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DELEGATIONS LEAVE FOR
MOOSE ASSN. CONVENTION
Annual Alaska Moose As
sociation convention is toeing
held in Juneau this year, op
ening Wednesday, and 'begin
ning today delegations from
the local Moose Lodge and
Women of the Moose are leav
ing for the Capital City.
Scheduled to fly over this
morning are Arne Dor urn,
Charles Peterson. Cecil Mc
Clain and Thomas Cameron.
On the afternoon flight today
are the balance of the Sitka
Moose contingent: Bill Carlson
Jerry Buller. Fred Easley,
Frank Foss, Vernon Huff,
Charles Schofner, Ernie Van
Erman, Joe Appling. William
Sarvela, Richard Radach, Har
ry Thoriburn and Harry E.
Pollen.
First group of the Women
of the Moose will leave Wed
nesday morning, including
Midge Cameron, Kay Johansen,
Dawn Carlson, Marge Rvgling,
Annaibelle Appling. Elsie Beau
champ and Elsie Eliason. On
the afternoon flight tomorrow
are Myrtle Cashel, Inez Snow
den and Jane Cunninghm.
Balance of the women’s
group leaves Thursday morn
ing, including Daisy Huff, Sue
Wheeler, Edna Pollen, Joan La
Cour. Stella Skaris, Polly
Swearingen, Elsie Hanniford
and Hazel Olsen.
The convention runs from
Wednesday through Saturday.
Several others plan to go over
for the banquet which closes
the sessions Saturday evening.
SCOUTS ENTERTAINED
BY MOOSE LODGE
Approximately 50 'boys,
Calb Scouts, were entertained
by the Moose Lodge after
their regular Pack meeting.
They were all taken to the
Moose Alleys where they were
given instructions in alley eti
quette and then all bowled a
game supervised by Fred
Baiuighn, Mgr. and several par
ents.
The evening was enjoyed
immensely by the boys and the
response was so terrific it is
planned by the civic affairs
committee to make a monthly
or even semi-monthly affair
of it.
WOMEN OF MOOSE
MEET WEDNESDAY
Women of the Moose will,
hold a regular meeting at 8 p.1
m. Wednesday evening at the i
Moose Hall. Mrs. John Swear-,
ingen is to be initiated. |
Mrs. Vern McGraw is chair-;
man of the refreshment com- (
mittee, while chapter night
program will be presented by
Miss Rosemarie Kinberg,
TV/Trvr\cotVioiQT*t nVrainman.
VOLCANIC CLUB PLANS
SMORGASBORD
At the meeting of the Vol
canic C'iulb of Thursday even
ing it was decided to have an
other smorgasbord next month
to raise funds to complete pay
ment of the new piano.
Committee on arrangements
which includes Mrs. Myrtle
Hall, Ernest Fuess, ‘Mrs. Harry
Smith, Joe Peterson and Mrs.
Eleanore Moore, are meeting
Tuesday evening at the home
of Mrs. Hall on Charcoal Is
land to make plans.
ALASKA DAY
FESTIVAL NOTES
by Mary Frances Hall
It’s a bird. It's a plane. It's
Annabelle Appling and the
Moose Drill Team headed via
air for Juneau to give the cap
itol of Alaska a big surprise.
The surprise will come when
the eighteen pretty girls de
scend upon Juneau’s terra
firma, displaying the latest
fashions of 1867.
In these Alaska Day cos
tumes they plan to spread news
of Sitka’s important festival.
The enthusiastic entertainers
who originally planned to at
tend the Moose convention in
Juneau, decided to combine
the flavor of Alaska Day with
their visit. The group displays
a variety of costumes from
can-can dancers to demure out
fits representing the tight
laced styles of the eighteen
hundreds. They are all very col
orful and original.
Beside representing the A
aska Day Festival by display
ing old vintage apparel, the
girls will distribute Alaska
Day Festival pins throughout
Juneau. “We’ll make every
place,’ stated Annabelle, and
though she didn’t add what
she would make, those of us
who know her can imagine;
quite a sensation.
