. K. McLean, O. Paulson, B. D. Stewart, Ed ‘White, Clay Scudder, G. L. Winger- son, J. I. Noble. To Cordova: George Paulson, Fred Lafte, A. C. McMaster, N. J. Stin- ziano. To Yakutat: A, Roberts, A. Cope- land, Kelly Westfall. , Orders No Parking i On Glacier Highway ! According to an order issued hy‘ Lt. Emmett M. Botelho, Alaska ‘ Highway Patrol, cars are pmhibiwuj from parking on the shoulders | and edges of the Glacier Highway. | Lt. Botelho states that snow re- moval crews recently had consider- | able difficulty because of a number | of parked cars along the highw: He said it is particularly important that drivers observe this rule during snow removal period. | B [ | Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Brennan of Edmonds, Wash., are at the Baranof Hotel. IN THE WEST == Passenger cars are piled in heaps and sever: ancisco, near Evanston, Wyo. The City of San Francisco ploughed into the rear of the City RBoth trains were eastbound and the crash occurred of Los Angeles which had halted for a block signal. in a heavy snowstorm. Twenty-one persons were killed. (P Wirephoto. torn apart in wreck of THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA two streamliners, one the City of Boy Sto;i Prb;;am For 1952 Be Laid At Thursday Meefing The Gastineau District Com- mittee of the Alaska Boy Scouts Council will meet Thursday eve- ning at 7:30 o'clock in the high school study hall to set up object- ing program. The committee is one of fous sections of the Alaska Counci Other meetings will be held in Fairbanks, Anchorage and Ketchi- kan. This is the first time that the scouting program has been planned in this manner, according to George A. Parks, president of the council. The local meeting will open with | a general assembly of those partic- | ipating in the Gastincau District | Committee. The group will then di- vide into six sections to deal with organization and extension; ad- vancement, camping and activities; finance and safety; and leadership training < Especially urged to attend are scoutmasters, cubmasters, den moth- | ers, committeemen of packs, troops and posts, district committeemen, executive board members, school teachers, clergy, service club mem- bers, fraternal and veterans organ- ization members and mothers and fathers of scouts. Refreshments will be served at' the conclusion of the meeting by members of Explorers Post 713. Two Guest Speakers At Meeting of JWC Members of the Juneau Woman's Club will have as guest speakers at their social-program meeting Wednesday afternoon Merton Hayn- es and M Marjory Iverson of the Juneau school faculty, Mrs. Ken- neth Clem, Education Chairman of the club announces. Mr. Haynes, Public Speaking in- structor, will speak on “Youth Prob- lems of Today” and Miss I\'erson,( music instructor, will discuss “Pub- | lic School Music” and give a dem- onstration. The club-sponsored Girl Scout troop will give a resume of the work they are doing. The program will be preceded by a dessert luncheon at 1:30 with Mrs. Howard Schleiter and Mrs. Pat Car- roll as hostesses. Members are ask- ed to take a guest and the meet- ing will be held at the home of Mrs. John McCormick at 436 West Twelfth Street. ATTENTION REBEKAHS Initiation meeting Wednesday, November 28 at 8 pm. 1.O.O.F. hall. BERNA WE! Noble Grand — EMPIRE WANT ADS PAY — ives and plans for the 1952 scout-) Cars of Mililary Personnel Will Get Visifors Stickers Cars of military personnel in the Territory with foreign license plates will henceforth be issued “Alaska Visitors” stickers, according to Frank Meteall, chier of the Alaska Higlhi- | way Patrol. This is being done, Metcalf says, to eliminate confusion and misun- derstanding. The expiration date of such licenses will be noted on the stickers and a record kept. “The foreign plates of all military | personnel, of course, are honored up to their expiration dates,” Met- calf says, “and car owners are al- lowed to renew in their own state. But the records will make it easier to apprehend owners who fail to renew.” The the office of Patrol, rcom kuilding. ickers may be obtained at the Alaska Highway 117, in the BRUNSTAD ARRIVES Karl Brunstad, of Kodiak, member of the Alaska Fisheries Board, ar- |rived here Monday on PNA to at- | tend the annual board meeting. He | is stopping at the Gastineau Hotel. ’—EMPIRE WANT ADS PAY — Federal | fi Wal-(elield A(hosen | Chairman, Alaska Fisheries Board J. H. Wakefield of Port Wakefield was named chairman of the Alaska Fisheries Board to replace William R. Walton of Sitka, who resigned last summer. Wakefield will serve until April, 1952. I With all but one member, Ira Rothwell of Cordova, present the | annual fall meeting of the board | got under way yesterday afternoon. Those attending are Wakefield, J.