I think we can safely state i
Juneau will remember this
quaint display, and we take
our hats off to Annabelle Ap
pling and the Moose Drill team
who are helping to put the Al
aska Dav Festival on the map.
Sports TreslS
seven conference games, ibefall
the Golden Bears.
Old Professor — The fall
sport now becames the great
befall snort. I take it. Oh, let
it go. Mr. Wyatt, what do you
think of Duke? The university
I mean, not Snider.
Bowden Wyatt, Tennessee —
We played the (best we could,
but Duke had a terrific team,
took advantage of every situa
tion and beat us soundly. Out
boys were long on spirit but
overall lack of experience chop
THEY'RE HERE
Mittens and Gloves
by HANSEN
Sizes for Infants through Ladies in
All-Wool - All Nylon
and Wool-Nylon Combinations
Sitka Bazaar
ped us down. We’re not dis
couraged, and not changing our
plans one bit.
Old Professor — It got its
just desserts, you might say.
I’ll take vanilla. Well, gentle
men, we must close this inter
esting session. I have an ap
parent . I mean appoint
ment. I seem to have been lis
teninig to those Dodger fans too
much today, and see you next
week.
World Series
52nd series game appearance,
and McDougald, sandwiched
singles around Billy Martin’s
flyout to put runners on first
and third with Berra up.
Podres threw three straight
balls and then a strike. Yogi
Berra hit the next pitch to
Furdllo in short right center &
Carl’s strong throw to the plate
kept Rizzuto on third. Podres, j
taking his time and looking as ■
cool as an ice cube, fanned
Hank Bauer on a f ast hall.
With every person in the
park sitting on the edge of the
seats in the last of the minth,
young Podres threw out Bill
Skowron, retired Bob Cerv on
a fly to Arnoros in left, and nail
ed Elston Howard on a ground
er to Reese.
Bedlam broke loose after
that. The Dodgers had finally
done it.
No more cries of “wait until
next year.” This was it. T
Sitka moves toward goal of
industrial development
by Ernestine C. Veaitah
Evolution from the status of a fishing village, with activity
centered around a few brief summer months, to that of an in
dustrial city is the goal of Sitka — site of the proposed $55,000,
000 pulp mill by the Alaska Lumber & Pulp Co.
Ever since the first visit of representatives of Japanese
! lumber, pulp and rayon interests in January of 1952, this dream
Off industrial development has begun to assume concrete form
and become a reality. The
Japanese dispatched to Alaska
timber experts, foresters, in
dustrialists and other men of
,high calibre to gather the data
needed for their planning; then
formed the Alaska Pulp Co. in'
Tokyo and later the Alaska
Lumber & Pulp Co. in Alaska
— the latter an American cor
poration.
Final step in the chain of cir
cumstances leading toward
this long-awaited industrial
development will be the adver
tising of bids on the timber
.constituting the Sitka pulp unit
by the latter part of October.
Alaska Lumber & Pulp Co.
envisions a mill of 300-ton
daily capacity of high alpha
cellulose pulp. A block of tim
ber of five and one-quarter
billion board feet — all locat
ed in the Tongass National For
est on Baranof and Chichagof
Islands — included in the sale
will support such a mill on a
sustained-yield basis on a 50
year contract.
j Advertisement of the Sitka
pulp unit will be the fourth in
a series of large timber sales.
The first, that at Ketchikan,
went to the Ketchikan Pulp Co.
and comprised eight billion
board feet. The second, at
Wrangell, wenit to Pacific
Northern Timber Co., a block
of three and one-half billion
board feet. The third, a block
of seven and one-balf billion
board feet, recently was award
ed George Pacific, Alaska, Oo.i
a.t .Tunelan.
This Sitka block will be the
last of tihe large timber sales
contemplated by the Forest
Service for the time being, or
at least until the forest inven
tory which i'S underway in the
Tongass National Forest is
completed, officials state. This
survey began last year and it
is estimated will require five
years to bring to completion.