| P. Valentine, Ketchikan; Karl Brunstad, Kodiak; and W. O. Smith of Ketchikan appointed to fill thfll vacancy left by Walton's resigna-| tion. | Today was given over to reports on the 'various activities of the| Alaska Department of Fisheries. 4 IMPORTANT MEET OF | POLIO GROUP WEDNESDAY 4 Marguerite Dudley, chairman of | | the Infantile Paralysis Foundation executive committee, announced an important meeting at 8:15 p.m. in the Territorial /Health Building to- | morrow. All mlembers of the com mittee are uly;ed to be present, she said. | | Harry Tucker of Seattle is at the Baranof Hotel. FOLLOWING THE BIRDS? Enjoy the advantages of travel aboard comfort- oble, radar- protected Alaska Line ships. Low winter fares now in effect. See your local agent. “With these Low Winter Fares you might just as well RIDE South!” Fairbanks Company Given Loan for Tungsten Develspment A loan has been made Alaska Metals Mining Co., of Fair- banks by Procurement ~ Administration for high grade tungsten ore explora- tion work on the company’s claims near Fairbanks. The exploration consisting chiefly of drifting and supplementary dia- mond drilling must be completed within a period of two years. Area in which the work will take place is on the Stepovich; Yellow Pup and Colbert claims on, the Gilmore Dome. Work is expected tc start early as possible this next spring. Amount of the loan by the gov- ernment was $133,675.50 with the company contributing $44,558.50. Members of the company are El- mer Stahl, William Birklid and Melvin Anderson, all of Fairbanks, and Morris Rafn of Tacoma. Total production of tungsten tri- oxide from high grade ore on the claims totals 120,000 pounds from 1916 to duction was during World War I and World War II. The Stepovich claim was worked during the last war by the Cleary Hills Mining Co. JANE ENGLISH SOUTH Mrys. Jane English is a passenger southbound on the Baranof en- route to Chicago for a visit with her sister. She will come west to visit two daughters in Portland and will return to Juneau soon after the first of the year. to l.hul the Defense Materlals | 1844. Major part of pro-| 15 Arrive, 22 Leave On Baranof Tuesday Arriving on the Baranof south- bound Tuesday morning were 15 | passengers with ~ 22 embarking. | Master of the ship is Capt. Joseph Ramsauer with A. H. Banwell, chief purser. Disembarking from Seward: Mr. and Mrs, Willilam Allen, Jr, and child; Mrs. W. O. Dickman, Wil- liam Diers, M. Goldberg, Harold | Kearney, Charles Loveland, Mrs, | | Robert Tift and two children. From Sitka: Mr. and Mrs. Nick | Bolshanon, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. John- | son, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Paqu:z,‘ Mrs. R. L. Shackleford, Mr. (’md‘ Mrs. Tom Sinnett, Mr. and Mrs. | William F. Smith, Mrs. C. Tries- chield. Embarking for Seattle: Mr. Mrs.. K. O. Jartun, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Roden, Mr. and Mrs. Ben | Melvin, Jane English, Jerry Knupn,; | and | E. C. Lingdren, D. A. Coffroth, Mr. and Mrs. Melvin La Rue, Mr. and Mrs. Edgecumb, Alice Edge- cumb, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Bum- | garner. | For Ketchikan: Mr. and Mrs. Ed- win Roberts, William Paul, Sr., Cy- | ril Zuboff, Vincent: Boguchi. FROM BROOKLYN | i | - | Arthur A. Kreiger of the U. S Coast Guard arrived here enroute to his new station at Biorka Island near Sitka. This is his first trip to Alaska. “It'sssure a long way from my home in Brooklyn,” was his | comment. He is at the Hotel Ju- neau. 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