As the final step to the goal
of industrial expansion ap
proaches, it is well to recall
that under Forest Service re
gulations, the Japanese com
pany or any other successful
bidder on the timber sale,
would be bound by these rules:
1. Primary manufacture of
pulp must be made in Alaska, j
2. Basic manufacture of lum
ber must be made in Alaska;
no “Japanese squares” or chips
! may be exported,
j 3. Operation under American
i laws governing employment
both in the rrfill and in the
woods, under working condi
lions and wages standard for;
this type of enterprise. With!
the exception of top technic
tans, it is understood if the Al- j
aska Dumber & Pulp Co. are
successful bidders, all other
employees will be Americans.
4. Bid competitively for the
timber sale.
5. Have a pulp mill in full
scale operation by June 30, 1962
Sitka’s proposed pulp mill
will provide employment for
about 400 persons in the mill
tself, and an additional four
Hundred or so in the woods.
Computing the average family
at a total number of four, the
project will add 3,200 to pre
sent population. But, in addi
tion, all sales and service bus
iness now operating here will
expand facilities and increase
personnel — while at the same
time other new and needed
business will spring into ex
istence — wihlich should add
another thousand persons
to the population rolls.
Forest Service officials also
foresee a substantial number
of smaller industries utilizing
lumber which will come into1
existence as a direct result of j
the pulp mill, in the way'of j
wood-working plants, specialty;
mills and possibly even a ply- j
wood plant — all as a natural i
growth of minor forest indus-'
tries wnrcn n a tar any ionow a
major industrial expansion.
While’ two sites — Herring
Cove and Sawmill Creek —
have ibeen (hinder investigation
and consideration by tlhe Alas
ka Lumber & Pulp Co., the
company .holds a purchase op
tion, upon which several- pay
ments have been made, to the
Sawmill Creek site -where Blue
Lake Farms are located. Fred
and John VanHorn, owners of
the dairy have been killing off
their milk cows and making
preparations to wind-iuip that
business. From all indications,
Sawmill Greek is the preferred
site.
It is noteworthy that whale
a 300-ton plant is stipulated for
Sitka, the -Ketchikan Pulp Co.
plant was designed for a daily
production of 350 tons but is
currently producing nearly 450
tons of high alpha cellulose
pulp daily.
Additional safeguards set up
by the Forest Service require
the successful bidder to log on
a “clear out” basis, with pro
vision for adequate seed sources
Wildlife habitat and protection
of salmon streams and spawn
ing areas are provided for.
With the maignesium process—
the same as used at Ketchikan
incident ly — the liquors are re
used land there is no pollution
of waters adjacent to the site.
Ibis is a valuable considera
tion in Southeastern Alaska,
where fishing has long been a
major industry and every ef
fort is now being devoted to
•estoring the vanished salmon
uns.
Protection is afforded, too,
to small loggers or independent
operators, for a half-billion
board feet of timlber after the
pulip unit sale will ibe made
available for their use. Provi
sion in the contract is made
also for (protecting other for
est users — preservation of re
creation areas, tourist spas
and secenic beauty spots.
So it appears that at long
last progress will reach out to
touch Sitka and leave in its
wake a permanent year-around
industry with a substantial
payroll and at the same time
utilize (forestry resources which
have been long-neglected1. Lo
cal interest is centered about
the latter part of October when
the advertisement for bids on
the timber sale will put this
industrial development in line
for actual construction. Hopes
are high thiat preliminary work
will get underwtay this winter,
if weather permits, or early in
the spring; and that before
many more years have passed
Sitka will be reaping a share
of the vast undeveloped na
tural resources which form the
wealth of Alaska.
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Two Flights Doily To Juneau ^
Arrive JUNEAU: 11:55 A. M. and 5:40 P. M. ^
Depart SITKA: 11:00 A. M. and 4:40 P. M.
Leaves 11 a. m. Mondays and Thursdays for
Cobol, Chichagof, Pelican and Hoonah **
Leaves 9:00 a. m. Tuesdays for ^
Kake, Petersburg, Wrangell and Ketchikan
Leaves Friday 1:00 P. M. for Kake, Petersburg, Wrangell
and Reservations over Pan American World Airways and
Pacific Northern Airlines
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